Project description
Towards safe and secure distributed cyber-physical systems
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are all around us, but due to today’s technical limitations and the possibility of human error, we cannot yet tap into their full potential. The EU-funded TRANSACT project aims to develop a universal distributed solution architecture for the transformation of safety-critical CPS from local, stand-alone systems into safe and secure distributed solutions. To that end, TRANSACT will research distributed reference architectures for safety-critical CPS that rely on edge and cloud computing, ensuring that performance, safety, security, and data privacy are guaranteed. Furthermore, by integrating AI services into distributed CPS, TRANSACT will enable the fast development of innovative value-based services and business models leading to faster market introduction in the various multi-billion-euro markets addressed by TRANSACT.
Objective
"Market trends show advanced usage of safety-critical systems with novel services based on smart data analytics. Customers require continuous updates to applications and services and seek lower cost (Bill-of-Material, BoM) and easy to install solutions (maintenance) for safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). To respond to these trends, TRANSACT will leverage edge and cloud technologies and establish business partner eco-systems to enhance safety-critical systems in regulated environments. TRANSACT will transform local safety critical CPS into distributed safety-critical CPS solutions with a heterogeneous architecture composed of components along a device-edge-cloud continuum. The distributed solutions incorporating data and cloud services will simplify the CPS devices, reducing their software footprint, and consequently their BoM and Lower of Cost or Market. Business-wise, system manufacturers thus transform to solution providers. To that end TRANSACT will research distributed reference architectures for safety-critical CPS that rely on edge and cloud computing. These architectures shall enable seamless mixing of on-device, edge and cloud services while assuring flexible yet safe and secure deployment of new applications, and independent releasing of edge and cloud-based components vs. on-device. Moreover, safety, performance, cybersecurity and privacy of data will be kept on the same level as on-device only safety-critical CPS architectures. By also integrating AI services into distributed CPS, TRANSACT will enable fast development of innovative value-based services and business models leading to faster market introduction in the various multi-billion euro markets addressed by TRANSACT. Encouraged by ARTEMIS' 2019 publication on embedded intelligence, TRANSACT will be a crucial enabler for Europe to shift towards a solution-oriented market ""so as to still matter in the Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems field of tomorrow’s world."""
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5612 AE Eindhoven
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1017 VV Amsterdam
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5641 JA Eindhoven
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2595 DA Den Haag
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00100 Helsinki
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02150 Espoo
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00180 Helsinki
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40100 JIVASKYLA
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93059 Regensburg
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64295 Darmstadt
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26121 Oldenburg
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22335 Hamburg
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85386 Eching
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80686 Munchen
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80-233 GDANSK
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80-394 Gdansk
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8010 Graz
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9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
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4370 Egersund
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0164 Oslo
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46022 Valencia
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46980 Valencia
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46021 Valencia
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46020 Sagunto
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08018 BARCELONA
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46980 Paterna Valencia
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9052 Gent
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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8000 AARHUS C
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51147 Koln
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