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Flexible Heat and Power, Connecting heat and power networks by harnessing the complexity in distributed thermal flexibility. (FHP)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

The annual space heating and cooling energy consumption in Europe is almost 3,500TWh. In 2012, in EU28 the electricity consumption ratio was around the 20% of the total energy consumption, from which 30% was consumed in the residential and 30% in the services sectors. From these proportions, air conditioning represents 17% of the total electricity consumption in the EU27 residential buildings. In ...
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Particle Reduced, Efficient Gasoline Engines (PaREGEn)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

PaREGEn addresses the short term scope of the GV-02 call via research into and the innovation of gasoline engines for light duty vehicles. Specifically, engines used in mid to premium passenger cars will be addressed. With the electrification smaller vehicles, focusing on larger cars is especially important: the need for clean, efficient & economic engines for inter-urban transport is more urgent ...
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IMplementation of Powertrain Control for Economic and Clean Real driving emIssion and fuel ConsUMption (IMPERIUM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

Fuel economy is a key aspect to reduce operating costs and improve efficiency of freight traffic, thus increasing truck competitiveness.The main objective of the IMPERIUM project (IMplementation of Powertrain Control for Economic and Clean Real driving EmIssion and ConsUMption) is to achieve fuel consumption reduction by 20% (diesel and urea) whilst keeping the vehicle within the legal limits for ...
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Modelling Optimization of Energy Efficiency in Buildings for Urban Sustainability (MOEEBIUS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

MOEEBIUS introduces a Holistic Energy Performance Optimization Framework that enhances current (passive and active building elements) modelling approaches and delivers innovative simulation tools which (i) deeply grasp and describe real-life building operation complexities in accurate simulation predictions that significantly reduce the “performance gap” and, (ii) enhance multi-fold, continuous op ...
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Assessment and mitigation of nano-enabled product risks on human and environmental health: Development of new strategies and creation of a digital guidance tool for nanotech industries (GUIDENANO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

The main objective of GUIDEnano is to develop innovative methodologies to evaluate and manage human and environmental health risks of nano-enabled products, considering the whole product life cycle. A strategy to identify hot spots for release of nanomaterials (NMs) will be followed by decision trees to guide on the use of (computational) exposure models and, when necessary, design of cost-effecti ...
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Arrowhead (ARROWHEAD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Our society is facing both energy and competitiveness challenges. These challenges are tightly linked and require new dynamic interactions between energy producers and energy consumers, between machines, between systems, between people and systems, etc. Cooperative automation is the key for these dynamic interactions and is enabled by the technology developed around the Internet of Things and Ser ...
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Advanced Methods in Building Diagnostics and Maintenance (AMBI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"Buildings consume more than 42 % of the energy in Europe. Efficient building automation systems can reduce their energy consumption of up to 30 %. In order to sustainably archive this goal a continuous commissioning and maintenance of the building automation system is eminent.The proposed project AMBI focuses on the advanced building diagnostics and prognostics, enhanced by virtual sensors and th ...
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Crowded ENvironments moniToring for Activity Understanding and Recognition (CENTAUR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"We aim to develop a network of scientific excellence addressing research topics in computer vision and advancing the state of the art in video surveillance. The cross fertilization of ideas and technology between academia, research institutions and industry will lay the foundations to new methodologies and commercial solutions for monitoring crowded scenes. Research activities will be driven by s ...
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Efficient Systems and Propulsion for Small Aircraft (ESPOSA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

The ESPOSA project will develop and integrate novel design and manufacture technologies for a range of small gas turbine engines up to approx. 1000 kW to provide aircraft manufacturers with better choice of modern propulsion units. It will also deal with engine related systems which contribute to the overall propulsion unit efficiency, safety and pilot workload reduction. Through the newly develop ...
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Buildings as a Service (Ecosystem) (BaaS)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

The BaaS system aims to optimize energy performance in the application domain of "non-residential buildings, in operational stage. In the building operational life-cycle three significant tasks have to be continuously performed: collect information and assessment of the buildings current state (identifying possible faults and inefficiencies if they exist); prediction of the effect that various dec ...
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INTelligent systems for Energy Prosumer buildIngs at District level (INTrEPID)

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

The INTrEPID project aims to develop technologies that will enable energy optimization of residential buildings, both performing an optimal control of internal sub-systems within the Home Area Network and also providing advanced mechanisms for effective interaction with external world, including other buildings, local producers, electricity distributors, and enabling energy exchange capabilities a ...
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Future INternEt Smart Utility ServiCEs (Finesce)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Change is the name of the game in energy! The shift to sustainability is visible everywhere. It is now a European priority to combine solutions which utilise energy generation from renewable energy sources and optimize energy usage efficiency into a Smart Energy System based on the introduction of Future Internet technologies. At the same time, business innovation needs to be encouraged to ensure ...
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ArchitecturE for Service-Oriented Process - Monitoring and Control (IMC-AESOP)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

IMC-AESOP will investigate a Service-oriented Architecture approach for monitoring and control of Process Control applications (batch and continuous process). Large process industry systems are a complex set of multi-disciplinary, connected, heterogeneous systems that function as a complex system of which the components are themselves systems. They link many components from individual groups of se ...
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Modeling, verification and control of complex systems: From foundations to power network applications (MoVeS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

We propose novel methods for modelling, analysis and control of complex, large scale systems. Fundamental research is motivated by applied problems in power networks. We adopt the framework of stochastic hybrid systems (SHS), which allows one to capture the interaction between continuous dynamics, discrete dynamics and probabilistic uncertainty. In the context of power networks, SHS arise naturall ...
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Reduced Certification Costs for Trusted Multi-core Platforms (RECOMP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The proposed RECOMP (Reduced certification cost for trusted multi-core platforms) research project will establish methods, tools and platforms for enabling cost-efficient certification and re-certification of safety-critical systems and mixed-criticality systems, i.e. systems containing safety-critical and non-safety-critical components.RECOMP recognizes the fact that the increasing processing po ...
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ENERgy Saving Information Platform for Generation and Consumption Networks (ENERsip)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

The main goal of the ENERsip project is to create an adaptive, customizable, and service-oriented ENERgy monitoring and control system for energy grids and decision makers. ENERsip is conceived on the idea that mixing energy, communications, control, computing and construction for the consumption and generation elements, must be active and proactively coordinated. To bring the idea into reality, E ...
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Overcoming Security Market Obstacles for SMEs Involvement in the technological Supply chain (OSMOSIS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The focus of the OSMOSIS project will be to support different organizations (mainly SMEs), in being involved in the overall European security market, by increasing their capabilities to understand and focus on security market trend and untapped potentials, link with relevant stakeholders, and facilitate their involvement in the technological supply chain, also by favoring joint research and develo ...
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Decentralized and Wireless Control of Large-Scale Systems (WIDE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

Increased global competition and an urgent need to address sustainability and resource-efficiency of operations force European industries and large-scale infrastructure operators to look for efficient real-time decision-making systems that allow them to react rapidly, consistently and effectively to a continually changing economical and environmental landscape. Advances in optimization tools and t ...
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