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2 Research & Innovation 2012

Research & Innovation

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This is a publication of the Research & Innovation group of Atos. Publication closing date: December 2012

Content

Innovation is in our DNA 4

Profile and Organization 8

Service to GBU’s 9

Structure 10

Sectors 11

Labs 38

Key Projects 54

Assets 68

Publications & Events 78

Platforms, Associations and other Initiatives 84

Innovation is in our DNA

Research & Innovation 2012 5

I am proud to present the 2012 report of the Research and Innovation group of Atos. Three years ago, this group became part of GIBS (Global Innovation and Business Strategy), the pro-active business growth think-tank of Atos, and since then it is part of my responsibility. Although Research, Development and Innovation (R&D&I) activities have been carried out in Atos Spain for more than 25 years, the recent years are characterized by a wider strategic integration of research and innovation activities with Atos’ approach to business.

The ability to catch customers’ interest with R&D outcomes is one of the Research and Innovation group’s major challenges. In 2012, I have witnessed various initiatives showing that the group has managed to establish appropriate pathways to transform know-how and project results into real business opportunities. For example, the authorities in Latin America, concerned by the risk of Tsunamis, are showing great interest in the results of the DEWS project (Distance Early Warning System) and are negotiating its implementation in their countries. With the help of Atos sales teams, customers from the financial and energy sectors have been made aware of the potential of R&D projects in the field of Big Data, and have asked for pilot implementations adapted to their needs. This year, various customers have contracted the group’s services to support the development of their research and innovation activities.

Although the focus is to research into new emerging technologies and anticipate market demand with innovative solutions, I am pleased to say that despite the economic recession, in

particular in the public sector, the Research & Innovation group is more active than ever, as can be seen in the number of project described in this report. This intense activity in R&D today ensures Atos competitiveness in the years to come.

As mentioned in previous reports, Atos has a confirmed position as Spanish company leading the highest number of EU R&D integrated projects. Additionally, Atos Spain is the IT consulting company most active in EU R&D projects, according to EU FP7 evaluation reports. Being so well positioned in the EU R&D&I arena gives visibility to the group’s ground-breaking work, which is fully in line with GIBS strategy to leverage the company strengths in terms of both our expertise and our people.

The challenge for 2013 is to consolidate its reinforcing relations with a sales force now highly committed to offer innovative solutions to Atos customers.

Innovation is part of the Atos DNA, this is a feeling shared by the whole GIBS and it is particularly implemented in edge-breaking technology projects in the Research & Innovation group.

Javier Ávila

Director of GIBS Iberia

Innovation

Javier ÁvilaDirector of GIBS IberiaFrom R&D and Innovation to Business Development and Technology Transfer


I am proud to introduce you to the 2012 summary book of the Research & Innovation group of Atos. It has been a great year in terms of results, contributions to the company and business.

This year has witnessed the consolidation of the Future Internet technologies, addressed by Atos in various aspects: Smart Cities in the OUTSMART project, the agriculture & livestock companies management and food chain in the SMARTAGRIFOOD project, the energy management in the FINSENY project with Siemens, and the leadership of the Environment-centered future internet application ENVIROFI. In addition, the core component of the European Future Internet infrastructure, FIWARE, has been advanced and tested with strong participation of Atos researchers.

Cloud computing has been a major subject in 2012, with several successes achieved. During this year, the Research & Innovation group of Atos has worked on Cloud Computing technologies looking to the future and being aware of the past and present. Both the past and the present are encompassed in the ARTIST project, whose results are software engineering tools for legacy application migration to Cloud environments. And the future, where interaction among the clouds will be needed, is addressed in project OPTIMIS, where Atos implements a toolkit for service deployment optimization on top of hybrid clouds, considering parameters of trust, risk, eco‐efficiency and cost.

Cloud for eScience has seriously advanced in 2012, through the BONFIRE project, with the creation and operation of a multi‐cloud IaaS facility for enabling software systems testing and experimentation, as well as through our group’s participation in the global Atos Helix Nebula initiative.

In this year 2012, Atos has consolidated its position in the European arena of cloud technologies after the appointment of our CEO and Chairman, Mr. Thierry Breton, as one of the members of the European Cloud Partnership Board, chaired by European Vice-President Mrs. Neelie Kroes (1).

The successful end of Atos-led project STORK, the technological pillar of eID interoperability in Europe, happened in 2012. It has been welcomed by European Commission’s initiative ISA (ec.europa.eu/isa) by having inserted in its official workplan a task to assure the sustainability of the project once finished (2). Additionally, it is mentioned as a key enabler in EU’s eGovernment Action Plan 2011-2015 (3).

Advancements in research for Health have been noticeable this year. Diverse developments in relation to personalized medicine, paving the way for Virtual Physiological Human have been carried out. In addition, a remarkable achievement in project MOBIGUIDE was completing the first version of the health standards compliant Data Integrator and Notifier. This is part of the MobiGuide clinical Guideline-driven and ubiquitous Medical Decision Support System, which is targeted to Pregnancy and Atrial Fibrillation domains.

Josema CavanillasResearch & Innovation Director

Our multiple projects in Internet of Things (IoT) have been shared with the European and worldwide community through our intense involvement in the European Research Cluster of Internet of Things (IERC). Projects iCore, IoTest, SMARTAGRIFOOD and DIYSE were presented, and a new IERC Activity Chain has been created with the collaboration of Atos: “Cognitive Technologies for IoT” (IERC AC 14). In addition, Atos’ activity in IoT and IERC actions were presented at the global ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing 2012 in San Jose, California.

From a media technologies perspective, the high point for the year 2012 in our group has been our involvement in the worldwide webcasting for the Paralympic Games from London. The Research & Innovation group of Atos was responsible for, amongst other things, the streaming and transcoding solution. This solution was especially significant, as it was the first time that a P2P solution for live sports has been implemented with real time synchronized metadata. In addition, an important achievement for ARI has been the Social Second Screen, a Proof of Concept (PoC) for the Atos Scientific Community, which showed the intimate and direct relationship between social media activity and video in live events. The PoC included real use cases in football (Premiere League, UEFA final), Eurovision and news (elections in UK), where up to several million Twitter messages were analyzed and presented in real time to the end user.

R & D & I

“2012: More and better, deeper and wider”


Recent trends in security management have also been a focal point of research in our group, expanding over our information security R&D activities. The next generation Security Information and Event Management under development, led by Atos, has been demonstrated with mobile payment services, and first trials with the Olympics IT systems have started. The Research & Innovation group of Atos has also delivered a key component in the open source information intelligence gathering system under development with the supervision of several Member State intelligence agencies. Furthermore, Atos has completed a secure and privacy-respecting identity and attribute transfer system between member states that has been demonstrated with a number of pilot experiences in Portugal, Germany, Spain and Italy.

Our group keeps contributing to large-scale initiatives, like the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) through the work done in EO2HEAVEN, for example, by studying the environmental challenges to health in South Durban, South Africa, caused by air pollution or investigating the impact of climate variables on cholera outbreaks in Uganda supported by microbiological sampling.

The Research & Innovation group of Atos has also made a stand, for the first time, in the big data scope. The first coordinated action on big data research roadmap construction, BIG, was initiated by the European Commission, under the leadership of Atos.

We are especially happy to have finished year 2012 with physical presence in 11 cities scattered across 3 countries: Spain (Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Oviedo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Santiago and Valladolid), Turkey (Ankara and Istanbul) and Slovakia (Bratislava).

Hence, after a year of research effort, fruitful results and preparation for the future, we can conclude that we, Atos, continue to be at the top of the industrial research in Europe, attentive to the evolution of technologies, participating in its investigation and development, researching on the most relevant aspects for the company, with a business-bound mind and a long-term vision.

.Josema Cavanillas

Research & Innovation Director

1. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-12-1225_en.htm

2. http://ec.europa.eu/isa/actions/01-trusted-information-exchange/1-5action_en.htm

3. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/european-egovernment-action-plan-2011-2015


EnvironmentEnergy & Utilities

Media

Telecom

Information Technologies

FEV &

Supply Chain

Manufacturing &

Retail

Aeronautic & Construction

Profile and OrganizationThe Research & Innovation group is the research and development hub for new technologies and a key reference for the whole Atos group. Thanks to our large expertise in research, development and innovation projects, we are able to bring new solutions and innovative elements to customers’ business.

The group focuses on projects development, combining economic exploitation of investigations’ results and the most up-to-date technological achievements with high awareness of human factors (education sciences, disability-related issues, cultural diversity, and multilingualism).

The main objectives of the Research and Innovation group of Atos are summarized hereafter:

► Participate in R&D&I projects that enrich Atos’ technological portfolio, market view or position with respect to emerging technologies

► Be a source of innovative ideas to be used by Atos sales force and technical staff

► Become an entry gate to European institutions for the different units and customers of Atos, thanks to the large background of European Commission projects (since 1987)

► Support Atos’ business units in other countries, as well as their customers, thanks to the network of public and private partners across Europe, which in turn, are current or potential customers of the company

Our team is distributed in various locations: Asturias, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Valladolid in Spain, Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey, and more recently, Bratislava in Slovakia.

The group is structured in a way to facilitate the relationships with the different Markets and Service Lines of the company. Thus, our group is organized in fifteen Sectors within Atos’ established markets (i.e. Public Sector & Health & Transport, Finance, Media & IT, Energy & Utilities, and Manufacturing & Retail) and seven Technological Labs. The structure fosters the alignment of emerging technology research and development with the market / customer needs. The ultimate goal is to be at the upfront of R&D in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).

Sectors Research Labs

HealthPublic Administration

& Education

Transport, Travel & Hospitality

Homeland Security & Defense

Financial ServicesTrustworth

y System & Services

Secure Identity Technologies

Knowledge

Smart Objects

Geo

Service Engineering

& IT Platforms

Media


Service to GBUsService to support all GBUs in developing R&D&I activitiesBased on its extensive experience and knowledge, having participated in and coordinated national and EU projects for more than 25 years, the Reseach & Innovation group supports other Atos GBUs in initiating and carrying out Research and Technology Development projects. This support activity, coordinated by the ‘Service Manager’, is established at two different levels:

a) The ‘Front Office’, involving senior experts, able to establish the right level of communication with the different GBUs, understanding their needs and providing the appropriate service. Those experts have the particularity of being native speakers in the different GBU languages (French, German, Dutch and English). In the case of Major Events, Atos Worldline and Atos Worldgrid, the link is made through experts who have already cooperated with them.

b) The ‘Back Office’, involving the whole Reseach & Innovation team to carry out the activities and tasks that range from the formulation of ideas, to the identification of funding programmes, the selection of the appropriate partnership, the preparation and presentation of proposals, their negotiation when accepted and finally running the projects.

Service to GBUsCoordinator: Lydia Montandon

Atos Worldline Atos Worldgrid Major Events

UK

Paul Moore

France

Lydia Montandon

BE + NL

Aljosa PasicDE + CEE

Irene Schmidt

Asia

Andrea Rossi

Eduardo Bellido José Lorenzo Paul Moore

Knowledge

Geo


Structure

Direction

Josema Cavanillas

EU Account

Josema Cavanillas

Business Dev

Aljosa Pasic & Lydia Montandon

Service to Atos GBUs

Lydia Montandon

Funding Opp

Josema Cavanillas

Int’l Tenders

Fernando Kraus

Financial Issues

Adolfo Alonso

Operations

Juan Bareño

Tech Coord

Ángel Sáez

PHT

Alicia García

FS

Pedro Soria

TMT

Josep Martrat

E&U

José Lorenzo

MRS

Alicia García

Sectors


► Development of ICT tools that implement more efficient services with special focus on interoperability, cross-organizational flows, big and open data, cloud for public administrations, and smart cities.

► Development of ICT tools with strong education orientation focused on personalization, student experience and lifecycle management, contextualized eLearning.

► Elaboration of plans for the exploitation of research project result.

► Identification and execution of new business opportunities inthe Public and Education sector in line with innovative key offerings.

ChallengesThis sector focuses on the following challenges:

► Single European administrative space: Implement the vision of seamless cross-organizational and cross-border services through adoption of technologies such as SOA (Service Oriented Architectures), semantic technologies, etc.

► More for less: Explore solutions, constraints and applicability for clouds of public services and open source.

► Sustainable IT: Explore the role of public administration as an early adopter of technologies such as migration to IPv6, Green IT etc.

► Open government: Releasing public data and using linked data techniques to help people understand how government works and how policies are made.

► Explore how public administrations can leverage big data techniques to save money in operational efficiency. Harnessing big data in the Public sector has enormous potential.

► Connected government: Explore possibilities of internet of things in order to improve efficiency and enable transformation of e-government processes.

► Competition between educational institutions turns students into clients. Learning environments based on serious games, education applications for mobile devices.

► Development, deployment and validation of sustainable and ICT-enabled added value services in smart cities, by leveraging existing technologies (i.e. Internet of Things, Social Networks, cloud,..) in different areas of activity with high potential benefit, such as energy efficiency and supply networks, mobility and transport, efficient resource management, innovative services and citizen participation.

Public SectorICT is the key to promote smart, sustainable & innovative government and serves as a catalyst for improved and innovative education services

Ana Maria Piñuela Head of Sector

Antonio Paradell Head of Sector

DescriptionThe Public sector builds on the results of previous research in the eGovernment and Education areas and encompasses three complementary perspectives:

► R&D projects helping the public administrations to automate administrative procedures and processes and to provide more efficient and effective public services to citizens and businesses.

► R&D projects developing solutions to enhance learning such as learning at the workplace, collaborative learning, learning at school, higher education, accessible learning, authoring tools and adaptive learning.

► R&D projects developing smart cities infrastructures that offer added-value services to citizens in order to cope with societal challenges as well as to enable business services.

GoalsThe Public sector has a threefold objective:

► Research, design and development of ICT tools that support public sector administrative processes in order to deliver seamless and faster public services, by automation and transformation of administrative processes and services.

► Adoption of emerging technologies that support new demands for services and contents in education.

► Design and deployment of new ICT tools and integration of existing technologies that allow emerging smart cities to offer sustainable and added-value services to the citizens.

Main ActivitiesThe sector’s main activities are listed hereafter:

► Management of market-driven projects.

► Promotion of project results to Atos customers in the Public and Education sector.

► Integration of research results into the public administration legacy systems.

► Definition and assessment of new and efficient services for Smart cities, focused on convergence of physical and virtual infrastructures, and citizen participation.


Current Research Topics and Findings

► Cross border authentication that allows citizens to access eGovernment services inside and outside their home country by using their national eID.

► Involvement of citizens in policy-making processes through innovative non-intrusive technologies such as social networks and virtual worlds.

► Participation of citizens in the policy development process and harmonization of policies across governmental levels (e.g. immigration policy).

► Implementation of web 2.0 governmental sites that allow interactive information sharing, interoperability and the dynamic collaboration of different kinds of users.

► User-centric design and living labs.

Title Project Title Funding Description Web

PRO INNO PRO INNO EU Tender Innovation Portal commissioned by EU. proinno-europe.eu

HOTEL Holistic Approach to Technology Enhanced Learning

FP7 Aiming at contributing to more effective, holistic and faster innovation cycles in EuropeanTEL, focusing on the design, testing and validation of a new innovation working method

hotel-project.eu

BIG Big Data Public Private Forum FP7 BIG addresses technical, business and policy aspects of Big Data with the aims of shaping the future of the area, positioning it in H2020 and bringing stakeholders into a self-sustainable industrially-led initiative to enhance EU competitiveness taking full advantage of Big Data.

big-project.eu

STORK Secure Identity Across Borders Linked

CIP European eID Interoperability Platform that enables citizens to securely use their national electronic identities in any Member State for public eGovernment services with full respect to data protection and privacy.

eid-stork.eu

STORK 2.0 Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed 2.0

CIP Operational open framework and infrastructure encompassing eID for secure electronic authentication of both legal and natural persons.

eid-stork2.eu

Immigration Policy2.0

Participatory Immigration Policy Making based on Web2.0 Technologies

CIP Platform taking advantage of ICT technologies (Web 2.0, Business process modelling, SOA and policy models), which facilitates the participation and collaboration of citizens in the migration policy development.

immigrationpolicy2.eu

COCKPIT Citizens’ collaboration & co-creation in public service delivery

FP7, ICT Innovative ICT-driven approach involving citizens in the public service delivery decision making process and enabling governments to better understand and address the citizens’ needs during public service conceptualization and design.

cockpit-project.eu

+SPACES Policy Simulation in Virtual Services

FP7, ICT Simulation tools allowing policy-makers to test how people will react to new proposals and legislation. Development of technologies that engage citizens from different online communities-including Facebook, Twitter and Blogger alongside virtual worlds like Open Wonderland.

positivespaces.eu

ePractice ePractice Portal Maintenance and upgrade of the ePractice portal created by the European Commission and which offers a new service for the professional community of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth practitioners.

epractice.eu

RURAL INCLUSION

e-Government Lowering Administrative Burdens for Rural Businesses

CIP Reduction of the administrative burden of enterprises in rural areas, by reducing the information elicitation process of businesses, when they want to use a particular instance of some public service, or making more effective use of available resources.

rural-inclusion.eu

IntelLEO Intelligent Learning Extended Organization

FP7, ICT Supportive technologies for learning and knowledge building activities in intelligent learning extended organisations, which emerge as a temporal integration of two or more different business and educational communities.

intelleo.eu

STELLAR Sustaining Technology Enhanced Learning Large-scale multidisciplinary Research

FP7, ICT Bringing together researchers from psychology, education, cognitive science, computer science, etc. with the overall aim of focusing on advances in technology-enhanced learning (TEL) that engage learners and teachers in new ways of learning.

stellarnet.eu

GAMETEL Simulations and educational games adapted to the user

AVANZA SW for the development of simulations and games adapted to the characteristics of users. gametel.eu

TELMA Minimally Invasive Surgery contents and e-learning

AVANZA E-learning platform and multimedia contents in minimally invasive surgery training. telma-project.eu

EU4ALL European Unified Approach for Lifelong Learning

FP6, ICT Framework to support the deployment of accessible services in Higher Education. eu4all-project.eu

GALA Games and Learning Alliance FP7, ICT Network of Excellence on Serious Games. galanoe.eu

FOCUS Foresight Security Scenarios FP7, SEC Development of an effective long-term foresight and assessment tool at the EU level, populated with the analyses carried out by the project. Expected results are an IT-based knowledge platform and contents (i.e., a roadmap) for planning research and deciding on priorities.

focusproject.eu

VERITAS Embedded Accessibility Designs FP7, ICT Tools for built-in accessibility support at all stages of product development. veritas-project.eu

Co-Cities Cooperative Cities extend and validate mobility services

CIP Co-Cities aims to extend and validate existing mobility services to improve current traffic information management in cities and urban areas introducing end-user and valued services allowing innovative cooperative feature based on the user feedback.

co-cities.eu

OPEN CITIES OPEN CITIES FP7, CIP Innovation EU Project on Implementation of Open Innovation Mechanisms in 5 different smart cities.

opencities.net

CIUDAD 2020

Smart City project CDTI Breakthrough in the areas of energy efficiency, human behavior, environmental sustainability and mobility and transport, conceiving, designing and implementing a paradigm of sustainable and efficient city supported on three key areas: Energy; Transport; Environmental Control.

innprontaciudad2020.es

SEConomics Socio-Economics meets Security FP7 Development of socio-economic methodologies, which can be adapted to different missions in security research Definition of requirements by civil security end-users for large air transport systems Information and Communication Technologies.

seconomicsproject.eu

► Adaptive learning experience for students, collaborative learning environments, learning/training strategies, platforms to support learning processes and training.

Antonio Paradell Head of Sector


DescriptionThe Health sector counts with more than 10 years of experience in realizing research and innovation projects related to life and care sciences, in topics like medical images treatment and analysis, information management and interoperability, artificial intelligence for decision support systems creation, remote monitoring and patient assistance. In the last years, bioinformatics, algorithms development for genomic and proteomic data analysis were also considered.

GoalsThe main goals of the sector are:

► Research on the application of ICT to the health domain for the improvement of services for professionals and patients.

► Direct application of knowledge and research results to the development of innovative solutions and services.

► Technology transfer from research projects to Atos clients in the field.


► Omics Technologies and data analysis.

► Decision support systems design and development.

► Future of Internet applied to Health.

► Virtual Physiological Human.

ChallengesThe main challenges addressed by this sector arise from the activities listed before:

► Omics Technologies: Genes integral study (genomics), proteins (proteomics) and the complete set of process and biochemical reactions related to biological processes (metabolomics) allows to reach a surprising understanding of the complex cellular system. Integration and analysis of data generated by these technologies are having a great impact in the biomedical research framework and clinical practice.

► Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) is based on the development of in-silico models for all biological and physiological procedures of the human

HealtheHealth and telemedicine play a crucial role responding to the challenges of ageing populations faced by an increase in chronic diseases and a shortage of healthcare workers

body. The Health sector focuses its research on the development of these models, as well as on the creation of the “infostructure” to support the whole research community. The final aim is to improve diagnostics methods and to offer personalized treatments based on the integration of individuals’ molecular information (genotype) with physiological and phenotypic information. The ultimate goal is to achieve completely personalized medicine and drug delivery.

Blanca Jordan Head of Sector



MOBIGUIDE Guiding Patients Anytime Everywhere FP7 Development of an intelligent system for patients with chronic illnesses such as cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes and high blood pressure. The patient wears sensors to monitor their biosignals, which are sent to their smart phone and from there to a powerful “back-end” computer.

mobiguide-project.eu

MovingLife MObile eHealth for the VINdication of Global LIFEstyle change and disease management solutions

FP7 A roadmap for paving the way the deployment of movil solution. moving-life.eu/news.php

Multifun MultiFunctional Nanotechnology for Selective Detection and Treatment of Cancer

FP7 Development of new systems based upon nanotechnology for the early detection of tumours and more effective treatments with fewer side effects.

multifun-project.eu

REACTION Remote Accessibility to Diabetes Management and Therapy in Operational healthcare Regimes

FP7, ICT Research and development of an intelligent service platform that can provide professional, remote monitoring and therapy management to diabetes patients in different healthcare regimes across Europe.

reaction-project.eu

CAJAL4EU Cyclic and person-centric health management

ENIAC JU Development of nanoelectronics-based biosensor technology platforms enabling in-vitro diagnostic test manufacturers to rapidly build a variety of new multi-parameter test applications in a robust, user-friendly and cost-effective way.

cajal4eu.com

CHIRON Chip Architectures by Joint Associated Labs for European Diagnostics

ARTEMIS JU Development of a reference architecture for ubiquitous, person-centric health management.

chiron-project.eu

cvREMOD Convergencia de Tecnologías Médicas para la Gestión Integral del Remodelado Cardiovascular

CENIT Study of mechanisms of cardiovascular re-modeling and investigation of integrated and innovative methods and techniques that allow diagnosis and prevention of cardiovascular pathologies.

cvremod.com

MEDIATE Patient Friendly Medical Intervention AVANZA, ITEA2 To increase productivity and effectiveness in healthcare and reduce patient risk and discomfort by supporting healthcare professionals in the transition from invasive, open surgery to minimally invasive, image guided intervention and treatment.

