EkoSMART
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Program title and acronym: Eko Sistem Pametnega Mesta – EkoSMART
Priority area of Smart Specialization Strategy: Smart cities and communities
Value: 8.661.820,50 EUR
Public funding (EU in SLO contribution): 5.947.941,58 EUR (68,67% of total eligible costs)
Consortium:
The consortium consists of 25 partners from various fields:
two research institutions (Anton Trstenjak Institute of gerontology and intergenerational relations and Jožef Stefan Institute),
Five faculties at two universities:
- UL – Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
- UL – Faculty of Computer and Information Science,
- UL – Faculty of Sport,
- UL – Faculty of Medicine,
- UM – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Five other public institutes:
- University Clinic Golnik,
- National Institute of Public Health,
- University Medical Center Ljubljana,
- URI-Soča,
- Adolf Drolc Healh Care Centre
Ten small and medium sized enterprises:
- Cosylab,
- Alpineon d.o.o.,
- Elgoline d.o.o.,
- Inova IT d.o.o.,
- Marand d.o.o.,
- Nela razvojni center d.o.o.,
- RC IKTS d.o.o.,
- Robotina d.o.o.,
- SRC sistemske integracije d.o.o.,
- Špica International d.o.o.
Three large companies:
- Iskra d.d.,
- Medis d.o.o.,
- Telekom Slovenije d.d.
The lead partner of the program is company MARAND d.o.o.
Period: 1. 10. 2016 – 1. 2. 2019
Description of the program:
The purpose of the EkoSmart program is to develop a smart city ecosystem with all the support mechanisms necessary for efficient, optimized and gradual integration of individual areas into a unified and coherent system of value chains. The program focuses on three key domains of smart cities: health, active living and mobility; and forms strategic relationships with municipalities and other areas of smart cities, such as energy, smart buildings, involvement of citizens, smart communities, etc. EkoSMART introduces the universal architecture of a smart city, based on the combination of self-learning and self-optimizing agents able to find a common Nash equilibrium even between inhomogeneous sources; this architecture enables the realization of all the concepts of smart cities, such as interoperability, self-adaptivity and self-configurability, open data, semantic interoperability, and integration of social capital. In terms of economy, the vision of the EkoSmart program is to launch Slovenian solutions in the field of smart cities on the world market. The realization of this vision is based on several major approaches: concentration of knowledge and experience, focus on the user, evolutionary development, and flexible architecture.
Within the program 6 projects in the areas of health, mobility, active living and well-being will be implemented. More information about these projects can be found on the official website of the program.
Results:
- 2 innovations and 4 patents,
- increase of private investments in R&D,
- 9 new technological, process or organisational solutions,
- 5 new produsts or services,
- new investments.