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Directly Modulated Lasers on Silicon (DIMENSION)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

DIMENSION establishes a truly integrated electro-optical platform, extending the silicon (Bi)CMOS and silicon photonics platform with III-V photonic functionality. The III-V integration concept is fully CMOS compatible and offers fundamental advantages compared to state-of-the art integration approaches. After bonding and growing ultra-thin III-V structures onto the silicon front-end-of-line, the ...
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Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation (FAR-EDGE)

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

...fort of leading experts in manufacturing, industrial automation and FI technologies towards the smooth and wider adoption of virtualized factory automation solutions based on FI technologies. It will research a novel factory automation platform based on edge computing architectures and IoT/CPS technologies. FAR-EDGE will provide a reference implementation of emerging standards-based solutions for ...
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Games Of Active Life (GOAL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The GOAL project provides a platform that fosters an ecosystem of games and applications that helps people stay motivated to lead socially engaged, physically and cognitively active lifestyles. The platform will benefit both players and third-party game developers. Players get to play their favourite games while at the same time working on a social and active lifestyle. Where certain GOAL games or ...
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Application Centric IP/Optical Network Orchestration (ACINO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The Internet has evolved into a three layer structure: at the top layer sit the applications generating traffic that is groomed at the IP and/or OTN layers and finally transported at the optical layer. Specific application needs, such as latency or protection requirements, are seldom guaranteed, because they are usually implicit and even when they are not, the need of the grooming layer to map lar ...
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Shared Access Terrestrial-Satellite Backhaul Network enabled by Smart Antennas (SANSA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

The aim of SANSA project is to boost the performance of mobile wireless backhaul networks in terms of capacity and resilience while assuring an efficient use of the spectrum. Recently, a global mobile traffic increase of 11-fold between 2013 and 2018 was predicted, so novel solutions are required to avoid backhaul becoming the bottle neck of future mobile networks. The solution envisaged in SANSA ...
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Federated Interoperable Semantic IoT/cloud Testbeds and Applications (FIESTA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

...d blueprint experimental infrastructure (tools, techniques and best practices) enabling testbed operators to interconnect their facilities in an interoperable way, while at the same time facilitating researchers in deploying integrated experiments, which seamlessly transcend the boundaries of multiple IoT platforms. FIESTA will be validated and evaluated based on the interconnection of four testb ...
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Virtual Open Incubation Ecosystem (VOICE)

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

... ecosystem. VOICE will enable individuals that aspire to become entrepreneurs to tap into the collective intelligence of the crowd and turn their entrepreneurial interest or need into a collaborative research project that will result into a prototype and to a successful "crowd-venture". One of the core competitive advantages of the proposed incubation model relates to the benefits that can be deri ...
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Objective Control for TAlker VErification (OCTAVE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

Industry needs alternatives to textual passwords for access control. While tokens can still be stolen or transferred to other persons, biometrics technology can provide reliable, cost-effective and user-friendly solutions.The proliferation of smart services calls for unsupervised authentication at a distance. Being natural, non-intrusive and readily compatible with smart and mobile devices, automa ...
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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,

...se the mode/core interference as well as new network planning algorithms and control plane extensions that are enhanced with the space dimension. The INSPACE consortium forms a strong industry driven research team targeting not only the demonstration of the new network concept and its ability to meet the challenges of delivering exponentially growing content over the next twenty years, but also th ...
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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,

...d 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 large-scale demonstrator exercise for validating the wall concept with solid clinical evidence. This will include both technical, user and legal evaluation, to measure the imp ...
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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,

...ross multiple IoT architectures, platforms and business contexts. Specifically, VITAL will provide platform and business context agnostic access to Internet-Connected-Objects (ICO). Moreover, it will research virtualized filtering, complex event processing (CEP) and business process management mechanisms, which will be operational over a variety of IoT architectures/ecosystems. The mechanisms will ...
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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,

...tical 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 transport of u ...
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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,

...vices 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 in an interdisciplinary consortium with the key objective to facilitate and foster local community building, raising consciousness and knowledge for the bri ...
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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,

...nd AspireRfid projects) towards enabling a new range of open large scale intelligent IoT (internet-of-things) applications according to a cloud computing delivery model. To this end, the project will research and provide an open source middleware framework enabling the dynamic formulation of self-managing cloud environments for IoT applications. The OpenIoT middleware framework will therefore serv ...
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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,

...re 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-based approaches for civil infrastructure reliability and management with benefits in improved performance, safety and cost. However, the ...
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Cognitive Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Optical Network (CHRON)

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

The CHRON project addresses the challenge of controlling and managing the next generation of heterogeneous optical networks supporting the Future Internet. Such networks will be of a highly heterogeneous nature, ranging from a wide variety of classes of services with different requirements, to wide physical layer diversity in optical transmission techniques and optical switching paradigms. The CHR ...
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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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Silicon-Organic hybrid Fabrication platform for Integrated circuits (SOFI)

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

In the SOFI project, new active optical waveguides and integrated optoelectronic circuits based on a novel silicon-organic hybrid technology are introduced. The technology is based on the low-cost CMOS process technology for fabrication of the optical waveguides - allowing for the convergence of electronics with optics. It is complemented by an organic layer that brings in new functionalities so f ...
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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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Pilot RFID Deployments and ROI Studies for SME using Open Source Middleware and Tools (RFID-ROI-SME)

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

The main goal of RFID-ROI-SME is to deploy, coordinate and disseminate a number (i.e. 12) of European pilots targeting multiple sectors across six (6) European countries, with a view to assisting European SMEs in understanding and fully leveraging the potential benefits of RFID technology. In the scope of these pilots RFID-ROI-SME will:-Study the potential benefits of RFID deployment in various se ...
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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,

...k 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 researchers through exchange and mobility, allowing for innovati ...
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Localisation of Threat Substances in Urban Society (LOTUS)

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

... amount of substance, position and time) are automatically sent to an operations centre display unit where data is collected and evaluated for further action. The LOTUS consortium consists of three research institutes (FOI, TNO, AIT), two industries (SAAB, Bruker), three SMEs (Portendo, Ramem,Bruhn NewTech), the University of Barcelona, and a group of End Users."
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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,

...ng InP technology, opposed to lithium niobate (LiNbO3), for achieving at least a factor of twenty in footprint reduction, lower driving voltages and increased stability. APACHE will integrate initial research prototypes within the lifetime of the project and will develop exploitation plans for future commercialization of the technology into metro and core network equipment.
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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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Real-Time Context-Aware and Personalized Media Streaming Environments for Large Scale Broadcasting Applications (My-e-Director 2012)

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

The main idea of My-e-Director is to research and develop a unique interactive broadcasting service enabling end-users to select focal actors and points of interest within real-time broadcasted scenes. The service will resemble an automated ambient intelligent director that will operate with minimal or even without human intervention. Contrary to state-of-the art services of similar nature that fo ...
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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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Scalable Advanced Ring-based passive Dense Access Network Architecture (SARDANA)

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

...al areas Fibre-to-the-Home networks constitute a fundamental segment with the required potential to match the huge capacity of transport networks with the new user communication demands, where deeper research is still to be performed. Network access infrastructure investments are driven by increased number of users requiring broadband access to services enabled by the Internet infrastructure and a ...
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Dynamic Impairment Constraint Networking for Transparent Mesh Optical Networks (DICONET)

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

...nation of project resultsTechnical ApproachThe work that needs to be performed during the life-time of the DICONET projects has been organized in several work-packages that perform stand alone research and development activities but they are also inter-related through an efficient integration of the project activities in order to ensure that the project objectives will be realized as planned. Besi ...
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