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Mr. Alexandru Vulpe

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AssociateProfessor - UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI

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Researcher - BEAM INNOVATION SRL (Romania)

I have a PhD since 2014 and a broad technical expertise with over 10 years’ involvement in international and European research projects. My research ranges from algorithms for wireless communications, 4G/5G and beyond 5G networks to Big Data, Security, Blockchain, Quantum Communications and Internet-of-Things. I am the author and co-author of over 130 scientific papers related to Big Data, Security, Cloud Computing, 4G and 5G/B5G systems, as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. Furthermore, I have managed and participated in over 40 research projects (over 20 international projects) where I was involved in all the major technical achievements, including WP leader, deliverable and annual report editor. Until now, I have been involved in collaborations, consortium shaping and research proposal writing which led to acquiring funding of more than 20 mil. EUR.

Web of Science ResearcherID: G-9929-2014

Curriculum Vitae (20/02/2024)

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AI Attack and Defense for the Smart Healthcare Call name: PNCDI IV, P 5.8 - SP 5.8.1 - Orizont Europa - Premiere Instituții - Competiție 2024
PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ORG-2024-0236 2025 - 2027

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI (RO)

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The project focuses on advancing URLLC technologies for IoT integration within the ANTIDOTE framework, with the aim of developing innovative methods to enhance communication performance and reliability.It addresses key challenges in IoT communication performance and reliability, and fosters international cooperation, contributing to establishing partnerships with foreign institutions and actively participating in scientific and professional events.

The project contributes to strengthening the institutional capacity of POLITEHNICA, enhancing its expertise in beyond-state-of-the-art IoT communication technologies and its ability to successfully implement and manage high-impact international research initiatives. It positions POLITEHNICA at the forefront of URLLC and IoT research and reinforces its role in the European scientific community

Advanced system for Agriculture 4.0 in beef cattle farms Call name: PNCDI IV, SP 5.7.1 - Proiect de transfer la operatorul economic
PN-IV-P7-7.1-PTE-2024-0784 2025 - 2026

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: BEAM INNOVATION SRL

Project partners: BEAM INNOVATION SRL (RO); UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRONOMICE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA (RO)

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The project aims to address sustainability challenges in the beef cattle farm sector, focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and atmospheric pollutants. The goal is to develop and implement an advanced system for sustainable and efficient farm management, using IoT technologies, blockchain, and artificial intelligence to monitor environmental conditions, health, and behavior of animals, ensuring data transparency and security. The technical-scientific objectives include implementing a sensor network for monitoring conditions in barns, using data to optimize cattle growth, developing a web platform with blockchain functionalities for data sharing, creating a framework of smart contracts for sustainable practices, and testing the system in selected farms to assess its impact on emission reduction and efficiency improvement.

IDS/IPS detection and protection system of critical communications infrastructures with early warning and blocking capabilities of DDoS attacks Call name: P 5.6 - SP 5.6.3 - Toate temele
PN-IV-P6-6.3-SOL-2024-2-0299 2024 - 2026

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA BRASOV (RO); Academia Tehnică Militară „FERDINAND I” (RO); SAFETECH INNOVATIONS SA (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

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Project website: https://futurenetworks.upb.ro/sdpicaddos/

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The project addresses the urgent need to develop advanced solutions for detecting and protecting networks through IDS/IPS systems, as well as blocking DDoS attacks. The identified problems that require innovative solutions are: ● the limited ability to effectively and in real time detect and counter malware network attacks, as well as complex DDoS attacks of existing infrastructures of national security authorities; ● the difficulty of effectively separating legitimate traffic from malicious traffic, an essential problem for maintaining the online availability of public services; ● the need to develop dedicated hardware and software products, based on reconfigurable FPGA-type circuits, for real-time network traffic analysis and to improve the ability to monitor and analyze data traffic to public IT resources.

Arrowhead Flexible Production Value Networks Call name: P 5.8 - SP 5.8.1 - Parteneriate și misiuni europene
PN-IV-P8-8.1-PME-2024-0011 2024 - 2026

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI (RO); Lulea Tekniska Universitet (SE); Leonardo - Societa per azioni (IT); Stora Enso AB (SE); Eurostep AB (SE); Universitet i Oslo (NO); AITIA International Informatikai Zartkoruen Mukodo RT (HU); Budapesti Muszaki Gazdasagtudomanyi Egyetem (HU); Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (FR); Eurotech SPA (IT); Politecnico di Torino (IT)

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Project website: https://futurenetworks.upb.ro/arrowhead-fpvn-7/

Abstract:

The Ambition for Arrowhead fPVN project is Doubling of the European industrial productivity by applying transformative, autonomous and evolvable information interoperability for resilient and adaptive production value networks. Hence, the Arrowhead flexible Production Value Network (fPVN) project will provide autonomous and evolvable interoperability of information through machine-interpretable content for fPVN stakeholders. The resulting technology is projected to substantially impact manufacturing productivity and flexibility.

Arrowhead Flexible Production Value Networks Call name: P 5.8 - SP 5.8.1 - Premiere Orizont Europa - Instituții - Competiția 2023
PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ORG-2023-0063 2023 - 2025

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI (RO)

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Project website: https://futurenetworks.upb.ro/arrowhead_21phe_2023/

Abstract:

The project's main objective is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the organization in the field of advanced technologies and communications, in line with the European project Arrowhead FPVN funded by KDT-JU. It focuses on developing new methods for URLLC (Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications) for IoT, active participation in brokerage sessions to promote results, and the development of services for its own research infrastructure. Through these initiatives, NUSTPB aims to gain significant expertise in key areas of advanced technologies.

Furthermore, the project aims to enhance the visibility and positioning of the organization within the scientific and industrial community by facilitating connections with other experts in the field through the organization of scientific events and the establishment of international partnerships. This opens up new opportunities for collaboration and funding for NUSTPB's future projects.

