Haeolus is an EU project that proposes a new-generation electrolyzer integrated within a state-of-the-art wind farm in a remote area with access to a weak power grid. Haeolus will demonstrate multiple control systems, to answer the specific challenges of the three main modes of operation identified by the International Energy Agency:

• Electricity storage

• Mini-grid

• Fuel production

For each of these modes, new operating strategies will be developed, optimizing operation concerning uncertain weather and power-price forecasts but also constraints of the specific operating mode. In addition, Haeolus’ demonstration shall be completely remotely controlled and monitored, due to the remoteness of the selected location and its difficult accessibility in winter; this is a characteristic of many wind farms.

EU HAEOLUS

COMP4DRONES is an ECSEL JU project coordinated by Indra that brings together a consortium of 48 partners with the aim of providing a framework of key enabling technologies for safe and autonomous drones. It brings to bear a holistically designed ecosystem from application to electronic components, realized as a tightly integrated multi-vendor and compositional UAV embedded architecture solution and a toolchain complementing the compositional architecture principles. The project will mainly focus on the following objectives:

• Ease the integration and customization of embedded drone systems.

• Enable drones to take safe autonomous decisions.

• Ensure the deployment of trusted communications.

• Minimize the design and verification effort for complex drone applications.

• Ensuring sustainable impact and the creation of an industry-driven community.

Demonstration and validation activities are essential to ensure the quality and relevance of innovations. COMP4DRONES will ease the development of new applications and functionalities in the fields of transport, construction, surveillance and inspection, logistics, and agriculture.

EU COMP4DRONES

AFarCloud will provide a distributed platform for autonomous farming that will allow the integration and cooperation of agriculture Cyber-Physical Systems in real-time in order to increase efficiency, productivity, animal health, food quality and reduce farm labor costs. This platform will be integrated with farm management software and will support monitoring and decision-making solutions based on big data and real-time data mining techniques. The AFarCloud project also aims to make farming robots accessible to more users by enabling farming vehicles to work in a cooperative mesh, thus opening up new applications and ensuring reusability, as heterogeneous standard vehicles can combine their capabilities in order to lift farmer revenue and reduce labor costs.

EU AFARCLOUD

I3RES main goal is to develop a management tool for the distribution grid underpinned by:

• a monitoring system that integrates information from already installed systems (e.g. SCADA, EMS and smart meters);

• energy production forecasting and network management algorithms that assist the distribution company in the management of massively distributed RES production and large scale RES production within the distribution network;

• data mining and artificial intelligence to analyze consumers' energy demand and production in the distribution grid.

EU I3RES

e-GOTHAM aims to implement a new aggregated energy demand model by increasing management efficiency, raising energy consumption awareness and stimulating the development of a leading-edge market for energy-efficient technologies with new business models. Recognizing the need, within the energy industry, to optimize the integration of distributed energy sources, storage components and new consumer energy needs, e-GOTHAM proposes a new open reference design and architecture and will develop a middleware with seamless connectivity to optimize and manage microgrids in the residential, services and industrial sectors. e-GOTHAM is driven by the sustained increase in energy demand and intends to make an impact on the societal challenge of Smart Buildings and Communities of the Future through an open microgrid solution that contributes to sustainability and energy efficiency. Also, e-GOTHAM intends to achieve cross-sectoral re-usability of embedded systems and reduce the cost of system design, decrease development cycles and manage complexity with less effort. e-GOTHAM aims to create an ecosystem to attract those relevant stakeholders willing to elaborate on project results and thus generate new products and services

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