Blanca Jordan Head of Sector


► Services to exchange, integrate and analysis the huge amounts of data collected from different sources into a global information infrastructure or “infostructure” (addressing semantic and standard interoperability, cloud and grid computing, network agility).

► Algorithms to model data and simulate physiological behaviour, and to extract information from this model/simulation (VPH - applications).

► Sensors networks to gather different physiological and environmental/localisation data (Internet of Things).

► Ubiquitous and mobility-proof network to keep actors connected anytime anywhere (m-health).

► Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS).

► Information provision through Semantic Web Services.

► Integration of –omics research results for CDSS.


DescriptionThe Transport, Travel & Hospitality sector covers research and innovation for transportation, urban mobility and tourism needs that are growing faster than expected. Actually, it is facing major challenges, such as improved safety procedures, precise mechanisms for traceability, and progress in all elements of the tourism value chain: transport, accommodation, travel agencies, destinations, etc. Being one of the strategic fields where Atos is providing services, the Research & Innovation group has a dedicated sector that focuses on innovation and the future of technology in transportation and tourism.

GoalsThis sector is specialized and exclusively dedicated to projects in the transport, tourism, human logistics and mobility domains. Its activities are centered in the realization of R&D projects and the application of innovative technologies to the particularities of this sector.


► Research and development activities dealing with transport challenges.

► Elaboration of business plans for the exploitation of research project results, oriented to transport sector.

► Identification and execution of new business opportunities in transport and tourism in line with innovative key offerings.


► Intelligent transport systems: To make mobility of people and goods across safer, more sustainable and efficient different transport modes.

► Transport: Low carbon footprint economy: smart charging for electric vehicles.

► Cooperative systems and urban mobility: Traffic management information and travel planning.

► Urban/interurban mobility: Cost savings solutions to capitalize on existing infrastructures and keeping innovating on green and safer transports.

► Future city tourism: Foster innovation in the user experience providing outstanding product and services along tourism value-chain.

► Cooperative ITS for sustainable and secure transport: logistics for last mille (traffic routing, parking, etc.), intermodal public transport, social and economic information for decision makers.

► Technologies addressing all elements of the tourism value chain: transport, accommodation, travel agencies, destinations, etc. some examples are lightweight linked services, Tourism in context, Online reputation, Green tourism.

► Big data in Transport and Tourism: provide new solutions to enhance competitiveness by exploiting existing data. Materialization of the opportunities by the analysis of high volumes of data in TTH sector and develop of emerging data driven aplications.

Transport, Travel & HospitalityApplication of innovative technologies to transport facing challenges such as security

Diana Pottecher Head of Sector



► Vehicle services, in-car and infrastructure based

► Comodal freigh transport location based services

► Tools for user content generation and services

► Study of freight transport security needs

► Security in the supply chain

► Vehicle-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-infrastructure (V2I) communication systems

► Collaborative solutions as collaborative SCM

► Tourism in context, Online reputation and Green logistics


ASTUTE Pro-active decision support for data-intensive environments

ARTEMIS JU it’s objective is the definition of a reference architecture for the development of HMIs targeting proactive information retrieval and delivery based on situational context, user state information and user intentions.

astute-project.eu

A2Nets Autonomic Services in M2M Networks ITEA2, AVANZA Development of novel smart M2M services enabling interoperability between different vertical domains, solving the complexity explosion problem and saving resources using horizontal technical components in different vertical domain M2M applications.

https://a2nets.erve.vtt.fi

Co-Cities Cooperative Cities extend and validate mobility services

CIP Co-Cities aims to extend and validate existing mobility services to improve current traffic information management in cities and urban areas introducing end-user and valued services allowing innovative cooperative feature based on the user feedback.

co-cities.eu

INTERPELA INTERPELA Hotel Experience ETORGAI Development of a range of integrated, high impact services that will provide added value to customers and managers of Hotels and Conference Centers, addressing all phases of the stay and its management.

interpela.es

THOFU Technologies for the Hotel of the Future CENIT Focused on research in new technologies and developing technological concepts to provide advanced and differentiated hotel services.

thofu.es

T-TRANS Enhancing the transfer of Intelligent Transportation System innovations to the market

FP7 Studies innovation mechanisms for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and identifies best practices for upbringing innovative ITS products and services to the market. Facilitates innovation mechanisms in the ITS domain thought four use cases.

ttransnetwork.eu/ttrans

SEConomics Socio-Economics meets Security FP7 Development of socio-economic methodologies, which can be adapted to different missions in security research Definition of requirements by civil security end-users for large air transport systems Information and Communication Technologies.

seconomicsproject.eu

Diana Pottecher Head of Sector


DescriptionThe aerospace field is one of the most important drivers in technology research and innovation at worldwide level. Our research team has a long and proven record of more than twenty years delivering added-value aeronautic innovation projects, ranging from the design of new satellite based communication systems to the provision of algorithms, simulation components and integration platforms for the next generation of aeronautics systems of air navigation, approach and landing, with clients and partners such as the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Commission, Alcatel Space, BAE Systems, AENA, INECO, GMV, Indra, Boeing Research & Technology Europe, Egis Avia, Thales Alenia Space, or Telespazio.

The construction activity is vital for Europe both at economic and social levels, it represents more than 10% of the GDP within the EU and it is the biggest industrial employer in Europe. This sector is now facing a revolution with huge investments in new materials and the application of new business models based on new industrialized construction processes, all of them requiring the application of innovative information technologies.

GoalsTo take active part in research and innovation projects and programs for the development and validation of solutions in following aeronautics fields: unmanned vehicles, trajectory based traffic operation, identification and prediction of vehicle trajectories, vehicle-to-vehicle trajectory negotiation, onboard software, simulation, support systems for air traffic management and flight security, aeronautical communications.

To search for, develop and disseminate new construction solutions and technologies focusing on our main construction research areas: energy efficiency and environment, advanced construction materials, ICT support for building, civil infrastructures and smart cities.


► Participation as a member of several relevant European Technology Platforms, such as ISI (SatCom), eMobility, Artemis (embedded systems) or Logistop (Logistics).

► Participation in the HALA! and ComplexWorld Thematic Networks of SESAR WPE.

Aeronautics and ConstructionInnovative ICT for the aeronautics and construction sectors

► Collaboration with the Atos “Product Engineering” department in activities related to the design of airframe structures.

ChallengesAeronautics:

► To get involved in the definition of global aviation’s approach to sustainability.

► To contribute to the development of advanced multimodal transport solutions.

► To apply ICTs to the engineering of customer-oriented, time-efficient, cost-efficient, green and secure Air Transport Systems.

► To design new methodologies and procedures for the improvement of tactic and real time management of the operations needed to coordinate aircrafts, tickets, luggage and goods at airports, which are the main sources of delays in flights.

Construction:

► Use of new technologies and services, such as Internet of Things, semantic technologies, data and knowledge management, trust and security, which shall become key enablers of innovative business models based on the industrialization of construction processes.

► Development of a construction virtual environment, which will drastically reduce the current high level of fragmentation.

Jorge Pereira Head of Sector


Current Research Topics and FindingsAeronautics:

► System Wide Information management (SWIM)

► Continuous descent approaches of maximum predictability

► Development of simulation capabilities

► Risk management identifying emerging threats to aviation systems

► Trajectory computation infrastructure / Advanced aircraft performance model

► Advanced control and de-confliction algorithms

► Advanced operational concepts, decision-aid technologies, study of innovative business models

Construction:

► Generating optimal building controls from a Building Information Model (BIM).

► Development of real-time algorithms for energy-efficiency diagnosis and including sensors and diagnostics in building materials.

► Development of Decision Support System (DSS) that exploits comprehensive and transferable indicators easily understood by urban planners to find the best integrated building concept, and user to find the best way to control their buildings.

► Better knowledge about building life cycle energy performance and the importance of its adoption regarding reduction in building project execution times, costs and higher quality of the buildings.

► Standardization regarding communications and protocols to ease the interoperability and the communication among different devices.

► Industrialization of components for transport infrastructures using polymer based materials.

► ICT technologies (adapted ICTs, geo-positioning systems, smart-devices, RFID, QRCodes, etc.) for innovative component tracking, production and on-site assembly support.


TRANS-IND New Industrialised Construction Process for transport infrastructures

FP7 Development of a cost-effective integrated construction process that will enable the maximum capability of industrialisation of components for transport infrastructures using polymer based materials (carbon fibre, glass fibre).

trans-ind.eu

eDIANA Do-it-Yourselves Smart Experiences ARTEMIS Rational use of resources while increasing comfort in urban environments by means of embedded and integration technologies within residential and commercial buildings.

artemis-ediana.eu

CHESS Embedded Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings

ARTEMIS Construction of languages and tools for supporting extra-functional properties in modelling languages used for the specification of component-based systems.

chess-project.ning.com

ICT4E2B European stakeholders’ forum and on integration of ICT systems for Energy Efficiency in Buildings

FP7, E2B, ICT Build on the Roadmap and International Community created within the framework of the REEB project to generate consensus on key priorities across multi-stakeholders value and innovation chains aiming at introducing ICT technologies and energy efficient solutions in the built environment.

ict4e2b.eu

SCOVIS Self Configurable Cognitive Video Supervision

FP7, ICT Improvement of the versatility and the performance of the current monitoring systems for security purposes and workflow control in critical infrastructures.

scovis.eu

ATLANTIDA Aplicación de Tecnologías Líder a Aeronaves No Tripuladas para la Investigación y Desarrollo en ATM

CENIT Investigation on ATM automation by using unmanned air vehicles and extrapolating the analysis to the real ATM context.

IREEN ICT Roadmap for Energy Efficient Neighbourhoods

FP7 Study of the ways ICT for energy efficient and performance can be extended beyond individual homes and buildings to the wider context of neighbourhoods and communities.

ireenproject.eu



Financial ServicesEconomies worldwide are adapting to the challenges of Future Internet and new ICT; the Financial Services industry is not lagging behind

DescriptionThe world of Financial Services applications is changing due to the increased openness of IT environments, mergers and acquisitions, and above all, significant challenges brought on by customer and market dynamicity. The FS sector searches for the right answer to these changes and challenges by doing research into the Future of Financial Services.

For more than ten years, R&D projects have been developed in order to ensure secure transactions, provide higher availability, confidentiality and integrity of financial services, and in recent times new trends like Big Data and Competitive Intelligence are also paving new research in information management for financial services.

Goals

The goal of this sector is to ensure transition and explore the application of our research & innovation solutions in the financial service sector. While many of these solutions and assets are rooted in information security research (done in the Trustworthy Software & Services and Secure Identity Technologies laboratories), other types of solutions applicable to financial sector include the use of semantic technology for the real time financial news processing or migration to cloud services.

The Research & Innovation Financial Services sector feeds requirements, business concerns and challenges of the Financial Services industry to motivate research activities in multiple areas of work, while also opening opportunities for exploitation of research outcomes in banking, insurance, and financial services.

Main ActivitiesThe sector’s main activities include:

► Helping Financial Services customers identifying R&D challenges and driving them into requirements for new R&D projects.

► Promotion of project results and developed assets to Atos customers in the Financial Services sector.

► Development of ICT systems and platforms that support innovation in Financial Services, both in their operation and in their business models.

► Elaboration of plans for the exploitation of research project results in the Financial Services market.

ChallengesCustomers in the Financial Services market are faced with challenges of both technical and business nature that call for ICT-based solutions. This sector facilitates access to research and innovation outcomes that respond to the following challenges:

► Adapting business models to an economy more and more driven by management of information.

► Taking stock of the vast amounts of information owned by banks, to be exploited for the (business and operational) benefit of the organization.

► Security concerns over the use of emerging technology business models (like cloud computing).

Pedro Soria Head of Sector

► Exploiting the potential of mobile and social-networking technologies in banking, and in insurance.

► Management of compliance in a highly regulated business environment.



FIRST Supporting financial decision making FP7, ICT Research on information extraction and sentiment analysis of financial instruments: stocks and companies, automatic ontology learning and real time processing.

project-first.eu

VIRTUOSO Versatile Information Toolkit for end-users

FP7, SEC Exploitation of open data to ehnance intelligence for public security and development of a toolkit associating infrastructural components and functional components that allow finding, selecting, and acquiring information from public sources to provide information useful to the decision-maker.

virtuoso.eu

RECOBIA Reduction of Cognitive Biases in Intelligence Analysis

FP7, SEC Improvement of the quality of intelligence analysis by reducing the negative impact of cognitive biases upon intelligence analysis, assessment of cognitive biases how they affect the practice of intelligence analysis.

recobia.eu

Pedro Soria Head of Sector

Current Research Topics and FindingsOur group is working on some key topics with direct application in the Financial Services industry:

► Analysis of large amounts of information to derive intelligence for enhanced competitiveness and improved operational efficiency.

► Data trends and sentiment analysis.

► Security in cloud computing, allowing the adoption of models such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaS (identity as a service) by the Financial Services industry, largely reliant on legacy technologies.


Manufacturing & RetailIntelligent technologies for manufacturingand retail challenges

DescriptionICT for manufacturing is a specific research domain dedicated to the design and development of software facilitating shop-floor processes and connecting enterprises to each other and to customers. The objective is to use ICT to make manufacturing more efficient and user friendly, while enabling all enterprises to find opportunities beyond their borders through innovative business models. ICT for food is as well a deserve domain for research. The retail sector is one of the biggest users of ICT, and thus a driver of innovation. It has a major role to play in the development of a sustainable economy and also in allowing citizens to face the current economic downturn by giving them easy access to affordable and good quality consumables.

The Manufacturing and Retail sector researches on new solutions for a a range of activities covering manufacturing processes, the factories of the future approach, food tracking & traceability, improvement of retailer business processes and client satisfaction through better information strategies and access to quality products.

GoalsThe main goal is to help manufacturing enterprises, in particular SMEs, to adapt to global competitive pressures by improving the technological base of manufacturing and retail across a broad range of sectors. This sector applies new IT advances to address the challenges and opportunities deriving from:

► The complex and globalized nature of manufacturing systems.

► The reduction in manufacturing timescales and acceleration of technological innovation.

► The growing need for sustainable, resource-efficient production.

► Food traceability and food chain integrity.

► Production flow improvement – lean factories.

► New channels to provide the right information to retailer clients while preserving their privacy and trust.

► Branding management and its impact on manufacturing process.

Main Activities ► To identify research opportunities from national and international bodies aligned to Atos’ commercial divisions needs.

► Technology transfer to improve Atos solutions.

► Exploitation activities to steer the research towards market needs and to exploit research results.

► Commercial projects to final customers, including R&D support.

Challenges ► To produce more products with less material, less energy and less waste.

► To improve innovation activity. New ideas have to be transformed into new products and processes.

► Better knowledge of the context in the manufacturing process through any kind of sensor to support decisions thus optimizing the full process and resources consumed.

► Ensure the food chain integrity (“from farm to fork”) through tracking and traceability.

► To optimize retailer processes and its client satisfaction.

Many of the manufacturing companies are SMEs and only a few of them have the research capacity and the financial potential to implement high-risk innovative manufacturing technologies.

Elies Prunés Head of Sector



ITCHAIN Logistics and supply chain security AVANZA ITCHAIN creates an infrastructure to publish, discover, run and compose mobile services dynamically and context-dependent to facilitate interoperability of existing systems in a supply chain and to support collaborative decisions.

itchain.es

KAP Knowledge, Awareness and Prediction FP7, FoF KAP aims to develop the next generation technology framework for efficient usage of energy and resources through the effective coordination of man, machine, material, and methods

kap-project.eu

BIVEE Business Innovation and Virtual Enterprise Environment

FP7 Development of a conceptual reference framework, a novel management method and a service-oriented ICT platform to enable Business Innovation in Virtual Factories and Enterprises.

bivee.eu

SmartAgriFood Smart Food and Agribusiness: Future Internet for Safe and Healthy Food

FP7 SAF applies FI technologies in the food and agriculture sector, developing a tracking and tracing system for product information exchange involving all stakeholders of the food supply chain, from the grower to the supermarket.

.smartagrifood.eu

TRACEBACK Integrated System for a Reliable Traceability of Food Supply Chains

FP7, FOOD Analysing and defining the food chains and identifying weak and sensitive points in the chains where there are risks for contamination or loss in quality of the final product.

traceback-ip.eu

SomaBAT SOlid Material for High Power Li Polymer BATteries

FP7 Development of an environmentally friendly, safe and performing high power lithium polymer battery technology specifically targeted for electric vehicles.

somabat1.ite.es

Elies Prunés Head of Sector


► Sustainable, resource-efficient manufacturing.

► Production technology to exploit the potential of emerging technologies (in particular novel bio- and nano-technologies).

► Leveraging simulation and modeling techniques to address manufacturing challenges.

► Interoperability of the value chain IT systems and support to collaborative decision.

► Flexible, rapidly responsive production systems for customized manufacturing.

► Smart agrifood: Food chain integrity, making certain that food is traceable, safe to eat, high quality and genuine.

► New product information channels using mobile devices for supermarket clients.

Policy makers are aware of the potential of manufacturing innovation to contribute to tackling social, economic and environmental challenges such as healthcare, sustainability, and mobility.


FEV & Supply Chain Innovation is essential if supply-chain stakeholders areto remain competitive

DescriptionThe Supply Chain sector covers a range of activities to deliver advanced IT services, fast and robust solutions for the implementation, integrating interoperability, security, resilience and real-time optimization that enables the cost-effective, green and secure transit of goods through the Global Supply Chain and the urban logistics environment. Supply chain innovation is essential if manufacturing organizations are to remain competitive.

The full potential of FEVs (Full Electric Vehicles) in future European Smart Grids & Smart Cities is not yet entirely leveraged and exploited due to the lack of comprehensive FEV data mining and a correlated ICT service framework.

GoalsThe research goals of the sector are focused to achieve competitive advantage required by supply-chain stakeholders in times of rapid changes to have a clear understanding of the direction of change, challenges and its implications for business or supply chain mechanisms. The main goals are:

► Advanced technology research, development, testing and evaluation to evolve and improve the mechanisms, business and security in the transport of goods in air, land and sea environments.

► To collaborate and facilitate on relevant research projects.

► To disseminate and transfer relevant research findings in the logistics domain.

► To carry out advanced technology research & development for the deployment of ICT technologies in the green cars domain.

Main Activities ► Enable the interoperability and integration of systems, delivering cost reductions, greater efficiency and enhanced security.

► Encourage the exploitation of these best practice results through a targeted dissemination campaign aimed at decision makers in the logistics industry.

► Enable interoperability and integration of systems relating to FEVs, grid and new business models actors.

Challenges ► Supply Chain Resilience -- Develop the essential tools and processes necessary to create a capability of “design for resilience”.

► Supply chain visibility and transparency — Accurate data.

► Enable the interoperability and integration of systems, delivering cost reductions, greater efficiency and enhanced security.Security and facilitation.

► The main challenge faced by the FEV sector is the integration of FEVs into “real-life” and to support it with ICT means.

German Herrero Head of Sector



iCargo Intelligent Cargo in Efficient and Sustainable Global Logistics Operations

FP7 Design and implementation of a decentralised ICT infrastructure allowing real world objects, new planning services with CO2 calculation capabilities and existing systems to co-exist and efficiently co-operate at an affordable cost for stakeholders.

i-cargo.eu

Cassandra Improving security through visibility FP7 Development of a data sharing concept that allows an extended assessment of risks by both business and government, addressing the visibility needs of both business and government in the international flow of containerised cargo, making container security more efficient and effective.

cassandra-project.eu

Safepost Reuse and development of Security Knowledge assets for International Postal supply chains

FP7 Integration of innovative screening solutions with operational postal processes and criminal and customs intelligence in a Europe wide cooperative distributed network.

safepostproject.eu

Imcis Investigación en medios de carga intermodal sostenible

CENIT Study of processes and products, which allow to obtain competitive improvement, being respectful with the environment, addressing the need to favor the intermodality in freight transport.

imcis.es

Logsec a strategic roadmap for a large scale demonstration project in European logistics and supply chain security

FP7 Development of a strategic roadmap towards a demonstration project in European logistics and supply chain security, characterized by adequate security for the benefit of business and governments, low time-delay and other cost implications.

logsec.org

e-Dash Electricity Demand and SupplyHarmonizing for EVs

FP7 Harmonization of electricity demand in Smart Grids for sustainableintegration of electric vehicles. This is addressed by an intelligent charging system supported with near real-time exchange of charge related data between EVs and the grid.

edash.eu

German Herrero Head of Sector


► GlObal Operation Distribution System GOODS 1

► Urban logistics

► Green logistics

► Intermodal freight transport location based services

► Security in the supply chain

► Logistics Big Data

► Collaborative solutions as collaborative SCM

► Food supply chain optimization

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Homeland Security & DefencePromoting innovative solutions and emerging technologiesfor the protection of citizens, goods and infrastructures

DescriptionThe sector of Homeland Security & Defense coordinates the research and the commercial exploitation of assets produced by the group targeted to industry and public institutions in the defense area, and especially to the homeland security area (including the Ministry of Interior, the National and Regional Police Forces and also all types of organizations that address or deal with citizen safety, critical infrastructures, crime fighting, law enforcement, border intelligence etc.).

GoalsEncourage the adoption of emerging technologies in the Homeland Security & Defense sector, as well as identify business opportunities for Atos when these involve issues such as protection of citizens, goods and infrastructures, border surveillance and management, crisis management or ICT support for law enforcement.

Main Activities ► Promotion of project results and developed assets to Atos customers in Homeland Security & Defense

► Identification and pursuing new business opportunities in HS&D in line with Atos innovative key offerings

► Management of market-driven R&D projects Elaboration of plans for the exploitation of research project results, oriented to HS&D sector

ChallengesThe HL&D sector focuses on the following challenges:

► Link strategy and technology: HS&D sector is guided by political and strategic planning, such as Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) which is now integrated into the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), or Stockholm agenda. Here the challenges are to identify links between these guidelines and actions and emerging and future technologies, to explore “dual use” technologies (defense tech applicable in civil security and the other way round) and to deliver more for less (poll resources, cloud-based solutions, data and info sharing, etc.).

► Interoperability and collaboration: HS&D organizations are immersed in the development of NATO, EDA or other EU cooperation frameworks that span a variety of topics from counterterrorism to operational data exchange or cybersecurity. Objectives are to avoid duplication, pool resources and to foster EU excellence.

► Exploiting “data deluge”: increasing availability of useful information allows the acquisition of knowledge and development of new generation of intelligence applications needed to enhance situational awareness and agility in decision making.

