Production systems in europe are characterised by a high level of automation. Additionally, europe exports machines and plants worldwide. These products are distinguished by high quality and huge complexity. with all vendors throughout the supply chain in strong competition with vendors from other parts of the world,...
The baas project targets the need for comprehensive and open cross-domain management and control services in today’s buildings. The problem is that these integrated management and control services are not yet available due to the separation of automation disciplines into independent control systems, e.G. For lighting...
High performance computing (hpc) plays a vital role for the european economy. However, new hpc hardware architectures and hardware features, especially at the embedded system level, are hitting the market earlier and in much shorter time intervals than before. Developing software applications still requires an in-...
Accurate navigation and localisation information is already seen to be providing great added value for emerging mobile services. The commercial importance of location-based services (lbs) can already be seen, and is forecast to grow substantially over the coming years. The wide coverage and low cost of gps systems...