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The table below references Esprit Projects which are related to the IT for Mobility theme. The project number links (e.g. EP0000) will jump to a short description, a list of partners and a project contact point. The "unit" links (e.g. TCS) will jump to list of Commission contact points who can help you with any questions you may have. If you require more information about a particular project you can download a complete synopsis file from the download directory of the "unit" indicated in the table.
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| EP20077 |
SPRACH |
Speech Recognition Algorithms for Connectionist Hybrids |
15/12/1995 |
14/12/1998 |
LTR |
| EP20229 |
NOBLESSE |
Nonlinear Model-Based Analysis and Description of Images for Multimedia Applic. |
01/01/1996 |
31/12/1998 |
LTR |
| EP20422 |
MOBY DICK |
Moby Dick, The Mobile Digital Companion |
01/06/1996 |
31/05/1997 |
LTR |
| EP20979 |
SIMOS |
Supporting Interactive Multimedia On-line Services |
01/06/1996 |
31/05/1999 |
LTR |
| EP21870 |
DESARTE |
The Computer-Supported Design of Artefacts and Spaces |
01/05/1996 |
28/02/1997 |
LTR |
| EP21917 |
PEGASUSII |
Operating System Support for Distributed Multimedia |
01/10/1996 |
30/09/1999 |
LTR |
| EP21929 |
MEDIA |
Strategic Research Network Systems for Multimedia Mobile Computing |
01/10/1996 |
30/09/1999 |
LTR |
| EP22729 |
OCEANS |
Optimizing Compilers for Embedded Applications |
15/09/1996 |
14/09/1998 |
LTR |
| EP25377 |
ESCAPE |
Electronic Landscapes |
01/07/1997 |
30/06/2000 |
LTR |
| EP25379 |
ERENA |
Electronic Arenas for Culture, Performance, Arts and Entertainment |
01/09/1997 |
31/08/2000 |
LTR |
| EP25425 |
MAYPOLE |
An Environment for Real Time Community Interactions |
07/07/1997 |
06/07/1999 |
LTR |
| EP25500 |
COMRIS |
Comris: Co-Habited Mixed Reality Information Spaces |
01/10/1997 |
30/09/2000 |
LTR |
| EP25574 |
HIPS |
Hyper-Interaction within Physical Space |
22/07/1997 |
21/07/2000 |
LTR |
| EP20310 |
ECAM III |
European Consortium Active Matrix Iii |
01/01/1996 |
31/12/1997 |
TCS |
| EP21458 |
SI_GYRO |
Silicon Surface Micromachined Gyroscope For Mass Market Applications |
15/03/1996 |
14/03/1999 |
TCS |
| EP21482 |
LP-DSP |
Low Power and Cost DSP Subsystems for Portable Products |
15/02/1996 |
14/08/1998 |
TCS |
| EP21674 |
SCOTSMAN |
Strategic Components Technologies and systems in magnetic storage |
01/01/1996 |
30/06/1997 |
TCS |
| EP21680 |
SECOND |
Single Ended Channel Conditioning Device |
01/03/1996 |
28/02/1998 |
TCS |
| EP21785 |
TWICS |
Technological Solutions for Wireless Communications Subsystems |
01/02/1996 |
31/01/1998 |
TCS |
| EP21796 |
IRMA |
Integrated Resonant Accelerometer Microsystems For Automotive Applications |
01/01/1996 |
31/12/1997 |
TCS |
| EP22575 |
ELDISP |
Next Generation Colour Electroluminescent Displays |
01/11/1996 |
31/10/1999 |
TCS |
| EP22659 |
FED |
Field Emission Displays |
01/02/1997 |
31/07/1998 |
TCS |
| EP22826 |
ALBATROS |
A Logistic Bi-Directional Asynchronous Tag-System for Retail Operations |
01/11/1996 |
31/10/1998 |
TCS |
| EP22889 |
OLMO |
On-Vehicle Laser Microsystem For Obstacle Detection |
01/11/1996 |
31/07/1998 |
TCS |
| EP23222 |
NEW EMPHASYS |
Enhanced Mobile Phone with Application Specific Memory System |
01/10/1996 |
31/03/1998 |
TCS |
| EP23223 |
SCHINET |
Single Chip ISDN Network Terminator |
01/09/1996 |
28/02/1998 |
TCS |
| EP23229 |
BETA |
Bipolar Epitaxial Sige Technology For Rf-Application |
01/01/1997 |
31/12/1999 |
TCS |
| EP23246 |
COCLICO |
Contact/Contactless Interoperable Micro Controller Based Smart Card System |
01/09/1996 |
31/08/1998 |
TCS |
| EP23261 |
FLINT |
Fine Line Interconnect |
15/09/1996 |
14/09/1999 |
TCS |
| EP23769 |
CUMULUS |
Circuits Ultimate Miniaturisation Utilising Multi-Layer Build-up Substrates |
01/01/1997 |
31/12/1999 |
TCS |
| EP23989 |
ASIC4PMR |
Architecture for Single Chip for Private Mobile Radio Communication |
01/12/1996 |
30/11/1998 |
TCS |
| EP24006 |
SPACE |
SOI for Portable Applications and Consumer Electronics |
01/01/1997 |
30/06/1999 |
TCS |
| EP24123 |
OCMP |
One-Chip Low Power Transceiver for Multi-Mode Portable Phones |
01/01/1997 |
30/06/1999 |
TCS |
| EP24137 |
TWIST |
Twin Carrier Single Transceiver Base Station For PCS |
01/01/1997 |
31/12/1998 |
TCS |
| EP24366 |
BATEL |
Ball Grid Array Technologies for Advanced Telecom Applications |
01/12/1996 |
30/11/1999 |
TCS |
| EP9075 |
MASK |
Multimodal Multimedia Automated Service Kiosk |
01/04/1994 |
31/03/1997 |
ST |
| EP20333 |
IRISPOL |
Information Retrieval in an Integrated System for Police |
01/12/1995 |
31/05/1997 |
ST |
| EP20563 |
E2S |
End to End Security over the Internet |
01/09/1995 |
30/11/1997 |
ST |
| EP20717 |
OVID |
Trial Application of Voice Processing in Automated Banking Services |
01/11/1995 |
31/07/1997 |
ST |
| EP22005 |
WIRE |
Web Information Repository for the Enterprise |
15/07/1996 |
14/07/1998 |
ST |
| EP22030 |
CIME |
Cooperative Information Marketplace in Europe |
16/09/1996 |
15/09/1998 |
ST |
| EP22704 |
ASPIRE |
Advanced Modeling and Specification of Distributed Information Systems |
01/02/1997 |
31/01/2000 |
ST |
| EP23243 |
ARNO |
Algorithms for Radio Network Optimisation |
01/01/1997 |
30/04/1999 |
ST |
| EP24231 |
JEDI |
Java Enabled Database Access over Internet |
01/01/1997 |
31/12/1998 |
ST |
| EP8819 |
VICTORIA |
Vision Computing for Tracking and Object Recognition in Open Areas |
01/11/1994 |
31/10/1997 |
HPCN |
| EP20184 |
HPS-ICE |
High Performance Simulation of Internal Combustion Engines |
01/01/1996 |
31/12/1998 |
HPCN |
| EP20189 |
PROMENVIR |
High Performance Computer Based Probalistic Mechanical Design Enviroment |
01/01/1996 |
31/12/1997 |
HPCN |
| EP20255 |
ISIS |
Interactive Satellite Image Server on Generation Image Coding |
15/12/1995 |
14/06/1998 |
HPCN |
| EP21036 |
EIVIS |
Embedded Interactive Video Server |
01/01/1996 |
31/12/1997 |
HPCN |
| EP22503 |
EROPPA |
Experiments on Remote Operations for Post Production Applications |
01/10/1996 |
30/09/1997 |
HPCN |
| EP22505 |
WARPSPEID |
Wide Area Project Supporting Pan-European Information Dissemination |
14/10/1996 |
13/04/1998 |
HPCN |
| EP22508 |
MSC |
Multi-Site Computing |
20/09/1996 |
19/03/1998 |
HPCN |
| EP22509 |
ESD_NET |
High Perfomance Electronic Systems Design Network |
09/09/1996 |
08/12/1997 |
HPCN |
| EP22517 |
VISTA |
Virtual Interactive Studio Television Application using Networked Graphical Supercomputers |
05/08/1996 |
04/02/1999 |
HPCN |
| EP22519 |
RCNET |
Exploiting HPCN in an Engineering Consultancy Environment |
09/09/1996 |
08/09/1998 |
HPCN |
| EP22528 |
CANET |
Collaborative Automotive Network |
01/09/1996 |
28/02/1998 |
HPCN |
| EP22542 |
COVAS |
Collaborative Visualization of Automotive Simulations |
18/11/1996 |
17/11/1998 |
HPCN |
| EP22556 |
APAT |
Applications Professionelles sur ATM |
09/09/1996 |
08/03/1998 |
HPCN |
| EP22723 |
HITERM |
High-Performance Computing And Networking for Technological and Environmental Risk Management |
01/01/1997 |
30/06/1999 |
HPCN |
| EP22765 |
DESIRE II |
Design by Simulation and Rendering on Parallel Architectures II |
01/01/1997 |
30/06/1999 |
HPCN |
| EP7359 |
LAURA |
Local Area Network User Radio Access |
01/06/1992 |
30/09/1995 |
MS |
| EP9166 |
HIPERION |
High Performance Radio Network |
01/10/1993 |
31/03/1996 |
OMI |
| EP9252 |
OMI NEWSPAD |
OMI Multimedia Interactive Newspaper Pilot Applications and Distribution |
25/03/1994 |
24/03/1997 |
OMI |
| EP20574 |
MIMICS |
Multi Parity Interactive Multimedia Conferencing Services |
01/12/1995 |
31/05/1997 |
MS |
| EP20772 |
MILLION |
Multimedia Interactive Leading Life-Giving Initiative on Net |
01/10/1995 |
30/09/1997 |
MS |
| EP20855 |
INK |
Interactive Networked Kiosks |
01/12/1995 |
30/11/1997 |
MS |
| EP23102 |
PRICIS |
ST20GP2-The Processor for Integrated Car Information Systems |
01/12/1996 |
28/02/1999 |
OMI |
| EP23300 |
GUIDE |
Galleries Universal Information, Dissemination and Editing System |
01/04/1997 |
31/03/1999 |
MS |
| EP23631 |
V-NET |
Design, Implementation and Demonstration of an Adapter Card for Wireless Local Area Networks |
01/03/1997 |
31/08/1998 |
OMI |
| EP20840 |
INTFO |
Corporation Integrated Intelligent Multimedia Assistant for Field Operators |
01/12/1995 |
28/02/1998 |
MS |
| EP22201 |
INFOMAR |
An Information Network for the Fishing Industry |
15/05/1996 |
14/05/1998 |
TBP |
| EP23306 |
ARCIP |
Arc Interoperability Project Supporting a Virtual Pan European Assistance Organisation for Travellers |
01/12/1996 |
28/02/1999 |
TBP |
| EP8615 |
LOCOMOTIVE |
Logistics Chain Multidimensional Design Toolbox with Environmental Assessment |
07/07/1994 |
06/07/1997 |
IIM |
| EP20408 |
VEGA |
Virtual Enterprise using Groupware Tools and Distributed Architecture |
01/01/1996 |
31/12/1998 |
IIM |
| EP20598 |
MATES |
Multimedia Assisted Distributed Tele-Engineering Services |
01/02/1996 |
31/01/1998 |
IIM |
| EP20603 |
GREENTRIP |
Global, Reactive, Efficient and Environment Friendly, Transportation Logistics |
01/01/1996 |
31/12/1998 |
IIM |
| EP22284 |
GENIAL |
Gen - Intelligent Access Libraries |
01/10/1996 |
31/03/1999 |
IIM |
| EP22633 |
LOGSME |
Logistices to Support Continuous Improvement for SMEs in the Virtual Enterprise |
01/09/1996 |
31/08/1999 |
IIM |
The goal of the proposed project is to further improve the current state-of-the-art in continuous speech recognition using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) approaches. Pursuing the theoretical and development work successfully carried out under the WERNICKE project (ESPRIT Basic Research Project 6487, October 1992-October 1995), this new project, referred to as SPRACH (Speech Recognition Algorithms for Connectionist Hybrids), will extend the research to robust and flexible speech recognition systems that can easily be adapted to new languages and new domains with new lexica and new syntaxes.
