EnABLES

         

Start Date: 01/01/2018
End Date: 31/12/2021

The vision of EnABLES is to create ‘self-sustaining’ energy solutions to ‘power the internet of things’ based on energy harvesting, storage, micro-power management and system integration activities. Free of charge access to simulations, data libraries, equipment and expertise access along with feasibility studies will be provided in a fast-track manner via a Transnational Access (TA) program that will be launched shortly. It also funds Joint Research Activities (JRAs) between partners.

The world will have 1 trillion IoT devices by 2025 all needing a power source. We should avoid battery replacement where possible by developing energy harvesting solutions and/or finding ways to reduce device power consumption. EnABLES will empower 100s of academic researchers and technologists. Access will range from materials & models to devices and systems. Access providers will work with the user community to accelerate adoption and innovation in real-life applications.

Activities include:

• Building an ecosystem for collaboration with EnABLES as a ‘starting community’.
• Providing external fast track access to expertise and laboratories – over 130 researchers & €2Bn of infrastructure
• Fostering internal collaboration between partners (JRAs) guided by needs and opportunities
• Creating standardised and inter-operable libraries of parts & simulation tools for optimising system level performance

Partners:

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
CEA-Liten
IMEC-NL
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Politecnico di Torino
Noise in Physical Systems Laboratory
Università di Bologna
University of Southampton

 

Funders: EU H2020 Projects

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 730957