Federated Interoperable Semantic IoT Testbeds and Applications

Proposals summary

The first open call closed on October 26th, 2016 at 17:00 Brussels time. The FIESTA-IoT project received 29 proposals, of which:

  • 16 proposals for Experiments, category 'Innovation by SME'
  •  7 proposals for Experiments, category 'Scientific Excellence'
  • 6 proposals for Extensions

 

Among the proposers were 10 universities and research institutes, 18 SMEs, and 1 large enterprise.

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The proposals originate from the following countries (in no particular order): Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Spain and France.

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Some statistics on the budget:

  • Total budget: EUR 1.445.729,60
  • Total request for funding: EUR 1.417.355,00 (oversubscription factor: 3,15)
  • Average requested funding for proposals for Experiments, category 'Innovation by SME': EUR 49.601
  • Average requested funding for proposals for Experiments, category 'Scientific Excellence': EUR 47.265
  • Average requested funding for proposals for Extensions: EUR 48.812

 

Review and selection summary

After a thorough review process by external independent reviewers, it was found that the quality of most proposals was good to very good (above 70% of the maximum achievable mark). Due to budget limitations, only 9 proposals can receive funding as a result of the first open call:

 

Experiments, category 'Innovation by SME':

  • U-Hopper SRL (IT): Conversational Information Services for FIESTA-IoT
  • SRC solution (FR): PilotThings
  • HERITAS SOLUCIONES TECNOLÓGICAS S.L. (ES): Smart Polyhedron Indicator for Asset Management

 

Experiments, category 'Scientific Excellence':

  • Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (GR): CorRelations bEtween Data graphs and IoT topologies
  • Technical University of Catalonia (ES): IoT data management at the network edge by decentralized community service
  • Technical University of Madrid (ES): Data quality and easy services creation in FIESTA-IoT

 

Extensions:

  • LAAS-CNRS (FR): ADREAM FIESTA
  • Gridnet SA (GR): EXpand The ENvironmental Diversity of FIESTA-IoT testbeds
  • Univeristy of Thessaly (GR): Nitos FIesta IoT Extension

 

The FIESTA-IoT project thanks all proposers for their efforts. We congratulate the 9 proposers that have been selected for funding!