Connected Smart Objects and People
SymbIote is created on the scenario of a highly fragmented Internet of Things (IoT) system. IoT solutions usually integrate specific implementations and connect smart spaces using a back-end cloud hosting with exclusive software components. Thus, when accessing the new smart environments, people are forced to download numerous apps, since each one of these usually serves one purpose or environment. symbIoTe is a platform that adapts people’s presence to the smart environment they interact with, allowing them to use the same mobile app for various IoT platforms.
Ubiwhere provided a unified view on the various platforms and the respective resources, allowing designers and developers transparent and secure access to these resources. The solution also integrated the open interoperation of smart resources across several IoT platforms. It removed the barriers separating the IoT domains and potentiate an intuitive environment adapted to the needs of modern life.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 688156
Data Analytics, Open Data and Interoperability
Data Pitch is an open programme, created to join organisations that own data, with Startups and SMEs that work with data, in order to build sustainable businesses with economic, social and environmental impact. It integrates an incubation programme to help Startups and SMEs develop solutions to respond to various challenges. Ubiwhere focused on establishing a correlation between external factors (e.g weather conditions) and people’s usual routes. To this end, we benefited from our MBaaS digital platform, capable of access and processing mobility data, and from a valuable collaboration with Deutsche Bahn, aiming to improve their network data and operations management.
We identified critical factors, imperceptible costs and inefficiencies in the network and developed a solution integrating the enabled data in an intuitive digital dashboard displaying its analysis and orientation reports. This solution leveraged on the integration of algorithms for mobility cases and was developed towards the adaptation to other mobility services.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732506
Smart Cities and Communities
EMBERS consisted on the development of a Smart City mobility cloud platform build on the grounds of Ubiwhere’s Smart Parking and Smart Traffic products: Mobility Backend as a Service (MBaaS). MBaaS came to replace all-in-one systems, by allowing the municipalities to purchase devices and apps of several developers, with the only condition being the interoperability with the back-end through the platform’s mobility API. This open API lowered the barriers of access to the developers, facilitating the entry of modern SMEs in the market.
EMBERS brought MBaaS to the market, offering companies and Startups the necessary tools to build their business with easy to use interfaces for traffic, routing, parking and environment monitoring services. Its capacity of response to the urban challenges was validated through trials integrating FIRE+, a hackathon, an app challenge, and pilots held in Porto, Cologne and Trikala.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 687992
Smart Cities and Communities
Smart Parking is a smart platform that combines all aspects of parking management technology into one system to provide citizens with a simple and effective way of identifying the location of the available parking spaces. This solution optimizes parking operations for cities while reducing its costs and accidents and traffic congestion.
With QPARK, Ubiwhere intends to enrich its current solution with urban planning functionalities accessing to new business opportunities and standing out from its competition in this crowded field. QPARK owns the additional ability to accurately simulate levels of traffic and parking occupation of the city, based on real-life sensor readings.
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Smart Cities and Communities
SmartSDK was created on the grounds of facilitating the integration of FIWARE services and expanding its ecosystem across Europe and Mexico. The platform consists on a FIWARE references guide that enables intuitive data models, application examples, and cloud-native architecture patterns to assist new developers integrating FIWARE on the creation of Smart Services.
It also focused on establishing a strong collaboration between Europe and Mexico, through the integration of FIWARE in real-life cases, which contributed not only to the internationalization of this technology, but also for the deployment of Open Standards and Open Source solutions within the FIWARE community.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 737373
Data Analytics, Open Data and Interoperability
TechOlivo aims to create and commercialize a technological solution that allows the integrated, ecological and optimized management of an olive grove through the non-evasive monitoring of essential agronomic elements. It will incorporate an autonomous aerial vehicle equipped with sensors and aligned with terrestrial sensors. These sensors will be able to collect data relative to the olive grove status and send it to a server equipped with the necessary artificial intelligence for an accurate interpretation.
The olive grower will access to this data through illustrated maps in a mobile application, which will allow him to identify the areas of the grove in need for watering or any kind of treatment. This will be an extensive and intuitive solution, that will assist the olive grower on daily fieldwork while propitiating an optimized and cost-effective use of the existing resources.
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Smart Cities and Communities
SynchroniCity is an ambitious digitalization strategy that projects the architecture of a global marketplace for the development of IoT solutions and Artificial Intelligence services. This platform enables access to spots and interfaces of interoperability and data models for several verticals, creating a balanced ecosystem where creators and distributors of solutions and devices and system integrators are able to openly compete.
