Fleetonomy.ai participates in European ECSEL Joint Undertaking “TRANSACT”
PRESS RELEASE
Towards safe and secure distributed cyber-physical systems
Helsinki, Finland — July 12, 2021 — A European consortium of 30 partners from the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Poland, Austria, Norway, Spain, Belgium and Denmark has launched TRANSACT, an ECSEL Joint Undertaking funded by the European Union’s H2020 Framework Programme. Fleetonomy.ai joins a group of seven companies, which will focus on one specific use case within the project: Remote operation of autonomous vehicles for navigating in urban environments.
Working together with F-Secure, VTT and Nodeon from Finland and international partners Denso, Nunsys, Singlar and ViNotion, Fleetonomy.ai will lead the use case and the deployment of a remote operating software platform, while Nodeon works on fleet management integration and architecture. VTT will focus on autonomous systems inside the vehicle and ViNotion in managing the environment outside of the vehicle. F-Secure provides expertise on the cybersecurity components of the solution.
TRANSACT project participants across Europe
The TRANSACT project continues and aggregates work from multiple projects conducted in the past with both European Commission and national funding, including the joint project of Fleetonomy.ai, Nodeon and VTT testing an on-demand robot bus fleet service in 2019 and 2020.
In June 2021, the TRANSACT (Transform safety-critical cyber-physical systems into distributed solutions for end-users and partners) ECSEL JU was kicked off under the leadership of Philips.
The goal of TRANSACT is to develop a universal, distributed solution architecture for the transformation of safety-critical cyber-physical systems, from localised stand-alone systems into safe and secure distributed solutions. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are all around us, but due to today’s technical limitations and the possibility of human error, we cannot yet tap into their full potential. A seamlessly integrated and connected architecture for such systems, via edge and cloud technologies, could overcome these limitations. To that end, TRANSACT will research distributed reference architectures for safety-critical CPS that rely on edge and cloud computing, ensuring that performance, safety, security, and privacy of data are guaranteed.
The project brings together large companies, SMEs, research institutes, and universities from nine European countries that will demonstrate the capabilities of TRANSACT through real-world use cases in five relevant business areas:
Remote operation of autonomous vehicles for navigating in urban environments
Critical maritime decision support enhanced by distributed, AI enhanced edge and cloud solutions
Cloud-featured battery management systems for electric vehicles
Edge-cloud-based clinical applications platform for image guided therapy and diagnostic imaging systems
Critical wastewater treatment decision support enhanced by distributed, AI enhanced edge and cloud solutions
“We are on the pathway of digital transformation, however safety-critical applications are still deployed as standalone systems because it’s the only way to ensure system’s safety, security and performance simultaneously”, says Sasa Marinkovic, Coordinator of the TRANSACT project. “TRANSACT will extend the existing edge/cloud technologies in order to support safety critical applications and will enable a transition from standalone systems to an ecosystem of digital propositions”.
Fleetonomy.ai has years of practical experience in autonomous vehicle fleet management using its proprietary software platform dubbed “Fleet Management Application” or FMA.
More information about the TRANSACT project is available at https://transact-ecsel.eu/, on Twitter @TransactProject, and on LinkedIn.
About Fleetonomy
Fleetonomy.ai develops an operations platform for automated vehicles and vehicle fleets for vehicle fleet operators. The platform is dubbed Fleet Management Application or FMA and handles key issues in the automated vehicle operations environment including real time management of regulatory requirements, vehicle behaviour optimisation, exceptions, cooperation between AI systems, human ‘stake-holders’ in the loop and sensors. Platform has APIs for static and real time environment data, predictive decision making systems, communications systems and different types of vehicles and vehicle controllers. Its foundations rest upon innovations in interactive 3D control systems for display and analytics of complex data sets for managing fleets of automated vehicles and airborne drones. Fleetonomy.ai Oy was founded in 2016 and is located in Helsinki, Finland. The company currently employs subject matter experts specialised in Software Development, Defence, Mathematical Analytics and Autonomous vehicle field operations in UK and Finland.
To learn more, follow Fleetonomy.ai on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @FleetonomyAi, or visit fleetonomy.ai.
Edit: Since December 1st 2021, TRANSACT’s ECSEL Joint Undertaking has been revised and reframed into Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking e.g. KDT JU. As the successor to ECSEL JU and its efforts, KDT JU is an EU-driven, public-private partnership, funding innovation in electronic components and systems. More information on KDT JU can be found at https://www.kdt-ju.europa.eu/
This project has received funding from the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101007260. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Poland, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Norway.
