CARDINAL: CApability study to investigate the essential man-machine Relationship for improved Decision making IN urbAn miLitary operations
The CARDINAL project aims to design and develop an information coordination system that will provide realtime tactical support to military troops on the ground while performing their tasks in urban environments. This information system is called the CARDINAL system which is a workstation that can be implemented as e.g. a computer terminal or a laptop, depending on operational needs. The Human Factors engineered CARDINAL system will make use of a Network Enabled Capability environment (NEC), and will incorporate artificial intelligence techniques for perception and decision support. The operational objective is to improve effectiveness of military performance at group/platoon level due to informational superiority that is based on realtime intel updates and sensor image availability, tuned to mission objectives.
The project consortium consists of seven entities, both research centers and companies, from across the whole Europe:Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Thales Nederland B.V., Thales Research & Technology France, Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements (PIAP), Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS, Tallinn University of Technology.The project was launched in the end of March 2010 and will be completed in the end of September 2012.
SIMS - Smart Information for Mission Success
The project is a part of European Defence Agency Defence R&T Joint Investment Programme on Force Protection. SIMS aims to develop set of novel mission supporting tools that aids force protection assets in an asymmetric warfare context, in an urban and non-urban environment.
The solution consisting of tools for mission support (e.g. planning and training) and related methodology. SIMS Prototype is the integrated composition of IT applications among which the most crucial are Knowledge Database and Reasoning Techniques.
The product of SIMS Prototype will be information processed and distributed in a smart, personalizes way. This information will be distributed using user friendly interface that allows easy and effective use of this information.
The project is being performed under the leadership of Thales Raytheon Systems-SAS with the following partners involved: Thales Research & Technology, PY-Automation, TNO, Thales Netherlands, ITTI, Management and Command Faculty of National Defence University (Poland), The Armed Forces Academy of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik (Slovakia).
ASPIS - Autonomous Surveillance in Public Transport Infrastructure Systems
ASPIS (Autonomous Surveillance in Public transport Infrastructure Systems) is a collaborative research project of the FP7-Transport call co-financed by the European Community.
In
case of a catastrophic event such as a bombing in a subway or the wreck
of a ship, a quick assessment of the situation and the awareness of the
number of potential victims could improve drastically the rescue
operations and help to save lives.
The ASPIS project has the
ambition to fill this gap by developing a video “black-box” able to send
video sequences recorded just before the event to the rescue teams to
help them in their tasks.
The project aims at the development of a
prototype surveillance system based on autonomous, smart monitoring
devices that capture data only upon the occurrence of an incident,
potentially dangerous for the passengers (like an explosion blast or the
triggering of the fire detector).
When triggered, these devices propagate the triggering to their
neighbouring devices and send an alarm. Successively, they upload the
captured data to the central station providing a wide (space and
time-wise) coverage of the potentially hazardous incident. Finally, they
provide a dedicated bi-directional communication channel between the
emergency centre and the affected areas. If, for any reason, they don’t
succeed to establish communication, they serve as “black boxes”,
preserving the data until they are physically recuperated by the
authorities.
This innovative system is meant for the unattended
surveillance of public transport (vehicles, stations), maritime
transport (ferries or cruise vessels) and other public spaces. It serves
primarily for the prompt and reliable situation awareness during the
early, most critical emergency phase, thus greatly facilitating the
overall crisis response.
The CLEM project aims to transfer a model of Clustered Learning Environment (CLE), originally developed in Scotland and Finland, to small and medium enterprises, representatives of regional government, development agencies, regional chambers of commerce in the three least developed regions in eastern and north-eastern Poland. The objective of the project is to develop an innovative e-learning or blended learning training program focusing on cluster creation and development as an excellent and innovative stimulus of regional growth.
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DaVinci - Design And Versatile Implementation of Non-binary wireless Communications based on Innovative LDPC codes
The DAVINCI project aims at setting up foundations of Non-binary Digital Wireless communications which are believed to be a key enabler for reaching requirements (e.g. spectral efficiency, latency.) of next generation Cellular systems. The primary objective of the DAVINCI project will be thus to develop and strengthen its core technology: a new family of Non-Binary LDPC codes, then to propose new optimization strategies for Link Level procedures (Link Adaptation, Turbo-Processing, HARQ, Resource Allocation,.) in order to take fully advantage of the Non-Binary nature of the information.
Since the final outcome of the project is to bring to life a product concept for these new DAVINCI Codes, the technology roadmap and project organization of DAVINCI will ensure innovative research activities, development, architecture design, test-bed implementation, and finally ASIC feasibility, whilst fair Link and System Level evaluations will highlight benefits brought by these technologies onto IMT-Advanced Candidates, resulting if necessary into contributions to Standard and/or Regulatory bodies. Thanks to this, the European industrial and economic competitiveness will be strengthened.
EMMA - Embedded Middleware In Mobility Applications
The EMMA project is committed to deliver a middleware platform and a development environment which facilitates the design and implementation of embedded software for cooperative sensing objects in the transport domain. The objective is to create new prospects in the field of embedded systems for cooperating wireless sensors in order to hide the complexity of the underlying infrastructure and to provide open interfaces for third parties enabling the faster, cost-efficient development of new cooperative sensing applications.
