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S-TEN - Intelligent Self-describing Technical and Environmental Networks
S-TEN's objective is to exploit the 'Semantic Web' for scientific and engineering applications, and to provide support for decision makers in a complex and continuously changing environment. This support is based upon the application of rules and process knowledge to measurements, human observations and design information published on the Web. Data acquisition and process control is assisted by self-describing devices, e.g. measurement sensors or intelligent subsystems, installed in the considered technical systems.
Impact
The S-TEN project will allow advanced process monitoring and alarm systems to be applied to continually changing technical and environmental networks, without the need to maintain a network data warehouse. The S-TEN approach will make the network self describing. Each component of the network will publish autonomously information about what it is, where it is, and what it does on the Web. This approach will make network monitoring and control practical, in new applications. These developments will be validated in demonstrators concerned with environmental monitoring using mobile sensors, preventive maintenance of production equipment and control centre technologies for distributed energy resources.
Main innovations
The S-TEN project will contribute to international standards by defining standard ontologies for the publication of network information on the Web and defining a methodology for the extraction of ontologies from existing international standards. Innovations provided by the project will comprise:
- an ontology which enables a device to announce its existence, position in a network, and the services it provides;
- the capturing of human qualitative observations and their publication on the web with respect to a formal ontology;
- the development of rules which can be applied to any kind of technical data available on the web;
- the linking of STEP and OWL - two worlds which have been apart up till now.
Future work
The project ended in November 2008. Partners are preparing individual, customised applications based on the developed S-TEN technology. Further research tasks may be deployed to a new research and development project within the 2009 ICT calls. The S-TEN Association e.V., founded in 2007 according to German law, remains responsible for the joint dissemination and exploitation of the results.
More Details
- Presentation (PDF, 118KB)
- Flyer (PDF, 254KB)
- Poster (PDF, 366KB)
- Annual Report 2008 (PDF 111KB)
- Annual Report 2007 (PDF 73KB)
- Annual Report 2006 (PDF 74KB)
- Entwicklermagazin article: Intelligente Netze (DE) (March 2007) (PDF 3.307KB)
- S-TEN Project website
Administrative details
- S-TEN (IST FP6-027683) was a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) of the European Union's 6th Framework Programme.
- S-TEN project started on 1 April 2006 and came to an end on 30 November 2008 (duration 32 months).
- The total budget was 3,1 Million Euro (1,7 Million Euro funding).
- ? Eight partners from five European countries were involved in the project.
Participants
- Forschungsgemeinschaft für Elektrische Anlagen und Stromwirtschaft e.V., Germany
- CAESAR Systems Ltd., UK
- Cygnus Engineering AG, Switzerland
- Haute Ecole Valaisanne, Switzerland
- Fundación LABEIN, Spain
- UAB LKSoft Baltic, Lithuania
- LKSoftWare GmbH, Germany
- RACOS Technische Informationssysteme GmbH, Germany
Contact person
- Project Coordinator: Bernhard Schowe-von der Brelie
- Organisation: Forschungsgemeinschaft für Elektrische Anlagen und Stromwirtschaft e.V.
- Email: Bernard Schowe-von der Brelie
Events in connection with S-TEN
- ISWC 2006
- Athens, GA, USA
- July 2006
- The S-TEN project presented the poster (PDF, 366KB).
- CIRED 2007 - Networking in an open Electricity Market
- Vienna, Austria
- 21-24 May
- A paper abstract will be presented: Intelligent Self-describing Power Grids
- CIGRE 2008 - International Council on Large Electronic Systems
- Paris, France
- 24-29 August 2008
- Paper submitted (PDF, 76KB)