Towards a Platform for Widespread Embedded Intelligence - ERCIM

SPECIAL THEME: Embedded Intelligence
Cluster C - Security and Mobility;
Cluster D – Transmission.
CRUISE Services to Industries,
SMEs and the Public
One of the main goals of CRUISE is to
establish efficient and durable links with
industry, using existing relationships and
collaboration frameworks as a lever.
Each CRUISE partner is to further
develop existing liaisons with industry.
In order to provide mechanisms of
knowledge transfer, the project consortium
is to offer Business Deck@CRUISE
via the project website. Members of
'Business Deck' are offered access to
some of the internal documents prepared
by the network. They could influence the
choice of topics for tutorials prepared by
the network and, to some extent, over
topics presented at training schools
organised by the partners. They could be
also involved in the tools' integration
activities.
Cooperation with industry is also to be
carried out through links with other IST
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R&D projects working on close topics,
such as eSENSE IP, MAGNET
BEYOND IP, GoodFood IP, and
through national projects. Special attention
will be paid to promoting collaboration
with SMEs, which are expected to
play a particularly important role in the
deployment of sensor networks, but
which often lack specific research
recourses in order to complement their
own skills. Via the CRUISE Portal,
SMEs will be able to reach a working
group or an appropriate expert from the
project with a specific problem to be
solved. Adding to the above, CRUISE is
to create links with other related IST projects,
such as NoE, e-NEXT, NoE
NEWCOM, NoE ACE, Coordinated
action Embedded WiSeNets.
Last but not least, as part of the plan for
using and disseminating the knowledge
and to raise public awareness about the
immense social benefits of the sensor
network applications, active collaboration
will be pursued with professional
communities and organisations whose
IntelliSense RFID - An RFID Platform for Ambient
Intelligence with Sensors Integration Capabilities
by Ovidiu Vermesan, Nadine Pesonen, Cristina Rusu, Aarne Oja,
Peter Enoksson and Helge Rustad
IntelliSense RFID project expands the technical and market potential of RFID
technology by developing multi-protocol devices with sensing capabilities that
are able to sense the environment and communicate at different frequency bands.
Embedded intelligence, or ambient intelligence,
is the vision of the future where
information will be available to people
without their being aware of the surrounding
information technology itself.
In the ambient intelligent world and in
the ubiquitous information society, computing
is distributed all around in the
environment. Users are mobile and communication
is set up between individuals,
between individuals and objects
and between objects. This communication
is obtained via 'invisible intelligent
devices' that will tag almost everything
in our society in an easy and friendly
way. These devices will receive, sense,
carry, and distribute context information
in our environment.
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID)
is the key technology for local connectivity
and an early vehicle for readying
these future proactive computing systems.
Nanoelectronics allows the mass production
of such new silicon RFID devices
with sensing capabilities and this makes
massive and low-cost tagging of objects
feasible.
interests span different aspects and scenarios
of sensing environments apart
from the purely technical ones. This will
serve the European community beyond
academia and science.
This work has been carried out within
the framework of the IST-4-027738 NoE
CRUISE, which is partly funded by the
European Union. The project started on
January 1 2006 and has a duration of 24
months. Thirty two internationally
recognised groups from Europe,
including the ERCIM members VTT and
Fraunhofer-FOKUS, are coordinated by
the Center for Telenfrastruktur (CTIF) at
Aalborg University, Denmark.
Link:
http://www.ist-cruise.eu
Please contact:
Neeli R. Prasad
Aalborg University, Denmark
E-mail: np@kom.aau.dk
In this context, the aim of the
IntelliSense RFID project is to develop
multi-protocol RFID devices with builtin
sensing capabilities, operating at
multi-frequency bands. The device can
be associated with an object, a person or
a location through a simple ID and is
capable of measuring and acquiring data
about the user's behaviour and his environment
(such as temperature T, pressure
P, humidity H, and pH), thus creating
a smart environment based on surrounding
'invisible intelligent devices'.
It is a two-year project (2006-2007) and
is part of the Nordic research programme
NORDITE. It involves
SINTEF (Norway) as the institute