Lingvist - the next generation languagelearning software
The objective of this project is to develop the language-learning software Lingvist to make
language learning 5–10 times faster. The ultimate learning acceleration is achieved by adding three
completely innovative working principles to the language-learning methodology:• statistical
language corpus analysis; • measurements of individual memory processes and abilities; •
mathematical optimisation of the individual learning time.The implementation of mathematics and
computer science makes language-learning software highly adaptive to every individual. The
learning process is tailored individually under requirement that it would take minimal amount of
time for every user.The innovation project is based on the early version of the Lingvist software
and has four main goals:• increase the efficiency of the software by additional functionalities• scale
up the software to be used by millions of users• add new language pairs and languages for specific
purposes• test the performance of the software extensively together with universities.The team of
Keel24 consists of highly qualified business and science professionals. The key persons have
created Skype and participated in the Higgs discovery at CERN. Their extensive knowledge in bigdata analysis and computer technology allows to disrupt the language leaning market while also
adding a huge amount of social value. Lingvist’s go-to market strategy is supported by the world’s
top start-up accelerator TechStars. The development of language modules is carried out in close
collaboration with universities and language institutions.The worldwide language learning market
was a €43.5 billion industry in 2013. Online learning accounts for just €2.15 billion today, but it is
growing by 15% annually, with a strong potential to grow even faster. Lingvist will concentrate on
adult language learners on the European market initially, with a view to expand to other customer
segments and the US and Asian markets later.
Project Acronym:
Lingvist
EU Contribution:
1.560.213
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Lingvist
SENTAB: Combatting Senior Loneliness
through Fun and Entertaining Technology
A recent study by the researchers of USCF concluded that 43% of seniors over 60 years old feel
lonely. The same study concluded that isolated elders had 59% higher risk of physical and mental
decline, and 45% see greater risk of death. There are 162 million senior citizens in Europe, and the
problem of loneliness affects nearly 65 million Europeans. These people and their families are the
target group for Sentab products with the estimated sales potential in Europe alone in excess of
€500M per year.Sentab system is a platform providing entertainment, social interaction, and
monitoring functions connecting seniors, their caregivers and relatives seamlessly over the
interfaces that are the most common for them – TV interface for seniors, and web and mobile
interface for caregivers. Early trials at 5 nursing homes in the Greater London Area, UK, indicate
that Sentab features have a good alignment with seniors’ and caregivers’ needs, but equally, it is
necessary to augment the system with further data analysis capabilities to determine emotional
state, and short and long term memory conditions of seniors. The project will also establish a solid
go-to-market activities mix that will encompass B2B engagements with Nursing and Assisted Living
Homes (TAM globally €2Bn), followed subsequently by penetrating B2C Independent Living
marketplace (TAM €100Bn).Ability to analyse user behaviour data on a cost efficient platform and
soliciting early actions to respond on negative changes makes this system unique and powerful in
changing the habits of elderly care. With this project, Sentab will develop set of complex software
algorithms for detecting mood patterns and recognizing trends in senior’s emotional state, an
internet protocol based communications system and a data base management system. This
innovative product will be then placed on EU Assisted Living market.
Project Acronym:
Sentab
EU Contribution:
1.638.000
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Sentab Estonia OÜ
Next generation online payments and fraud
detection API for European SMEs
The European e-commerce market is growing fast, but the complexity of setting up online
payments and the concerns about credit card fraud still represent significant barriers that prevent
many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from trading online. Indeed, the EU’s target for 33%
of SMEs to be selling online by 2015 is far from being met (only 14% in 2013). PayPlug Labs aims
to offer SMEs a next generation payment system that (1) will reduce software integration costs by
a factor of 5x thanks to a state-of-the-art REST API, and (2) will be the only payment service to
also provide low-touch fraud protection thanks to modern statistical algorithms and machine
learning. Finally, a sophisticated merchant scoring system, based on big data, will allow PayPlug to
accurately detect risky vendors, and hence register legitimate businesses rapidly without requiring
them to hold a merchant account (i.e. a Visa/MasterCard contract with a bank). The project fills the
gap between traditional online payment solutions, that require expensive integration efforts and
offer limited functionalities, and e-wallet solutions (such as PayPal) that negatively impact sales, as
up to 30% of buyers interrupt the purchasing process when facing complex sign-up pages.
Additionally, fraud detection systems are commercialised separately and rely on dated “rule-based”
technologies implying prohibitive set up costs for SMEs. The project will be led by PayPlug, a
company created in 2012 and that has built a strong expertise in online payments, particularly by
developing and commercialising an easy-to-install online payment “plugin” to 1,100 microenterprises (already 8M€ processed). The company is composed of a talented management team
with a strong background (Google, Harvard, Polytechnique), and a high-profile advisory board
including machine learning, banking, and sales experts. The company has attracted 1.4M€ of
private investment and employs 10 full-time employees.
Project Acronym:
PAYPLUG LABS
EU Contribution:
1.760.588
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
PayPlug
Automatic creation of interactive video to
double video advertising revenues whilst
decreasing inconvenience for viewers
Adways is a fast-growing, cutting-edge startup company specializing in interactive video. The
project involves commercializing interactive video technology for specific adaptation to the
advertising monetization requirements of major media outlets.
With video advertising formats becoming more considerate of Internet users and more lucrative for
media outlets, interactive video is increasing the profitability of videos whilst decreasing the
inconvenience for surfers. This smarter advertising format has real disruptive potential on the
online video advertising market. Yet production process still needs to be industrialized in order to
address media outlets' current monetization problems on a large scale.
At the end of the project, Adways is aiming to be in a position to commercialize an application that
enriches videos fully automatically. The solution will automatically add relevant interactive content
based on video context analysis. The objective is to provide new added-value information to
Internet users whilst the videos play. This interactive content will be monetized as an additional
advertising inventory. The enrichments, which will be easily deployable on a very large scale but
incorporated into the content of the videos, will be widely accepted by Internet users despite the
occasional similarity to advertising.
The objective of this project is to double the advertising inventory and video revenue of media
outlets and obtain 50% market share among French media outlets after eighteen months. As a
technology provider, Adways earns a fee of 25% of the advertising revenue generated for target
sales exceeding €2 million in the first year. The revenue forecast is more than €100 million five
years after the project's start, thereby creating a new interactive video advertising technologies
market led by Adways in Europe. Therefore, Adways would create 300 direct jobs and hundreds of
indirect jobs amongst its clients.
Project Acronym:
Interactive Video
EU Contribution:
946.523
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Adways
TRADECOM: Trader communication,
collaboration and compliance system
In the proposed project, TRADECOM: Trader communication, collaboration and compliance system,
the project partners will develop and validate innovative hardware and software solutions to meet
the communication, collaboration and compliance needs of financial services, energy and
commodity trading and brokerage markets.
