Design centres to help develop products in IoT market

Funded by the European Commission, the three year, €9.2m project is designed to help innovators (SMEs and large companies) overcome barriers they face when entering new markets, because they lack both knowledge of the value chain and the skills to master the entire design process from ideas to products, claims Leti. EuroCPS partners will provide technical expertise, coaching and access to advanced industrial CPS platforms to get innovators up to speed on the innovation ecosystem of 'smart' products by facilitating access to the latest technologies and their implementation.

In the process, it will offer all the necessary expertise and competencies to provide innovators from any sector with a smooth path to building innovative CPS-enabled systems. It also will tap existing regional ecosystems in several countries to bring the full value chain from hardware/software platforms, to cyber-physical systems, to high value-added products and services.

“EuroCPS will create synergies between emerging and established organisations operating in the CPS sector,” said Marie-Noëlle Semeria, CEO, Leti “From that foundation, it will leverage the existing ecosystem to bring the full value chain from micro-electronics, smart systems and CPS to high value-added products and services. This combination will centralise in one project all the necessary expertise and competencies to provide SMEs from any sector, with a one-stop-shop opportunity to build innovative CPS-enabled systems.”

As ICT becomes increasingly integrated into our everyday environment, the design of embedded ICT from components to CPS becomes more important than ever, not only for the ICT supply industry but also for all major mainstream sectors of the economy. Embedded systems and more particularly CPS are key enablers of innovation in European industry and SMEs are the primary drivers of job creation. By integrating SMEs into the CPS sector and helping them develop innovative products more rapidly, EuroCPS is expected to foster job growth and create sustained demand for European manufacturing, especially as the IoT creates demand for new products.

One key goal of the project is to link software, system and nano-electronic industries along the full CPS value chain to demonstrate a new cooperation model. This will be demonstrated by 30 novel industrial experiments funded through three open calls for developing innovative CPS products that will help increase the competitiveness of the European innovative companies. The targeted products will be designed, constructed and built on the EuroCPS Platforms.