March saw the start of the Arrowhead project, Europe's
largest ever automation development research project, which is coordinated by
Luleå University of Technology.
Arrowhead will demonstrate, through the development of
advanced techniques, how technological entities can collaborate independently
in order to optimise energy use, thus increasing industry's competitive
advantages and helping the environment. This takes place within the
manufacturing and processing industry, energy generation, electrical mobility
(electric cars) and smart cities (traffic lights).
The budget is EUR 68 million.
"In the future there will be billions of connected
entities in the world. Arrowhead's purpose is to develop modern technology to
enable these entities to communicate and automatically exchange services with
one another. This will help reduce society's energy and water consumption, and
its negative effects on the environment. The core of our technology must be so
simple that the same technology works in completely different entities",
says Jerker Delsing, professor at Luleå University of Technology and project
coordinator.