The TRADECOM project partners will design and develop a new desktop communication endpoint
(known as a trader turret) that will provide traders and brokers with high-quality, instant, private
and secure group communications using intuitive user interfaces. The partners will also develop
and implement necessary backend communication and media services to enable scalable, resilient
and compliant call routing and recording via the internet and cloud services. The project will
introduce new middleware that will link trader turrets to corporate computer systems, enabling
turret functions to be accessed from enterprise applications (e.g. click-to-dial) and application data
to be accessed from the turret (e.g. contacts and call groups). This will provide traders with more
efficient ways to manage communications and workflow between the turret and other desktop
systems. The TRADECOM turret will be designed to interoperate with Speakerbus’ emerging virtual
turret (vTurret) services, which will replicate the TRADECOM trader communication services on
desk and mobile devices. This will enable traders to work away from their main TRADECOM turret
and still access specialist voice and data communication services. An important focus of the project
will be to pilot and demonstrate the integrated TRADECOM systems in real operational
environments and to assess the impact for traders and trading organisations. Taken together,
these innovations will disrupt the trader voice market and its large incumbent technology suppliers,
and provide high growth opportunities for the SME project partners.
Project Acronym:
TRADECOM
EU Contribution:
1.717.054
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Speakerbus Technology Limited
HISBIM BILGI VE ILETISIM TEKNOLOJILERI
Industrialpartners GmbH
Plant CT - Making Plants Healthier
Producing the highest quality crop with a maximized yield requires the real-time measurement and
actionable analysis of a large number of plant-related external factors. These factors are
meteorological, geological, organic and human-related. Measuring and processing these
parameters is at the core of any decision-support system intending to streamline the production of
farmlands. Currently there are no solutions available that can quantify all on-site plant-related
parameters in real-time. By doing so it could stop superfluous use of expensive and
environmentally harmful chemical agents while reducing yield loss, saving European farmers
billions.
We intend to deliver and commercialize a Plant CT solution that allows remote diagnostics of
plants, on-site monitoring and comprehensive decision support. We understand a Plant CT to be a
network of compact measuring devices on cultivated areas, which arms agricultural producers with
precise, individualized data and recommendations. By deploying devices at several locations, it is
possible to quantify agronomically important factors and to precisely determine the exact plant
disease risk (and other important metrics, such as irrigation) at any particular location on a
farmland.
By the end of this project we aim to be ready to commercialize a system of small, easily installable,
compact and inexpensive precision sensors delivering easy-to-understand actionable information
including highly reliable automated diagnostics (with spore and mite detection). Following its
commercialization we will be positioned to collect qualitatively and quantitatively unrivaled data,
leading to further opportunities in creating an ultimate agriculture intelligence service.
Due to our long-time involvement in precision viticulture, we have experience in providing wine /
grape producers with information on weather parameters and diseases in a clear manner, helping
farmers to optimize their agricultural procedures.
Project Acronym:
PCT
EU Contribution:
1.023.710
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
QuantisLabs Kft.
Dyadic Secures The Breach
Over the last years, the world has seen an unprecedented escalation in the number and size of
data breaches. In 2013, a total of 550 million identities were breached; a 62% increase over 2012.
In addition, the cost of breaches is rising, with a worldwide average of over $3 million per breach.
Hacking is the primary causes of data breaches, and today’s existing solutions are simply not
sufficient to meet the threat.The objective of Dyadic Security is to provide high security to
organizations, and to protect digital assets, even in the event of a network breach. Dyadic’s
Distributed Security Module (DSM) is a unique software-only offering that provides the highest
level of security while being affordable and easy to deploy. At the core of the DSM lies cutting-edge
technology based on decades of cryptographic research on secure multiparty computation (MPC).
Dyadic’s DSM solves the inherent single point of failure in all of today’s security systems. Strong
cryptographic solutions exist for protecting data, securing web traffic, authenticating users, and so
on. However, they all rely on the secret key and authentication credentials (e.g., passwords)
remaining secret. In today’s reality where hackers get past firewalls and penetrate deep into
networks, these keys and credentials are stolen thereby rendering all cryptographic protection
useless. Dyadic’s DSM randomly splits keys and credentials across servers so that they are never in
any single place to be stolen. The advanced protocols used in the DSM ensure that even if some of
the servers are breached and completely controlled by an attacker, the secrets and credentials
cannot be stolen. The result is that digital assets remain safe, even when all else has failed and
attackers are inside the network. Dyadic has a disruptive and innovative product range which, in
contrast to existing solutions, provides protection in the event of a breach, and not just detection.
Project Acronym:
DSTB
EU Contribution:
2.017.750
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Dyadic
Telemetry and Telecontrol for the Internet of
things (IoT)
Machine-to-machine (M2M) is a broad label that can be used to describe any technology that
enables networked devices to exchange information and perform actions without the manual
assistance of humans. M2M communication is often used for remote monitoring. In product
restocking, for example, a vending machine can message the distributor when a particular item is
running low. M2M communication is an important aspect of warehouse management, remote
control, robotics, traffic control, logistic services, supply chain management, fleet management and
telemedicine. It forms the basis for a concept known as the Internet of Things (IoT).The market for
M2M will be the fastest growing segment of the IT industry from now until 2017. The M2M market,
including technologies related to the Internet of Things, will grow from $44.0 billion in 2011 to
$290 billion in 2017.M2M Cloud Factory is a private white label supplier to major manufacturers
and system integrators of a M2M / IoT application development framework based on a cloud
solution called MIIMETIQ®. MIIMETIQ® is the most flexible, powerful and scalable M2M
development framework in the IoT market. MIIMETIQ® provides the highest levels of scalability
and security as well as a set of powerful tools on which our customers can quickly build and deliver
custom M2M / IoT applications for the most demanding requirements and integrate data into
customer key enterprise applications and systems.We have identified two disruptive improvements
for our current framework, to both simplify and accelerate the development of M2M and IoT
applications which will secure the continuous growth of the company not only on the EU level, but
globally.
Project Acronym:
MIIMETIQ
EU Contribution:
1.001.630
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
M2M CLOUD FACTORY, S.
Automatic music transcription of polyphonic
audio
DoReMIR Music Research has already launched several successful products for music analysis and
composition and has a large user base of monophonic audio analysis worldwide. The project builds
on and extends a product suite called ScoreCloud with the focus on easy creation and distribution
of music notation. The ScoreCloud concept is technically built on mobile and desktop apps
connected with a full cloud based back-end. The product enables users to notate music directly
from performance: a Google Translate for Music!
The project will develop a low-cost, cloud-based, polyphonic audio transcription solution based on
an interdisciplinary approach (musicology, acoustics, audio engineering, cognitive science and
computing) and a user-driven design (agile iterative solution development with end-user
participation in the context of music teaching and music composition).
In order to circumvent the limitations of current automated transcription methods, the project uses
a novel approach to musical and music signal analysis, by modelling and using high-level musical
knowledge (about stylistic conventions, music cognition, etc.) and machine learning techniques. In
addition to finding better solutions to certain analysis problems, the resulting systems will also be
able to communicate their results in musically meaningful, high-level terms.
Project Acronym:
DoReMIR
EU Contribution:
2.086.263
Project Date:
Saturday, 3 January, 2015 to Saturday, 9 January, 2016
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Doremir
TRADExpress Client Clearing
The objective of this project is to create a real-time risk margining and multi-asset client clearing
product for banks. Banks and their clients will receive an instant and complete view of their risk
exposure, which will enable them to use posted collateral efficiently across all markets they trade
— a disruptive shift in the client clearing business, moving from batch to real-time clearing.
