3 Impact
The different impact areas are measured by different Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). An overview of these KPIs and their targets for Year 3 is in Table 1.
3.1 Delivering Innovation to Markets
The entire INTO-CPS tool chain can be considered as an innovation that is targeted the industrial market. Initial usage of elements of the tool chain has started for stakeholders outside the project consortium in Year 2. In addition, some of the industrial case studies have come up with new innovations that also will be launched to the commercial market. More information about this is reported in the dissemination and exploitation report for Year 2 and in Table 7 below.
3.2 Delivering Impacts of the Work Programme
Below the four areas where impact is expected are presented with a status on the progress that has been made for each of them.
3.2.1 Reduction in CPS Development Time and Significant Reduction in Maintenance Costs
The INTO-CPS technology gives us hope that reductions can be achieved both in the development time as well as for the maintenance costs. In the Year 2 assessment WP1 estimated a reduction of 10 percent on average in development time which is exactly our target.
3.2.2 Stronger Pan-European Collaboration across Value Chains
INTO-CPS promotes collaboration between different disciplines and between organisations in value chains. At the technical level, the collaboration focus between WP2 to 5 on the theoretical limitations of abstracting to something that can be efficiently supported by model checking is intended to lower the entry barrier for the Model Based Development approach for CPSs. In particular, the tool chain focus with full traceability between different artefacts is important to enable support for collaboration between different companies in each value chain.
3.2.3 Development of a Competitive Offer in Europe
One of the major challenges facing the development of competitive European platforms for ICT is the lack of semantic integration between design tools at the application level. The foundations underlying the INTO-CPS approach ensure that the technology is prepared for the next generation of core ICT platforms. At the technical level, the open INTO-CPS tool chain is based around a plug-in architecture, and thus INTO-CPS enables organisations to incorporate their preferred tools while integrating co-modelling approaches. The openness of the platform allows new analysis tools to be integrated in the future and this will enable organisations to connect to a next generation ICT low-level platform.
3.2.4 Lifting Europe’s Innovation Capacity and Competitiveness
CPS technology facilitates innovations in many sectors, but the ability to exploit this opportunity is hindered by the difficulty of evaluating product ideas, especially with respect to global properties such as safety and dependability, without making a major investment in the development of physical prototypes. During Year 2 we have been able to demonstrate this using the INTO-CPS technology on the industrial case studies. In addition, each of the four industrial case studies have innovation potential and this will be disseminated to the world with initial focus on the members of the IFG. All innovation potentials identified so far are listed in Table 7 below. A
3.3 Impact on SMEs
The INTO-CPS consortium includes five SMEs and, naturally, the work conducted has impact on each of them and their future possibilities. In addition, the IFG contains a lot of other SMEs who all are interested in the research results produced by the project. In particular for SMEs it is important that any investment in new technologies are feasible, and here we feel that having based the development of the INTO-CPS Application on Electron using web-technologies will make it easier for SMEs to invest in such a technology in case it could be delivered as a service in a cloud context.
