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The project set out to address new markets through the development and application of its technology in vertical domains such as environmental sustainability, health, education, city services and tools for software development. In parallel, the consortium is contributing to defining the foundations of a cross-platform open-services ecosystem. The sustainability of this platform is an objective beyond the project duration. "Our universe is defined by the Interaction between objects rather than by the objects themselves; if an object does not interact with others it does not exist", points out project leader Jesús Bermejo of Spanish company Telvent.
"However, such interactions in the 'web of objects' do not have the same constraints as physical interactions. Past actions can be reproduced easily and accurately, and used to forecast future behaviour. And millions of objects distributed all over the globe can interact, co-ordinating their behaviour as if they were close to each other."
All this is changing how people communicate and how objects interact. Moreover, changes can be made to the 'web of objects' very quickly, simply by changing the rules or environmental conditions, to the benefit of citizens and industry alike. However, such a system needs to be made open and sustainable to avoid lock-in to any specific system or proprietary technology, reduce technological and financial risk, and enable the insertion of new technologies without having to re-engineer the whole system.
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