Participants :-
Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (B), Daimler-Benz (D), Thomson-CSF/LCR (F), CSELT (I), INESC (P), BBC (UK), Univ. of Cambridge (UK), Univ. of Sheffield (UK).
Contact Point :-
Mr Jean-Marc Boite
Faculté Polytechnique de Mons TCTS
Bld. Dolez 31
B - 7000 Mons
tel: +32 / 65 374176
fax: +32 / 65 374129
e-mail: boite@tcts.fpms.ac.be
project home page: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/sprach/sprach.html
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The objective of the project is to develop new nonlinear model-based descriptions of images and image sequences. The large amount of image-data in multimedia applications makes it necessary to code the information in a model-based symbolic form. A high measure of compactness in the data representation can be foreseen if the power of nonlinear models is taken into account. Beside the potential for image coding purposes a high-level description is an absolute prerequisite to support the application of higher level functions like model-based browsing and navigation, keying, image sequence interpolation, tracking and finding salient regions, querying (similarity measures, indexing, fuzzy similarity measures).
Participants :-
Technische Univ. Hamburg-Harburg (D), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH), Armines (F), Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki (GR), Univ. di Trieste (I), Univ. of Technology Tampere (SF), Univ. of Strathclyde (UK),
Contact Point :-
Prof. Dr. H. Burkhardt
Technische Informatik I
Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Harburger Schloss-Strasse 20
D - 21071 Hamburg
tel: +49 / 40 7718 3025
fax: +49 / 40 7718 2911
e-mail: noblesse@tu-harburg.d400.de
project home page: http://www.ti1.tu-harburg.de/~noblesse
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The technologies of PDA, digital cellular phone and smart card, when combined and integrated well, have the potential of replacing all of the things people have to carry around with them by one small device, the Pocket Companion. It is a small portable computer and wireless communications device that can replace cash, cheque book, passport, keys, diary, phone, pager, maps and possibly briefcases as well.
Participants :-
Univ. Twente (NL), Univ. di Pisa (I), Univ. of Tromsoe (N),
Contact Point :-
Dr. Ir. Gerard Smit
University of Twente
Dept. Computer Science
P.O. Box 217
NL - 7500 AE Enschede
tel: +31 / 53 4893734
fax: +31 / 52 4894590
e-mail: smit@cs.utwente.nl
project home page: http://wwwspa.cs.utwente.nl/~havinga/mobydick.html
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At the present and at least for the near future certain multimedia information services will still be distributed on physical media. However, centralized services accessed over a network are now gaining rapidly in popularity and diffusion. Such services have certain clear advantages. They are available on demand, offer an indefinitely large subject domain, and are continuously updated. They also enable users to access transaction-services and products can be viewed, evaluated, and purchased immediately.
Participants :-
CNR - IEI (I), Technische Univ. Wien (A), GMD Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik (D), Univ. Köln - BIFOA (D), Alcatel Alsthom Recherche (F), Intracom (GR), Technical Univ. Crete - MUSIC (GR), Olivetti (I), Politecnico di Milano (I), Univ. di Lecce (I), Stichting Mathematisch Centrum - CWI (NL)
Contact Point :-
Prof. Constantino Thanos
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione
Via Santa Maria 175
I - 56126 Pisa
tel: +39 / 50 593492
fax: +39 / 50 554342
e-mail: thanos@iei.pi.cnr.it
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One of the most significant challenges for information systems design is to move out to support increasingly advanced forms of production. The research we propose responds to some aspects of these changing conditions by focusing on computer support for the integration of aesthetic production in the design of artefacts and spaces. We will study four areas of design: architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and landscape architecture. The creative design of artefacts and spaces is a highly complex activity. It involves a process of 'reading' and 'writing' in the material culture, oriented particularly to the manipulation and annotation of visual elements. Some separate aspects of this are quite well supported, for example by CAD systems and their specialised derivatives. The integration of the design process, however, is not currently well supported at all.
Participants :-
Techn. Univ. Wien - IGW (A), Architekturburo Rudiger Lainer (A), Roskilde Univ. (DK), Domus Academy (I), Univ. di Milano - DSI (I), SGS Environment (UK), Univ. of Lancaster (UK)
Contact Point :-
Dr Ina Wagner
Technical University Vienna
Institut für Gestaltungs- und Wirkungsforschung
Abteilung für CSCW
Argentinierstrasse 8
A - 1040 Vienna
tel: +43 / 1 588 01 4439
fax: +43 / 1 504 24 78
e-mail: iwagner@pop.tuwien.ac.at
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Multimedia applications of the future will involve the distributed processing of multimedia information in systems ranging from large servers, through workstations all the way down to "set top boxes". The implementation of such applications will be greatly eased by the use of a common architecture providing application level quality of service, and, where possible, a common software platform even where the underlying hardware has diverse capabilities.
Participants :-
Univ. of Cambridge (UK), Univ. Twente (NL), Swedish Institute of Computer Science (S), Architecture Projects Management (UK), Univ. of Glasgow (UK)
Contact Point :-
Dr. I. M. Leslie
Univ. of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
Pembroke Street
UK - Cambridge - CB2 3QG
tel: +44 / 1223 334658
fax: +44 / 1223 334678
e-mail: Ian.Leslie@cl.cam.ac.uk
project home page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/pegasus/
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The objective of the project is to develop key enabling technology to lower the cost per transmitted bit through mobile communication infrastructure by two orders of magnitude compared to today's cost. This is perceived as key to making the multimedia computing ubiquitous and for the European Telecommunication industry to maintain their leading position in the world market.
Participants :-
Kungl Tekniska Högskolan (S), IMEC (B), GMD Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik (D), Techn. Univ. Braunschweig -Instit. Computer Engineering (D), Ericsson Radio Systems (S), Univ. of Technology Tampere - Digital Media Institut.(SF)
Contact Point :-
Dr. Tawfik Lazraq
Kungl Tekniska Högskolan
KTH-Electrum, ESDlab
Electrum 229
S-164 40 Kista
tel: +46 / 8 752 1316
fax: +46 / 8 752 1240
e-mail: taw@ele.kth.se
project home page: http://www.ele.kth.se/~taw
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A shift towards the use of more general purpose processor architectures instead of developing application specific circuits can be observed when designing certain parts of embedded systems. More specifically, manufacturers are using RISC core technology to build high performance multi-purpose processors with multiple functional units for embedded systems, or use of-the-shelf high performance uniprocessors.
Participants :-
RijksUniv. Leiden (NL), INRIA- IRISA Rennes (F), Univ. de Versailles (F), Philips Research Laboratories (NL), Victoria Univ. of Manchester (UK)
Contact Point :-
Dr. Fred Bakker
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
Dept. of Computer Science
Niels Bohrweg 1
NL - 2333 CA Leiden
tel: +31 / 71 527 7042
fax: +31 / 71 527 6985
e-mail: bakker@wi.leidenuniv.nl
project home page: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/CS/HPC/oceans/
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ECAM III follows ECAM I and II, and aims at enhancing the existing European capability in flat panel display production. The ECAM III project focuses on the development and demonstration of state-of-the-art active matrix liquid crystal displays for low cost applications in business, consumer and industry. Project targets are 1.4" high resolution displays for projection, and industrialisation and fabrication with high yield of VGA and SVGA graphic data displays. Efforts will also be devoted to reducing the operating power of the graphic data displays, development of digital signal processing capabilities, module assembly development and continued research in polysilicon, especially geared towards low cost projection.
Participants :-
FPD (NL), THOMSON LCD (F), MERCK (UK), SAGEM (F), CIBA (CH), THOMSON MM (F), BARCO (B), PRL (UK), THOMSON LCR (F), CORNING (F), REXHAM (UK), CNR (I)
Contact Point :-
Dr Wanter REINTS-BOK
FPD B.V.
Building WAY-2
Prof. Holstaan 4
5656 AA Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
tel: +31 40 274 43 71
fax: +31 40 274 22 23
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A surface micromachined one-axis gyroscope mainly for automotive applications with strong market penetration is to be developed based on Thick Polysilicon Surface Micromachining (TPSM) technology. The basic process will be improved to meet the stringent requirements of the gyroscope application with respect to critical material and process parameters (control of active polysilicon layer stress and stress gradients, surface roughness, inclusion of a buried polysilicon contact layer, accuracy and aspect ratio of the microstructuring process, sacrificial etching techniques, housing and vacuum encapsulation of the sensor elements). Driving and evaluation circuitry will be realised on a separate chip and combined with the sensing device by hybrid mounting.
Participants :-
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (D), STS LTD. (UK), CNM (E), VOLVO (S)
Contact Point :-
Franz LAERMER
Robert Bosch GmbH, FV/FLD
Postfach 10 60 50
70049 Stuttgart (Germany)
tel: +49 711 811 7671
fax: +49 711 811 7042
E-mail: frlaerme@si0694.am.bosch.de
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The LP-DSP project aims at creating a capability to develop low power and low cost IC implementations of DSP applications. The capability will consist of an integrated design system, the necessary module/cell libraries and the target silicon process. The design system will be based on a state-of-the-art architectural synthesis tool that will be further developed in the project for power optimisation. The capability will be demonstrated by designing and implementing a subsystem for a mobile/cordless phone product.
