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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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."
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.
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.
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.
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.