Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry
European FP7 ICT IP “Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications” (ASPIRE) 2008-2010
Participants : Nathalie Mitton [ contact ] , Loïc Schmidt, David Simplot-Ryl.
ASPIRE will research and provide a radical change in the current RFID deployment paradigm through innovative, programmable, royalty-free and privacy friendly middleware. This new middleware paradigm will be particular beneficial to European SME, which are nowadays experiencing significant cost-barriers to RFID deployment.
European networked enterprises in general and SME in particular are still reluctant to adopt RFID, since they perceive RFID as unprofitable or too risky. This is largely due to the fact that the adoption of RFID technology incurs a significant Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). ASPIRE will significantly lower SME entry costs for RFID technology, through developing and providing a lightweight, royalty-free, innovative, programmable, privacy friendly, middleware platform that will facilitate low-cost development and deployment of innovative RFID solutions. This platform will act as a main vehicle for realizing the proposed swift in the current RFID deployment paradigm. The ASPIRE middleware platform will take into account innovative European developments in the area of ubiquitous RFID-based sensing (i.e., physical quantities sensing (temperature, humidity, pressure, acceleration), mobile sensing) towards enabling novel business cases that ensure high ROI (Return on Investment). The ASPIRE RFID middleware paradigm, as well as the unique and novel characteristics of the ASPIRE middleware platforms are thoroughly described in this proposal.
List of participants: Aalborg University - CTiF (Danemark), INRIA-ObjectWeb (France); INRIA-POPS (France), Université Joseph Fourrier - Grenoble University - LIG Laboratory (France), Research and Education Laboratory in Information Technologies - Athens Information Technology (Greece), Melexis technologies SA (Switzerland), Open Source Innovation Ltd (United Kingdom), NORMAPME European Office of Crafts, Trades and SMEs for Standardisation (Belgium), Dimitropoulos - VICOP LTD (Greece), Pole Traceability Valence PV (France), Instituto Telecomunicaoes (Italy).
