Ecoinformatics in « ICT for Sustainable Growth »
Prepared by: Dr. Márta Nagy-Rothengass Head of Unit ICT for Sustainable Growth,
DG Information Society and Media, European CommissionTalk given by P. Haastrup, European Commission, JRC
Ecoinformatics 2008
OverviewOverview
ICT for Sustainable Growth:
• … means
• Domains of activity
• Community Instruments• Reasearch (FPs)• Deployment (CIP: ICT PSP)
• Conclusion
ICT for Sustainable Growth means...ICT for Sustainable Growth means...
EnvironmentalManagement
Disaster and RiskManagement
Energy Efficiency
ICT for Sustainable urban development
EU Sustainable Development Strategy and the EU Lisbon Strategy
Research and Development + Competitiveness and Innovation funding programmes
ICT is part of the problem … … and part of the solution
• ICT should not only reduce its own footprint…
• ICT can also help to reduce the footprint of all other sectors/activities• Sustainable consumption and production
• Better monitoring and management of the environment
• Better preparedness, mitigation, adaptation to climate change, environmental threats, and disasters
• Extension of independent living, improved healthcare systems, Clean mobility,
• Moreover, by increasing awareness, it will be instrumental to change consumers’ behaviour
Domain of activity – 1ICT for Energy efficiency
Priority areas:
• ICT in the Energy Mix and Security of Supply
• ICT for better Energy Efficiency• Distributed Generation• Buildings and Homes• Industrial and Business processes
• Environmental/ climate impact
• Vision of ICT contributing to a cleaner, safer and healthier global environment
• Focus on unsustainable trends in Europe:• Degraded environment• Exposure to diverse pollutants• Exposure to ever more frequent disasters
• Targets a consolidated European capacity of mastering, predicting and managing the environment and its resources, making use of ICT that interoperate in a Single Information Space for the Environment in Europe (SISE)
• Urban environment earmarked as a possible priority test bed
Domain of activity - 2ICT for Environmental Sustainability
• INSPIREINSPIREEC Directive establishing an infrastructure EC Directive establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the Communityfor spatial information in the Community
• GMESGMESEC-ESA initiative for the Global Monitoring EC-ESA initiative for the Global Monitoring of the Environment and Securityof the Environment and Security
• GEOGEORecent intergovernmental partnership Recent intergovernmental partnership of 70 Nations to build GEOSS, the Global of 70 Nations to build GEOSS, the Global Earth Observation System of SystemsEarth Observation System of Systems
Contributing technical interoperability to ongoing policy initiatives
Domain of activity - 3 ICT* for Disaster & Emergency Management
Response•Dispatching of resources•Emergency telecom•Situational awareness•Command control coordination•Information dissemination•Emergency healthcare
Disaster Management CyclePrevention and Mitigation•Hazard prediction and modeling•Risk assessment and mapping•Spatial Planning•Structural & non structural measures•Public Awareness & Education..
