BRAINS-(Baseline for Media Access Networks in Sensor Integrators)

Project Description

Development of a smart prioritization system by time, frequency, mode of operation and its component elements.
This functionality of the systems will be more flexible and able to continuously measure and estimate the state of the radio spectrum, can conform their emissions based on the observed means of accessing the cognitive and adaptive way.
As a result, there will be developed a simulator to analyze and optimize the interoperability between communications systems and sensors in critical radio environments.
Finally, the project will apply the developed tools and the obtained results to study and optimize the interoperability of future systems and sensors integrated.

Collaborating Companies or Organisations

Indra's Role

Leader and project coordinator.
Indra provides the features and requirements of systems and sensors that supply information to the smart prioritization system BRAINS.
Indra will deliver needed hardware for the simulator.
The study aimed Indra reach a solid understanding of these materials for commercial application.
The forecast is that Indra systems will be able to make use of this technology, for example, by providing any on board sensors suite of platforms, this would raise its performance level.
Long term, the knowledge and developed techniques will resolve similar problems in the civil and the "intelligent buildings" or "smart cities", therefore within the scope of "dual technologies”.

Universities and Technological Centres

Under subcontracting regime

Technologies used

Standard exchange networks, open architectures and multifunctionality:

• Systems Engineering.
• Analysis and simulation of communication systems.
• Analysis and simulation of radar systems.
• Analysis and simulation of electromagnetic sensors.
• Analysis and simulation of other radio equipment (finders, GPS receivers, radio aids, etc...)
• Technologies associated with the procedures and techniques of electromagnetic compatibility.
• Signal simulation techniques and dynamic systems using stochastic processes.
• Evaluation of systems using Monte Carlo methods.
• Technical and cognitive systems.

More information

Systems integration to converge into a single governed super-system, which gives a coherent joint response of all sensors, is a critical step in equipping platforms with multiple sensors and in ensuring interoperability.
This provides to the integrated sensors capabilities needed to ensure interoperability between subsystems and critically improve the performance of them, improving the overall result and enabling collaborations and partnerships between these subsystems.
This project, under reference number TSI-020601-2012-20, has been co-financed by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, within the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011.