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ACROSS
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/04/2010
Total Costs: 16.1 M€ |
ACROSS will develop and implement an ARTEMIS cross-domain architecture for embedded Multi-Processor SoCs based on the architecture blueprint developed in the FP7 project GENESYS (Generic Embedded System Architecture), and develop a first generic MPSoC implementation in an FPGA. The ACROSS MPSoC will provide a stable set of core services as a foundation for the component-based development of embedded systems with short-time-to-market, low cost and high dependability. The ACROSS-MPSoC will be a universal platform for automotive, aerospace and industrial control systems in order to realize the benefits of the economies of scale of the semiconductor technology. The benefits of the cross-domain architecture will be shown in demonstrators from the targeted application domains. |
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ASAM
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/04/2010
Total Costs: 5.83 M€ |
ASAM addresses a uniform process of automatic architecture synthesis and application mapping for heterogeneous, multi-processor embedded systems, defining a new and unified design methodology, as well as related synthesis and prototyping tool-chains. For this, a highly efficient automatic synthesis flow will be created from the algorithmic specification down to its hardware/software implementation at the circuit/code level. The automatic synthesis flow will let the system and algorithm designers focus on the higher-level development issues, relieving them from the lower-level implementation concerns. In this way, the new design environment will allow rapid exploration of the high-level and algorithm design space and, consequently, quick development of high-quality designs. |
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CHIRON
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/03/2010
Total Costs: 18.1 M€ |
Addressing growing health-care concerns, CHIRON will combine state-of-the art technologies and innovative solutions into an integrated framework designed for an effective and person-centric health management over the complete care cycle. It will address and harmonize the needs of all the three main beneficiaries of the healthcare process, i.e., the patients using the services, the medical professionals and the whole community, putting the citizens at the core of the whole healthcare cycle by considering them as “persons” with specificities and identities, empowering them to manage their own health. CHIRON will enlarge the boundaries of healthcare by fostering a seamless integration of clinical, at home and mobile settings, in a concept of a "continuum of care", with a focus on moving from treatment to prevention. By developing a reference-architecture for personal healthcare, CHIRON will ensure the interoperability between heterogeneous devices and services, offer reliable and secure patient data management and a seamless integration with the clinical workflow. The CHIRON system will provide powerful supporting ICT tools and at the same time it will ensure that the patients and the doctors remain the protagonists of the healthcare process that has been designed around them. |
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eSONIA
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/03/2010
Total Costs: 12.1 M€ |
In Europe, manufacturing represents approximately 22% of GDP, and it is estimated that 75% of GDP and 70% of employment is related to manufacturing. The direct cost of maintenance is equivalent to 4% to 8% of the total sales turnover and, depending on the industry, maintenance costs can represent between 15% and 60% of production cost. However, today, factory's operating conditions cannot be comprehensively monitored, since there is no infrastructure for holistic and continuous measurement and visualization of relevant information.
This lack of insight prevents efficient decision making in real-time (e.g. recovery from undesired situations), reducing efficiency and increasing maintenance costs and safety risks. For example, the following figures demand improvement: 70% of industrial accidents are caused by human errors during complex operations, and 5% of all fatal work accidents in Spain in 2007 took place during the carrying out of maintenance-related activities. In addition, several studies have indicated that a significant increase in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), (from today’s 60% to 75%), entailing important profit improvements, is achievable through maintenance improvements by using new technology, modern high-tech equipment and better planning.
eSONIA will realize the asset-aware and self-recovering plant through pervasive, heterogeneous (wireline and wireless) IPv6-based embedded devices with on-board specialized services, glued together by middleware capitalizing on the service oriented approach. All of this will be used for the first time in industry to support continuous monitoring, diagnostics, prognostics and control of assets, regardless of their physical location. The data gathered allow efficient automatic maintenance schedules and improved operator dispatch and repair performance.
eSONIA means greater predictability of plant behaviour and visibility, reduced safety risks, enhanced security and cost efficiency. |
| iFEST
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/04/2010
Total Costs: 15.8 M€ |
iFEST will specify and develop an integration framework for establishing and maintaining tool chains for the engineering of complex industrial embedded systems. Specific emphasis is placed on open tool chains for HW/SW co-design of heterogeneous and multi-core solutions, and life cycle support for an expected operational life time of several decades.
iFEST results will demonstrate a potential reduction by 20% of both time-to-market and engineering lifecycle costs, including cost of poor quality. It will enable engineers to explore the architectural design space at a high level of abstraction, select a cost effective design, and from the abstract models produce, semi-automatically, the hardware and software implementations in a cost effective balance. A major innovation in this respect is the targeted integration of tools from the world of model driven engineering with traditional HW/SW co-design tools.