Participants :-
NOKIA (SF), SGS-THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS (F), EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT CENTRE N.V. (B), TAMPERE UNIV. OF TECHNOLOGY (SF)
Contact Point :-
Klaus KRONLOF
Nokia Research Center
P.O. Box 45 Fin-00211 Helsinki (Finland)
tel: +358 0 4376 6510
fax: +358 0 4376 6857
E-mail: klaus.kronlof@research.nokia.com
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The SCOTSMAN project builds on the successful results obtained in EP 9257 MAGDRIVE, where a 540 MB hard disk with removable cartridge has been developed and put into production, and EP 6189 MIHFAD where advanced magnetic heads where achieved.
The goals of the project are to develop technologies for magnetic hard disk drives, to use them to realise two products for personal computers, and finally to integrate the new devices in system applications taking advantage of the new capabilities.
Participants :-
NOMAÏ (F); CALLUNA (UK); SILMAG (F); MYRICA (UK); XYRATEX (UK); FAST(D); ACORN (UK)
Contact Point :-
Dr. Nigel MACKINTOSH
Mackintosh Consultants
The Chase, Pinfold Lane,
Northop Hall, Clwyd CH7 6HE, (United Kingdom)
tel: +44 244 819797
fax: +44 244 819796
E-mail: nigel@ndmack.demon.co.uk
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The continuous growth of the subscriber base in current mobile systems, i.e. Digital European Cordless Telecommunication, (DECT), system provides a motive to seek new ways of increasing the capacity on offer. One approach is to improve signal quality by using advanced signal processing techniques. The added value of this approach with respect to already existing solutions, namely HDSL and ADSL, is that the signal processing will only be done at one line termination of the digital local line. This contrasts with HDSL that requires signal processing at both line terminations of the digital local line. The outcome of these activities will be a connector-like module attachable between Base Station (BS) and the wire towards the Base Station Controller (BSC). Improvement of the air interface of DECT with the same single-ended concept to make it robust against multipath propagation will also be addressed.
Participants :-
ALCATEL SESA (E); UPM (E); IMEC (B); ALCATEL MIETEC (B); NMRC (IRL); CETECOM (E)
Contact Point :-
Mariano Perez ABADIA
ALCATEL SESA
Ramirez de Prado 5
28045 Madrid (Spain)
tel: +34 1 3304792
fax: +34 1 3305089
E-mail: abadia@seiv10.rpi.ses.alcatel.es
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Micro miniature radio hardware solutions are to be developed for mobile phone and Wireless Local Area Network (W-LAN) applications. Existing advanced IC, MCM, interconnection and subsystem integration technologies will be modified and optimised to provide reduced cost, smaller size and lower weight, portable communications product components. The integration of the TWICS technologies will be demonstrated in a set of wireless communications hardware functions.
Participants :-
GPS (UK); ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (S); STP ELEKTRONISCHE SYSTEME (D); GMMT (UK); BULL (F)
Contact Point :-
Professor David J. PEDDER
GEC Plessey Semiconductors
Cheney Manor
Swindon
Wilts SN2 2QW (United Kingdom)
tel: +44 1 793 518398
fax: +44 1 793 518401
E-mail: dpedder@lincoln.gpsemi.com
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A family of accelerometer microsystems will be developed for automotive applications based upon the following two types accelerometers;
- crash sensors for frontal impacts and airbag applications range around 50g
- crash sensors for side impacts and airbag applications range around 500g.
The project will focus on the development of key process technologies including assembly and testing, product designs and manufacture and test of functional prototypes in coordination with the establishment of high volume production capabilities.
Participants :-
SENSONOR (N), AUTOLIV (D), SINTEF (N)
Contact Point :-
Per OHLCKERS
SensoNor
Knutsrodveien 7
Horten, Vestfold County
N-1392 (Norway)
tel: +47 33 035179
fax: +47 33 044098
E-mail: Per.Ohlckers@si.intef.no
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The ELDISP project is aiming to develop the next generation of colour electroluminescent (EL) flat panel displays. It will also develop technologies for pilot manufacturing capacity for the production of these new displays. The target is cost effective, high performance EL displays based on the filtered concept with broad-band white light emitting phosphors. The new generation of colour EL displays will target the existing European and worldwide industrial and transportation market segments, as well as specific new consumer applications.
Participants :-
PLANAR (SF); CRL (UK); ERICSSON (S); HHI (HEINRICH-HERZ-INSTITUT (D); SAGEM (F); SGS-THOMSON (I); UPMC-AOMC (UNIVERSITY OF PARIS)(F).
Contact Point :-
Mr Arto PAKKALA
PLANAR International Ltd
PO Box 46, Olarinluoma 9
FIN-02201 ESPOO, (Finland)
tel: +358 9 42001 (direct: 4200316)
fax: +358 9 4221432
E-mail: arto-pakkala@ planar.com
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The preceding Esprit project AIMFED made significant progress in field emmission display manufacturing technology and developed holographic lithography, etching and specific phosphors and getter materials to demonstrate 5.2" displays.
Project FED now builds on this work and addresses displays for instrumentation in transport and industrial applications, with monochrome, multicolour and full colour displays at 2, 6 and 10.5 inches. The full colour displays will exhibit higher brightness (150 cd/m2) and improved power efficiency.
Participants :-
Pixtech (F), CEA-Leti (F), Holtronic (CH), RP (F), SAES (I), Univ.of Stuttgart (D)
Contact Point :-
Mr. Yves THENOZ
PIXTECH S.A.
AVENUE DE LA VIEILLE POSTE
PARC INDUSTRIEL DE LA POMPIGNANE
F-34055 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 1
France
Tel : +33 4 67 34 43 94
Fax : +33 4 67 65 08 21
e-mail : jpnoel@pixtech.mnet.fr
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Retail Business is involves three different type of operations, all of them strongly based on product identification systems:
- logistic operations (control of the different states that items can pass through)
- sales operations (computer aided check-out, goods returns, money refund,...)
- security operations (basically Electronic Article Surveillance, EAS systems)
Nowadays, the most popular method for goods identification is the bar-code system. This method requires the alignment of individual goods in front of an optical reader. It is prone to errors due to label abrasion or misalignment with the reader and does not provide a solution for the three operational problems above mentioned. New technology is required to implement a cost-effective identification system for goods and products that can offer functionalities which satisfy three operation areas of the retail business; allowing:
- identification with high reliability for logistic operations
- automatic check-out for sales operations
- EAS System for security operations
The technology developed in ALBATROS will enable retailers to put in place tag electronic identification systems which will greatly improve many aspects of the retail business.
Participants :-
INFORMATICA EL CORTE INGLES (E), MIKRON (A), EL CORTE INGLES (E), PHILIPS (D)
Contact Point :-
Rodrigo BECERRA
Informatica El Corte Inglés, S.A.
Travesia Costa Brava, 4
28034 MADRID (Spain)
tel: +34 1 387 47 00
fax: +34 1 734 47 76
E-mail: 101356.3430@compuserve.com
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A functional prototype of a compact laser-based system for obstacle detection on-vehicles is to be developed. New microsystem technologies are to be used to address the requirements of reliability, detection performance in adverse visibility, eye safety, and cost effectiveness.
The key technologies are an eye-safe microchip laser at 1,5 mm wavelength, and a beam-scanning system based on micromachined lenses and flexure structures for actuation. Original signal processing circuits will be developed, where time-of-flight and correlation techniques are integrated, aiming to improve the operation in bad atmospheric conditions. A technical evaluation, including real-field tests, and an overall assessment of the solution will be performed.
The system for obstacle detection will be the core component for driver support functions, with an high impact on safety, traffic efficiency and driving comfort. New application areas are also anticipated such as instrumentation, industrial automation and security systems.
Participants :-
C.R.F. (CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT) (I), LETI (CEA- DIRECTION DES TECHNOLOGIES AVANCEES) (F), JENOPTIK LASERDIODE (D), MAGNETI MARELLI (I), RENAULT (F), CSEM (CENTRE SUISSE D’ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE) (CH).
Contact Point :-
Giancarlo ALESSANDRETTI
Fiat Research Center
Strada Torino 50 - 10043 Orbassano (TO) (Italy)
tel: +39-11-9023.595
fax: +39-11-9023.673
E-mail: gc.alessandretti@crf.it
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The aim of the project is the development of an application specific memory integrating flash and EEPROM functions on the same chip for use, amongst others, in cellular phone applications. This innovative semiconductor device will be developed by the semiconductor company, SGS-Thomson, to the specifications determined by cellular phone manufacturer Nokia who will include the device in a phone demonstrator. Characterisation and process reliability studies will be undertaken at the IMEL research institute. A new non-volatile memory cell concept will be developed in order to integrate both flash and EEPROM memory structures on the same chip without any increase in manufacturing complexity.
Participants :-
SGS-THOMSON (I), NOKIA NMP (SF), SGS-THOMSON (F), IMEL (GR)
Contact Point :-
Dr. Giulio IANNUZZI
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics
via Olivetti, 2
20041 Agrate Brianza, (Italy)
Tel: +39 39 603 5028
Fax: +39 39 603 5233
E-mail: giulio.iannuzzi@st.com
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ISDN constitutes an important step in providing links which connect society to the information highway by expanding the bandwidth of the standard telephone gateway to a rate of four times higher than a sophisticated modem. In this project Alcatel Mietec and Quante will join forces to develop circuit techniques and macroblocks which can be used to create a high performance single chip ISDN Network Terminator. The resulting chips will cut costs and power dissipation down to the level required for open market proliferation. This mixed-mode ASIC will contain advanced design techniques that combine complex digital circuit of up to 300,000 transistors including embedded data processors together with high performance analogue circuits delivering 12 bit accuracy at 15MHz sampling speeds.
Participants :-
ALCATEL MIETEC (B), QUANTE (D)
Contact Point :-
Dr. Edmond JANSSENS
Alcatel Mietec
Westerring 15
B 9700 Oudenaarde (Belgium)
Tel: +32 55 33 22 11
Fax: +32 55 33 26 47
E-mail: ed_janssens@mietec.be
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The aim of the project is to establish the added value of bipolar SiGe ICs with respect to Si-based and III-V solutions by both developing the required process technology and by demonstrating the manufacturability in application specific designs.
Participants :-
PHILIPS (NL), SIEMENS (D), TEMIC (D), ERICSSON (S).
Contact Point :-
Carel J. VAN DER POEL
Philips Research
Prof. Holstlaan 4 (WAG14)
5656 AA EINDHOVEN (The Netherlands)
tel: +31 40 2743685
fax: +31 40 2743390
e-mail: poelc@natlab.ressearch.philips.com
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The COCLICO project aims at the development of an interoperable bi-compatible contact/contactless Smart Card system based on a secure single chip microcontroller. The main target application is a combined Transport Ticketing and Electronic Payment card. The COCLICO project will develop a Smart Card System that combines ISO7816 contact with "remote coupling" (10 cm distance) contactless operation. The COCLICO microcontroller IC and its tailored microcode will provide the high security level required for banking applications, with the necessary programmable flexibility to adapt the security algorithms to national regulations or specific application needs. It will also feature the contactless operation required for public transport ticketing applications with a fast transaction time. The COCLICO terminal interface IC and its associated control software will assure Card-to-Terminal and Terminal-to-Card compatibility established in this system specification for contactless operation.