Fernando Kraus Head of Sector



► Cyber-security, understood as “traditional” ICT security with considerations of impact and scale (e.g. critical infrastructures, massive fraud etc.)

► Forensics of cyber-crime activities in the Cloud

► Cross border management and interoperability of operational data and information (e.g. ballistic databases)


VALUESEC Cost-benefit Analysis of Current and Future Security Measures in Europe

FP7, SEC Decision support tool-set to examine different aspects of the decision process and make decisions based on sound economic analysis.

valuesec.eu

RECOBIA Reduction of Cognitive Biases in Intelligence Analysis

FP7, SEC Improvement of the quality of intelligence analysis by reducing the negative impact of cognitive biases upon intelligence analysis, assessment of cognitive biases how they affect the practice of intelligence analysis.

recobia.eu



virtuoso.eu

CYSPA European CYber Security Protection Alliance

FP7 Addressing trustworthy ICT through a European strategy to protect cyberspace, with target audiences ranging from research communities and industry to public authorities and infrastructure operators.

FOCUS Foresight Security Scenarios FP7, SEC Development of an effective long-term foresight and assessment tool at the EU level, populated with the analyses carried out by the project. Expected results are an IT-based knowledge platform and contents (i.e., a roadmap) for planning research and deciding on priorities.

focusproject.eu

Fernando Kraus Head of Sector

► Biometric systems

► Complex event processing, different mining technologies (data, link, opinion, audio… ), data and context fusion, visual analytics

► Design, modeling and simulation of forward-looking scenarios

► Economics of security


Energy & UtilitiesThe increasing proportion of electricity from renewable sources means that the architecture of the energy grid will have to support the distributed generation of energy

DescriptionElectrical infrastructures have been facing important challenges during the last years. Market liberalization, new regulatory framework, new generation technologies, customer centric networks, rising demand, distributed generation, environmental issues, security of supply or infrastructure ageing are the driving factors that require an action and therefore, under the focus of the Energy & Utilities (E&U) sector.

The increasing proportion of electricity from renewable sources means that the architecture of the energy grid will have to support the distributed, in addition to the centralized, generation of energy and to adapt to a highly volatile supply (e.g. from wind and solar generators). From the consumption perspective, electric vehicles will demand new load management patterns in the grids. At the same time, private and commercial consumers are being encouraged to reduce their energy use and electronics manufacturers are striving to reduce the energy use of their products. The E&U sector looks at these issues in coordination with other Research & Innovation sectors and labs, like the Retail, Transport & Manufacturing sector or the Smart Objects lab.

GoalsThe E&U sector focuses on the electrical distribution grid operation and explores the major challenges faced by the European energy industry:

► How can we improve the distribution grid monitoring to cope with volatile states in the grid.

► How to integrate “smart” automation devices to increase the efficiency of the distribution grid.

► How to interoperate with the different roles e.g. operation of the smart meters, power and grid operation.

Main ActivitiesThe E&U sector activities are related to the scenarios or application domains requiring more advanced ICT technologies:

► The distribution network: advanced automation, control and management of distribution networks in order to meet the anticipated increased use of distributed energy generation and to tackle new challenges such as the charging of electrical vehicles.

► Microgrids: the introduction of distributed generation supports the establishment

of regional/microgrids aggregating and largely autonomously controlling their own supply and demand side resources.

► Efficient energy management in buildings, in collaboration with the Smart Objects lab which leads this activity in the Industry market.

► Electric Mobility, in collaboration with the Transport sector which leads this activity. The large scale introduction of electrical vehicles will have an impact on the energy infrastructure by providing the necessary charging points, but also requires interaction between the energy infrastructure, the transport infrastructure, the vehicle information systems and the communication network infrastructure, in order to collect, process and deliver the needed information.

► The introduction of Smart Energy Grids and deregulation is resulting in a transformation of the European energy market. New players are appearing and the roles of incumbent players are changing. An electronic market place for energy must support all these players and roles by providing the necessary interfaces and information exchange.

ChallengesThe European energy industry is facing three major challenges:

► The increased integration of fluctuating power resources to achieve the climate goals.

► The increased “smartness” especially in the electrical distribution grid to renew the infrastructure to cope with increasing capacity requirements.

► The stakeholder diversification separating the grid operation, the power provisioning, the metering services, auxiliary services and others.

These challenges have to be considered jointly when developing components for the upcoming smart grid.Furthermore, the European energy industry is changing due to the liberalization of the EU energy markets and the new model where prices are determined by supply and demand rather than through regulations. And at the same time, there are serious concerns over the long-term sustainability of the energy sector as a whole and its environmental impacts.

Jose Lorenzo Head of Sector


Current Research Topics and FindingsThe main activities during last year in the E&U sector are in the context of the work done in the OpenNode and FINSENY projects, trying to bring together two of the main aspects of future smart distribution grids:

► On the one hand, the communication with customer meters regardless of the meter manufacturer, e.g. smart meter remote controlled operation (switch on-off).

► On the other hand, the metering infrastructure which goes hand in hand with automation of the distribution network according to the Smart Grid paradigm.

In addition, Atos consolidated its position as one of the leading institutions in the Future Internet project for Smart Energy Systems.


OpenNode Open Architecture for Secondary Nodes of the Electricity SmartGrid

FP7 Development of an open Secondary Substation Node (SSN) as an essential control component of the future smart distribution grid.

opennode.eu

FINSENY Future Internet for Smart ENergY FP7 Identification of the ICT requirements of Smart Energy Systems, development of solutions to address these requirements, and preparation for Smart Energy trial in phase two of the FI-PPP program.

fi-ppp-finseny.eu



EnvironmentEmerging geospatial technologies that support the development of distributed geo-spatial processes

DescriptionThe Environment sector comprehends a set of activities and competences focused on the production of goods and services oriented towards the measurement, prevention, limitation and minimization or reduction of the environmental impact in the water, air or soil, as well as addressing the problems associated to wastes, noise and ecosystems.

GoalsThe main goal of this sector is to promote the adoption of emerging geospatial technologies that support the development of distributed geo-spatial processes.

This sector is strongly linked to the GEO lab described in the Technological Driven Research section. All technological developments raised by this sector are developed in the mentioned lab.


► Research and development activities dealing with environmental challenges. This is mainly done through the active participation in market-driven R&D projects with geospatial technologies.

► Elaboration of business plans for the exploitation of research project results, oriented to the environment sector. This leads to the definition of new innovative assets to Atos customers in this sector.

► Identification and execution of new business opportunities in Environment sector in line with innovative key offerings.


► Observation Web. The research challenge to realize the Observation Web and the associated environmental enablers for the Future Internet leading the work in the Environmental Usage Area within the FP7 Future Internet PPP program.

► Multiple Risk Management. Extend the achievements reached in the FP6 project

ORCHESTRA (www.eu-orchestra.org) to multiple risk and emergency domains like early warning and tsunamis in FP7 project DEWS (www.dews-online.org), and other domains.

► Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS). Strengthen the positioning of the ORCHESTRA architecture as one of the references for the Shared Environmental Information System.

► Earth Observation and Security. Extend the activity to Earth Observation and Security through the provision of inputs to the GMES and GEOSS initiatives.

► INSPIRE adoption. To be a reference partner for the Public Administration in the future developments needed to adopt the INSPIRE directive.




ICARUS Integrated Components for Assisted Rescue and Unmanned Search operations

FP7, SEC Development of robotic tools (unmanned Search and Rescue devices) for detecting, locating and rescuing humans.

fp7-icarus.eu

ENVIROFI Environmental Observation Web within the Future Internet

FP7, ICT Deployment of consolidated Future Internet requirements, specifications and prototypes from the Environmental Usage Area perspective in the Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Marine environments, with a perspective of achieving sustainable socio-economic progress in Europe.

envirofi.eu

EO2HEAVEN Earth Observation and Environmental modelling for the mitigation of Health risks

FP7 Understanding of the complex relationships between environmental changes and their impact on human health. Monitoring of changes induced by human activities, with emphasis on atmospheric, river, lake and coastal marine pollution.

eo2heaven.org

TaToo Tagging Tool based on a Semantic Discovery Framework

FP7, ICT Enabling experts, as well as general users, to share trusted and reliable environmental information, but also to allow easy discovery of information which is already available.

tatoo-fp7.eu

iNTeg-Risk Monitoring and Integrated Management of Emerging New Technology related Risks

FP7, ICT Research and development of sub-projects related to new materials and technologies for establishing a common EU approach to face the challenge of emerging risks within the next 15 years.

integrisk.eu-vri.eu

Current Research Topics and FindingsFor current research topics and findings see the GEO lab section.



TelecomNovel internet architecture and platform convergencefor the telecom sector

DescriptionThe Telecom sector aims at:

► Developing the technology for future generations of high-speed broadband and mobile network infrastructure.

► Increase economic and energy efficiency of networks.

► Contribute to standards and regulation + IPRs.

► Foster the adoption of integrated networks and of spectral-efficient broadband wireless systems, novel Internet architectures and technologies.

This sector was created in 2010 to promote the definition and later adoption of assets in telecom through Atos sales channels. Our main customers and partners are the European Commission, the Celtic Office, the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, British Telecom, Turk Telekom, i2CAT, UPC, UPM, IBBT, among others.

GoalsThe goals of this sector can be summarized as follows:

► Explore novel internet architectures and technologies at system level from the telecoms perspective.

► Study the convergence of telecom solutions and new business opportunities for operators.

► Align the research activity with the offering and activities of Atos (for instance, Next Generation Intelligent Networks or context-aware mobility, etc.).

Main ActivitiesTelecom sector main activities are:

► Identification of funding opportunities for the activity.

► Reinforcing networking with partners for further collaboration.

► Understanding Atos’ global portfolio around Telecom.

As a result, the sector has enlarged its activity with new exciting projects in the framework of femto-cloud and large-scale federation of Future Internet experimental facilities. These projects represent a great opportunity to acquire wider knowledge around up-to-date wireless and fixed networking, in which we see important business opportunities that have to be explored.

ChallengesThe sector’s main challenges are listed hereafter:

► Future networks: new wireless systems (NGIN/LTE/femtocells/smallcells/...), evolution of existing wireless solutions (WiFi/IMS/...), innovative networking paradigms (Openflow, network brokerage solutions, alternatives to IP...), combination of cloud computing and next generation networks.

► Global telecom solutions in complex and heterogeneous environments for ubiquitous and reliable service delivery.

► Convergent telecom solutions.

► Mobility applications for telecom operators and associated industries.

Josep Martrat Head of Sector



SILVIA Intelligent Services for Advanced Internet Validation

INFO-REGIO Generalitat de Catalunya

Development of an advanced and open validation platform for new protocols, devices and telecomunication services covering from physical network and layer 3.

FED4FIRE Federation for FIRE FP7 Open and easily accessible facilities to the FIRE experimentation communities, which focus on fixed and wireless infrastructures, services and applications, and combinations thereof.

fed4fire.eu

FTPSC Federated Testbed for Public Safety Communications

CELTIC Building a federated European testbed platform for Public Safety Communications systems validation.Experimental cooperative platform for end user driven R&D in telecom and ICT for public safety teams with unique testbed resources and facilities connected for large scale interoperability.

celtic-initiative.org/Projects/Celtic-projects/Call6/FTPSC/ftpsc-default.asp

TROPIC Distributed computing, storage and radio resource allocation over cooperative femtocells

FP7 Combination of cloud computing with femtocell networking, thus enabling a capillary distributuion of the cloud computing capabilities closer to a potentially huge number of mobile users.

ict-tropic.eu

Josep Martrat Head of Sector


► Public Safety communication systems and solutions.

► Smallcells and femtocells combined with cloud computing.

► Large-scale federation of Future Internet facilities and services for experimental purposes.


MediaNew media and digital content management are quickly becoming strategic growth areas for Atos and this will drive the research topics of the media sector with a strong market orientation

DescriptionThe Media sector encompasses two complementary perspectives. On one hand there is the media industry (broadcast, content production, press, etc.) and on the other, media technologies such as digital content management, video analysis, 3D, etc.

In terms of clients, there tend to be either very large media conglomerates and/or broadcasters or small, agile technology companies.

The highpoint for 2012 for the Media sector has been our providing the worldwide webcasting of the 2012 Paralympic Games from London.

GoalsThe Media sector has the main goal to improve the positioning of Atos in Media, New Media and Digital Content Management. These areas are quickly becoming a strategic growth area for Atos and this will drive the research topics of this sector with a strong market orientation.

This sector is strongly linked to the Media lab described in Technological Driven Research section.

Main ActivitiesThe main activities of the Media sector in 2012, besides participating in R&D projects, have been the worldwide webcasting of the Paralympic Games from London. This was especially important as it marked a milestone in P2P - the first time that metadata has been synchronized in the streaming of a live event.

As well, the Media sector has participated in many strategic proposals for Atos at the corporate level and has helped define the portfolio for Atos Global Media. A promising new area of development is in the areas of second screen and real time social media analytics.

ChallengesThe biggest challenge is to convert the extensive knowledge accumulated by this sector during last years in different R&D projects related to media technologies (streaming, metadata, digital content) into assets that are useful to the rest of Atos Group.

Paul Moore Head of Sector



SARACEN Socially Aware Collaborative Scalable Coding Media Distribution

FP7, ICT Implementation of a prototype for offering Quality of Experience in personalised media streaming through the integration of scalable media coding techniques, advanced media transport protocols, and P2P technologies with respect to user privacy.

saracen-p2p.eu

SMART Multimedia Search and Retrieval over Integrated Social and Sensor Networks

FP7 Research and implementation of a scalable open source next generation multimedia search engine that will be able to search information stemming from the physical world.

smartfp7.eu

EXPERIMEDIA EXPERiments in live social and networked MEDIA experiences

FP7 Development and operation of a testbed facility targeting the networked media communities aimed at supporting experimentation for the Future Media Internet.

experimedia.eu

ENSURE Enabling kNowledge Sustainability Usability and Recovery for Economic value

FP7 Development of a digital perservation platform that takes intro account long term lifecycle management, comparative cost analysis and legal aspects. Use cases in the health care and financial sectors to enable scalable solutions, considering cloud storage and virtual application image capture.

ensure-fp7.eu

BUSCAMEDIA Digital media semantic adaptation for multiple networks and terminals

CENIT Development of a real semantic multimedia search engine based on multimedia analysis tecnologies, a revolutionary multilinguistic, multidominion, and multimedia ontology, and dynamic adaptation to any network, terminal, context and user.

cenitbuscamedia.es

NextMedia NextMedia Support Action ITCHAIN creates an infrastructure to publish, discover, run and compose mobile services dynamically and context-dependent to facilitate interoperability of existing systems in a supply chain and to support collaborative decisions.

nextmedia.eu

PuppyIR An Open Source Environment to Construct Information Services for Children

FP7 Design of an Open-Source platform of child-friendly information services that helps children search the Internet safely and successfully.

puppyir.eu


► Metadata, especially for sports

• In video Mpeg, 7 MPEG 21, etc.

• In Sport (SportML, EventML, Major Events)

► Realtime recommender systems

► Multimedia semantics

► Multimedia search

► P2P streaming

► Social media analytics

► Second Screen

► New user interfaces for access to multimedia (multitouch, Kinect, tablet)

► Digital archiving

Paul Moore Head of Sector


Information TechnologiesThe emerging technologies in cloud, services and software allow us to build the future Internet to address the major challenges of society and enterprises

DescriptionThe Information Technologies (IT) sector addresses the IT market, including software companies, solutions integrators and software consultants.

This sector is strongly linked to the “Service Engineering and IT Platforms (SEIP)” lab described in the “Technological Driven Research” section.

The IT sector addresses the commercial and support actions projects while the lab is concentrated on research projects and most of the technological developments. The sector provides the required support to the lab for management of the projects and exploitation of research results.

GoalsThe sector has a twofold objective: on one hand, fostering the adoption and transference of emerging technologies surrounding Cloud Computing, Software and Service Engineering and Open Source Platforms to Atos service lines. This goal allows further alignment of research activity in these technologies with customers’ needs, providing added value solutions to be included in the company’s portfolio. On the other hand, promoting the use of R&D assets in the IT sector-related market.


► Research and development activities dealing with IT challenges. This is mainly done through the active participation in market-driven R&D projects with cloud technologies, service engineering and open source platforms.

► Collaboration with Service Lines responsible persons (LSIS, MO, Consulting) to collect requirements and provide them results and assets from the R&D projects.

► Disseminate its assets inside Atos, through Business Development, Scientific Community, Global Key Offerings, etc.

► Link to assigned Global Key Offerings: Cloud and Testing & Acceptance Management (TAM).


► Services Infrastructures (Cloud Computing basically)

• Virtualization techniques

• Cloud orchestration

• Service Level Agreement negotiation at different layers

• Software Licensing Management issue in distributed environments

► Services Engineering

• SOA application

• Middleware technologies

• Platforms and toolkits for development, composition and aggregation of services

• EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)

► Software Engineering

• Understanding and modeling software systems

• Adaptation of systems to new technologies

• Fostering the reusability of software components

• Tools for improving software developmentConsulting on Open Source services (licensing, training, development, tooling analysis, etc.)

Clara PezuelaHead of Sector



IT-TUDE Connection of cutting-edge research to smart and innovative business solutions

Commercial Connection of emerging ICT researches with business solutions, and offer to organisations and contributors the opportunity to use this new and dynamic online community for their own outreach.

it-tude.com

CONNECTED-EU Connect-EU per ICT Catalonian Research Program

Fostering the participation of Catalonia in FP7.

Current Research Topics and FindingsThe research topics are mainly addressed by the associated SEIP lab, they are therefore shared by the sector as well.The sector’s research activities are focused on being an active part of the future roadmaps definition in different domains (Future Internet, Infrastructures, Services, Cloud, etc.). This is materialized through the participation in several support actions (SIENA, SESERV, OGFEurope, NESSI 2010, SINES). While the lab is more focused on research in the short-mid term, the sector participates in the definition of a longer term view. The sector is also the driver of the market needs towards the lab. In this way the lab research lines are aligned with Atos markets needs.

Clara PezuelaHead of Sector


Labs


Labs


Trustworthy Systems & ServicesAddressing security, trust and privacy from a technological perspective, in an effort to ensure the security of citizens and organizations

DescriptionTrustworthy, secure and reliable ICT systems are crucial for a wide take up of converging digital services and a global requirement for the reliable and undisturbed functioning of our information society. In this scenario, the Trustworthy Software and Systems (TSS) lab is an interdisciplinary group that conducts research on trust, security and privacy domains for the improvement of information technology security, as well as the increase of trust and dependability in systems and services.

GoalsOur ambition is to coherently address security, trust and privacy from a technological perspective, in an effort to ensure innovation in the field of secure software development, secure service composition, and secure service delivery. The goal is to find solutions for ensuring the security of citizens and organizations from threats such as terrorism, natural disasters and crime, while respecting fundamental rights, such as privacy.

Our research areas include, among others: cyber security, compliance & policy management, secure software engineering, security in virtualized environments, automated reconfiguration of security and high performance Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.

Main ActivitiesThe lab performs technical activities related to the implementation of:

► Innovative security mechanisms (e.g. dynamic or adaptive features).

► Compliance & Policy Management.

► Security event and information management infrastructure (e.g. evidence-based policy enforcement, including security/privacy event monitoring, collection and assessment).

► Security methodologies and frameworks (e.g. risk assessment and secure software development).

ChallengesThe lab focuses on the following challenges:

► Secure in shared service applications and infrastructures such as Cloud.

► Security & Privacy in Social Networks.

► Security of ICT in large distributed IT systems (sensor networks, interconnected critical infrastructures).

► Information exchange, interoperability and data fusion for situational awareness .

► Context-aware security and context-aware privacy protection.

► CyberSecurity: Digital forensics (e.g. forensics in Cloud), fight against malware and botnets.

Rodrigo DíazHead of Lab





virtuoso.eu

VPH-SHARE Virtual Physiological Human: Sharing for Healthcare

FP7 Development and deployment of the VPH “infostructure”, the computing infrastructure through which the VPH community will be able to store, share, reuse and integrate data, information, knowledge and wisdom on the physiopathology of the human body.

vph-share.eu

FI-WARE Future Internet Core Platform FP7, ICT Core platform of the PPP Future of Internet, an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees.

fi-ware.eu

CYSPA European CYber Security Protection Alliance

FP7 Addressing trustworthy ICT through a European strategy to protect cyberspace, with target audiences ranging from research communities and industry to public authorities and infrastructure operators.

CUMULUS Certification infrastrUcture for MUlti-Layer cloUd Services

FP7 Development of an integrated framework of models, processes and tools supporting the certification of security properties of infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS) and software application layer (SaaS) services in cloud.

cumulus-project.eu

ANIKETOS Ensuring Trustworthiness and Security in Service Composition

FP7 Construction of a platform for creating and maintaining secure and trusted composite services, addressing service developers, service providers and service end users.

aniketos.eu

MASSIF MAnagement of Security information and events in Service Infrastructures

FP7 Development of a new generation SIEM framework for service infrastructures supporting intelligent, scalable, and multi-level/multi-domain security event processing and predictive security monitoring.

massif-project.eu

PASSIVE Policy-Assessed system-level Security of Sensitive Information processing in Virtualised Environments

FP7 Design of a policy-based architecture for security provisions to be easily specified, and fully virtualised resource access running on an ultra-lightweight Virtual Machine Manager.

ict-passive.eu

EFFECTS+ Coordination of Trust & Security in the Future Internet

FP7 Logistics and support for the coordination of the Trust and Security, Privacy, and Compliance for Future Internet through the structures and activities of the Future Internet Assembly (FIA), to build and maintain the community of interests in trust and security results.

effectsplus.eu

PoSecCo Policy and Security Configuration Management

FP7 Establishment and maintainance of a consistent, transparent, sustainable and traceable link between high-level, business-driven security and compliance requirements on one side, and low-level technical configuration settings of individual services on the other side.

posecco.eu

NESSOS Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems

FP7 Constitution and integration of a long lasting research community on engineering secure software-based services and systems.

nessos-project.eu


► Trust (establishment of trust relations, management of trust).

► High Performance Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

► High Performance Compliance Management, including: Evidence Collection, Compliance Assessments and Accountability.

► Privacy by Design, Context-aware privacy enhancement and privacy preservation.

► Security for Virtualized environments.

► Secure Software Engineering.

► Automated Reconfiguration of Security.

► Risk and cost-driven security decision making.

► Prevention of crime and efficient collaboration of police forces.

► Data protection technologies and applications.


GeoSystems and architectures using spatial informationto address the challenges presented within the environmental field

DescriptionThe GEO lab assists the Environment sector (primarily) within Research & Innovation with technical expertise. The lab focuses its knowledge and technical expertise on those technologies that allow the integration, edition, analysis and graphical representation of spatial information.