Project Acronym:
TRADECC
EU Contribution:
2.203.740
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Cinnober
Volumental - The Cloud-Delivered 3D
Scanning Service Supporting A Future Of
Mass Customization
Volumental is currently building, and delivering, leading software technology that enables the 3D
scanning of objects, (e.g. bodies), using both current and emerging camera technologies. The
resulting accurate scans can be readily used by mainstream 3D software systems & packages.
Volumental is currently focusing on the mass customization market, even though Volumental
technology itself is broadly applicable. We sell software solutions B2B to e.g. footwear brands that
can use 3D body data to customize e.g. shoes to the multibillion footwear market. We have a
number of partners and pilot customers in this field already, among them US footwear brands and
the worlds largest hardware manufacturers in our field.
Enabling technology development of mass customization in Europe offers the opportunity to move
production products that touch the human body back to European markets as well as building
technology leadership within fields such as 3D scanning and 3D printing.
The key differentiator for Volumental is that our proprietary software algorithms can produce highaccuracy 3D models using inexpensive hardware. Further on we excel in ease of use, having a
cloud service and have a sustainable competitive advantage in the technology leadership our team
has shown and continue to show.
For the Horizon 2020 project Volumental’s high-level goal is to turn our technology and prototypes
into fully functional products in their final end-user configuration. This translates to taking the
products to TLR 8. This will require significant R&D to achieve – mainly focused at improving
robustness, free-hand accuracy, mobile phone scanning and API development. This R&D will
result in additional inventions, so the project also aims to protect current and resulting inventions
by analysing the current patent situation and filing relevant patents. The R&D in this project
will follow an agile methodology and will be tightly linked to customer needs and envisioned
products.
Project Acronym:
VSP
EU Contribution:
1.460.900
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Volumental AB
Ensygnia Onescan Market Disruptive
Technology
Ensygnia Onescan Open Disruptive Innovation SchemeIf awarded the €500,000 grant, Ensygnia
would use it to accelerate the company’s market disruption activity in Europe. This would involve
expansion by hiring key Business Development and Sales Executives to engage with target
companies across Europe and increase awareness Ensygnia’s Onescan platform and App. Onescan’s
patented process will fuel the uptake of mobile payments and also has applications for transaction
authentication and logon services. Onescan introduces new levels of enhanced security coupled
with ease of use factors which have the power to revolutionise the payments landscape. Ensygnia’s
progress so far has already been recognised within the mobile and payments industries: • Mobile
Industry Awards: “Best Software Solution” – Ensygnia [June 2014]• UK winner in the “Innotribe
start up” challenge 2014 organised by SWIFT – the banking industry group. We will now take part
in the global Innotribe finals in Boston later this year• Voted by the audience at the Mobile World
Congress as one of the top three companies most likely to have “the greatest impact on the global
mobile industry over the next ten years” (March 2013)In Europe, Ensygnia will first look to target
Spain, Germany, and France. We have both a direct and an indirect customer acquisition strategy.
We are targeting companies with large customer bases so will work with key partners where
necessary but can also deal direct. We aim to create an eco-system of consumers able to use the
Onescan App to make payments online and in-stores anywhere in Europe and beyond. Onescan
securely associates identity with transactional information – both personal and financial - and has
the power to disrupt traditional methods of payment, and other vertical market applications, on a
global scale.
Project Acronym:
odis
EU Contribution:
7.334.545
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
ENSYGNIA LTD
Open Payments Eco-system
The aim is to enable the widespread development of innovative payment applications with the
active involvement of financial institutions (e.g. banks) providing supporting transaction services
by creating an Open Payments Eco-system (OPE). The OPE is the critical step in widening access to
payment services and to alternative, open, collaborative, lower cost methods of delivering payment
applications to end users (particularly SME’s) who want to make use of payment services within
their business. The Eco-system enables the SME developer community to provide creative new
payment applications to the market and offers a high degree of re-use of common application
components.
OPE has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the current creation and delivery mechanisms for
payment services, by providing for the low-cost creation of quality assured payment applications
and the building and delivery of payment services, in a controlled and regulatory-compliant
environment.
Forecasting reports (Visa Europe – 2011 and PSE Consulting – 2013) indicate a potential market
for prepaid payment services in corporate and consumer segments in Europe of >€140bn by
2020. The market application will initially be launched in the UK (2017-18) but quickly rolled out
into the rest of Europe (2018 onwards) leveraging the expected OPE common coded regulatory
compliance, with Italy, Spain, France and Germany being the focus.
Ixaris specialises in the development of innovative global applications based on open-loop prepaid
card schemes and the OPE will add a unique infrastructure to its product portfolio. This will be
achieved by opening up the established payment infrastructure and in doing so disrupting the
traditional way in which innovation in payments takes place within the current established banking
eco-system.
Project Acronym:
OPE
EU Contribution:
2.914.041
Project Date:
Sunday, 4 January, 2015 to Wednesday, 4 January, 2017
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Ixaris Systems Limited
The World's first cost effective, electronically
steerable, digital, low profile, phased array
antenna to enable high speed satellite
communications on the move
The demand for mobile communications is growing at compound rate CAGR of 61% p.a. and
forecast to do so beyond 2022. Global mobile data traffic grew 81 % in 2013 and reached 1.5
Exabyte’s per month at the end of 2013, up from 820 petabytes per month at the end of 2012.
Users now demand fast and affordable connectivity when and wherever they are. The growing
use/ownership of laptops, tablet computers and larger smart phones has also led to an increasing
demand for high quality content such as HD video on the move. Current satellite communications
antennas cannot fully meet this large and growing need: Mechanically steerable antennas which
are bulky, heavy, require maintenance and pose considerable vehicle integration challenges.
Phased arrays based on military technology are too costly for commercial applications. Existing low
cost antennas trade-off the cost of the antenna against the requirement for much more expensive
satellite bandwidth per Mbps transmitted. Their performance is also too limited for use in certain
geographical areas (particularly at large skew angles). The overall objective of this project
therefore is to successfully refine and scale up for market readiness the world’s first cost effective,
electronically steerable, digital, low profile phased antenna to enable high speed satellite
communications on the move. This will enable us to gain a substantial market share in the €
1.185bn Broadband Satellite Communications-on-the-Move (COTM) market and the associated
antenna market which amounts to €0.39bn. Both of which are growing rapidly. We predict that we
can achieve a 2.5% market share by 2020, generating total revenues of €134m and a cumulative
EBITDA of €63m, creating 781 jobs. Our prototype system technology is demonstrated and proven
in a relevant environment and at TRL6. This project will allow us to demonstrate the market
disruptive system in an operational environment and then fully scale up the system to market
readiness.
