ITEA Success stories

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.

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.

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.

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.