In order to validate the EMMA middleware a set of lab tests on a number of wireless cooperative objects (wicos) will be performed. Furthermore the results will also be validated, in a second step, in the context of a number of applications: within an automotive subsystem, a car level and at a supra-car level (intelligent infrastructure).
INSPIRE - INcreasing Security and Protection through Infrastructure Resilience
The INSPIRE proposal aims at enhancing the European potential in the field of security by assuring the protection of critical information infrastructures through the identification of their vulnerabilities and the development of innovative techniques for securing networked process control systems.
INTERSECTION (INfrastructure for heTErogeneous, Resilient, SEcure, Complex, Tightly Inter-Operating Networks) is a Collaborative Project co-funded by the European Commission in the context of the Seventh Framework Programme under the "Secure, Dependable and Trusted Infrastructures" subprogramme area.
INTERSECTION Project aims to enhance the European potential in the field of security by assuring the protection of heterogeneous networks and infrastructures. INTERSECTION is designing and implementing an integrated security framework made of different subsystems and components providing network and infrastructure security.
Many regions do not have access to the optical fibres, copper cables and radio waves linking up the world’s networks. Remote regions are often vast and sparsely populated, with a relatively poor economic base so that deployment of conventional access technologies is not viable. Combined with the huge distances involved, this means that constant connectivity will not be made available in these regions.
The Networking for Communications Challenged Communities (N4C) project, is funded from 2008 to 2011 under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme. N4C aims to use existing, novel technologies in these remote areas by creating an 'opportunistic networking architecture' (ONA) to exploit these communication opportunities and to set up two test beds in Swedish Lapland and Kocevje region of the Slovenian mountain.
Application tests will be carried out on:
Reindeer (animal tracking)
Hikers (a pod cast application)
Meteorological data
SECRICOM - Seamless Communication for Crisis Management
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: solving or mitigating problems of contemporary crisis communication infrastructures (Tetra, GSM, Citizen Band, IP) such as poor interoperability of specialized communication means, vulnerability against tapping and misuse, lack of possibilities to recover from failures, inability to use alternative data carrier and high deployment and operational costs and adding new smart functions to existing services which will make the communication more effective and helpful for users. Smart functions will be provided by distributed IT systems based on an agents' infrastructure. Achieving these two project ambitions will allow creating a pervasive and trusted communication infrastructure fulfilling requirements of crisis management users and ready for immediate application.
The SECRICOM solutions are based on four technological pillars:
(1) Secure, encrypted mobile communication based on existing infrastructures (GSM, UMTS networks) - secure push to talk systems.
(2) Improved interoperability among various existing communicating systems, creating recoverable networks and seamless connectivity.
(3) Introduction of distributed systems and the agent paradigm forming a smart negotiating system for parameterization and independent handling of requests suitable for rapid reaction use.
(4) Security based on trusted hardware enhancing the confidentiality of data and the privacy of users.
ITTI takes part in the following work packages: System analysis and design, Secure wireless fault tolerant communication, IPV6 based secure Communications, Integration of research results, Communication infrastructure monitoring and control centre, localization of actors, Demonstrator creation and presentation, Dissemination of research results.
SICMA is a project under the EU Security Research programme. The partners comes from Italy, Poland, Ireland, Germany Denmark and Israel. The project objective is to improve Health Service crisis managers decision-making capabilities. This is achieved through development of SICMA which is an integrated suite of modelling and analysis tools. SICMA provides insight into the collective behaviour of the whole organisation in preparation and response to crisis scenarios.
SME.net.pl - Increasing usage of the Internet among SMEs in Eastern and North Eastern Poland through innovative blended learning
Results of the research performed by the Institute of the Labour and Social Studies in the Warmia-Mazury region indicate that 47% of SMEs in this region point out the lack of proper skills as well as the unavailability of proper training and consulting support to be the barriers preventing a wider use of internet in their businesses. Thus, the main goal of the SME.net.pl projects is setting up a virtual learning environment, where SMEs would be able to interact with other participants by means of the internet tools. Moreover, SME.net.pl has been developed to innovative blended learning aimed at acquisition of the e-business skills and dissemination of the results of the project among all organizations and institutions supporting the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in three selected regions.
TALOS - Transportable Autonomous patrol for Land bOrder Surveillance system
The main objective of TALOS multidisciplinary project is to develop and field test the innovative concept of a mobile, modular, scalable, autonomous and adaptive system for protecting European borders. The conventional order protection systems are based mainly on expensive ground facilities installed along the entire length of the border used only to observe, detect and warn. This infrastructure is complemented by human patrols, where there is an access to the border line. The system developed within the TALOS project will be more versatile, efficient, flexible and cost effective.
The complete system applies both aerial and ground unmanned vehicles, supervised by command and control centre. The ground platforms will be both the watching stations and the first reaction patrols, which will inform the Control and Command Centre and an intruder about her/his situation, and will undertake the proper measures to stop the illegal action almost autonomously with supervision of border guard officers. The most important features of the system are scalability, autonomous operation, mobility and adaptability. It will be easy to “scale’ the system to the local requirements such as border length and topographic conditions.
The consortium is formed of an experienced research teams from industry, research and academia from Belgium, Finland, France, Israel, Poland and Turkey, with established close links with end users (border guards), which gives good prospects for project success.
