A semantic data model for a fair digital repository of heterogeneous agricultural digital objects: The case of the eureka farmbook

Autonomous Driving Progressed by oneM2M: The Experience of the AUTOPILOT Project

The European Commission Horizon 2020 AUTOPILOT (AUTOmated driving Progressed by Internet Of Things) is aiming to exploit the IoT ecosystem to integrate connected cars and transform them in automated moving "objects". One of the key challenges encountered in the project is to ensure the interoperability of the different components and IoT...

Interoperability for smart appliances in the IoT world

Household appliances are set to become highly intelligent, smart and networked devices in the near future. Systematically deployed on the Internet of Things (IoT), they would be able to form complete energy consuming, producing, and managing ecosystems. Smart systems are technically very heterogeneous, and standardized interfaces on a sensor and...

Harmonizing carbon footprint calculation for freight transport chains

The European Commission has set as a target a reduction of 60% in transport greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 [EC 11]. This includes freight transport emissions, which present a particular challenge due to the forecast increase in goods transport linked to future economic growth, the current trend of lengthening supply chains and the global...

European Regulatory Framework on Novel Foods and Novel Food Additives

In Europe, commercialization of a "novel food (or ingredient)" or a "food additive," requires food companies to follow a premarket approval scheme set up by the European Commission, a long (3-5 years) and costly (R&D and administrative) process for the food operator to consider beforehand when seeking a competitive edge.Other chapters in this...

Summary of the EU project GEISER on induced seismicity in geothermal engineering

GEISER was a European project on understanding and mitigation of induced seismicty in geothermal operations. The project involved several European research institutions as well as industry and was funded by the European Commission within FP7. GEISER addressed a better understanding of the key parameters that control induced seismicity in...

A method for managing it-based boundary objects: Design and application in the public sector

To achieve high-quality services offerings, public administrations need to cooperate with other institutions across organizational boundaries. The required cooperation may lead to a complex network including several of the thousands public administrations, enterprises and citizens on the different federal layers of a single country. Key...

Defining the required infrastructure supporting co-operative systems

Cooperative Systems will play a critical role in enabling safe, smart and clean transport, as well as meeting the European Commission's 2020 policy goals. There is today a general understanding of the benefits of cooperative systems but there is still a need for further validation of the estimated benefits based on large scale trials. Progress...

Integrated infomobility services for urban freight distribution

City logistics is one of the causes of today's road congestion in our cities, but at the same time its efficiency is affected by the traffic problems. The driving behaviour and mission strategies used by vans and lorries operating in urban areas usually does not exploit modern infomobility solutions. CityLog, a project co-funded by the European...

Production of gas from coal seams in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin in Poland in the post-injection period of an ECBM pilot site

A pilot site for CO2 storage in coal seams was set-up in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin in Poland in the scope of the RECOPOL project, funded by the European Commission. About 760 tons CO2 were injected into the reservoir from August 2004 to June 2005. Breakthrough of the injected CO2 was established, which resulted in the production of about 10%...

Risks to health and environment of the use of lead in products in the EU

The EU Commission's Services asked TNO and CML to perform a study into the risks of the present uses of lead over time, as an input to a discussion on the need of a further reduction of the use of this material. The study was set up as a substance flow analysis to analyse trends in uses and emissions of lead in Europe between 2000 and 2030. The...

TPD-TNO koördineert Solar storage testing group

Eén van de aktiviteiten van de Technisch Physische Dienst (TPD) van TNO op het gebied van onderzoek naar de thermische benutting van zonne-energie betreft het beproeven van uiteenlopende soorten van voorzieningen voor de tijdelijke opslag van de ingevangen zonnewarmte. In de loop der jaren groeide de behoefte om de opgedane ervaringen op dit...