FEAST IV ICT Enabling Science Canberra, 14 November 2003

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FEAST IVICT - Enabling ScienceCanberra, 14
November 2003

• Ambient Intelligence
• A primary focus of IST research
• Dr Erastos Filos
• Directorate-General Information Society
• European Commission, Brussels

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Presentation outline

• Ambient Intelligence
• Technology components application scenarii
• ICTs enabling research
• Research networking
• IST programme implementation
• The FET scheme
• The Intelligent Manufacturing Systems initiative

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IST research vision Ambient Intelligence
A seamless environment of computing networking
technology embedded in everyday life objects

• Definition of IST Advisory Group, 1999
• aware of the specific characteristics of human
  presence and personality
• adapting to the needs of users
• responding intelligently to speech or gestures
• unobtrusive, intuitive
• AmI space
• seamless interoperation between different
  environments, e.g. home, vehicle, public space,
  ...

http//www.cordis.lu/ist/istag.htm
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Ambient Intelligence A balanced approach
compo- nents

• AMBIENT
• Smart materials
• MEMS tech sensors tech
• Embedded systems
• Ubiquitous communic.
• I/O device tech
• Adaptive s/w

• INTELLIGENCE
• Media mgmt handling
• Natural interaction
• Computational intelligence
• Contextual awareness
• Emotional computing

system
users

• S/w services architectures, design
  engineering integration
• Experience prototyping

inte-gration
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Ambient Intelligence technologies Nanoelectronics

• driving Ambient Intelligence products
• wearable computing in a networked world e.g.
  health/lifestyle monitoring
• safe vehicles, emissions control, adaptive
  navigation,
• smart mechanics, sensing robots, biometrics,
  non-invasive health control, wireless power
  transfer,
• sensor networks, situation context awareness,
  ubiquitous short-range communication, ...

• Nanoelectronicsenabled by ...
• nanosciences input
• machines tools
• processes equipment
• materials
• metrology

One-moleculecircuits
Single electron transistor (SET)
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Ambient Intelligence technologiesLinking the
nanoworld to the macroworld
Main application areas

• Computing
• data storage, displays, e-paper,
• Medical/pharmaceutical
• bio-sensing for health monitoring
• Aerospace automotive
• sensing actuating
• Mobile telecoms

Macro
Microsystems
Micro
Micro-electronics
Nanotech
Functional Materials
Nano
Molecular Tech
Nano
-electronics
Nano
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Adapted from RAL
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Ambient Intelligence technologiesAdvanced
displays

• Emerging display technologies, e.g.
• based on organic materials,flexible substrates,
  polymerelectronics
• near-eye display solutions
• 3D-multi-viewer dynamicvisualisation

CMOS
CMOS
Brightness
Brightness
Speakers
Speakers
camera
camera
sensor
sensor
Battery
Battery
Micro
-
optical
Micro
-
optical
light guide
light guide
Miniaturised
Miniaturised
IMU
IMU
RF
Tx
/Rx
RF
Tx
/Rx
Primary display
module
module
unit (s)
Microphone
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Ambient Intelligence technologiesEmbedded
systems

• Networked Embedded Systems
• from smart grain to networked appliances
• monitoring applications
• health, environment, climate, security
• Systems design
• h/w s/w design
• constraints
• complexity, real time, reliability,
• Advanced controls
• hybrid systems
• safety-critical applications
• aerospace, transport, health

EmS
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IST Vision A people-centred, inclusive
Information Society
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Ambient Intelligence for the patiente-Health
research policy
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The GÉANT network today

• World leading Research Network
• Connecting more than 3100 Universities and RD
  centres
• Over 32 countries across Europe
• Connectivity to NA, Japan, Mediterranean and
  Latin America...
• Speeds of up to 10 Gbps

2,5Gbps
EUMEDIS
7,5Gbps
ALIS
20 Mbps TEIN
GEANT includes National Research and Education
Networks in the different Member States in Europe
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Ambient Intelligence technologiesGrid computing
E-engineering
E-government
E-business
E-learning
E-science
E-health
Generic enabling applications Tools and
environments for simulation, data mining,
knowledge discovery, collaborative work, ...
e-Infrastructure
Next generation Grid Architecture, design
development addressing security, business models,
open source, interoperability,
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ICT impact on administrationse-Government
research policy
To makedemocracy functionbetter