Participants :-
GEMPLUS (F), MOTOROLA (CH, UK, F), AMEX (UK), SISTEMA 4B (E)
Contact Point :-
Olivier TREBUCQ
GEMPLUS
rue Guynemer, 34
92447 ISSY LES MOULINEAUX CEDEX (France)
tel: +33 1 46 48 20 32
fax: +33 1 46 48 20 03
E-mail: olivier.trebucq@ccmail.edt.fr
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The principle objective of the project is to provide advanced laminate substrate technologies for use in the rapidly emerging market for high-density electronic products such as lap-top computers, portable phones, as well as MCM-L (multi-chip-module-laminate) for desktop products. These new substrate technologies utilise new hole formation approaches such as laser drilling, plasma etching, photo formation, and are vital for a cost-effective and high-density solution necessary for further miniaturisation. By designing, building and testing functional demonstrators, enhanced packaging technologies for manufacture and assembly are to be developed in the field of advanced printed circuit boards and laminated organic MCMs. The demonstrators are designed to serve as electronic building blocks in real products in communications applications. Furthermore, the technology is considered to be suitable for the design of subsystems in the market segments of consumer products, automotive and other industrial applications.
Participants :-
STP (D), SOLECTRON (F), GEC-MARCONI (UK), INTRACOM (GR), NMRC (IRL), BPA(UK)
Contact Point :-
Dr. Eckardt BIHLER,
STP Elektronische Systeme GmbH
P.O.Box 560, D-71047 Sindelfingen, (Germany)
Tel: +49 7031 612 2456
Fax: +49 7031 612 2380
E-mail: ebihler@t-online.de
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The Multi-Chip Module (MCM) technology will be made more attractive for use in communications, automotive, industrial and consumer electronics applications. This will be realised by the development of a highly miniaturised and low overall cost MCM technology. It comprises innovative and low cost production processes at all levels- components, first level interconnect, substrates, second level interconnect- of the MCM architecture.
Participants :-
PHILIPS CFT (NL); COMBITECH ELECTRONICS (S); IMEC (B); IVF (S); SIEMENS (D); TU BERLIN (D); CICOREL (CH); STP (D); SHELLCASE (ISR).
Contact Point :-
Co VAN VEEN
Philips CFT-SAQ p246
P.O. Box 218
5600 MD Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
Tel: +31-40-2733364
Fax: +31-40-2859229
E-mail: veen_nja@nlcftccmail.cft.philips.nl
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The project will provide telecommunication equipment manufacturers with the capability to integrate using a single ASIC all the baseband and control circuitry of a digital radio terminal compliant with the TETRA and TETRAPOL standards. These terminals represent 30% of the private mobile radio (PMR) market, and this projects enables lightweight terminals with long battery life to be realised. Key analogue elements of the project are the Mixed-Signal Cells, I/Q RF Codec and CCITT Voice Codec. The analogue work will build on the design know how and the cells produced in ALCD Project, ESPRIT 8030 which now form part of ATMEL’s pre-characterised standard cells library. Digital design will focus on integrating the ARM7TDSP combined controller/DSP (Thumb/Picollo) core which provides a state-of-the-art performance and low power dissipation for implementing the control and baseband processing functions. This work will also include further development of the real-time operating systems and high level language programming tools to enable optimised algorithmic-level DSP compilation.
Participants :-
ATMEL (F), ARM (UK), THERA (I), IST (P), MATRACOM (F), OTE (I)
Contact Point :-
Ben ALTIERI,
ATMEL/ES2
13106 Rousset Cedex, (France)
Tel: +33 4 4253 6194
Fax: +33 4 4253 6323
E-mail: b-altieri@es2.fr
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A cost effective production process developed by LETI to produce SOI (Silicon on Insulator) wafers, with very low defect density, is at the origin of this project. In the SOI approach, the oxide layer under the drain and the source of the MOS transistors considerably reduces the parasitic capacitance of inverters and gates, especially at low supply voltages (below 1V) where the junction capacitance starts to increase exponentially. So below 1V the low power advantage of SOI is dominant and the cost per SOI transistor will be equal to the cost of a bulk CMOS-epitaxial transistor. The reduced parasitics also give SOI technology superior RF capabilities to bulk CMOS. The objective of the project is to develop the 0.25mm SOI technology at LETI in Grenoble and to transfer it to the production fab of ST in Crolles. The capabilities of the technology will be demonstrated with a GSM receiver -from RF to a serial digital I/Q baseband interface- by Alcatel, with some design activities subcontrated to Dolphin and Swindon Silicon Systems.UCL will contribute to the project with modelling of transistors and passives.
Participants :-
ALCATEL (B), SGS-THOMSON (F), LETI (F), UCL (B)
Contact Point :-
Jan SEVENHANS
ALCATEL BELL
Francis Wellesplein 1
2018 ANTWERPEN (Belgium)
tel: +32 3 240 87 52
fax: +32 3 240 99 47
E-mail: jsev@sh.bel.alcatel.be
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The OCMP project will apply proven analog low power design techniques to develop a single chip radio frontend for multi-mode (DCS1800 & DECT standards) hand portable terminal. It will include frequency synthesizer components, up/down converter blocks and amplifier blocks, such as LNA and prepower amplifier. The aim of the project is to prepare the way for the commercial availability of such an innovative component assisting significantly the small system companies which manufacture portable terminals and wish to enter the multi-mode terminal market.
Participants :-
INTRACOM (GR); SGS-THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS (I), TELITAL (I), SWINDON SILICON SYSTEMS (UK)
Contact Point :-
Mr. Dimitris DERVENIS
INTRACOM S.A.
19,5 km Markopoulou Ave
19002 Peania, (Greece)
Tel: +30 1 6860456
Fax: +30 1 6860312
E-mail: dder@intranet.gr
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In radio local-loop (RLL) applications for dense scenarios, traffic is the most demanding parameter. This is in contrast to a low density scenario where coverage is of paramount importance. The maximum amount of traffic handled in a cell site is limited by the handling capabilities of the installed equipment and by the level of interference caused by users in the cell or adjacent cells. Analysis of cost/traffic ratios leads to the conclusion that an optimal configuration corresponds to the colocation of two transceivers per sector. The TWIST project intends to further improve this solution. The goal of the project TWIST is to develop the core device of a novel DECT transceiver architecture capable of supporting two simultaneous communications (in TDD systems) requiring one single RF front-end. The architecture is based on the principle of image separation.
Participants :-
ALCATEL STANDARD ELÉCTRICA S.A. (E); UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID (E); SWINDON SILICON SYSTEMS LTD (UK); ALCATEL MIETEC (B).
Contact Point :-
Alfonso FERNÁNDEZ-DURÁN,
Alcatel Standard Eléctrica S. A.
Ramírez de Prado, 5
Madrid 28045 (Spain)
Tel: +34 1 330 4792
Fax: +34 1 330 5090
e-mail: afd @alcatel.es
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In the BATEL project plastic ball grid array (BGA) packages, which are currently the best choice with respect to high pincount, high density, high performance and SMT capabilities, will be developed to meet a number of stringent telecom application requirements, such as the need for thinner packages with high pincounts and reduced grid pitches. Medium ballcount (± 200 balls) thin BGA’s with a grid pitch down to 0.5 mm and a reduced profile down to 1.4 mm total thickness with chip scale potential will be developed. The developed BGA packages will be validated by means of an advanced GSM telecom demonstrator, processed in 0.35 µm CMOS.
Participants :-
ALCATEL MIETEC (B); SGS-THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS (F); ALCATEL MOBILE PHONES (F); SCI FRANCE (F); ALCATEL BELL (B); NMRC (IRL); SGS-THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS (I); MULTITEST (D); ICOS (B).
Contact Point :-
Dr Gust SCHOLS
Alcatel Mietec
Westerring 15
B-9700 Oudenaarde (Belgium)
Tel: +32-55-332342
Fax: +32-55-332647
E-mail: gu_schols@mietec.be
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The rigidity of user interfaces (touch-screen or menu-driven) of automatic systems prevents users from transacting tasks as fluently as would be the case were they communicating with other people. The objective of the MASK project is to develop an automated kiosk demonstrator with a more friendly user-interface, and to pave the way for a more advanced public service application by the use of multimodal and multimedia input-output. The MASK kiosk should be used in a real public service context (rail traveller services).
Participants :-
Contact Point :-
Mr. Sour Chhor
MORS
Centre d'Affaires Paris-Nord
Tour Continental - BP200
F-93153 Le Blanc-Mesnil Cedex
France
tel + 33 1 49 39 32 32
fax + 33 1 48 65 33 58
E-mail: m_capn@dialup.francenet.fr
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The objective of IRISPOL is to develop an application for information retrieval in the Police sector. Information will consist of multimedia data stored in a central database located in the Police headquarters and retrieved from the Police stations and from Police cars. The technical objectives of the project are to improve functionality and performance of technologies involved in the project and to develop an application using such improved technologies. The business objectives are the introduction of experimental technologies resulting from R&D projects in real application, the redeployment of IRISPOL application in other areas and the quality improvement of services provided by the Police.
Participants :-
Contact Point :-
Mrs. Dolores García-Plaza
IBERMATICA, S.A.
Avda. del Partenón, 16-18 - 1a Planta
Campo de las Naciones
E-28042 Madrid
Spain
tel + 34 1 384 91 44
fax + 34 1 384 91 00
E-mail: lola@nt.iber.es
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The aim of this project is to contribute to the growth of the electronic commerce on Internet by developing and installing end-to-end security mechanisms for commercial transactions using the Internet infrastructure. The intention is to make a professional infrastructure that is attractive to businesses and consumers, and to support the economic growth that the Information Society offers.
Participants :-
Contact Point :-
Mr. Mark Madsen
APM Ltd.
Poseidon House
Castle Park
UK-Cambridge CB3 0RD
United Kingdom
tel + 44 1223 51 50 10
fax + 44 1223 35 97 79
E-mail: apm@ansa.co.uk
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The technical objective of this project is concerned with assessing the usability of voice processing software in automated banking using the telephone ('direct banking').
The purpose of OVID is to bring together international banking partners and technology providers for a trial application of a European automated telephone banking using voice processing. The specific application will comprise a telephone banking service that allows customers to telephone the automated service and enquire about their bank balance and recent activity on their account, to pay bills and transfer funds. The trial application will allow the banks to assess the levels of increased sales and improved productivity that would be possible from the full software implementation. In addition the trial will support assessment of improvements in the ease of use from such automated services, and finally the problems of cross-border operation.
