Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4)

Ireland: Eastern and Midland (Ireland)

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

IC4’s activities are focused at helping all players in the cloud ecosystem, including technology originators and technology consumers, to maximise the impact of cloud computing on their businesses. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

IRIS: European Digital Innovation Hub Navarra

Spain: Navarre

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

The Navarra Region Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) started in 2016 with the name of "NAVARDMIHub". With the support of the regional government in 2020, the DIH has evolved to "IRIS: European Digital Innovation Hub Navarra". The DIH aims to exploit the synergies and capabilities already organized in the regional innovation ecosystem, in terms of partners and capabilities promoting innovation, technology transfer, business creation, testing and experimentation, and training and dissemination for the digitalization.

IRIS, conformed as a non-profit DIH, is focused on increasing the level of digitalization in the manufacturing processes (Industry 4.0) and includes new capabilities in areas such as High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics.

 

IRIS is structured as a Platform for public-private collaboration, for the core purposes of:

Accelerating the Digital Transformation of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of Navarra.
Promoting the evolution of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Navarra towards greater digitalization, particularly with regard to positioning Navarra as a European leader in Personalised Precision Medicine.
Fostering a greater understanding among the inhabitants of Navarra with regard to the technologies underpinning an Advanced Digital Society.

 

Services provided by the Hub that summarizes their activities are the following:

Tailored training and talent: development of technology profiles to drive the digital transformation of businesses (access to degrees, masters and doctoral programmes; data science laboratory; etc.); internationalization of talent related to digital transformation; scheme to attract international talent. 
Consultancy: awareness raising and skills development; intervention by designing roadmaps and technology pathways for digitalization and business plans. 
R&D. Knowledge transfer: development of new products and processes; collection of information on your processes and production environment.  
Experimental validation of the application of new technologies to products and processes (Test Before Invest).
Exchange of Good Practices: access to the technologies available in the European Network of Digital Innovation Hubs and it is also a space to share experience and ideas.
Entrepreneurship: full accompaniment programme, facilitating the creation of new companies and the differentiation and drive of new projects.
Access to funding: private and public funding at a regional, national and european level.

 

  Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

IoT-SmartSantander DIH

Spain: Cantabria

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

Internet of Things-SmartSantander is aiming at fostering the digital transformation of the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors leveraging on the experiences and success of the Internet of Things initiatives in which University of Cantabria and Santander Municipality have been leading in the past. As such, this DIH aims at offering technical support and guidance as well access to a plethora of enablers, tools, APIs, and data for implementing and assessing concrete solutions fitting the corresponding requirements.

The deployment of services and applications relying on the IoT paradigm has brought a new way to provide urban services. Hence, urban utilities such waste management, water management, street lighting and many others rely on the ability to monitor the required service parameters for optimizing it with the consequent impact at city level. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

IoT DIH

Spain: Castile and Leon

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

The objective of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and the innovation-driven organizations involved is to help companies (specially SMEs) to become more competitive throughout the adoption of Internet of Things technologies in their business/production processes, products and services.

IoT Digital Innovation Hub has been created to develop groundbreaking projects with the most advanced technologies that can make digital transformation of industry become a reality. Our aim is to promote new products and services, which have been designed by combining innovative techniques from a range of disciplines:

Artificial Intelligence
Advanced IoT
Disruptive ICT
Edge Computing
Fog Computing
Cloud Computing
Blockchain
Internet of Value
Industry 4.0
Smart Cities
Smart Homes
Smart Grid
Connected Vehicle
Big Data
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Social Computing
Natural Language Processing
Linked Open Data

The emergence of the internet has triggered the technological revolution we are experiencing at the moment. This revolution lies in the ability to connect people and objects. This is what we call the Internet of Things (IoT). This new technological model interconnects devices and collects information which are then sent to the cloud. These data make it possible to adapt technology to the preferences of its users. In addition, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are new infrastructures which facilitate communication and increase the mobility, flexibility and efficiency of users. Artificial Intelligence is changing our World and its different forms of application (Deep learning, Machine Learning, Big Data, Genetic Algorithms, etc.) complement IoT perfectly.

The members of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub have vast knowledge of all these technologies and their practical experience is the greatest asset of this platform which is supported by the European Union.

Now, we want to put at your disposal all this knowledge; our experience in hundreds of projects, dozens of patents, and use it to boost startups and spin off. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

IoT Compass Hub (DIH)

Finland: West Finland

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

The mission of the Manufacturing Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) "IoT Compass Hub" is to support the utilization of Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Digital Manufacturing and Robotics in SMEs and MidCaps in order to increase their productivity and competitiveness and to gain economic benefit for the South Ostrobothnia region. The DIH offers a variety of services from a one-stop shop. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences and Tampere University provide technical competencies and infrastructure. IoT Compass Hub has close cooperation with organizations offering funding for SMEs development projects and investments.