Romanian National Quantum Communication Infrastructure Call name:
PN-IV-P8-8.2-EUD-2024-0005 2024 - 2025

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAȚIONALĂ DE ȘTIINȚĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREȘTI (RO)

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Project website: https://ronaqci.eu

Abstract:

RoNaQCI proposes the deployment of a 1500km+ QCI network including 6 metropolitan networks in the cities of Bucharest, Iasi, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Craiova and Constanta, with 36 QKD links spanning Romania and connecting 10 universities, 5 research institutes, 5 public bodies, 3 data centers and a medical clinic, and with future links planned for quantum Internet interconnecting with neighbors.

MObility and Training fOR beyond 5G Ecosystems Call name: P 3 - SP 3.6 - Premierea participării în Orizont 2020
PN-III-P3-3.6-H2020-2020-0193 2022 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI (RO)

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Project website: https://futurenetworks.upb.ro/motor5gro/

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The project focus is on embedding artificial intelligence into 5G communication systems for the smarter use of network-generated data, the automated enabling of network operators and service providers to adapt to changes in traffic patterns, security risks and user behavior and thus paving the way towards safe and reliable next-generation wireless ecosystems.

Marketplace for technology transfer of R&I data, software and results Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2019-0241 2021 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: BEIA CERCETARE S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CERCETARE S.R.L. (RO); UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI (RO); National College of Ireland (IE); Digital Technology Skills Limited (IE)

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Project website: https://beia-cercetare.ro/smardy/

Abstract:

Smardy develops a research data marketplace for technology transfer built as a software and data carpentry. The marketplace will foster the collaboration between research data producers (of technology) and business actors (interested in the take-off of project results and experiments). This will lead to an easier take-off for innovation and technology transfer, as academia, industry, and government would find it easier to exchange curated datasets, technology, and tools to foster economic and social development.

From a business perspective, such a marketplace puts together data producers and data consumers to foster the delivery of cross-cutting solutions based on an open innovation model. The incentive for researchers and research organisations is twofold: they get the chance to accept who gets to use their own data and under what terms—an innovation leveraging distributed ledger technologies—and they get paid while sharing their data in a pay-per-access fashion.

From an economic perspective, the marketplace integrates tools for smart semantic discovery of relevant data, while promoting an Open Source culture where researchers do not need to pay for re-executing experiments if redundant. Thus, research funding has a chance to propel the advance of technology on the shoulders of already-existing findings.

There are multiple elements of innovation, from the use of blockchain technology to provide secure data access to the data, to the proposal of a data formats catalogue for sharing science data, and the tools for smart searching of info, all designed to allow an edge advantage in the marketplaces where we found no similar technology to actually exist today.

A Massive MIMO Enabled IoT Platform with Networking Slicing for Beyond 5G IoV/V2X and Maritime Services Call name: EEA Grants - Proiecte Colaborative de Cercetare
RO-NO-2019-0499 2021 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO); BEAM INNOVATION SRL (RO); University of Agder (NO); Telenor Maritime (NO); Universitat Politècnica de València (ES); Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland (CA)

Affiliation: BEAM INNOVATION SRL (RO)

Project website: https://solid-b5g.upb.ro

Abstract:

The main goal of the SOLID-B5G project is to perform cutting-edge research and develop breakthrough beyond state-of-the-art solutions in orchestration, management and control (OMC) of resources, in the context of network slicing and edge computing based on massive internet of things (IoT) enabled radio access network (RAN) and core network (CN) for beyond fifth generation (B5G) Internet of vehicles (IoV) and maritime applications.

More specifically, the project has the following sub-objectives:

• To develop ultra-low latency massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) based concurrent transmission mechanisms for data collection in massive IoT;

• To develop advanced 5G slicing solutions with a focus on OMC of resources and dedicated services for IoV and maritime services;

• To develop decentralized decision-making mechanisms by introducing data processing capacity and intelligence to the edge (based on edge computing and machine learning (ML)-to-the-edge);

• To develop 5G network slicing methods, algorithms and protocols and implement a proof-of-concept standalone B5G testbed which showcases the orchestration of RAN and CN based on 5G network slicing and multi-access edge computing (MEC) procedures.

Two use cases, i.e., IoV/vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and satellite based maritime low-latency services will be the target. Extensive experiments will be performed based on the prototype.

The Thematic Area addressed by the project is Area E: ICT. The most relevant key topics to this project are: ICT: Technologies and applications of Big Data and/or the Internet of things (IoT) for public administration, education, agriculture, health, banking etc; and ICT: Technologies, instruments and methods for software development – artificial intelligence (AI) & cloud computing.

The technologies addressed in this project have potential applications mainly to public transportation, maritime services, environment, but also possible to other domains like asset monitoring, energy (smart grid), smart city, smart agriculture, healthcare services and environment. For example, 1) protection of critical infrastructures and services (Area E: ICT); 2) Energy distribution using network slicing for smart grid and Vehicle-to-Grid networks (V2G) (Area A: Energy); and 3) climate change using IoT based data collection and ecosystems monitoring served by dedicated 5G slices (Area B: Environment).

The proposed partnership constitutes five leading research and industrial organizations in Romania and Norway and is enriched by two third-county partners in Spain and Canada, respectively. We will develop innovative research and development (R&D) solutions to foster the uptake of the newest 5G technologies and services in two envisaged use cases and enable upscaling and exploitation of beyond state-of-the-art 5G technologies from theory to reality.

The project scope is in full conformity with the EEA Norway Grants CRP Call, aiming at enhancing research-based knowledge development in Romania through long-term collaborations with two Norwegian partners as well as two other eminent third-country partners.

