This category provides news on Martel Innovate activities!
The European Alliance of IoT Innovation (AIOTI) – initiated by the European Commission in 2015 – has the mission to establish a dynamic European IoT ecosystem. It promotes convergence & interoperability of IoT standards and the Digitising European Industry policy. The AIOTI involves and actively recruits key IoT industrial players, from large companies to successful SMEs…
Martel is about to land at the Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry, organised by the GSMA and held in the Mobile World Capital Barcelona, 27 February – 2 March 2017. Embracing the mobile industry major trends This year the Mobile World Congress programme has been organised aroung 7 core…
Martel Innovate goes satellite with participation to the recently started Horizon 2020 project QV-LIFT, Q/V band earth segment LInk for Future high Throughput space systems. QV-LIFT aims at developing the foundation of the Ground Segment Technology for the future Q/V band Terabit SatCom systems. This will be done by providing core technologies at two levels…
Martel Innovate H2020 Training Increase your chances of success! 14, 15 February 2017, Bellaterra, Spain Martel Innovate is delighted to run a 1 day and 1/2 training about “How to write a winning H2020 proposal” for the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Bellaterra in Spain. This is…
Digital Technologies and Next Generation Internet at the service of Social Innovation Rome (Italy), 1-2 February 2017 Martel Innovate is one of the main organisers of the Digital Social Innovation Fair 2017 which kicked off yesterday 1st February at the Campidoglio, in Rome. Dr. Monique Calisti, Executive Director and Partner of Martel, was on stage to present the first…
Enabling federation of large-scale experimental facilities to ground the Next Generation Internet Federation of innovative large-scale experimental facilities is crucial to ground the foundation of the Next Generation Internet to enable addressing technological opportunities arising from advances in various research fields, extending from new network architectures and software-defined infrastructures to new concepts for services and…
Welcome to the Future Martel Innovate has contributed to kick off the FLAME project, a three-year Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action that has the ambition to empower Next Generation Media Ecosystems. FLAME will develop an integrated service delivery platform that utilizes advanced compute & storage as well as software-based communication infrastructures to define a…
Martel Innovate supported the organisation of the Kick-off meeting of a new Horizon 2020 project – User Engagement for Large Scale Pilots in the Internet of Things (U4IoT). The meeting took place on January 12th & 13th, 2017 in Brussels at Vinnova’s office (January 12th) as well as the premises of imec (January 13th). U4IoT…
Martel Innovate has been active in the FIWARE Community since 2011, as partner of XIFI project, supporting the creation and uptake of FIWARE community globally through the marketing first of FIWARE Lab and then of FIWARE Mundus initiatives. The FIWARE Community is an independent open community whose members are committed to materialise the FIWARE mission,…
2016 has been an intense, surprising and succesful year for Martel Innovate. A few major highlights: 4 new people on board and 1 new office opened in Lugano (Switzerland) 10 accepted H2020 proposals out of 18 submitted in total between January and April 4 new H2020 projects started between September and November 2016 1 EC…
Building an Internet for Humans On the 30th November, Dr. Monique Calisti, Director of Martel Innovate, attended the Next Generation Internet, NGI, workshop that was held at the #EuropeanCommission premises in Brussels. About 80 participants representing academic, SME, startup, industrial and media organisations actively engaged in innovating the Internet were invited by the European Commission….
