Current Projects
| SYNCSEN (3/2008-2/2010): Sensor-Based Metering Network (SYNCSEN, SME-2007- 222322) |
| Funding entity: EU-FP7 |
| Partners: Centre de Recerca i Investigació de Catalunya (CRIC, Spain), Tritech Technology AB (TRI, Sweden), Soft & Control Technology s.r.o. ( SCT, Slovakia), MeshWorks Wireless Oy (MWW, Finland), JCB Electromecánica S.L. (JCB, Spain), PRI Ltd. (PRI, United Kingdom), Lowri Beck System Ltd. (LBS, UK), Water Services Corp. (WSC, Malta), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Spain), Malta Innovation for Industrial SMES (MIIS, Malta). |
| Metering of gas and water supplies tends to be more challenging than metering electricity as the latter may be recorded using power line technology (PLC), which gets its electrical energy needs directly from the network. Timely and accurate recording of the consumption of gas, water and electricity is important not just for the service provider (timely in the sense of better cash flow and enforcement in the case of non-payment) but will also help in identifying any leakages through the analysis of the actual quantity supplied and recorded by the meters. This may have the beneficial effect of curbing losses due to leaks, which are indeed commonly encountered in water distribution networks. As electrical energy is typically not available for automatic meter reading of gas and water supplies, this proposal describes in detail an innovative solution in the form of ultra-low power, wireless, secure, and scalable automatic meter reading (AMR) network. |
| TRILOGY (10/2007-3/2009) |
| Funding entity: Generalitat de Catalunya/Fundación i2CAT. |
| Partners: Fi2CAT, UPC, UPF, URL. |
| TRILOGY is a multidisciplinary main research project aimed at three specific thematic areas: Optical Networks, Audiovisual P2P Services and Sensor Networks. These three areas try to study in a complementary way from the physical layers to the service layers of the future or next generation Internet. |
| BREIN (8/2006-8/2009): Business objective driven reliable and intelligent grids for real business |
| Funding entity: EU-FP6 IST |
| Partners: USTUTT-HLRS, TID, UNIMAN, BM, ADEI, ATOS, MTA SZTAKI, PSNC, UHOH, IT INNOVATION, Flughafen Stuttgart, ANSYS, BOC, BSC, CRMPA, |
| The Grid adoption inside business environments has not experienced the same uptake as anticipated with respect to the experience in science and academic institutions. Nowadays, only some industrial sectors such as aerospace, automotive or pharmaceuticals are using Grid concepts in a business context, since they are requiring high and clear computation capacities. In fact, most enterprises lack of interest in Grid capacities since it implies high knowledge and resources and companies are requiring more high level and complex services. Thus, BREIN arises in order to address these problems by the introduction of Software as a Service model and by supporting collaborations among enterprises in a dynamic and flexible way. The BREIN project aims to develop a framework, which will extend the Grid possibilities by driving their usage inside new target areas in the business domain. In this matter, BREIN is dealing with providing all necessary basics these new business models need: enterprises’ system interoperability, flexible relationships, dynamicity in business processes, security mechanisms and enhanced SLA and contract Management. |
| CityBee (2006-08): Low-cost wireless metropolitan network for location and citizen services (CityBee, 32094) |
| Funding entity : EU-FP6 IST |
| Partners: CRIC SA,Electronic Systems Design Ltd., Triteq Ltd., JCB Electromecanica SL, Innovative Business Software, Sonton Teknologias, Pacscom Ltd., I.M.Personas con Bisminución de Barcelona, Innowacjapolska sp. Z o. o., Feltalálói és Kutató Központ Szolgáltató, Korlátolt Felel Sség Társaság. |
| State-of-the-art LBS (Location Based Service) devices are unacceptable solutions for a daily use by elderly, handicapped or children. This is due to the large size of the device to be worn, the high cost of the service and their daily / weekly battery maintenance. The proposed solution is based on the IEEE 802.15.4 radio frequency standard and focus on developing a private wireless metropolitan network specified for location and guide-assistance services. The network will be designed to support large areas, being flexible enough to be easily scalable and implementable in a variety of scenarios, from large commercial areas and theme parks, up to entire cities, including indoor places, such as underground premises. The standard will provide licence-free radio frequency bands, very low-cost infrastructure, reduced size and low-power consumption in the devices to be worn, with a battery life of some years. The town council of Barcelona will commission and evaluate a City-Bee network in the district of “Nou Barris”, where a public institution for impaired people called IMD (L’Institut Municipal de Persones amb Disminució) is placed. |
| ICING (2006-08): Innovative Cities for the Next Generation |
| ICING proposes to research concepts of e-Government based on a multimodal, multi-access approach to a ‘thin-skinned City' that is sensitive to the citizen and to the environment, using mobile devices, universal access gateways, social software and environmental sensors. The intelligent infrastructure will enable a Public Administration Services layer and a Communities layer. Communities will be able to interact with the infrastructure to get services created by the administration, and create their own information-based services. |
| NEWCOM (2004-2008) : Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications |
| NEWCOM is an European network that links in a cooperative way a large number of leading research groups addressing the Strategic Objective "Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G", a frontier research area of the Priority Thematic Area of IST. |