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Sep0620166th September 201618th January 2017by tappsadmin2

TAPPS with Virtual Open Systems at the Automotive Grade Linux 2016

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The Automotive Linux Summit (ALS) is the main event organized yearly by the Linux Foundation for the open source automotive community Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), which main members are Toyota, Denso, Jaguar, Panasonic, Mazda, NXP, Samsung and Intel. The importance of this event is continuously growing, and this year ALS gathered 346 attendees from 15 countries and 120 companies represented.

Virtual Open Systems participated at ALS 2016 with a TAPPS demonstrator related to the work the Company is doing in the direction of the ECU consolidation and KVM VMs/real time operating system coexistence. We demonstrated the functionality and the communication between virtual machines (TAPPS Trusted Execution Environment and TAPPS Rich Execution Environments) and a real time operating system (TAPPS Critical Execution environment) in a real use case scenario. A video demo is available here.

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At the same event, Virtual Open Systems presented a TAPPS platform entitled “High computing ARMv8 platforms to support centralized ECU functions”. The presentation described the possible ARMv8 deployments in automotive, with particular focus on the TAPPS architecture porting to recent ARMv8 platforms such as the Renesas R-CAR H3. The slides are publicly available here.

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Virtual Open Systems is actively working to bring virtualization to AGL with an official proposal to create an Expert Group within the AGL organization with the intent of defining the requirements, use cases and architecture of virtualized AGL solutions (see Birds of Feather BOF Hypervisor). The discussion is ongoing, and will continue with a Birds Of a Feather (BOF) during the upcoming AGL All Member Meeting (AMM) 2016 which will be held in Munich on September 7th 2016.


Aug16201616th August 201618th January 2017by tappsadmin

TAPPS at the Industrial Technologies 2016

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The European Conference Industrial Technologies 2016 is the largest networking conference in the field of new technologies, materials, nanotechnology, biotechnology and digitalization in Europe. The conference was organized as an associated event of the Netherlands Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2016. The conference was held on 22 – 24 June 2016 in the RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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click the logo above to be redirected to Industrial Technologies 2016 website

The three day conference provided a wide variety of plenary and interactive workshops, interesting key note speakers, poster sessions, company exhibition and many opportunities to get into contact with new potential business partners.

The TAPPS project was given the possibility to present results at the poster session at the exhibition. Together with many interesting topics, the TAPPS poster highlighted the results so far from the project.

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The numerous visitors at the TAPPS poster varied from industry, academia, research up to policy makers. Intensive discussions took place among others regarding the underlying technologies implemented in the project (e.g. distributed communication, mixed-criticality, etc.) and the applicability and usability of CPS in manufacturing processes.

Click here to see the poster in high definition.

 


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Aug11201611th August 201618th January 2017by tappsadmin

Smart Trolley for Odysseus 2016

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As explained in the first post, the Smart Trolley is one of TAPPS case studies. A strong consortium of Italian SMEs (Small-Medium Enterprises) has developed its prototype, under the management of Ospedale San Raffaele. In the previous weeks, the project has been presented in the contest Odysseus 2016: navigare nelle idee (i.e. surfing in the ideas).

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(click the logo to see more details on Odysseus 2016 in italian)

 

Odysseus aims at finding fresh and innovative ideas that bring together SMEs, technology and values for the development and growth of smart societies.

In this context, the Smart Trolley is a healthcare example that enriches the actual therapy trolley. In fact, the trolley is a Cyber-Physical System that reduces medication errors, enhances the standards of quality during patient care and ensures efficiency, security during all phases of patient therapy.

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Thanks to TAPPS architecture, the interaction between the therapy application and the actuation of automatic drawers is secured and controlled by independent security layers (see front page of TAPPS website for TAPPS architecture and key elements).

As for now, the proposal of Smart Trolley is under examination by the Commission of Odysseus 2016. If accepted, it will be presented in Bergamo, October 3rd 2016.

 

Stay tuned, we will keep you updated!


May0220162nd May 201618th January 2017by tappsadmin

TAPPS at the Road2CPS Workshop

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The CPS Week 2016 brought together the main experts from academia, industry and policy-making in the area of Cyber Physical Systems. It was organized in four leading conferences, 21 workshops and several tutorials as well as special events like the ARTEMIS Spring Event, which were located in the Hofburg Palace – historical building of the 13th century and part of which is open  to the public as a conference center since 1958.

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The focus of the first day of the ARTEMIS Spring Event was the presentation of the Strategic Research Agenda 2016.

