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Virtual Open Incubation Ecosystem (VOICE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

VOICE (Virtual Open Incubation Ecosystem) will help bridge the gap in the broader entrepreneurial development ecosystem by providing an international, virtual innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem based on open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation principles; where individual users and start-ups will meet, find collaborators and partners, co-create ideas and prototypes, utilize the wisdom ...
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Spatial-Spectral Flexible Optical Networking: Enabling Solutions for a Simplified and Efficient SDM (INSPACE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Over the last 40 years, network traffic has consistently grown at an exponential rate, and there is no indication this relentless trend will cease. At present, industry is hard-pressed to identify how future networks will continue to scale in capacity, energy consumption, and economic viability as present day technologies are being stretched to their limits. The nascent technology of space-domain ...
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Advanced Dynamic spectrum 5G mobile networks Employing Licensed shared access (ADEL)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Flexible spectrum usage is a promising enabler of spectral efficiency for next generation wireless broadband networks. In order to deliver the next order of magnitude gains in terms of overall spectral and radio efficiency envisioned for 2020, wireless access will have to be revisited both from a policy as well as from a technology innovation perspective. On the policy side, with the emergence of ...
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eWall for Active Long Living (eWALL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Description eWALL will be an affordable, easy-to-install prefabricated wall that can be mounted on an existing wall and includes all the ICT needed to enable a number of services for the senior citizen to cover major challenges in Active and Healthy Ageing. The project will carry out high-risk and multi-disciplinary research and will have a ...
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Virtualized programmable InTerfAces for innovative cost-effective IoT depLoyments in smart cities (VITAL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications are currently based on multiple architectures, standards and platforms, which have led to a highly fragmented IoT landscape. This fragmentation is evident in the area of smart cities, which typically comprise several technological silos (i.e. IoT systems that have been developed and deployed independently). Nowadays there is a pressing need to remove these sil ...
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Adaptive Software Defined Terabit Transceiver \nfor Flexible Optical Networks (ASTRON)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

ASTRON aims at the development of high-capacity, energy-efficient and bit-rate flexible optical transceivers capable of supporting rates from 10Gb/s to beyond 1Tb/s. The ASTRON concept is based on developing multi-functional and agile devices so as to achieve Terabit capacities on a single photonic integrated chip. ASTRON's transceiver can realize different techniques of flexible super-channel ge ...
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COst-effective COhereNt Ultra-dense-WDM-PON for lambda-To-the-user access networks (COCONUT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The COCONUT proposal aims at the definition, study and realization of a new fully scalable optical access network significantly extending the network dimensions in terms of bandwidth utilization, reach and number of accommodated users. The envisioned access network evolves from the almost-commercial WDM-PON architecture to the realisation of the Ultra-Dense WDM solutions, opening the way to the "w ...
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Advanced pRotection of critical buildinGs by Overall anticipating System (ARGOS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"Socioeconomic activities such as supply and distribution of gas or electricity and the Infrastructures that generate it or transport it (power plants, gas pipes), are vital to the day-to-day functioning of any country. Due to several factors, the social and financial European situation, or supply constraints, energy & utilities have become, over the last years, a prominent issue in Europe.In this ...
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Flexible Optical Cross-connect Nodes enabling next generation flexible optical networking (FOX-C)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Flexible optical networking is widely proposed today by major vendors and operators as the solution that offers smooth system upgradability towards Tb/s capacities and optimized use of network resources. Latest research and development efforts proposed a variety of multi-carrier signal transmission methods with significantly increased spectral efficiency, (compared to legacy WDM), allowing the tra ...
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Convergence of wireless Optical Network and iT rEsources iN supporT of cloud services (CONTENT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

CONTENT will focus on developing next generation high capacity end-to-end, heterogeneous infrastructure technologies to support the network of the future. The model proposed will be based on the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) paradigm and provide a technology platform interconnecting geographically distributed IT resources that can support a variety of Cloud services. This platform will includ ...
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Nano Scale Disruptive Silicon-Plasmonic Platform for Chip-to-Chip Interconnection (NAVOLCHI)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

