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Single European Secure Air-cargo Space (EUROSKY)

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

EUROSKY will deliver a high impact programme for advanced air-cargo security and facilitation measures to safeguard international supply chains and the security of citizens while fostering international co-operation and a broad stakeholder engagement from all segments of the air-cargo industry.The main outputs will be:1. The EUROSKY Blueprints to provide a Europe wide cooperative model for air car ...
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Energy Efficient E-band transceiver for backhaul of the future networks (E3NETWORK)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

Network operators are looking for cost effective solutions to manage and upgrade their networks to meet the user experience demanded by European citizens. The backhauling infrastructure is becoming a bottleneck.E3Network will design an E-band transceiver for the backhaul infrastructure of the future networks. It will work in the E-band, which enables highly focused "pencil beam" transmissions and ...
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Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT)

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

"Identity management using Biometrics is deployed in a growing number of applications ranging from identification platforms (e.g. biometric passports) to access control systems for border checks or banking transactions.Unfortunately, the reliability of these technologies remains difficult to compare. There are no european-wide standards for evaluating their accuracy, their robustness to attacks or ...
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Innovative Reliable Chip Designs from Low-Powered Unreliable Components (i-RISC)

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

The ongoing miniaturization of data processing and storage devices and the imperative of low-energy consumption can only be sustained through low-powered components. Lower supply voltages and variations in technological process of emerging nanoelectronic devices make them inherently unreliable. As a consequence, the nanoscale integration of chips built out of unreliable components has emerged as ...
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Holistic Approaches for Integrity of ICT-Systems (HINT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The security of modern ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) systems relies fundamentally on the integrity of hardware components. This is the case for user identification and authentication as in smartcards, e-Id, e-Passports, e-health devices or for the integrity checking of computers and mobile systems as in trusted computing and TPMs. But it is also the case for telecommunication i ...
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ICT-enabled, cellular artificial liver system incorporating personalized patient management and support (d-LIVER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

d-LIVER applies scenario-driven development methodologies to address an unmet need for bio-artificial liver support via continuous detoxification as remote transient therapy at the Point-of-Need. The liver is a complex organ with various vital functions in synthesis, detoxification and regulation; its failure is life-threatening and the only curative treatment is transplantation. Whilst awaiting t ...
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Quantitative inspection of complex composite aeronautic parts using advanced X-ray techniques (QUICOM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Recent years have seen a rapidly growing demand from aeronautic industry regarding function-oriented, highly integrated, energy-efficient and lightweight structures. In advanced composites a promising material was found, which integrates these characteristics allowing for continuously elevating the complexity of new components concerning shape and internal structure. The consequences of this incre ...
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Mont-Blanc, European scalable and power efficient HPC platform based on low-power embedded technology (Mont-Blanc)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

There is a continued need for higher compute performance: scientific grand challenges, engineering, geophysics, bioinformatics, etc. However, energy is increasingly becoming one of the most expensive resources and the dominant cost item for running a large supercomputing facility. In fact the total energy cost of a few years of operation can almost equal the cost of the hardware infrastructure. En ...
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Self adaptive heterogeneous manycore based on Flexible Tiles (FlexTiles)

Start date: Oct 15, 2011, End date: Apr 14, 2015,

Description To develop an energy-efficient programmable heterogeneous manycore platform with self-adaptive capabilities that apply to cognitive radio, video processing, embedded devices and ambient computingA major challenge in computing is to leverage multi-core technology to develop energy-efficient high performance systems. This is cri ...
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Wireless charging for Electic Vehicles (UNPLUGGED)

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

UNPLUGGED project aims to investigate how the use of inductive charging of Electric Vehicles (EV) in urban environments improves the convenience and sustainability of car-based mobility. In particular, it will be investigated how smart inductive charging infrastructure can facilitate full EV integration in the urban road systems while improving customer acceptance and perceived practicality. UNPLU ...
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SCUBA - Self-organising, Cooperative, and robUst\n Building Automation (SCUBA)

