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SMART HOMES FOR ALL. AN EMBEDDED MIDDLEWARE PLATFORM FOR PERVASIVE AND IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS FOR-ALL (SM4All)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

...n order to provide continuous sensed information and to react to service requests from the users themselves. The SM4ALL project will investigate an innovative middleware platform for inter-working of smart embedded services in immersive and person-centric environments, through the use of composability and semantic techniques for dynamic service reconfiguration. By leveraging on P2P technologies, t ...
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Advanced System for Eco, Energy and Cost Efficient, Comfortable and Secure Smart Homes (HIQ-Home)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Current smart homes are not as “smart” and user-friendly as promoted. They enable household monitoring and appliance control with several new HW and SW solutions and extensive manuals, but do not automatically adapt to the user’s living habits. Moreover, studies showed that smart home schedules set by the users are widely inefficient thus contributing to excessive energy usage. Initial tests show ...
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Cyber security system with a high IoT network visibility and fast vulnerability detection for Smart Homes. (Eye-O-T)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Today there are around 800 million connected devices in Smart Homes, which forecasted to reach 2 billion devices by 2020 - an uptick of about 250 million new devices per year. Smart Home networks become crowded, difficult to maintain and vulnerable. Today’s Smart Home systems, such as smart TVs, Internet-connected camera systems, alarm sensors, smart light bulbs or thermostats, can be hacked only ...
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Hybrid Digital-Analog Networking under Extreme Energy and Latency Constraints (BEACON)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

...The ultimate challenge for this project is to exploit the developed hybrid digital-analog networking theory for a complete overhaul of the physical layer design for emerging IoE applications, such as smart grids, tele-robotics and smart homes. For this purpose, a proof-of-concept implementation test-bed will also be built using software defined radios and sensor nodes.
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Sustainable Transport in Rural Tourism Areas (TransTourism)

Start date: Aug 31, 2010, End date: Aug 30, 2013,

... Achievements: Products and services:Title: Funäsfjällen travel guide application A travel guide application for smart phones that handles information on how to travel to and within within Funäsfjällen including a search for ski buses at specific pick up points and drop of points by name or on a map for tourists.M ...
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Real-Time Monitoring System for Water Quality (SmartTap)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...ies, where water contamination problems commonly result in hospitalizations, or even deaths, and have a major impact on the quality of life.The idea of the proposed proof of concept is to develop the SmartTap system, an intelligent water quality monitoring system that uses spatial and temporal data processing techniques for monitoring the quality of water and detecting any contamination events. Th ...
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Developing replicable and cost effective Nearly Zero-Energy' building solutions for small builders in Europe (NZE Buildings)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...ilders the products and the tools so that they can offer to their customers 'nearly zero-energy' buildings with guaranteed performance and cost controls.To do so, ECOXIA has developed the concept of "Smart Envelope". Built in the ideal conditions of the factory, the envelope is installed in a 'Plug & Play' way on site in one day. It includes both energy performance and the components to make it sm ...
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INteractive CHarging (INCH)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The INteractive CHarging (INCH) project will introduce the next-generation charging station for electric vehicles (EVs), named Etrel Smartcharger. It will enable charging of an increasing number of EVs in a smart and sustainable manner, which is the only way to optimise energy use in transport and reduce related greenhouse gas emissions. In the long term, it will not be possible to use EVs without ...
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In-Network Programmability for next-generation personal cloUd service supporT (INPUT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

...sustainable way and with innovative added-value capabilities. The INPUT technologies will enable next-generation cloud applications to go beyond classical service models, and even to replace physical Smart Devices, usually placed in users’ homes (e.g., set-top-boxes, etc.) or deployed around for monitoring purposes (e.g., sensors), with their virtual images, providing them to users “as a Service.” ...
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Second Life Batteries for Domestic Electricity Storage (SLB-DES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

...ult aims to be the EU’s specialist provider of cost-effective distributed electricity storage for domestic homes, lowering electricity bills and allowing residents to seize the opportunities of the smart power revolution. The EU's electricity networks face considerable challenges from decarbonisation - with microgeneration, electric vehicle penetration and renewable heat stressing local distributi ...
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Creation of a networked infrastructure for innovation on sustainability in the home enviroment that enables user-centred testing and development in a living laboratories and testing houses at 5 locations (SusLabNWE)

