ISIS ENGINEERING’S NEWS

International WSN-DPCM research project (Wireless Sensor Network Development, Planning, Commissioning and Maintenance toolset) aims at developing a full platform to address the main Wireless Sensor Network challenges for smart environments.

The project was launched in Madrid, Spain on the 13th and 14th of October at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSII-UPM).

The expected main outcome of this three-year project is a platform including an integrated toolset that will allow developers to design, implement and deploy applications for smart homes and for private and public area monitoring. Two demonstrator scenarios with high cross-domain applicability to address societal needs will be built to evaluate the impact of the platform:

•    Outdoor Parking Demonstrator in Madrid: A WSN will detect free parking slots, guiding drivers to them.
•    Environmental Quality Demonstrator in Torino: A WSN will measure the air quality as well as noise, light and electromagnetic levels on city streets.

WSN-DPCM is a cooperation project of several technical universities and companies from Spain, Italy, Lithuania and Greece. The project is funded by the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking (the European technology platform representing the field of advanced research and technology for embedded intelligence and systems), national authorities and European partner companies.

The project is coordinated by Métodos y Tecnología de Sistemas y Procesos S.L, a Spanish company. The total volume of the project is EUR 3.3 million.

For further information, visit the project site: WSN-DPCM Research Project.

Os dejamos a continuación la entrevista a Luis Redondo que se publico en la edición nacional del Diario ABC, dentro de la sección “La Voz Empresarial”. En ella, el director de Inetsis habla sobre el origen de la empresa, sus sistemas y sus objetivos para el futuro.

On June 28th, the LIVING++ consortium held their kick-off meeting in Madrid, home town of INETSIS®, the coordinator. Three companies and one university will participate in the project that will have a duration of 24 months and will be completed in May 2013.

LIVING++ is a European project under the 8th EraSME Call that addresses the needs and demands when elderly people are overwhelmed with the usage of current technical devices. To counter this problem, the Living++ project aims at developing an intuitive platform to use such devices in an integrated manner that can be controlled remotely via a television. The expected main outcome of the two-year project it will be the Living++ platform that will provide a number of services which empower elderly people to:

• Monitor vital parameters such as heart rate, etc.
• Monitor important activities such as application of medicine
• Detect falls and report them to relatives, neighbors or doctors
• Detect dangerous situations such as fire or gas leaks
• Get reminded of important dates and appointments

The Living++ consortium composed by INETSIS, University of Duisburg-Essen and IMST GmbH will work towards this goal. Grupo AMMA will also collaborate in this project to validate the Living++ platform.

Inetsis belongs to the Project consortium which are currently working in the RUNNER project. This EUREKA EUROSTARS project has a duration of three years.
The RUNNER project has an ambicious objective within the robotics field. The aim is to design a world-wide vision platform for robots based on the high processing capabilities of the FPGAs. Based on this RUNNER vision platform,
autonmous robots will present a higher autonomy and a enhaced perception of their environment against current solutions and products.

The project consortium brings companies and organization from five different European countries, gathering experts from all involved technological fields. RUNNER partners are: Algosystems SA (Greece), Telecommunication
Systems Institute (Greece), Aldeabaran Robotics (France), University of Cyprus, SignalGeneriX (Cyprus), Inetsis (Spain), Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (Spain) and Mälardalen University (Sweden).

RUNNER aims to progress beyond the state of the art within the robotic field, delivering a platform with new functional capabilities and improved quality that it will increase the European industry competitiveness and will meet European citizens needs.

FASTCUDA Project belongs to the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) in theCapacity Programme “Research for the Benefit for the SMEs”.

The project idea is based on the fact that the Euroean Union has a strong foundation world wide in telecommunication, multimedia and automotive systems, however, the contiuous increase of complex system in emerging economies may put into danger the European leadearship in these fields.

FASTCUDA aims to solve current challenges related to the design of complex integrated systems. It is foreseen that it will provide software tools, hardware architecture and design methdology to adecuate current systems. In particular, CUDA models will be put into FPGAs.

FASTCUDA Project consortium brings the following companies and organizations: Inetsis (Project coordinator; Spain), Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (Spain), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Telecommunications Systems Institute (Greece), Ardoran OU (Estonia) and FSResalut (Germany).