GoalsThe GEO lab aims at applying its knowledge and expertise in geospatial technologies for the design and implementation of open information architectures that allow its efficient distribution and ease the access to spatial information and development of distributed geo-spatial processes by means of current standards and open-source technologies. These systems and architectures are used in order to address the challenges presented in a numerous domains such as the health, environmental and crisis management fields.

Main ActivitiesThe lab’s main activities are listed hereafter:

► Active participation in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

► INSPIRE Directive Implementation Consultancy.

► Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES).

► The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

The lab has also a strong expertise and competence in open-source technologies and open international standards related to the geospatial field such as:

► OGC – Open Geospatial Consortium Standards.

► SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) Standards: SAS (Sensor Alert Service), SOS (Sensor Observation Service), WNS (Web Notification Service) and O&M (Observations & Measurements).

► OWS (OpenGIS Web Service) Standards: WMS (Web Mapping Service), WPS (Web Processing Service), WFS (Web Feature Service), WCS (Web Coverage Service) and CSW (Catalogue Service).

► Other: GML, KML, SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor), WMC (Web Map Context).

► OASIS –W3C – World Wide Web Consortium.

► W3C Web Services, WSDL.

► XML, XML Schema.

► HTML 5 (geo-position tag).

► OASIS – Org. for the Advancement of Structured Info. Standards.

• CAP (Common Alerting Protocol).

• EDXL-DE (Emergency Data Exchange Language - Distribution Element).

► ORCHESTRA.

► RM-OA (Reference Model for the ORCHESTRA Architecture).

ChallengesThis lab focuses on the following challenges:

► Contribution to the adoption, improvement and specification of standards related to the geo-spatial field (especially OGC standards).

► GIS applied to the fields of:

• Mobile devices and the so-called “Location Based Services” (i.e. augmented reality).

• Renewable Energy.

• Climatology (i.e. climate change).

Miguel Ángel Esbrí Head of Lab



ENVIROFI Environmental Observation Web within the Future Internet

FP7, ICT Deployment of consolidated Future Internet requirements, specifications and prototypes from the Environmental Usage Area perspective in the Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Marine environments, with a perspective of achieving sustainable socio-economic progress in Europe.

envirofi.eu

EO2HEAVEN Earth Observation and Environmental modelling for the mitigation of Health risks

FP7 Understanding of the complex relationships between environmental changes and their impact on human health. Monitoring of changes induced by human activities, with emphasis on atmospheric, river, lake and coastal marine pollution.

eo2heaven.org

ICARUS Integrated Components for Assisted Rescue and Unmanned Search operations

FP7, SEC Development of robotic tools (unmanned Search and Rescue devices) for detecting, locating and rescuing humans.

fp7-icarus.eu


► Earth observation: e.g. integration of remote and in-situ environmental data.

► GIS applied to the fields of health (i.e. epidemics localization, its evolution in the territory and along the year, risk factors and their localization).

► Interoperability of systems used by the stakeholders involved in Risk Management (Planners, Protection Bodies and Policy Makers).

► Early warning systems for prevention of disasters.

► Linked Open Data with focus on the environmental domain

► In addition, our group leads the Environmental Observation Web project in the Future Internet PPP.

Miguel Ángel Esbrí Head of Lab


KnowledgeHelping to manage your data by researching on Big Data, Linked Data and semantics

DescriptionThe Knowledge lab researches on novel technologies in the fields of Big Data, Semantics and Linked Data. These three complementary fields are amongst the technologies with more influence in the current business trends.

From companies to governments, from organizations to individuals, from the web to social networks, from traditional media to sensors, data is growing everywhere. Data is the new gold. The Knowledge lab is monitoring and researching on Big Data solutions to cope with this data deluge, trying to help all possible stakeholders to better acquire, store, organize, annotate, curate, analyze and finally use the data. We see Big Data as a philosophy, as a new paradigm that allows performing data analytics where no man has gone before.

On the other hand, the world is now in the quest of opening data to the public. Especially, but not only, the Public Sector is clearly embracing the open data initiative. Within the Knowledge lab we research and apply the Linked Data paradigm to help organizations that need to share data on the web and at the same time offering a programmatic interface allowing not only humans, but machines (programs) to get automatic access and understanding of the data. The use of semantics and Linked Data is a key enabler of the use of public data in the future.

GoalsThe main objective of the Knowledge lab is researching on technologies and their applicability related to data and meta-data management:

► Big Data: Under the Big Data umbrella, the Knowledge lab is particularly interested in pushing the state of the art in data acquisition from web resources and social networks, solutions for big data storage and big data architectures.

► Linked Data: Application of the Linked Data paradigm for data publication and linking.

► Semantics: Application of ontologies and language technologies for annotation, searching and extracting meaning from texts.

Main ActivitiesWe believe there is no solution that fits-it-all, but general good architectural principles and best practices that joined to an excellent knowledge of available tools and new research trends, make the difference between success and mediocrity.

► We are working in projects and solutions for big data architectures, with special emphasis in bringing together innovative technologies in sounding architectures fit for specific purposes.

► We are setting up and testing novel infrastructures for data acquisition and annotation, analyzing sentiments and bringing together semantics and big data.

► We are trying to add our 2 cents to the Linked Open Data initiative by bringing Linked Data technologies and our own developments to our projects, therefore promoting the uptake of open data.

► The Knowledge lab has also an extensive track record in projects and solutions dealing with semantic technologies, such as ontology engineering, semantic applications for enterprises, natural language processing in English and Spanish, among others.

ChallengesThe Knowledge lab is currently focused in the following main challenges:

► Big Data

• Architectural approaches to deal with massive amounts of historical and real-time data in a coherent manner.

• Data acquisition from social networks, with special emphasis in gathering intelligence from Twitter.

• Use of Cloud Computing for storage and massive processing parallelization

• NoSQL storage.

• Sentiment analysis.

► Linked Data

• Seamless integration of LOD from multiple sources.

• Application development environments for LOD.

• Performance and information quality assessment.

• Usage and enhancement of open tools from the Linked Data community.

Tomas Pariente Asset Owner


► Semantics

• Triplestores usage and customization, and their applicability in Linked Data and Big Data solutions.

• Terminology servers and its application to semantic interoperability.

• Reusing and engineering ontologies for multiple purposes and domain.

• Natural Language Processing in Spanish and English, especially to understand sentiments and automatically linking datasets.


FIRST Supporting financial decision making FP7, ICT Research on information extraction and sentiment analysis of financial instruments: stocks and companies, automatic ontology learning and real time processing.

project-first.eu

BIG Big Data Public Private Forum FP7 BIG addresses technical, business and policy aspects of Big Data with the aims of shaping the future of the area, positioning it in H2020 and bringing the necessary stakeholders into a self-sustainable industrially-led initiative to enhance EU competitiveness taking full advantage of Big Data.

big-project.eu

KRESHMOI Medical information analysis & retrieval FP7, ICT Development of a multilingual multimodal search and access system for biomedical information and documents, achieved by the integration of several components developed in the project and OSS components enhanced by foundational research, as for example GATE/MIMIR and OWLIM.

khresmoi.eu

VPH-SHARE Virtual Physiological Human: Sharing for Healthcare

FP7 Development and deployment of the VPH “infostructure”, the computing infrastructure through which the VPH community will be able to store, share, reuse and integrate data, information, knowledge and wisdom on the physiopathology of the human body.

vph-share.eu

FI-WARE Future Internet Core Platform FP7, ICT Core platform of the PPP Future of Internet, an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees.

fi-ware.eu

TaToo Tagging Tool based on a Semantic Discovery Framework

FP7, ICT Enabling experts, as well as general users, to share trusted and reliable environmental information, but also to allow easy discovery of information which is already available.

tatoo-fp7.eu



virtuoso.eu



cenitbuscamedia.es

ALERT Active support and reaL-time coordination based on Event pRocessing

FP7, ICT Development of methods and tools that improve FLOSS coordination by maintaining awareness of community activities through real-time, personalised, context-aware notification.

alert-project.eu

WEB N+1 New components for the future web development

CENIT Research on enhancements to security for technologies supporting development of applications able to capture, manage, search and interact with contents and services by combining tools from Semantic Web with tools from the Social Web upon the base of the new concept of Web 3.0.

webenemasuno.es/webnmas1

Current Research Topics and FindingsThe Knowledge Lab current research topics are:

► Application existing and new research technologies for Big Data, such as cloud computing, NoSQL (MongoDB), MapReduce (Hadoop) or real-time massive processing (Storm).

► Usage of Linked Data open tools for data publishing and linking.

► Development of new algorithms and tools for semi-automatic dataset linking.

► Development of terminology server for the medical domain for the VPH infrastructure.

► Adding an abstraction layer for collaborative working on development of semantic applications (creation of workspaces, ontology versioning, triplesore abstraction).



Smart ObjectsEmpowering the abstraction of technological heterogeneityfor ensuring proper application provision, business integrityand exploitation opportunities for the ‘Internet of Things’

DescriptionThe concept of smart objects emerged in the mid 90’s with the convergence of information processing, components, miniaturization and wireless communications. Visionary pioneers imagined many different potential applications, from communicating clothes and smart fridges to ambient environments. This highly creative period made it possible to bring together scientists from different backgrounds who would progressively create a true revolution in the way that we communicate and interact with our physical environment.

Since that time, new concepts have evolved, meeting the needs of broader user groups and becoming the target of priority research initiatives like Future Internet, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Mobility, Energy Efficiency Buildings, Factories of the Future, Smart Grids, Smart Mobility and Smart Cities.

GoalsThe Smart Objects lab aims primarily at applying its knowledge and expertise to develop and integrate technologies and architectures that are emerging from the research community and making them ready for improving current Information and Communication Technologies ability to gather, analyze, and distribute data that we can turn into real world applications and services.

Secondly, our aim is to support research in disruptive and gap technologies and architectures for real world object interactions with ICT to meet needs and expectations of individual users, as well as communities and society.

Main ActivitiesThe lab carries out technical activities in the following domains:

► Efficient communication technologies and optimized networking solutions.

► Semantic frameworks for information extraction and description of services and objects.

► Resource-constrained platforms for improved energy and resource management.

► Management frameworks to facilitate provisioning, deployment and operation of heterogeneous IoT devices and services.

► Cross-domain solutions to enable ‘horizontalized’ and federated operation of IoT systems with complex ownership regimes.

► Service enablers to support application development and business process integration.

► Tools and Techniques for object-object and object-people trading and negotiation.

► Mechanisms for integrating sensor networks information with social networks information.

► Structuring and aggregating objects into collaborative societies.

► Handling of mobility – Hand-over of internet-connected objects.

► Enhanced Participatory sensing and resource sharing in IoT applications.

► Self-learning and proactive reasoning for the anticipation of IoT application requests.

ChallengesThis lab focuses on providing support, whether research or technology implied, with respect to regulatory, standards, economic, societal aspects, etc., to global technical solutions for paving the emergence of transversal, rather than vertical silo-based, solutions for IoT.




CIUDAD 2020 Smart City project CDTI Breakthrough in the areas of energy efficiency, human behavior, environmental sustainability and mobility and transport, conceiving, designing and implementing a paradigm of sustainable and efficient city supported on three key areas: Energy; Transport; Environmental Control.

innprontaciudad2020.es

ENCOURAGE Embedded iNtelligent COntrols for bUildings with Renewable generAtion and storaGE

ARTEMIS Development of embedded intelligence and integration of technologies that will directly optimise energy use in buildings and enable active participation in the future smart grid environment.

encourage-project.eu

eDIANA Do-it-Yourselves Smart Experiences ARTEMIS Rational use of resources while increasing comfort in urban environments by means of embedded and integration technologies within residential and commercial buildings.

artemis-ediana.eu

CHESS Embedded Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings

ARTEMIS Construction of languages and tools for supporting extra-functional properties in modelling languages used for the specification of component-based systems.

chess-project.ning.com

SCOVIS Self Configurable Cognitive Video Supervision

FP7, ICT Improvement of the versatility and the performance of the current monitoring systems for security purposes and workflow control in critical infrastructures.

scovis.eu

DiYSE Do-it-Youself Smart Experiences ITEA2 Enabling non-technical people to participate in the creation of applications for networked tangible objects.

dyse.org

iCore Empowering IoT through Cognitive Technologies

FP7 Cognitive framework comprising virtual objects, composite virtual objects and fuctional blocks for representing the user/stakeholder perspectives, reusable for various and diverse applications.

iot-icore.eu


► Dealing with uncertainty, including the unpredictable behavior of actors, users and participants.

► Handling real-time demands for analyzing data and/or relevant real-time multicriteria decision making.

► Leveraging complex perceptive real-time data processing.

► Building dynamic object societies and allowing for object re-use across application domains.

► Managing IoT infrastructure lifecycle.

► Dealing with huge large amounts of data/sensor (on a Future Internet scale), within multiple administrative domains.

► Seamless communication inter-intra objects.

► Architectures and technologies using open protocols that use information generated at the periphery of the network to allow action on the physical world.

► Distributed systems composed of heterogeneous networked smart objects. Sensor networks.

► Virtualizations of physical/real world event information are generated by tags, sensors, actuators and wireless devices.

► Context-aware management of virtual and realworld object information.

► Composition of Virtual Objects and Application Services.



Service Engineering and IT PlatformsContributing to Atos’ innovation strategy with regards to Cloud computing

• Application Virtualization Techniques for Clouds.

• Energy Aware Services.

• Mobile Cloud.

► Software-as-Service and Platform-as-a-Service advanced capabilities

• Platform federations across PaaS interoperability and Cloud Governance in PaaS context.

• Internet of Services beyond Enterprise SOA.

• Interoperable Open Services.

• Large scale SOC and Assisted governance for atomic services.

• Cloud enabled Development Environments.

• Tools and Techniques for automated application’s scalability.


DescriptionThe Service Engineering & IT Platforms lab builds upon more than 10 years of experience in realizing projects on grid technologies, service engineering, software engineering and open source.

GoalsThe main goal of this lab is to contribute to Atos’ innovation strategy with regards to Cloud computing, Service Management, Software Engineering and Open Source development.

Main ActivitiesThe lab performs technical activities related to the following research lines:

► Advanced capabilities of Cloud infrastructures

• Automated and self-healing capabilities in IT infrastructures.

• Experimental facilities: Research by experimentation in Service Oriented Systems.

• Green IT: Sustainable management IT systems.

► Software-as-Service and Platform-as-a-Service advanced capabilities

• Service Engineering: Service discovery, composition, aggregation and orchestration.

• Service Management technologies: SLAs, Trust and License Management.

• Extended enterprises: Service Architectures beyond SOA platforms, Multi-Cloud Scenarios.


• Software Modeling and Model transformations.

• Software tools for collaborative working in Open Source communities and enterprises.


► Service Oriented Infrastructures

• Eco-efficient approaches for Virtualized Infrastructure Management.

• Network and Media requirements for Cloud infrastructures.

• Auditing for Cloud Applications and Infrastructures.

• Advance software engineering techniques for analysis of legacy code and migration to new technological paradigms (cloud).

• Smart and efficient reusability of open source software into industrial environments.

Ana Maria Juan FerrerHead of Lab


Ana Maria Juan FerrerHead of Lab


CLOUD4SOA Cloud Interoperability Framework and Platform

FP7, ICT Focus on resolving the semantic interoperability issues that exist in current PaaS.

cloud4soa.eu

OPTIMIS Optimising Infrastructure Services FP7, ICT Open and dependable Cloud Service Ecosystem that delivers IT services that are adaptable, reliable, auditable and sustainable (ecological and economical).

optimis-project.eu

BonFire Building Service TestBeds on Future Internet Research and Experimentation

FP7, ICT Design, building and operation of a multi-site cloud facility to support applications, services and systems research targeting the Internet of Services community within the Future Internet.

bonfire-project.eu

ALERT Active support and reaL-time coordination based on Event pRocessing

FP7, ICT Development of methods and tools that improve FLOSS coordination by maintaining awareness of community activities through real-time, personalised, context-aware notification.

alert-project.eu

ADAPTA Treatment and integration of open data for advanced exploitation by citizens and companies

Design and implementation of standards and technologies that facilitate the adjustment, validation and integration of government and companies open-data.

IoTest Internet of Things Environment for Service Creation and Testing

FP7 IoTest will establish and ease the creation and provision of IoT enabled business services by bringing together the three disciplines Internet of Things, Service Engineering and Testing.

ict-iotest.eu

GoMyLife Going Online: My social Life AAL Development of Online Social Networks and Mobile Technologies to support older people.

gomylife-project.eu

FTPSC Federated Testbed for Public Safety Communications

CELTIC Experimental cooperative platform for end user driven R&D in telecom and ICT for public safety teams with unique testbed resources and facilities connected for large scale interoperability.

celtic-initiative.org/Projects/Celtic-projects/Call6/FTPSC/ftpsc-default.asp

CoolEmAll FP7, ICT CoolEmAll is developing a range of tools to enable data centre designers and operators to plan and run facilities more efficiently.

coolemall.eu

Artist Advanced software-based seRvice provisioning and migraTIon of legacy SofTware

FP7 Set of methods, tools and techniques that facilitate the transformation and modernization of legacy software assets and businesses.

artist-project.eu

MODAClouds MOdel-Driven Approach for design and execution of applications on multiple Clouds

FP7, ICT Methods, decision support system (DDS), open source IDE and run-time environment for the high-level design, early prototyping, semi-automatic code generation, and automatic deployment of applications on multi-Clouds with guaranteed quality of services.

modaclouds.eu

MARKOS The MARKet for the open Source An Intelligent Virtual Open Source Marketplace

FP7, ICT Prototype of an automatic service providing an integrated view on the Open Source projects available on the web, focusing on functional, structural and licenses aspects of the software code released by the projects.

markosproject.eu

Eco2Clouds Experimental Awareness of CO2 in Federated Cloud Sourcing

FP7, ICT Identifying good practices to improve energy efficiency of cloud data centres: learn by applying adaptivity and flexibility in technology, work organization and aptitude.

eco2clouds.eu

BETaaS Building the Environment for the Things as a Service

FP7, ICT Laying the foundations for fast and cost-effective development of Machine-to-Machine applications, also providing an environment for their efficient execution.

betaas.eu


► Service Oriented Infrastructures

• Cloud Service Lifecycle Management.

• Architectures for Advanced Cloud Scenarios: Aggregators, Brokers, Federations and Multi-provider Clouds.

• SLA and Trust Management for Clouds.

• License Management in distributed environments.

• Green Data Centers: Cloud management systems for eco-efficiency gaining.

• Application parallelization.

► Service Management and Engineering

• SLA-Driven Service Life-cycle Governance mechanisms.

• Service Discovery: Innovative methods and tools for automated and large scale Service Discovery.

• Dynamic Service Composition: Semantically-Driven Automated Service Composition for Business Process Management.

• Web Services Trust and Reputation Systems.

► Open Source

• Tooling for improvement of open source development, especially the resolution and proper assignment of bugs in communities of Open Source developers.

• Enhanced Collaborative software develop environments and real time collaboration tools.


Secure Identity TechnologiesSecuring corporate & personal identity in cyberspace

DescriptionSecure identity and privacy technologies are basic for citizens in the Digital Society & Economy: it is about protecting who and what we are in the context of fundamental human rights and freedoms including the right to personal data protection in all aspects of life.

Assurance of identity data security and privacy creates key competitive advantage for Atos and for our public and private partners, having in focus both customer concerns in this regard and existing threats which create social alarm and prevent trust in eServices and ICT systems in general.

GoalsSecure identity schemes for Identity and Access Management and the protection of identity-related information in compliance with regulatory frameworks that guarantee citizen fundamental rights, are basic enablers of trust and security for end-users and the eco-system of stakeholders around ICT services.

The Secure IDentity technologies lab focuses on innovative technological trends in these areas to serve the needs of the Research and Innovation sectors and markets offering trustworthy solutions and assets and fostering competitive advantages in an increasingly complex and distributed environment (Cloud, Future Internet, etc.) where eID and privacy can achieve for Atos customers compliance with regulatory requirements, more efficiency, reduced fraud and enhanced cooperation with stakeholders in the eServices value chains.

Main Activities ► Electronic Identity Management Technologies: Identity Lifecycle, Identity Federation and Assurance, Networked Identity, Identity as a Service.

► Digital/Electronic Identity Technologies: Electronic certificates, on-line electronic IDs, smartcards…

► Identity and Access Management: Access Control, Identification, Authentication, Authorization, User Management.

► Privacy and Identity Data Protection: Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Identity Fraud and Theft Prevention, Privacy by Design.

► Biometrics: Multi-biometrics, mobile biometrics, crypto-biometrics, usability, standards.

Challenges ► Interoperable eID solutions will be key enablers of secure and seamless access to eServices (e.g. STORK/STORK 2.0)

► eID, eIDM and privacy-by-design as fundamental enablers of Trust in Future Internet & Cloud

► Complex Identity Federation & Data Exchange Scenarios (involving personally identifiable information)

► Strong (multi-factor) authentication

► Identity & Privacy Assurance

► Auditing and Compliance

Alberto CrespoHead of Lab


Alberto CrespoHead of Lab


FutureID Shaping the Future of Electronic Identity FP7 The FutureID project builds a comprehensive, flexible, privacy-aware and ubiquitously usable identity management infrastructure for Europe.

futureid.eu

SEMIRAMIS SEcure Management of InfoRmation Across MultIple Stakeholders

CIP Design and Development of an infrastructure, which is able to bridge between heterogeneous identity federations, to aggregate personal data from various storages across Europe, to simplify significantly the user interaction within several processes, and to support security and privacy.

semiramis-cip.eu

STORK 2.0 Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed 2.0

CIP Operational open framework and infrastructure encompassing eID for secure electronic authentication of both legal and natural persons.

eid-stork2.eu

PACT Public perception of security and privacy SECURITY Realisation of a root and branch review (RBR) of public perception of privacy and security, to collect empirical evidence, and to translate research into a privacy framework and a Decision Support System (DSS).

projectpact.eu

THOFU Technologies for the Hotel of the Future CENIT Focused on research in new technologies and developing technological concepts to provide advanced and differentiated hotel services.

thofu.es

MOBIGUIDE Guiding Patients Anytime Everywhere FP7 Development of an intelligent system for patients with chronic illnesses such as cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes and high blood pressure. The patient wears sensors to monitor their biosignals, which are sent to their smart phone and from there to a powerful “back-end” computer.

mobiguide-project.eu


► Privacy-enhancing technologies as building blocks for privacy-enhancing identity management.

► Identity Management-as-a-Service (IDMaaS) & Networked Identity: authentication/identification services composable with other services in the Cloud (identity as a commodity).

► Methodological approaches: Privacy-by-Design (PbD) including Privacy Impact Assessment, cost & value of privacy compliance, full identity data lifecycle management...

► Biometrics: Crypto-biometrics, Cancellable biometrics, Mobile biometrics.


