ACCUS - Adaptive Cooperative Control in Urban (sub) Systems

Project reference: 333020
Funded under: FP7-JTI
From 2013-06-01 to 2016-05-31
Total cost: EUR 12 954 439
EU contribution: EUR 2 163 391
Coordinated in: Spain
Subprogramme: SP1-JTI-ARTEMIS-2012-ASP3 - Embedded systems in Smart environments
Call for proposal: ARTEMIS-2012-1
Funding scheme: JTI-CP-ARTEMIS - Joint Technology Initiatives - Collaborative Project (ARTEMIS)

Objective
Urban systems like traffic, energy, and outdoor lighting are managed by self-contained embedded systems – though the managed processes are deeply interconnected. New applications and collective optimization require integration of these systems which represents a truly “systems of systems” integration problem: these urban systems evolve independently, have their own purpose and internal policies which must not be affected by such integration and have their own management. As a result, the integration has to manage emergent behavior and take non-availability of components as the norm rather than the exception. This is particularly challenging when control loop span across several systems. ACCUS aims at three innovations:

1. Provide an integration and coordination platform for urban systems to build applications across urban systems
2. Provide an adaptive and cooperative control architecture and corresponding algorithms for urban subsystems in order to optimize their combined performance
3. Provide general methodologies and tools for creating real-time collaborative applications for systems of systems

ACCUS studies a set of so-called converged scenarios that span across urban systems to investigate requirements and defines a reference architecture for the integration of urban systems, based on semantic descriptions. Simulations with software and systems in the loop will be supported. The entire development and integration will be supported by tools.
The ACCUS system and tools will be validated and demonstrated in an extended use case in Poland and with at least four different urban systems and a use case in Slovenia. The input of ACCUS is the work of several other ARTEMIS projects that focus on the self-contained urban systems themselves. ACCUS goals are ambitious. In order to achieve these goals a well-established and high-quality consortium with a broad scope of complementary disciplines and a long experience in European and National programs is lined up to do the job. 

Coordinator

INSTALACIONES INABENSA SASpain

Participants

• HI IBERIA INGENIERIA Y PROYECTOS SL Spain
• ACCIONA INFRAESTRUCTURAS S A Spain
• INFORMATION AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SA Spain
• FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION Spain
• UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID Spain
• UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA Spain
• ISTITUTO COOPERATIVO PER L'INNOVAZIONE SCRL Italy
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAGLIARI Italy
• CPL CONCORDIA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA Italy VIA A GRANDI 39 CONCORDIA SULLA SECCHIA, Italy Administrative contact: Massimo Continati Tel.: +390535616111 
• VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V BRNE Czech Republic
• INSTITUT MIKROELEKTRONICKYCH APLIKACI S R O Czech Republic
• POMORSKIE CENTRUM PRZETWARZANIA DANYCH SP ZOO Poland
• VEMCO SP ZOO Poland
• POLITECHNIKA GDANSKA Poland
• BS SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA SPOLKA KOMANDYTOWA Poland
• AZO DIGITAL SP ZOO Poland
• ENSPIRION SP ZOO Poland
• SECURITY MATTERS BV Netherlands
• COOPERATIE DEVLAB, DEVELOPMENT LABORATORIES UA Netherlands
• THALES NEDERLAND BV Netherlands
• NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK - TNO Netherlands
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN Netherlands
• ITÄ-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO Finland
• HURJA SOLUTIONS OY Finland
• DATACTICA OY Finland
• INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES Portugal
• INEA INFORMATIZACIJA ENERGETIKA AVTOMATIZACIJA DOO Slovenia
• INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN Slovenia
• MUNICIPALITY OF LJUBLJANA Slovenia