Beginning of April CISTER/INESC-TEC hosted two project General Assembly meetings, for projects ENCOURAGE and CarCode.
The ENCOURAGE General Assembly meeting has been held at CISTER/INESC-TEC on the 1st and 2nd of April. The meeting accounted the presence of 17 persons, from 9 different ENCOURAGE partners. The main objective of the meeting was mainly to deal with open issues in some work packages and to prepare for final review of the project, which will be hosted by ENEL (Italy) in November 2014.
On April 3rd and 4th, CISTER/INESC-TEC hosted the General Assembly of the CarCoDe project. The goal of the meeting was a deep analysis the current status of the project and the definition of a timeline for the near future efforts.
The ENCOURAGE project, of the FP7/ARTEMIS Embedded Computing Systems Initiative, aims to develop embedded intelligence and integration technologies that will directly optimize energy usage in buildings with renewable energy and enable active participation in the future smart grid environment.
In the ENCOURAGE project, CISTER/INESC-TEC is leader of the WP8 Work package (exploitation, dissemination and standardization) and of the T2.3 task, responsible for defining the ENCOURAGE architecture and for the specification and development of the ENCOURAGE middleware (and in particular of its messaging system).
The CarCoDe project aims at creating a middleware for vehicular applications to let vehicles and infrastructure communicate in a seamless and efficient way, and demonstrators of the developed technology. The research methodology involves the simulations of protocols to disseminate and collect data from vehicles via both vehicle-to-vehicle (e.g.: WAVE) and infrastructure (LTE) communication, and implementation of the middleware on On Board Units (OBUs), which are embedded systems hosted on the vehicles. The early prototypes of OBUs will communicate using the most promising options for the communication technology (wi-fi and LTE).
The consortium working on CarCoDe is built of a diverse mix of 21 partners from France, Spain, Portugal and Turkey, belonging to industry and academy alike. In particular, Airbus Defense and Space, Thales, Turkcell are leading some of the main tasks of the project.
In the context of CarCoDe, CISTER/INESC-TEC is currently finalizing the architecture for both middleware and demonstrators, and in the close future it will design a system that integrates existing OBUs in LTE infrastructure. The Portuguese partners of the consortium will implement two demonstrators, one realizing online monitoring of the status of the car, and the second to facilitate the search for an available parking spot. Moreover, CISTER/INESC-TEC is developing a simulator based on ns-3 and using WAVE and LTE modules to test the communication paradigms of vehicle-to-vehicle and infrastructure communication.
More information at: http://www.encourage-project.eu/ and https://itea3.org/project/carcode.html