National Center for Quantum Communications Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Soluţii - 2021
PN-III-P2-2.1-SOL-2021-2-0202 2021 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL DE STIINTE SPATIALE-FILIALA INFLPR

Project partners: INSTITUTUL DE STIINTE SPATIALE-FILIALA INFLPR (RO); AGENTIA SPATIALA ROMANA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE ŞTIINŢĂ ŞI TEHNOLOGIE POLITEHNICA BUCUREŞTI (RO); Academia Tehnică Militară „FERDINAND I” (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE IN INFORMATICA - ICI BUCURESTI (RO); ROMANIAN INSPACE ENGINEERING SRL (RO); TRANS SPED S.R.L. (RO); CONTROL DATA SYSTEMS SRL (RO); TERRASIGNA SRL (RO)

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Project website: https://www.spacescience.ro/projects/quantec/

Abstract:

In the frame of the QUANTEC project, the consortium formed by the Institute of Space Sciences (CP), the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) (P1), the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) (P2), the "Ferdinand I" Military Technical Academy (ATMFI) ( P3), National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI) (P4), Romanian InSpace Engineering SRL (RISE) (P5), TRANS SPED SRL (TS) (P6), Control Data Systems SRL (CDS) (P7) and Terrasigna SRL (TRRS) (P8) proposes the establishment of a national research and development center - Quantec Center - whose role is to assimilate emerging technologies in the field of quantum communications.

The role of this center is to contribute and support the institutional actions of education, research and companies in Romania for the development of an ecosystem in the field of quantum telecommunications, which will ensure national industrial competitiveness in this field. Among the specific objectives of this project is the establishment of new facilities for the development of equipment / infrastructure for quantum communications. In this sense, the development of the following laboratories is considered: L1 (Quantum Experiment) - laboratory of quantum optics, L2 - laboratory for the integration of quantum communication systems and for testing these systems, L3 - laboratory for the development and implementation of infrastructures necessary to participate in the communication program quantum and optical satellite, CDOC - center for documentation and dissemination of skills in communications and quantum cryptography. The results of this project will be disseminated nationally and internationally in academic / RDI and specialized industrial environments, and the Quantec Center will be promoted through media and communication activities dedicated to both the European Commission and the European Space Agency ESA, both these institutions being essential in the implementation of the European EuroQCI initiative.

A Distributed, Scalable and Cost-effective Mass Movement Early Warning System Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
EUROSTARS-2019-E!114129-MEWS 2020 - 2023

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

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Project website: https://www.beiaro.eu/mews/

Abstract:

Early warning systems are becoming one of the main pillars of disaster prevention in natural hazards, therefore, the call for multi-hazard early warning systems and improvement of monitoring of natural hazards is steadily growing. Currently existing monitoring systems for early warning are available in terms of monolithic systems. This is a very cost-intensive way considering installation as well as operational and personal expenses. A very complex emergency plan is usually executed in case of warning. This requires a disciplined adherence to an information chain. Failure of single elements will significantly disturb the flow of information. The new approach provides the possibility for an involved institution to get user adapted information in a very early state independent from a hierarchic information structure. Within our project we will develop a scalable Mass movement Early Warning System (MEWS) for early detection of landslides, rockfalls and avalanches. The project investigates the complete information and warning chains, starting from large amounts of data gathering from an array of field-deployed wireless low cost and self-powered IoT devices, hosting many sensor types via information processing and analysis to information retrieval for landslides and mass movements. The sensor data will feed a cloud based software architecture providing real time processing and interpretation of data using advanced statistics and machine learning, thus providing a system that is adaptable, scalable, intelligent, low cost, robust, fast processing and decision making. A prototype of such a system will be developed together with project partners (Amplia from Spain, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute and Spordata (also from Norway) to demonstrate its potential in the case of avalanche detection. Data streams will be transmitted via a local LoRa gateway to the cloud-based dedicated IoT platform (OpenGate) which will provide facilities for alarms (e.g. SMS, emails) to pre-defined recipients, for example responsible authorities or persons on duty to inspect the monitored data.

Robot Efficient Cdw Intelligent CLassifier for Automatic Recycling Management Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte Eurostars 2019
EUROSTARS-2019-E!113891-RECICLARM 2020 - 2022

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

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Project website: https://www.beiaro.eu/reciclarm/

Abstract:

The project will provide construction industry with a novel method of sorting Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) into high-purity and small size separated fractions for high-grade applications in building industry.

Next Generation Internet Platform based on 5G and UAVs for precision agriculture Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Proiect experimental - demonstrativ
PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-1945 2020 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://nextagri.radio.pub.ro

Abstract:

The main purpose of the project is to develop and implement a monitoring and prevention platform for precision agriculture, platform designed using the current 5G specifications and UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) for Smart City and Smart Neighbourhood use-cases. The role of the platform resides in the soil, air and crop monitoring for communities that want to implement urban farming and/or precision agriculture in or close to residential areas, for both safer food production and air quality improvement. When designing the Next Generation Internet (NGI) platform, the use of dedicated wireless sensor networks is considered, as well as point-to-point 6LoWPAN routing for interconnecting and switching between NGI and the wireless sensor network. Crops such as vines and tomatoes will be real-time monitored to detect changes in soil and plant parameters in a timely manner, to act on soil irrigation mechanisms, to identify the stages of diseases that may occur due to air and water pollution, the application of incorrect amount of pesticides, etc. Data gathered from the sensors and those recorded using UAVs will be stored in Cloud and real-time accessed by the beneficiaries via one of the applications available on the terminal electronic equipment (mobile device, laptop, etc.). Subsequently, through data fusion from sensors, decisions will be considered to prevent and combat plant diseases. Withal, alerts and recommendations will be sent to the beneficiaries on their mobile devices. The features of the NGI platform based on 5G and UAVs consider reconfigurability and scalability, low energy consumption, mnimized human interaction and maximum accuracy.