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

Large scale embedded Monitoring and Control (M&C) systems in energy management, transporta-tion, security and safety often co-exist alongside each other with little cooperation within and among heterogeneous systems which hampers the increasing demand to operate the whole system optimally. A good example is building management, a market worth in excess of $36 billion annually by 2015, where a wide ...
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Fully Networked, Digital Components for Photon-starved Biomedical Imaging Systems (SPADnet)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Description SPADnet aims to develop a new generation of smart, CMOS-based large area networked image sensors for photon-starved biomedical applications, build ring-assembly modules for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging, and carry out performance tests in a PET system evaluation testbed.While suited to applications offering repetitiv ...
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ICT-enabled Wearable Artificial Kidney and Personal Renal Care System (NEPHRON+)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Description Renal patients can stay at home with wearable, artificial kidney.NEPHRON+ aims to provide a major leap forward in renal care: The project experts are developing a wearable artificial kidney for on-body blood purification - a next generation, integrated solution for personalized treatment and management of patients with chronic ...
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uBiquitous, secUre inTernet-of-things with Location and contExt-awaReness (BUTLER)

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

Recent ICT advances are bringing to reality a world where sensors, actuators and smart portable devices are interconnected into an Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem reaching 50 Billion devices by 2015.The IoT major challenges are, from a systemic viewpoint, smart resource management and digital security; and from a user/service perspective, the pervasiveness (uniformity of performance anytime an ...
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Smart miniature low-power wireless microsystem for Body Area Networks (WiserBAN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The WiserBAN project will create an ultra-miniature and ultra low-power RF microsystem for wireless Body Area Networks (BAN) targeting primarily wearable and implanted devices for healthcare, biomedical and lifestyle applications.The proposed research concerns the extreme miniaturization of the BAN with primarily the areas of ultra low-power radio SoC (System on Chip), RF and Low-frequency MEMS, m ...
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EM safety and Hazards Mitigation by proper EV design (EM-Safety)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The project aims at increasing the public confidence in the safety regarding electromagneticfields (EMF) in the fully electric vehicles (FEV).Public expectations to move towards the electrification of road transport are driven by a multitudeof factors and concerns including: climate change, primary energy dependence and public healthas well as cost and scarcity of raw materials. Road transport rem ...
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Smart and Efficient Location, idEntification, and Cooperation Techniques (SELECT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

The project focus on studying innovative solutions enabling high-accuracy detection, identification, and location of objects/persons equipped with small ultra-low power tags using a network of intelligent self-configuring radio devices. Network functionalities will be enhanced to include the detection and tracking of moving objects/persons without tags eventually present in the same area.To achiev ...
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Ionisation-based detector of airborne bio-agents, viruses and toxins for fast-alert and identification (Bio-Protect)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The malevolent use of Anthrax spores on civilians in late 2001 has shown the necessity to protect European citizens from criminal use of biological agents and viruses. Although these attacks had been punctual and crude, more sophisticated attacks on dozens or hundreds of injured or killed people are conceivable. When launching such an attack its success depends on concentrating a sufficient amount ...
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Joining innovative Approaches for the integration and Development of transnational knowledge of clusters policies related to independent of Elderly (JADE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"Citizens are getting older and are increasingly living with chronic diseases, because although their health condition is better than that of earlier generations, they live longer helped by advanced medical care ending up to chronic conditions and minor disabilities well manageable by home care. This has highlighted shared concerns by regional Governments about implications for future provision of ...
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Development of strategic research and engineering roadmaps in Systems of Systems Engineering and related case studies (Road2SoS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The emerging System-of-Systems (SoS) concept describes the large scale integration of many independent self-contained systems to satisfy global needs or multiple requests. The increasing number of interacting (mostly embedded) systems in our strongly connected society and industry as well as the growing overall complexity of systems have triggered a paradigm shift and the need to enhance the class ...
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SmartSantander