Media LabContent personalization through content characterization, content annotation, data-fusion and profiling

DescriptionThe Media lab researches on future technology that will allow new rich content creation, management and distribution improving consumers’ experience and technology feasibility. Unconstrained by traditional disciplines, engineers, artists and scientists work conducting several projects that range from supporting consumer recommender systems for large sport events broadcast to new user interfaces for information retrieval or new codecs to support efficient audiovisual content distribution.

GoalsThe main goal of this lab is the research, design and development of ICT tools that support:

► Multi platform efficient and personalized AV content distribution.

► Content personalization through content characterization, content annotation, data-fusion and profiling.

► Rich multimedia user experience.

Main ActivitiesThe lab’s main activities are listed hereafter:

► Research on AV content distribution over heterogeneous networks, looking for innovative distribution paradigms including new codecs and hybrid CDN and P2P mechanism.

► Sport metadata adaptation in media workflows, metadata generation systems, and standards definitions.

► Research new HMI to access and personalized content.

► Social media analytics and especially how it can serve to enrich media.

► Second screen applications.


► Semantics and metadata for multimedia.

► Multimedia search.

► 3D and virtual worlds.

► Streaming (P2P, 3D, SVC, MDC, etc.).

► Social media analytics related to media content

David SalamaHead of Lab


David SalamaHead of Lab


SARACEN Socially Aware Collaborative Scalable Coding Media Distribution

FP7, ICT Implementation of a prototype for offering Quality of Experience in personalised media streaming through the integration of scalable media coding techniques, advanced media transport protocols, and P2P technologies with respect to user privacy.

www.saracen-p2p.eu

EXPERIMEDIA EXPERiments in live social and networked MEDIA experiences

FP7 Development and operation of a testbed facility targeting the networked media communities aimed at supporting experimentation for the Future Media Internet.

experimedia.eu



cenitbuscamedia.es

JOI Juegos Olimpicos Interactivos AVANZA Development of an interactive media platform to watch the Olympic Games.


► Multiplatform live media content distribution.

► Live and on demand AV sport content description.

► Support on Sport data standardization.

► Social media analytics and how it can enrich media content.

Key Projects


MASSIF

OutcomesOn the base of proper multi-level event correlation MASSIF will provide innovation techniques in order to enable the detection of upcoming security threats and trigger remediation actions even before the occurrence of possible security incidences. Thus, MASSIF will develop a new generation SIEM framework for service infrastructures supporting intelligent, scalable, and multi-level/multi-domain security event processing and predictive security monitoring. Such service-level SIEM involves the modeling and formal validation of security, including trusted computing concepts, architecture for dependable and resilient collection of service events, supported by an extremely scalable and high performance event collection and processing framework, in the context of service-level attack models.

Web www.massif-project.eu

Program FP7

Budget 8,500,881.00€

Funding 5,950,000.00€

Date Oct 2010 to Sep 2013

Coordinator Atos Spain.

Contact Name Pedro Soria-Rodriguez

e-Mail [email protected]

ChallengesThe main objective of MASSIF (MAnagement of Security information and events in Service Infrastructures) is to achieve a significant advance in the area of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) by integrating and relating events from different system layers and various domains into one more comprehensive view of security-aware processes and by increasing the scalability of the underlying event processing technology.

Value PropositionThe main advances proposed by MASSIF project can be broken up into three categories, namely:

► Extending SIEM into multiple domains and multiple layers (in particular, services): The incursion of SIEM into the services layer, and the consideration of the management of cross-layer security information and events is a problem that organizations are starting to face, with the increased adoption of service oriented infrastructures and architectures. Furthermore, the project will consider the impacts on the disclosure of private information across domains, so to be acceptable for the society, from the point of view of human behavior, as well as of principles of human rights and legal and economic viability.

► Extending the evaluation and correlation capabilities of SIEM systems: this extension present a number of scientific challenges:

• Support the definition of relations between events and the automatic processing of correlations for fine-grained decisions on possibly critical situations.

• Extend the expressiveness of event processing to enable capturing, filtering, correlating, and abstracting events as well as triggering alarms and countermeasures.

• Provide advanced techniques (e.g. predictive security monitoring) for the evaluation of security-related events and integrate these techniques with our new generation SIEM framework and existing tools/frameworks.

► Extending the technical capabilities of SIEM systems: Enhancing the technical capabilities of SIEM systems addresses not only the technical requirements from the other objective categories, but also capabilities such as higher resilience of the SIEM system

Business ImpactFour industrial domains serve as a source for requirements and to validate and demonstrate project results:

► Olympic Games IT infrastructure deployed and managed by Atos;

► France Telecom scenario on “Mobile phone based money transfer service” facing security events, especially for the “non-IT” and “service” events;

► T-Systems South Africa provides managed IT outsource services with a high degree of complexity in setting up SIEM systems for large distributed enterprises;

► and Epsilon will demonstrate the use of the advanced concepts of SIEM in an IT system supporting a critical infrastructure (dam).

Deep insight into the current and near future industrial state-of-art, MASSIF platform will also be integrated in two existing open source SIEM solutions:

► AlienVault Open Source SIEM (OSSIM)

► Prelude


FINSENY

ChallengesThe energy sector is key for the competitiveness of the European market because all other sectors of the economy rely on it. A reliable, sustainable and cost-efficient energy supply is becoming increasingly prominent on political agendas worldwide. Smart Metering, however, is only a part of the energy system transformation to cover society’s energy needs in the future. The following challenges must also be addressed through more active approaches:

Integration of distributed and intermittent generation sources, like combined heat and power generation, solar and wind power overcoming grid constraints, volatility and uncertainty which are caused by increasing penetration of these sources.

► Integration of Smart Buildings and Microgrids.

► Engagement, education and empowerment of private and commercial customers to take a more active role in the energy market.

► Active shaping of the demand curve, e.g. to flatten the demand in peak load hours (peak shaving).

► Support for an electric vehicle charging infrastructure with mobile loads.

► Enable new trading and information services on an electronic marketplace.

Value PropositionThe ICT challenge of Smart Energy is to exchange information across multiple domains, among devices and between subsystems of diverse complexity. In addition to interoperable and standardized communications between such elements, future Smart Energy systems will rely on the availability of access and correct configuration of systems across ownership and management boundaries such as between energy management systems, energy markets, electricity distribution with distributed resources. Interactive customers with smart meters, building energy management systems, intelligent appliances and electric vehicles have to be integrated.

The Future Internet enables Smart Energy systems by fulfilling the stringent requirements of the energy system and by providing high quality: reliability, scalability and security.

OutcomesThe results of the project must be understood taking into account each of the energy-related contexts that have been studied and developed. FINSENY is specifying use cases, ICT requirements and architectures in the Smart Energy domain for five scenarios which have been identified as strongly benefiting from Future Internet technologies:

► Distribution Networks: Interoperability and integration (with legacy systems), scalability, allowing both centralized and de-centralized control, open & secure ICT solutions.

► Microgrids: Decentralized operation, connectivity and control by scalable ICT solutions.

► Smart Buildings: information models and interfaces that encompass all energy-relevant legacy building hardware and equipment, that make it possible to interoperate with existing building ICT systems, specification of application layer that combines local and global energy optimization.

► Electric Mobility: Scalable solutions as number of vehicles grow, access to services wherever the user is via cloud computing and defined network interfaces. Wireless and fixed converged networks, infrastructure as a service.

► Electronic Marketplace for Energy: Large scale data gathering and management via web, Internet of Energy linked objects and customers-prosumers.

Business ImpactFINSENY is a Future Internet (FI) project studying innovative new FI technologies to apply them to the Smart Energy landscape. The need for more ICT is widely agreed in the Smart Energy community to accomplish the challenges of the envisioned energy system. Future Internet technologies offer several opportunities for Smart Energy solutions, including connectivity, management, service enablement, distributed intelligence as well as security and privacy.

As part of the FI-PPP, FINSENY demonstrated over the three phases of the program that Smart Energy needs can be fulfilled through an ecosystem of generic and Smart Energy specific ICT enablers running on top of an open Future Internet platform.

The business impact of FINSENY project is described below according to the stakeholders groups concerned and involved in the final results:

Energy Consumers and Prosumers:

► “Freedom of Choice” between Energy providers, Services and Tariffs.

► Highly automated and user-managed energy consumption and services.

ICT Industry:

► Develop and sell of standardized, plug&play services infrastructure to support the Energy Industry and consumers.

Energy Industry:

► Produce, distribute and sell efficiently energy with less CO2 emissions.

► Develop and sell services to optimize energy consumption.

Web www.fi-ppp-finseny.eu

Program FP7

Budget 9,316,530.00€

Funding 5,183,000.00€

Date Apr 2010 to Apr 2013

Coordinator Nokia Siemens

Contact Name Martin Nicolai Wagner



KHRESMOI

ChallengesThe KHRESMOI project faces the main challenge of creating a multi-lingual, multi-modal search and access system for biomedical information and documents that, in addtion, have the property of being qualified as trustable for the medical community.

Technological challenges are associated to the following research aspects:

► Foundational Research: effective extraction of information from text; automated 2D, 3D, 4D medical image analysis; linking structured information and unstructured text; support of multi-lingual search and adaptive user interfaces.

► Component Level research: results of foundational research will flow directly into new and existing components. Existing open source components for which consortium members are maintainers or contributors include: GATE, DAFFODIL, KIM, OWLIM, GIFT, MOSES.

► Integration: the components will be integrated into a robust, efficient and scalable test-bed for biomedical information search. At three milestones, integrated system prototypes are planned to be complete during the project, with an initial architecture to be ready by the end of the first year. Continuing foundational research incorporated into improved components will enhance the system.

Value PropositionThe systems will allow access to biomedical data:

► By combining multiple data sources and knowleged derived from various heterogeneous knowledge sources,

► analyzing and indexing multi-dimensional (2D, 3D, 4D) medical images,

► with improved search capabilities due to the integration of technologies to link the texts and images to facts in a knowledge base,

► in a multi-lingual environment,

► providing trustable results at a level of understandability adapted to the users.

OutcomesThe KHRESMOI project offers the following set of results:

Components:

► Active learning algorithms, for an effective automated extraction of information from the text of biomedical documents (to extract relevant passages of documents tool).

► Scalable data base for storage of image data, collaborative annotation tool to afford annotation of large numbers of data within a feasible time frame, data anonymization workflow to delete patient data and automated analysis and indexing algorithms for radiological images in 2D, 3D and 4D.

► Backend results presentation, result understanding, support and translated result support tools, spelling correction tool, query reformulation and expansion tool and query translation support tool.

► Multilingual queries composer, summaries and excerpts generation from original retrieved documents, machine translation techniques applied over the excerpts and semi-automated maintenance and updating of the multi-lingual biomedical language resources.

System as a whole: KHRESMOI will be the first medical information search system that will make use of Haynes pyramid to adapt the information retrieved to improve user search experience, without requiring the user to make use of special “enhanced” search interfaces hidden behind links or buttons.

Business Impact ► Medical Impact: Improve the access to medical information for doctors, so that they have more time to talk to and to treat patients, having all the information required for doing so more effectively. Convert the flood of radiological image data into a boon instead of a curse.

► Scientific Impact: Address the lack of publicly available large-scale data sets and realistic task-based scenarios on which to assess new technologies. Make available cutting edge techniques implemented in open source software.

► Industrial Impact: Improve existing open source products’ stability, features and performance, and hence their attractiveness and suitability for wider deployment.

► Public Impact: Members of the public will be using the Health on the Net search engine, improved by the KHRESMOI technology, relatively early in the project.

Web www.khresmoi.eu

Program FP7

Budget 10,823,208.00€

Funding 8,035,729.00€

Date Oct 2010 to Sep 2014

Coordinator HES-SO

Contact Name Blanca Jordán Rodríguez



BIG

ChallengesBuilding an industrial community around Big Data in Europe will be the priority of this project, together with setting up the necessary collaboration and dissemination infrastructure to link technology suppliers, integrators and leading user organizations.

Big Data Public Private Forum (BIG) will work towards the definition and implementation of a clear strategy that tackles the necessary efforts in terms of research and innovation, but it will also provide a major boost for technology adoption and supporting actions from the European Commission in the successful implementation of the Big Data economy.

As part of this strategy, outcomes of this project will be used as input for Horizon 2020 and will be sustained beyond the project duration. Foundational research technologies will be analyzed and assessed in BIG and technology and strategy roadmaps created, so that the business and operational communities understand the potential of these technologies and are enabled to implement appropriate strategies and technologies for commercial benefit.

To maximize the success of this initiative BIG has selected a balanced set of partners representing Academia and specially Industry.

Value PropositionBig Data is an emerging field where innovative technology offers alternatives to resolve the inherent problems that appear when working with huge amounts of data, providing new ways to reuse and extract value from information.

Three main dimensions characterize Big Data: huge variety of data format, often time-sensitive and large. Big Data offers tremendous untapped potential value for many sectors but no specific intelligent-large-data-handling/brokering industrial sector exists.

Furthermore, from an industrial adoption point of view, Europe is lagging behind US in Big Data technologies. A clear strategy to align supply and demand is needed as a way of increasing competitiveness of European industries.

OutcomesBIG main goal is to address technical, business and policy aspects of Big Data with the aims of

i) shaping the future of the area

ii) positioning it in H2020

iii) bringing the necessary stakeholders into a self-sustainable industrially-led initiative to enhance EU competitiveness taking full advantage of Big Data

Web www.big-project.eu

Program FP7

Budget 3,038,224.00€

Funding 2,499,998.00€

Date Aug 2012 to Sep 2014

Coordinator Atos Spain

Contact Name Jose Maria Cavanillas de San Segundo



SMART

ChallengesSMART will introduce a holistic open source web-scale multimedia search framework for multimedia data stemming from the physical world. To this end, SMART will develop a scalable search and retrieval architecture for multimedia data, along with intelligent techniques for real-time processing, search and retrieval of physical world multimedia. The SMART framework will boost scalability in both functional and business terms, while being extensible in terms of sensors and multimedia data processing algorithms.

The SMART framework will enable answering of queries based on the intelligent collection and combination of sensor generated multimedia data, using sensors and perceptual (A/V) signal processing algorithms that match the application context at hand. This matching will be based on the sensors’ context and metadata (e.g., location, state, capabilities), as well as on the dynamic context of the physical world as the later is perceived by processing algorithms (such as face detectors, person trackers, classifiers of acoustic events and components for crowd analysis). At the same time, SMART will be able to leverage Web2.0 social networks information in order to facilitate social queries on physical world multimedia. The main components of the SMART search framework will be implemented as open source software over the Terrier (terrier.org) open source engine.

Value PropositionThe Future Internet will include a proliferating number of internet-connected sensors, including cameras and microphone arrays. Based on these sensors, emerging applications will be able to collect, filter, analyze and store large amounts of data captured from the physical world, as well as related metadata captured as part of perceptive multimedia signal processing algorithms. The ability to search this information in a scalable, effective, real-time and intelligent way can empower a wide range of added value applications in the areas of security/surveillance, smart cities, social networking, e-science and more. The potential is partly manifested in the recent wave of participatory sensing and crowd-sourcing applications.

Nevertheless, the vast majority of crowd-sourcing and participatory sensing applications deal with non-AV (Audio-Visual) data and do not provide capabilities for searching and processing multimedia data. In addition to their inability to handle multimedia data, tools and techniques for searching sensor data are still largely based on the indexing and searching of a priori defined (and usually textual) metadata.

Indeed, while they exploit recent advances on sensor ontologies in order to decouple the queries from the low level details of the underlying sensors, they cannot dynamically identify the sensors that are appropriate for answering queries according to the context of the user and the application domain.

As a result, there is a pressing need for the a next generation multimedia search engine, which will be optimized not just for textual search and text based indexing, but also for searching multimedia data (notably audio and video streams) derived from the physical world (i.e. environment generated media and content).

OutcomesThe main goal of the SMART project is to research and implement a scalable open source next generation multimedia search engine that will be able to search information stemming from the physical world. The SMART multimedia search engine will be able to answer queries based on the intelligent collection and combination of sensor generated multimedia data, based on sensors and sensor processing algorithms that match the context at hand.

The matching of the queries with sensor and sensor processing algorithms (notably audio and video processing algorithms) will be based on the sensors‐ context and metadata (e.g., location, state, capabilities), as well as on the dynamic context of the physical world, as the latter is perceived by multimedia processing algorithms (such as face detectors, person trackers, classifiers of acoustic events, crowd analysis components and more). Furthermore, SMART will be able to leverage social network information in order to facilitate social queries over a multitude of sensor data.

Business ImpactSMART is largely motivated by the proliferation of low-cost multi-purpose sensors. It is estimated that in the near future, there will be many more embedded devices than there are mobile phones. According to recent estimations, the number of communicating devices is a thousand times greater than the number of mobile phones, which is already more than one billion. When these devices are connected to the Internet, many novel kinds of ubiquitous services will be enabled. It is no accident that we are also witnessing a considerable growth in sensor-based and location-based services. At the same time, SMART is capitalizing on the rapid growth of smart phones that gives rise to participatory sensing services, including multiple social networking services.

The SMART platform aims to capitalize on these trends, given that it will provide added-value multimedia and social search services and applications, over a multitude of sensors (notably cameras and microphones), as well as social networks.

Systems built using the SMART platform will provide business opportunities and advantages for companies in two ways. First through the development of novel added-value applications and services (e.g., for surveillance, security, information provision, smart cities services), and, second, through the enhancement of existing information systems based on multimedia search on sensor data, e.g. information systems utilizing sensor based data in order to controlling/adapt their core processes and operations.

A large number of pertinent applications are also envisaged including security and surveillance applications, news services added value information services, connected governance applications, ambient assisted living etc.

Web www.smartfp7.eu

Program FP7

Budget 4,425,000.00€

Funding 2,686,292.00€

Date Nov 2011 to Oct 2014


Contact Name Paul Moore Olmstead



TROPIC

ChallengesThe number of smart mobile devices connecting to the Internet is exponentially growing. It is clear that the combination of mobile networks and cloud computing in the so-called “mobile clouds” is increasingly important to the Future Internet. The TROPIC project aims at exploiting the convergence of Femto-LTE network infrastructure and cloud computing paradigms for distribution and provision of applications and services.

With the advent of more and more sophisticated applications for mobile users, high rate-demanding services and new habits of subscribers, wireless communications system designers are confronted to new challenges: providing ubiquitous availability, improving energy efficiency, enhancing system capacity and guaranteeing security. As some of these aspects cannot be simultaneously optimized in conventional systems, deployments based on Femto Access Points (FAPs), or HeNBs (Home Enhanced Nodes B) in LTE, are expected to play a significant role in future wireless communications.

As a parallel track, cloud computing is becoming more and more important as a flexible, robust, highly-scalable and cost-effective tool to design, implement and deploy applications, allowing low-complexity terminals to have access to much larger resources than those available on typical user equipment.

While femtocell networking and cloud computing are typically seen as two distinct fields, the main goal of TROPIC is to bring them within a common framework in order to provide an innovative tool able to provide considerable advantages with respect to the current scenario.

Value PropositionThe new paradigm envisioned in TROPIC looks at the computation/communication/storage problem implicit in the development of many current applications for mobile terminals as a joint problem and, given the hardware and resource (e.g. battery) constraints, searches for the most effective solution in terms of computational capabilities and radio resource allocation.

The main objective is to offer an integrated framework combining both worlds and showing how to distribute the computation/communication capabilities between mobile handsets and the cloud efficiently (off-loading scenario in mobile clouds), in order to deliver services with provable QoS, in terms of latency, service continuity, etc.

OutcomesTROPIC will produce a new component for LTE networks that will allow managing femtocells as computing nodes optmising the operation from both radio and cloud points of view. This project will place Atos in a priviledged position for developing future applications to be run over these femto-clouds.

Business ImpactThe combination of the new paradigms employed in the project constitutes a realistic and technologically viable set of solutions that enable the achievement of the new femto-clouding paradigm. TROPIC will thus benefit to the at-home/office customers that can run applications above the capabilities of their devices and will have access to higher bit rate services, dedicated advanced femto-cloud applications and possible cheaper tariffs policies. At the same time, as the femto-clouding brings the cloud nodes closer to the end-user, the data flows routed through the ADSL backbone by the HeNBs will proportionally relieve outdoor macrocells of a substantial traffic load, lowering the congestion peaks and insuring better connectivity and QoS ad QoE for the other subscribers.

The benefits for the operators are even more significant, as the implementation of femto-clouding will translate in a direct financial benefit for the providers including a reduction in the costs of provisioning and being able to manage specific high consumer density situations; in addition the possibility of offering new dedicated femto-clouding services for the home/office will increase the market segment and attract new customers.

The TROPIC project targets to new concepts and techniques beyond the conventional cellular paradigm, and as such, it will benefit EU research community with respect to broader scientific knowledge to achieve higher spectrum efficiency, and enable new services, with better resource utilization and lower battery consumption. It represents an opportunity for researchers to cooperatively work on cutting-edge technologies beyond state-of-the-art.

Web www.ict-tropic.eu

Program FP7

Budget 4,580,000.00€

Funding 3,390,000.00€

Date Sep 2012 to Feb 2015

Coordinator Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Contact Name Felicia Lobillo Vilela



VIRTUOSO

ChallengesThis project deals with exploitation of open data to enhance intelligence for public security.

The project aims at providing European security stakeholders with a toolkit based on an open-source-software framework, which is able to integrate advanced information processing tools. The aim of this “open-source-software framework” is to ensure greater interoperability among information and technology providers and to allow end-users to easily plug-in different technological solutions.

Value PropositionVIRTUOSO is a technical framework for the integration of tools for collection, processing, analysis and communication of open source information. This middleware framework enables “plug and play” functionalities that improve the ability of border control, security and law enforcement professionals to use data from across the source / format spectrum in support of the decision making process.

As a proof of concept and to highlight the efficiency of this open-source code framework, a prototype has been built and demonstrated using operational scenarios. The project will comply with legal considerations and enforce the principles of privacy and data protection to ensure the interests of citizens within the European Union.

Benefits:

► Enabling exchange of best practices, needs and requirements with other European end-users and with the partners of the consortium.

► Improving the know-how of user organization at technical and operational levels.

► Possibility to implement the open-source-software framework developed during or after the project.

► Enhancing intelligence gathering by incorporating open sources of information in the process.

OutcomesOne major outcome of the project will be the VIRTUOSO toolkit, the association of several components that can be grouped into two classes: infrastructural components and functional components.

The functional components constitute the core of the VIRTUOSO toolkit and include all the data processing components that will involve in finding, selecting, and acquiring information from public sources and analyzing it to provide relevant information useful to the decision-maker.

The infrastructural components will be developed to ensure the interactivity and the collaboration between the functional components to accomplish a given user need.

