CISTER networks with top European researchers in Cooperating Objects

Three CISTER researchers (Mário Alves, Filipe Pacheco and Hossein Fotouhi) participated in the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Cooperating Objects (CONET) General Meeting in Trento, Italy, 14/FEB/2012.

This was a follow-up of the WP4 (research clusters) meeting CISTER recently organized and hosted in ISEP, on the 15-16/DEC/2011. The consortium made a status update of the different work packages, including WP5 lead by CISTER. There was also room for research clusters’ meetings, including the two coordinated by CISTER: COTS4QoS and SDP cluster. The meeting was co-located with the 9th edition of the prestigious European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012), co-sponsored by CONET.

The CONET Network of Excellence addresses the research and technological effort that will ultimately efficiently allow interlinking the real world physical objects and cyberspace, generally coined as “Cooperating-Objects” or “Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)”. CONET includes 16 core members, 11 from academia and 5 from industry.  Academic members include ISEP, TU Delft (NL), TU Berlin (D), ETHZ (CH), UCL (UK), SICS (S) and University of Pisa (I). Industrial members are SAP (D), Schneider-Electric GmbH (D), SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Ltd. (UK), Boeing Research & Technology Europe (E) and Telecom Italia (I). Within CONET, CISTER is leader of WP5 (Spreading of Excellence) and is leader of 2 out of 6 research projects (clusters COTS4QoS and SDP).

More information at http://www.cooperating-objects.eu.