Participants :-
Contact Point :-
Mr. Jean-Paul Lefevre
Agora Conseil
185 Hameau du Chateau
F-38360 Sassenage
France
tel + 33 4 76 26 42 65
fax + 33 4 76 53 16 39
E-mail: 100700.750@compuserve.com
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The overall goal of the WIRE project is to make it possible for organisations to deploy Secure Enterprise Webs. Today, many organisations have set up Web servers for non strategic IT applications to deliver public information to the market at a low cost compared to advertisement in other media. The benefits for the organisation are immediate. In summary, this current WEB technology is successful when data is public (access control is not required), small (less than thousands of pages) and simple (text, numbers, built-in .gif images).
Participants :-
Contact Point :-
Mr. Vania Joloboff
OSF
Avenue de Vignate
F-38610 Gières
France
tel + 33 4 76 63 48 92
fax + 33 4 76 63 05 32
E-mail: V.Joloboff@opengroup.org
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The main objective of the CIME project in the context of emerging information highways is to expand the use of on-line information services already available by strengthening European players position, thus creating a European alternative to dominant U.S. services such as Knight Ridder DIALOG or CAS-STN and facilitating the co-operation with new partners both in the dissemination and information supply sectors. In this respect, the co-operation between major European on-line host services (DIMDI, ESA-IRS, INFODATA, QUESTEL.ORBIT) aims at drastically enlarging the offering to the users : any user of any host service should be able to use the information of the other hosts without any additional contractual educational, training or technical implication.
Participants :-
Contact Point :-
Mrs. Christine Raulin
QUESTEL SA
Avenue des Champs Pierreux 55
F-92029 Nanterre
France
fax + 33 1 46 14 55 11
tel + 33 1 46 14 56 33
E-mail: CRaulin@Questel.fr
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The objectives of the working group are to explore foundations for specifying and developing widely distributed information systems (WDIS) such as those owned by banks, airlines and governments. The explosive growth of the Internet is evidence that a global information infrastructure is developing, and expansion in the use of WDISs can be predicted.
Participants :-
Contact Point :-
Hans-Dieter Ehrich
TU Braunschweig
Gausstrasse 12
D-38023 Braunschweig
Germany
tel + 49 531 391 3271
fax + 49 531 391 3298
E-mail: HD.Ehrich u-bs.de
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The main aim of ARNO is to develop optimisation methods and associated software tools for cellular network engineering. Up to now the combinatorial complexity of cellular network design has not been considered by the exploitation services of mobile operators as a main optimisation problem to computerise. Essential optimisation procedures involved only the handmade parametrisation of current networks. However, now the rapid growth of network size and design complexity make essential to consider the combinatorial complexity of network design as an optimisation problem in need of computerisation. From an optimisation point of view, it means dealing with the interconnection of subproblems, an enormous volume of data, and difficult combinatorial aspects, features which cannot be taken into account optimally without advanced computerisation.
Participants :-
Contact Point :-
Mr. Alexandre Caminada
France Telecom-CNET
6 avenue des Usines
BP 382
F-90007 Belfort Cedex
France
tel +33 3 84544225
fax +33 3 84544396
E-mail: alexandre.caminada@belfort.cnet.fr
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The key objective of the JEDI Project is to develop a tool and a working method that will permit to easily develop compound multisupport titles; that is publishing products combining current physical supports (books, CD-ROM, etc.) with access to databases over the Internet. In that way, publishers could focus on the information itself, paying less attention to technical concerns, not only to build a new title but also to keep it updated. Beyond the initial market target of publishing, it is expected also that the JEDI tool will be very welcomed by systems integrators to develop applications to be deployed both on Internet or intranets and requiring a non trivial access to existing databases.
Participants :-
Contact Point :-
Mr. Cesar Perez-Chirinos
Transtools S.A.
Edificio World Trade Center
Isla de la Cortiza
E-41092 Sevilla
Spain
tel+ 34 5 448 82 34
fax + 34 5 448 82 46
E-mail: cesar@cpchya.es
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A monitoring system targeted at multi-lane motorways, using image sensors. The demonstrator to be developed requires the monitoring of scenes where objects move with considerable speed, and the transmission of both statistical and visual information over narrow-band channels. A central control station will process incoming data from several local stations for operator display and for intelligent decision support. Local stations will be required to work under varied conditions of lighting and weather, and the cameras may have to be located in non-optimal viewpoints.
Participants :-
Eliop SA [E], Robert Bosch GmbH [D], Universidad Politecnica de Madrid [E], Aucalsa [E], Bundesanstalt für Strassenwesen [D]
Contact Point :-
Jesus Tardón
Eliop SA
Avda. de Manoteras s/n
E-28050 MADRID
Spain
tel: +34 1.302.3940
fax: +34 1.302.9249
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The overall goal of the project is to integrate the simulation of fluid flow, mixing and heat release in internal combustion engines into the development cycle through the use of HPCN. In order to make further advances in the development of piston engines, including the lowering of harmful emissions and the improvement of fuel economy, it will be necessary to make increasing use of computational fluid dynamics. At present there are two main obstacles to transferring existing relevant basic research to development centres. The first obstacle is the long computational time currently required for the realistic simulation of time-dependent flow fields and turbulent combustion under real-engine conditions. The second obstacle is the time and cost required to generate, modify and control the computational grid. The aim of the project is to demonstrate real-engine simulations within one week. These simulations will include the necessary pre- and post-processing and should allow an accurate prediction of velocity fields, turbulence, fuel distribution at ignition point and heat release. This is the necessary condition for achieving the required improvement in the development processes of internal combustion engines from the standpoint of engine designers. From the automotive companies' viewpoint, the reductions in time, effort and cost to achieve those improvements in engine performance required by market competition and government legislation will represent a major advance and will contribute to their competitive advantage.
Participants :-
Daimler-Benz (D), Computational Dynamics (UK), Renault (F), RUS (D), Cray Research (D)
Contact Point :-
Harald Echtle
Daimler Benz AG
HPC: E222
D-70548 Stuttgart
Germany
tel: +49 711 17 20884
fax: +49 711 17 52026
email: echtle@str.daimler-benz.com
http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/RUSuser/vis/hps-ice.html
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The project will develop a high-performance tool for performing probabilistic analysis of components such as structures and mechanisms. The underlying technique will be Monte Carlo Simulation which is characterised by intrinsic parallelism and general applicability. A generic platform for a solver-independent approach to stochastic mechanics will be developed whereby either a finite element method (FEM) or multi-body dynamics (MBD) solver may be "plugged-in" without the need for any specific interfacing. The important characteristic of the system will be the treatment of parameter scatter and uncertainty by executing a set of independent deterministic runs generated according to modern sampling schemes which span the entire parameter space. The system will therefore have the capability of running the set of runs on a possibly heterogeneous LAN or WAN, including WANs distributed internationally. This integration of distributed computing facilities will enable the tool to tackle stochastic mechanics and other scientific problems with an unprecedented degree of complexity and detail and with a high industrial relevance and significance.
Participants :-
CASA Space Division (E), CEIT (E), IKOSS (D), ITALDESIGN (I), RUS (D), BLUE Engineering (I), PAC (GB), UPC (E)
Contact Point :-
V.G. Molinero
CASA Space Division
Avenida de Aragon, 404
E-28022 Madrid
Spain
tel: +34 1 5863796
fax: +34 1 7474799
email: vgomez@ana.casa-de.es
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The project aims to develop and test an Earth Observation (EO) information access and retrieval system. The major objective is to allow the demonstration of high-volume, interactive data-access and data-mining services and to offer on-line and thematic data access. The project will address some of the technical constraints to the operational development of EO services. These relate to adequate information extraction tools, data availability and data delivery. In particular, the project will address the improvement of access to products and of their availability and associated delivery times. This will enable users of remote sensing products to have access via computer networks not only to catalogues, but also to the products themselves. The images will be compressed according to individual requirements. To do this the client expresses interactively a priori needs for each requested image. The server selects the appropriate features inside the image, simplifies the information outside those features and compresses the image before sending it to the client. The compressed image is then received and decompressed. The emphasis is on the expansion of the EO market to new users as well as on the improvement of existing capabilities by improving the current level of EO data usage in the supply chain comprising primary data provider, value-added supplier and end user.
Participants :-
Matra Cap Systèmes (F), Dornier (D), Advanced Computers Systems (I), ITC (NL), JRC (Int), Spot Image (F), Vitec Multimedia (F), Cap Gemini (I), Cray Systems (UK), CSA (IRL), ESA/ESRIN (Int), RS Consult (DK), Small End Users (EU)
Contact Point :-
Yves Henaff
Matra Cap Systèmes
6 Rue Dewoitine
F-78142 Velizy Villacoublay
France
tel: +33 1 34637272
fax: +33 1 34637320
email: horus@matra-ms2i.fr
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The objective of the project is to prepare for the development of future Video-On-Demand (VOD) products for the transportation market. It is envisaged that, in the near future, commercial planes, ocean liners, ferries and trains will be fitted with VOD servers. Passengers will then be able to choose and control video programmes from individual terminals. The server will also provide games, tourist information, news and other services. A strong growth in this type of services and products is anticipated in the near future if such systems can be made available with an acceptable performance at a reasonable price. The project will evaluate the suitability of HPCN technology for an embedded VOD server. This will be supported by the development of a demonstrator including a server with an operating environment and applications. Evaluation of this demonstrator will require the presence of a large number of terminals, a few of which will be physical while the others will be simulated. This will enable the project partners to implement a pilot VOD application and to debug, test and optimise the whole system from a functional and a technical point of view. The system will be largely based on standard components and interfaces. Specially designed software tools will be used for system tuning.
Participants :-
Dassault Electronique (F), Becker Flugfunkwerk (D), GMD (D), Hyperparallel Technologies (F), Sistemas Expertos (E), Iberia Lineas Aéreas de España (E), RENFE (E)
Contact Point :-
Francis Atche
Dassault Electronique
55, quai Marcel Dassault
F-92214 Saint Cloud
France
tel: +33 1 34 81 67 89
fax: +33 1 34 81 48 51
email: francis.atche@dassault-elec.fr
http://set.gmd.de/RS/EIVIS
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Post-production companies use three-dimensional graphics applications to produce film and video footage for commercial advertisements and television productions. The computing time for such applications takes several weeks on conventional computers, but could be reduced to hours through the use of high-performance parallel systems. The objective of EROPPA is to design, implement and test methodologies for remote access to computationally intensive three-dimensional graphics applications running on high-performance facilities for use in post production. Such access, if effective and economically viable, would change the post-production business dramatically. The project is driven by the real market requirements and needs of companies in this area, particularly SMEs who cannot afford to buy higher end computers. A major goal of the project is to demonstrate the use of high-performance computer systems available via high-bandwidth networks to provide an economic option for EU SMEs working in the post-production area. Such a development could have a significant impact on their competitiveness with the additional benefit of enabling more productive multi-site working
Participants :-
Mangos Studios (GR), NTUA (GR), Eindhoven University (NL), Raster Facilitair (NL), Genias Benelux (NL)
Contact Point :-
Dora Varvarigou
National Technical University of Athens
Heroon Polytechniou 9 str.
