The aim of the IcO-SEE Project is to develop a communication architecture for Smart Enterprise Environments, in order to connect them to smart houses, which the enterprise services are targeted to. This will provide a mean to perform direct deliverance of the products to the final users in their home.
Smart Environments can be divided into two categories: Smart Home Environments and Smart Enterprise Environments. The Smart Home Environment is based on a communication network which connects key electronic appliances and services within the smart home and allows them to be remotely controlled, monitored or accessed. Smart Enterprise Environment is defined as a work environment which combines virtual, physical and human environments, integrating the customer services and modern logistics.
Current enterprise environments face several challenges. Firstly, the number of intelligent devices is increasing rapidly in enterprise environments, causing the integration of new types of devices and applications into existing enterprise networks to be insufficiently supported by low-level proprietary protocols. As a consequence, third party application designers often deal with huge challenges in order to build advanced applications based on such devices. Likewise, the integration of intelligent, semi-autonomous devices, such as service robots, into this sort of networks represents major limitations. By abstracting communication issues into client and server (user and things) layers, integration of devices into smart environments would only consist in the specification of the very solution of the original problem to be solved.
Secondly, sensor based technologies are still immature and not effectively incorporated in many business areas. IcO-SEE Project recommends using these deployable devices in smart environments for objects location, sending advertisements to the smart shopping carts display and securing the living of elderly people in service home enterprises.
Finally, it is also worth to note the convenience of improving smart objects capabilities by offering a communication bridge for external service consumption. As an example, mobile devices, such as wheelchairs, could be recognized and controlled by intelligent appliances by means of artificial vision connected to Smart Enterprise Environments. Any other mobile device could take advantage of this approach. Separation of responsibilities will allow a modular and distributed design of the architecture, thus easing testing, integration and maintenance.
The impact of this Project will be experienced in everyday common activities, such as going shopping to the mall, products ordering from home and helping handicapped people in crowded places.

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Funding Scheme: STREP
Call 7: it is not still open
Budget: 4.5 M¬
Proposal is under development and partners with expertise in any aspect of the described topic are required.

 

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