Start date: Mar 31, 2010, End date: Mar 29, 2015,

... are doing, how warmly they are dressed, in what room they are at what time. In combination with the objective data from the Sensor Box, this provides important information to the researchers.Smart PlugsSusLab Smart Plugs measure the energy use of different appliances that are used in the home.Comfort DialThe SusLab Comfort Dial can be used to indicate thermal comfort. By turning the knob on the f ...
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Green and Smart Communications with Energy Harvesting: A Signal Processing Approach (GRENHAS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...nals, instead of completely relying on a fixed battery or the power from the grid, offer a promising perspective. Such approaches have a wide range of applications including wireless sensor networks, smart homes and smart cities.Understanding the information transfer capabilities of communication systems with energy harvesting features have been the attention of a number of recent works. At the m ...
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All-organic devices in textiles for wearable electronics (E-TEX)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

We are surrounded by fabrics, the carpet floors in our homes or offices, the seats in our cars, and obviously all our garments and clothing accessories. There are already examples of smart textiles in garments for monitoring physiological and biomechanical signals. However, the manufacturing schemes for current applications rely mostly on the integration of off-the-shelf electronic components moun ...
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MyHealth@Age - Improved Health, Safety and Well being for Elderly People living in Northern Periphery regions 1.10 (MyHealth@Age)

Start date: Dec 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

...istance. The alarm call is received wirelessly by the alarm centre whose staff calls the alarm customer to check out which assistance is needed, then distributes the alarm call to assistance staff’s smart phones who locate the alarm customer and provide the requested support service.More information see: http://nppoutcomes.eu/Title: Mobile Safety Alarm Product Mobile application, including fall se ...
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Sağlık Meslek Lisesi Öğrencilerine Avrupa Birliği'nde Tıp Bilişimi Yeterlilikleri Kazandırılması

Start date: Jul 18, 2016, End date: Jul 17, 2017,

...es occuring, are examples for this. Participant students of our project will* Gain experience about diagnosis, treatment, guidence,etc. on the web.* Obtain information about health support systems at smart homes* Have information about the things that a robot maid in health field can do. * See how wearable biosensors are used in the health field* Have information about how to make web interactive ...
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Ηλεκτρολογικές εγκαταστάσεις σε έξυπνα κτίρια

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The technology of “smart homes” is a new and fast growing sector, which is expected to grow rapidly in coming years. Internationally various technologies are used, the development of which follow the respective developments occurring generally in the field of Communication and Information Technologies. The technologies of "smart home" based on developments in information and communication technolo ...
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Bedensel Engelli Gençlerin Topluma Entegrasyonunda Sosyal Hizmet Sunumu Projesi

Start date: Dec 31, 2015, End date: Dec 30, 2016,

...isability Strategy will be supported. In this case , the economic and social participation of people with disabilities will be provided in order that the Europe 2020 strategy can maintain smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the long term
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Σχεδίαση ηλεκτρικής εγκατάστασης χρησιμοποιώντας την τεχνική ΕΙΒ/ΚΝΧ

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

This program is negotiating the "smart home technologies", which, based on developments in the informative and communicative technology and introduce a single control system, through which they can communicate with each other all the individual parts that make up an electrical installation. Central to the new system is the creation of a decentralized data transmission and processing system (in the ...
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European Virtual Learning Platform for Electrical and Information Engineering

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...be useful also for language education. The formats of the learning aids will include LMS package (e.g. for Moodle), PDF, as well as formats suitable for e-book readers and mobile devices (smartphones, tablets). All files will be freely downloadable from the learning portal where teachers and their students will be able to choose those materials (or their parts) that will be interesting for them (i ...
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AlpStore: Strategies to use a variety of mobile and stationary storages to allow for extended accessibility and the integration of renewable energies (AlpStore)

Start date: Jun 30, 2012, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...in 7 countries create master plans for the deployment of storages. Pilot tests will show the feasibility of mobile and stationary storage in public infrastructure, business parks, enterprises and smart homes. From there guidelines for planners and decision makers will be derived. Achi ...
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Cooperating 2 Foster Renewables and Energy Efficiency (CO2FREE)

