The document provides an overview of the SMARCOS project, which aims to enable interoperability between embedded systems through transparent information fusion on user interfaces, context, and profiles. The project has 17 partners across 7 countries and a budget of 14 million euros over 3 years, led by Nokia with technical leadership from VTT. It focuses on use cases like wellness devices, aviation systems, and vehicles for the disabled. The goals are to deliver software and modeling methods for building interoperable embedded systems and to standardize and provide open source solutions to gain industry adoption.

1. Overview of Smarcos June 9th, 2010
Dr. Jani Mäntyjärvi / VTT + Dr. Pertti Huuskonen / Nokia
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This R&D project (100249) is financed by ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking, the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, AgentschapNL and the Flemish government Agency for
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2. SMARCOS Motivation:
Welcome to the ubicomp reality
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8. ERROR: Device
locked by user
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11. key topics
InterUsability:
InterUsability: User Interface level interoperability of
embedded systems. HCI for multiple mobile & fixed
devices, multiple modalities and contexts, user
models, profiles.
Use case driven: hot industrial cases, attentive
driven:
devices, collaborative systems, complex control
systems. High visibility with demos.
The Concrete Paradigm change achieved by
SMARCOS: To Make connected devices appear to
the user as one unified service or a user interface, not
as separate systems.

12. Consortium
• 17 partners
• 7 countries
• 14 M€
• 2010-2012
• Coordinator:
Nokia
• S&T lead:
VTT
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13. Work Structure
WP5: Mobile devices +
WP4: Wellness, support
cloud services for WP6: Aviation, process
for healthy lifestyles via
smart context aware control, vehicles,
sensored and situation
communities systems for the disabled
aware devices
The vertical WPs
contextualise the
specific research and
The horizontal technology
WPs contribute questions.
the R&D content, They also provide
technical solutions platforms for
and concepting evaluating the
created solutions
through experiments
and trials.
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14. Focus & results
• Focus: Enables interusability of embedded systems on various
domains. Transparent information fusion on user interfaces,
context and profiles from distributed sources.
Human “Dad comes home.” Human
Semantics DOOR_OPEN Semantics We build
Symbol Switch45: Closed Symbol
Application HTTP, IMAP, SOAP Application
Presentation HTML, XML, SSL Presentation
Transport, session, TCP, UDP Transport, session,
etc
Network 192.168.255.92
etc
Network
We use
Link 00:14:51:ed:ed:ac Link
Physical V, A, Hz, km, pins Physical
Embedded system Embedded system
• Delivers: Concrete software and modeling methods (UI,
context, profiles, tasks) for building interusable embedded
systems.
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15. Relevance to Artemis goals
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16. Smarcos Innovates and standardises
• SMARCOS Innovation push:
• Our WPs involve cases from major industrial partners. We
continuously validate their business relevance through
numerous pilots, prototypes and trials.
• Through our partners’ significant market share and the power
of open source communities we can gain significant traction to
our solutions.
• SMARCOS Standardisation and Tool Platform ambitions:
• We seek to offer our results as open source whenever possible.
• Our partners have power to ensure de facto standards.
• We build a number of tools for UI modelling that will be made
widely available.
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