Welcome, Guest | Login

The Art of Crafting Smart ICT Products and Services: What are your industrial research needs?

13-02-2009
print

Currently nobody flagged this as relevant..

Date: 
17 Mar 2009 16:00 – 19:00
Location: 

Diamant Building
Auguste Reyerslaan 80
B-1030 Brussels (Schaarbeek)
Belgium

Activity: PiCToR Workshop

Smart ICT products will shape the future of product development. These are products that are bundled with knowledge that delivers extra value. This knowledge can be about themselves, about the user, about other products and the operating environment. For example, smartness can be introduced by using sensors to support interaction with products and the environment. In the medical sector this enables remote monitoring of elder people to improve their quality of life and allow them to live longer in the comfort of their home. Many other examples in many different sectors exist such as intelligent data mining, new manners to interact with products, etc...

Smart products are not just gadgets. The introduction of smartness in a product can be a strategy to differentiate a product from competing products in the market. The successful introduction of smartness in products can therefore provide interesting opportunities for companies across different sectors. Apart from understanding the potential opportunities there are also several engineering challenges that need to be addressed when considering smartness in the context of product development.

The goal of this interactive workshop is to provide you with insight what smartness can mean for your product and to have a first understanding about the research obstacles that you have to face to introduce smartness in your product:

  1. An introduction to smart products to illustrate the potential value of smartness across different sectors. This presentation serves to bootstrap the interactive brainstorm session that follows.
  2. In an interactive brainstorm session you will be guided to reason about what smartness could mean for your product.
  3. A consolidation of the previous brainstorm session will lead to the identification of the industrial research needs to introduce smartness.

The target audience for this workshop consists of:

  • Companies that make products and services and consider to introduce smartness in their offering.
  • Industrial solution providers that offer technology to introduce smartness in products.

Programme

15.45 – 16.00 Welcome with coffee
16.00 – 16.30 Keynote: "User driven Innovation"
by Boris De Ruyter, Philips Research Europe
16.30 – 18.10 Interactive Brainstorm Session: Smartness in your product
18.10 – 18.30 Coffee break
18.30 – 19.00 Conclusion: Identification of research actions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How can you register?

Registering can be done by sending a mail to Jessie Dedecker. Participation is free. The number of participants is limited.