The NAVOLCHI project explores, develops and demonstrates a novel nano-scale plasmonic chip-to-chip and system-in-package interconnection platform to overcome the bandwidth, foot-print and power consumption limitations of todays electrical and optical interconnect solutions. The technology exploits the ultra-compact dimensions and fast electronic interaction times offered by surface plasmon polarit ...
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PRedictive reasOning and multi-source fusion empowering AntiCipation of attacks and Terrorist actions In Urban EnVironmEnts (PROACTIVE)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"The main goal of PROACTIVE is to research a holistic citizen-friendly multi sensor fusion and intelligent reasoning framework enabling the prediction, detection, understanding and efficient response to terrorist interests, goals and courses of actions in an urban environment. To this end, PROACTIVE will rely on the fusion of both static knowledge (i.e. intelligence information) and dynamic inform ...
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Mobile Assistance for Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Immigrants with Persuasive Learning Technologies and Social Network Services (MASELTOV)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

MASELTOV recognises the major risks for social exclusion of immigrants from the European information society and identifies the huge potential of mobile services for promoting integration and cultural diversity in Europe. Mobile – everywhere/everytime - persuasive assistance is crucial for more efficient and sustainable support of immigrants. MASELTOV researches and develops novel ICT instruments ...
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Open Source blueprint for large scale self-organizing cloud environments for IoT applications (OpenIoT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Internet-connected objects will be an integral component of the future internet. Therefore, they must become integrated into emerging internet service delivery models, such utility and cloud computing. Indeed, the proliferation of applications involving internet-connected objects, has recently given rise to the notion of clouds of internet-connected objects, which are promoted as large-scale netwo ...
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Search engine for MultimediA enviRonment generated contenT (SMART)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

The Future Internet will include a large number of internet-connected sensors (including cameras and microphone arrays), which provide opportunities for searching and analyzing large amounts of multimedia data from the physical world, while also integrating them into added-value applications. Despite the emergence of techniques for searching physical world multimedia (including the proliferation o ...
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enHanced Interference Alignment Techniques\nfor Unprecedented Spectral Efficiency (HIATUS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

High spectral efficiency is the holy grail of wireless networks due to the well-known scarcity of radio spectrum. The successive introduction of advanced communication techniques enabled by the massive increases in processing power over the last few decades has enabled a progressive rise in link spectral efficiency, which in emerging systems seems to be approaching its limits.It is becoming increa ...
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Smart Management for Sustainable Human Environment (SmartEN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

There are increasing concerns regarding the environmental impact of human actions, the use of the environment and climate changes. These are coupled with ageing infrastructure systems, continuously growing and changing demands on the built and natural environments as well as limited financial and depleting natural resources. Until now, research has been focused on the development of proactive risk ...
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A converged copper-optical-radio OFDMA-based access network with high capacity and flexibility (ACCORDANCE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

ACCORDANCE introduces a novel ultra high capacity (even reaching the 100Gbps regime) extended reach optical access network architecture based on OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) technology/protocols, implemented through the proper mix of state-of-the-art photonics and electronics. Such architecture is not only intended to offer improved performance compared to evolving TDMA-PO ...
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Future Internet Applied to Public Safety in Smart Cities (SafeCity)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

Safecity deals with smart Public safety and security in cities. The main objective is to enhance the role of Future Internet in ensuring people feel safe in their surroundings at time that their surroundings are protected.Safecity is the result of the elaboration of a vertical Use Case Scenario based on Public Safety in European cities. The main goal of this project is to collect specific require ...
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Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWN)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

Europe is in the midst of a communications revolution facilitated, in part, by advances in wireless communications, such as wireless internet and leading to the next generation of systems. Both power and spectrally efficient techniques are major design objectives for next generation wireless networks. Recent studies have indicated that many licensed frequency bands remain unused 90% of the time. I ...
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Pan-European Photonics Task Force: Integrating Europe's Expertise on Photonic Subsystems (EURO-FOS)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

