SECRICOM

(Seamless Communication for Crisis Management)

Ardaco's biggest research project - the SECRICOM, is a collaborative research project aiming at development of a reference security platform for EU crisis management operations with two essential ambitions:

Solve or mitigate problems of contemporary crisis communication infrastructures (Tetra, GSM, Citizen Band, IP) such as poor interoperability of specialized communication means, vulnerability against tapping and misuse, lack of possibilities to recover from failures, inability to use alternative data carrier and high deployment and operational costs.
Add new smart functions to existing services which will make the communication more effective and helpful for users. Smart functions will be provided by distributed IT systems based on an agents' infrastructure.

Ardaco built up a consortium of 13 partners with the required experience to cover all the aspects of platform and communication security, resilience, availability and new state-of-the-art features.

Key inputs for the SECRICOM project were provided by the ESRAB (European Security Research Advisory Board) members and BAPCO (the British Association of Public Safety Communications Officers).

SECRICOM development is focused on Ardaco Crisis management solutions. Read more.

SECRICOM project webpage - www.secricom.eu

Project No. FP7- 218123, funded by the European Commission.

CHOSeN

(Cooperative Hybrid Objects Sensor Networks)

The research project CHOSeN's goal is to develop application-specifically adaptable communication technologies enabling the real deployment of smart wireless sensor networks in large-scale, performance-critical application fields like the automotive and the aeronautic. Ardaco's focus is on security mechanisms and protocols research that provide reasonable level of confidentiality, privacy, integrity and authenticity in a very constrained environment. Wireless sensor network is one of the most difficult environments to secure, the nodes must be small and low cost, have very limited capabilities in terms of computing power, available memory, power drain and in most cases have no connectivity to external world (Internet).

CHOSeN project webpage - www.chosen.eu

Project No. 224327, FP7-ICT-2007-2, funded by the European Commission.

SmartCoDe

(Smart Control of Demand for Consumption and Supply to enable balanced, energy-positive buildings and neighbourhoods)

Research project is focused on energy management in Smart Energy Grids at local level like buildings and neighborhoods. Intelligent energy management combines traditional sources of energy together with local energy sources and storages like wind and solar energy or hybrid car and electrocar batteries.

Today, such energy management requires fine grained infrastructure and expensive hardware. This often limits applicability to industrial and commercial sector. Together with development of new methods for energy management, one of the goal is to develop inexpensive (< 3€) hardware and software implementation platform which can be used by 3rd party developers and manufacturers.

Ardaco role in project includes security analysis and implementation of security layer for used protocols with respect to existing restrictions like computational power, energy usage, bandwidth and availability of PKI infrastructure. Another important aspect is lifetime of keys and certificates together with possibility to upgrade algorithms, because expected lifetime of Smart Energy Devices in years or dozen of years.

SmartCoDe project webpage - www.fp7-smartcode.eu

Project No. 247473m FP7-ICT-2009, founded by European Commission.

RPKOM

Technology research for the management of business processes in heterogeneous distributed systems in real time with the support of multimodal communication

The project is realised in cooperation with Institute of Informatics, Slovak academy of sciences. Activities of the project deal with the research of obstacles in the implementation of progressive distributed systems for the business processes management in mobile environment and with proposals to overcome them. The advanced possibilities of new mobile devices and communication technologies will be utilized to automate the processes. The automated decision making systems will help to reduce the need for user interaction and thus increase the effectiveness of process management where the human factor is the most common bottleneck. After the realisation of project activities there will be new possibilities for the development of specific applications in subsequent projects with the aim of deployment at customers. The appropriate illustrative example of use is logistics area – coordination of goods traffic through the functions of mobile communication. The project outputs will create potential for the development of advanced technologies in the area of transport coordination and so they will have positive impact on effectiveness and decrease of goods traffic harmful effects into air and environment as well.

As the part of project the research and education centre for technology research in the area of management of business processes in heterogeneous distributed systems in real time with the support of multimodal communication will be created. It will be established as strategic partnership between academic and business sector with the aim to raise potential for the transfer of outputs into practise.

The duration of the project is from January 2011 to December 2013.

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AIR-SEAL

(An Innovative RFID Security SEAL for the Aerospace Industry)

The aim of this research and development project is to develop a second generation RFID security seal, capable of monitoring the integrity of an aircraft galley trolley or transportation vehicle. The R&D work is performed by academia while SME are consultants of their work. It seeks to enable the automatic sealing and inspections of galley trolleys, while improving their security by utilising a digital, anti-tamper volumetric sensor.

The Ardaco role is to consult the design of the communication and security protocols for Air Seal. Further to validate the new protocols and implement an operational security database on existing secure ICT servers. During field trials Ardaco will validate the databases performance.

Air Seal project webpage - http://airseal.pera.com

RACE

(RFID Community Network - Raising Awareness and Competitiveness in Europe)

RACE project is a thematic network supported by the EC and leading European stakeholders of RFID technologies. Its vision is to provide a network of excellence that creates opportunities and increases the competitiveness of EU member states in the area of RFID thought leadership, development and implementation.

Ardaco role is to consult the security aspects of RFID technology and to support the RFID policy development in Slovakia and in Central Europe.

RACE-RFID project webpage - www.race-networkrfid.org

PriMeBits

(Printable memory solutions for sensor, ID and media applications)

The aim of finished FP7 project was to develop new low-voltage large-area printable electronic memory devices that can be utilized in new and existing markets of printable smart tags for sensor, ID and media applications and electrical sintering. Secondly to develop printable materials (such as ferroelectric nanoparticle-based inks) that also find applications outside the scope of the project such as in compact antennas and in tuneable capacitors for RFID. And finally to develop further the application scenarios, end-user concepts, business models and value chains for smart-package and smart-document applications utilizing the project results.

Ardaco role was in development of security application scenarios, end-user concepts, business models and value chains for smart-package and smart-document applications utilizing the project results.

PriMeBits project webpage - www.primebits.eu