Identifier: FP7-ICT-2007-2
 Publication date: 12 June 2007
 Budget: € 477 000 000
 Deadline: 09 October 2007 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
 Specific Programme: [Cooperation]
 Theme: [Information and Communication Technologies]
 Funding Schemes, under objective: "ICT-2007.3.7 Networked embedded and control systems": STREP, NoE, CSA

Objective ICT-2007.3.7: Networked Embedded and Control Systems

Target outcomes:

• Middleware: seamless connectivity and inter-working of embedded systems through new platforms that support composability, scalability and minimal power consumption while offering open interfaces to third parties for application development. Emphasis is on (1) programmability; (2) dynamic reconfiguration and ontologies; (3) enabling privacy, security and trust; and (4) predictable connectivity and QoS awareness. Priority application domains are: private/home/building, nomadic and manufacturing. Support may also be provided to industry-driven initiatives for sharing software source code and for standardisation activities in the broader embedded systems domain.
  Funding schemes: CP (STREP only), CSA for source code sharing and for standardisation initiatives
• Cooperating objects and Wireless Sensor Networks: spontaneous cooperation of objects in spatial proximity in order to jointly execute a given task. This will require (1) new methods and algorithms to support different cooperation concepts and modes; (2) hardware/software platforms including operating systems or kernels and communication protocols to enable distributed optimal execution; and (3) programming abstractions and support tools to facilitate third party programming of self-organising systems composed of heterogeneous objects. Research challenges also include dynamic resource discovery and management, semantics that allow object/service definition and querying for data and resources, advanced control that makes the systems reactive to the physical world, as well as security and privacy-enabling features. While the developed technology should be generic, it should be driven by an entire class of ambitious future applications in which scalability and deployment should be addressed. International cooperation on foundational research with the USA and other countries is encouraged.
  Funding schemes: CP (STREP only), NoE
• Control of large-scale complex distributed systems: New engineering approaches that ensure efficient, robust, predictable, safe and secure behaviour for manufacturing and process plants and for large scale infrastructures such as distributed energy production, energy distribution, airports or seaports etc. Key challenges include (1) developing generic modelling and design methods, dynamically reconfiguring architectures, languages and scalable algorithms for the control of evolvable, distributed and adaptable systems; (2) mastering complexity, temporal and spatial uncertainties such as delays and bandwidth in communications and node availability; and (3) integrating advances in sensor networks for closing the control loop. Research should strengthen and consolidate European excellence in systems sciences and engineering by encouraging the control, computer and communications sciences and engineering communities to work together.
  International cooperation with the USA, Russia and W. Balkans is encouraged.
  Funding schemes: CP (STREP only), CSA for international cooperation

Expected impact:

• Control of 10 times more complex systems at 10% of today’s effort. Achieve 100% plant availability, reduce maintenance time and cost by 50% and industrial accidents by 30%.
• New services and applications that are tailored to specific needs, seizing new market
  opportunities.
• More efficient, flexible, secure, easier to maintain and more productive large infrastructures (e.g. power grid, water supply), manufacturing and process plants.
• Enable low-cost monitoring of the environment and natural resources.

Indicative budget distribution
47 M€:
 CP 41 M€;
 NoE 4 M€;
 CSA 2 M€

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