Enabling Smart Livestock Farming Technologies for Environmental Sustainability using Blockchain Call name: P 3 - SP 3.2 - Proiecte ERA.NET
ERANET-ERAGAS-ICT-AGRI3-FarmSusteinaBl-1 2019 - 2022

Role in this project: Partner team leader

Coordinating institution: BEAM INNOVATION SRL

Project partners: BEAM INNOVATION SRL (RO); AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS PRIVATE COMPANY (GR); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK (DK); AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS-SPECIAL ACCOUNT OF RESEARCH FUNDS (GR)

Affiliation: BEAM INNOVATION SRL (RO)

Project website: https://beaminnovation.ro/farmsustainabl

Abstract:

Farming livestock – cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens – contributes around 6 billion tonnes of

greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) to the atmosphere each year, which could represent up to 18% of global emissions. With the advent of Precision Farming which uses new technologies to handle and manage farm information, economic returns can be improved and environmental

impact can be reduced. As such, precision feeding is about getting the right nutrient to the right animal at the right time, which can increase feed efficiency and productivity and consequently improve farm profitability and lower emission intensity.

The project proposes the integrated use of wireless sensor networks, data analytics and modelling

that enable an efficient decision support system together with a state-of-the-art cloud solution supporting blockchain for livestock agriculture. By minutely tracing the livestock feed and GHG emission, the FarmSustainaBl project will contribute to raising consumer awareness on the importance of low-GHG emission livestock produce as well as be able to optimize the and lower the GHG emission in animal production systems.

Multiagent intelligent systems platform for the monitoring of water quality on the Romanian sector of the Danube and Danube Delta Call name: P 1 - SP 1.2 - Proiecte complexe realizate in consorții CDI
PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0637 2018 - 2021

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR, PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI - INFLPR RA (RO); Academia Fortelor Aeriene "Henri Coanda" Brasov (RO); Ministerul Apărării Naționale prin Centrul de Cercetare și Inovare pentru Apărare CBRN și Ecologie (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); INSTITUTUL DE MECANICA SOLIDELOR (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://multimond.wixsite.com/multimond

Abstract:

The MultiMonD2 project proposes the development of a multi-agent platform consisting of micro-laboratories specialized in the monitoring the water quality of the Danube and Danube Delata and the testing of its decontamination capabilities. To this end, robotic vectors will be realized which will integrate systems for the investigation of Danube's water quality and dynamics. The acquired data will be collected and interpreted by a dedicated software system, operated from a control center. The robotic vectors will be equipped with sensors systems and devices for diagnostics organized as micro-labs for the monitoring of water quality, management of floods and sediments. The project (MultiMonD2) is made of 4 interdisciplinary and complementary projects, interconnected through specific objectives aimed at achieving the general objective: development of the MultiMonD2 multifunctional platform. Therefore, the aerial and surface water vectors will be used used as carrier systems for the sensor based detection equipment (developed in project 1). Project 2 proposes the development of a technical solution that allows the optimizing of communication from the different types of sensors mounted on the robotic vectors and includes software modules that will interact with the Control and Command Center developed in project 3. Project 4 constitutes a 'proof-of-concept', which proposes, based on the results obtained and processed in the other projects, a solution for local decontamination. The consortium is made of 5 partner institutions. The institutional consolidation of the partners is achieved by: i) ensuring new positions for young people in the field of research, ii) development of novel/improved technologies and iii) the providing of research and technological services with impact in the economy.

Integrated Information System for Management of Activities Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - SOLUȚII - 8 - Sistem informatic integrat pentru managementul activităţilor
PN-III-P2-2.1-SOL-2017-09-0102 2018 - 2021

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE IN INFORMATICA - ICI BUCURESTI

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE IN INFORMATICA - ICI BUCURESTI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE APĂRARE "CAROL I" (UM 02545) (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); SAFETECH INNOVATIONS SRL (RO); GREENSOFT SRL (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: https://sima.ici.ro

Abstract:

In the context of the present technology development, the design, analysis and implementation of an integrated system for the activity management is a desideratum for any public or private institution or for any system of organizations that interact.

This proposal identifies modern architectures, based on services/microservices that facilitate the respecting of GDPR regulations, increase the security level and the resilience in the informational field, as well as the inclusion of emergent technologies in the development of informational systems that are integrated in the activity management processes.

The informational system is acting as a reunion of all the informational resources that, at some point, exist in an organization, of all the circuits where the informational resources go through inside the organization or at trans-organizational level, of all the access rules to the resources and the ways of using them, and also of all the actors that interact in any way, with the informational resources in the organization. This system can be considered as the sanguine circulating system of a living organism.

From a non-functional point of view, the informational systems at the level of an organization, regardless of the functional spectrum served, must uniformly be enrolled in all the rules, mechanisms and common informational circuits existing at the level of the organizations and must be able to be connected at the main informational artery of the organization. These desiderates of software platforms, which are more dependent on the background of the problem than its form, can be obtained through respecting of certain rigours in the course of designing their functional and technological structure.

Through this technical proposal, the bidder wishes to particularly highlight, besides the realization of specific functional objectives of the integrated systems of the activity management, the non-functional properties of the platform, derived from its architecture and from the using of instruments, technics and standards, offering the capacity of standardization to the platform, and also the creation of premises of extensibility of software tools palette, offering, as a whole, full support for the processes in the organization.

In concrete terms, this „middleware” type platform can represent the spine of the informational system and can offer the so-called „infrastructure services” for the organization, that serves, in an unitary manner, the constituent entities of the informational system.

SOcial LOcal MObile iNdoor shopping experience Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2017-02-0075 2018 - 2020

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/solomon/

Abstract:

E-commerce has drastically transformed the retail industry. In SOLOMON the main target is to improve the customer experience in bricks-and-mortar stores. SOLOMON’s innovation is to define a “shop operations & experience” platform connecting different technologies and information sources into seamless services for interaction with the retailers, shop personnel and consumers. Platform requirements are set by retail stores and technology providers who define the use cases that are demonstrated and evaluated during the course of the project in bricks-and-mortar stores.

Personal dAta pRotection FrAmework for IoT Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2017-02-0063 2018 - 2020

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: SOCIETATEA DE INGINERIE SISTEME * SIS S.A.

