research & innovation 2015 innovation is in our DNA come with us to the future of technologies Your business technologists. Powering progress Research & Innovation C/ Albarracín 25 28037 Madrid Tel.: +34 91 440 88 00 [email protected] www.atosresearch.eu This is a publication of the Research & Innovation group of Atos. Publication closing date: 2015 2 Research & Innovation 2015 Content Innovation is in our DNA 4 Objectives and Organization 6 Capabilities 7 Structure 8 Sectors 9 Labs 32 Research Lines 43 Key Projects 49 Assets 62 Publications, Events & Awards 66 Platforms 73 Innovation is in our DNA From R&D and Innovation to Business Development and Technology Transfer This version presents the yearly report of which consists in a privacy and security workshops based on a methodology developed Atos Research & Innovation (ARI) activities in by design engineering methodology. This within a R&D project. Having brought 2015. Although Research, Development and methodology addresses the whole personal successful results to the company, those Innovation (RDI) activities have been carried data and system development lifecycle in workshops are now being promoted internally out in Atos Spain for more than 28 years, recent full compliance with obligations related to at global level and to Atos customers. years are characterized by a wider strategic Privacy Impact Assessment in the upcoming Thanks to ARI, Atos is a full member of the Big integration of research and innovation activities EU General Data Protection Regulation and in Data Value Association (BDVA) [3] and the 5G with Atos approach to business. alignment with the most recent international Infrastructure Association [4]. Atos Spain is one standards and best practices in this area [1]. ARI focus is to investigate emerging of the core partners of the Knowledge and technologies and anticipate market demand Furthermore, FIWARE [2] Project has come at Innovation Community (KIC) for EIT Health, with innovative solutions. However, logically, the heart of Atos Smart City offering, showing which involves a consortium of 144 European one of the main challenges faced by the an example of how research can be transferred companies, research institutes and universities. Research and Innovation group is to reduce the to the market. Since this year, FIWARE is part The Spanish node is co-led by Atos [5]. gap between R&D and the market. Due to the of Atos portfolio and several commercial Finally, the number and diversity of projects progress made in approaching different teams offers have been submitted to different cities. described in this report show the intensive within Atos, as well as directly with potential A complete offering has been set up around activity of the Research & Innovation group. customers, ARI is now able to transform FIWARE for cities, with the challenge to The latest EU FP7 statistics ranked Atos Spain acquired knowledge and project results into approach other domains in the next future. as the first company at European level with real business opportunities. Other smaller contracts and collaborations most participation in R&D projects [6]. This This year, ARI has proved its success in several within Atos show that ARI expertise and excellent position in the EU RDI arena raises the projects, providing innovative services to innovation focus is being recognized as a visibility, not only of ARI, but of Atos as a global customers. For instance, ARI has led efforts valuable source of business, such as the company. to achieve the core result in PRIPARE project, delivery of Innovation and Ideas Generation Innovation [ 1 ] http://pripareproject.eu [ 2 ] http://booklet.atosresearch.eu/content/fiware-0 [ 3 ] http://www.bigdatavalue.eu [ 4 ] https://5g-ppp.eu [ 5 ] https://eithealth.eu [ 6 ] http://ec.europa.eu/research/evaluations/pdf/archive/fp7_monitoring_reports/7th_fp7_monitoring_report.pdf Research & Innovation 2015 5 Objectives and Organization The main objectives of the Research & ► Support Atos business units in other The group is structured in a way to facilitate Innovation group are: countries, as well as their customers, the relationships with the different Markets and thanks to the network of public and Service Lines of the company. Thus, we are ► Participate in research, development and private partners across Europe, which in organized in ten Sectors within Atos established innovation (RDI) projects that enrich Atos turn, are current or potential customers of markets and five Technological Labs. The offer portfolio, market view or position with the company structure fosters the alignment of emerging respect to emerging technologies technology research and development with the Our team is distributed in several locations: market / customer needs. ► Be a source of innovative ideas to be used Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Asturias, Santander, by Atos sales force and technical staff Sevilla, Tenerife, and Valladolid in Spain, Brussels Our ultimate goal is to be at the upfront of ► Become an entry gate to European in Belgium, Istanbul in Turkey, and Bratislava in R&D in Information and Communications institutions for the different units and Slovakia. Technologies (ICT), with a deep knowledge of customers of Atos, thanks to the large business and societal applications. background of European Commission projects (since 1987) Sectors Research Labs Data Intelligence Big Data Data Analytics Real-time Data Processing Public Administration Semantic & Language Technologies Cybersecurity Environment Trust & Cybersecurity Secure SW Engineering Health Security in Virtualized Environments Security in the Cloud Financial Services Indentity & Privacy Identity & Access Manufacturing & Retail Management Digital/Electronic Identity Technologies Electronic Trust Services Transport Data Protection by Design NG Cloud Homeland Security & Defense Service Management and Engineering: Advanced SOA Energy and SaaS Adavanced capabilities for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Telecom Mobile/Things’ Clouds - Fog computing Internet of Everything Media Smart Gateways CrossDevice & CrossPlatform Information Technologies Solutions IoT platform using Openweb technologies 6 Research & Innovation 2015 Capabilities The vision of the Research & Innovation group of Atos is mainly focused on applying the latest research outcomes to real world situations where Atos clients need solutions that go beyond what current products provide. You will find in our group a source of innovative ideas and expertise in emerging technologies The Research & Innovation group is the research and development hub for new technologies and a key reference for the whole Atos group. Thanks to our large expertise in research, development and innovation projects, we are able to bring new solutions and innovative elements to customers’ business. Our focus on