ITEA Success stories

PIANiSM Success story

PIANiSM aims at putting together predictive and prescriptive maintenance techniques to achieve an end-to-end automated manufacturing process and optimise end-to-end manufacturing value chains. To disrupt traditional maintenance processes in manufacturing environments, a sophisticated system is required that covers a wide range of domains such as data science, machine learning, analytics, simulation and real-time processing. PIANiSM will provide related missing analytics techniques and algorithms, introduce new generation of data identification & integration and modelling processes, and try to develop standards to enable more flexible and applicable solutions for manufacturers.

EMPHYSIS project Success story

The major goal of the project was to develop a new standard - eFMI®: Functional Mock-up Interface for embedded systems - to exchange physics-based models between modeling and simulation environments with software development environments for electronic control units (ECU), micro controllers or other embedded systems and develop prototype implementations for the whole toolchain from physics-based modeling environments to production code on electronic control units. Enabling advanced control and diagnosis functions based on physics models allows the production code in automotive vehicles to be enhanced and the cost and time for the software development of embedded systems to be reduced.

COMPACT Success story

Due to the very limited resources provided by Internet-of-Things (IoT) nodes, today’s commonly used design approach to trade off development time with software efficiency is not competitive any longer. Therefore, an industry-wide effort is needed to provide measures for fast and efficient IoT software development. The main goal of the COMPACT project is to provide novel solutions for the application-specific and customer-oriented realisation of ultra-small IoT nodes with a focus on software generation for IoT nodes with ultra-small memory footprints and ultralow power consumption.

TESTOMAT project Success story

Nowadays, quality software has come to mean “easy to adapt” because of the constant pressure to change. Consequently, modern software teams seek a delicate balance between two opposing forces: striving for reliability and striving for agility. The TESTOMAT project will support software teams to strike the right balance by increasing the development speed without sacrificing quality. The project will ultimately result in a Test Automation Improvement Model, which will define key improvement areas in test automation, with the focus on measurable improvement steps.

PARTNER Success story

The PARTNER project offers solutions to support the optimal patient journey for chronic diseases through the health system for appropriate personalised care. Data and information collection will be continuous, seamless and patient-centric. Extension of data collection beyond the walls of hospitals will enhance the capture of the full depth of patient data to more accurately reflect their states of wellness and health. Fast collaborative workflows of interpreted and harmonised data representations will increase the productivity of the caregivers and better justify the patient-centric decisions.

VMAP Success story

Currently, the exchange of local material information in a Computer-aided engineering (CAE) software workflow is not standardised and raises a lot of manual and case-by-case implementation efforts and costs. For a holistic design of manufacturing processes and product functionality, the knowledge of the detailed and local material behaviour is required. The project VMAP therefore aims to gain a common understanding and interoperable definitions for virtual material models in CAE and to establish an open and vendor-neutral ‘Material Data Exchange Interface Standard’ community which will carry on the standardisation efforts into the future.

PARFAIT Success story

Interoperability, along with security and privacy of personal data, are the two most important limitations for the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) market. Interoperability increases the complexity of service production processes and the cost of production. Lack of security and trust for the protection of privacy puts a barrier between service providers and consumers. To solve these issues, PARFAIT aims to develop a platform for protecting personal data in IoT applications and to reduce the complexity of integrating and deploying services in today’s IoT technology by providing interoperable software libraries, tools and SDK elements.

STARLIT Success story

STARLIT will develop technologies in radiation oncology to improve the quality of life for cancer survivors by improving treatment accuracy and minimising unintended doses to healthy tissue in image-guided radiation therapy. This will be done by using magnetic resonance imaging for 4D anatomy assessment to enable on-line treatment planning, real-time 4D dose accumulation, target tracking, and plan adaptation based on concurrent imaging of anatomy and biomarkers.

REVaMP² Success story

Software-Intensive Systems and Services (SIS) require more agile, round-trip engineering processes that better leverage legacy assets, and more systematic and automated variability management. REVaMP² has conceived, developed and evaluated the first comprehensive automation toolchain and associated process to support the round-trip engineering of SIS Product Lines, enabling the profitable engineering of mass-customised products and services across many different domains.