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The second day of the ARTEMIS Spring Event was organized by the Horizon2020 project Road2CPS in collaboration with ARTEMIS-IA and the European Commission. At this ‘Smart Cyber-Physical Systems – EC Clustering Event’ the TAPPS approach was presented by FORTISS – coordinator of the project. The presentation focused on the security aspects that should be provided in open CPSs.

The main objective of the event was to foster exchange on and creating synergies regarding projects involved in the research and development of innovative CPSs and their engineering aspects. Short presentations with enough time for questions and answers as well as posters and flyers of the projects promoted fruitful discussions between members of 15 Horizon2020 and ARTEMIS projects, invited speakers and workshop attendees. See full program and speakers-list at ARTEMIS-IA Spring Event.

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The participation in this two-day event was an enriching experience proving an excellent overview on the focus and activities of the other projects related to the same ICT cluster.

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For our TAPPS project it was interesting to talk to members of other project that use similar scenarios to validate their results, which could provide potential synergy effects. An overview of the case study domains of all RIA projects was presented by Werner Steinhögl (DG CONNECT – A3).


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Apr0720167th April 201618th January 2017by tappsadmin

Workshop for the Healthcare: TAPPS meets Master in Service Design

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The Use Case is a means to understand how a technology, innovation is applied in real life and what kind of advantages this could bring to end-users and stakeholders. TAPPS project has two Use Cases: Automotive and Healthcare. On one side, TAPPS is applied on an electrical motorbike (Energica); on the other, on a smart trolley for preparation and administration of therapy in the hospital (San Raffaele Hospital – FCSR).

In this post, we would like to share the experience of the workshop we organized for the Healthcare Use Case, that took place in Milan in the San Raffaele Hospital structure (third party of TAPPS project) from the 3rd to 10th of February 2016.

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The Workshop for the Healthcare involved 17 students from Master in Service Design of POLI.design, Politecnico di Milano, who worked on the topic of Future Therapy for six full days. The Future Therapy workshop had two main objectives:

  • Disseminate TAPPS project in the university context, with special regards to CPS framework and its openness, partners involved and use cases;
  • Exploit coCreation Methodology and methods to generate ideas and concepts to solve specific problems of today’s process of preparation and administration of therapy to patients exploiting CPS concept;
  • Explore the synergy between CPSs and end-users (i.e. nurses) and understand the core values of their interaction

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The output we asked the students was four high-level concepts each concerning one of the four macro-areas of problem: 1) misleading communication and misunderstanding between hospital staff; 2) interaction, usability and management of the therapy trolley; 3) misalignment between nurse activities and standard rules of the Hospital 4) distractions the nurses are forced to face during therapy sessions.

The aim was to receive as many “fresh” ideas as possible in terms of potential functions, applications of/in the smart trolley as an open CPS.

We gave as input material our desk and field research reports, such as state of the art, interviews and direct observations, and exploited some typical design thinking tools for the generation of ideas: brainstorming, clustering, mapping, and so on. The students also had the chance to visit four San Raffaele Hospital departments and see the medical context themselves.

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The phases of the Workshop consisted in: 1) IMMERSION to the context; 2) GENERATION OF IDEAS divided into DIVERGENCE (many different ideas) and CONVERGENCE (cluster/selection of a few best ideas); 3) CRAFTING of the concept and 4) SHINING through a presentation to Hospital representatives.

The results of students’ work were four different developments and improvements to the actual therapy trolley. For the staff communication problem, smart glasses were exploited to facilitate nurse-nurse and nurse-doctor real-time communication; for the enhancement of trolley-nurse interaction, the smart trolley was seen as part of a complex system that included clinical wards, pharmacy and all medical stakeholders to reduce the medication errors through automatized components that help nurses’ tasks. For the alignment of nurses’ activities with Hospital procedures, a smart tracking bracelet was seen as a solution to raise awareness to nurses of their own activities by keeping track and giving real-time alerts; this device would transmit data to the smart trolley dashboard, where each nurse would see her activities regarding specific aspects. For the distraction problem, the concept consisted of a smart cabinet to put away the nurses’ phone and a system to indicate the next available nurse “to be disturbed”.

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The workshop was an enriching, huge experience to involve people external to TAPPS project from different fields of interest into creating high-level concepts on how open CPSs could be implemented in the form of services to be used at end-users’ advantage.

The Workshop for the Healthcare was organised by our partners FCSR in Milan with the participation of different experts from the Hospital: Health Department (Hygiene & Sanitation and Quality & Accreditation), Nursing services, Scientific Research Department.

Thanks again to the teachers and students from Master in Service Design of Politecnico di Milano for such a big interest in our project and for their effort!

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