Project partners: SOCIETATEA DE INGINERIE SISTEME * SIS S.A. (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: https://www.sis.ro/produse/20/parfait/

Abstract:

PARFAIT project’s main goal is to develop a platform for protecting personal data in Internet of Things applications which will be tested with 2 use-cases. Another goal of the project is to decrease complexity of integrating and deploying services in today’s Internet of Things technology by providing interoperable software libraries,tools and SDK elements.

Interoperability,along with security and privacy of personal data, are the two most important limitations for the growth of Internet of Things market.Interoperability increases the complexity of service production processes and the cost of production. On the other hand, lack of security and trust for the protection of privacy puts a barrier between service providers and consumers, which can be defined as businesses and end user consumers.This barrier directly affects wide adoption of Internet of Things applications in the consumer lifestyle and business applications.

By finding solutions to these problems, the project aims at generating huge business potential. Business impact of the project will be realized through an integrated,scalable and extendable privacy and security framework which will be demonstrated through 2 use cases leaded by industrial partners of the project consortium. These use cases are selected as Personal Information Management and Smart Home Services.

Instead of restricting the business potential to selected vertical domains, the consortium aims at presenting a global privacy and security framework, where various vertical thematic frameworks can be built on. This approach will increase business potential and adoption of project outcomes in a wider market.

It is a strong ambition of the project to define interoperability and security/privacy methodologies, rules and guidelines to make recommendations for the policy makers. Defined methodologies and policies will be used as the keystones to develop libraries, tools and SDKs which will construct the foundation layer for domain specific IoT.

Virtualized Video Services (VIRTUOSE) Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2017-02-0023 2017 - 2020

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/virtuose/

Abstract:

The main goal of VIRTUOSE project is to develop video services utilizing virtualization techniques. With the use virtualization techniques, we can develop service, which are scalable and secure, and can easily be deployed to different computing platforms. This enables the partners to leverage their services to new markets, and offer cost-efficient solutions.

The VIRTUOSE project focuses on initially on selected use cases, which are: cloud gaming, video analytics and surveillance, video conferencing, cable TV and video streaming (live and video-on-demand) services.

Virtualization is expected to benefit all those use cases significantly. Project’s results will be visible through demonstrators targeting tests which conclusions will be made public in order to disseminate the best practices in the domain. It is also the intention of the project to push its results to standardization bodies. Business models and opportunities will be explored during the project.

The business impact of the project will be the further delivery of new products and services utilizing virtualization techniques as an enabler.

Hybrid VLC/IR-RF Communication for Smart Space Based on Multi-Functional Thermal Image Sensor Module Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2017-02-0020 2017 - 2020

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/hybrid-vlcir-rf/

Abstract:

The project will target the building block actors by developing a hybrid VLC/IR-RF (Visual Light Communication/InfraRed-RadioFrequency) system based on an innovative integrated multi-functional thermal image sensor module with highly sensitive, low cost, and low power consumption.

This module will be capable of multi-purpose sensing for the monitoring of the energy consumption and controlling the environment on houses, buildings, and offices, which could avoid the privacy issues with ultra-low resolution (80x80) micro-bolometer, including presence detection, motion detection, and non-contact temperature detection. Also, the module will be able to run an image processing algorithm based on artificial intelligence with low computation and energy requirements, enabling counting of persons or objects, tracking, and distinction of objects such animals. The goal is to develop an integrated multi-functional module with the smallest and smartest infrared design from a single compact sensor.

Furthermore, the proposed VLC/IR-RF system will be able to integrate existing sensors to detect the physical and chemical information at home, building and office.

Wearable IoT Network Solution for Work Safety in Hazardous Industrial Environments Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2017-02-0038 2017 - 2020

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: ALTFACTOR S.R.L.

Project partners: ALTFACTOR S.R.L. (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/winshi/

Abstract:

Despite prevalence of on-going scientific and technical efforts in connecting anything everywhere in the mobile communication research landscape, there are still needs of agile, cost effective and yet reliable solutions in local area where no mobile communication like GSM/UMTS is available or where local radio network such as Wi-Fi is not suitable. In this project, we offer an ad-hoc, agile and reliable communication solution for both condition monitoring of the operations and safety of the workers in hazardous „Industry 4.0‟ work environments in order to prevent unpredictable operation failures and work accidents. To reduce time to market and the barriers imposed by deployment cost, we explore how to blend technologies together into an open platform and repurpose some of the existent infrastructure. For this purpose, different kinds of IoT sensors, such as wearable devices, that capture data from work environment and vital parameters of work safety will be exploited which could extract maximum amount of information from the hazardous production sites. The proposed solution will focus on underground coal mines, tunnel/underground transportation / construction sites, waste management industries and manufacturing environments as the main application fields since these work environments are very good examples of hostile „Industry 4.0‟ production sites where radio communication is very challenging. The aim is to improve safety, operation management and manufacturing environments and evaluate industrial accident risks more accurately owing to wearable sensors that collect information such as vibration and heat from worker equipment as well as ergonomic position of workers and gases like methane, firedamp and carbon monoxide. These sensors will also enable failure prediction for continuous operation, tracking of health status and physical location of workers which will guide search and rescue units in case of emergency.

Integrated software platform for mobile terminals malware analysis Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - SOLUTII - 5 - Platformă software integrată pentru analiza malware a terminalelor mobile
PN-III-P2-2.1-SOL-2016-05-0070 2017 - 2020

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO); UNIVERSITATEA NAŢIONALĂ DE APĂRARE "CAROL I" (UM 02545) (RO); SAFETECH INNOVATIONS SRL (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: https://tor-sim.pub.ro/

Abstract:

In the modern IT security field it can be identified a general approach based on ways of identifying and handling dangerous threats. This approach can be summarized by the following steps: identifying assets, identifying vulnerabilities, identifying potential threats, the determination of attack scenarios, establishing security policies, recommendations.

