Internet of Things and Future Internet Enterprise Systems

FInES Cluster - Projects

FP7 Projects

Projects in execution

• ACCESS ICT addresses the current challenges related to access to finance for ICT SMEs involved in Framework programmes by providing a sustainable platform offering access to awareness raising solutions through to case by case introductions of SMEs to investment opportunities across Europe.
• COIN and COIN-EEU offer a business-pervasive open-source service platform that will be able to expose, integrate, compose and mash-up in a secure and adaptive way existing and innovative to-be-developed Enterprise Interoperability and Enterprise Collaboration services, by applying intelligent maturity models, business rules and self-adaptive decision-support guidelines to guarantee the best combination of the needed services in dependence of the business context, as industrial sector and domain, size of the companies involved, openness and dynamics of collaboration.
• COMMIUS aims to deliver an adaptable and customisable software prototype, providing SMEs with 'zero-cost of entry' into interoperability using the ideas behind the Interoperability Service Utility. This will be made possible by a number of innovative scientific, technical and business advances over the existing state-of-art.
• Ebbits develops architecture, technologies and processes, which allow businesses to semantically integrate the Internet of Things into mainstream enterprise systems and support interoperable end-to-end business applications.
• ENSEMBLE is a coordination and support action (CSA), that combines systemic approaches, scientific multi-disciplinarity, innovative Web 2.0 collaboration tools with a community-driven mentality, to significantly increase the impact of the future internet enterprise systems domain.
• iSurf is an Interoperability Service Utility for Collaborative Supply Chain Planning across Multiple Domains Supported by RFID Devices.
• K-NET is exploring a fundamental problem: how different services to manage social interactions in a networked enterprise can be used to enhance knowledge and knowledge management (KM) services. The key hypothesis of K-NET is that the context under which knowledge is collectively generated and managed can be used to enhance this knowledge for its further use within intra-enterprise collaboration.
• NEFFICS is based on the hypothesis that Internet and Web based technologies can be leveraged not only to increase efficiency, but also to strengthen the value proposition of enterprises by adding incremental value (incremental innovation) as well as creating game-changing value (radical innovation). In this respect, NEFFICS considers the Internet as a universal business system which enables value generation in enterprises by collaborating in open knowledge innovation zones (i.e. networked enterprises)
• NiSB will allow small and medium businesses to easily and affordably connect, align, exchange data and complete transactions with peers they have little common business language with. NiSB will look into innovative low-cost means of establishing mappings for semantic interoperability while addressing the ever-changing structure of the business network by employing the inherently low-cost peer-to-peer and pay-as-you-go mechanisms
• SPIKE is developing a software platform for the easy and fast setup of business alliances. It will enable outsourcing parts of the value chain to business partners and the collaboration between members of participating organisations.
• SPRINT proposes to leverage the concept of Internet of Things, establishing the foundation for the Internet of System Engineering. Based on an Internet-like service infrastructure the SPRINT Networked Environment will provide the virtual blending via Internet of all "things" pertaining to a complex system: sensors, actuators, processing elements, system design tools and models and design teams that are in general spread over different geographical locations. The platform will include novel early verification approaches that involve virtual integration of mathematical models of components to alleviate the problem of late error discovery while supporting the entire cycle of product development: design, integration, verification and deployment. This research will open a new vista on the use of Internet of Things that may change radically the way in which systems are designed and tested.
• SYNERGY envisages the delivery of Collaboration Knowledge services through trusted third parties offering web-based, pay on demand services, exploitable through interoperability service utilities (ISUs).
• UNITE develops a set of activities to reinforce the cooperation between research teams and improve the level of excellence of ICT research across an Enlarged Europe, in the federated theme of “Future of the Internet”.
• VENTURE GATE aims to create, operate and maintain a permanent Platform to facilitate the access to financing for innovative SMEs participating in ICT projects under European Framework Programmes and enable efficient interactions between SMEs and innovation investors.
• YMIR aims to bridge the gap between innovative SMEs and investors (Venture Capital firms, Business Angels and other private equity firms) and contribute to exploit the innovation potential of SMEs and their ICT research projects results by developing a range of services enabling them to benefit from the Financial Investors.
  
  

FP6 Projects

Completed projects

• ABILITIES: Application Bus for InteroperabiLITy In enlarged Europe SMEs.
• ATHENA project will train early stage researchers on scientific methodologies for the characterisation and conservation of the cultural heritage patrimony with the aim of structuring the European research in this field.
• CONTRACT is developing frameworks, components and tools which make it possible to model, build, verify and monitor distributed electronic business systems on the basis of dynamically generated, cross-organisational contracts which underpin formal descriptions of the expected behaviours of individual services and the system as a whole.
• CoVES is working on a flexible collaboration environment with access to rich data and applications for nomadic professionals and partners targeted towards SMEs.
• e-NVISION is a vertical semantic e-business solution for the construction sector. The project allows managing the configuration of the construction project team and its coordination during the whole life of the project.
• FUSION: Business process FUSION based on Semantically-enabled Service-Oriented Business Applications.
• GENESIS: Enterprise Application Interoperability via Internet-Integration for SMEs, Govenrmental Organisations and Intermediaries in the New European Union.
• IMPORTNET: Intelligent modular open source Platform for intercultural and cross-domain SME networks.
• INTEROP aims to create the conditions of an innovative and competitive research in the domain of Interoperability for Enterprise Applications and Software.
• LEKTOR is a Specific Support Action (SSA) whose goal is to improve access to legal knowledge for e-business and to allow autonomous knowledge exchange among all parties in e-business through the LEXELERATOR platform.
• NO-REST aims to investigate the applicability and dynamics of standards in the e-business and e-government sectors, and to develop guidelines for tools for the assessment of their performance and of the impact they have on networked organisations.
• ONE allows organizations to create contract agreements in order to supply complex, integrated services as a virtual organization (or coalition).
• OPAALS is a multi-disciplinary network of research excellence for developing the science and technology behind Digital Ecosystems.
  
• SUDDEN offers a new approach which integrates collaborative optimisation and last-minute responsiveness of supply chains in an easy-to-use software prototype that will be applied for automotive supplier profiling.
• TrustCoM will develop a framework for trust, security and contract management in dynamically-evolving virtual organisations. The framework will enable secure collaborative business processing within on-demand created and self-managed, dynamic collaborative networks of businesses and governments built on top of the emerging convergence of Web Services, agent and Grid technologies.

CIP Projects

Projects in execution

• DEN4DEK is a Thematic Network that aims to share experiences and disseminate all the necessary knowledge that allows regions to plan an effective deployment of Digital Ecosystems at all levels (economic, social, technical and political) in order to produce real impacts in the economic activities of European regions through the improvement of SMEs business environments.