SmartProducts - Proactive Knowledge for Smart Products
SmartProducts is an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme conducted by ten partners from industry and academia. The project will last three years and it started in February 2009.
SmartProducts develops the scientific and technological basis for building "smart products" with embedded “proactive knowledge”.
Smart products help customers, designers and workers to deal with the ever increasing complexity and variety of modern products. Smart products leverage “proactive knowledge” to communicate and co-operate with humans, other products and the environment. Proactive knowledge encompasses knowledge about the product itself (features, functions, dependencies, usage, etc.), its environment (physical context, other smart products) and its users (preferences, abilities, intentions, etc.). In addition, proactive knowledge comprises executable workflows and knowledge about interaction, enabling the smart product to proactively engage in multimodal dialogues with the user. Thereby, smart products “talk”, “guide”, and “assist” designers, workers and consumers dealing with them. Some proactive knowledge will be co-constructed with the product, while other parts are gathered during the product lifecycle using embedded sensing and communication capabilities. The outcome of
SmartProducts will impact the manufacturing and consumer domain, primarily targeting consumer goods, automotive and aerospace industries, spanning both product innovation (for consumer goods and automotive) and process innovations (for automotive and aerospace).
In the SmartProducts project, we will
- develop a platform for developing smart products that use proactive knowledge (see Development)
- develop tools that facilitate the acquisition and maintenance of proactive knowledge (see Development)
- provide an analysis of the business value of smart products
- showcase the applicability of the developed platform and tools in three application scenarios: Smart Kitchen (Philips Research), Smart Car (Centro Ricerche FIAT) and Aircraft Manufacturing (EADS Innovation Works)
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