Project Acronym:
Phasor
EU Contribution:
1.516.546
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-2-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Phasor Solutions Limited
SiMAX – translation machine for sign
language
The Austrian SME SignTime is optimally combining its expertise on translation of content into sign
language and on development of ICT tools in this context.SignTime`s recent innovative solution
SiMAX is a translation “machine”: The software is operated by a human translator who only needs
to adjust translations suggested by an intelligent, learning algorithm based on a “learning”
database. The resulting translation is then signed by an avatar and delivered as video. This is very
cost efficient compared to conventional production of translation videos in a studio with human
translators signing. Among all approaches researched so far in academia the SiMAX technology is
closest to market and the only one reaching a feasible quality of facial expressions and emotions
essential for understanding due to their grammatical meanings in sign language.Business
opportunities are enormous associated with any information needed to be made accessible to the
deaf community (by integrating the translation video next to the original content): TV, film,
internet, other media. Upcoming accessibility regulations favour market growth and demand. Thus,
this project fits perfectly with our overall strategy as well as with the requirements of this SME call,
adding a completely new, market changing solution.The feasibility study aims to pave the way to
market introduction covering: Development of demonstrations, collecting technical and economic
feedback from key market segments, from experts and the deaf community and incorporating all
insights including market study results into a technology adaptation plan and a detailed business
and market entry plan.Apart from providing significant growth options to the company, SiMAX can
essentially contribute to increase accessibility to information society for the deaf community thus
promoting inclusion and social cohesion.
Project Acronym:
SiMAX
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Sign Time GmbH
Mobile Smart Tracking Antenna System for
Remotely Piloted Aircrafts
PIDSO, an Austrian SME holding several patents, specializes in ultra?light carbon?fibre antenna
solutions for diverse applications e.g. in the automotive sector. Based on its outstanding antenna
technology know-how, PIDSO recently has developed an innovative communication and control
system for Remotely Piloted Aircrafts (RPAs), which is - compared to competitive solutions significantly lighter and smaller allowing to mount it on RPAS creating the opportunity for using one
RPAS as a relay station for another RPAS thereby dramatically increasing range as well as data
transmission features. This provides the missing technological base for Beyond-line-of-sight
navigation needed to cross through areas with obstacles like buildings in cities or diverse
topographical factors. This will pave the way to deploy RPAS for public safety applications (disaster,
rescue, …) or precision agriculture (maturity measurement, crop control, disease detection,
fertilizer deployment), both unfolding huge commercial and societal impact. Our system is an
innovative ICT solution building on a proprietary hardware and electronic construction (antenna,
hybrids, 2-axis gimbal, motor-control, contactless rotary joint) plus a highly-sophisticated software
consisting of initialization, tracking algorithms, stabilization and closed loop motor controls based
on existing and newly developed models, position and direction finding and power management.
Our project fits perfectly with the development and business strategy of PIDSO as well as with the
requirements of this SME call, adding a completely new, market changing solution. Specific
objectives for the feasibility study include field tests with three test partners, in particular RPAS
manufacturers, to collect feedback from the primary business opportunity fields to be fed into finetuning of the solution to get our product from current to TRL9, building up cost models for
production and elaborating a detailed business and market entry plan
Project Acronym:
TRACKANT
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Saturday, 11 January, 2014 to Monday, 5 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
PIDSO GmbH
Main goal of the project is to create a
prototype of the software, which will be able
to identify peoplejust based on the way how
they walk.
The use of gait analysis in biometrics has caught attention all over the world due to many
advantages over the currently used solutions for people recognition. However, an operational
automated gait recognition system does not yet exist. The main goal of the project is to
commercialize novel biometric solution for highly reliable identification of people based on the
characteristics of their walk. The idea is based on our long-term cooperation with Professor Jiri
Straus, distinguished expert in criminalistics and forensic biomechanics, who is a member of
European Academy of Forensic Science and has more than 20 year experience in human gait
analysis. According to the research in this area, people could be uniquely identified based on the
characteristics of their walk, even if they try to cheat it. Recent studies mention very promising
conclusions regarding this method and the most optimistic one estimates the recognition rate to be
about 90%. Based on our internal research we have conducted in the last two years, we are fully
convinced that we can reach even better results. The expected outcome of the project is fully
developed product for commercial application in both governmental and business sector. It will be
used in criminalistics, security departments of banks, shopping malls and other publicly accessed
places where recognition of people is important from the security or from client service prospective.
The competitive advantage of our solution lies in unique combination of different gait
characteristics which results in recognition rate of almost 100% and simplicity of the solution which
extends possibilities of places where the system can be installed. It is an industry-driven project
whose outcomes will strengthen our position in computer vision technology market. The Phase 1 of
the SME instrument will allow us to analyse commercial potential and technical feasibility of the
solution, which we have already validated in a small scale with positive results.
Project Acronym:
Gait Biometrics 3
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Kinalisoft s.r.o.
iLocator - Map, track and manage pointbased-assets
The problem: OECD countries, on average, spend more than 2% of GDP on maintenance of road,
rail, sewage, water, park, power, telecom, and harbour and airfield infrastructure. Specifically,
sewage maintenance is an increasing cost for municipalities with the growing number of flash
floods in Europe, which in turn puts enormous pressure on gullies to diverge water. It is expected
that the occurrence of these events will continue to increase in the near future. Therefore, servicing
and maintenance of this infrastructure will become even more important to prevent flooding. The
market: Local authorities/municipalities are typically responsible for the service and maintenance
of physical infrastructure such as roads, traffic signs, storm drains (gullies) and trees (i.e. assets).
Municipalities across Europe spend a large part of the renovation budget on gully cleaning, given
the number and high frequency of the maintenance service. Due to the sheer number of gullies
within a single municipality, logistics are becoming increasingly difficult and cumbersome.
Furthermore, there is currently no reliable/easy-to-use, commercially available systems for
managing assets (gullies). Consequently, cleaning schedules and general upkeep of the gullies are
inconsistent, inefficient and costly. The solution: iLocator is a lean early-stage born global
company, pursuing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model. We have developed a unique
platform and a range of tools to unlock a huge addressable global market, which is the effective
management of gully cleaning. iLocator has clearly identified a significant potential for optimizing
these maintenance processes with preliminary results indicating a reduction in maintenance and
management expenses by 20%.
Project Acronym:
iLocator
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Thursday, 1 January, 2015 to Tuesday, 6 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
iLocator ApS
Production and Market entry financing of
Digital Concrete Screen for Outdoor Digital
Signage application
The DIGISTONE market phase 1 aims at adressing a major market opportunity in the supply of
large, concrete multimedia displays primarily for outdoor digital signage and commercial
applications.
Project Acronym:
DIGISTONE P1
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Sunday, 4 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
DUP
Improving loan quality and acceptance rates
by predicting credit behavior through social
mediadata.
The problem: Credit Losses on Banks’ Loan Portfolios - Youngsters and 2nd generation immigrants
still have difficulty in obtaining credit.
The solution: Our credit scoring model called Big Data Score assesses the credit quality of people
and accurately predicts their payment behaviour based on data from social media (Facebook) and
internet browsing behaviour.
Objectives of the overall innovation project:
1) Bring the present Technology Readiness from level 7 to 9.
2) Provide the system with complete access to real life data and Open Data made available from
governments.
3) Development of a marketing and sales strategy based on two key principle: vertical approach
and distribution approach.