The developed solutions will be put in to practice across the 3 areas of application of Smart Cities, through pilots carried out in cities from 8 European countries. Cities and companies enrolled in the project, can project their urban planning and management aligned with their infrastructures and services responding more effectively to their local social and economic needs.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732240
Future Internet and Next Gen Networks
5G City envisions a distributed cloud and radio platform for 5G neutral hosts. It will be an opened, common and multi-tenant platform, integrating Edge Computing, an extension of the could’s centralized architecture all the way to the edge of the network. The data processing occurs closer to its source, enabling a shorter latency period, fewer breaks on the service, connection and optimization of the infrastructures of services benefiting from quicker response times (such as communication between traffic sensors and traffic lights), reduction of the network traffic and safer storage of sensitive data.
5G City will illustrate, with pilots held in Barcelona, Bristol and Lucca, how reinforcing the city’s infrastructures and turning them into hyperconnected 5G distributors will have a direct impact on telecommunication providers, municipalities and the vertical sectors involved. The platform will incorporate a hierarchical architecture embedding network and compute and storage resources distributed across Small Cells, in several elements throughout the city: lamp posts, urban furniture, street cabinets, and data centers.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 761508
Future Internet and Next-Generation Networks
SELFNET will conceive and implement a Framework for self-organized network management capable of assisting network operators in crucial management tasks and problems. For Self- Protection, SELFNET detects and minimizes the effects brought on by cyber-attacks and restores 5G network safe traffic. For Self- Healing, it detects and anticipates common failures within the 5G network infrastructures in order to offer the best solutions. And for Self- Optimization, it implements an autonomic behaviour that gives an automatic response to the decline of QoE levels, along with energy management for optimized resources distributed throughout the network.
Thus, improving the network’s performance and consequently, the users experience. The automatization of a wide variety of network management tasks will represent a significant reduction on network operators and service providers’ operational costs while potentiating new business opportunities, such as the commercialization of security as a service.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 671672
Smart Cities and Communities
Orchestra Cities is an open platform designed to ensure any city access to smart services and shared data. By promoting cooperation among cities, this platform helps reducing costs and enables more information and services to a larger number of cities. It holds two main operation focus: On one hand, it attends to citizens’ needs by offering effective management at all levels (e.g. mobility) and real-time city monitoring, through the presentation of city data in customisable dashboards displaying specific scenarios for each city.
Its modular and scalable cloud services adapted to the city’s particular needs, allow them to pay only for the resources they benefit from. On the other, it assists public offices and business operators by disclosing an Open Source Software, open API’s and Data Models, integrating diverse sources aligned the GDPR. This solution has been successfully validated with pilots developed in Copenhagen, Antwerp and Helsinki.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 688196
Cybersecurity
On industries integrating the Cooperative Connected and Automated Mobility, security gaps can reach incalculable negative consequences. From smaller inconveniences, for the automated vehicles retailers such as a decline on their reputations or loss of clients, to issues of higher scale like material damage, increase on environmental pollution, and loss of human lives. The main goal of CARAMEL is giving response to the challenges imposed by cyberattacks in this industry and, through the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques, developing solutions to minimize the safety risks triggered by their impact.
The implementation of new technologies on connected vehicles, such as 5G network services, self-driving features and intelligent charging have brought on, not only innovation but a new set of security breaches without a proper solution so far. Thus, CARAMEL focuses on the protection of new and innovative products developed within this industry.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 833611
Future Internet and Next-Generation Networks
SONATA’s vision is to respond to the challenges brought on by the development of services within the 5G network. It focuses on the design and development of an NFV structure to offer programming models and development tools for virtualized services. The platform integrates services and systems of adaptation for DevOps (Software Development and Operations), that allow developers and operators to collaborate closely.
Its SDK (Software Development Kit) facilitates the distribution of network service to third-party developers and the modular design of its MANO structure enables customizable opportunities for service providers and developers. The first prototype was displayed in June of 2016. On the beginning of 2017, a second prototype was developed, and on the following summer, the final one was launched on the market.

This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 671517
Future Internet and Next-Generation Networks
SHIELD appears as a response to the challenges brought on by cybercrime. It aims to ensure the safety of personal and organizational information across several services and infrastructures, thus, protecting sensitive data and safeguarding the businesses’ integrity. To this end, it will create an infrastructure of virtual security to the ISP and corporate networks that effectively monitors and filters the network traffic. The process occurs on a Data Analysis and Remediation Engine, which analysis the data and enables the detection of safety vulnerabilities and prediction of cyberattacks.