 

IoT Compass Hub is open and free to join to new partners. DIH centralize knowledge of the partners, for instance, from companies, education, and research and development institutions to enhance digital transformation in manufacturing industries. This holistic and non-profit based approach for DIH increase and optimize the digital performance in organizations. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences is a higher education institution and efficient actor in education, research and development in the region of South Osrobothnia in West Finland. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (School of Technology) manages the IoT Compass Hub.

 

IoT Compass Hub has several objectives and activities, which are, for instance, digital manufacturing ecosystem development, digital maturity assessment and mentoring, digital factory academy and IoT pilots.

 

Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem Development

IoT Compass Hub is developing an ecosystem around digital manufacturing and industrial internet in the region, to support the digital transformation of manufacturing industry, particularly SMEs, in the region. The ecosystem supports cooperation between manufacturing SMEs and technology, automation and IT-providers.

 

Digital Maturity Assessment and Mentoring Services

The manufacturing SME companies needs to have sufficient understanding of their current digitalization status in order to proceed to the next steps towards to Industry 4.0. The digital maturity assessment mapping can be implemented within the IoT Compass Hub (DIH). Companies can develop the use of digital manufacturing and industrial internet in their production, products, services and businesses based on results of the assessment. IoT Compass Hub offers mentoring for these type of development projects.

 

Digital Factory Academy

The Digital Factory Academy has been launched for the development of companies’ personnel competencies. The SeAMK’s Industrial Internet Laboratory (CPS factory) is available to companies and offers workspace and software’s. The company can utilize the laboratory in developing its own industrial internet and digital manufacturing solutions. The upgrade of competence is supported by experts of the DIH. Digital Factory Academy helps students and company personnel network with each other.

 

IoT Pilots

Companies can present themes for fast IoT piloting in the Industrial Internet Laboratory. The laboratory environment can be used for testing companies’ ideas before investing. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

IoT Catalan Alliance

Spain: Catalonia

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

The IoT Catalan Alliance is an initiative to join forces and define strategies to enhance the field of the Internet of Things in Catalonia.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging sector with vast potential for economic growth and job creation. Only 1% of things are currently connected, but it is expected that there will be 50,000 million Internet-connected devices in the world by 2020, which is about 7 devices per inhabitant.

The IoT Catalan Alliance brings together companies and organisations that work in this area, exploring the knowledge of their capabilities and needs, and promotes the exchange of information and the creation of synergies between the members of the alliance.

The establishment of this group provides the ideal environment for key players in this industry to engage in a dialogue in order to define a joint action plan to promote the IoT in Catalonia.

It also aims to provide an environment for validation and interoperability testing of products, and works to represent the sector with the government and standardisation bodies. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Internet of Things, Intelligent Systems, Data Engineering and Media DIH [National Technical University of Athens - Institute of Communication and Computer Systems]

Greece: Attica

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

This Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) operates within the Computer Networks, NETMODE, Telecom and Ambient Intelligence Laboratories of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece (https://www.iccs.gr/). NTUA is the oldest and most prestigious educational institute in Greece in engineering and has contributed unceasingly to the country’s scientific, technical and economic development since its foundation in 1836. NTUA has obtained a leading role in EU research and innovation activities having undertaken more than 650 EU projects since the year 2000, acting as the coordinator for about 80 of these, having collaborated with more than 7000 organisations across Europe and globally, and having obtained EU funding higher than 200 MEuros. This DIH is also affiliated with the Institute of Communication and Computer Engineering (ICCS) a research institute that was founded by the Ministry of Education in 1989 in order to carry research and development activity in the fields on all diverse aspects of telecommunications systems and techniques, computer systems and their applications. More specifically, since the year 2000, ICCS has contributed to more than 400 European research and innovation projects, of which it has coordinated about 70, having collaborated with more than 6000 organisations in the framework of EU R&D projects. This DIH is a multidisciplinary scientific unit which carries out R&D activities along with consulting and mentoring services on software engineering for the following areas: Internet of Things; Smart Systems and Environments; Cloud, Fog, Edge computing; Future Internet; Advanced networking and communication solutions; Smart Agriculture and Precision Farming; FIRE; Sensor networks; Context management & inference; Data engineering; Semantic data modelling and Interoperability; Data analytics and knowledge extraction; Security, Privacy and Trust; Service engineering / mobile applications; Collaborative decision making, recommender systems, social intelligence, community-enhanced functionality; intelligent transportation; health, well-being and AAL; social media; multimedia; user-centric computing; etc. It comprises faculty members, senior experts, PhD and Master holders, PhD candidates and researchers offering scientific, technical, testing/validation, training/mentoring, dissemination and consulting services. It has participated in numerous national and international activities; it is growing constantly, expanding its spectrum of expertise, the geographical areas it targets and its partners’ base. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

International Advanced Manufacturing 3D Hub (IAM 3D HUB)

Spain: Catalonia

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

The IAM 3D HUB is a networked organization without formal structure and non-profit purposes. It was created in 2015 with a mission and a vision:

Mission: to accelerate adoption and development of Additive Manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing technologies in the EU manufacturing sectors as an alternative way to design, develop and manufacture new competitive products and services that strengthens their competitiveness.

