Descrizione del progetto
Dire addio ai collegamenti elettrici dei velivoli
La quantità di collegamenti elettrici presenti nei velivoli è ragguardevole. Se distesi, i fili presenti in un aereo Airbus A380, ad esempio, potrebbero collegare Bruxelles e Zurigo, a una distanza di ben 500 km. Anche il peso di un simile cablaggio è impressionante: 7,5 tonnellate. Questo si traduce in un maggiore consumo di carburante e in importanti costi di installazione, manutenzione e riqualificazione. Il progetto RACOON, finanziato dall’UE, sta lavorando per cambiare la situazione, rendendo il wireless efficiente quanto la configurazione cablata. L’azienda di software tedesca R3 ha sviluppato la prima «diversità cooperativa» tra ricetrasmettitori al mondo capace di sfruttare tutti i chip presenti un un sistema come «assistenti mittenti». Pressoché in grado di eliminare tutti i collegamenti elettrici di un aereo, il progetto elaborerà controlli wireless flessibili per aumentare la sicurezza e creare un ritorno sugli investimenti dell’aviazione, sostituendo i fili con una tecnologia wireless in tempo reale laddove ciò risulti vantaggioso a livello ecologico ed economico.
Obiettivo
Advances in automating transport and industry – the realisation of the Industrial Internet of Things – are being held back by something very simple: wiring.
There are 550km of wires in an Airbus A380 plane: 7.5 tonnes of cabling adding to fuel consumption on every flight. Wiring costs money: in weight, installation time, maintenance, and retrofitting.
But until now the accuracy and latency needed for automated machine control systems using wireless technology have simply not been available: too much data is lost and lag is too great for industrial automation, still less aircraft controls.
R3 is a German software company whose goal is to fix that, making wireless as effective as wires. Our world-first innovation uses “co-operative diversity” between transmitters: we leverage all the chips in a system as “assistant senders” to each other. We have demonstrated we can cut data loss to <3 packets in 10M and achieve sub-10-ms latency. That is 124x better than any competition, and runs on standard wireless chips. As a result we already have clients in in robotics and factory automation.
But we see a transformative business opportunity worth tens of millions of euros of early revenue in the aviation sector, and we therefore seek funding for a project to build a new and massively more reliable co-operative wireless architecture for high-performance avionics in a Eur78bn market. We can’t replace all the wiring in a plane, but we can seriously contribute to future low-emissions aircraft, with flexible wireless controls that enhance safety and create ROI across aviation. We are have contracts with or LOIs from future customers in aircraft manufacture, airline operations/maintenance, cabin fittings and equipment services, avionics manufacture, and the booming aircraft retro-fitting sector.
This project will position R3 for rapid growth, first by transforming the avionics controls market; and then feeding back to our existing client base and accelerating industrial automation.
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H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020-3
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinatore
10625 Berlin
Germania
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