The following universities and research institutions are involved in the SPINNAKER program :
The following universities and research institutions are involved in the SPINNAKER program :
CMP-EMSE (Centre Micro-électronique de Provence - Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne); CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique); Ecole Supérieure d’Electronique de l’Ouest (ESEO, Radio-Frequency and Microwave Research Group); Université de Rennes 1 - (IETR-Institut d’Electronique et des Télécommunications de Rennes- UMR CNRS 6164); INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique); Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Maine - UMR CNRS 6613 (LAUM); INP Grenoble (Laboratoire de Conception et d’Intégration des Systèmes); Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6 (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6) - CNRS; Université François Rabelais de Tours; Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.
The following commercial entities are involved in the SPINNAKER project :
TAGSYS RFID, Inside Secure, Legrand, STIC
TAGSYS RFID
TAGSYS RFID is transforming the way to connect, communicate and interact with goods. We provide item-level inventory management systems that streamline the supply chain. This enables companies to control pricing strategies, increase sales and improve customer satisfaction. For more than 15 years, TAGSYS has established a proven track record in deploying RFID systems in demanding environments. We have implemented RFID-based systems to more than 500 customers in 40 countries. TAGSYS leads the industry with the largest R&D investment to expand the potential of RFID.
INSIDE Secure
INSIDE Secure is transforming the ways in which people make payments, present identification credentials, and exchange information. Today with the acquisition of the Secure Microcontroller Solutions division of Atmel, INSIDE offers a comprehensive portfolio of secure, complementary solutions, backed by extensive market experience and technology expertise. The combined organization creates positive synergies for our customers, as well as critical mass and a diversified revenue stream to further the company’s global success.
Legrand
As the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, Legrand does more than half its business in the commercial and industrial sectors. In line with underlying global trends, Legrand is strategically positioned on promising markets. New economies thus represent 35% of its sales, a share that is bound to continue growing as these countries grow in strength. In mature countries, 60% of sales are made in the maintenance and renovation markets. Legrand’s electrical and digital infrastructures accessible market is valued at approximately 75 billion euros.
High-frequency communication
High-frequency communication
STIC, founded in 1987, has specialized in high-frequency communications and more particularly in isofrequency broadcasting, 107.7 MHz on FM band and 900 MHz. STIC provides all broadcast equipment and the necessary services for highway radio broadcasting equipments on 107.7 MHz (traffic, alarms, weather forecast, advices, tourist and cultural reports...)
STIC ensures:
- studies of coverage, antennas and broadcasting systems
- manufacture, assembly and installation of FM broadcasting equipment.
- setting and commissioning,
- maintenance of equipment with specialized vehicles and maintenance devices.
INRIA - OASIS
In the domain of distributed applications, Grids, Clouds, P2P, Clusters and Multicores, the goal of the Oasis team is to propose fundamental principles, techniques and tools for the building, analysis, validation, verification and maintenance of reliable and efficient distributed systems.
INP Grenoble – LCIS – ORSYS
The research developed within the group ORSYS (Optoelectronic and RF Systems) considers signals and technologies for RF, including Wireless, and optoelectronic systems. Main projects focus on the design, optimization and characterization, as well as practical implementation. The ORSYS staff members have large expertise in applied Electromagnetism, RF and Optoelectronic domains, as well as the integration and miniaturization of systems for communication and sensing. RFID and UWB technologies are among the most studied solutions. More recently meta-materials and nanotechnologies, due to their enabling properties, are part of our research projects. Group members are involved in numerous international collaborations as well as in the organization of conference and workshop events sponsored by scientific & engineering organizations such as IEEE and URSI.
Microelectronics Center of Provence
The Microelectronics Center of Provence (CMP) is a Research and Education center of the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, located in Gardanne (medium size city between Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles) and hosted since 2008 by the brand new Georges Charpak Campus (60,000 m2). The CMP was created in 2003 at the heart of a major French microelectronics cluster (known as the cradle of smart card industry) which gathers leading manufacturers and designers of microelectronic devices and systems. From the beginning, the CMP has adopted a policy of strong partnerships with the smartcard industry, including large companies such as STMicroelectronics and Gemalto, as well as several innovative SMEs. Research is organized in four departments (including a joint team with CEA-Leti) covering domains of semiconductor manufacturing and logistics, digital security, flexible electronics, as well as emerging fields of bioelectronics and printed electronics.