This week Martel Lab presented its work on High Availability of FIWARE Data Management services at the FIWARE Summit in Malaga! You developed your FIWARE application using Context Broker and NGSI. Now you are ready to go to production and you want a rocket solid architecture for providing 99.9995% service availability to your customers. How to…
DSI FAIR 2017 1-2 FEBRUARY, ROME How can we contribute to the Next Generation Internet? How can the internet benefit both the individual and overall society? The Digital Social Innovation Fair 2017 offers a rich program featuring an international conference, focused workshops, networking and hands-on sessions. The line-up of speakers includes experts and practitioners, as…
Happy Thanksgiving! It does seem like a good occasion to write about my first weeks with Martel Innovate. Everyone who goes after their dreams deserves, from time to time, a shift in life that leads them a bit closer to what they want in life. Moving to Zurich is definitely one of such “shifts” for…
SCEW 2016 has been an amazing experience! With more than 420 speakers from the five continents, 591 exhibitors and around 16,688 registered visitors, the event has been dense and inspiring. During the course of the three-day event, the congress sessions voiced leading experts and decision-makers from all around the world, and featured intens, high-quality debates…
Besides a number of other EC proposals approved in 2016, the EU-China Study on IoT and 5G, EXCITING, is one that Martel is particularly proud of. EXCITING represents the follow-up of a previous EU-China Coordination and Support Action, called ECIAO, which Martel has been succesfully coordinating. In this respect, the EXCITING project allows us capitalizing…
eWINE Workshop – Intelligent wireless connectivity for Future Networks 11 November 2016, La Sapienza University, Rome Martel successfully coordinated the organization, communication and promotion of the first eWINE Workshop “Intelligent wireless connectivity for Future Networks”, kindly hosted by La Sapienza University. The workshop was aimed to discuss how experimentation facilities can be utilized for the design…
2nd Global 5G Event, “Enabling the 5G EcoSphere” In collaboration with the 5G Infrastructure Association, the European Commission and the EURO 5G project partners, Martel Innovate successfully orchestrated the organisation of the 2nd Global 5G Event held in Rome on November 9-10 2016. The two-day event hosted experts from all corners of the globe, from…
Martel, in collaboration with Elastico.co, is creating a new offer for Docker-based trainings. The first course of the offer will be “Scalable microservices with Java Spring and Docker” and the first edition will be held in Milan on 17th December 2016. Overview This is a one-day workshop, designed for software developers and solution architects who wants to start…
A new month is starting and new projects are kick off for Martel! Can you imagine transmitting data at Tb/s ? This is exactly the satellite technology that QV-Lift project aims to achieve! The QV-LIFT project, lead by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), aims at developing the foundation of the Ground Segment Technology for the…
Tomas from Martel Lab spent the past week at OpenStack Summit 2016 to learn about the latest trends. Don’t miss his blog on the event! We are looking forward ourself to try out OpenStack Newton and experiment our self the new features!
October comes to an end after a fantastic and unique experience in the beautiful city of Barcelona, namely, my first OpenStack Summit. Before November begins, I want to put down my impressions and observations of this incredible event. Taking part of the summit proved useful not only to better understand OpenStack, but also because next year,…
Last Saturday we attended the Social Innovation Summit 2016 a cutting edge conference on entrepreneurship and social innovation that took place in Zurich at the Bananereiferei. Participants with diverse backgrounds from all over Europe gathered together to share experiences, critical discuss and develop ideas about methods and business models helping to address environmental and social…
In recent times, efforts focusing on investigating how digital technologies can assist in addressing societal challenges have grown all over the R&D&I landscape in Europe and beyond. With the ever-increasing penetration of Internet technologies in our lives and society, it has become clear that the impact of digitalization is playing an essential role on how…
EU-Mexico collaboration framework bootstrapped! The FIWARE family is growing and reaching far in Mexico. Beginning of September 2016 the two international EU-Mexico collaboration projects FIWARE MEXICO and smartSDK have been succesfully kicked-off in Mexico City. Hosted by the Tecnológico de Monterrey, partners from Europe and Mexico worked together 3 days to discuss strategies and bootstrap…
Pioneering a FIWARE-driven Innovation Hub between Europe and Mexico! Exciting times for the Martel Innovate team at the start of two new EC-funded projects within the Horizon 2020 context that aim at strengthening collaboration between ICT innovators in Europe and in Mexico! By building up on the expertise, skills and contacts established through direct involvement…
New activities will start soon in Mexico in relation to FIWARE. Martel Innovate will play a primary role in these activities, reinforcing its contribution to FIWARE community. FIWARE, that has already a live community in Mexico, is going to start in the month of September a number of new activities to support the Mexican community and it’s link…
