SOFIA – Smart Objects for Intelligent Applications

Project Description

SOFIA project is research project targeting to make "information" in the physical world available for smart services - connecting physical world with information world. Common target is to enable and maintain cross-industry interoperability, to foster innovation while maintaining value of existing legacy and to create new user interaction and interface concepts to enable users to benefit from smart environments.

Collaborating Companies or Organisations

Indra's Role

INDRA is actively leading and contributing in all support activities using its strong background and hands-on experience in the research, design and development of software in the area of embedded systems for smart environments, identifying opportunities for improvement in the project and providing support in implementing improvement plans.
INDRA will concentrate efforts on work package 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 (leading the developing, design and integration of SOFIA pilots), as we identify that our background and experience matches the required expertise of this working line.

Universities and Technological Centres

Technologies used

Internet of things
Internet on the world of objects, so that it can be possible the identification and be able to connect with each other and exchange information.
Internet en el mundo de los objetos, de tal forma que sea posible identificarlos y que sean capaces de conectarse entre ellos e intercambiar información.
Augmented Reality
set of devices that add virtual information to the existing physical information. This is the main difference with virtual reality, since it does not replace the physical reality, but superimposes computer data to the real world.
Virtual Reality
it consists in generating interaction virtual spaces facilitating new communication contexts.
Embedded Systems
an embedded system is a computer system designed to perform, usually in real time, one or more dedicated functions. The term "embedded" means that the embedded circuits are an integral part of the system in which they are. In other words, an "embedded system" can be implemented and its presence may become hidden or could not be obvious to the viewer.
Sensors
They are devices capable of transforming physical or chemical quantities (called instrumentation variables) into electrical quantities.
ZIGBEE
Zigbee is the name of the specification of a set of high level wireless protocols to be used with low-power digital radios with applications based on secure communications that require low data transmission rate and maximizing the batteries life. The main scope of this protocol is home automation.
Datamatrix
2D data encryption is a new two-dimensional industrial coding that allows the generation of a large information volume in a very small format, with a high reading reliability.
Ontological Models
It is the knowledge representation through a data structure containing all the relevant entities and the relationships within the domain.
RFID
Radio Frequency IDentification, data storage and remote retrieve system through devices called RFID tags. The main purpose is to convey the identity of an object using radio waves.

More information

SOFIA R&D project (100017) is partially financed by ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES), the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (MITYC), the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands (Agentschap NL) and the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).