Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

CortexLab room construction start

FIT (Future Internet of Things) is a french Equipex (Équipement d'excellence) which aims to develop an experimental facility, a federated and competitive infrastructure with international visibility and a broad panel of customers. FIT will be composed of four main parts: a Network Operations Center (NOC), a set of Embedded Communicating Object (ECO) testbeds, a set of wireless OneLab testbeds, and a cognitive radio testbed (CorteXlab) deployed by the Socrate team in the Citi lab. In 2012 the construction of the room started in the Citi lab building basement. Photos of the room are now available on-line .

Socrate at Paris' Marathon

Former french cycle Champion Laurent Jalabert ran the 42,195 km of Paris Marathon, commenting lively his performances and wearing an experimental set of sensors analysing in real time data from the race (stride, heart, etc.). Data was sent by radio to a motocycle relaying information with euromedia bus and printed on the TV screen in real time (see the press release for instance). This experiment was made in a collaboration between socrate, Euromedia and HiKoB, next demostration should happen tour de France in 2013 targeting full deployment at Olympic Games of 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.