the combination of advanced technological developments and commercial exploitation of project outcomes leads to innovative but realistic solutions The group focuses on projects development, combining economic exploitation of research results and the most up-to-date technological achievements with high awareness of human factors (education, usability, inclusion, cultural diversity, and multilingualism). Our capacity of coordinating international partnerships and our extended network of technology centers, universities and user organizations makes us a reliable business partner Since 1987, the Research & Innovation Based on the day-to-day activity in research and Teams are multi-disciplinary and multicultural, group has been deeply involved in research, innovation projects, our group has developed and are thus able to dialogue with customers development and innovation (RDI) projects. We efficient working processes, templates, and understand their needs. Atos customers have become an extremely well-known player knowledge base, and collaborative tools. can benefit from our group’s RDI related in the European research arena, with references From strategy to project management, from services, such as: in various Directorates-General of the European the generation of ideas to the identification Commission. of funding opportunities and selection of the ► advanced technology watch; right partners, from opportunities to results, the ► innovation ideas channeling; Furthermore, Atos, as an ICT global player, is group covers all activities and is able to provide active in long-term EU working groups and reliable support services to our customers. ► evaluation and management; therefore has a say in the definition of future ► alignment of the organization’s RDI funding programs. For more than 25 years, we All these capacities build on the diversity and strategy with public funding sources have acquired valuable expertise in innovation preparedness of our people. Our experts cover programs; management. a wide range of disciplines, from emerging technological areas to social sciences and ► proposal drafting and delivery; economics. ► proposals negotiations; ► proper project management office. Research & Innovation 2015 7 Structure The following diagram shows the structure of ARI management staff. A head of market co- ordinates all RDI activities related to Atos main markets and guarantees fluid communication with commercial staff and customers. Direction Alicia García Business Dev Technology Financial Issues Transfer Lydia Montandon Aljosa Pasic Adolfo Alonso Operations & EU Account Juan Bareño Tech Coord Ángel Sáez Public Sector & Financial IT, Media & Energy & Manufacturing, Health Services Telecom Transport Retail & Environment Ana Piñuela & Pedro Soria Clara Pezuela & Andrea Rossi José Lorenzo Blanca Jordán Josep Martrat 8 Research & Innovation 2015 Sectors Manufacturing, Retail & Environment Public Administration ICT is the key to promote smart, sustainable & innovative government Description The Public sector builds on the results of previous research in the eGovernment and Education areas and encompasses three complementary perspectives: ► R&D projects helping the public administrations to automate administrative procedures and processes and to provide more efficient and effective public services to citizens and businesses. ► R&D projects developing solutions to enhance learning such as learning at the workplace, collaborative learning, learning at school, higher education, accessible learning, authoring tools and adaptive learning. ► R&D projects developing smart cities infrastructures that offer added-value services to citizens in order to cope with societal challenges as well as to enable business services. ► Development of ICT tools with strong ► Connected government: Explore education orientation focused on possibilities of internet of things in Goals personalization, student experience and order to improve efficiency and enable lifecycle management, contextualized transformation of e-government The Public sector has a threefold objective: eLearning. processes. ► Elaboration of plans for the exploitation of ► Competition between educational ► Research, design and development research project result. institutions turns students into clients. of ICT tools that support public sector Learning environments based on serious administrative processes in order to ► Identification and execution of new games, education applications for mobile deliver seamless and faster public services. business opportunities inthe Public and devices. Education sector in line with innovative ► Adoption of emerging technologies that key offerings. ► Development, deployment and validation support new demands for services and of sustainable and ICT-enabled added contents in education. Challenges value services in smart cities, by ► Design and deployment of new ICT tools leveraging existing technologies (i.e. and integration of existing technologies This sector focuses on the following challenges: Internet of Things, Social Networks, that allow emerging smart cities to offer cloud,..) in different areas of activity sustainable and added-value services to ► Single European administrative space: with high potential benefit, such as the citizens. Implement the vision of seamless cross- energy efficiency and supply networks, organizational and cross-border services mobility and transport, efficient resource Main Activities through adoption of technologies such management, innovative services and as SOA (Service Oriented Architectures), citizen participation. The sector’s main activities are listed hereafter: semantic technologies, etc. ► More for less: Explore solutions, constraints ► Management of market-driven projects. and applicability for clouds of public ► Promotion of project results to Atos services and open source. customers in the Public and Education ► Sustainable IT: Explore the role of public sector. administration as an early adopter of ► Integration of research results into the technologies such as migration to IPv6, public administration legacy systems. Green IT etc. ► Definition and assessment of new and ► Open government: Releasing public data efficient services for Smart cities, focused and using linked data techniques to help on convergence of physical and virtual people understand how government infrastructures, and citizen participation. works and how policies are made. ► Development of ICT tools that implement ► Explore how public administrations more efficient services with special focus can leverage big data techniques to on interoperability, cross-organizational save money in operational efficiency. flows, big and open data, cloud for public Harnessing big data in the Public sector administrations, and smart cities. has enormous potential. Ana Maria Piñuela Head of Sector 10 Research & Innovation 2015