The main functional components of the VIRTUOSO system include Information Gathering components (Acquisition), Information Extraction and Structuring components (Processing), Knowledge Acquisition components (knowledge management), Decision support and visualization components.

Business ImpactThe VIRTUOSO platform enables intelligence organizations and commercial entities to make use of open source information (i.e., non-classified) to obtain intelligence that enhances their operations, be it for cost efficiency or for improved results.

Intelligence agencies can use this platform to derive additional information to support investigations, while business customers of VIRTUOSO can apply this solution to big data analysis in support of business operations, using internal data sources as well as external ones.

In essence, VIRTUOSO empowers competitive intelligence processes.

Web www.virtuoso.eu

Program FP7, SECURITY

Budget 11,518,500.00€

Funding 7,999,080.00€

Date May 2012

Coordinator CEA

Contact Name Pedro Soria-Rodriguez



OPTIMIS

ChallengesThe motivation for OPTIMIS is the vision that hybrid clouds will become commonplace, realized by private clouds interacting with a rich ecosystem of public and other cloud providers. OPTIMIS is aimed at enabling organizations to automatically externalize services and applications to trustworthy and auditable cloud providers in the hybrid model.

Consequently, OPTIMIS believes that its activities will support and facilitate an ecosystem of providers and consumers that will benefit from the optimal operation of services and infrastructures.

Cloud computing is shaping IT market structure in terms of new market roles and innovative business models.European businesses have the potential to take important roles in this market. Europe is especially strong when it comes to the Telecoms industry with their data centres and managed network or hosting services. Yet, middleware for cloud infrastructure and platforms is less developed and this may obstruct the European cloud market development.

Value PropositionThe OPTIMIS programming model will make it easy for developers to build services and virtual machines to be run on the cloud. The toolkit will provide the ability to take existing applications and run them on cloud, an inevitable requirement for hybrid clouds.

The TREC-powered broker will enable service providers to make intelligent deployment and infrastructure decisions. Service deployments can even occur across multiple cloud infrastructures which eliminates potential vendor lock-ins.

The software design incorporates data protection requirements and helps service providers be compliant with regulations such as the EU’s Data Protection Directive. The toolkit gives IT departments the opportunity to become cloud service providers and brokers themselves.

Key selling points for the OPTIMIS toolkit

► Build and run the services of your choice: set your criteria based on TREC

► Build and run the cloud environment that better fits: private, hybrid, burst, federated or multi-clouds

► Best venue, no vendor lock-in: move your workloads between IaaS and PaaS platforms or cloud vendors

► Become a cloud service provider

► Offer better services to your customers

► Be compliant (data protection, green legislation)

► It is European

Benefits are

► Completed solution to optimize the whole service life-cycle in Cloud.

► Use of (TREC Trust, Risk, Eco efficiency and Cost) parameters for assigning service construction, deployment and operation.

► Best venue, no vendor lock-in: with OPTIMIS you can move your workloads between IaaS and PaaS platforms or cloud vendors.

► Product based on open standards.

► Privacy and compliance incorporated in the software design.

Outcomes ► OPTIMIS will identify, capture and codify what an optimized cloud ecosystem driven by trust, risk, eco-efficiency and cost will look like.

► The OPTIMIS framework and toolkit will simplify service construction, and support deployment and runtime decisions based on prior evaluation of providers.

► OPTIMIS will facilitate the use of resources based on economic and eco-efficiency goals while achieving a dynamic and proactive management of cloud infrastructures.

► OPTIMIS deliverables will enable clouds to be composed from multiple services and resources. It will support service brokerage via interoperability, and is architecture-independent.

► OPTIMIS will identify value networks for these cloud markets and recommend suitable legal and regulatory guidelines for operation.

Business ImpactOPTIMIS is positioned in the area of Software infrastructure-as-a-service (SIaaS). This represents the software component of a cloud infrastructure (between the physical infrastructure and the cloud platform). SIaaS encompasses the enabling technologies that are required for a cloud to function “properly” (for consumers to easily and efficiently use cloud functionality to their best advantage).

SIaaS is a service providing specific application support capabilities; this is different from PaaS, as PaaS provides entire application software platforms. SIaaS is not a user consumable cloud service, as it supports applications or higher-tier cloud services.

Software developers use SIaaS to create applications not dependent on internal infrastructure components. SIaaS allows additional simplified consumer functionality without the expensive overheads of purchasing software, installation and configuration.

Key concerns in today’s market are trust and control (IT security, compliance and data protection), SLA and policy management, software licensing, data management, and cultural inertia. Moreover, multidimensional brokering does not currently exist in the commercial sector. OPTIMIS, however, is targeted at touching all of these activities and more.

OPTIMIS will fill a gap in the market and the project will support and facilitate an ecosystem of providers and consumers that will benefit from the optimal operation of cloud services and infrastructures.

Web www.optimis-project.eu

Program FP7

Budget 7,131,090.00€

Funding 1,037,300.00€

Date Jun 2010 to May 2013


Contact Name Ana Maria Juan Ferrer



e-Dash

ChallengesThe sustainable integration of the electric vehicles (EV) requires an intelligent charging system for the real-time exchange of charge related data between FEVs and the grid in order to allow the management of:

► High-current fast-charging for large numbers of FEVs in a brand-independent way.

► Price-adaptive charging/reverse-charging at optimum price for the customer.

► The real-time grid balancing according to spatial and temporal needs and capacities, influenced by the demand.

► (FEVs) and the supply side (unpredictability of regenerative energies).

► Competent remote load charging process control in order to prevent damages of FEV batteries.

Great emphasis is placed on the “openness of the V2OEM Interface” granting access to multiple players maintaining the customers’ choice.

Value Propositione-DASH aims at the harmonization of electricity demand in Smart Grids for sustainable integration of electric vehicles. This is addressed by an intelligent charging system supported with near real-time exchange of charge related data between EVs and the grid.

Adopting the e-DASH approach allows high-current fast-charging for large numbers of EVs in a brand-independent way and price adaptive charging/reverse-charging at optimum price for the customer leading to increased demand of EVs. In order to prevent damages of costly EV batteries, sophisticated charge control is inevitable.

The sustainable integration of electric vehicles requires near real-time exchange of charge related data between EVs and the grid in order to allow the management of:

► High-current fast-charging for large numbers of EVs in a brand independent way.

► Price-adaptive charging/reverse-charging at optimum price for the customer to increase the desirability of EVs

► Near real-time grid balancing according to spatial and temporal needs and capacities, be it influenced by the demand or the supply side (unpredictability of regenerative energy sources and simultaneous EV charging processes).

► Competent remote load charging process control in order to prevent damages of EV batteries.

► Social benefits: e-Dash will foster the usage of the electrical vehicle which will reduce the CO2 global emissions. Also we can count with a decrease in acoustic contamination by the usage of these silent vehicles.

► Economic: Taking advantages of the energy monitoring by adjusting demand and electric supply without big gaps between them. Consumers will get a decrease in their regular expense, right know the difference between regular vehicles and electric vehicles charge is huge. Charge your FEV could be 40 times cheaper than refueling your petrol vehicle.

Outcomes ► Demand Clearing Houses, which are decentralized and autonomously acting ICT services.

► FEV Charging V2G interface in accordance to IEC 15118/61851.

► FEV Support V2OEM interface.

► Development of an ICT backbone E-Mobility Broker.

► The development of a platform and respective services OEM Back-End for consolidating all individual demand & supply data for groups of EVs.

Business ImpactThis is a changing market in a constant changing world. New business models are rising and e-Dash is proposing and giving tools to adapt the business to this new models. Particularly, fleet manager’s operators and charge spots operators would be very interested in adopting tools such as the FEV charging interface or the FEV Support interface.

The concept of gather all the energy data in one “hub” and recalculate prices, adapting them to the real-time needs is a topic already discussed in the project and giving solution by the creation and development of the e-Mobility broker.

Web edash.eu

Program FP7

Budget 8,533,670.00€

Funding 5,300,000.00€

Date Jan 2011

Coordinator Atos Spain.

Contact Name Servet Balcioglu



STORK 2.0

ChallengesSecure means of identification and authentication is key to many electronic services in eGovernment. Several European countries have set up their national electronic identity (eID) infrastructures to support strong authentication to such services. These initiatives however have often emerged as national silos; cooperation for using eID across borders has not been on the agenda in most cases, creating interoperability issues.

The Large Scale Pilot STORK removes such barriers by developing a de-centralized interoperability framework between national eID solutions. Specifically, STORK establishes a European eID Interoperability Platform that allows citizens to benefit from cross-border e-Services, just by using their national eID with full respect to data protection and privacy.

The STORK Pilot A has been focusing on eID’s for citizens. However it has become clear that eID for legal entities demands supplementary attention. Where citizen’s eID relate to the electronic identity of individual persons, eID for legal entities relates to legal representatives. Mandating from the organization to certain individuals is an essential element they received from their organization as a legal entity.

STORK 2.0 will contribute to the realization of a single European electronic identification and authentication area. It does so by building on the results of STORK, establishing interoperability of different approaches at national and EU level, eID for persons, eID for legal entities and the facility to mandate..

Value PropositionSTORK 2.0 project, coordinated by Atos Spain, will extend the functionalities to cover secure authentication of physical persons with powers or mandated to represent legal persons, with the aim to address a better convergence of public and private sector.

The lack of cross border interoperability of electronic identification for legal entities and mandates is hindering the realization of the Single Market and the Digital Single Market especially. The STORK 2.0 Consortium composed by 58 partners (19 Member States and Associated Countries), straightforwardly addresses those obstacles, which hinder further development and better use of ICT based products and services and which are barriers for the development of high growth businesses.

In summary, STORK 2.0 takes a significant and pioneer leap from identifying and authenticating citizens, to the ability to authenticate legal entities and citizens and link the citizen to their role in the business world. STORK 2.0 will be linking the citizen and legal entities to attributes, delegations and mandates. By enabling cross border and sector interoperability for legal entity eIDs a wealth of new pan European applications and services can be facilitated..

OutcomesThe expected outcomes are:

► Common specifications for interoperable legal identities and mandates, on top of the interoperability infrastructure developed in STORK, following privacy rules (Art. 29 Working Party) and enabling secure working;

► Common Building blocks (Common code) including National integration - based on the specifications for interoperable components;

► Analysis of legal issues such as privacy/data protection, liability, different National regimes;

► An update of the QAA model to include legal entities and mandate agreements;

► Four cross-border pilots running in real life settings with real impact demonstrating the use and societal impact of the cross border, cross sector infrastructure developed:

• eLearning & Academic Qualifications: cross-border academic services based on the exchange of identity attributes, e.g. secure provision of academic qualifications attributes to public and private employment stakeholders.

• eBanking: EU citizens and business able to open and access bank accounts across borders.

• Public Services for Businesses: legal entities able to use online public services for business in other countries, via the representation by their legal representatives or delegated persons/entities.

• Health: eID used in the health sector for authentication of patients and health care providers..

Business ImpactThe importance of STORK and STORK 2.0 must be related to European mobility of citizens and businesses and the tearing down of borders and incompatible technological, procedural, organizational and even legal barriers: today, companies that want to start a business in a new EU state, or people who want take a job abroad, or access benefits, have to spend a long time going through a range of bureaucratic procedures. This makes it harder to carry out cross-border working, slows down the process of developing a more open market and restricts economic growth.

STORK is already providing the fundamental infrastructure for citizens secure authentication to cross-border services in the fields of eProcurement, eHealth, eJustice, Civil Registries and Services Directive implementation. Building on STORK results, STORK2.0 will extend the European eID interoperability layer in order to improve the convergence between the public and private sector on eID and will provide electronic authentication to physical persons with powers or mandated to represent legal persons.

STORK and STORK 2.0 make a powerful contribution to accelerated deployment of electronic services for European citizens and businesses no matter their origin, fostering European competitiveness in the global Knowledge Economy..

Web www.eid-stork2.eu

Program CIP, ICT, PSP

Budget 18,655,151.00€

Funding 8,762,974.00€

Date Apr 2012 to Mar 2015


Contact Name Antonio Paradell Bondia



iCargo

ChallengesiCargo project aims at advancing and extending the use of ICT to support new logistics services that:

► synchronize vehicle movements and logistics operations across various modes and actors to lower CO2 emissions,

► adapt to changing conditions through dynamic planning methods involving intelligent cargo, vehicle and infrastructure systems and

► combine services, resources and information from different stakeholders, taking part in an open freight management ecosystem.

To achieve these targets, iCargo will design and implement a decentralized ICT infrastructure allowing real world objects, new planning services including CO2 calculation capabilities and existing systems to co-exist and efficiently co-operate at an affordable cost for logistics stakeholders.

Value PropositionThe iCargo infrastructure will include Intelligent Cargo items to facilitate reactive decision-making and to integrate information obtained from on-going execution (all modes) into planning processes to optimize environmental performances, including real-time information about traffic and transport infrastructure conditions.

iCargo will be an open decentralized market and ITC system without a central authority where stakeholders can easily discover services and exchange information. It will offer the following facilities:

► Demand publication – shippers will be able to communicate their demand and requirements.

► Services availability publication – carriers will be able to communicate their service descriptions and availability

► Door-to-door service planning – iCargo will be able to plan door-to-door logistics chains.

► Service execution and re-planning – iCargo will allow adaptive logistics chains where status is monitored and plans or synchronization adapted as necessary.

► Performance monitoring and reporting – iCargo will enable accurate and timely reporting of environmental indicators at a shipment and service level.

OutcomesExpected ICT outcomes are:

Improved interpretation of data: Through the use of new semantic web technologies and standardization efforts (Common Framework) it should become easier to interpret data coming from business partners.

Better accessibility of data: Technical and organizational barriers for accessibility and connectivity should be reduced. iCargo aims to provide seamless connectivity, while maintaining secure and controlled access.

Improved organization of data: Through an entity centric approach and a reduction of complexity, the organization of data will be improved.

Business ImpactThe iCargo results will present the following business opportunities for service providers:

► Easy discovery and management of logistics chains for clients

► Robust flexible supply chains

► Improved supply chain efficiency

► Reduced congestion and carbon footprint

The following business innovations are expected:

► Mechanisms to support collaborative planning including pooling and sharing resources. Ultimately, the customer decides which service will be used.

► Automatic possible logistic chains for a certain shipment, composed of the available transport services.

► New ways for the client to re-plan and change the logistic chain as goals and change.

► Logistic service providers well become more aware. This will allow them to optimize the use of transport resources.

► Gathering of data relevant to the environmental footprint from the logistic chain to be shared this with customers for reporting purposes.

Web i-cargo.eu

Program FP7

Budget 16,923,953.00€

Funding 11,300,000.00€

Date Nov 2012 to Oct 2015


Contact Name Servet Balcioglu



EO2HEAVEN

ChallengesOur understanding of the complex relationship between environment and health, as well as its management to ensure human well-being is still partial and limited by the difficulty of collecting and linking relevant data at the right geographical and temporal scales.

Key issues addressed include the general availability of health data as well as related data privacy aspects that require substantial aggregation of health data, non-matching spatial and temporal resolutions, different approaches during the early data cleaning phases, and data availability and accessibility in general.

Throughout the life span of the project the stakeholder requirements from three different Case Studies (in Europe and Southern Africa) will be assessed and the technical solutions proposed by EO2HEAVEN will be evaluated through an iterative process, thus ensuring that the solutions can be applied on a global scale. The three Case Studies are:

► Environmental effects on allergies and cardiovascular diseases in Dresden and Free State of Saxony, Germany

► Environmental challenges to health in South Durban, South Africa, caused by air pollution from nearby petrochemical plants.

► Investigating the impact of climate variables on cholera outbreaks in Uganda supported by microbiological sampling.

Value PropositionEO2HEAVEN contributes to the environmental health research community facilitating easy access to data sets and processing capacities, using state-of-the art internet technologies, applications, and architectural principles to shed more light on the complex correlations of environmental factors and health aspects such as cholera, cardio-vascular and respiratory diseases.

EO2HEAVEN will facilitate the provision of actionable information to key stakeholders and decision makers, in order to:

► support interdisciplinary research and therefore provide the means to both the environment and health communities to work together,

► increase the understanding of the impact of environmental factors on human health in order to effectively support environment and health management, and

► improve the access to relevant information for the citizen.

EO2HEAVEN components and workflow systems provide a huge improvement on cross-domain research. Scientists get new tools at hand that help to shorten traditionally labor-intensive tasks, such as data discovery, pre-processing and integration. Being compliant to international standards helps to ensure sustainable developments and builds a solid base for future research.

OutcomesEO2HEAVEN is developing methodologies, correlation models, spatial data services (OGC Standards) and applications (SOA paradigm) supporting the main activities involved in the environmental health:

► Discovery and acquisition of data sets

► Integration of heterogeneous Earth Observations (satellite, in-situ and field campaign data)

► Extraction of time series and visualization of graphs and maps

► Development of models of health effects

► Development of risk maps

► Development of predictions for early warning systems

The results of the project will be integrated into the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) infrastructure after successful validation during the course of the project.

Web www.eo2heaven.org

Program FP7

Budget 8,652,313.00€

Funding 6,273,261.00€

Date May 2013

Coordinator IOSB

Contact Name Jose Lorenzo Mon


Business ImpactThere is evidence that more cost-efficient multidisciplinary solutions are needed to tackle the unnecessary environment-related health burden. The feedback from the workshops shows that the best practices and tools developed within the project can be of great benefit for training courses on the environmental and health domain, since many agencies lack from qualified and trained staff responsible for risk and outbreak detection.

EO2HEAVEN contribution to large-scale initiative GEOSS and the potential collaboration with WHO in the design of a Health Early Warning System for cholera will support a long-term sustainability of the project results.

Several partners already have expressed their intention to exploit project results in continued R&D, and enhancing or adding value to their current service lines and portfolios by means of e-learning and capacity building programs, or exploiting the web clients and other software components in other SDI projects or systems. The target users of the project results include information analysts, field workers, decision makers, politicians, or scientists along the value chain of environmental public health surveillance. The potential customers and beneficiaries are therefore health authorities, environmental agencies and other data providers.

Assets


DescriptionGeospatial technologies include a range of modern tools, from Earth Observation (EO) and satellite images, to geographic information systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) that allow the mapping and analysis of multiple layers of geo-referenced data. The Research and Innovation group of Atos has a proven record of building innovative solutions based on Open Geospatial Technologies.

Business ChallengeMany organizations face today a so-called “interoperability issue”: a substantial portion of their IT expenditure is spent to support the maintenance of legacy systems, the vast majority of which were not designed to work together.

When it comes to Public Sector and, more specifically, to the need to consolidate information from disparate systems that support citizen protection, disaster management, criminal justice or other critical missions, this “interoperability issue” becomes even more than just an expenditure figure: geospatial service interoperability can save lives! Unfortunately, exchange of relevant information in these cooperative missions and applications is often limited to a raw data exchange level.

SolutionInteroperability and open standards are key features of Atos yourGEO solution that targets true efficiency, but also the flexibility in geospatial service composition. It is based on the service taxonomy of the Open GIS Architecture (ISO/DIS 19119) and provides

► Human interaction services (e.g. catalogue or map viewers)

► Model/information management services (e.g. feature, sensor information and map access services, catalogue services)

► Workflow/task services (e.g. service chaining support)

► Processing services (e.g. coordinate conversion, route determination and statistical calculation services)

yourGEO

► Communication services (e.g. data format encoding services)

► System management services (e.g. authorization and authentication support services)

► These services can be composed and orchestrated in a flexible way so that yourGEO can be configured and adapted to any domain or application that relies on spatial data.

BenefitsyourGEO is a collection of services, tools and methodologies that can be used to develop specific applications including chains or compositions of cooperating services. Therefore, to invest in yourGEO means less need for reinvention of the wheel and saving money through redeployment of its interoperable geospatial services.

yourGEO facilitates the use of geospatial technologies. It provides an open and easy access to geographical information that can be used in a variety of applications and domains.

Miguel Ángel EsbriAsset Owner


DescriptionIn the age of Web 2.0 and the convergence of IT services, telecommunications and entertainment towards the web, the lines drawn between each of these fields has become practically invisible. This opens many new opportunities for all stakeholders in the media value chain.

Business ChallengeA particular area of interest is the area of live sporting events. As the World Technological Partner for the Olympic Games, Atos has been in a unique position to transform viewers from passive receptors to creators of their own viewing experience.

Central to yourMEDIA is the Quality of Experience (QoE) of media consumption over the Internet. yourMEDIA provides efficient distribution methods, based on understanding the capabilities and limitations of the physical layers, the service and content providers, as well as viewers´ context and feedback.

SolutionyourMEDIA solution integrates state-of-the-art software and services for multimedia content analysis, distribution and management, media search and retrieval, semantic annotation of multimedia objects, WebTV, interactive television, as well as support modules for user generated media content.

It uses open and widely accepted standards, such as the SportML (Sports Markup Language) for the description of content which is being extended for enhanced automatic content annotation, as well as improvements in terms of performance and accuracy.

BenefitsThe main advantages underlying yourMEDIA solution are:

► Taking advantage of the richness of new content: Automatic 3D model creation and camera calibration allow annotation systems to have a better understanding of the scene and therefore to be able to generate rich metadata.

► Exploiting the new distribution channels: Benefiting from social networking related information.

► Enhanced interactivity: User Generated content providing information about their context (e.g. location) or comments (e.g. recommendations).

yourMEDIA

David SalamaAsset Owner


DescriptionUser-centric identity management technologies are crucial to ensure that systems and services (traditional and cloud-based) are accessed by users in a secure and private way. In most web-based transactions, service providers and end-users need to establish a trustworthy relation guaranteeing integrity, quality and provenance of data. Thus, “circles of trust” are created using electronic identity information, allowing as well strong authentication of the involved parties.

Business ChallengeBusiness models and relationships are evolving towards increasing cross-border exchanges (between governments, private organization, citizens, universities…), along with growing trends to offer composable electronic services based on Cloud technology, to which trust anchors are also being moved. This challenge also represents big opportunities for all kinds of organizations when identity and access management are offered and managed “as a service”.

Interoperability of personal information and identity together with fine-grained policy management is a frequent problem in cross-federation service access control. Effective exchange of authentication information or attributes when transmitted from one federation to another often requires adequate translation procedures e.g. to ensure proper format handling.

SolutionyourSAM open-standards based, federated and scalable architecture is the answer to several requirements identified in a growing number of service transactions that span different “circles of trust”, e.g. service providers, domains or federations.

The implemented architecture and highly customizable functionalities are related to authentication, authorization policies and auditing between components (AAA), privacy-related issues, duties separation, user consent to release personal information, collaboration and trust management between identity federations, origin discovery service and policy management.

A privacy-respecting audit function gives assurance to end-users by providing full traceability and usage information to allow reconstruction of whole transaction chains when needed. yourSAM includes embedded mechanisms for end-to-end security.

