PREDISCOVER
In this strategic project, use cases and communication requirements for smart products in various environments are investigated. The goal is to provide unified dependable wireless services for cognitive products. These wireless ICT platforms enable cognitive products to anticipate, react, and adapt to their environment. The research in this strategic project focuses on various sensors, with a particular emphasis on location sensing. This allows the cognitive products to be aware of their environment and develop a model of themselves.
Another important aspect is the ability of cognitive products to network and communicate effectively. This enables them to interact and cooperate with other cognitive products, their environment, and humans. The wireless services encompass batteryless RF-based sensing of the cognitive product's environment, localization both within and outside the production environment, and networking of products and production systems.
A key aspect of the project is the co-designing of these wireless services to maximize their dependability while minimizing their total cost of ownership. The results of the strategic project are of great significance for several Manufacturing Flagship Projects (MFPs). In particular, they have implications for MFP 1 (sensing and localization), MFP 2 (all wireless services), and MFP 3 (networking).
By addressing these challenges, the project aims to create a strong foundation for the development and implementation of cognitive products with robust and efficient wireless capabilities. This will pave the way for a new era of smart and interconnected devices in various industries.
Goals
The goal of this project is to pre-investigate and identify application scenarios of a communication infrastructure for cognitive products. This preliminary investigation enables the requirements for the targeted communication infrastructure to be determined in a targeted manner. The results of these investigations will be consolidated in a unified roadmap, which will serve as the starting point for targeted research and development in strategic follow-up projects. In summary, the goals are as follows:
- Identification of application scenarios and requirements for a communication infrastructure for cognitive products.
- Identification of open research questions regarding existing technologies.
- Identification of cross-technology research questions.
- Consolidation of application scenarios, technologies and research questions in a roadmap as a starting point for strategic follow-up projects.
Approach
PREDISCOVER is structured in two phases. Phase 1 is used to establish a wide range of use cases across potential application domains. These will be discussed and developed together with potential industrial partners as well as the academic partners in the project. In the second phase the functional and nonfunctional requirements of the use cases will be established. These requirements will then subsequently be used to identify suitable technology for implementing unified dependable wireless services and to identify current shortcomings (research gaps) which must be addressed in future projects in order to allow for a truly unified service architecture. As a whole, the project will therefore result in a roadmap outlining the direction of future strategic research that will lead to the envisioned communication infrastructure and services.
- Development of representative communication use cases for cognitive products and their requirements.
- Initial screening of existing communication technologies regarding their suitability in the context of communication of intelligent products.
- Development and identification of potential cross-technology research questions.
Expected and Achieved Results
In the course of the project, several communication scenarios have been developed. These scenarios span many domains (building automation, autonomous driving, factory automation, infrastructure monitoring) and are the result of discussions with ongoing project partners as well potential future project partners. A number of research articles are the direct result of the developed use cases. We are currently working on a mapping between technologies and use cases that will allow us to identify potential research gaps in these specific domains and to develop a general, strategic roadmap that will allow us to work towards developing a unified communication infrastructure for dependable wireless services.
- Application scenarios that can be used to evaluate a communication infrastructure for cognitive products.
- Requirements for a communication infrastructure for cognitive products.
- Identification of open technological and cross-technological research questions.
