ARROWHEAD: Ahead of the future

Project Description

With a budget of 80 million euros and the participation of 78 institutions from 11 countries, Arrowhead is co-financed from the European Union and the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism in the Artemis call of the Seventh Framework Programme. The main objective is to increase energy efficiency and flexible use of energy through cooperative automation in buildings, public infrastructure, industrial processes and the energy sector through the use of embedded technologies.

Collaborating Companies or Organisations

En España, se desplegarán dos demostradores en Barcelona y San Sebastián cuya definición, desarrollo y despliegue estará In Spain, two demonstrators will be deployed in Barcelona and San Sebastian whose definition, development and deployment will be led by Indra and Acciona, respectively.
The remaining partners of the Sanish consortium are Fagor, Orona, Tecnalia, IK4-Tekniker, IK4-Ikerlan, Integrasys, Ulma, Mondragon and Fomento de San Sebastián.
The scope of both demonstrators will be the same in order to compare methodologies, technologies employed and the results obtained at the end of the project.

Industrial partners of the Spanish consortium

Indra's Role

Indra will be responsible, within the Smart Cities area, for the design, implementation and deployment of a demonstrator in Barcelona including a smart lighting solution and an advanced energy efficiency system in buildings, both integrated in ATENEA, Indra’s urban platform for the government of Smart Cities.

The Smart Lighting pilot will include a street in Barcelona where sensors will be installed in its luminaires in order to monitor environmental information (light intensity, for example) energy consumption and mobility (traffic, pedestrians, etc.). The lights will incorporate LED technology to carry out the control of the light intensity according to all the information monitored.

The Smart Building pilot will include the development of a system to facilitate the sensing, monitoring and intelligent control of energy consumption in real time to significantly reduce the energy footprint and help create savings patterns in this area. Its goal is the acquisition of data by deploying different energy sensors, presence of people or humidity, among others.

Both pilots are expected to be operative in June 2015, when they will be integrated into the urban platform of services.

Universities and Technological Centres

Entities of the Spanish consortium

Technologies used

The Barcelona pilot will use Indra’s Smart Cities platform, ATENEA. This urban platform allows the integration and management of all services and solutions that make up the city ecosystem, enabling different systems to exchange information with each other. ATENEA also includes analysis tools to predict the behaviours of the city (citizens, facilities, traffic, etc.) regarding the use of services, in order to adapt better and proactively real needs. ATENEA combines Indra’s knowledge, unique in the market, in the management of services to citizens, as it integrates all areas of activity of the city such as mobility, infrastructure management, security and emergency, environment and government. This platform integrates information from three main sources: the measurement and sensing equipment deployed around the city, the service management modules that coordinate with each other to provide global solutions and, finally, the analysis systems (control centres, analytics and dashboards), that collect information from the previous subsystems to deliver critical information to manage the city. This integration is based on the collection and pre - interpretation data software, SOFIA, a leading product in the collection of intensive data from distributed sources, resulting from Indra continuous involvement in R & D projects in Europe.

ATENEA has been developed from Indra HERMES system, which facilitates the mobility management centres monitoring the different subsystems and continuous monitoring of the evolution of traffic and public transport.

Other technologies used are: Java EE, RTLinux , Open Source platform (Linux , JBoss , Spring, JBoss jBPM , Axis, Log4j , Quartz , JBoss Rules), SOA software architecture , bidirectional communication technologies : last mile solutions (RF, Zigbee , Wifi , PLC , ADSL ...) and centralization of information (WLAN , LAN , FO , ADSL , GPRS ..), Middleware low latency communication, distributed storage and processing (Hadoop, CEP engines ... ), mathematicians algorithms.

More information

This project, under the codes 332987 (ARTEMIS) & (MINETUR), has been co-funded by the European Commission and the MINETUR- Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism within the ARTEMIS-2012-1 Call