Value Proposition: To help lenders to save money on credit losses and to make more money on
increased acceptance rate.
Business Model: Business follows a simple and easily scalable model where lender pays for each
score:
0.99 EUR per Facebook score and 0.20 EUR per browser score.
Users/Clients: Our target client is anyone who is taking a short to medium term (1-36 months)
credit risk.
Competition: Traditional credit bureaus and innovative credit score (Kreditech, Leendo,
ZestFinance).
Revenue Streams: 36M€ revenues at the 3rd year after commercialization.
Team: Big Data Scoring AS, Aasa Global AS.
Required funding: 1,5M€
Project Acronym:
BigDataScore
EU Contribution:
50.000
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Big Data Scoring
Aasa Global AS
Modified Internal Gate image sensor for low
light optimised Out-door Security
surveillance Applications
In today’s cameras the photographic film has been replaced by image sensors, which are silicon
chip transforming light into digital images. The image sensors have large amount of pixels
measuring locally the amount of light impinging on the pixel and jointly forming the digital image.
The image sensors are manufactured like any other silicon chips in foundries having clean rooms
and sophisticated silicon processing tools.So far there have been two different ways to readout the
pixel specific signal, namely, External Gate (EG) configuration utilized e.g. in present Charge
Coupled Device (CCD) and Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors as
well as Internal Gate (IG) readout configuration that is prone to manufacturing issues and
consequently its use is extremely limited. The EG was invented in the sixties and the IG in the
seventies. The problem with both of them is that they suffer from non-optimal low light
performance.Pixpolar has invented, developed, and patented (more than 20 patents are already
granted) a third fundamentally new image sensor pixel readout configuration called the Modified
Internal Gate (MIG) that provides superior low light performance when compared to the two other
older technologies.The MIGOSA project comprises three different tasks. The first one is business
plan development work comprising meetings with potential customers in order to ensure that there
is sufficient need for the MIG technology and that the development work fulfills customer needs.
The second one is an Intellectual Property Right (IPR) study to be performed in order to investigate
whether there are any IPR obstacles for MIG image sensor manufacturing. The third one is a
manufacturability study performed by the chosen foundry in order to find out whether our pixel
design complies with the foundry’s manufacturing process.
Project Acronym:
MIGOSA
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Saturday, 11 January, 2014 to Monday, 5 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Pixpolar
Study feasibility and best route to market
for telecare solution in Germany and Japan
Navigil has launched a disruptive wearable mobile personal safefy solution into the Finnish market
(http://www.navigil.com/products/s1-wearable-telecare-watch-phone/). The solution has been
developed using customer requirements from market leading telecare provider (Esperi Care) who is
our first customer and from similar entities in the UK.
Wearers of our wristwatch are elderly persons requiring assistance in order to live independently at
home and persons suffering from dementia. Users of our location and reachability / call routing
services are individual caregivers and municipal/professional telecare providers.
The lack of care resources for elderly care and for dementia sufferers is an acute issue in all EU
countries. The Navigil solution addresses this particular issue by enabling persons to live safely at
home longer. If the move of a person to sheltered care housing can be delayed by three days the
Navigil solution saves costs. Similarly if the recuperation time in hospital after a fall can be
shortened by one day our solution saves costs.
NAvigil STudy on EXpansion (NASTEX) is a project to validate our solution's fit to the German and
Japanese markets and to build a market engagement plan for each market found viable.
The outcome of the study is validated eligible market size, definition of the optimum route to
market and list of verified customer requirements. The best route to market study includes
alternative routes for each key segment. The customer requirements verification includes collection
of key customer requirements in a given market and their comparison to those found in the EU.
The R&D impact of new or different customer requirements is one element of market viability
and profitability calculation.
The NASTEX project is critical for our expansion plans, without it the profitability of a new market
can't be reliably verified. Failure to do the verification could impair expansion efforts in the EU
markets.
Project Acronym:
NASTEX
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Saturday, 3 January, 2015 to Friday, 9 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Navigil Ltd
Increasing the efficiency of European food
supply chain through in-memory supply
chain planning
RELEX has built an innovative supply chain management solution for the demand forecasting and
inventory optimisation of retailers and wholesalers. Unlike traditional supply chain management
solutions, RELEX’s is built on a unique columnar in-memory database and uses optimisation
algorithms based on the supply chain research of the company founder. As a result, it is less
costly, more flexible and much faster than traditional disc-based solutions. RELEX’s main future
challenge is to develop the solution’s functionalities and scalability to better serve food retail and
wholesale sectors, where the business benefits are the greatest, and develop a marketing and
deployment process and organisation to support rapid internationalisation. The project enhances
RELEX’s capabilities to address the whole European food supply chain market. When launched, the
solution will enable food retailers and wholesalers throughout the EU to decrease spoilage, increase
profits and improve customer service. In the EU scope, spoilage reduction would amount to 11–30
million tonnes p.a. This would reduce CO2 emissions by 22–60 million tonnes. The same challenges
in food supply chains not limited to the EU, hence the innovation has potential for a global reach.
In the feasibility assessment we will 1) prioritize product development requirements for maximum
market impact by listing development options and rating them with (prospective) customers, 2)
generate a market entry plan based on macro level data on numbers and company sizes of food
retailers and wholesalers in EU countries, 3) select the best way for scaling up the processing
capacity by evaluating product development needs for using clustered servers or public cloud
server capacity and comparing cost structures of these options, and 4) generate a feasibility study
with a business plan that takes into account corporate finance questions, based on which the larger
main project can be realized e.g. by the SME instrument Phase 2 funding.
Project Acronym:
Spoilage Down
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
RELEX
software PLATform fOr iNteroperable
multiphysics digital mock-up
Simulation tools for virtual dynamic mock-ups are more and more adopted by product engineers
because they produce essential engineering insights, avoiding significant time and cost
investments. Nevertheless, the different modules of the PLM flow do not communicate each other
and existing studios suffer from a non-integrated approach. Going cheaper and faster will require
new technical offers and business models. Platon will solve these issues by bringing a disruptive
approach at the international level. It will provide an interoperable single environment to
applications which will share the same digital mock-up, allowing easier product analysis and
optimization. Customers will be able to target 0 costly prototype and to increase engineers’
productivity. Indeed, Platon will enable users to 1) automate many repetitive design and modelling
tasks, 2) evaluate the impact of design changes, 3) deploy best practices to non-experts and 4)
partner with design & engineering colleagues more effectively. Phase 1 will investigate
identified bottlenecks and allow a deeper market analysis. The results will be delivered in updated
business plan, leading the solution to the market with clear, measurable, realistic and achievable
objectives. Optis’ strategy is based on a win-win approach with stronger ROI for the entire
ecosystem. Optis is structured with international subsidiaries and has delivered more than 7000
licenses worldwide. PLATON already owns its dedicated distribution network and a wide base of
clients. Platon will enable Optis to move from a technology provider position to a solution provider
status while other editors proposing complementary approaches will become natural partners
through a specific platform agreement.