Several iFEST industrial case studies will validate the integration framework and two tool chains, for control and streaming applications. The integration framework will permit tools to be readily replaced within the tool chain; thus dealing with issues such as tool obsolescence and tool lock-in.
iFEST will promote standardisation of project results to encourage industrial up-take, aligned with the ARTEMISIA Working Groups on standardisation and tool platforms. It will bring the industry from a state where efficient tool usage in practice is low, to a state where innovative products and services can be designed much more efficiently due to well-functioning tool chains. Having a greatly improved design capacity will create new markets and redefine existing ones for industrial embedded systems. |
| ME3GAS
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/04/2010
Total Costs: 15.7 M€ |
Put consumers in control of their appliances to let them effortlessly optimise energy efficiency usage without compromising comfort or convenience. This is the goal of ME³Gas: specifically to addresses reduction in energy usage and CO2 footprint in households and commercial buildings. The use of Embedded Intelligence is what makes energy smart, and is the heart of energy-efficient technologies. ME³Gas will make use of the service-oriented middleware for embedded systems being developed in the Hydra project and use its huge potential to create services and applications across heterogeneous devices, to develop an energy-aware middleware platform.
But ME³Gas can only have commercial and residential relevance if it can be used to save energy in real-world applications. To demonstrate this, it includes a critical step of retrofit installation of the developed hardware and GUI platforms into real applications. In this context, ME³Gas will develop a new generation of smart gas meters, based on embedded electronics, communications and the remote management of a shut-off valve, which will offer a whole range of intelligent features: management of multiple tariffs and payment modalities, remote gas cut off, security alarms, etc...
ME³Gas will also contribute to the standardization work being carried out currently in Europe in the smart metering field (under the M/441 mandate of the EC mainly). The work will propose a standard for a European Gas Metering Infrastructure, which can be a part of a multi-utility platform to be made within the project. |
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POLLUX
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/03/2010
Total Costs: 33.3 M€ |
POLLUX will develop a distributed real time ES platform for next generation electric vehicles, by using a component and programming-based design methodology. Reference designs and ES architectures for high efficiency innovative mechatronics systems will be addressed, focussing on composability, networking, security, robustness, diagnosis, maintenance, integrated resource management, evolvability and self-organization.
Next generation EVs will begin the convergence between computer and automotive architectures: future cars will be mechatronic systems comprising a multitude of plug-and-play and self configurable peripherals. Peripherals will be embedded systems containing hardware, algorithms, software. The architecture will be based on distributed energy while the propulsion systems will adopt radical new control concepts. Sensing, actuation, signal processing and computing devices will be embedded in the electronic equipment, electrical motors, batteries and the mechanical parts as well.
The systems used to control the chassis and the power train will form the “computing engine” that automates lower level tasks during vehicle use (driver assistance, terrain evaluation, predictive battery management) and will enable future higher level functionalities (auto pilot), by means of novel user interfaces.
POLLUX is synergetic with the ENIAC E3Car project which will develop nanoelectronics technologies, devices, circuits, and modules for EVs in preparation for the launch of a massive European EV market by 2015-2020.. |
| R3-COP
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/03/2010
Total Costs: 18.3 M€ |
Safe and robust autonomous systems are one of the – if not the – most important instantiation of embedded systems in mid-term future, simply because the application domains are so diverse, from transportation over manufacturing to farming, surveillance (indoor, land, air, and sea) to care as well as entertainment. Consequently, the ARTEMIS Strategy Group identified “Autonomous Systems” as one of the targets of the next ARTEMIS SRA. However, today, a large number of different approaches and platforms exist, rendering an economic realisation of such systems currently unrealistic (except in the manufacturing domain, where robots are already industrially exploited). Simultaneously, as such systems increasingly share space – and even closely cooperate – with humans, there is an urgent need for providing every possible means and measures to assert and guarantee their dependability, in particular safety and robustness. R3-COP will progress autonomous systems in two directions: technology and methodology.
Technology: R3-COP will develop a fault-tolerant high-performance processing platform, based on a multi-core architecture, as well as innovative system components for robust perception of the environment including sensor fusion, and for reasoning and reliable action control.
Methodology: a methodology-based development framework will enable economic development of reference platforms for various robotic applications as well as dedicated solutions. A tool platform will allow for guarded application of the design methodology, including new test strategies and tools. The outcomes will be applied in a series of demonstrators from ground-based (medical and domestic), airborne and underwater domains. |
| RECOMP
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/04/2010
Total Costs: 25.8 M€ |
RECOMP will establish methods, tools and platforms for enabling cost-efficient (re-)certification of safety-critical and mixed-criticality systems. Applications addressed are automotive, aerospace, industrial control systems, and lifts and transportation systems.
