The association (non-profit organization) JESSICA FRANCE was created by the CEA and Bpifrance to implement the CAP'TRONIC program. The goal of the CAP’TRONIC program is to help French SMEs improve their competitive edge and innovate by integrating embedded software and electronics in their products, whatever the field of activity and the stage of development. Its vocation is to raise awareness, inform, train and technically assist SMEs in the introduction of embedded electronic and software technologies in their products. This aid program has offered a concrete answer to the technical expectations of SMEs for over 20 years.

The program has helped 9 400 SMEs increase their market share by leveraging such technology for the past 5 years. More than 1 000 sessions of workshops and seminars have been provide to 7 500 SMEs and 1 280 SMEs has been helped trough a technical expertise during the last 5 years. CAP'TRONIC counts on 24 engineers specialized in embedded software and electronics. These specialists provide neutral expertise to adapt projects according to the needs of companies and the market. As a result, this enables companies to quickly find realistic and cost-effective technological solutions.

CAP'TRONIC's action with SMEs takes different forms:

Technical seminars: to raise public awareness on a theme related to electronics, embedded software and connectivity;
Workshops and training: to transfer knowledge and know-how during sessions of 2 to 3 days;
Consulting: thanks to the intervention of a consulting engineer, provide support in identifying critical points, selecting solutions and implementing technical solutions;
Technical expertise: co-financed intervention by an expert chosen from a network of 650 public and private expertise centers;
Project follow-up: support from a co-financed expert to ensure the technical follow-up and the correct execution of the project.

The technical expertise is at the heart of CAP'TRONIC's activity from the ideas to the final product, and goes to three main phases during which CAP'TRONIC's support can be decisive:

Needs definition / Feasibility study: detailing of the needs, search for electronic or software solutions, evaluation of the solutions searched, architecture proposal, development and production costs evaluation, design offices list…
Support throughout development: negotiation with design offices, monitoring of the different phases of development
Industrialization support: search for EMS, validation of tools, proposal for the integration of the final product...

As an expert in the Internet of Things, CAP'TRONIC has published several guides for SMEs wishing to take the turn of connected objects. These guides are available on the CAP'TRONIC website.

« Take the turn of the connected objects »: questions and aspects to consider for a successful project (https://www.captronic.fr/Guide-Prendre-le-virage-des-objets-connectes.h…)
« They have taken the turn of the connected objects »: a guide focused on feedback from 10 industrial companies in B to B (https://www.captronic.fr/Guide-Ils-ont-pris-le-virage-des-objets-connec…)
« What methodology to make your electronic project a success ? » : to know what main steps to follow (https://www.captronic.fr/Guide-Quelle-methodologie-pour-reussir-votre-p…)
« How to control the cybersecurity of your connected objects and systems ? » : in collaboration with The National Information Systems Security Agency (https://www.captronic.fr/Guide-PME-Comment-maitriser-la-cybersecurite-d…)
« The Internet of Things, value creator » : through a day in the connected life of a hospital (https://www.captronic.fr/L-INTERNET-DES-OBJETS-CREATEUR-DE-VALEUR.html)

Contacts: JESSICA France, as a national organization, has 4 offices.

South-east inter-regional office: 

CEA-G/LETI - 17, rue des Martyrs
38054 GRENOBLE Cedex 9

FRANCE

Engineers are also present at Lyon (69), Marseille (13), Annecy (74) and Montbeliard (25). 

 

West inter-regional office: 

60, Boulevard du Maréchal Juin
44100 NANTES 

FRANCE

Engineers are also present at Caen (14), Brest (29), and Tours (37).

 

Southwestern inter-regional office: 

Parc d'Activités Georges Petit 
43-47 rue Marcel Sembat
33130 BEGLES 

FRANCE

Engineers are also present at Toulouse (31), Montpellier (34) and Limoges (87).

 

Paris and north inter-regional office:

CEA Saclay / NANO INNOV
Bâtiment 863 - Point courrier 44
91191 GIF sur YVETTE Cedex

FRANCE

Engineers are also present at Villeneuve d'Ascq (59), Vandoeuvre (54) and Noisy-Le-Grand (93).
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The mission of the Data Cycle Hub is to be a reference one-stop shop DIH in the Valencia region to foster data driven and artificial intelligence based innovation. The objective is to bridge the gap between research and industry, specifically SMEs, providing innovative solutions and services that require advanced data analytics, automatic learning and artificial intelligence. 

The Data Cycle Hub has a non-for-profit aim and is coordinated and led by ITI, also a non-for-profit Research Centre and a reference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in the Valencia region, with connection to all relevant stakeholders: industry, regional agencies, accelerators, Chamber of Commerce, education, providing a rich ecosystem of technological companies working on these fields.

All the technologies covered by this DIH are around the DATA, from Data Gathering to Data visualization. In this sense, the DIH addresses Primarily Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, but also other key digital enabling technologies like Cyber Physical Systems, IoT, Cloud and High PerformanceComputing Platforms or statistics optimization.