GR-157 73 Zographou Athens
Greece
tel: +30 1 7722 533
fax: +30 1 7722 534
email: dora@telecom.ntua.gr
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Electronic component suppliers have large image databases holding technical support information and product data sheets. The core size and number of weekly updates make it difficult for such suppliers to maintain these databases over a number of international sites. A centralised approach with conventional telecommunications links is infeasible as access and transfer time would prevent practical use of the system for support engineers in direct telephone contact with customers.
The objective of the WARPSPEID project is to specify and evaluate the effectiveness of using high-performance networks to provide pre and post-sales support in engineering component supply for RS Components. Their offices in various member states will be networked allowing direct access to the existing UK product support databases. The effect will be to improve both the accuracy and timeliness of responses for European mainland customers with consequent improvement in customer service. A number of SMEs will also be networked allowing direct access to the RS support database without the need for intermediate support.
An objective of the project is to convert greater access to a broad range of leading-edge technical information into a competitive advantage for European companies both users and suppliers. Other socio-economic benefits are expected through the better use of qualified staff and through the improvement in the quality of their work.
Participants :-
RS Components (UK), MARI (UK), Domino (UK), Jacob Hatteland (S), Mulder Hardenberg (NL), North Down and Ards Institute (UK)
Contact Point :-
Jim Craig
MARI (Northern Ireland)
Bridgewood House, Newforge Lane
UK - BT9 5NW Belfast
United Kingdom
tel: +44 1232 669500
fax: +44 1232 669800
email: craig@mari.co.uk
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The project aims at evaluating and promoting the use of High Performance Computing and Networking for industries and the educational sector. The project is organised as a cluster of several projects based on the remote access to High Performance computers at the CEPBA (UPC) computing centre. Each subproject uses tools developed in the PCI-I (Pacos) and PCI-II projects. An educational project will enable several schools, from Spain and The Netherlands in particular, to enhance a baseline project on air polution with an environment for remote collaborative manipulation of multimedia data and visualization. The dissemination of this activity should create new products in remote education using High Performance Computing, industrial spin-offs as well as public awareness of the value of HPCN applications. The resulting infrastructure will increase the accessibility of High Performance Computing based applications to industry not only at the research and evaluation phase but also in production environments on the field, and by applications that do not justify the acquisition of expensive hardware. This will lower the risk of adoption of these techniques by SMEs. In addition, awareness and recognition of the benefits of high performance applications by the public will increase from dissemination activities in the media.
Participants :-
ESPAIS TELEMATICS S.L. (E), UPC (E), COMCOOP (E), AZTI (E), EyS (E), NEOSYSTEMS (E),
Contact Point :-
Narcis Vives
Espais Telematics, S.L.
ARAGO 390, Atic 8a
E - 08013 Barcelona
Spain
tel: +34 3 265 89 95
fax: +34 3 265 89 95
email: daucom@lix.intercom.es
http://www.daucom.es
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The specialised electronics business is a high technology endeavour where a unique and highly complex product must be designed and optimised while using sophisticated ESD and simulation tools, a long chain of suppliers, customers and silicon foundries and the many constraints of the global open market. The proposed project intends to implement on a small scale a distributed working environment, based on high performance networking infrastructure readily available, i.e. Primary Rate ISDN and ATM switching. The distributed environment will comprise of the main manufacturing facility, the suppliers chain and the various specialised design teams. The objective will be to demonstrate, on the basis of an existing design and production contract for a telecommunications product, the benefits associated with the use of HPN in the area of Electronic System Design. The project will use existing commercial or beta tools for distributed simulation, modelling and design, on a common ESD platform exploiting the ISDN services for European level connectivity and ATM services for current in-house and prospective broadband connectivity.
Participants :-
M&S HOURDAKIS S.A. (GR), Solinet Gmbh (D), Institute of Microelectronics •NCSR "DEMOKRITOS" (GR), FORTH/IESL (GR), I&E PAPADAKIS ltd (GR)
Contact Point :-
H. Lambropoulos
M&S HOURDAKIS S.A.
P.O. Box 117, Industrial Area Korropi
GR 19400
Greece
tel: +30 1 6624043
fax: +30 1 6622786
email: lambrop@msh.com.gr
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The main objective of the project is the integration and demonstration of a generic and extensible system to support the generation of scenarios for real-time interactive television. This realisation of a virtual interactive studio will offer facilities for mixing real and synthetic objects and characters in any combination, to be controlled remotely by end users such as home television viewers. The system will enable the realisation of innovative interactive domestic tele-services. The image content of the programmes will be generated over ATM in real-time by high-end graphical computers. To reduce costs telephone networks will be used for viewer feedback. The number of simultaneous interactive viewers will vary from a few to several hundred. Three concrete and specific applications will be tested using the system:
- An interactive television drama (simultaneously on three channels) with viewer participation
- Creation of a virtual presenter who can be controlled remotely in real-time.
- Creation of an interactive virtual driving environment to teach traffic rules.
For the first time broadcasting companies will be able to transmit interactive programmes in which viewers can actively direct and participate. The project will build on the expertise and technology of the HUMANOID, HUMANOID-2 , CHARM, VISINET and VLNet projects.
Participants :-
European Design Centre (NL), BRTN (B), EPFL (CH), Limburgs Universitair Centrum (B), NOB Interactive (NL), University of Bradford (UK), University of Geneva (CH), VPRO Televisie (NL), Androme (B)
Contact Point :-
Joao Mena de Matos
European Design Centre b.v.
P.O. Box 6279
NL-5600 HG Eindhoven
The Netherlands
tel: +31.40.2466350
fax: +31.40.2466850
email: menadematos@edc.nl
http://www.edc.nl/
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Reverse Engineering Ltd (REL), an engineering consultancy firm using numerical simulation tools, have obvious HPCN requirements, but are unable to justify the large capital costs of purchasing high end equipment. Typical uses are the numerical simulations of the responses of structures to blast impact and explosive loading. Applications for this work include the development of side impact safety systems for vehicles, and the qualification and decommissioning of offshore structures.
The main objectives of the project are:
(a) to show how existing hardware resources can be utilised more efficiently by exploiting high performance networking.
(b) to investigate the usefulness of European broadband networks for improving working practices and increasing the throughput of work.
(c) to investigate the usefulness of visualisation environments for embedded computational steering of remote simulations.
The results of the experiments will be reduced execution times for existing numerical simulations and the ability to run larger simulations which more accurately capture the physics of the problems. Through dissemination and training activities, the results of the project will promote the use of HPCN amongst engineering firms within Europe encouraging them to improve their competitiveness. In addition, through REL's client base the results will be disseminated into different market sectors throughout Europe.
Participants :-
REL-M (UK), REL-NOR (N), MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY (UK)
Contact Point :-
Paul Jacob
REVERSE ENGINEERING
2nd floor- Brancaster Road
UK-M1 7ED MANCHESTER
United Kingdom
tel: +44 161 228 32 10
fax: +44 161 228 32 11
email: zzptmpj@afs.mcc.ac.uk
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The purpose of the project is to set up user experiments on the usage of computer supported collaborative working (CSCW) tools over an ATM wide area network in a distributed environment. The experiment is a user-driven trial which will involve leading edge automotive manufacturers and suppliers in a multi-site topology, using high performance communication services and applications. Some of the involved companies were early adopters of such advanced communications and development tools and are now willing to extend their expertise in this domain. The objective is to qualify and to assess the viability of such advanced tools on both technical and economical standpoints through field trials involving real users in each industrial company : Renault and Siemens Automotive in 4 different locations. These field trials are now possible since ATM technology, services and products are becoming available and advanced collaborative working tools are being developed and tested.The whole automotive business process is to be impacted by the results of the trial: impact on the decision-making process before launching a new vehicle, impact on experimenting best practices, impact on the time to market and the competitiveness of the European automotive industry, impact on the development costs of a new vehicle.
Participants :-
SIEMENS Automotive S.A. (F), Renault S.A. (F), Siemens Bereich Automobiltechnik (D), MECONZA (E), FT-EXPERTEL (F), LAAS-CNRS (F)
Contact Point :-
Michèle BRUN-CROZET
Siemens Automotive S.A.
Avenue du Mirail, BP 1149
F - 31036 TOULOUSE Cedex
France
tel: +33 5 61 19 85 16
fax: +33 5 61 19 25 17
email: mbrun@scn.de
http://www.expertel.fr/CANET/
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The project aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of a collaborative working environment in the design of a new car. This environment will be based around multimedia communication tools and will draw on experiences already gained in a relevant project involving ARUP and Falkenburger und Partner. The objective is to set up a multi-site high-performance computing environment and to determine its cost-benefits when applied to a real engineering problem from the automobile industry involving several collaborating partners operating under realistic commercial constraints. A further objective is the establishment of best industrial practices for such a practice. Although drawing on an example from the automobile industry, the results of the project will be applicable to many other industrial problems involving engineering simulations and collaborative working. The COVISE system developed by RUS will form the basis for the work of the project. This system includes dedicated data management and support for several simultaneous users of high-performance visualisation. Engine and crash simulations will both be supported by this environment and will enable engineers from different organisations to work together on a common design.
Participants :-
Porsche AG (D), Falkenburger und Partner (D), ARUP (UK), RUS (D)
Contact Point :-
Ulrich Lang
RUS, University of Stuttgart
Allmandring 30
D-70550 Stuttgart
Germany
tel: +49 711 131 9110
fax: +49 711 678 7626
email: lang@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
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The quality of service provided by ATM networks makes it possible to develop advanced applications for the industry which will be highly disseminated. The co-operative design of tyres will be promoted by providing the design teams, who are located in Italy and Germany, the capability to share both their CAD software sessions and their design data bases. The designers will be able to have video conferences with the most recent tools enhancing the co-operation (white board, desktop application sharing, training courses, video data base of seminars and demonstrations) with their distant colleagues. The objective is to give to these distant teams all the means to share experience and expertise by replacing the phone and fax by the added value capabilities of the fast transmission of sound and pictures. The second activities include the results of a second baseline project which consists of developing a demonstrator of a multi-media platform (including a video server) for the distant training of the users of complex simulation tools such as those used by the operators of nuclear power plants, but also designers of thermoplastics parts. This platform will also be applied to the dissemination of video courses and for the consultancy of experts. This so-called tele-training and tele-expertise platform will be experimented in a variety of applications such as assisted maintenance and training for network engineers, thermal engineers.