SPEAR Success story

SPEAR aims to develop a flexible optimization platform that helps to improve a broad spectrum of industrial production processes in terms of energy-related aspects. Hence, a focus within the project is the energy optimization of plants’ production processes, production lines and (industrial) buildings. The platform will be used to optimize the energy consumption of existing and new production plants, and the method will be applicable to both virtual commissioning as well as running production systems.

ENTOC Success story

Engineering is the most time-consuming aspect of innovation and products are increasing in complexity, yet there has not been a corresponding growth in the number of people involved in production facility planning. Due to the reduction in cycle times needed to remain competitive, combined with highly individualised products and the fact that one changed parameter can affect many other areas, problems in the line can have serious time and cost consequences for businesses.

MOS2S Success story

Traditional media is losing ground to personalised experiences. Children of today, for example, don’t even know what it’s like to have a set of TV channels with fixed broadcasting timeslots for your favourite shows; they choose what to watch at the time they want. And they even produce thousands of pieces of content on their own each day. This trend in the entertainment business can also be seen in society, where city representatives no longer make decisions on their own. Everybody wants to be involved, or at least can be.

PS-CRIMSON Success story

A key challenge faced by city operators, municipalities and political decision makers is the fragmentation of information into silo-oriented closed systems and organisation models. This project aims to deliver an integrated 3D digital model and information platform that facilitates information collection, sharing, management, analysis and dissemination from diverse public and private urban infrastructures and resources. The platform supports public authorities to improve quality and efficiency of municipal services. Furthermore, adequate security and authentication methods allow selected urban data sources to be exposed to the full smart city ecosystem, enabling new innovative data-driven applications and services.

APPSTACLE Success story

Today automotive software-intensive systems are developed in silos by each car manufacturer or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in-house. This approach cannot meet the long-term challenges of the industry. One solution is to establish a standard car-to-cloud connection, open for external applications and the use of open source software wherever possible without compromising safety and security. The APPSTACLE result will include an open and secure cloud platform that interconnects a wide range of vehicles to the cloud via open in-car and Internet connection and is supported by an integrated open source software development ecosystem.

Flex4Apps Success story

The convergence of cloud, communication and IoT infrastructure plus the trend towards virtual applications (e.g. migrating software to the cloud) create new challenges for application developers and infrastructure providers. The resulting systems are complex with dynamic resources hiding possible problems. This creates a requirement for flexible monitoring and optimisation methods. The Flex4Apps project addresses the challenges of monitoring and optimising large, distributed, cyber-physical systems. The goal of the project is to provide a solution to manage the high data volumes and complexity of system monitoring whilst disturbing the target system as little as possible.

DANGUN Success story

Electric vehicles, connectivity and autonomous driving functions will revolutionise the automotive domain, which is a major challenge for vehicle manufacturers. Customers should be willing to pay for autonomous driving features that are a small part of the total car costs. The rationale behind DANGUN is that rather than using expensive sensors a comparable performance can be achieved through the close cooperation of suppliers of advanced perception sensors, vehicle manufactures and academia. The DANGUN project aims to develop a Traffic Jam Pilot function with autonomous capabilities using low-cost automotive components.

Reflexion Success story

Reflexion will support high-tech industry by providing significant improvements in quality and stability during early product roll-out. The results will include the ability to react to unforeseen problems or emerging needs in a speedy and cost-effective way by augmenting products with a layer of data sensing and data-analytics to quickly infer ‘missed’ or ‘misunderstood’ end-customer requirements; detecting issues that escape product release testing and product items that need service and maintenance attention. This knowledge is used to further improve the product.

ASSUME Success story

Future mobility solutions will increasingly rely on smart components that continuously monitor the environment and assume more and more responsibility for a convenient, safe and reliable operation. Currently the single most important roadblock for this market is the ability to come up with an affordable, safe multi-core development methodology that allows industry to deliver trustworthy new functions at competitive prices. ASSUME will provide a seamless engineering methodology, which addresses this roadblock on the constructive and analytic side

FUSE-IT Success story

Fuse-IT will address the need for sustainable, reliable, userfriendly, efficient, safe and secure Building Management System (BMS) in the context of smart critical sites. A main purpose is to solve the dilemma between efficiency and security in intelligent & strategic buildings. The result of FUSE-IT will be a smart secured building system, incorporating secured share sensors, effectors and devices strongly interconnected through trusted federated energy & information networks, a core building data processing & analysis module, a smart unified building management interface and a full security dashboard. Remote multisite monitoring will be implemented, taking advantage of big data analytics.