EURO-FOS aims at creating a powerful pan-European network on photonic subsystems by clustering top European systems groups with proven track record in the design, development and evaluation of photonic subsystems. EURO-FOS aims at bridging the gap between research on device-level physics and new architectures from the network-level. The first objective of the project is the integration of research ...
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Localisation of Threat Substances in Urban Society (LOTUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

"Terrorist acts committed using Home Made Explosives (HME) pose an increasing threat against our citizens. The usage of HME in the 2005 attacks in the London Underground is a frightening example. Our capability to deal with this threat is challenged by the terrorists’ capability to easily manufacture explosives from common components. LOTUS will address the critical issue of detecting bomb (and dr ...
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Agile Photonic Integrated Systems-on-Chip enabling WDM Terabit Networks (APACHE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

The APACHE project will develop new compact, scalable and cost-optimized photonic integrated components that will be capable of generating, regenerating and receiving amplitude- (OOK) and phase- (DPSK, QPSK) encoded optical signals for high capacity (>100Gb/s) WDM networks. The APACHE concept is based on developing devices having both multi-functionality and agility in order to reach Terabit capac ...
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Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications (ASPIRE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

ASPIRE will research and provide a radical change in the current RFID deployment paradigm through innovative, programmable, royalty-free and privacy friendly middleware. This new middleware paradigm will be particular beneficial to European SME, which are nowadays experiencing significant cost-barriers to RFID deployment.European networked enterprises in general and SME in particular are still rel ...
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Innovative and Novel First Responders Applications (INFRA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

"The objective of project INFRA is to research and develop novel technologies for personal digital support systems as part of an integral, secure emergency management system to support First Responders (FR) in crises occurring in various types of Critical Infrastructures (CI) under all circumstances. Project INFRA will focus on innovation at 2 levels: A. Create an open, standards based interope ...
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HERMES - Cognitive Care and Guidance for Active Aging (HERMES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

HERMES provides an innovative integrated approach to cognitive care covering the domain of cognitive support and training. This is achieved through an advanced, integrated, assistive technology that combines the functional skills of the older person to reduce age-related decline of cognitive capabilities and assist the user where necessary. Based on intelligent audio and visual processing and reas ...
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Scalable Advanced Ring-based passive Dense Access Network Architecture (SARDANA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description Scalable Advanced Ring-based passive Dense Access Network ArchitectureMain ObjectivesThe intensive use of optical transparency and the latest opto-electronic technologies enables to expand the PON performances and functionality while minimizing the infrastructure requirements at both urban and rural areas Fibre-to-the-Home net ...
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Building the Future Optical Network in Europe: The e-Photon/ONe Network (BONE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

Description Building the Future Optical NetworkMain ObjectivesThe BONE-network brings together 49 laboratories and research institutes from al over Europe in a close networking infrastructure, built on the foundations laid down by the FP6 ePhoton/ONe Network and represents the research activities within Europe in the field of Optical Netw ...
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Dynamic Impairment Constraint Networking for Transparent Mesh Optical Networks (DICONET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

Description Dynamic Impairment Constraint Networking for Transparent Mesh Optical NetworksMain ObjectivesThe key innovation of DICONET: “The development of a dynamic network planning tool residing in the core network nodes that incorporates real-time measurements of optical layer performance into IA-RWA algorithms and is integrated into a ...
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Generalised architEcture for dYnamic infraStructure sERvices (GEYSERS)

End date: Jan 1, 2010,

GEYSERS vision is to qualify optical infrastructure providers and network operators with a new architecture, to enhance their traditional business operations. Optical network infrastructure providers will compose logical infrastructures and rent them out to network operators; network operators will run cost-efficient, dynamic and mission-specific networks by means of integrated control and managem ...
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