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

SmartSantander proposes a unique in the world city-scale experimental research facility in support of typical applications and services for a smart city. Tangible results are expected to greatly influence definition and specification of Future Internet architecture design from viewpoints of Internet of Things and Internet of Services.This unique experimental facility will be sufficiently large, op ...
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Internet of Things Architecture (IoT-A)

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

Description The Lighthouse Project IoT-A proposes the creation of an architectural reference model for the IoT as well as the definition of a set of key building blocks to lay the foundation for a ubiquitous IoT.There has been much hype about the “Internet of Things”. The idea of a globally interconnected continuum of devices, objects and ...
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Microsystems and Smart Miniaturised Systems for Food Quality and Safety Control (FoodMicroSystems)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

The overall objective of FoodMicroSystems is to initiate the implementation of microsystems & smart miniaturised systems in the food sector by improving cooperation between suppliers and users of microsystems for food/beverage quality and safety. The project has five specific objectives:1.\tTo improve the coordination of national and EU programmes for the development of food applications2.\tTo fac ...
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Wireless Hybrid Enhanced Mobile Radio Estimators - Phase 2 (WHERE2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

The availability of position information plays an increasing role in wireless communications networks already today and will be an integral part of future systems. They inherently can offer the ability for stand-alone positioning especially in situations where conventional satellite based positioning systems such as GPS fail (e.g., indoor). In this framework, positioning information is an importan ...
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New generation, High Energy and power density SuperCAPacitor based energy storage system (HESCAP)

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

Energy storage is recognised as a key element for energy networks in the near future. Regarding short-term power delivery and high duty cycle applications, such as stabilization of grids, traction networks and drive-trains of hybrid or full-electric vehicles, it is widely accepted that the use of energy storage systems (ESS) can lead to energy savings. This kind of networks needs ESS capable of st ...
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Process Oriented Electrical Control Units for Electrical Vehicles Developed on a Multi-system Real-time Embedded Platform (POLLUX)

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

"The objective of POLLUX is to develop a distributed real time embedded systems platform for next generation electric vehicles, by using a component and programming-based design methodology. Reference designs and embedded systems architectures for high efficiency innovative mechatronics systems will be addressed with regard to requirements on composability, networking, security, robustness, diagno ...
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Provisioning of urban/regional smart services and business models enabled by the Future Internet (OUTSMART)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

The goal of OUTSMART is to contribute to the Future Internet (FI) by aiming at the development of five innovation eco-systems. These eco-systems facilitate the creation of a large variety of pilot services and technologies that contribute to optimised supply and access to services and resources in urban areas. This will contribute to more sustainable utility provision and, through increased effici ...
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Quality of Service and MObility driven cognitive radio Systems (QoSMOS)

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

QoSMOS is a 3-year Integrated Project that aims at researching, developing and integrating a Cognitive Radio (CR) framework to enable mobile broadband systems to improve utilisation of licensed and/or unlicensed bands, by adding dynamic exploitation of under-utilised spectrum. The technical focus is on opportunistic use of spectrum combined with managed Quality of Service (QoS) and seamless mobili ...
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Cognitive radio and Cooperative strategies for POWER saving in multi-standard wireless devices (C2POWER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The promise of a truly mobile experience is to have the freedom to roam around anywhere and not be bound to a single location. However, the energy required to keep mobile devices connected to the network over extended periods of time quickly dissipates. In fact, the operational time, has been identified as the number one criteria by the majority of the consumers purchasing a mobile device. Moreove ...
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Modeling, Control and Management of Thermal Effects in Electronic Circuits of the Future (THERMINATOR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Electronic devices of the latest generations, being those integrated circuits or discrete components, are often required to operate in harsh environmental conditions, where the temperature may reach over hundred degrees centigrade. Obviously, this has negative impact on several parameters of the electronic devices, ranging from slow-down and transient, recoverable errors to permanent failures and ...
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Internet of Things Initiative (IoT-i)