3DPathology Success story

A strong growth forecast in the digital pathology market for the next five years combined with a decreasing number of qualified pathologists will lead to a tremendous increase in workload in the pathology departments of clinical and pharmaceutical organisations. On top of this there is an urgent need for higher quality diagnostic information enabling more effective and efficient treatments. The 3DPathology project will address these needs by creating a fast, digital, quantitative, spectroscopic and multimodal 3D pathology analysis system.

C³PO Success story

C³PO aims at providing a Cloud collaborative and semantic platform for city co-design. The C³PO platform is unique in that it covers the whole urban project development process where cities empower, encourage and guide different stakeholders (citizens, decision makers, architects, etc.) to develop an urban project together. C³PO does not intend to replace or modify the existing applications offering unique but partial solutions of city co-design (simulation tool, open API, 3D modelling and visualisation, gaming tool, etc.) but can be seen as an open and generic intermediary that enables the interaction between existing applications through a unique multi-dimensional semantic repository (covering the different types of information in city codesign like GIS, BIM, electricity grids, traffic, etc.). As such, C³PO will enable the capitalisation of existing applications and data sources by enabling their integration as services, or by enabling them to exploit the C³PO Open API

ACOSAR Success story

Virtual system development (“frontloading”) is getting more and more important in a plenitude of industrial domains to reduce development times, stranded costs and time-to-market. Co-simulation is a particularly promising approach for interoperable modular development. However, the coupling and integration of real-time systems into simulation environments (especially of systems of distributed HiL systems and simulations) still requires enormous effort. The aim of ACOSAR is to develop both a non-proprietary “Distributed Co-simulation Protocol” (DCP) for integration of simulation and testing environments and an according integration methodology, which shall be a substantial contribution to international standardization (FMI). The results of ACOSAR will lead to a modular, considerably more flexible as well as shorter system development process for numerous industrial domains and will enable the establishment of new business models.

SCALARE Success Story

Most product innovations today are enabled through software components, so it is no surprise that software is the primary means of competitive differentiation. Software plays a key role in the digitalisation of many products that hitherto were completely driven by electronics, so scaling software in a controlled and efficient way is crucial, and represents a major challenge for organisations. The required transformations are often driven by the technological evolution of products, systems or services as well as by how the business and the company are organised. In many instances, existing processes must be reshaped, and new best practices and tools incorporated. The challenge taken up by the ITEA project SCALARE, a joint effort of industry and academia from five countries, was how to support and enable organisations in scaling their software capability in a systematic, proactive way.

M2MGrids Success Story

The M2MGrids project aimed at creating enablers for a dynamic cyber-physical information ecosystem that would interoperate in real time with the business processes of companies with real-life objects, people and things. M2MGrids focused on major disruptions in targeted energy and mobility domains. The disruption in the energy domain was related to operating models and the high cost of peak hours in energy grids. To make more efficient use of the energy grid, there needed to be a flexible and automated means by which to control both consumption and generation between multiple energy stakeholders and prosumers. The inability of multiple stakeholder systems to exchange information in dynamic situations (such as in a traffic accident) was leading to disruptions in the mobility domain.

ACCELERATE Success Story

Innovation is much more than creating technology; it must ‘go to market’. Many companies need new ways to rapidly validate the match between the market and their innovative ICT-intensive technology. The ITEA project ACCELERATE took up the challenge of enabling the mass adoption of acceleration knowhow by European technology companies by focusing on two goals: the transfer of knowledge on a massive scale and the introduction of a new type of product development, the so-called validated learning process that systematically searches for the technology-market match by validating the mechanics of a business model. This way ACCELERATE set out to shorten the innovation cycle and time-to-market, and to increase the number of new products or solutions as well as the number of ideas that are accelerated and/or created.