Android is perhaps the most exposed to malware, given its open ecosystem. iOS mobile platform, developed by Apple and used on iPhones, presents some specific features that will determine certain advantages in key points such as the distribution of applications and the access of developers (thorough APIs) at key points of the operating system. Although Google, through „Play Store”, follows a similar process, however, Android platform, being open, allows the installation of applications outside the official store by simply activating „Unknown sources” option, which, in the past allowed the infiltration of malware with greater ease on many such devices. Some general approaches of malware detection on mobile devices are: the classical approaches (Anti-Virus, a signature extraction, analysis and disassembly of malware and of used protocols) or modern approaches (Data-Mining and Machine-Learning applications).

Therefore, it is intended to achieve a software platform that integrates malware analysis procedures for most existing devices on the market in order to strengthen the security of networks and terminals.

Cunoașterea situației globale în operațiuni de salvare, calamitate și inspecție Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2016-0033 2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO); ETA2U SRL (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/3dsafeguard/

Abstract:

At present, calamities such as fires in buildings and bomb threats in stations/airports occur frequently. During such large incidents, organisations like fire departments, police, hospitals etc. work together, but the information about the actual actions is limited and information sharing between organisations is restricted. 3DSafeguard proposes a solution offering global situational awareness for both individual actors carrying out the operation and for the coordinating commanders. This situational awareness is enabled by integrated data, control and communication workflow between the abovementioned parties.

ALADIN Airports Landside and Air-land Side Attacks’ Detection and Prevention Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2016-0038 2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: CERTSIGN SA

Project partners: CERTSIGN SA (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/aladin-airports-landside-air-land-side-attacks-detection-prevention/

Abstract:

The cyber-security is now the key issue for the aerospace industry and services who manage the airspace and organize inspections of the equipment driving by. Thereby, we propose ALADIN that aims to prevent failures caused unexpectedly by the hacker at Landside area such as parking and baggage check services, and Air-landside areas that includes for instance the communication between aircraft on the ground and air traffic control. The focus of the project are primarily as follow: ● Analyze the risks and vulnerabilities of airport information & control systems and the ecosystem of airport assets/objects. This investigation will provide dedicated methodologies and tools to assess the resiliency level of the Airports, ● Define the cyber, physical or combined threats scenario that could target these airport information & control systems or any other airport assets, ● Design and implement the Attack Monitoring, Prevention and Detection building blocks in air-landside and landside areas to react smartly and quickly to the cyber-attacks with adapted intrusion prediction, detection and recovery countermeasures, ●Developing lightweight cryptographic techniques to assure a data confidentiality, ●Develop a simulation environment platform to evaluate the methods and techniques defined and implemented in ALADIN to assess their effectiveness with respect to dependability, security and performance, ●Define different cyber-security services that ALADIN could provide to an airport, ● Demonstration by embedding some attacks scenarios with their related security countermeasures. The result of ALADIN will be a Cyber protection and detection framework, incorporating the above described objectives. They will be marketable as standalone components or fully integrated system as soon as the project is over in order to address either existing or new airports sites. The estimated time for marketing techniques, tools or methodologies is of max 1 year from finalizing WP 5, 6, in 2019.

Smart City 3D simulation and monitoring platform Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2016-0043 2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: ALTFACTOR S.R.L.

Project partners: ALTFACTOR S.R.L. (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/citisim/

Abstract:

Lately, the introduction of ICT technologies in our daily tasks has opened up new pathways of cooperation and organization. Our society is evolving towards a new digital era in which citizens will become more and more connected to their surrounding environment. Cities are the core of our society and so they will need to embrace and support this evolution of their citizens. As a consequence of this process and thanks to new technological improvements, a considerable number of research projects and laboratory pilots have been deployed to study how to deal with problems such as traffic, pollution, mobility, energy consumption, etc. A complete digital ecosystem is growing within the smart city concept which has an estimated market worth of $1,134.84 billion by 2019. However, along with the variety of services, technologies and protocols being utilized in smart cities, service development and service deployment in the context of smart city monitoring and control is likely to be problematic for companies, city councils and citizens. The absence of a common platform with advanced services and tools for the smart city is hindering the effective development of the associated ecosystem. This type of ICT platform, also called the e-infrastructure, will be as important a regulator for the future development of cities as energy infrastructure and transport infrastructure have been in past decades. Under this context, CitiSim´s project main goal is devoted to the design and implementation of a new generation platform for the smart city ecosystem. This platform will provide a powerful monitoring and control infrastructure to enable planners to make critical management decisions on tactical and strategic levels based on the knowledge provided by the specific platform developed. For a natural interaction and better understanding of the events that happen in the city, 3D visualization techniques as augmented virtuality and augmented reality will be explored.

ODSI-On Demand Secure Isolation Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2016-0039 2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: B & S RESO NET SRL

Project partners: B & S RESO NET SRL (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/odsi/

Abstract:

ODSI (project TRL: 3 to 5) will deliver new security models with the properties and the benefits of both hardware and software approaches. These models deliver only certified and proved (CC) minimal properties for isolation, with the goal of being used in mass production (low-cost and constrained CPU) in all approaches that require context isolation: M2M, IoT, network infrastructure sharing etc. Management systems of these isolated contexts offer the opportunity to qualify and authenticate the security level of remote devices using standardized protocols. ODSI solutions will guarantee / certify the lowest common subset of software and hardware with the goal to prove the isolation property. ODSI project ambition provides to the industry:

•New Models and Security Standards: a model of hardware / software security, leaving to the industry the choice of their strategies to distribute security objectives between both parts of their platforms; a minimal software standardized interface (API) allowing the industry to implement their services in the isolated environments and a communication protocol allowing to propagate the isolation properties from a first isolated context towards a second isolated context.

•The definition of the evaluation framework and the necessary elements for Common Criteria certifications (e.g. protection Profiles) allowing to reach a global security assurance level of the delivered isolation models and derived solutions (hardware / software). This framework will include two aspects, the certification of the elementary bricks at the highest logical/physical assurance level and the “lego methodology” to reach a global assurance level for the system when combining the certified bricks.