As of 1st June 2016, Martel Innovate is at the guide of the ChiC project that is an EC funded Coordination and Support Action serving the Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation, #CAPSSI, initiative, promoted by the DG Connect. For Martel this is the opportunity to engage more directly in a number of initiatives that are affecting the…
From today a new section is online on Martel web site! A blog containing stories and technical articles from Martel team! Check it out at https://martel-innovate.com/blog/ We will strive to have fresh stories every week! Stay tuned to learn about the Martel point of view on what’s happening in the world 🙂
In my home office, I happen to have a XEROX 6130N: it’s a bit old, but works perfectly. It is actually also an ethernet printer, but 1) I don’t want to move the printer close to the router; 2) I don’t want to get a wire from the router to the printer (2 floors are…
As all ICT players who submitted proposals last April to the ICT-2016 Call, on the 28th July we received via the Participant Portal official news from the European Commission about our submissions. For Martel this was a magic year: we won 4 projects between January to March. The 28th July outcomes confirmed magic goes on: 6 proposals over 12…
I am currently flying back from Recife to Europe via Fortaleza (amazing view right now from the window) and trying to collect thoughts after the two days of Beyond 2020 event. Beyond 2020 is an event focusing on the urban innovation processes to ensure that technology supports citizens. The whole event discussed different aspects on how can we can create Smart…
I am back last night from Athens after 4 intense days of EuCNC, days in which we learnt a lot. I must admit it’s very difficult to capture everything in a few lines or pictures, but here we are. Sharing with you all! We have been able to learn from our partners in the 5G…
Martel has a consolidated innovation tradition, having served its customers and partners for more than 20 years in the field of innovation management, R&D funding and in particular international collaboration projects, spanning across major ICT fileds, such as Telecommunications, Software Engineering, Wireless Networking and Future Internet Technologies. Traditionally Martel, namely Martel Consulting, has been offering…
Our business partner InterDigital (IDCC) presented at the recent MWC2016 the IP-over-ICN solution that is fundamental for the RIFE project, an H2020 Research and Innovation Action Martel is coordinating, within deployments such as the ones pursued within the guifi.net initiative. IDCC presented a scaled demo with 30 users requesting an HTTP-level video stream, leading to a performance…
Dr. Federico M. Facca, Head of Martel Lab, was part of the FIWARE delegation participating to the EU-Brazil cooperation on Human Smart Cities Workshop in Natal (Brazil). The organiser of the workshops was the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). The FIWARE delegation was led by Jesus Villasante, Head of the Net Innovation Unit of DG Connect. Additional participants to the…
Working together to make the Digital Single Market vision to become a reality is a privilege for Martel’s team. Our engagement within the context of the 5G PPP initiative aims to ensure the growth and impact of 5G initiatives across the pan-European landscape. On Monday, in Barcelona, at the MWC 2016, on behalf of the European Commission…
The party is about to start, let’s try to make the best out of the Mobile World Congress experience! Each and every year the Mobile World Congress show becomes more and more interesting and captivating, also for small and medium innovation players like us. Just by looking at the programme you’ll discover how many opportunities to…
Martel lands in Natal to represent the FIWARE Mundus team and help fostering Brazil-EU cooperation! On behalf of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Inovation (MCTI), the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) has organised the Brazil-EU Cooperation on Human Smart Cities and FIWARE Workshop, in partnership with the European Comission. The goal of the Workshop is…
Yes! Swiss participation to H2020 is ENTIRELY financed by the Swiss authorities. And YES Swiss partners are perfectly entitled to participate in H2020 projects and act as prime coordinators. As a Swiss based SME involved in EC funded collaborative projects since about 20 years and managing several ongoing ones, Martel, my company, has a consolidated…
Martel announces a new organisational structure to strengthen its business and service offering Martel introduces a new organisational structure to strength its position in the international innovation scene. The new organisational structure will diversify Martel’s services portfolio, while consolidating its traditional core business. Background and future directions Martel’s business profile evolved in the last few years from a…
As announced yesterday, Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) published twelve new reports. The reports include recommendations for future collaborative work in the Internet of Things Focus Area in Horizon 2020. The reports published by AIOTI covers the main focus areas of the Internet of Things (IoT) Work Program 2016-2017. Eleven working groups (WGs), who have worked intensively…
How comes the number of proposals has explonentially increased in many ICT topics? No secret nor big suprise really: it all depends on the fact that the cost model for funding has drastically changed. When compared to FP7, for all Industrial and SMEs players in Europe to be involved in Research and Innovation Actions and/or…
