Product development and open innovation for ecosystems of embedded systems

Project time: 2013 – 2016

Budget: 13 500 000

The project aims at investigating how the development of products with flexible and connected embedded systems can be performed efficiently in an open ecosystem of actors

This project is about the future development of embedded systems, i.e., electronics and software in physical products, which is moving towards increasingly connected services with the possibility of adaptions after production. The project studies how this will influence the way products and services are developed and how to organize an ecosystem for open innovation and improved customization around the products and its actors. Open innovation strives for an ecosystem where players with different background, strength and potential develop and adapt products together. Much existing

research on ecosystems focuses on pure software, but this project will instead focus on the development of physical products and how to make use of the potential provided by the embedded systems and software. By making the products connected, federations of embedded systems (FES) can be created in a collaborative way, and this is a mechanism that enables creation of efficient systems-of-systems exhibiting unique behavior.

 

The project aims to develop appropriate: (a) business models to stimulate open innovation of products and services; (b) product and software architectures that support the conflicting requirements of openness and dependability; (c) processes, methods, and tools for distributed development across multiple organizations in an ecosystem; and (d) quality assurance and certification methods. The results will be evaluated empirically using experimental platforms, and will result in scientific publications. The project will also result in a number of hardware and software solutions which to the greatest extent will be made available outside the project team.

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