BenefitsWith yourSAM, users should be able to define different attribute release policies for particular service providers at different hierarchy levels allowing the components at the boundaries of the circles of trust to allow or deny attribute release beyond them, providing as well translation services for many widely used attribute formats.

yourSAM complements Identity and Access Management solutions with fine-grained authorization policies enabling attribute transfer across different “trust circles”, whether this circle is a department, an organization, a country or a transnational business federation.

yourSAM

Alberto CrespoAsset Owner


DescriptionyourCYSEC solution provides scalable data acquisition and collection of huge amounts of security events from diverse and geographically-spread nodes. In addition, it performs a distributed and near real-time aggregation, dissemination and processing of events, which leads to a reaction ranging from alert generation and incident notification to more automated actions.

Business ChallengeCybersecurity infrastructure and general-purpose ICT infrastructures alike are becoming an attack targets to facilitate attacks on other types of services. Neutralization of such cybersecurity measures or the introduction of false or erroneous information into ICT control systems can be part of attackers’ strategy.

The majority of current commercial products in cybersecurity have serious limitations when it comes to implementing them at a large scale. Current products focus principally on analyzing events from a single organization and mainly at network layer, without correlation with events/information from higher layers. They are supervision-oriented and have limitations in managing heterogeneity.

Furthermore, they have no embedded elasticity for data storage or correlation processing, no automatic reactions to identified attacks, etc.

SolutionOne of the main values of yourCYSEC is the clear decoupling between the monitored target and the CIEM (Cybersecurity Information and Event Management) monitoring system. It enables rapid adaptation to varying target/CIEM system combinations and deployment across layers and organizations.

Resilient operation against faults and attacks of incremental severity is achieved by its architecture, with a resilient event bus in the heart of communication.

BenefitsScalability, versatility and resilience, as well as a combination of characteristics, such as security by design, timeliness and multi-tenancy make yourCYSEC a unique solution that can be deployed on top of exiting security solutions.

yourCYSEC

Rodrigo DíazAsset Owner


DescriptionyourCIM is a modular cloud infrastructure manager comprising open source components with standard-based interfaces. The solution provides a cost effective alternative to expensive proprietary systems. yourCIM is enhanced with innovative features and is as simple and efficient to use as well-established commercial products.

Business ChallengeInfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provides customers with computer resources on-demand through the Internet and on a pay-as-you-go basis. Under the hood, this simple concept is composed of numerous components and services which must be orchestrated and managed in a simple and secure way: hypervisors, pricing and billing, virtual machine management and data management are all components of an IaaS solution. Replacing parts of this solution with free and open-source components is a guaranteed way to reduce licensing costs and avoid vendor lock-in.

SolutionyourCIM is a modular solution designed to provide a cost-effective and innovative management of private Cloud infrastructures. It has been developed and extended through multiple research activities, with a strong focus on Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring.

Furthermore, it includes a number of innovative features, such as license and automated applications elasticity. Various projects have tested the solution under different conditions and with a heterogeneous mix of resources.

BenefitsThe advantages of yourCIM are the followings:

► Open Source. Pay no license fees and be able to modify the source code to your requirements, whilst benefiting from future releases and community produced developments at zero cost.

► Pick and choose modules. To customize your IaaS infrastructure balancing features from yourCIM with those available from other vendors – tailored to your budget and your requirements.

► Advanced features. From the cutting edge of European research: for example elastic on-demand licensing modules and features for future cloud scenarios including hybrid cloud.

► Focus on QoS and SLA monitoring. yourCIM is designed for your peace of mind.

► Avoidance vendor lock-in. By using standards-based and open components, yourCIM frees you from long term licensing commitments.

yourCIM

Ana María JuanAsset Owner


DescriptionEnterprises everywhere are moving towards a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). However, many companies realize the need to make improvements by involving business units in matching SOA to their business processes. Business Process Modeling (BPM) allows representing processes and is used to provide understanding of business processes.

Business ChallengeMany organizations today use web-based tools to search, model, annotate, modify, share, analyze, and execute administrative procedures in the form of business processes. However, these actions are usually executed by IT experts who must continuously interact with business end-users in order to properly address requirements. This means high costs and low flexibility, since it is often impossible to quickly address new challenges and requirements, such as compliance.

SOA and BPM platforms are usually designed for software developers and business process experts. Usually, end-users, who are real experts in their domain, lack the necessary background in enterprise software.

SolutionTo help those experts, yourBPM offers an “abstraction” layer, thus closing the gap between the existing heavyweight enterprise services and the end-user designed composite processes. The solution provides an intuitive environment for lightweight service composition and consumption.

yourBPM uses the latest standards and is based on principles of openness and decoupling of modeling from execution. Customers who want to avoid vendor lock-in and to address scalability issues should choose yourBPM.

BenefitsyourBPM suite that brings various advantages, matching SOA and BPM in different domains, such as the public sector, telecommunications or financial domains. By enabling end-users, such as civil servants, administrative staff, financial controllers, etc. to directly model and compose services, yourBPM is bringing efficiency and effectiveness gain, as well as other strategic advantages.

The modularity of SOA allows customers to buy only those services that they really need (instead of complete products), reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of their IT infrastructure. End-users can handle themselves simple process development tasks, thus avoiding need of a ‘more expensive’ IT development project.

yourBPM

Jesus Gorroñogoitia Cruz Asset Owner


DescriptionWhile text can be a good way for exchanging information between people and expressing opinions over the Internet, it is not something that is easily understandable by a machine.

yourKIM solution uses information integration that harmonizes data from multiple sources into a single coherent representation. It combines disparate sources with typically differing conceptual representations, i.e. differing syntax, semantics and data structures.

Business ChallengeIn the age of Internet, business decisions are increasingly dependent on the just-in-time delivery of relevant information and knowledge. While in the past this information used to be structured, in today´s world there is increasing dependence on unstructured sources of information, such as the Internet, and subjective inputs, such as sentiments, assessments, opinions, rumors, beliefs, etc.

Internet texts such as weblog articles and forums provide, for example, a massive amount of potentially useful information. An analyst or decision maker would have to collect, filter, assess, and interpret all these texts with respect to a current object of interest. However, accomplishing this task cannot be done manually due to time constraints in decision making and the enormous amount of documents.

SolutionyourKIM provides automated methods for knowledge and intelligence processing and management, from data acquisition all the way to the final application services that include decision support, visualization, etc.

This application layer can be developed in a fast and cost-effective way thanks to previous implementations of yourKIM and the reuse of previously developed services for a broad range of sectors and applications, such as market surveillance, reputational risk in finance, retail brokerage, cybersecurity or border control.

yourKIM is based on state-of-the-art technologies, such as an ontology-guided and rule-based information extraction approach. It also provides interfaces with the most common infrastructures and ontology that incorporate domain-specific knowledge with concepts, vocabulary, and relationships.

BenefitsBy using derived domain knowledge embodied in the ontology, documents irrelevant in the context of application (e.g. intelligence for civil security) are filtered out and the relevant documents are forwarded to the information extraction components.

yourKIM helps in the process of capturing tacit knowledge and converting it into explicit knowledge. yourKIM can synthesize taxonomies with internal knowledge bases and provides users with the ability to conduct a federated search across knowledge resources and open source information sources.

yourKIM



DescriptionMoving Electronic Health Records to the Cloud has several advantages, from accessibility to timeliness, based on the assumption that citizens are able to update their health record with information regarding their current state, diseases or habits.

Business ChallengeEnhancing efficiency and friendliness in healthcare has been governments’ objective for many years. However, migrating health records to electronic format is not sufficient.

yourEHRM offers a platform for enabling new generation of service-provider to patient relationships, where patients are actively involved in the control of their own healthcare.

It enables them to change from a re-active to a pro-active attitude. Availability and accessibility of information from anywhere at any time, as well as the improved management of health records, are great benefits for the whole society.

The existing EHRM solutions often have interoperability problems, since the different system components do not have a common nomenclature, data types, message syntax and encoding rules.

SolutionyourEHRM uses standards that enable medical information exchange. The solution is designed and developed with personalization of healthcare systems in mind, in which sensors and battery powered devices are easily integrated in order to produce the latest updates.

It also integrates the data from the heterogeneous and fragmented healthcare information systems and devices based on information models, which conform to common EHR standards.

yourEHRM solution is also able to manage core patient-specific data, data from hospital electronic management records (EMR), data from wearable mobile Body Area Network (BAN) sensors, etc.

This includes importing/exporting required hospital data, once a day, into a well-defined data model and abstraction integrator, receiving and processing bio-signals from the BAN system continuously, normalized to a common medical waveform format, etc. It also includes a visual interface that can be used by patients, to manage their data in the PHR.

BenefitsyourEHRM is a solution that reduces the risk of duplication of patient examinations, as it incorporates case history into the diagnosis, and allows to balance the assessment of patient’s overall conditions. It is based on open standards and contains a number of connectors to additional tools or functionalities from decision support tools to telemedicine sensor kit components.

yourEHRM

Carlos Cavero BarcaAsset Owner


DescriptionBased on its day-to-day activity, the research and innovation group of Atos has developed efficient working processes, methodologies, knowledge and collaborative tools that can be expanded for the benefit of customers.

From strategy to project management, from the generation of ideas to the identification of funding opportunities and selection of the right partners, from opportunities to results, our extensive experience enables us to provide reliable Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) support and consulting services.

Business ChallengeThe challenge is to improve the competitiveness of companies and / or public bodies through the integration of research, development and innovation activities in their operations. Research and innovation public programs support organizations in carrying out innovative projects.

However, not all organizations have the expertise or the abilities to manage this support properly. Furthermore, to remain competitive, businesses need to internationalize their knowledge or technology, entering projects that cannot be performed individually, but in cooperation with partners all over Europe and beyond.

SolutionThe research and innovation group of Atos offers support services that cover the whole cycle, from identification of funding sources and programs, to proposal preparation, including the establishment of partnerships.

Support services also include the negotiation of contracts, as well as the following administrative / financial management and technical coordination of funded projects.

Additional services are related to the innovation process and consider emerging technologies watch, ideas generation, innovation management, etc.

All those activities are supported by state-of-the-art methodologies and IT tools in order to offer efficient and skillful support.

BenefitsThe benefits for our customers are increased possibilities to start and undertake research and innovation activities. It also allows them to network and cooperate with key players in R&D&I (e.g. research institutes, universities, companies, etc.), which is an added value in view of the creation of partnerships, alliances and internationalization. Benefits can be summarized as follows:

► Be at the cutting edge of innovation.

► Access to and participation in R&D programs.

► Work in collaboration with organizations all over Europe.

► Gain competitiveness.

yourRDI Services

Lydia MontandonAsset Owner

Publications & Events


PublicationsResearch & Innovation 2012

PUBLICATION AUTHOR/S DETAILS

Data Integration for Clinical Decision Support Based on openEHR Archetypes and HL7 Virtual Medical Record

Carlos Marcos et al. ProHealth’12 / KR4HC’12 Proceedings - http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/events/prohealth_KR4HC_2012

Ubiquitous Tele-monitoring Kit (UTK): measuring physiological signals anywhere at anytime

Carlos Marcos, Carlos Cavero, Miriam Quintero et al.

UCAMI & IWAAL 2012 Proceedings - http://mami.uclm.es/ucami2012/

Medical Expert Support Tool (MEST): a person-centric approach for healthcare management

Carlos Cavero, Juan Mario Rodriguez, Rosana Valle et al.

ICOST 2012 Proceedings - http://www.conference-icost.org/index_2012.php

New Relations with Governments Improving access to eServices

Ana María Piñuela http://issue2.buildconnectgrow.net/en/connect Build Connect Grow - Cross Border Digital Public Services - Issue Nº 2 May 2012. The ‘Build, Connect, Grow’ WebZine is an initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT).

Rural Living Labs and e-Government for the reduction of administrative burdens. The five case studies of Rural Inclusion

F. Javier De Vicente; Mercedes Arjona

http://www.iseing.org/tgovwebsite/tGovWorkshop2012/CRC2012/CRC%206/t-Gov_Javier%... CD-ROM Proceedings (ISBN #: 978-1-908549-01-3) of the Transforming Government Workshop 2012 (tGov2012) Hosted by the Business School, Brunel University, London, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

“Broadening the Appeal of eID” Ana María Piñuela http://www.buildconnectgrow.net/en/build?load=build/infographics-build Build Connect Grow - Cross Border Digital Public Services - Issue Nº 3 September 2012. The ‘Build, Connect, Grow’ WebZine is an initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) published on a quarterly basis.

Co-Cities Nuria Rodríguez http://www.epractice.eu/en/cases/cocities Publication of an article on Co-Cities on the ePractice portal.

El proyecto Co-Cities pretende introducir la participación ciudadana para mejorar la información de tráfico y transportes.

Nuria Rodríguez http://www.esmartcity.es/noticiasDetalle.aspx?c=1&idm=5&id=5751 Press release in the eSmartCities.es portal.

Ontology Engineering in a Networked World Tomás Pariente Lobo, Germán Herrero Cárcel

Springer Integrating Product Information in the Pharmaceutical Sector, Tomás Pariente Lobo and Germán Herrero Cárcel, Chapter XX of the book Ontology Engineering in a Networked World, Springer 2012

Supporting Collaborative Improvement of Resources in the Khresmoi Health Information System

Iván Martínez, Miguel Angel Tiente et al.

Goeuriot, L.; Hanbury, A.; Jones, G. J. F.; Kelly, L.; Kriewel, S.; Rodriguez, I. M.; Müller, H. & Tinte, M. A. (2012), Supporting Collaborative Improvement of Resources in the Khresmoi Health Information System, in ‘Proceedings of the workshop on Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery (CRDD) at LREC’ .

Khresmoi – multimodal multilingual medical information search

Diana Pottecher, Iván Martinez, Miguel Angel Tinte, et al.

MIE 2012 MIE 2012, Village of the Future, Pisa, Italy

Ownership and governance models in collaborative IT projects – a whitepaper

Daniel Field http://www.scribd.com/doc/110190223 Presentation at the IOS collaboration event (26/09/2012) in Brussels, available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/110190223.

Identification of business models through value chain analysis: A method for the exploiting of large technology projects

Daniel Field http://www.scribd.com/doc/66408751 Daniel Field presented a whitepaper on Business modeling techniques at both the IOS Collaboration event (28 September 2011) in Brussels and at eChallenges (26 / 10 /2011) in Florence. The whitepaper is titled: Identification of business models through value chain analysis: A method for the exploiting of large technology projects and is available here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/66408751. He also co-chaired the exploitation workshop at that event.

The (PACT) Privacy & Security Research Paper Series

Alberto Crespo et al. Discussion Paper about the Theoretical Foundations of PACT, Summary of PACT deliverables D1.1 - D1.6 The Privacy & Security Research Paper Series. Issue 2. September 2012. Pages 14-20. Edited by Centre for Science, Society & Citizenship. Coedited by Uppsala University. ISSN 2279-7467, http://www.projectpact.eu/documents-1.

Security and Reliability Requirements for Advanced Security Event Management

Elsa Prieto et al. Link International Conference “Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Network Security” (MMM-ACNS-2012). St.Petersburg, October 2012. Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 7531.


PUBLICATION AUTHOR/S DETAILS

Challenges for Advanced Security Monitoring – The MASSIF project

Elsa Prieto, Rodrigo Diaz et al.

website 9th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2012). Vienna, September 2012. Springer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 7449, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32287-7

Interlinking National Tsunami Early Warning Systems towards ocean-wide-system-of-systems networks

Miguel Ángel Esbrí et al. Lendholt, M.; Esbri, M. A.; Hammitzsch, M. Interlinking National Tsunami Early Warning Systems towards ocean-wide-system-of-systems networks. In: Proceedings Ed.: Rothkrantz, J.; Ristvej, J.; Franco, Z. 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management - ISCRAM (Vancouver, Canada, 2012) 2012. 1-10 p.

User interface prototype for geospatial early warning systems – a tsunami showcase

Miguel Ángel Esbrí et al. Paper, Supplement Hammitzsch, M., Lendholt, M., and Esbrí, M. Á.: User interface prototype for geospatial early warning systems – a tsunami showcase, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 555-573, doi:10.5194/nhess-12-555-2012, 2012.

A hazard-independent approach for the standardised multi-channel dissemination of warning messages

Miguel Ángel Esbrí et al. Abstract Esbrí, M. A., Hammitzsch, M., and Lendholt, M.: A hazard-independent approach for the standardised multi-channel dissemination of warning messages, in: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22–27 April 2012, Geophys. Res. Abstr., EGU2012-10014, EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 2012.

A communication model for interlinking national tsunami early warning systems

Miguel Ángel Esbrí et al. Abstract, Poster Presentation Lendholt, M.; Hammitzsch, M.; Esbri Palomares, M. A. A communication model for interlinking national tsunami early warning systems General Assembly European Geosciences Union (Vienna, Austria 2012) 2012. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, EGU2012-2827-1, 2012

Privacy-preserving Identity Management in SEMIRAMIS

Charles Bastos, Rubén Torres, Aljosa Pasic et al.

Annual Privacy Forum 2012 Conference : The Annual Privacy Forum 2012

Towards an environmental observation Web. Future Internet research project ENVIROFI

Jose Lorenzo EURESCOM mess@ge 1/2012 EURESCOM mess@ge 1/2012. Towards an environmental observation Web. Future Internet research project ENVIROFI

OpenNode: A Smart Secondary Substation Node and its Integration in a Distribution Grid of the Future

M. Alberto, R. Soriano et al. FedCSIS 2012 FedCSIS 2012. Proceedings of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems pp. 1277–1284. ISBN 978-83-60810-51-4

DER and OpenNode: integration of DG in an open architecture for secondary nodes in the smart grid

J. Aguiar et al., J. Götz et al. CIRED 2012 CIRED 2012 Workshop proceedings, Lisbon 29-30 May 2012

SLA-based management of software licenses as web service resources in distributed computing infrastructures

Francesco D’Andria, Josep Martrat, David García

Future Generation Computer Systems, vol 28, Nr. 1, pp 66-77, 2012

Adopting Rule-based Executions in SOA-oriented Remote Patient Monitoring Platform with an Alarm and Alert Subsystem

Ivo Ramos, Carlos Cavero, Manuel Pérez, Lydia Montandon et al.

MobiHealth 2012 Mobihealth 2012, Paris, France.

A Vision and Strategy for Technology Enhanced Learning

Lydia Montandon, Carmen Padrón et al.

Report from the STELLAR Network of Excellence

MODACLOUDS, A Model-Driven Approach for the Design and Execution of Applications on Multiple Clouds

Francesco D’Andria MiSE 2012 Workshops Proceedings. Danilo: D. Ardagna, E. Di Nitto, D. Petcu, P. Mohagheghi, S. Mosser, P. Matthews, A. Gericke, C. Ballagny, F. D’Andria, C.

OPTIMIS: A holistic approach to cloud service provisioning, Future Generation Computer Systems

Ana Juan Ferrer et al. In collaboration with: Francisco Hernández, Johan Tordsson, Erik Elmroth, Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Csilla Zsigri, Raül Sirvent, Jordi Guitart, Rosa M. Badia, Karim

European Research Activities in Cloud Computing (chapter)

Francesco D’Andria and Ilknur Chulani

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, March 2012 Editors: Dana Petcu and Jose Luis Vasquez Poletti

BonFIRE: A Multi-cloud Test Facility for Internet of Services Experimentation

David García-Pérez, Alastair C. Hume, Yahya Al-Hazmi, Bartosz Belter, Konrad Campowsky, Luis M. Carril, Gino Carrozzo, Vegard Engen

http://www.tridentcom.org/2012/ TridentCom 2012 . Thessaloniki, Greece, 11-13 June 2012


EventsResearch & Innovation 2012

EVENT PRESENTATION TITLE SPEAKER/S VENUE DATE

4th EU-Japan Symposium on the “New Generation Network” and the “Future Internet”

Cloud Infrastructures for Smart Scenarios Jesus Gorroñogoitia TKP Tokyo eki Yaesu Conference Center, Japan

Jan

EuroGEOSS Conference, “advancing the vision of GEOSS”

EO2HEAVEN. Earth Observation and ENVironmental modelling for the mitigation of HEAlth risks

Angel Palomares Madrid, Spain Jan

Cloudscape IV - Advances on Interoperability and Cloud Computing Standards conference

Organization of the event in the context of SIENA project

Josep Martrat, James Ahtes Brussels, Belgium Feb

The European eID Interoperability Concepts and Compliance Conference Cross-border service provision supporting national eIDs

Secure management of information across multiple stakeholders

Aljosa Pasic Biel, Switzerland Mar

INnovautas 2012 Cómo se instaló el sistema de alerta temprana de tsunamis en Indonesia

José María Cavanillas Madrid, Spain Mar

Intertraffic 2012 Co-Cities Booth Nuria Rodriguez, Katja Sonnhalter

Amsterdam, Netherlands Mar

EOS High Level Security Roundtable Contributions to the roundtable discussion Aljosa Pasic Brussels, Belgium Mar

The European eID Interoperability Concepts and Compliance Conference

Secure management of information across multiple stakeholders

Aljosa Pasic Biel, Switzerland Mar

Cyber Security & Privacy EU Forum Management of Security Information and events in Service Infrastructures (MASSIF)

Aljosa Pasic, Elsa Prieto, Fernando Kraus

Berlin, Germany Apr

European Identity & Cloud Conference Providing and Maintaining a Secure Cloud Infrastructure - from Planning to Administration

Aljosa Pasic Munich, Germany Apr

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2012

A hazard-independent approach for the standardised multi-channel dissemination of warning messages

Miguel Ángel Esbrí Vienna, Austria Apr

T-Gov workshop 2012. Transforming Government 2012 - Enabling citizen participation, social inclusion & democracy through electronic systems

Rural Living Labs and e-Government for the Reduction of Administrative Burdens: The Five Case Studies of Rural Inclusion

Francisco Javier De-Vicente & Mercedes Arjona

BRUNEL BUSINESS SCHOOL Uxbridge, UK

May

Encuentro de Socios Estratégicos (ESS2012) ImmigrationPolicy2.0 booth Nuria Rodríguez Madrid, Spain May

The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) The BonFIRE multi-site Cloud prototype facility”.

Josep Martrat Aalborg, Denmark May

2nd Technical Validation Meeting of the CIP ICT-PSP Large Scale Pilots

Integrating the STORK Building Block Alberto Crespo & Szymon Rudolf

Brussels, Belgium May

BrightTalk Private & Hybrid Cloud Summit – Making Hybrid Cloud a Reality

BrightTalk Webinar – Business and Technical Audiences

Ana Juan Online May

6th GEO European Projects’ Workshop (GEPW-6) Overview of the EO2HEAVEN contribution to GEOSS

Jose Lorenzo Rome, Italy May

BrightTalk Webinar “Making Hybrid Clouds a Reality” Ana Juan Webinar May

Future Internet Week (FIA) ENVIROFI at FI Week in Aalborg Antonio Oliván Aalborg, Denmark May

Atos Internal Workshop Optimis features presentation to all the CTO’s of the Global Managed Services Corporate Division

Ana Juan Barcelona, Spain May

Atos Internal Workshop with the Global Industry Business Solutions

Atos Internal Workshop with the Global Industry Business Solutions , Vice President Cloud Services to present them the OPTIMIS project progress and to establish more collaboration paths for Cloud services using Optimis outcomes.