Project Acronym:
Platon
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
OPTIS
Prototyping Internet Lot of Things Software
Virtual platforms have been mainly used to support anticipation of embedded software (eSW)
development of very complex System on Chip (SoC) or for Software-based functional validation of
complex IP. The explosion of the number of connected things change the complexity paradigm: the
challenge is now to manage hundreds of distributed platforms (SoCs or boards) that include
processors, sensors, MEMs and communication devices. Using physical board to prototype each of
these platforms to verify the overall system behaviour is too expensive and not scalable for system
providers. System integrators require a scalable solution for system prototyping. The use of virtual
platforms appears to be the answer, but they lack tools to deploy and integrate this solution in
their prototyping flow. According to state of the art and technical analysis with CEA and Fraunhofer,
no such solution is available today; as a long time provider of hardware integration platform,
Magillem has been a pioneer in design environment software for SoC integration and SoC virtual
platform since its early days and believe to be in a unique position to introduce a very innovative
solution for IoT enablement. By using PILoTS, European leading system integrators, as well as
suppliers of MEMS, micro-controllers, connected systems would save time and cost, during design,
verification and certification, and vastly improve their competitiveness.
Project Acronym:
PILOTS
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Sunday, 4 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Magillem Design Services
Let us build the first European Business-toBusiness Social Network
ALG is an innovative SME founded in 2010, builder of the Attestation Légale platform
(http://www.attestationlegale.fr), currently in use by thousands of French businesses. The
Attestation Légale platform is a Software as a Service (SaaS) Web application through which
businesses can share their administrative documents and can benefit from alerts and always up-todate documents.Because of the future implementation of a European directive that reinforces the
obligation of diligence in Europe (http://www.lemoniteur.fr/165-commandepublique/article/actualite/2365776...), our objective and our main motivation for this project
proposal are to investigate the possibility of deploying our solution on a European scale.The
deployment of such a solution will lead to the following outcomes:- Improvement of the
competitiveness of European businesses by the administrative simplification accelerated by the
European directive;- Better regulation in the context of worker secondment and contribute to the
effort on countering unfair competition between multiple European Union businesses.These
outcomes will also lead to the following impacts:- Usage disruption by eliminating the redundant
processes and costs related to the diffusion and the collect of administrative documents;Technological disruption by modeling and exploiting these Business-to-Business social networks
while respecting the requirement of privacy and data property specific to businesses actors;- Data
governance disruption by letting the members of our platform to remain the owner of the produced
data.The objectives of this phase 1 are to identify the European countries in which our solution can
be deployed. If such countries are found in phase 1, the phase 2 would enable us to either
prototype or modify our current solution to support these countries and to let their businesses
benefit from our solution.
Project Acronym:
EB2BSN
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Sunday, 4 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
ALG
A Disruptive Router Platform for the Internet
of Things – TrustNode
The TrustNode project aims at prototyping, validation and demonstration of a disruptive routing
platform in real world
conditions. It will enable the design of novel routing paradigms asking for local intelligence to
evaluate packet streams to serve upcoming B2B applications for the Internet of Things. Routing
functionality is expected to migrate from core towards network edge in the next years.
Outcome of the project will be (1) assessment of market share and manufacturing costs (2)
business plan and (3) figures achieved by a prototype against SoA.
Project Acronym:
TrustNode
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
InnoRoute
Breakthrough for outdoor autonomous
heavy machines: Safety-directed collision
avoidance system for workers based on
UWB radios with performance level
„Worker severely injured on the job by a moving machine!“- Industrial enterprises worldwide need
to avoid such a headline.Safety at work is a hot topic in industrial companies today. The
International Section of the ISSA (InternationalSocial Security Association) on Prevention in the
Mining Society formulates the Vision Zero for 2020. A hugeamount of money is invested in
prevention, more than 900M€ per year only in Germany. Especially accidents withmobile machinery
are crucial with around 12.000 accidents caused by collisions between construction machine
andpedestrians resulting in an economical loss of 1 billion euro per year only in Germany.The vision
of industrial companies is to deploy autonomous moving machines (AMM) across different
applicationscenarios. As the area of machine operation can typically not be separated from walking
workers, a basic requirement isthat AMMs must detect these persons reliably in the critical danger
zone and must be able to react autonomously inorder to avoid fatal collisions. Safety-directed
pedestrian recognition is still today’s blocking point for outdoor operations, asconventional sensors
like laser, cameras, radar or ultrasonic fail due to the harsh operational conditions and
highlydynamic changing working environment.Comnovo is proposing combined active and passive
Ultra-Wideband sensors for safety-directed, bi-channel human being detection.The main objective
of phase I of the SAFETY4WORKERS project is to explore the technical feasibility and commercial
potential by combining D2SENSE with UWB radar sensors for human being detection to reach a PL.
Furthermore, the business plan will be further developed based on the two divers use cases
“Charging Cars in Coke Plants” and “Autonomous Mining Systems”, which will be elaborated with
support of European partners committed to this project.
Project Acronym:
SAFETY4WORKERS
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Comnovo GmbH
A Multi-Display Controller Integrated Circuit
to drive multiple independent displays for
use in Automotive and Industrial
Environments.
We propose to develop an integrated circuit suitable to drive multiple displays in an automotive
setup, meeting all security requirements such as latency, refresh rate. The intended number of
displays will be 6 initally. Our concept will be extensible so that it can accomodate a larger number
of displays for special vehicle applications, such as emergency, security, construction vehicles.
Current solutions suffer greatly from performance degradation in terms of graphics throughput,
performance and timing constraints. Todays solutions usually only address at max two displays at a
time. Very few of the current offerings stem from Europe.
Our proposed solution will enable combined controls of a head-unit/dashboard display, head-up
display, navigation, camera displays, auxiliary display, and further application specific displays (eg
telematics, medical case info, security advice) all from one single integrated circuit, called a
multiview companion chip.
This single chip solution will enable new controls and telematics functionality specific to electric
vehicles, like links to charging infrastructure, battery health management and cooperative electric
fleet controls.
In this Phase1 project we will 1) develop a silicon system concept, and 2) a chip specification ready
to be implemented, and 3) detailed use case scenarios, and 4) a business plan suitable to apply for
Phase2 funding under the H2020 SME instrument.
To support this work and enhance the quality of our results we will form a starting consortium with
potential partners and customers in the european automotive OEM space. We will seek
opportunities to link with EU vehicle manufacturers and potential end customers to shape the
technical requirements profile of our solution.
Our initial ROM estimate is that this project will require total funding in Phase1-3 in excess of
5Million Euros. A project of this scope and reach can only be developed on a European level,
together with partners from multiple EU-OEMs
Project Acronym:
Multiview
EU Contribution:
50.000
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
TES
GameYourself - Create a virtual 3D model of
a person’s face based on a short video taken
with any smartphone cam.
GameYourself is a High-Tech Spin-Off company of the Humboldt University of Berlin specialized in
the field of computer vision. The company developed a novel technology for 3D face reconstruction
and face representation by combining and further developing the latest results of Prof. Peter
Eisert’s research group. The developed method relies on image-based systems for context and
information acquisition and it significantly outperforms the current state of the art solutions.
