INESC TEC publishes book on project CONVERGENCE

Teresa Andrade, Hélder Castro (current employees at UTM) and Fernando Almeida (former collaborator at the same Unit) integrate the group of editors and authors of this technical publication, which was suggested to the project partners by the INESC TEC researchers.

This book was the result of INESC TEC’s first project on the Internet of Things, and it was revised by three external evaluators before it was accepted by the famous publisher SPRINGER.

About 300 pages long, the book “Enhancing the Internet with the CONVERGENCE System” describes the innovative concept for the Internet that was born as a result of the CONVERGENCE. The project proposes a publication-subscription model focused on the contents and based on a unique and standardised structure to represent information, the Versatile Digital Item (VDI). The approach proposed by the CONVERGENCE makes it possible to complement and improve the current Internet architecture, as well as the users’ browsing experience. The book, published in November 2013, also presents the results and the areas of application of the CONVERGENCE, namely the new business models promoted by the architecture of the Internet of the future proposed by the project.

With a budget over two million Euros, the CONVERGENCE was concluded in May and joined 12 partners from six European countries, more specifically the CNIT - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (project manager), Alinari, Xiwrite S.r.l. and CEDEO.net (all from Italy), Wipro (Portugal), Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and Saphran Morpho (France), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems and SingularLogic (Greece), Ludwig-Maximilians University (Germany) and UTI Systems (Romania).