Participants :-
CISI S.A. (F), CISI AID S.p.A. (I), Pirelli S.p.A. (I)
Contact Point :-
Andre Latrobe
CISI
rue de l'Arcelle, 6
F-38600 FONTAINE
France
tel: +33 4 76 85 99 00
fax: +33 4 76 85 99 20
email: latrobe@mercure.cisi.fr
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Within the framework of HPCN Information Management and Decision Support, HITERM aims at expanding the application of HPCN to decision support in new domains: the central focus is the interface between technological risk management and the environment. Using distributed parallel computing, the project aims at reaching better-than real time performance for the simulation of accidental release of hazardous substances into the atmosphere and ground and surface water. This information will be used, in the framework of interactive, on-line decision support and advisory systems for the adaptive routing of hazardous transports integrating environmental risk criteria with other road information and the support of emergency management tasks (and related staff training) for transportation accidents involving hazardous substances and for hazardous installations, as foreseen by the amended Post-Seveso Directive (82/501/EEC, 87/216/EEC, COM(94)4). In addition to connecting the HPC simulations to various on-line monitoring data sources, the project will explore the on-line integration of uncertainty and error analysis based on Monte-Carlo methods and on-line interactive data interpretation and visualization for dynamic, spatially distributed, and probabilistic model results.
Participants :-
Environmental Software and Services GmbH (A), GMD (D), SYRECO s.r.l. (I), LNEC Informatica SA (P), FCCN (P), PETROGAL Petroleos de Portugal, SA (P), ASIT Security and Information Systems in Transport Ltd. (CH)
Contact Point :-
Dr. Kurt Fedra
Environmental Software and Service GmbH
Kalkgewerk 1
A-2352 Gumpoldskirchen,
Austria
tel +43-22 52-63 30 50
fax +43-22 52-63 30 59
email: info@ess.co.at
http: www.ess.co.at/HITERM/
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The project is an extension of the ESPRIT project 6173 DESIRE. The DESIRE II project aims to complete the development of the DESIRE rendering software and its interface, for distributed and remote networked communication, the implementation of parallel geometric algorithms for interactive styling, and at the first implementation of a fully functional prototype system for interactive design and engineering of car bodies based on visual feedback through photorealistic rendering and through visualisation of simulated external air flow. This will provide a solid foundation for large scale industrial realisations of the digital mock-up concept. The DESIRE rendering software will be suitable for a wide range of application areas. In addition to the application originally chosen to drive the development in the DESIRE project, i.e., interactive design and engineering of car bodies, these areas will include interactive architectural design and lighting simulation, scientific visualisation, commercial digital film production for entertainment and education, digital media games production and high image quality virtual reality applications.
Participants :-
Mental Images (D), BUF (F), Crystal Magic (UK), Dassault Systems (F), HTC (D), WSTL (UK)
Contact Point :-
Rolf Herken
Mental Images
Fasanenstrasse 81
D-10623 Berlin
Germany
tel: +49 30 31 59970
fax: +49 30 31 599733
email: office@mental.com
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This project aims to develop and evaluate new technologies for high speed wireless local area networks, based on radio communications techniques, for linking computers, workstations and servers. The project will assess the advantages in using emerging broadband and spread-spectrum techniques to achieve a high data rate (10 Mbit/s is to be considered a realistic target).
Participants :-
DASSAULT Automatismes & Télécommunications (F), DASSAULT Electronique (F), INRIA (F), University of Bristol (UK), University of Bradford (UK), SYMBIONICS Ltd (UK), ELETTRONICA SPA (I)
Contact Point :-
Jean-Francois Salessy
Dassault Automatismes & télécommunications
Rue Elsa Triolet, 9 - BP 13
Z.I. Les Gatines
F - 78373 Plaisir
salessy@dassault-elec.fr
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Project Hiperion will create and demonstrate a European capability for high performance radio networking for portable computers. Portable computers will play an ever increasingly important role in business, education and leisure environments in coming years. Communications technologies which permit access to information and services as well as those which enable collaboration and sharing will be fundamental technologies for tomorrow's information based economies. Project HIPERION seeks solutions to those problems which will enable dynamic creation of ad-hoc networks for collaboration and education purposes as well as enable portable and mobile devices to be in communication with existing and future infrastructures.
The main goals are:
- research in the development of radio and associated component and packaging technology to enable commercial realization of low power, highly miniaturized microwave communications systems for desktop, portable and mobile computing devices,
- coded modulation and equalisation techniques required to enable 10 Mbps communications data rates at microwave frequencies in bands identified by CEPT for such purposes and compatible with future standards currently under development,
- communications techniques and protocols to enable portable and mobile devices to establish and maintain local area type communcations amongst themselves and with in-building infrastructure in accordance with future standards currently under development.
Participants :-
Apple Computer Europe (F); GEC-Plessey Semiconductors (UK), ARM (UK)
Contact Point :-
Mr. Larry Taylor
Apple Computer Europe inc.
80 Avenue du Président Wilson
F - 92800 Puteaux, France
Tel +33 1 34 80 30 20
Fax +33 1 40 9 0 09 54
E-mail: larry@apple.com
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NEWSPAD is an OMI application project in the multimedia consumer market area. Its overall objective is to design, implement and pilot a multimedia news broadcasting system, where the information is disseminated via digital communication means (such as satellite/terrestrial digital broadcasting and ISDN), and delivered through a low-cost, small size, low weight, fully-featured portable multimedia device. Broadcasted information includes news, entertainment, education and advertising. However, for the sake of simplicity the term "multimedia newspaper" will be used.
The project concentrates on both the hardware and software components of the delivery system and on the required software for the authoring system. However, the project takes into account all aspects of the service: data collection, data storage (multimedia object databases), multiuser authoring environment, distribution to consumers and final delivery.
Participants :-
EDICIONES PRIMERA PLANA, SA (E), ACORN COMPUTERS LIMITED (UK), ASA FILMS SA (F), ARCHIMEDES SA (GR), INSTITUT CATALA (E), UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH - TECHMAP (UK)
Contact Point :-
Mr Joaquin SANS
Edidiones Primera Plana
SA/Grupo Z
Comte d'Urgell, 71-73
E - 08011 Barcelona
tel. + 34 / 3-451-3232
fax + 34 / 3-451-4862
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The main objective of the MIMICS Project is to provide an innovative hardware and software platform for multiparty communication. In particular, the system will provide the hardware and software for the management of Multipoint communication. The hardware will include user terminals and Multipoint Control Units (MCUs) which will fully conform to the T.120 series of standards. The software modules will include APIs and Application Services. In addition, the Project aims to experiment with the creation of service centres that offer multimedia conferencing services both to generic users who simply need communication facilities and to specialised users.
Participants :-
OLIVETTI (I), BRITISH TELECOM (UK), AGUSTA (I), ALBANET (I), PIN, TKE
Contact Point :-
Mr. Paolo SPINELLI
OLIVETTI MULTIMEDIA
Via Malagoli, 12
I-56124 Pisa (Italy)
tel +39 50-944 299
fax +39 50-944 243
email: spinelli@psatit.ico.olivetti.com
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The project aims to realise a consumer-oriented system for developing the tourist potential of European cities by providing communications-based services to a significant sample of people in selected geographic areas and by making what the involved areas have to offer the tourist known to the largest possible community of networked users: the Internet. MILLION assumes as a starting point the phenomenon of civic networking, in progress in several cities of the EU (as in Bologna and in Venice), and aims to build a system which will make possible to move on from giving civic information to citizens at no charge to providing services to the consumer for payment, first of all in the field of tourism.
Participants :-
OMEGA GENERATION (I), INTRACOM (GR), TOURING CLUD ITALIANO (I), DIGICASH (NL), VENIS (I), MUSIC (GR), TELECOOPERATION OFFICE UNIV. OF KARLSRUHE (D), MUNICIPALITIES of BOLOGNA (I), VENICE (I) and CHANIA (GR)
Contact Point :-
Mirko LABBRI
OMEGA GENERATION
Via Murri, 39
I - 40137 Bologna
Tel. +39 51 306 644
Fax. +39 51 390 310
email: rtd@omega.nettuno.it
WWW: http://www.omega.it/million/
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The objective of the INK Project is to develop a system for POS/POI (Point of Sale / Point of Information) networked applications where access to multimedia data is provided from a number of interactive terminals connected to one or more video servers.
Low cost, Windows-based terminals will be employed, either by the user company staff, or directly by the customer. Real-time MPEG compression / decompression will be used to reduce both storage requirements and transmission bandwidth. Limited authoring facilities will be available for the quick modification of both the video database contents and the application structure.
An ATM based network will be provided for accessing multimedia information. However, lower bandwidth multiplexed access will be used for connecting the POS/POI terminals to the ATM switching equipment, both to optimise bandwidth utilisation and to reduce the cost/terminal ratio of the system.
Participants :-
ARCHETYPON S.A. (GR), APD, S.A. (E), COMUNICACI"N INTERACTIVA (E), JURYS HOTEL (IRL), RUTHERFORD APPLETON LAB. (UK), VITEC MULTIMEDIA (F), FNAC ESPAÑA (E), TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (IRL)
Contact Point :-
George Kordelis
ARCHETYPON S.A.
26 Fokidos Str.
GR - 11526 Athens
tel +30 1 7482684
fax +30/1-7482696
email: cor@archetypon.gr
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This project aims to develop macrocell components targeted specifically at enabling the development of highly integrated next generation car information systems. The project brings together European expertise in localisation and vehicle user interfacing with microprocessor and GPS expertise to enable a powerful application specific solution to target this high volume market world-wide.
Participants :-
VALEO BORG (D), SGS THOMSON Microelectronics (UK), PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN (F), BCI (F), ITMI APTOR (F)
Contact Point :-
Mr. Ulrich Magold
VALEO BORG Intruments GmbH &Co, KG
Benzstr. 6
D - 75196 Remchingen
tel. +49 7232 799 466
fax. +49 7232 799 491
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The GUIDE project aims at establishing Europe as the world leader in the use of Portable Digital Assistants for museum visitors to not only enrich the visit experience but also to enable them to take away a Personal Catalogue in attractive paper form (or an electronic version) containing only the information they require on objects or themes of particular interest to them, with an emphasis on the use of narratives to stimulate and educate and entertain them as well as encouraging repeat visits - either in person or increasingly over the "Infobahn". The latter is seen as complementary to the GUIDE PDAs since it is increasingly clear that electronic visits are no adequate substitute for the actual visit, except for disadvantaged people, and indeed there is emerging evidence that electronic visits lead to higher numbers of "physical" visits.
Participants :-
COMPART GmbH (D), I-MEDIA (UK), JUEDISCHES MUSEUM DER STADT WIEN (A), NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND (UK), RADIO GUIDE (I), STEREMAT ELEKTRONISCHE GERAETETECHNIK (D), UNIVERSITA DI FIRENZE (I), VASARI ENTERPRISES (UK)
Contact Point :-
Alex GESCHKE
COMPART GmbH
Schieritzstr., 34
D - 10409 Berlin
fax + 49 30 4211219
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This project aims to implement the Virtual-Net (V-Net) adapter card for demonstrating the use of OMI developed tools and design practice to rapidly develop system configurations that include integration of embedded CPU cores with application microcode. The V-Net demonstrator card will be used to configure Wireless Local area Networks (WLANs) based on the IEEE Standard protocol 802.11.