BENEFIT Success Story

Three main challenges were confronted by the BENEFIT project. Firstly, there is the societal aspect of coping with the increasing number of minimally invasive image guided interventions. Secondly, the economic dimension concerns delivering care with quantified targets in terms of quantity, price and quality of care. The third element was to show the technical feasibility of an integrated infrastructure that includes all relevant imaging and data sources, the modelling, analysis and presentation of these data and the integration into a Clinical Decision Support System. The BENEFIT project addressed these challenges by developing new imaging procedures and quantification and analysis methods to collect information before, during and at the end of an interventional treatment.

MODRIO Success story

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are very large systems that not only involve a large number of stakeholders but are safety critical and have significant impact on the economy and the environment as well. This makes tools for the safe and efficient design and operation of such systems imperative. The ITEA project MODRIO, which ran from 2012 to 2016, was set up to extend modelling and simulation tools based on open standards (Modelica and FMI) from system design to system operation.

OPEES Success story

The ITEA 2 project OPEES stood at the inception of two important trends: open collaboration with open source in industry and open source tools for model-based systems engineering (MBSE). Neither of these trends were well developed in 2009, but almost 10 years later, and with acceleration through the OPEES project, we benefit from both good open source MBSE tools and many open collaboration initiatives in industry. OPEES was both a pioneer and a catalyst in this evolution.

SoRTS Success story

Radiotherapy affects not only cancer cells but also healthy cells in the area that is being treated, so it is important that as little healthy tissue as possible is affected. The problem is that the movement of a tumour under the effect of respiration, for example, risks damaging surrounding tissue, whereas MRI, the only imaging modality that can visualise the tumour well, traditionally takes minutes to create the image. Thanks to the strong results from the ITEA SoRTS project, physicians can now precisely target a tumour, even when tumour tissue changes shape, location, size or composition during treatment. Patients benefit from a less intrusive treatment enabling them to continue their daily lives.

Metaverse1 Success story

Ten years ago, virtual worlds were already found in serious computer games and simulation models. However, they were mostly standalone and independent of each other with little or no connection to the real world. The ITEA project Metaverse1 set out to overcome this isolation – defining a standard to enable connectivity and interoperability between virtual worlds and with the real world. The objective was to define interoperability in such a way that it would be possible to exchange information between worlds. Even more important was the development of a standard interface between the real physical world and the virtual – simulation/ serious games – world. This made it possible to attach real world sensors, such as body parameter or environmental sensors, to provide input to simulations or alternatively obtain feedback from such models into the real world, for example to control lighting, temperature or ventilation or for personal wellbeing.

AMALTHEA and AMALTHEA4public Success story

The ITEA 2 projects AMALTHEA and AMALTHEA4public are part of a 'string of pearls' in the automotive domain; successes that have pushed this domain into the next phase of its development. AUTOSAR, a result from the former ITEA project EAST-EEA, defined a methodology for component-based development of automotive software and a standardised software architecture for automotive electronic control units. However, AUTOSAR offered only limited support for detailed behaviour descriptions, which are indispensable for developing much more complex multi-core systems of high quality. Those require an increased exchange between tools. Multi-core optimisation especially relies on additional information like detailed timing behaviour. AMALTHEA set about adapting existing development methods and tools and creating a common model that offers the required description capabilities on different abstraction levels. The follow-up project AMALTHEA4public was set up to foster the transfer into application and to create a sustainable open (“public”) platform and a vibrant community of users and contributors.

MoSHCA Success story

The number of people experiencing chronic disease is increasing dramatically worldwide. The impact of chronic diseases is evident: it has been estimated that the cost of five of the major chronic illnesses could reach USD 47 trillion over the next 20 years and could claim almost 400 million lives within 10 years. The ITEA 2 MoSHCA project was geared towards improving patient-doctor interactions, controlling chronic diseases, developing technological set-ups that significantly improve the self-management of chronic illnesses, promoting communication between the patient and the health provider and supporting health staff in providing better clinical follow-up.

