Slovenia in ITEA

There are some societal challenges that have to be solved quickly for the advantage of the global society. Electricity management is one of them as the low cost oil energy era is finishing, the diversity of unpredictable sustainable energy sources (sun, wind, ...) is increasing, the heterogeneity of the production site is growing. In front of this arising complexity, IMPONET proposed an architecture able to ensure command and control of an increasing number of sources of energy, in real time, to serve millions of customers. The IMPONET deliveries demonstrate the feasibility of a new kind of electricity network management. The ITEA 2 Board recognised these results as actually Seizing the high ground for the new required energy distribution networks.

The ITEA Board recognises the important role that ESNA is playing in the Internet of things with business-oriented wireless-sensor network applications using a standard architecture and proof-of-concept implementations. ESNA offers an impressive balance between advanced technological innovation – including the world’s smallest implementation of IPV6 and optimisation of radio communications between devices to reduce energy use – and a business-oriented approach to defining applications. Exploitation includes the GAIA sensor node for precision agriculture in Spain, a spin-off to target energy monitoring and management in construction and ABB’s use of sensors in process control.

The ITEA Board appreciates the content-delivery framework developed in CAM4Home allowing users and contents providers to deliver rich multimedia experiences. Its ‘create-once, deliver-anywhere’ approach enables ubiquitous access to any contents on any device through all networks. Key innovations comprise the metadata framework, an open service platform and domain-specific devices such as content analysis, adaptation and delivery through heterogeneous networks. Exploitation includes: online gaming with Facebook-like updates, games ratings and new friend notifications; improved management of live webcasts; and live sports-events production with automated media asset management for the 2012 London Olympics.