Our automated method is capable of creating a virtual 3D model of a person’s face based on a (a)
short video of it taken by a regular smartphone. With our method we made it possible for the first
time to create a highly realistic 3D model of a real face based on a video recorded by a regular
smartphone. The result is available within a couple of minutes without manual editing.
Video game players usually spend hours a day in a game and are willing to pay for virtual tools and
items. Individualizing their character (changing hair, clothes, colors etc.) plays a very important
role, especially in social online games like Second Life. From the industry point of view one of the
most important factors which contributes to the overall success of a particular game is the amount
of the average time the users spend playing it. Hence it is in the interest of the game companies to
engage their users more in their games and to gain advantage over their competitors by offering a
technology that brings high value to their fanbase.
The business model of GameYourself is simple: Users pay per scanned face that is integrated into a
game. Furthermore the technology can be licensed to game publishers as a white label solution.
It has to be mentioned that the opportunities of the GameYourself technology are much broader: It
can be used in different industries such as e.g. the cosmetic industry, personalized marketing or
surgery.
Project Acronym:
GY
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Sunday, 4 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
GameYourself
Intelligent human diagnostic and therapy
platform
In OECD countries the most frequent cause of mortality is cardiovascular diseases. Addressing this
problem needs a holistic approach, where ICT-based monitoring is in the focus.
The disruptive innovation programme sets the target of performing complex mobile invasive
monitoring of cardiovascular and associated diseases, of forecasting the state of the patients,
supporting the therapy treatments and assessing the effectiveness of drugs on mobile informationtechnology-base.
The devices are miniature holter monitors built into the human body, which with their diagnostic
algorithm will regularly or continuously assess and check the physiological condition of the users.
Innovation content: 7/24 monitoring, continous data processing, intelligent automated evaluation
systems, lifelong mobile crisis management, optimized drug taking protocol, implants with long life.
Main ecomic benefits: higher health and life safety, higher economic efficiency as a result of the
improvement in people health condition, less patient-doctor appointment, reduced cost of
cardiovascular treatment, reduced number of operations.
Main target group: patients who have been/will be operated on any cardiovascular disease and
people who have high risk factor.
The business model is built on the sale of appliances and on the sale of the related subscriptionbased info-communication service packages. According to the initial financial plan we count with a
turnover of 100.000 pieces and an outstanding profit and return by the end of the fifth year after
the market launch.
We plan the diffusion of the system in three steps with expanding geographical coverage. Before
entering the markets we establish dealerships in the regions and develop a regional distributor and
technical support system as well.
As desired achievements of the phase 1 five main parts of the Feasibility Study will be elaborated:
Market Analysis Business Plan, Marketing Plan, Legal and Organisational Plan and Technological
Plan.
Project Acronym:
Cardiacom IMPLANT
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Sunday, 12 January, 2014 to Saturday, 3 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Atractor Kft.
Optical Injection Locked Modulator
Video, mobile and cloud have driven network bandwidth to grow at astonishing rates, estimated at
about 40% growth year over year. Between 2000 and 2009 channel data rates in commercial
optical fibre networks were peaking at 10Gb/s. Introduction of coherent technology caused a step
change and around 2011 rates jumped to 100Gb/s for long haul transmission. It was enabled by
advances in digital signal processing, narrow linewidth lasers, coherent receivers and optical
modulators. Such modulators are used to control both the level and phase of the optical signal to
send data and are the main topic of this proposal.
State of the art modulators are based on a common optical transmitter circuit (a Mach-Zehnder
Modulator) to encode the data. In 2012 researchers at the Univ. Southampton invented a new
device and applied for a patent on the concept. It is based on optical injection locking (OIL) and
allows directly modulated lasers to be used to encode the data. Demonstration systems were
developed in partnership with Eblana Photonics who provided the OIL laser devices and is the
exclusive licensee to the patent IP. Eblana, established in Dublin in 2001, provides laser sources for
sensing and high volume comms applications.
The technique has received strong interest from the scientific community and, significantly,
network system manufacturers who have stated eagerness to trial prototypes.
Differentiators are that the output is linear, drive electronics are fundamentally simpler and uses
half the number of high speed connections compared to the competition. Key advantages include
low cost, low power consumption and amenable to miniaturisation to very small sizes.
Coherent 100G transmission will migrate to shorter reach and wider usage in metropolitan
networks (60-800km range) and in enterprise and access at shorter distances and these are the
market focus. Eblana Photonics will exploit this technology to become the highest volume supplier
of such modulators in the world.
Project Acronym:
OILMOD
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Saturday, 11 January, 2014 to Monday, 5 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
EBLANA
Photonic Integrated Comb Source: An
Economic Feasibility Study
Optical telecommunication networks are being put under huge strain by the rise in mobile video,
video-on-demand and other bandwidth intensive services. New disruptive innovations are needed
to avoid the impending 'capacity crunch' that that has the potential to affect the growth of the
Internet with knock-on adverse effects for the European and global economy and society.Optical
Frequency Comb Sources represent one such disruptive innovation. Optical Frequency Combs allow
new modulation techniques to be used that increase the data carrying capacity and spectral
efficiency of these networks.The benefits of Optical Frequency Combs are well known, but to date
no-one has figured out a cost-efficient means to employ them in network equipment. Pilot
Photonics Ltd., an Irish SME has licensed a suite of intellectual property around Optical Frequency
Combs that has the potential to disrupt the market and displace the single mode lasers that have
been used in long haul optical transport equipment for two decades.The intellectual property offers
two capabilities: The cost-effective generation of a suitable optical comb, and the cost-efficient
demultiplexing of that optical comb for modulation. Both techniques are suitable for photonic
integration and can be fabricated using foundry compatible processes, enhancing their viability
greatly. The comb generation technique is currently being marketed in bench-top form factor, while
integrated prototypes have been produced. The demultiplexing concept has been proven in both
bench-top experiments and in photonic integrated circuits. The innovation is in their combination to
create value beyond the sum of the parts.The PICOMB project will examine the economic feasibility
of this disruptive innovation, through detailed interaction with potential customers and partners.
The outputs will be a detailed market survey, desired customer specifications, and cost model
which will be combined into a comprehensive business plan.
Project Acronym:
PICOMB
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Sunday, 4 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
PILOT
Sedicii Innovative Authentication
Sedicii Innovations was formalised in December2013 with the objective to commercialise, promote
& support innovative methods of authenticating users online (based on 4 years of academic
research).Achievements include US Patent,Independent Audit receipt, BT winner, shortlisted with
TechCrunch, MasterCard,&others and 2 pilots (BT & Gemalto).We received positive feed
back &have identified many opportunities in gaining market/user acceptance.This feasibility
study will help further research & address such opportunities/challenges to establish reference
clients&users in building a sustainable business.Challenges include:A.Gain paying
customers&market creditability through reference users, coupled with independent,
endorsementsB.To further finance development of the Sedicii solution to meet with market needs.