Institut d’électronique et de télécommunications de Rennes
The institut d’électronique et de télécommunications de Rennes is a public umbrella organization bringing together researchers in the electronics and telecommunications sectors from
CNRS (INSIS),
University of Rennes1,
INSA Rennes Supélec Rennes campus.
University of Nantes
The IETR has a large number of technical platforms used to carry out life-sized experiments and it undertakes a large amount of scientific research both nationally and internationally. It also undertakes a significant number of contractual work for and with industrial companies.
Through its involvement in research topics that are central to the information and communication society, the IETR plays an active role in the following competitiveness clusters:
Imaging & Networks
Top-of-the-range Automobiles
Sea Brittany.
The Institute is also extensively involved in the provision of higher education across the Rennes district:
Matisse Ph.D school University of Rennes 1
INSA
Supélec, Rennes campus.
Researchers at the Institute take on technological and scientific challenges that are helping to shape the society of the future.
François Rabelais University
UFRT gathers over 32 research labs and is one of France’s leading public research academy. The University includes 7 training and research units, one polytechnic school of engineering (Polytech'Tours) and 2 institutes of technology (IUT).
ESEO School
ESEO School of Engineering is a leading French academic institute specialized in information and communication technologies. ESEO features over 1000 students in Angers, Paris, Dijon and Shanghai, as well as 300 company directors and a network of 4500 engineers in 1400 companies.
University Pierre & Marie Curie Laboratory in computer Paris 6
LIP6 is a research laboratory in computer science of University Pierre & Marie Curie and CNRS (UMR 7606). With 190 permanent researchers and 255 PhD students, it is a major research lab in France.
The laboratory covers a broad spectrum of activities grouped in 5 departments :
• «Scientific Computing» department: Symbolic computing, albebraic systems, round-off errors, numerical validation, grid computing, parallelism, data reconstruction, 3D sequences, modelization, random generation.
• «DEcision, Systèmes Intelligents Recherche opérationnelle» department: Decision making, optimization problem in artificial intelligence and operational research, adaptative end cognitive agents, tutorial systems.
• «Databases and machine learning» department : Statistical and symbolic machine learning, fuzzy logic, information fusion and aggregation, content based information retrieval in text and video, user interaction and modeling, risk analysis, distributed databases, data replication and load balancing.
• «Networks and Distributed Systems» department : Model engineering, modeling and checking of distributed systems, interoperability, adaptability, middleware, peer-to-Peer, GRID, internet, quality of service, mobility, metrology, wireless networks, the future internet, sensors networks and localization, graphs, algorithmics, complex networks, dynamic graphs.
• «Systems On Chips» department : Analog and digital hardware and software co-design, multiprocessors, embedded operation system, test, verification and compilation.
Acoustics Laboratory of the University of Maine
LAUM is a Coeducational Research unit of the Université du Maine and of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (UMR 6613). The enrollment of the laboratory is about 80 persons.
The activities of the Laboratory are centered in most cases on "audible" acoustics but the laboratory has inserted new research topics for some years in the field of vibrations and ultrasounds.
Studies concern the spread of waves in fluids (in repose or in flow) and in the solid (porous, granular or composite materials, vibrating structures) as well as on the mechanisms of coupling. They have as object to understand physical phenomena by favoring the development of analytical models and of experimental studies linked to necessary numerical simulation.
Researches are performed as part of three teams specialized on complementary themes :
Material
Transducers
Vibrations, Guided Acoustics and Flow
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée – ESYCOM
ESYCOM is a research lab merging three groups from three high education establishments. It is specialized in the RF and optics communication systems, microsystems and nanotechnologies for sensors and associated electronics., applied electromagnegnetics for antenna and propagation studies. In this last area, focus is put on the miniaturization of radiating devices and the careful modeling of the antenna environment, either close (human body, dielectric or metallized embodiment,...) or far (urban, indoor,...).