Start date: Sep 30, 2008, End date: Sep 29, 2012,

...ings, (8) Bulgaria SE's Programme for Sustainable Development of Enterprises, (9) West Romania's Research Institute for Renewable Energies and (10) Participation and clear guidelines to a climate smart future in North Karelia.Project now is coming to its end. Apart from the internal management tasks work has been mainly focused in the whole process of document, exchange and import Good practices c ...
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Energy Certification, Information and Communication Technologies for User Satisfaction. (ENCERTICUS)

...sing, this is not the case in other MED region countries and is not the case in social housing through the MED region. The introduction of energy certification and labelling of existing buildings and smart meters represents a change in the perception of energy by users and offers an opportunity for proactive changes in habits if well addressed and a threat if the changes are not well accepted and ...
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Improvement the effectiveness of regional development policies in eco-INNovation for smart hOme and independent liVing to increase the quality of life of Aging people (INN.O.V.Age)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...NT LIVING:aim at helping elderly people to live independently for longer in their homes,increasing their autonomy and assisting them in carrying out their daily activities.2.ECO INNOVATION applied to SMART&SUSTAINABLE HOME:making smart choices,home becomes more accessible and comfortable for elderly,with a valuable contribution to minimize the environmental impact of daily life.Despite the potenti ...
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Energy Demand Aware Open Services for Smart Grid Intelligent Automation (SmartHG)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

SmartHG will develop economically viable Intelligent Automation Software services gathering real-time data about energy usage from residential homes and exploiting such data for intelligent automation pursuing two main goals: minimise energy usage and cost for each home, support the Distribution Network Operator (DNO) in optimising operation of the grid. SmartHG rests on the following four pillars ...
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Smart Houses Interacting with Smart Grids to achieve next-generation energy efficiency and sustainability (SmartHouse/SmartGrid)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

Current smart house/energy technologies treat home and working environments as effectively consisting of isolated and passive individual units. This severely limits achieved energy efficiency, as it ignores the potential delivered by homes, offices, and commercial buildings seen as intelligent networked collaborations. Thus, the SmartHouse/SmartGrid project introduces a holistic concept for smart ...
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Open Architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardisation (OASIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

... of Independent Living Applications (nutritional advisor, activity coach, brain and skills trainers, social communities platform, health monitoring and environmental control), Autonomous Mobility and Smart Workplaces Applications (elderly-friendly transport information services, elderly-friendly route guidance, personal mobility services, mobile devices, biometric authentication interface and mult ...
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Smart Control of Demand for Consumption and Supply to enable balanced, energy-positive buildings and neighbourhoods (SmartCoDe)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...nagement requires fine grained infrastructure and expensive hardware. Today, this limits applicability of energy management to large consumers in the industrial and commercial sector.The objective of SmartCoDe is to enable the application of advanced techniques for energy management in private and small commercial buildings and neighbourhoods by1)\tDeveloping new methods for automated energy manag ...
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Conceptual approach for new routes in eHealth: Movement practices of elderly care (CareMoves)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Linked with the ‘demographic challenge’ of a rapidly aging population, there is an increasing move of healthcare practices into the home. At the same time ‘smart home’ technologies and other assistive devices are transforming homes into clinics. With these movements a range of new and alternative healthcare practices have emerged.The CareMoves project proposes to explore how formal and informal el ...
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Solid Oxide Fuel Cell micro-CHP Field Trials (SOFT-PACT)

Start date: Jul 8, 2011, End date: Oct 7, 2015,

... for 36 months and provide the following outputs1.Power generation export to the grid from fully integrated Fuel Cell systems and fleet management2.Systems capable of being integrated into a future Smart Grid3.Component optimisation and supply chain development;4.Installation and field support workforce training and capability build;5.Systems capable of integrating into existing power and heat inf ...
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The ICT Roadmap for Energy-Efficient Neighbourhoods (IREEN)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