Vision: As competence centre and DIH will provide to SMEs "one-stop"shop to assess, guide and address all their needs in AM.

The IAM 3D HUB is open to a wide range of entities that may share its mission and vision. Its members can be divided into Technological Players and Training, Business and Economical Players.

Within the technological players, software and material developers, technology or equipment providers, postprocessing and validating companies, certification laboratories and R&D organizationscan be found.

Within the second group industrial innovation advisors, venture capital investors, clusters and industry associations, universities, incubators, public administrations or trade shows organizations, among others can be found.

The founder members of the IAM 3D HUB are HP, Renishaw, Leitat, Coniex, Fira de Barcelona and In3Dustry. Besides, the IAM 3D HUB has signed different agreements with potential partners that will strength the relevance of AM in Europe.

In order to accomplish with its mission, the IAM 3D Hub provides five types of services:

1. Experimenting and testing: concentrating resources, capabilities and knowledge to offer high level competence in the technologies so to perform experimentation and testing in order to make the client gain confidence. These services are:

- Identifying proper AM solution

- Benchmarking of technologies

- Analysis of manufacturing capacities and cost estimation

- Hands-on workshop

2. End-to-end solutions: developing end to end solutions in a Living Lab environment where to design, explore, redefine new products in real scenarios, assess their feasibility and innovative impact before and after their production. The services are:

- Design/Redesign for AM production

- Applications incubator

- Floor planning layout

- Test bed/Pilot Plant

- Validation, testing and support for certification

3. Business and mentoring: both for start-ups and existing companies. IP protection, technology assessment, market studies or analysis of the adoption's potential are some examples. The services are:

- Access to finance

- Business development

- IP consulting

- Talent acquisition

- Detection of business opportunities for AM adoption

- AM implementation strategy

- Supply chain development

4. Access to R&D in AM/3DP technologies along all the value chain, oriented to face industrial challenges and unsolved needs.

5. Education and Training: focused on closing the digital skills gap and on promoting these skills at all levels, for re-skilling and for lifelong learning. The services are:

- Customized workshop training

- Standard programs

- Partner certifications Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Intelligent Urban Lab, Alcobendas

Spain: Madrid

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

Intelligent Urban Lab is part of a creative and innovative ecosystem characterised by its concentration of companies (more than 16 thousand companies and freelancers with a total turnover of more than 77.5 billion euros) which makes it a reference at a national and international level.

It is a non-profit initiative, resulting from a public-private collaboration that drives the economic and social development of the region by attracting investment and improving the competitiveness of the productive fabric of the city of Alcobendas and the northern region of Madrid.

The DIH offers different type of services such as: facilitating access to innovation and digital transformation for SMEs, promoting the use of new technologies (especially digital technologies such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, etc.), developing the capacity for inter-company collaboration, achieving alliances for participation in EU programmes and initiatives, providing continuous training and promoting business excellence in management processes, testing new products and services within the municipality.

The challenges of the Intelligent Urban Lab are to favour the digital transformation of the industry and to contribute to a more agile and flexible production; environmentally and socially sustainable. New skills and capabilities are created as well as quality jobs, attracting talent, for an innovation ecosystem in which companies, technological centres, universities and investors interact.

Intelligent Urban Lab is promoted and supported by Alcobendas City Council, through its Department of Innovation and Economic Development, the office for attraction of investment and promotion of the city of Alcobendas (Alcobendas Hub as part as Fundación Ciudad de Alcobendas), the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Alcobendas Business Association (AICA), InNorMadrid, as well as leading private companies such as INDRA, MásMóvil, MKD Automotive, Keytron and technology centre Tecnalia. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology

Institute of Reliable Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics

Germany: Baden-Württemberg

Overview

Mission/Objectives of the cluster organisation

The Internet of Things is increasingly pervading industrial and personal applications, including, for example, smart meters and smart grids, industrial and process automation, Car-to-Car and Car-to-X communication, home and building automation, telehealth and telecare applications. Wired and wireless networks of embedded systems, as well as their interconnection in “cyber-physical systems” (CPS) are playing an increasingly important role in this context. As more and more systems perform functionally critical tasks autonomously, their reliability and security are also continuing to gain in importance. Consequently, data security and privacy aspects need to be addressed.
The Institute of Reliable Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics (ivESK) at Hochschule Offenburg was formed to focus on these issues. Digital technologies.

Sectors
Technology