RECOMP recognizes the fact that the increasing processing power of embedded systems is mainly provided by increasing the number of processing cores. The increased numbers of cores is a design challenge in the safety-critical area, as there are no established approaches to achieve certification. At the same time there is an increased need for flexibility in the products in the safety-critical market. This need for flexibility puts new requirements on the customization and the upgradability of both the non-safety-critical and safety-critical parts. The difficulty with this is the large cost in both effort and money of the re-certification of the modified software.
RECOMP will provide reference designs and platform architectures, together with the required design methods and tools, for achieving cost-effective certification and re-certification of mixed-criticality, component based, multicore systems. The aim of RECOMP is to define a European standard reference technology, supported by the European tool vendors participating in RECOMP. |
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p.S.HI.E.L.D.
Project duration (months): 12
Start date: 1/03/2010
Total Costs: 5.4 M€ |
This Project is a pilot version (hence: "p.S.HI.E.L.D") of the S.HI.E.L.D. project. The pilot is foreseen to be a pioneer investigation, to be enhanced with R&D activities that will be proposed in the future ARTEMIS Calls.
SHIELD aims at addressing Security, Privacy and Dependability (SPD) in the context of Embedded Systems (ESs) as “built in” rather than as “add-on” functionalities, proposing and perceiving the first step toward SPD certification for future ES.
The leading concept is to demonstrate composability of SPD technologies. Starting from current SPD solutions in ESs, the project will develop new technologies and consolidate the available ones in a solid basis that will become the reference for a new generation of “SPD-ready” ESs. The composability of the SHIELD architectural framework will have great impact on system design cost and time to market of new SPD solutions. At the same time, the integrated use of SPD metrics will have impact on the qualification, (re-) certification and (re-) validation process, making them faster, easier and more widely accepted. |
| SIMPLE
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/09/2010
Total Costs: 7.43 M€ |
The main goal of SIMPLE is to research and deliver an intelligent, self-organizing embedded middleware platform, designed for the integration of manufacturing and logistics. SIMPLE will address the self-organization and cooperation of wireless sensors and smart (RFID) tags for federated, open and trusted use in the manufacturing and logistics applications.
The primary idea is to enable the dynamic interworking of ultra heterogeneous sensors and tags, which should autonomously organize in hierarchies, thus leveraging the development of a new class of secure, scalable, cost-effective, and easy-to-deploy “smart factory” and logistics applications. The SIMPLE outcomes aim at compensating the current lack of solutions capable of monitoring the state of shipments at different grouping levels (e.g., at the crate and case levels) and, more generally, of tracing goods along the whole supply chain. SIMPLE will prototype, test and validate the technologies using two test-beds under normal operation: - a complete manufacturing plant solution, and a complete logistics supply chain. |
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SMARCOS
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/01/2010
Total Costs: 13.5 M€ |
SMARCOS helps users of interconnected embedded systems by ensuring their inter-usability. Many products today connect with web services (media players, refrigerators, e-books, even cars). This distributed computing is becoming the norm in embedded systems, but connection problems, firmware incompatibilities, incomprehensible dialogue boxes and just plain bugs plague many commercial offerings. New challenges have also come up for user interaction.
Existing efforts towards interoperability (e.g. ARTEMIS project SOFIA) have largely focused on architectures. We extend these efforts on the user level. SMARCOS allows devices and services to communicate in UI level terms and symbols, exchange context information, user actions, and semantic data. It allows applications to follow the user’s actions, predict needs, and react appropriately to unexpected actions. SMARCOS plans several pilots that implement the use cases, including one large trial in a major public event (2012 London Olympics). Along the project, several smaller prototypes will be implemented. |
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SMECY
Project duration (months): 36
Start date: 01/02/2010
Total Costs: 20.5 M€ |
SMECY envisions that recently emerged multi-core technologies will rapidly develop to massively parallel computing environments which, due to improved performance, energy and cost properties, will extensively penetrate the embedded system industry in a few years. This will affect and shape the whole business landscape, e.g. semiconductor vendors need to be capable of offering advanced multi-core platforms to diverse application sectors, Intellectual Property (IP) providers need to re-target existing and develop new solutions to be compatible with evolving multi-core platforms and the need of embedded system houses, in addition to product architecture adaptations and renewing their system, architecture, software and hardware development processes.
The mission of SMECY is to develop new programming technologies enabling the exploitation of many (100s) core architectures. The goal of this ARTEMIS project is to launch an ambitious European initiative to match initiatives in Asia (e.g. teams funded by JST/CREST programmes) and USA (e.g. PARLAB in Berkeley, Parallel@illinois and Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory in Stanford) and to enable Europe to become the leader. |