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

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most important areas of a Future Internet with significant potential to positively impact European economy and society. The current IoT research community is however highly fragmented, featuring diverging approaches and technologies. This inevitably leads to a lack of coherency that hinders the realisation of an interoperable IoT, preventing the IoT to achiev ...
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Access to research results on semiconductor design (R&D ACCESS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

The objective of the R&D ACCESS proposal is to identify R&D results on semiconductor design from FP7 projects and to provide these results to partners from outside the consortia. The R&D results are divided into four categories: 1) Training and Education, 2) Intellectual Properties, 3) Design Tools and 4) Design Methodologies.A dissemination platform will facilitate the access to project results g ...
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Unobtrusive wearable human to machine wireless interface (Wear-a-BAN)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,

The objective of Wear-a-BAN is to investigate and demonstrate ultra low-power wireless body-area-network (WBAN) technologies for enabling unobtrusive human to machine interfaces (HMI) into SME-driven market segments of smart fabrics / interactive textiles (SFIT), robotics for augmented reality assistance and rehabilitation, and natural interfacing devices for video gaming. The proposed research wi ...
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Broadband Evolved FEMTO Networks (BeFEMTO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

BeFEMTO is a timely proposal to address broadband communications, an important stimulus to the European economy. It aims to research and develop evolved femtocell technologies that accelerate cost-effective provision of ubiquitous broadband services by smoother convergence between fixed and wireless broadband.The approach adopted is pragmatic in two ways: near-term solutions as enabler for early d ...
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Energy Aware Radio and neTwork tecHnologies (EARTH)

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

Telecommunication networks and in particular mobile communications are increasingly contributing to global energy consumption. The EARTH proposal tackles the important issue of energy saving by enhancing the energy efficiency of mobile broadband systems thereby reducing CO2 emissions. It is a highly ambitious and unique proposal, applying an integrated approach to investigate the energy efficiency ...
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Advanced Radio Interface Technologies for 4G Systems (ARTIST4G)

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

The first 3GPP Long Term Evolution standard version is complete and ready to be deployed. Although it increases peak data rate and spectral efficiency compared to legacy techniques, cell-edge and average user throughputs are still significantly lower than the peak rates. In the LTE-Advanced Study Item, ways to extend LTE are being explored. However, some of the considered techniques are complex an ...
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Seamless Communication for Crisis Management (SECRICOM)

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

"SECRICOM is proposed as a collaborative research project aiming at development of a reference security platform for EU crisis management operations with two essential ambitions: (A) Solve or mitigate problems of contemporary crisis communication infrastructures (Tetra, GSM, Citizen Band, IP) such as poor interoperability of specialized communication means, vulnerability against tapping and misuse ...
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MEMS ATOMIC CLOCKS FOR TIMING, FREQUENCY CONTROL AND COMMUNICATIONS (MAC-TFC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Atomic clocks provide enhanced accuracy, stability, and timing precision compared to quartz-based technologies. However, the size and power consumption of existing atomic clocks far exceeds that those of quartz-based clocks, not preventing their deployment in portable applications.The goal of the MAC-TFC proposal is to develop and demonstrate all the necessary technology to achieve an ultra-miniat ...
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Cooperative Hybrid Objects in SEnsor Networks (CHOSEN)

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

CHOSeN will develop appropriate technology, including advanced configurable RF and digital baseband transceiver hardware, networking protocols with scalable Quality of Service in respect of transmission speed, robustness, security, and low-power support, and a generic collaboration middleware that abstracts from the diversity and heterogeneity provided by the layers below, and it will thereby impr ...
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The PharMEA Platform: Multi-Electrode Array technology based platform for industrial pharmacology and toxicology drug screening (PharMEA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

The project PharMEA is based on the technology platform of multi-electrode arrays, which have been widely used for electrophysiological experiments on neuronal and cardiac tissues. Some of the key advantages of MEA technology include ease of use, non-invasive measurements and simultaneous multi-site recording & stimulation capability. Despite these key advantages, MEA technology utilization has re ...
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