The Network of Excellence on Cooperating Objects (CONET) has released the 2011 edition of its Roadmap titled "The Emerging Domain of Cooperating Objects", published by Springer Verlag. Cooperating Objects (COs) consist of embedded computing devices equipped with communication as well as sensing or actuation capabilities that are able to cooperate and organize themselves autonomously into networks to achieve a common task. The vision of COs is to tackle the emerging complexity by cooperation and modularity. Towards this vision, the ability to communicate and interact with other objects and/or the environment is a major prerequisite. While in many cases cooperation is application specific, cooperation among heterogeneous devices can be supported by shared abstractions.
The CONET roadmap aims at providing the most up to date information on the industrial and real-life use of cooperating objects (in domains such as Building and Industrial automation, energy, logistics, transportation, environmental monitoring and assisted living) as well as the latest research state of the art and future trends and gaps. CISTER researchers have been highly involved in the writing of this roadmap focusing in the research aspects (state of the art and trends & gaps) of non functional properties (e.g., scalability, reliability, heterogeneity), radio resource management and data processing.
The CONET Network of Excellence addresses the research and technological effort that will ultimately efficiently allow interlinking the real world physical objects and cyberspace, generally coined as “Cooperating-Objects” or “Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)”. Applications of Cooperating Objects and Cyber-Physical Systems include, among others, critical infrastructure control (electric power, water resources, gas and fuel distribution, transportation, etc.), process control and manufacturing, high dependable medical devices and systems, traffic control and safety, advanced automotive systems, energy conservation and environmental control, etc.
CONET includes 16 core partners, 11 from academia and 5 from industry. Academic partners include ISEP, TU Delft (NL), TU Berlin (D), ETHZ (CH), UCL (UK), SICS (S) and University of Pisa (I). Industrial partners are SAP (D), Schneider-Electric GmbH (D), SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Ltd. (UK), Boeing Research & Technology Europe (E) and Telecom Italia (I). Within CONET, CISTER is leader of Workpackage 5 (Spreading Excellence) and is leader of 2 of 7 research clusters.
The CONET Roadmap is available at Springer Link.