•USEs CASEs as technical evidence of ODSI concepts.

•Dissemination of ODSI high-level models, Protection Profiles and open source use cases implementation, as well as the standardization of the interfaces proposed for the IoT and M2M sectors.

Social Media and Digital Interaction Intelligence Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2016-0013 2016 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO); SIVECO ROMANIA SA (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/somedi/

Abstract:

SoMeDi will unlock the implicit value in digital interaction data by turning it into Digital Interaction Intelligence that can drive and support various business processes and use situations. Our consortium has attracted both leading technology experts and strong use case owners from B2C and B2B platforms in SaaS, Digital Security, Digital Entertainment and Gaming, as well as strong European Brands with vital interests in Competitive Intelligence and Customer Engagement in highly competitive global markets. Demonstrators as well as experimentation scenarios across different vertical applications ensure that the advances in research and technology can be utilised from all angles under real industrial constraints and lead to relevant economic valorization. SoMeDi’s goals are 1) to develop novel methods and tools to efficiently analyse digital interaction data and especially social media content separately and as a combination, and how to connect this data to various production and business processes to support and automate them, and 2) to explore how to use social media actively and efficiently growth hacking and marketing both in B2C and B2B markets. More precisely, in terms of social media analysis, SoMeDi will investigate: (1.1) methods to produce improved sentiment analysis and opinion mining to increase perception of the user’s attitude towards topics and concepts at aspect level, (1.2) methods that analyse user activities and online-phenomenon, such as detect communities and spread of messages in social networks, and (1.3) a method for providing decision-support of the analysed data for different purposes of use. In terms of social media use, SoMeDi will develop a methodology for effectively entering and acting in social media and use it for growth hacking, customer support and marketing in connection to both business users and consumers. A guidebook of using social media with business users will be produced summarizing numerous social media services.

Intelligent forest protection monitoring system based on wireless sensor network Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2016-0009 2016 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://www.beiaro.eu/seaforest/

Abstract:

The objective of the project is to monitor, detect and evaluate environmental incidents in a forest by using a resilient wireless sensors network (WSN) with sensors analyzing sound and/or vibration data. Furthermore, the system will provide analysis and visualization toolkits for rapid intervention.

Environmental Sensing To Act for a Better quality of LIfe: Smart Health Call name: P 3 - SP 3.5 - Proiecte EUREKA Tradiţional (Network), EUREKA-Cluster, Eurostars
PN-III-P3-3.5-EUK-2016-0011 2016 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: SIVECO ROMANIA SA

Project partners: SIVECO ROMANIA SA (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Project website: http://rd.siveco.ro/portal/web/guest/63

Abstract:

The main application scope of ESTABLISH is products, services and solutions on an individual level utilizing environmental sensors (air quality, noise, heat, temperature) and combining the environmental input with other data sources, for example personal wearable sensors, weather conditions etc. ESTABLISH will enable to go from monitoring the indoor and outdoor environment and traffic to managing the environmental conditions on a personal level and thus improving the quality of life, reducing health costs and supporting vulnerable groups such as the elderly or patients.

Intelligent Hive Colony Monitoring System Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Cecuri de inovare
PN-III-P2-2.1-CI-2018-1562 2018 - 2018

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.

Project partners: BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.telecom.pub.ro/SIMCA/

Abstract:

Bees is a key factor in agriculture, responsible for pollination of plants and forests. CCD (Colony collapse disorder) is a very serious problem, manifested by the decrease of the number of bees in the colony. Most of the time it's causes are not known, or can be found through a thorough research of the colonies involved – it may be parasites, pesticides genetically modified crops, or even the ambiental radiation produced.

Over 79% of the crops consumed by humans are pollinated by bees and the market value of these crops is estimated at the level of 155 Billion Euro anually.

The project proposed brings a innovative solution for these problems by introducing an Intelligent Hive Colony Monitoring System, in order to determine their health and detect anomalies.

The system will be composed of 3 main componenente:

- monitoring interface of the collected parameters, with detection and alerting capabilities

- Database storage and archiveing system.

- aquirement procedure of the hive parameters with modular extension interfaces.

Monitored parameters correlated with the health of a bee colony are: the level of atmospheric gases such as: CO, CO2, O2, temperature and humidity, particle level of dust and chemical pollutants such as NO2, H2, NH3, isobutane or toluene.

The proposed system allows the monitoring of bee colonies especially during winter, it is hard and not recommended to physically intervene in the hive during prolonged periods. By monitoring the parameters of temperature and inner humidity, as well as the swarm of bees during the cold season, it can be early identified when the process of increased consumption of food starts, and then preventing the colony death if it remains without food. The swarm position (which moves after the food) can also be important: it will indicate both the food consumption and the ventilation level of the hive.

The platform used, makes possible the monitoring of bee colonies in hard-to-reach geographic areas and bad weather con

OFDM system based on fractional FFT demodulation Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Proiect experimental - demonstrativ
PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-0855 2017 - 2018

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICĂ "GHEORGHE ASACHI" IAŞI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICĂ "GHEORGHE ASACHI" IAŞI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.fftofdm.ieeia.tuiasi.ro/ro/index.html

Abstract:

The present project proposes the development and validation in laboratory environment of an OFDM system model which can demodulate data in severe conditions of ISI or ICI errors, without influencing the real-time processing. Demodulation will be carried out through oversampling in frequency, using a new DFT algorithm, with non-integer argument. An efficient FFT implementation of this algorithm will allow the oversampling stage to be performed with a reduced number of operations.

THE OUTLINES OF THE PROJECT ARE:

1. OFDM is everywhere. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) was adopted as a modulation method for all the wireless technologies of today. It can be found in Wi-Fi networks, WiMAX, 4G communication, digital subscriber line (DSL), ADSL and VDSL internet access modems, military applications and satellite communications.