UsiXML Success story

The international landscape is quite diverse in terms of interactive software systems as they should be used in a wide spectrum of contexts of use. Each context of use covers various types of users along with their interactive tasks, using potentially several computing platforms or devices in multiple physical, organisational and psychological environments and locations. In addition, practices for developing user interfaces of these interactive software systems are even more heterogeneous. Evolving in so many diverse contexts of use is particularly challenging when the same system should be deployed for several targets. In theory, a single version of the software should be produced so that it is adapted to each context of use. In practice, this is simply impossible to do due to lack of resources and knowledge

H4H Success story

HPC is essential in meeting the demand for increased processing power for future research and development in many domains. The goal of the ITEA project H4H was to provide a highly efficient, hybrid programming environment for heterogeneous computing clusters to enable easier development of HPC applications and optimise application performance. The project also aimed at providing a new infrastructure for HPC cloud computing and a new cooling technology to reduce energy needed to operate the HPC system.

ATAC Success story

Due to the dramatic increase in the complexity of the software itself and the sheer magnitude of the customisability of the software, software-intensive systems have become increasingly difficult to develop and verify by traditional development processes and testing methods.The ITEA project ATAC aimed to resolve such challenges. The overarching goal was to push the functional, safety and security requirements coverage envelope while greatly reducing the required testing effort for both the fully automated and remaining manual test cases.

BaaS Success story

Smart buildings of the future need comprehensive and extendible cross-domain management and control functionality that today’s building automation and management systems (BAS) do not adequately provide. The BaaS (Building as a Service) project was set out to tackle these challenges by introducing a novel semantic IoT service framework for commercial buildings along with a reference architecture and corresponding software platform as a basis for current and future commercial building automation and management technologies.

CAP Success story

Nowadays, a wealth of data is available. However the access to efficient analytic tools is often difficult. The ITEA project CAP (Collaborative Analytic Platform), contributed to the development of new sustainable business models and laid the foundation for a market value proposition of ‘Big Data as a Service’. Thanks to the project results, La Poste will be able to save several million euros with the same control workforces.

SEAS Success story

SEAS was set out to enable interoperability of energy, ICT and automation systems at consumption sites, introducing dynamic ICT-based solutions to control, monitor and estimate energy consumption. According to Engie's CTO: "SEAS is a standard that will allow any kind of energy to be transferred securely and automatically with embedded artificial intelligence between devices that either produce, store or consume. This is a really, really major development in the IoT for energy, one that is going to transform the future."

SAFE Success story

Driving on the road is a way of life - whether for work or for leisure. Being able to get safely from A to B is something we take for granted. And today driving is safer than it was ten years ago, and ten years before that, and in ten years time it will be even safer. This progress can be measured - fewer accidents, fewer injuries, fewer deaths = less cost to society, in both human, financial and environmental terms. So the benefits of safe driving are crystal clear. But to get to that stage, a lot has gone on, and is still going on, behind the scenes and particularly in the software that has become the key ingredient of every modern mode of transport, the road vehicle being no exception.

Philips Healthcare Success story

Recent decades have witnessed phenomenal advances in healthcare. But the combination of longevity, chronic disease and costs have made the need for smart solutions paramount. The growing presence of healthcare in the RD&I landscape has been making its mark within the ITEA Community, so time to reflect on the input and impact of Philips over the past seven or so years. This brief retrospective of Philips' very active involvement in the (smart) healthcare projects within the ITEA Community bears testimony to the key role it has played and continues to play, one that benefits business, users, knowledge and, most important of all, patients.

ADAX Success story

The ADAX project started in early 2013, aiming at developing advanced capabilities for cyber-Attack Detection And Countermeasures Simulation. The consortium was comprised of 8 partners from France and Turkey including 2 large enterprise, 4 SMEs, 2 academics. Airbus DS Cybersecurity (Cassidian CyberSecurity SAS) acted as Project Coordinator while Yapi Kredi Bank acted as pilot end user. The project duration was 30 months for a total effort of 86 person-years.

DIAMONDS Success story

With the DIAMONDS methodology representing a unique enabling technology for testing the security of critical software systems, the project continues to deliver results years after it ended. Several standardisation documents have been adopted by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), for example, and have been forwarded to international standardisation bodies. These standardisation documents reflect the project's case studies, where the partners fine-tuned the methodology for different industrial sectors.

