Study plan
According to the Statement of Work of this Call, the
study logic has been defined considering three different project’s phases
along the 12 months project’s life. The activities in these months are:
- Analysis Activities
- Implementation
- Technology Transfer
Analysis Activities
In the “Analysis Phase” the current solutions developed for the Security and Emergency management domain, with particular focus on info-mobility and geo-referenced information provision, and the status of the involved technologies will be assesed; actual solutions will be analysed from hardware, software, performances and user point of view in order to provide a clear “picture” about the applications and services already available in the market. This will be the background on which a complete user needs specification will be defined. The activity will be performed in close collaboration with relevant authorities and entities (i.e. TOROC), which will give inputs for the requirement specifications. This joint activity will also create awareness for the purposes of the project. In parallel an assessment of the EGNOS Signal in Space will be carried out in the area of the demonstration; the results of the survey activity will be integrated with the results obtained through survey campaigns of previous EC projects (e.g. INStANT Olympic) and with ESA data obtained through simulation models. The results achieved in this first phase will be consolidated in the formal State of the Art and Requirements Documents. The two official deliverables will be used as input for the definition of the system requirements and the design of the preliminary architecture of system prototype. The output of this last activity will be the Preliminary System Architecture document.
Implementation
In the “Implementation Phase”, after the assessment of the projects objectives carried out in the preliminary review meeting, the detailed system architectural design will be developed, which will provide the whole picture of the structure (hardware and software) that will be the main input to the development team. The development phase will be focused on the implementation of new components and on the improvement of the behaviour of existing ones needed for the service’s applications (MUT, SCC).
Technology Transfer
In the third phase, “Technology Transfer Phase”, the “introduction” into the market of all the research and study project’s results will be pursued; demonstration activities will give a prove of the concept from technical and performances point of view, producing a complete set of data that will be deeply analysed to assess the project’s objectives and disseminate the results. An important variety of results can be obtained by the projects activities and demonstration; all of them will contribute to the identification of the key-issues and potentiality of the innovative applications and services that can be of great importance for the improvement of the Security and Emergency management activity and the enhancement of Safety concept. Results achieved at the various levels will be carefully analysed and compared with previous project’s results, in order to shape as closely as possible the benefits that this innovative application brings to the market. The development of a twofold sensitivity, from the political and institutional points of view, will certainly contribute to translate a prototyping service provision, conceived in the frame of a research project, into a future operational environment. Finally, the dissemination of results can be partly addressed to teaching contents for ad-hoc courses directed to advanced students of specialised degrees and/or M.Sc. and Ph.D programmes: from the interaction with those students, novel ideas can be identified on both implementation and application side, bringing additional benefits to the future operative scenario. Involvement of Universities, as well as the international community should be mainly focused in the dissemination process, in order for it to be as much effective and fruitful as possible.