• Open Government
• visible transparent decision-making
• increased transparency accountability
• Inclusive personalised e-government
• equity equal rights opportunities for all
• inclusive use human potential to the full
• accessible for all multiple online platforms,
  personalised
• e-Government productivity
• lower costs for citizens businesses
• faster delivery (less waiting time), better
  quality services
• efficient back-office leads to more better
  front-office services

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Ambient Intelligence for Road Safety HUMANIST
(1st Call NoE)

• Integration of activities of the major research
  institutes and universities in Europe, in
  addition to the JRC
• Focus on driver behaviour, driver cognitive
  engineering and user-centred design
• Aims to create an European virtual centre to
• strengthen RD in European industry
• harmonise Road Safety Intelligent Transport
  Systems (ITS) approaches in Member States
• increase societal impact of ITS
• implementation
• react quickly to new technological developments

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ICTs facilitating networking Knowledge
communities
To build a knowledge management (KM) community
in Europe by bringing together a critical mass of
experts

• 150 corporate members
• 3000 individual members
• Contributing to intl standards definition
• Collaboration technologies showcase
• Showing how Europe can lead in KM

Were impressed by the number and quality of
contributions found here ...
www.knowledgeboard.com
Harvard Business School, 22 Sep 2002
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Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS)

• RTD collaboration scheme
• EU, US, Japan, Australia, Canada, Korea
• Budget under FP5 70 M
• shared between GROWTH IST Programmes
• Activities
• EU IMS Secretariat (jointly managed with DG RTD)
• Common Calls on EU level (GROWTH - IST)
• 24 IMS projects in FP5 (11 in IST)
• Common strategic board
• 2000 IMS mid-term evaluation gave go-ahead for
  the next 5 years
• IMS Vision 2020 Forum in Irvine/USA with
  strong European contributions

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IMS Project GLOBEMEN
Global engineering manufacturing enterprise
networks focusing on inter-enterprise integration
and collaboration
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IST programme implementation
Dissemination awareness
Take-up
RD
Networking
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New instruments under FP6

• To address fragmentation of RTD in Europe
• by bringing together cutting-edge scientific
  expertise at EU level
• by creating lasting scientific collaboration
  structures
• by building consensus on procedures standards

Integrated Projects

• To generate new knowledge rapidly efficiently
• combine several elements of RD life cycle
  (end-to-end)
• aim at achieving high impact

• To promote co-operation to co-ordinate RTD
  programmes across Europe (ERA)
• at European, national regional level
• to avoid overlap achieve critical mass

Art. 169
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Future Emerging Technologies (FET)

• Objectives
• Research from a more visionary and exploratory
  perspective
• To help new IST-related ST fields to emerge,
  mature become strategic, future initiatives
• High-risk RTD with large potential
• To open up new possibilities investigate trends
  for future research
• The FET Scheme
• Open
• open, at any time, to the broadest possible
  spectrum of ideas
• Pro-active
• Strategic agenda of areas with particular promise
  for the future

http//www.cordis.lu/ist/fethome.htm
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FET Open

• Objectives
• open to the widest possible spectrum of research
  opportunities that arise bottom-up
• support research on new ideas involving high risk
• embryonic research and proof-of-concept, high
  quality long-term research of a foundational
  nature
• to support the shaping, consolidation, or
  emergence of research communities
• co-ordination activities of advanced and longer
  term research
• Evaluation Modalities
• Two step submission
• 1st step 5 page-proposal
• 2nd step full proposal within 2 months
• One step submission
• submitted at any timeb

• Possible pro-active initiative topics 2004
• Quantum information processing
• Molecular computing
• Global computing
• Life-like perception and cognition systems

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For further information

• Web
• http//www.cordis.lu/rtd2002
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist
• http//www.cordis.lu/ims
• http//europa.eu.int/eeurope
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/index_en.h
  tml
• E-mail
• erastos.filos_at_cec.eu.int