European Research Project DEWI Starts Off

The kickoff meeting of the Artemis project DEWI (Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure) has taken place in Graz, on March 28-29.

DEWI (which has an overall budget of 40 million euro) will identify and implement an embedded wireless communication infrastructure that can replace traditional wired communication networks used in embedded systems in cars, airplanes, trains and buildings. DEWI is one of the biggest research efforts in Europe ever, gathering 58 European key players in the areas of embedded systems for transportation and building automation from 11 different countries. In terms of human resources, DEWI has the corresponding amount to 130 dedicated persons working fulltime for 3 years.

During the kickoff meeting, CISTER/INESC-TEC researcher Nuno Pereira lead the presentations of the Sub-Project dedicated to the Aeronautics domain (SP2), and was also deeply involved in the Interoperability domain (SP6), that is responsible for finding commonalities between the several application domains and for designing the high-level architecture of DEWI.

DEWI has special national relevance because it is the ARTEMIS project with the largest Portuguese consortium ever funded by the programme. Other than CISTER/INESC-TEC, Critical Software, Critical Materials and the GMV group (Skysoft) are part of the Portuguese Consortium in this project.

DEWI is a direct result of the effort developed by CISTER/INESC-TEC in the last open call for research projects in the strategic ARTEMIS initiative alongside with EMC2 (Embedded multi-core systems for mixed criticality applications in dynamic and changeable real-time environments) an Artemis Innovation Pilot Project (AIPP) which is deemed to start in April 2014. Both projects focus on applicability and industry and it is expected that it will encourage potential technology transfer activities in the future.