The main skills of the ViTEB Test Bed are concentrated in various thematic areas in the area of Technology and Information Technologies, namely:
Based on the INCOSE methodology the ViTEB Test Bed develops a set of personalised activities for each project (PPS) on a case-by-case basis, including the involvement of several partner entities.
1. Development of functional requirement lists for PPSs, namely characterisation of technical specifications, functional matrices and listing of primary and secondary functionalities.
2. Development of the test and validation matrices for the PPS’s primary and secondary functionalities, including functional mechanisms and validation and acceptance criteria to be verified during test execution.
3. Design of laboratory simulation systems in a digital or real environment, suitable for carrying the tests, simulating the real operating model in which the PPS will operate on a laboratory scale.
4. Design of technical measurement systems in a digital or real environment to be implemented, suitable for effectively measuring the degree of compliance of the PPS being tested.
5. Implementation of simulation and measurement systems suitable for each PPS on a laboratory scale.
6. Evaluation of results compiled in the tests for the effective and accurate quantitative and qualitative assessment of the degree of fulfilment of the PPS subject to testing of the functionalities listed.
7. Evaluation of the data compiled and the final test report, containing recommendations for the future development of PPS catalyst for placing in the market.
8. Decommissioning of the infrastructures and measurement systems implemented to carry out each individual PPS validation case.
The ViTEB Test Bed is aimed at the Industry, Tourism, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Communication, Electronics, Energy, Trade and Services as well as the Mobility and Logistics sectors, working within the scope of concepts and solutions associated with the Circular Economy, Environment and Sustainability and Smart Cities.
The use cases for potential applications that SMEs and start-ups will have access to include a wide range of solutions.
These potential applications represent the main Key Enabling Technologies of the ViTEB Test Bed.
1. From the perspective of the new ubiquity of systems brought to the industry by 5G networks, facilitating the adoption of new industrial use cases, in the areas of remote operation and maintenance (AR/VR), co-operative production techniques with flexible cobots, mass adoption of continuous inspection techniques, adoption of E2E product traceability systems in production chains.
2. From the perspective of new systems for intelligent, real-time orchestration and optimisation of physical and digital business processes, applied to use cases which introduce ML systems for intelligent and active computing.
3. From the perspective of testing and validating new equipment for implementing flexible automation in evolutionary processes for the digital transition of industries, such as ZDM (zero defect manufacturing) and augmented reality (xR) systems in industrial maintenance.
4. From the perspective of testing and validating new systems for processing large volumes of data, characterised through the use of Volume, Veracity, Variability, Value and Speed indicators. With typical use cases in the areas of maintenance and predictive quality, in the manufacturing process, digital twins.
5. From the perspective of testing and validating new digital modelling and 3D printing manufacturing systems.
6. From the point of view of testing and validating new collaborative production systems in specific use cases, especially in terms of validating permissible loads, sensors and Cobot cameras in terms of functions to be carried out in a shopfloor environment for each specific workstation.
7. From the perspective of testing and validating new sensorisation and distributed computing systems, applied to municipal use cases for integrating systems into smart city platforms.