2. The most important drawbacks of OFDM are represented by ICI (Inter Carrier Interference) and Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI).

3. A robust method used to reduce related errors is the oversampling in frequency. Several attemps have been reported, most of them making use of zero-padding FFT. All of them dramatically increase the computational demand and consequently the processing time.

4. Project team members have developed (and reported) an efficient alternative to zero-padding DFT that can be used to significantly improve the performances of OFDM based communication systems.

The research infrastructure of the partners together with the expertise of the researchers nominated in the project team guarantee that all the projected activities can be carried out in the budgeted time, at top quality level.

Intelligent communications system based on integrated infrastructure, with dynamic display and alerting Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Transfer de cunoaștere la agentul economic „Bridge Grant”
PN-III-P2-2.1-BG-2016-0475 2016 - 2018

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.telecom.pub.ro/SICIAD/

Abstract:

The project aims at implementing an intelligent system based on a performant integrated wired and wireless communication architecture. The secure access will be implemented for clear categories of users, with multiple access levels, as well as for guest-type users, with prior identification and session logging. The system will use locally-defined policies and a centralized redundant database, allowing remote authentication through eduroam technology, performed by the user's distant institution of affiliation.

The system will enable content-based traffic prioritization, in order to ensure quality of service.

The implemented management console will enable the dynamic display of information, either on ePaper devices connected to the infrastructure and without wired power supplies, or on the users' cell phones, using beacons based on the iBeacon technology. An internet calendar interface with email entry will be created, allowing the display of event schedule, as well as an electronic notice board for announcements, commercials, etc...

An application for the operation and monitoring of the system's state parameters will be implemented, offering the ability to send generated alerts through technologies like e-mail, GSM SMS, ePaper displays in areas of interest, or iBeacon messages.

Information and alerts will be generated using data from IoT devices working as sensors (temperature, CO2, smoke, gas), in order to facilitate the avoidance of problem areas and the guidance towards safe exits (including aid for the hearing impaired).

The infrastructure will be designed and implemented using the economic operator's LANCOM ePaper and iBeacon, cloud and IoT, existing technologies, as well as generic open-source technologies available to the university.

The economic operator will be able to implement the system in domains like: universities, schools, conference halls, hospitals, etc..

Scalable Radio Transceiver for Instrumental Wireless Sensor Networks Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA-2011 call, Type 2
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.2-1030 2012 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL S.R.L. (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA SI INGINERIE NUCLEARA " HORIA HULUBEI " - IFIN - HH (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.sarat-iwsn.pub.ro/

Abstract:

The SaRaT-IWSN project proposes a new generation of a radio transceiver to be used into the IWSN communications node, based on an open source hardware and software platform, but particularized in order to ensure the requirements presented above. The hardware platform is an USRP-type one and the entire radio transceiver is designed starting on GNU-Radio software platform, according to the Software Defined Radio methods. This method of development the communications nodes will ensure easier their scalability as well the reconfigurability of the entire network, which together with the control of some critical communication parameters (transmission delay, variation of this delay, the data rate, etc) in a given narrow range characterize an Instrumental Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSN).

A special attention must be given to the implemented communications protocols, so the SaRaT-IWSN transceiver, which will be mainly a CDMA-type one, will develop a new generation of GOSSIP-type communications protocols able to control the communication delay using a time indication. The entire IWSN is considered as a reconfigurable mesh network, with significant traffic variations, so the entire network must ensure a reliable communication with clear time constraints. Due this structure of the network, the protocols developed during the project will be optimized based on cross-layer methods.

The project intends not only to develop a new generation of radio transceiver for an IWSN, but also to evaluate it at experimental model level and to propose applications for such networks: to interconnect the detectors of cosmic rays into a large array observatory, but also alternative ones.

Investigation of the cosmic radiation in the Universe using advanced techniques Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA-2011 call, Type 1
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.1-1307 2012 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA SI INGINERIE NUCLEARA " HORIA HULUBEI " - IFIN - HH

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA SI INGINERIE NUCLEARA " HORIA HULUBEI " - IFIN - HH (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO); INSTITUTUL DE STIINTE SPATIALE (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://muon1.nipne.ro/~corona

Abstract:

The CORONA project contains interdisciplinary frontier research, belonging to Astroparticle Physics (AP) field, a new field for studying particles coming from the outer space, using methods and instruments developed in Nuclear and Particle Physics laboratories.

Our aim is to develop techniques for the investigation of the high energy charged particles and neutrinos, to obtain priority in the European research, based on a common activity of different institutions forming ROASTROPART consortium.

The main activity is focused on the study of high energy cosmic rays measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) (covering 3000 km2) for clarifying the nature of these particles and their influence on the environment. Our main contribution is the development of techniques for studying their radio emission by using radio antennas, research linked to FP7 ASPERA project, Auger Next. Additionally a study will be performed concerning the reconstruction quality for various observables at the PAO taking into account possible changes in the layout of the detector array and studies on the muon arrival times and production height locus. Another important activity is the participation to the maintenance and extension of the PAO by producing power voltage systems for the PAO.

Another activity foreseen in this project contains investigation of very high energy neutrinos using radio antennas placed in the underground of the salt mine Slanic, which is a unique activity to be developed in Europe. The development of instruments and techniques for the study of cosmic radiation using radio antennas placed in different media constitutes one of the priorities in AP development, specified in the Roadmap.

Based on our results, new information can be obtained about astroparticles, which will increase the visibility of the Romanian research in international large collaborations and will offer the possibility to develop local infrastructure and attract young scientists.

EEA/NO Mobility Grant - Alexandru VULPE Call name: NO - Proiecte de Mobilităţi - 2019
RO-NO-MG-2019-0007 2019 -

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); Norsk institutt for luftforskning (NO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

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Abstract:

FILE DESCRIPTION	DOCUMENT
List of research grants as project coordinator or partner team leader
Significant R&D projects for enterprises, as project manager
R&D activities in enterprises
Peer-review activity for international programs/projects