Ricardo Severino participated in the annual review meeting of the SafeCOP project in Brussels, where he presented an overview of the work carried out within the Safe and Secure Wireless Communications work-package, leaded by ISEP. The work-package was quite successful and was approved by the reviewers. Ricardo also gave an overview of the progress in the Portuguese Vehicle Platooning Use Case being developed with GMVIS Skysoft.
 

CISTER has already a long history of collaborations with GMV Portugal, in particular its Homeland Security and Defence Division. On the 12th of May, CISTER hosted a meeting with another division of GMV Portugal, Transport and Mobility, to explore new collaboration opportunities. GMV is a leader in solutions for aerospace and transportation industry, which constitutes an important strategic sector for CISTER. During the meeting, tasks on the joint use case implementations in the ongoing ECSEL projects SafeCOP and ENABLE-S3 were also discussed. GMV personnel Bruno Gonçalves and Paulo Gomes (Head of Road & Automotive Section - Transport & Mobility) also familiarized themselves with CISTER's facilities and CISTER's CITech – Industry Transfer Center, where several demonstrators were shown.

CISTER researchers Ricardo Severino and Eduardo Tovar participated in the kick-off meeting of this recently approved ECSEL project. SafeCOP addresses safety-related cooperating cyber-physical systems, characterized by use of wireless communication, multiple stakeholders, dynamic system definitions and unpredictable operating environments.

CISTER is leading the work package related to safe and secure wireless cooperation for Cyber-Physical Systems. This package will evaluate the adequacy of COTS and standard wireless technologies, and extend current wireless protocols for safe and secure cooperation. In this project, CISTER will also be involved in a vehicle platooning use case. SafeCOP partners include Thales, SINTEF, KTH, SICS and and key national industrial players such as GMV Skysoft and Tekever.