SHIELD can be used by the ISP for internal protection of the network or it can be commercialized as a service to ISP customers. Through a virtual vNSF Store with firewalls, DPIs and content filters, customers can select the elements that best suit their needs and implement it into their infrastructure.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 700199
Future Internet and Next-Generation Networks
MareCom consisted on the creation of a solution of high availability, broadband and low cost to optimize maritime communications. Its main goal was to serve all the communities operating in the sea environment, such as fisherman, sea shipping recreational craft and national marinas with reliable and broadband connections while promoting the digital inclusion of this communities.
In order to reach this purpose, MareCom developed new protocols that enabled a wider propagation of radio and applications that supported maritime activities. The solution was highly validated through a pilot held in Portugal with the cooperation of the Portuguese Navy, in October 2018.
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Future Internet and Next-Generation Networks
Widemonitor comprised the creation of a real-time radioelectric spectrum monitoring system, covering 90% of the wireless communications and the construction of a low-cost probe, capable of measuring the broadest band possible. This probe integrated a mechanic and monolithic structure of simple installation on the urban, semi-urban and rural scenarios that enabled its unattachment from public power sources.
The cloud-based centralized and multi-tenant system of high availability gathered measurements from probes and provided a wide set of statistics, graphs, reports and alerts. Enabling an easy, affordable and safe communication of the data through the internet. This way, users were are able to configure all probes and ensure its maintenance and support without actually having to visit each probe’s location.
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Content Technologies and Connected Media
Soboto is a digital platform that manages the promotion and sale of touristic experiences. It not only discloses a powerful and intuitive management platform, as it potentiates a marketplace dedicated to professionals of the tourism business, since it allows them to improve the promotion and visibility of their businesses, and, if integrated into their focus of activity, resell their partner''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s services.
Based on emergent communication channels, powerful marketing tools and Big Data processing techniques, it helps professionals in this field to improve their services management and facilitate tourists’ lives. Soboto enables to their users the option to define their own business model and potentiate it through efficient management of their products and automated marketing mechanisms offered by the platform.
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Content Technologies and Connected Media
EdgeTube is a smart solution for intelligent video analysis and processing that optimizes the connectivity in events with a high flow of people. It comes to respond to the challenges brought by the high number of devices streaming in HD, in events like music festivals and concerts. EdgeTube relieves excessive traffic within the network, through a platform that filters duplicated streams, transmitting the one with the best quality while eliminating the low-quality ones.
This solution integrates FLAME, a framework that offers Edge Computing functionalities. It shortens the distance between the data sources (smartphones) and media processing, enabling the precise filtration of the streams in almost real-time. The feasibility of this technology and the quality of its user experience were successfully validated through a pilot held in Bristol. Which also confirmed all the potential associated with the Smart Lamppost integration into this solution.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 731677
Future Internet and Next-Generation Networks
URBSENSE is a solution created for the development of the necessary technology to upgrade urban furniture with wireless, computing, networking, storage and administration functionalities. It will focus on turning Smart Lamppost into a neutral hosting platform with Edge Computing technology, that will allow telecom operators to rent this infrastructure for a wide and agile deployment of their services. It will integrate cooperative connected and automated mobility, smart traffic management, air quality monitoring, smart lighting and electric vehicles charging functionalities.
The solution reunites multiple verticals and data from diverse sources in a unified ecosystem (Urban Platform) that allows service providers to optimize their operational efficiency and city managers to make better decisions. It will be validated in Porto, Barcelona and Helsinki and prepared for large-scale market launch.
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Data Analytics, Open Data and Interoperability
DEMETER aims at the integration of data collection technologies on the basis of a sustainable agri-food system, to ensure the quality of food, optimize farmer’s decision-making and propitiate cost-effective, environmentally-friendly operations. Its ultimate goal is to potentiate a secure and sustainable European IoT technology and business ecosystem, that transforms the agri-food sector in the EU and eventually, in the whole world. To this end, it will cover the large-scale deployment of interoperable smart farming IoT-based platforms, through 20 pilots across 18 countries.
It will involve 60 partners and gather multiple participants from different production sectors and systems and different farm sizes and types, making the data collection and analysis more extensive and precise. We''ll support the pilots held in Portugal, to promote IoT solutions and other technologies towards the optimization of precision farming practices of Mediterranean Woody Crops, Olives and vineyards, taking into account small farmers´ economic limitations.
This project has received funding from the EU´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857202
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