Preparedness •Scenarios development•Emergency Planning•Training
Alert•Real time monitoring & forecasting•Early warning•Secure &dependable telecom•Scenario identification• all media alarm
Post Disaster•Lessons learnt •Scenario update•Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment•Spatial (re)planning
Recovery•Early damage assessment•Re-establishing life-lines transport &communication infrastructure
Sustainable growthSustainable growthA panoply of converging instrumentsA panoply of converging instruments
• To devise and implement adequate European policies
• To support RTD on next generation of ICTs contributing to sustainable growth
• To raise awareness and deploy ICT-based solutions for environmental sustainability
AN OVERALL STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNITY ACTION
Building upon FP6 researchBuilding upon FP6 researchin ICT for Disaster Management in ICT for Disaster Management
Three calls in 2003, 2005 and 2006
• In-situ monitoring and smart sensor networks• Risk information infrastructure and generic services• Public safety communication, alert systems and rapidly
deployable emergency telecommunications systems• Emergency management and rescue operations• Distributed tsunami early warning and
alert system (Europe & Indian Ocean)• Humanitarian demining
Projects will deliver in 2007-2010
FP6 project clusters FP6 project clusters
EU-FIREAcoustic sensorEU-FIRE
Acoustic sensor
OASISOperations, C3
OASISOperations, C3
ORCHESTRAArchitecture ontologies
ORCHESTRAArchitecture ontologies
CHORISTemergency
communications
CHORISTemergency
communications
WINInformation
services
WINInformation
services
SANYIn-situ monitoring
SANYIn-situ monitoring
OSIRIScrisis monitoring
OSIRIScrisis monitoring
WISECOMsatcom
WISECOMsatcom
U2010PSC& IPv6U2010
PSC& IPv6
DyvineVisual sensorsDyvine
Visual sensors
InterRiskMarine risks
InterRiskMarine risks
WINSOCadvanced sensorsWINSOC
advanced sensors
SCIERSensor fusionSCIER
Sensor fusion
STARRSSearch& rescueSTARRS
Search& rescue
StreamHumanitarian Stream
Humanitarian
Sensor network basedMONITORING SYSTEMS
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
EMERGENY AND RISK TELECOM
Command ControlCoordination
EUROPCOMUWB
EUROPCOMUWB
MITRAtransportMITRA
transport
INTAMAPAutomated mapping INTAMAP
Automated mapping
ERMAAlert
ERMAAlert
EuritrackIllicit traffickingEuritrack
Illicit trafficking
WarmerWater monitoringWarmer
Water monitoring
DEWSTsunami
DEWSTsunami
NARTUSPublic Safety Forum
NARTUSPublic Safety Forum
ICT for Environmental ManagementICT for Environmental Management Expected Outcome I
a) Collaborative systems for environmental management• From monitoring to reporting, management, alert and response• Enhanced capacity to assess population exposure and health risk• Generic solutions with typical validation focus on water and air• Visionary concepts, as well as evolutionary integrated systems
Funding schemes: IP and STREPS
WORK
PROGRAMME
2007-2008
ICT for Environmental Management Expected Outcome II
b) Coordination and Support Actions• Adoption of common open architectures
(INSPIRE, GMES, GEOSS)• ICT research for risk reduction and
disaster and emergency management• Building the European Research Area in
the field of ICT for environmental sustainability
e) Specific International Cooperation Action
• ICT for environmental disaster reduction and management• Development and interoperability of
rapidly deployable ICT-based solutions • Assessment of natural hazards
and communities vulnerability• For public warnings and
emergency management
Funding scheme: CSA
Funding schemes: STREP/SICA, CSA
WORK
PROGRAMME
2007-2008
Towards future research needsTowards future research needs
Flexible chaining of distributed environmental services• Methods and protocols for service discovery and chaining• Automatic data and services quality control• Semantics and ontology services• Chaining of models, predictive tools• On-demand distributed geo-processing• Interactive, Web-based 3D analysis and visualisation tools
Smart wireless monitoring networks• Sensor Web• Portable sensors• Massive deployment of low cost miniaturised sensors
...
Conclusion Conclusion
Cooperation in Eco-informatics
• Very ambitious goals and challenges
• Need to ensure interoperability worldwide
• Common research topics
• Exchange of best practices
• Supporting links between “project clusters”
• Standardisation, SDI
• ….
WG Eco-informatics
Further Information & ContactFurther Information & Contact
• DG INFSO Unit “ICT for Sustainable Growth”Email: INFSO–[email protected]://ec.europa.eu/information-society/activities/sustainable-growth
• Home page of the i2010 initiative:http://ec.europa.eu/information-society/eeurope/i2010/index-en.htm
• FP7 ICT• home page on CORDIS (including the Work Programme 2007-2008)http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/• Registration as an expert:https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/index.cfm?fuseaction=wel.welcome
• CIP - Competitveness and Innovation Programmehttp://intra.infso.cec.eu.int/index.htm?url=/ictc/