NEXO Success story

The ITEA EPAS project was initiated several years ago in the framework of the SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) project led by the European Central Bank and with the strong support of the European Commission. SEPA aimed at facilitating payments in Europe beyond national borders in order to achieve a single domestic market of payments.

                            The project, eventually retained by ITEA for funding, gathered various actors belonging
                            to the European card payment industry such as Groupement des Cartes Bancaires, Ingenico,
                            ATOS Worldline, Verifone, Wincor-Nixdorf, Total, Equens and many others. The aim of this
                            project was to involve the main actors of the card payment industry to deliver global
                            standards that would enable European retailers to rely on common specifications for
                            their card acquiring operations.</p>

NEXXIS Success story

The costs of sustaining healthcare are rising constantly: the global medical technology market, including devices used for pharmaceutical purposes, is in the order of 400 billion euros with a growth rate of 5% per year. Europe spends approximately 10% of its GDP on healthcare. Due to ageing of the population and increase of chronic diseases, growing numbers of patients require complicated surgical interventions, which may increase healthcare costs even further. One way to combat this trend is the replacement of conventional open surgery procedures by image guided, minimally invasive procedures as these have proven to improve patient outcome and reduce costs.

The ITEA 2 project MEDIATE has improved these minimally invasive procedures by developing new imaging protocols, interventional tools and an architecture that fully integrates all medical imaging sources, displays and therapeutic devices into the interventional workflow, including optimised UI's and decision support.

INDRA Success story

Two important topics for Indra in the last years were tackled during the ITEA projects Nemo&Coded, Imponet and DiCoMa: Big Data technologies and real-time data integration platforms. With respect to Big Data technologies, they were investigated and used, especially in the Imponet project, applying them to the energy domain at a time when few people or organisations were considering it. The results were extremely encouraging and it gave Indra a head start on the competition.

Digital Cinema Success story

Ten years ago, from January 2001 until June 2003, Barco, with the support of the Flemish Government Agency IWT, headed the ITEA project "Digital Cinema" to develop the key components for the transition of the movie industry from analogue 35mm film to digital technology. This Success Story sums op the main result, from the end of the project until 10 years after that.

MODELICA Success story

The power of Modelica can be found in the system simulation of complex physical models, such as a full vehicle model, including 3D mechanics, drive train with automatic gearbox, the electrical and air conditioning systems. This story shows the evolution of Modelica and successful applications resulting from the ITEA projects EUROSYSLIB, MODELISAR, OPENPROD and MODRIO in companies like EDF, Siemens, Daussault Aviation, Alstom Transports, BMW and Google.

GEODES Success story

The ITEA 2 GEODES project addressed power-consumption issues - namely, power reduction - in complex distributed communication systems, from handheld devices to wireless sensor networks. At the end of the project in 2011, the review pointed a number of highly promising exploitation prospects. So, three years on, has this promise been fulfilled?

The simple answer is a resounding yes. In short, the results of the project continue to spawn a series of successful spin-offs, services and products in all kinds of areas, including wireless network communication, TV set-top boxes and video-surveillance systems.

Evidian Success story

EVIDIAN has always focused its ITEA participation within a track for controlling the access of users to the information system at large. In the early 2000s, EVIDIAN held the view that investment by organisations in security issues was going to increase, and that Identity and Access Management</a> (IAM) in particular would become an important element in governing security. Many analysts, such as Gartner in the US or KuppingerCole in Europe, created specific sectors of security to monitor Identity and Access Management. They confirmed that investment by organisations in IAM remained at a high level, growing in the period 2003-2016, despite the economic downturn observed in 2007-2009.

EAST-EEA Success story

For about fifteen years ITEA projects have created a 'string of pearls', successes that have laid the foundations for ITEA to be just as, if not more, successful in the future in a number of key domains. These are projects that have 'seized the high ground' and pushed the domain into the next phase of its development. One such domain is automotive and one such story of success is EAST-EEA, a project that began in 2001 and ended in 2004. Ended? No, because this project has generated a constant flow of results for projects and 'pearls' of success that have continued to this day and will continue on into the future.