ITI is Founding member of Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and has been labelled by BDVA as iSpace the last 2 years. ITI is working hard in establishing the baseline for a network of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence DIHs.

ITI has two main Data Hubs. One is focused on ITI own experiments with data and AI and the other is oriented to provide services to external experiments coming from more than 50 competence centres in the region and also from companies. The network of competence centres that ITI is leading, groups more than 20.000 SMEs that are potential users of the Data Cycle Hub Services. Digital technologies.

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center provides state-of-the-art technologies and services in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC) and makes it available for Czech and international research teams from academia and industry. IT4Innovations is the only national large research HPC e-infrastructure operating national Tier-1 systems. It currently operates two supercomputers, Anselm (94TFLOPS Rpeak, installed in summer 2013) and Salomon (2PFLOPS Rpeak, installed in summer 2015).

IT4Innovations is a part of the National Roadmap for Large Infrastructures for Research, Experimental Development and Innovations of the Czech Republic, represents the Czech Republic in the European research infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Research and Advanced Computing in Europe), and is a member of ETP4HPC (European Technology Platform in the area of High-Performance Computing).

IT4Innovations is also an R&D centre with strong international links. The centre currently participates in dozens of international projects, mostly H2020 with top academic and industrial partners. IT4Innovations is also the only Intel Parallel Computing Centre (IPCC) in the new member states of the European Union (EU13). Its research activities are distributed across 5 laboratories:
•     Advanced data analysis and simulations lab
•     Infrastructure research lab
•     Parallel algorithms research lab
•     Modelling for nanotechnologies lab
•     Big data analysis lab Digital technologies.

We will build out the I4MS program in a practical manner – including training programs, demonstration activities, industrial pilots and practical innovation translation activities.
Fundamentally, the Digital Innovation Hub will be built out to become a One-Stop-Shop for SME access to digital manufacturing technologies and solutions in the space of CPS/IoT with associated training, case studies and access to capability and competence.

Irish Manufacturing Research is part of a select EU network of I4MS – Regional Manufacturing Digital Innovation Hubs that provide a one-stop-shop for manufacturing companies to access all of the supports they need to become ready for the next generation of digital manufacturing.  We provide information and support to manufacturing SMEs from:

Access to key research capacity and skills in Ireland and across Europe
Access to Competence Centres across Europe and Ireland
Access and support in accessing public and private funding
Connectivity to networks of manufacturing companies (SMEs and multinational)
Best known methods and case-studies
Technology roadmaps and frontier technologies
Integration into EU consortia and funding programs
Access to experimental facilities
Connectivity to national funding bodies and authorities
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IC4’s activities are focused at helping all players in the cloud ecosystem, including technology originators and technology consumers, to maximise the impact of cloud computing on their businesses. Digital technologies.

The Navarra Region Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) started in 2016 with the name of "NAVARDMIHub". With the support of the regional government in 2020, the DIH has evolved to "IRIS: European Digital Innovation Hub Navarra". The DIH aims to exploit the synergies and capabilities already organized in the regional innovation ecosystem, in terms of partners and capabilities promoting innovation, technology transfer, business creation, testing and experimentation, and training and dissemination for the digitalization.

IRIS, conformed as a non-profit DIH, is focused on increasing the level of digitalization in the manufacturing processes (Industry 4.0) and includes new capabilities in areas such as High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics.

 

IRIS is structured as a Platform for public-private collaboration, for the core purposes of:

Accelerating the Digital Transformation of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of Navarra.
Promoting the evolution of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Navarra towards greater digitalization, particularly with regard to positioning Navarra as a European leader in Personalised Precision Medicine.
Fostering a greater understanding among the inhabitants of Navarra with regard to the technologies underpinning an Advanced Digital Society.

 

Services provided by the Hub that summarizes their activities are the following:

Tailored training and talent: development of technology profiles to drive the digital transformation of businesses (access to degrees, masters and doctoral programmes; data science laboratory; etc.); internationalization of talent related to digital transformation; scheme to attract international talent. 
Consultancy: awareness raising and skills development; intervention by designing roadmaps and technology pathways for digitalization and business plans. 
R&D. Knowledge transfer: development of new products and processes; collection of information on your processes and production environment.  
Experimental validation of the application of new technologies to products and processes (Test Before Invest).
Exchange of Good Practices: access to the technologies available in the European Network of Digital Innovation Hubs and it is also a space to share experience and ideas.
Entrepreneurship: full accompaniment programme, facilitating the creation of new companies and the differentiation and drive of new projects.
Access to funding: private and public funding at a regional, national and european level.

 

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Internet of Things-SmartSantander is aiming at fostering the digital transformation of the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors leveraging on the experiences and success of the Internet of Things initiatives in which University of Cantabria and Santander Municipality have been leading in the past. As such, this DIH aims at offering technical support and guidance as well access to a plethora of enablers, tools, APIs, and data for implementing and assessing concrete solutions fitting the corresponding requirements.

