Bringing together over 25 partners from the M-Sec consortium across Europe and Japan, the 3rd plenary review meeting in Santander, Spain was a vibrant week of important progress updates on the project, as well as absorbing the local culture, history and food. Taking place at the splendid century-old Palacio de Magdalena on the tip of […]
The first review meeting of the M-Sec project took place in Tokyo on 18 September of 2019, at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) premises.
Currently, smart city platforms are mainly centralized IoT/Cloud infrastructures, which introduces several limitations as these infrastructures tend to be: Inefficient in handling actuation and control over sensors and physical devices; Prone to “complete failures” since they dispose with centralized control by a limited number of administrative entities; Inflexible in the incorporation of innovative applications and […]
From graffiti, to broken pavements, to left rubbish/trash, there can be many problems that pop-up in shared public spaces, especially in large cities. In many countries, local governments and authorities rely on traditional ways of receiving feedback from citizens, as well as from their own workforce, on the state of the city. These processes are […]
The partners behind M-Sec project come from a range of organisations, including companies, universities, and local government bodies, and are based all over Europe (Greece, France, Spain, Portugal) and Japan. This geographic and organisational diversity means that representatives of our M-Sec project will be attending many different events across the world throughout the next few […]
Vanessa Clemente is from Worldline, the European coordinating partner behind the M-Sec project. In this short interview, we sat down with Vanessa to dive deeper into what are the goals of M-Sec project, how Worldline co-ordinates the 12 partner organisations that are behind the project, and to find out more about the development of the […]
The population of the world is increasingly an elderly one. With rising numbers of births, better healthcare and quality of life, the percentage of elderly people in our commnunities is set to grow year on year. Elderly populations are facing lonliness and isolation, as well as health problems that come with age – from remembering […]
On 9-11 April 2019, the universities, research centres and tech companies working together on the M-Sec project met in Fujisawa, Japan. This was the first time that the European partners had travelled to Japan for the project, closing the circle of the partners visiting each other’s corners of the world. You can read about when […]
In just a few short months, in April 2019 the partners behind the M-Sec project will meet in person in Fujisawa, Japan, for the second project meeting. Fujisawa is a city located in the south part of the Kanagawa area, with an estimated population of 429,317 people and a population density of 6,171 people per […]
M-Sec networked and shared ideas with similar cross-border initiatives at the session at the session ‘EU, Japan and Korea collaboration for breakthrough innovation’. Europe, Japan and Korea are strategic partners to address the world’s current challenges such as global warming, economic crisis, security threats, inequality, natural disasters and ageing society. On 3 December, professionals from […]