Participants :-
DCT Hellas (GR)
Contact Point :-
Mrs Angela Konstantinidi
Data Communication Technologies Hellas
Syngrou Av. And Solonos 4
Kalithea 176 73
GR - Athens
tel. +30 1 93 09 779
fax. +30 1 93 09 778
email: dct@hol.gr
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The objective of the project is to develop a flexible multimedia application to organise and improve the synchronisation of data between corporate information systems and portable personal computers used in the field. The results of the project will help:
* operations managers to organise and allocate tasks to field operatives.
* systems managers to keep central databases up to date from information provided by staff in the field.
* field operatives to gather and validate multimedia geographic, alphanumeric and maintenance data (including voice-registered data and photographs) about existing equipment and facilities, and to assist in the inspection, maintenance, operation and modification of equipment.
The application will be divided in two subsystems. A central host system running in the local operational control centres will connect to the corporate information system. A remote client subsystem running on portable computers will support individual users in the field, communicating online with the central host as necessary.
Participants :-
SOFTWARE AG ESPANA, S.A. (E), IBERDROLA S.A. (E), EA TECHNOLOGY LTD (UK), TEMA SpA (I), KAT UNIV. LEUVEN (B)
Contact Point :-
José A. FRIAS
Software AG España, S.A.
Ronda de la Luna, 4
Tres Cantos
E-28760 Madrid
tel +34 1 8079485
fax +34 1 8079493
email jfrias@sag.es
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The Infomar Project will develop and demonstrate a multi-cultural information and trading network for fresh seafood, linking fishermen, processors, fish merchants, retailers and various supporting organisations (logistics, quality control, insurance and payment transfer) in order to increase efficiency and stability in seafood trading. The objectives and results of the project will be :
· increased stability in price and supply
· improved quality by reducing handling and delay
· increased productivity and profitability
· strengthening of traditional fishing communities by making them competitive
Participants :-
VEGA (UK), HAVINFO (N), MARSTAR (IS), NAVIGS (F)
Contact Point :-
Ms Susan Holmes
VEGA Group PLC
2 Falcon Way,
Shire Park,
Welwyn Garden City,
UK - AL7 1TW
Tel: +44 (0)1707 391999
Fax: +44 (0)1707 393909
E-mail: sholmes@vegauk.co.uk
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For many years the ARC automobile clubs (AA (United Kingdom), ADAC (Germany), ÖAMTC (Austria), TCS (Switzerland), ACI (Italy), RACE (Spain), TCB (Belgium), ANWB (The Netherlands)) are providing assistance, in their home country, in cooperation with service providers, such as towing companies, garages, rental car companies, to those travellers in need. The ARCIP project will make the first step towards one virtual European Club in which the individual clubs work very closely together. In that way a consistent quality of service is given to individual members and business customers (car manufacturers, fleet owners, etc) in all European countries based upon efficient and effective operations within the clubs and service providers involved.
Participants :-
ANWB (NL), AA (UK), ADAC (GR), RACE (E), ARC (B), HENLEY COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT (UK)
Contact Point :-
Mr. Ir. J. Barkhof
Deputy Director General of ANWB
ANWB
Wassenaarseweg 220
NL 2596 EC THE HAGUE
Tel: +31 70 314 62 96
Fax: +31 70 314 76 76
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The project developed and implemented a unique modular software system for multidimensional logistics that takes into account the new logistics design needs of European enterprises.
The value of the system for prospective customers is to increase the competitiveness of pan-European manufacturers and their marketing channels trough integrating objectives such as eco-awareness, customer service and interactive management into the logistic design process. Additionally, LOCOMOTIVE will make also available to managers sophisticated logistics tools which take into account “lean design” philosophy and multiple responsibility for design tasks.
Participants :-
REMIX LTD (D), BIBA (D), DORNIER GMBH (D), PPG (F), SCHENKER (D), HUT (SF)
Contact Point :-
Dr Hasso HOELTERLING
Schenker Eurocargo AG
Lyoner Str. 30
D- 6000 Frankfurt Am Main
tel +49/69 2 26 66 172
fax +49/ 69 2 26 66 129
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The VEGA project aims to establish an information infrastructure which will support the technical and business operations of virtual enterprises. It targets the Large Scale Engineering industry characterised by its high capital costs, multi-disciplinary inputs, complexity of assembly and one-of-a-kind nature. LSE projects involve shorter term business relationships and ad hoc supplier chains. The project aims also at developing a software architecture, using emerging technology and standards, that will make the exchange of project and product information between these disparate organisations a seamless process - ‘virtual enterprise’. Developments resulting from a number of ESPRIT projects will be extended and the strategy for application integration by distributed concurrent access to STEP databases will be explored.
Participants :-
TAYLOR WOODROW (UK), CSTB (F), DIGITAL (D), EPM (N), NEMETSCHEK (D), TNO (NL), CAB (D)
Contact Point :-
Dr Fikry Garas
Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd
345, Ruislip Road
Southall UB1 2QX
United Kingdom
tel: +44 181 5754505
fax: +44 181 5754016
email: f-garas@tel-consult.co.uk
internet: http://www.cstb.fr/ILC/ecprojec/vega/home.htm
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Driven by the MATES project partners' own needs in multi-site engineering, the objective of MATES is to establish a distributed work environment, which enables knowledge and development intensive projects to be performed efficiently, independently of the physical location of its participants. This requires multiple disciplines, thus constituting team or group effort. The members of a development team often work independently of each other, even asynchronously but need controlled access to shared resources. They need to communicate from remote locations. A global approach should not only consider the engineering activities in the product creation process, but also the communication and data exchange needs, taking into account the marketing, manufacturing, logistics and servicing aspects.
The results of MATES will be used in an interactive remote maintenance support system as well as in an engineering environment for (geographically) distributed locations including working from home and mobile teleworking.
Participants :-
SNI (D), DASSAULT ELECTRONIQUE (F), PHILIPS (NL), TELEFONICA I+D (E), CENTER FOR DISTANCE-SPANNING TECHNOLOGY (S), UPM/DIT (E)
Contact Point :-
Mr. Franz Josef Stewing
Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
ASWBC-LAB
Fürstenallee 11
D - 33094 Paderborn
Germany
tel: +49 5251 606100
fax: +49 5251 606066
email: stewing@c-lab.de
internet: http://mates.cdt.luth.se/
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GREENTRIP addresses the creation of integrated decision-support systems for dynamic and optimised transportation logistics for European manufacturing industries, both at the organisational and operational levels. The objective of the project is to improve the overall logistics performance in companies and virtual enterprises through an optimised and dynamic coordination of transportation activities.
The GREENTRIP partners shall develop a rapidly re-configurable, generic software tool for dynamic and optimised transportation logistics in manufacturing industries. Bespoke demonstrators will be developed around cases from two industrial end user partners (a cable manufacturer and a transportation service provider). Each demonstrator will be integrated at selected sites, and will address the issues mentioned above in the context of optimisation of the distribution network and the day to day transport management, respectively. In close interaction with these developments, a generic demonstrator will be developed from an existing, successful, commercial constraint programming tool. In GREENTRIP, this tool will be enhanced with facilities to accommodate the specific modelling and functional requirements found in transportation logistics. An application modelling tool for rapid installation, and standard interfaces to provide modularity and ensure rapid deployment, will be developed and demonstrated.
Participants :-
PIRELLI (I), ILOG (F), SINTEF (N), TOLLPOST-GLOBE (N), UOS (UK)
Contact Point :-
Dr. Alessandro Concialini
Rapporti con Organizzazioni Internazionali
Pirelli Cavi SPA
Viale Sarca, 222
I-20126 Milano
Italy
tel: 39 2 644 22 611
fax: 39 2 644 23 270
email: 100633.654@compuserve.com
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Present engineering practice is changing as companies are forced to increase their overall effectiveness, level of co-operation, flexibility and response time to the customer, while at the same time product complexity is constantly increasing. To overcome those challenges
In response to these challenges, a group of European organisations has established the Global Engineering Network (GEN) initiative in order to foster the use of networks opening up world-wide markets for users and suppliers of engineering products and services. The relevance of GEN has been recognised by the European Information Technology Industry Round Table as a priority activity in the context of collaborative working and GEN is one of the major pilot projects in the frame of the “Global Marketplace of SMEs” project launched by the G7 countries.
The objective of GENIAL is to contribute substantially to this vision by establishing a Common Semantic Infrastructure for GEN. This would enable enterprises from different engineering sectors to combine their knowledge with engineering knowledge accessed on-line and world-wide via GEN.
Participants :-
SNI (D), BBRI (B), BIC/DIT (IRL), CADBAS (D), CSTB (F), FIMET (FIN), FHG-IAO (D), HAI (G), ST (F), TAYLOR-WOODROW CONSTRUCTION LTD (UK), UNI-GH PADERBORN (D), WTCM (B)
Contact Point :-
Dr. Elke Radeke
Siemens Nixdorf AG
C-Lab
Fürstenallee 11
D-33102 Paderborn
Germany
tel: +49 5251 606139
fax: +49 5251 606065
email: elke@c-lab.de
Internet: http://www.gen.uni-paderborn.de/genial
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The principal objective of LOGSME is to provide information systems to integrate supply chain operations from sales through distribution, production and purchasing. The goal of this logistics system is to continuously monitor and improve performance across the supply chain by establishing control of the elements of the supply chain so as to optimise its cost effectiveness, performance and timeliness. LOGSME will develop a number of major prototype elements including tools for planning and control, tools for linking solutions and legacy systems and communication tools to facilitate improvement for the SME who forms part of a virtual enterprise. In addition a number of manufacturing modules will be modified for a seamless toolset together with the major prototypes. The potential for LOGSME is high with particular impact on the food sector in the short term, but long term for the entire European SME community.
Participants
Participants :-
KEWILL SYSTEMS PLC (UK), ALFAMICRO (P), AMT (IRL), BAAN (NL), CIMRU (IRL), DELGADO (E), GREEN ISLE (IRL), PALLAS (IRL), PLEROMA (IRL), SIP (E), TUE (NL)
Contact Point :-
Mrs Sharon Burgmeier
Kewill Systems
85-89 High Street
Walton-on-Thames
UK-KT12 1DL Surrey
United Kingdom
tel: +44 1932 226516
fax: +44 1932 232449
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Commission Contact points for "IT for Mobility" Questions :
| LTR | (Long Term Research) | Jakub Wejchert |
| TCS | (Technologies for Components and Sub-systems) | Francisco Ibanez |
| ST | (Software Technologies) | Ulrich.Boes |
| HPCN | (High Performance Computing & Networking) | Michael Arentoft |
| OMI | (Open Microprocessor Initiative) | Dominique Gonthier |
| MS | ( Multimedia Systems) | Dominique Gonthier |
| TBP | (Technology for Business Processes) | Dominique Gonthier |
| IiM | (Integration in Manufacturing | Paolo Garello |
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