...ide including local and regional authorities and NGOs;- supporting the Advisory group - ICT Infrastructure for energy-efficient buildings and neighbourhoods for carbon-neutral cities;- supporting the Smart Cities European Innovation Partnership;- the production and dissemination of results describing state-of-the-art (ICT-based) supply-side solutions and best practices, demand-side visions and sc ...
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Cloud platforms Lead to Open and Universal access for people with Disabilities and for All (CLOUD4all)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...oss a spectrum of technologies including: Computer OSs and Browsers; Web pages/Apps; Mobiles; Kiosks/Info-Transaction Machines; Installed and Virtual Assistive Technologies; Digital Televisions and Smart Homes-Testing of the concept with users with a wide variety and combination of physical, sensory, cognitive, language, and learning disabilitiesIf successful, this approach may give us our first c ...
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A Modular Smart System for Infants' Rehabilitation At Home based on Mechatronic Toys (CareToy)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

...by caregivers and telemonitored by rehabilitation staff. The aim of this proposal is to promote early intervention in the first year of life and to reinforce therapy by "CareToy": a portable low cost smart system telemonitored thus augmenting the clinical effectiveness of the therapy while reducing the cost. The smart system is based on a common baby gym, composed of different modules: a) an instr ...
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Embedded Intelligent Controls for Buildings with Renewable Generation and Storage (ENCOURAGE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The ENCOURAGE project aims to develop embedded intelligence and integration technologies that will directly optimize energy use in buildings and enable active participation in the future smart grid environment. The desired energy savings will be achieved in three complementary ways. Firstly, by developing supervisory control strategies that will be able to coordinate larger subsystems (HVAC,lighti ...
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Cognitive and Cooperative Signal Processing Technologies for Remote Sensing Applications (COGSENSE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Apr 25, 2016,

...is a novel concept in signal processing that promises to revolutionize the way we interpret and understand our world. It has even been hailed as “a way of the future” in remote sensing networks . Smart or intelligent sensor networks have the potential to impact almost every aspect of our lives through applications such as smart homes, environmental monitoring, security, disaster detection and asse ...
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Wireless devices for smart energy management systems (MICROBAT)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

There is a growing need for smart energy-efficient homes, offices and industrial plants, and this need is increasingly being supported by legislation. Hence there is a growing market for technologies to enable this, through the deployment of smart metering as well as intelligent heating, ventilation, lighting, and monitoring control systems. To address this market, a new class of low-power wirel ...
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INTelligent systems for Energy Prosumer buildIngs at District level (INTrEPID)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

...and validated in real houses. The installation in real buildings will involve 50 homes, partly located in Italy and partly located in Denmark. The system will include devices such as energy gateways, smart meter or smart info (depending on the location, smart info will work in ENEL electricity grid), smart plugs, a smart appliance, connected thermostats to control HVAC system. The specific devices ...
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Innovative Portable Traction Ramp from Smart Composite materials for Automatic Ascending and Descending of Wheelchair Users (RAMPCO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...a portable ramp that can be automatically packed in the form of an all-in-one transport case and can be transferred easily and quickly by hand. RampCo will have a lightweight design due to the use of smart composite materials that will ensure the best strength/weight ratio.The RampCo, on the wheelchair user’s command, will transport the wheelchair safely several meters all the way up the stairs, w ...
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Collaborating Smart Solar-powered Micro-grids (CoSSMic)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...as shown that while in theory houses can be self-reliant on solar panels by the amount of electricity they produce, it would require considerable (and expensive) storage capacity to realize this.With smart management and control systems, different types of buildings (for instance a mix of houses, companies and schools) could be connected in such a way that this neighbourhood would use more, or eve ...
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Towards Pervasive Indoor Wireless Networks (WiNDOW)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

In cellular networks, it is estimated that 2/3 of the calls and 90% of data services take place indoors. Smart meters are being and will be deployed across the world. Smart meters are connected with other meters and appliances wirelessly at homes. Smart buildings, e-health, assisted living applications also rely on quality in-building wireless communications. Thus pervasive wireless communications ...
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Realising Value from Electricity Markets with Local Smart Electric Thermal Storage Technology (RealValue)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2018,

RealValue aims to demonstrate how local small-scale energy storage, optimised with advanced ICT, could bring benefits to market participants throughout the EU. Smart Electric Thermal Storage (SETS) will be deployed in physical demonstration trials in 1250 homes in Germany, Latvia and Ireland but the analysis will also consider other storage technologies and energy vectors, including integration wi ...
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