The deployment of services and applications relying on the IoT paradigm has brought a new way to provide urban services. Hence, urban utilities such waste management, water management, street lighting and many others rely on the ability to monitor the required service parameters for optimizing it with the consequent impact at city level. Digital technologies.

The objective of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and the innovation-driven organizations involved is to help companies (specially SMEs) to become more competitive throughout the adoption of Internet of Things technologies in their business/production processes, products and services.

IoT Digital Innovation Hub has been created to develop groundbreaking projects with the most advanced technologies that can make digital transformation of industry become a reality. Our aim is to promote new products and services, which have been designed by combining innovative techniques from a range of disciplines:

Artificial Intelligence
Advanced IoT
Disruptive ICT
Edge Computing
Fog Computing
Cloud Computing
Blockchain
Internet of Value
Industry 4.0
Smart Cities
Smart Homes
Smart Grid
Connected Vehicle
Big Data
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Social Computing
Natural Language Processing
Linked Open Data

The emergence of the internet has triggered the technological revolution we are experiencing at the moment. This revolution lies in the ability to connect people and objects. This is what we call the Internet of Things (IoT). This new technological model interconnects devices and collects information which are then sent to the cloud. These data make it possible to adapt technology to the preferences of its users. In addition, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are new infrastructures which facilitate communication and increase the mobility, flexibility and efficiency of users. Artificial Intelligence is changing our World and its different forms of application (Deep learning, Machine Learning, Big Data, Genetic Algorithms, etc.) complement IoT perfectly.

The members of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub have vast knowledge of all these technologies and their practical experience is the greatest asset of this platform which is supported by the European Union.

Now, we want to put at your disposal all this knowledge; our experience in hundreds of projects, dozens of patents, and use it to boost startups and spin off. Digital technologies.

The mission of the Manufacturing Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) "IoT Compass Hub" is to support the utilization of Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Digital Manufacturing and Robotics in SMEs and MidCaps in order to increase their productivity and competitiveness and to gain economic benefit for the South Ostrobothnia region. The DIH offers a variety of services from a one-stop shop. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences and Tampere University provide technical competencies and infrastructure. IoT Compass Hub has close cooperation with organizations offering funding for SMEs development projects and investments.

 

IoT Compass Hub is open and free to join to new partners. DIH centralize knowledge of the partners, for instance, from companies, education, and research and development institutions to enhance digital transformation in manufacturing industries. This holistic and non-profit based approach for DIH increase and optimize the digital performance in organizations. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences is a higher education institution and efficient actor in education, research and development in the region of South Osrobothnia in West Finland. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (School of Technology) manages the IoT Compass Hub.

 

IoT Compass Hub has several objectives and activities, which are, for instance, digital manufacturing ecosystem development, digital maturity assessment and mentoring, digital factory academy and IoT pilots.

 

Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem Development

IoT Compass Hub is developing an ecosystem around digital manufacturing and industrial internet in the region, to support the digital transformation of manufacturing industry, particularly SMEs, in the region. The ecosystem supports cooperation between manufacturing SMEs and technology, automation and IT-providers.

 

Digital Maturity Assessment and Mentoring Services

The manufacturing SME companies needs to have sufficient understanding of their current digitalization status in order to proceed to the next steps towards to Industry 4.0. The digital maturity assessment mapping can be implemented within the IoT Compass Hub (DIH). Companies can develop the use of digital manufacturing and industrial internet in their production, products, services and businesses based on results of the assessment. IoT Compass Hub offers mentoring for these type of development projects.

 

Digital Factory Academy

The Digital Factory Academy has been launched for the development of companies’ personnel competencies. The SeAMK’s Industrial Internet Laboratory (CPS factory) is available to companies and offers workspace and software’s. The company can utilize the laboratory in developing its own industrial internet and digital manufacturing solutions. The upgrade of competence is supported by experts of the DIH. Digital Factory Academy helps students and company personnel network with each other.

 

IoT Pilots

Companies can present themes for fast IoT piloting in the Industrial Internet Laboratory. The laboratory environment can be used for testing companies’ ideas before investing. Digital technologies.

The IoT Catalan Alliance is an initiative to join forces and define strategies to enhance the field of the Internet of Things in Catalonia.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging sector with vast potential for economic growth and job creation. Only 1% of things are currently connected, but it is expected that there will be 50,000 million Internet-connected devices in the world by 2020, which is about 7 devices per inhabitant.

The IoT Catalan Alliance brings together companies and organisations that work in this area, exploring the knowledge of their capabilities and needs, and promotes the exchange of information and the creation of synergies between the members of the alliance.

The establishment of this group provides the ideal environment for key players in this industry to engage in a dialogue in order to define a joint action plan to promote the IoT in Catalonia.

It also aims to provide an environment for validation and interoperability testing of products, and works to represent the sector with the government and standardisation bodies. Digital technologies.