Ana Juan Barcelona, Spain May

GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP5) kickoff EO2HEAVEN response to AIP5: Health thread

Angel Palomares Geneva, Switzerland May


EVENT PRESENTATION TITLE SPEAKER/S VENUE DATE

+Spaces Final Conference. Policy Simulation in Virtual Spaces

Spaces Exploitation concepts, Synergy between Rural Inclusion and +Spaces

Francisco Javier De-Vicente & Mercedes Arjona

Hellenic Parliament, Athens, Greece.

Jun

NATO TechWatch Day Cybersecurity yourCysec (MASSIF) presentation Aljosa Pasic Den Haag, NL Jun

Lanzamiento de actividades piloto IMP2.0 en Madrid ImmigrationPolicy2.0 Nuria Rodríguez Dirección General de Inmigración de la Comunidad Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Jun

SmartAgrimatics Smart Food Awareness David Quesada Paris, France Jun

The European Identity Management Conference 2012 SEMIRAMIS General Presentation Charles Bastos Paris, France Jun

The European Identity Management Conference 2012 IDM Solutions - Secure Attribute Management (yourSAM)

Alberto Crespo Paris, France Jun

ICOST 2012 - 10th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics

Medical Expert Support Tool (MEST): a person-centric approach for healthcare management

Carlos Cavero Artimino (Florence), Italy Jun

PACT Project Launching Conference Security and Technology. Alberto Crespo European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium.

Jun

The European Identity Management Conference 2012 e-Identity Landscape and Atos Solutions: Road to 2020

Aljosa Pasic Paris, France Jun

EC-TEL 2012 Conference “Lessons learnt supporting accessibility and personalization in Distance, Open and Flexible Education”. ATOS Booth at Industrial Exhibition

Carmen Luisa Padrón Saarbrucken, Germany Sep

¿Cómo promover la participación en las políticas migratorias de la UE?

ImmigrationPolicy2.0 Nuria Rodríguez CEPI Hispano-Ecuatoriano, Madrid, Spain

Sep

Global Key Offering ISRM Summit Presentation of yourCYSEC Aljosa Pasic Atos UK, London, UK Oct

Open World Forum ALERT in Open World Forum 2012 Clara Pezuela, Oliver Barreto

Paris, France Oct

The Annual Privacy Forum 2012 Privacy-preserving Identity Management in SEMIRAMIS

Aljosa Pasic Limassol, Cyprus Oct

IoS Collaboration BonFire Project Daniel Field Oct

ITS World Congress Co-Cities Booth Katja Sonnhalter Vienna, Austria Oct

Smart City Expo World Congress “Co-Cities: Validate smart mobility services” ATOS Booth at the exhibition

Antonio Paradell Barcelona, Spain Nov

Taller Informativo sobre Procedimientos de Extranjería ImmigrationPolicy2.0 Nuria Rodríguez CEPI Hispano-Paraguayo, Madrid, Spain

Nov

Online Educa Berlin Conference ATOS co-organized the workshop Societal challenges, policy priorities, and Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL): proposing a TEL research “relevance test”

Carmen Luisa Padrón Berlin, Germany Nov

Internet del futuro para las ciudades del siglo XXI, Fundación Zaragoza Ciudad del Conocimiento

How can Future Internet enable Smart Energy?

Martín Nicolai Wagner Zaragoza, Spain Nov

“Europeone” e-Government Ministerial Conference 2012 From interoperable eID to BIG Business Jose María Cavanillas Larnaca, Cyprus Dec

Taller Informativo sobre Procedimientos de Extranjería ImmigrationPolicy2.0 Nuria Rodríguez CEPI Hispano-CentroAmericano, Madrid, Spain

Dec

UCAMI & IWAAL 2012 – 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence and 4th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living

Ubiquitous Tele-monitoring Kit (UTK): measuring physiological signals anywhere at anytime

Carlos Cavero Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Dec


Platforms, Associations and other Initiatives

IntroductionEven though most Public Bodies carry out public and private consultations to elaborate their research programmes, in the last years there has been an industry-led movement aiming at better coordinating and defining research areas and instruments, both at European and National levels. The main benefit of these initiatives is that industrial partners, including SMEs (in many cases also academia and research centres), discuss which are the main priorities for the sector in terms of R&D and provide this input to the related funding organisations, thus, ensuring a greater impact of the programmes. The main characteristics of these initiatives are that they are well organised, with mechanisms for open participation and represent a critical mass of stakeholders with a unique voice. Therefore, they are considered the natural interface to interact with a specific industry or sector.

Nowadays the spectrum of initiatives is quite vast in terms of both thematic areas and instruments. From an instrument point of view we can distinguish ETP (European Technology Platforms), JTI (Joint Technology Initiatives), SET-Plan (Strategic Energy Technology Plan), Lead Market Initiatives and PPP (Public Private Partnerships).

From the viewpoint of research areas, we depict hereafter a brief classification of the contents currently covered by ETP, JTI and PPP. It is by no means a complete list, but a selection of some relevant initiatives for Atos, where the Research & Innovation group plays a major role.

Analysis of initiatives and Atos involvementETPs can be classified as follows. Atos has focused its efforts so far in those platforms that fall under the ICT domain, specifically NESSI, NEM, eMobility (now renamed as Net!Works), ARTEMIS (see JTI section) and the PPPs, with special emphasis in the Future Internet PPP. Nevertheless, we are devoting more effort in other initiatives that work on specific application domains or business areas with the aim of developing technologies that serve the interests of our customers and therefore ensure a better alignment between solutions and needs, or said in a different way, between supply and demand.

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Nuria De-LamaRepresentative to the European Commission


Energy ICT Bio-based economy

Production and processes Transport

Biofuels ARTEMIS FABRE TP ECTP ACARE

SmartGrids ENIAC Food ESTEP ERRAC

TPWind ISI GAH ETP SMR ERTRAC

Photovoltaics eMobility NanoMedicine Manufuture Waterborne

ZEP NEM Plants FTC ESTP

SNETP NESSI Forestry WSSTP

EUROP SusChem

EPoSS EuMaT

Photonics21 Industrial Safety

ATOS positioning


Public Private Partnerships (PPP)The European Commission launched at the end of 2010 a Recovery Plan aiming at fostering the competiveness of the European Industry in several domains. As part of this plan four initiatives, called PPPs (Public Private Partnerships), have worked intensively along 2011 with the support of the European Commission and a clear industrial leadership: E2B (Energy Efficient Buildings), FoF (Factories of the Future), GC (Green Cars) and FI (Future Internet).Even though Atos participates in projects in all of them, a sustainable and relevant investment has been made in the Future Internet PPP and that is why this document focuses mainly on the work and achievements of Atos in that field.

The Future Internet PPP

Atos has a major involvement in the Future Internet PPP, both in terms of project participation and as part of the governance structures. With respect to decision-making bodies, Atos is currently member of the Architecture Board (body that revises and follows the technical progress of the PPP) and the Steering Board (body in charge of the strategic vision and decisions on the overall program). In terms of projects, we provide below a brief description of those initiatives that resulted from Phase I where Atos plays a major role..

DescriptionThe goal of the FI-WARE project is to advance the global competitiveness of the EU economy by introducing an innovative infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of services, providing high QoS and security guarantees. FI-WARE is designed to meet the demands of key market stakeholders across many different sectors, e.g., healthcare, telecommunications, and environmental services. The project unites major European industrial actors in an unique effort never seen before.

The key deliverables of FI-WARE will deliver an open architecture and implementation of a novel service infrastructure, building upon generic and reusable building blocks developed in earlier research projects. This infrastructure will support emerging Future Internet (FI) services in multiple Usage Areas, and will exhibit significant and quantifiable improvements in the productivity, reliability and cost of service development and delivery – building a true foundation for the Future Internet..

From an architectural perspective, FI-WARE is based on the following main foundations:

► Service Delivery Framework – the infrastructure to create, publish, manage and consume FI services across their life cycle, addressing all technical and business aspects.

► Cloud Hosting – the fundamental layer which provides the computation, storage and network resources, upon which services are provisioned and managed.

► Support Services – the facilities for effective accessing, processing, and analyzing massive streams of data, and semantically classifying them into valuable knowledge.

► IoT Services Enablement – the bridge whereby FI services interface the Internet of Things through heterogeneous, resource-constrained and ubiquitous devices.

► Interface to the Network and Devices – the open interfaces to networks and devices, harmonizing the connectivity needs of services built on top of the platform.

► Security – the mechanisms which ensure that the delivery and usage of services is trustworthy and meets security and privacy requirements.

FI-WAREFuture Internet Ware

www.fi-ware.eu

In 2012, FI-WARE delivered the Architecture, the Technical Roadmap, and the Open Specifications of all the Generic Enablers (GE) and the Testbed. Many implementations of these GE are also available in the FI-WARE catalogue together with their terms and conditions. FI-WARE has greatly increased the interaction with Use Case projects and some proofs of concept can show where the technology developed by FI-WARE has demonstrated to be solid and useful for the purpose of sectorial projects. In 2013, FI-WARE will reach one of its major milestones, the launch of the FI-WARE Open Innovation Lab and Innovation ecosystem where the technology will be open, accessible and available to any third party.

Atos is the leader of Impact-related activities in FI-WARE (coordinator of the Exploitation of project results and contributions to policy, regulation as well as market awareness). Atos contributes technically to the following chapters of the project: Trust & security, Data and Context Management, Internet of Things, Service Delivery Framework and development tools.


1 However GMES is being implemented not as a JTI but through an agreement with ESA and research grants, on the basis of a decision taken after the launch of the FP.

DescriptionThe SmartAgriFood project addresses farming, agri-logistics and food awareness as an extreme use case for the Future Internet. The intelligence, efficiency, sustainability and performance of the agri-food sector can be radically enhanced by using information and decision support systems that are tightly integrated with advanced internet-based networks and services. Concurrently, the sector provides extremely demanding use cases for Future Internet design from the physical layer all the way up to the service layer. This project focuses on three sub systems of the sector - smart farming, focus-sing on sensors and traceability; smart agri-logistics, focusing on real-time virtualization, connectivity and logistics intelligence; and smart food awareness, focusing on transparency of data and knowledge representation. Using a user-centered methodology, the use case specification will be developed with a particular focus on transparency and interoperability of data and knowledge across the food supply chain. Results from the project will include:

► Use Case descriptions for smart farming, including sophisticated and robust

broadband sensing and monitoring of animals and plants.

► Use Case descriptions for smart agri-logistics, including intelligent transport and real-time logistics of agri-food products.

► Use Case descriptions of smart food awareness, focusing enabling the consumer with information concerning safety, health, environmental impact and animal welfare.

► Identification of generic requirements for the generic enablers Extensive community and user organization involvement both in requirements gathering, pilot demonstration, and evaluation.

► Specification of interfaces and functionalities for integration to Core Platform.

► Significant contributions to standardization and regulatory bodies in Europe.

The key features of the SmartAgriFood concepts will be demonstrated and verified by simulations and experimental systems within this project and by large scale demonstrations in phase 2.

SmartAgrifoodSmart Food and Agribusiness: Future Internet for Safe and Healthy Food from Farm to Fork

Atos is the interface between SmartAgriFood and FI-WARE (Core Platform), playing an important role in the technical conception of the architecture. From a business point of view, major efforts of Atos are devoted to the scenario on Food awareness, which involves consumers..

www.smartagrifood.eu

DescriptionThe ENVIROFI project addresses the Future Internet usage area of environmental observation services. State and future development of environment is critically important for crisis management, urban planning, traffic, e-health, and other areas. Various environmental communities generate huge amounts of environmental observation data (including spatial and temporal context, units, uncertainties, etc.). This data has to be harmonized, provided with, exchanged between stakeholders and processed - often in real time.

ENVIROFI shall explore the advanced needs of environmental stakeholder communities for global, decentralized, interactive, and dynamic Internet-enabled geospatial infrastructures integrating data, services, and models from governments, researchers, and the private sector into an Environmental Observation Web.

This Observation Web shall allow all participants to plug in their own use cases and experiment using a large variety of components in a Digital Living Lab.

Realizing this vision using current Internet technology would be at best impractical, due to inherent limitations on reliable and timely discovery and delivery of information. Thus, ENVIROFI aims to consolidate the FI-relevant requirements from the Environmental Usage Area, while at the same time ENVIROFI-ying the Future Internet, i.e. providing specifications, prototypes, documentation and an open testbed for geospatial “FI Environmental Enablers”.

By doing so, ENVIROFI will bridge the gap between the FI community and the environmental stakeholder communities, and prepare the stage for large-scale trials and the FI-enabled Living Lab for the Environmental Usage Area in Europe.

ENVIROFIThe Environmental Observation Web and its Service Applications within the Future Internet

www.envirofi.eu

The ENVIROFI consortium addresses innovation and growth in industrial setting, leveraging investments on research and ICT infrastructures to create jobs, green growth and social progress by bringing together the key FI players, users, as well as leading researchers and ICT providers from the Environmental Usage Area.

Atos is the coordinator of ENVIROFI and defines the strategy of the project at all levels in collabo-ration with the project partners and contributes to its implementation.


DescriptionThe energy sector has entered a period of major change which will continue for many years to come. The increasing proportion of electricity from renewable sources means that the architecture of the energy grid will have to support the distributed in addition to the centralized generation of energy and to adapt to a highly volatile supply e.g. from wind and solar generators. On the consumption side electric vehicles will demand new load management patterns in the grids. At the same time, private and commercial consumers are being encouraged to reduce their energy use and electronics manufacturers are striving to reduce the energy use of their products. The energy supply will need to evolve into a dynamic system to provide the smart energy infrastructure needed to support society in2020 and beyond.

Future Internet technologies will play a critical role in the development of Smart Energy Systems, enabling new functionality while reducing costs. In the FINSENY project, key actors from the ICT and energy sectors will team-up to identify the ICT requirements of Smart Energy Systems. This will lead to the definition of new Future Internet technologies, solutions and standards, verified in a large scale pan-European Smart Energy pilot later on. Project results will contribute to the emergence of a sustainable Smart Energy infrastructure, based on new products and services, to the benefit of all European citizens and the environment.

As part of the FI-PPP program, FINSENY will intensively analyze energy-specific requirements together with the other FI-PPP projects, develop solutions to address these requirements, and prepare for a Smart Energy pilot in phase two of the program. The growing Smart Grid Stakeholder Group will provide broad visibility of the on-going FINSENY project work in the energy community, enhancing the acceptability of the project results and facilitating the development of the smart energy market.

FINSENYFuture INternet for Smart ENergY

Atos wants to intensify its research activities in the Smart Grids domain with special emphasis on satisfying innovation through the use of Future Internet technologies. We firmly believe that this project will give as a result valuable assets for our customers in the Energy sector..

www.fi-ppp-finseny.eu

DescriptionThe goal of OUTSMART is to contribute to the Future Internet (FI) by aiming at the development of five innovation eco-systems. These eco-systems facilitate the creation of a large variety of pilot services and technologies that contribute to optimized supply and access to services and resources in urban areas. This will contribute to more sustainable utility provision and, through increased efficiency, lower strain on resources and on the environment.

Reaching this goal requires the whole value chain, namely city authorities, utilities operators, ICT companies as well as knowledge institutions in order to have an industry driven approach when developing advanced services and technologies. OUTSMART services and technologies will be based on an open and standardized infrastructure as envisioned by the FI Private Public Partnership (FI PPP) and provided by a service framework designed to facilitate provisioning, development and access. To this extend, OUTSMART will:

► Deliver a set of detailed functional and non-functional requirements for an FI

enabler platform and corresponding business framework able to support the above described eco-systems based on a deep analysis of the different domain specific use cases in the utility and environment application domain.

► Provide a specification of the domain specific enabler functionality with corresponding service interfaces compatible and aligned with Core Platform components to be specified alongside this project effort.

► Provide prototypes of domain specific functionality for the envisioned ecosystem according to the previous specification and a validation thereof in early field trials in the envisioned use cases; (4) deliver a business framework specification which serves as blue print for the foreseen local eco-systems able to provide their sustainability beyond the PPP funding lifetime by creating favorable conditions for local investment and innovation; and (5) deliver a detailed plan for pilot services in the envisioned local eco-systems, which act as initial lighthouse show cases for Europe in the utility and environment applications domain.

OUTSMARTUrban smart services and business models enabled by the Future Internet

www.fi-ppp-outsmart.eu

Atos contributes to this project with its expertise in the Internet-of-Things domain. The technical contributions envisaged in the project are aligned with our strategy on Smart Cities, which is one of the domains where Atos expects major growth in terms of technology testing, technology deployment and impact in the next years.

Through this portfolio of projects, Atos becomes a leading partner in the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership, paving the way towards a new generation of Internet technologies that will contribute to the European competitiveness of the ICT sector as well as many others (transport, smart cities, agrifood, logistics, environment, energy….), which every time depend more and build their added-value assets on top of ICTs.

Further information on the Future Internet Public Private Partnership can be found at www.fi-ppp.eu.


Net!Works (ETP)Communications networks and services

DescriptionNet!Works (former e-Mobility) is the European Technology Platform for communications networks and services. Communications networks enable interaction between users of various types of equipment, either mobile (e.g. mobile phones) or fixed (e.g. PCs) and therefore they can be considered the foundation of the Internet. The Net!Works European Technology Platform gathers more than 700 players of the communications networks sector: industry leaders, innovative SMEs, and leading academic institutions.

Role of Atos OriginAtos became member of the Net!Works Steering Board in 2011 and is actively contributing to the activities of the Platform, reflecting the intentions of increasing our research weight in the Telecom sector, as a natural step taking into consideration that Atos is one of the major players in that area worldwide.

www.networks-etp.eu

NESSI (ETP)Networked European Software & Services Initiative

DescriptionNESSI is the ETP that represents and supports the interests of the European Software and Services industry. NESSI has 440 members that include 222 members from industry of which 126 are SME, 204 members from Academia and 14 users.

Role of Atos OriginAtos is one of the founder members of NESSI and has been until recently Vice-President of the initiative. As such, Atos has actively contributed to the NESSI Board and the Steering Committee. Atos participates in many of the activities of the ETP, including the SRA elaboration and the National Initiatives coordination, where Atos was holding the chairmanship. Some projects that have contributed to the development of the initiative are SOA4All, MASTER, BONFIRE, Aniketos or Qualipso. Nowadays Atos follows closely the initiative and collaborates with them in relevant white papers (cloud, Big Data)..

www.nessi-europe.com

NEM (ETP)Networked and Electronic Media

DescriptionNEM addresses the convergence of media, communications, consumer electronics, and IT as a wide opportunity for future growth, by taking advantage of generalized broadband access, increased mobility, availability of richer media formats and contents, as well as new home networks and communications platforms.

Role of Atos OriginAtos is member of the General Assembly but also representative of the NEM Steering Board. As such, Atos has contributed to the elaboration of some of the papers and main documents of the ETP, such as the SRA. Atos is member and coordinator of some of the most relevant projects in the Media area of ICT, representing some of the challenges pointed out by NEM..

www.nem-initiative.org


Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI)JTIs are a means to implement the Strategic Research Agendas (SRAs) of a limited number of ETPs. There are currently 6 initiatives under this umbrella:

► “Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)”

► “Embedded Computing Systems(ARTEMIS)”

► “Aeronautics and Air Transport (Clean Sky)”

► “Nanoelectronics Technologies 2020(ENIAC)”

► “Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Initiative (FCH)”

► “Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)”1 As previously mentioned, Atos has collaborated so far in some of the activities related to ARTEMIS, even though no action has been performed with respect to membership”

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DescriptionThe vision of ARTEMIS is that embedded systems will realize the dream of ambient intelligence, in which intelligent support for people will be embedded in everyday objects. While ARTEMIS is the name of the ETP/JTI, ARTEMISIA is the ARTEMIS Industry Association (ARTEMIS-IA). It was founded in January 2007by Daimler, Nokia, Philips, ST Microelectronics, and Thales to support the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking (ARTEMIS-JU) and to continue the work of the ARTEMIS European Technology Platform.

Role of Atos Atos has contributed to some of the documents created by the initiative. Some resulting projects of this work are CHESS, eDIANA, ASTUTE, Encourage, or Chiron, to name a few.

ARTEMIS (JTI) ARTEMISIAARTEMIS (Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems). ARTEMISIA (The Association for R&D actors in Embedded Systems).

www.artemis-ia.eu


Atos is an active player in many other initiatives that have not been included because this section would become too long. For anyone interested in the complete spectrum of Atos positioning in Europe, get in contact with us ([email protected]).

At national level, Atos belongs to the following Technology Platforms, which in most cases are a replica of the European ones:

► es.Internet: Spanish Technological platform for the Future Internet http:// www.idi.aetic.es/esinternet/es/Inicio/ contenido.aspx

► INES: Spanish Platform for Software and Services, http://www.ines.org.es

► eISI: Spanish implementation of the ISI platform, http://www.idi.aetic.es/eisi/

► eMOV: Platform for wireless technologies, http://www.idi.aetic.es/emov/

► eSEC: Spanish Security platform, http://www.idi.aetic.es/esec/

► PROMETEO: Platform for embedded systems, http://www.prometeo-office.org

► LOGISTOP: Spanish Platform for Logistics, http://www.logistop.org/public/ default.htm

► eVIA: Platform for independent living and accessibility, http://www.evia.org.es/

► eNEM: Spanish implementation of NEM, http://www.idi.aetic.es/enem/

► NanoMed Spain: Spanish implementation of NanoMed, http://www.nanomedspain.net/

► PTFE: Spanish Railways Technological Platform, http://www.ptferroviaria.es

► From these, it is worth highlighting: INES, where the work of several sectors and labs of the Research & Innovation group finds a natural integration place and whose Presidency has been held by Atos since its creation, as well as ES.INTERNET, where Atos is Vice-President, together with INDRA and UPM.

At the moment of publishing this report, some of the National Platforms are suffering transition processes. The most relevant one relates to INES, so far chaired by Atos.

INES, the Spanish initiative for Software and Services (ines.org.es) is merging with other two national platforms (PROMETEO, embedded systems, and GENESIS, micro-nanotecnology) into unique technology platform called PLANETIC. This new platform is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and it is in the process of redefining all the governance and operative procedures. Atos keeps the secretary of the resulting platform and is part of the Executive Board. Presidency is still to be decided

National Technology Platforms

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