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R&D Brochure 2009 1,09Mb
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Projects
By strongly investing in R&D - currently to 10% of the company’s yearly turnover - we recognize its importance in the process of bringing new technologies, products and processes to the market, as well as for incorporating innovation into our customer’s projects.
Such investment has already brought successful and innovative products and technologies to the market. A few illustrative R&D projects where Critical is or has been involved are:
EMMON
EMMON Project is a collaborative venture within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. EMMON will evolve through a partnership between Critical Software S.A. and eight other organisations, both corporate and academic: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Intesys, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Tecnicas de Gipuzkoa, Critical Software Technologies, Trinity College Dublin, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, SESM S.c.a.r.l., Akting Ingeniaritza S.L.
EMMON intends to develop a functional prototype for the real-time monitoring of specific natural scenarios (related to the quality of urban life, forest environment, civil protection etc) using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) devices. The project will provide the technology to effectively monitor and control an area of 50 square km - this will involve the deployment of thousands of wireless sensor nodes which will be a massive advance on the current state-of-the-art.
SARAe
SARA - Assessing Corporate Environmental Liability is co-promoted by E.Value and Critical Software. SARA's first initiative is the project SARAe, approved by the System of Incentives for Research and Technological Development (SI I&DT) of the National Strategic Reference Framework (QREN), co-funded by European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Operational Program Competitiveness Factors (POFC).
SARAe aims to support the technical and operational needs of occupational activities covered by Directive 2004/35/CE, of 21 April (ELD - Environmental Liability Directive) in an efficient and flexible way. SARAe's main output will be a software (SARA tech) that supports the environmental liability evaluation process.
SARAe is developed between October 2008 and November 2010, with an eligible investment of 570,866 euro and a provided incentive of 404,794€.
EVOLVE
EVOLVE stands for Evolutionary Validation, Verification and Certification. EVOLVE is an EUREKA-ITEA2 project and runs from 01/04/2008 until 31/03/2011. The EVOLVE project gathers European partners from Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, involved in the domain of embedded system engineering.
Reliable, accurate, fast and low-cost validation and verification of products is one of the corner stones of the modern high-tech industry. However, many software organizations clearly lack efficient verification and validation technologies that would support rapid, high quality software development in a volatile business environment.
The aim of the EVOLVE project is the creation of a methodological framework for early verification and validation of evolutionary products through the accredited/certified integration of each iteration and/or component in a MDE (Model Driven Engineering) context.
SAFE LUGGAGE
Critical Software is researching and developing a system that will increase luggage security. Safe Luggage project will develop a management, control and monitoring system for a new type of intelligent bags integrating technology for identification and communication.
Current luggage identifiers are fixed in suitcases presenting problems related to bar code (as wet or missing labels). The fact that luggage and identifier are two separated objects can break up a security system. The idea is to create a new type of bags with identifiers embedded in them so they won’t be accessible. These identifiers will be based on RFID, WSN and GPS / Galileo / GSM technologies.
Go to Safe Luggage (Mala Segura) webpage.
UAVs
Critical has been researching & developing capabilities on the operational simulation of Unmanned Aeronautical Vehicles. UAVs are a key, enabling technology and market driver on the Defence & Aeronautics market sectors. Its applications actually go far beyond those markets, with Homeland Security, Environment Monitoring and Precision Farming being just a few examples. The advantage in simulated flight of UAVs is to reduce costs in the development phase, due to testing and validation of subsystems and ground control systems. Besides, it allows the definition and assessment of mission scenarios as well as the training of UAV operators.