Sedicii’s method of authenticating a user can be applied to different user authentication
needs.These include: a)Single Sign-On Authentication:Market Value of over €1 Billion
annually.b)Credit Card Tokenization: Market Value of $5BN annually.c)Identity Verification: Market
Value in excess of €5BN annually.Sedicii’s methods will benefit both consumers & suppliers of
digital commerce/services.The ability to authenticate a user without the need to store or expose
the personal information of the user will provide significant benefits to holders of such data. With
the imminent development of new & evolving markets based on the “Internet of Things”, it is
expected that over 100BN devices will be connected to the internet in the future, which will require
stronger security,authentication to protect personal data.Sedicii expects to achieve 3objectives
during the feasibility study:1.Identify targeted customers in defining the Sedicii solution to meet
market needs.2.Explore commercial models & secure the regulatory / industry endorsement
as part of the launch & commercial efforts.3.Educate/profile to a wider EU audience, including
those responsible for data protection/privacy.
Project Acronym:
SEDEUF
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Sunday, 4 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Sedicii Innovations Limited
Advanced Back end as a service Engine
AB ENGINE aims to launch in the market an advanced Mobile Back end as a Service (MBaaS)
framework capable to provide mobile app developers with an effective and complete back end suite
ready to use for boosting the realisation and the management of mobile application by using
tailored and customised functionalities.
In the very next future the mobile apps will become the main tool of interaction among
organisations and their customers: the needs of creating apps capable to interact with users and
made them connected and engaged will arise and multi-channels functions will be the main
features the mobile apps will have to provide. Such expectations are confirmed also by the forecast
of the Mobile Back end as a Service market, that is expected to reach €5.9 Bln in revenues by 2017
growing at a CAGR of 104%.
AB ENGINE will address the MBaaS market, introducing an innovative solution, with respect to
current state of the art, able to provide developers with ready to use applications, components and
cloud infrastructure functionalities; thus it is the best solution for speeding up the mobile apps’
realisation and maintenance, reducing the costs, the time to market and the complexity of
developing apps and on the other hand for scaling the apps up to millions of final end users and,
supporting marketing features, data parsing, promotional channels (QR codes, landing pages,
social networks integration, app store submission), CRM and networking features, such as Push
Notification, Geo Fancy Messages and iBeacon.
With respect to the current MBaaS competitors, AB ENGINE will represent a disruptive innovation in
the market, which is expected to boost AppsBuilder company’s growth triplicating the annual
turnover and work force within 3 years after the investment with a total ROI of approximately
230%.
Project Acronym:
AB ENGINE
EU Contribution:
50.000
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
AppsBuilder
Virtual 3D fitting room for online shopping
DRESSFORMER is a B2B/B2C platform technology allowing the user to virtually try on clothing prepurchase and receive personal or professional feedback. The virtual fitting rooms are based on
photorealistic 3D avatar & 3D models created from 2 photos of the cloth providing accuracy
within
1
cm
precision.
Dressformer's
fitting
technology
increases
profitability
of
retailers by addressing fitting & likability simultaneously, hence reducing returns - better and
faster than competing approaches. The current method for trying and visualizing clothes on online
stores is highly ineffective as it only allows users the possibility to view clothes in a 2D picture or
on
a
mannequin,
resulting
in
extra
costs
due
to
returns
from
poor
fitting
purchases. Returns constitute more than 40% of items bought online. Out of them 20% of returns
are due to poor fit. 80% of the online customers will not buy clothing online again. Dressformer
proposes a “try on” button integrated with any online store. The function is based on a patented
innovative technology that automatically generates a 3D model of a garment.
Once pressed the online user is redirected to a pop-up window with 3D image of a dress worn by a
3D avatar that creates a virtual replica of the online buyer’s body. Dressformer generates
simulations of clothing on the human form, including a realistic 3D rendering that displays
imperfection and a heat map noting where different sizes will fit tightly on the body. The
users will input their hip, waist and chest measurements into the online fitting application. Once
the measurements are inserted the virtual avatar morphs into the natural shape and curves of the
individual users’ body while taking materials and elasticity into consideration. This will allow online
retail consumers to try on various garments and give them the ability to clearly and accurately
distinguish between materials, textures, shapes, folds and embellishments.
Project Acronym:
DRESSFORMER
EU Contribution:
50.000
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Dressformer Ltd
wardroba
Autonomous Dronistics for Security (ADS):
optimized services with fleets of flying
robots
Flying drones promise to replace many civilian services currently requiring humans by means of
robots performing product delivery, agricultural monitoring, inspections and maintenance, damage
assessments. For this vision to be concretized, drones need to be safe, reliable, available on
demand and most importantly fully automatic. This revolution is facing three challenges: the design
of services that are possible to be executed within the regulations; the development of landing
stations that the drones can exploit as docking point to recharge their batteries; the development
of a master-control software that deals with coordination and optimization of the flights and
operations of the drones performing the service.The project Autonomous Dronistics for Security
(ADS) is addressing the key technical challenges that all drone automation companies are facing
today and that, if solved, will open the drone services market to existing and new industries. ADS
innovation will solve these challenges by the use of a platform managing transparently operations
with small multi-copters and a network of landing/recharge stations. The ADS system controls
navigation, video feeds from the drones, and the operation strategy in a fault tolerant and lawabiding way. The software is able to program the flight plan best for each individual drone taking
into account dynamically its role in the overall mission; The hardware ensures a permanent
operation of the drones despite the limited autonomy and range of drones. The development of this
innovation will allow for the first time to coordinate and manage in a fully automated way fleets of
drones. The feasibility study of ADS focuses on one particular business case: the use of drones for
automatic video-surveillance and alarm response.
Project Acronym:
ADS Project
EU Contribution:
50.000
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Archon Technologies
VR-Suit : MultiModal experiences in a Virtual
World
Virtual worlds are an expanding phenomenon in everyday life. 3D movies are the standard in
cinemas, a new television is most likely ready to show 3D television. Smartphones put nearly
limitless applications in your pocket. Major tech companies like Facebook keep expanding its levels
of virtual social connectivity, and takes the lead in offering social gaming. Computer games are
played online, and reaching higher levels of ‘immersion’ is key for developers of new games. Virtual
reality goggles are on the verge of becoming mainstream, and you can even use your smartphones
display as a VR goggle now.
There is one very important aspect holding back the current virtual worlds from feeling real – the
absence of touch.
To further increase the meaningfulness of virtual worlds, the user has to be able to physically
interact with the virtual surroundings. To not only see his body movement reflected in the virtual
environment, but to also feel objects and events from the virtual world – in real life.
Elitac, a company specialized in tactile displays, envisions wearable technology that does just that:
offer the sense of touch when roaming the virtual world. It does not matter if you are having a
Skype conversation with a loved one far away, enjoying a game or movie, working through a
professional training simulation or operating a complex robot – being able to feel is what will enrich
the experience by many times.
This proposed project is a feasibility study for a wearable virtual reality suit, for initial offering in
the serious gaming market. Elitac wants to offer a product in this market, that enables the wearers
to move in a virtual environment and feel objects and events by receiving tactile feedback on their
skin. The study focuses on requirement analysis and technical development plans (technical
feasibility) and business case design.
Project Acronym:
VR-Suit
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
ELI
Promoting sustainable patient treatment by
an intelligent online medicine dispenser for
home care use.
THE BUSINESS CONCEPT: 8% of total healthcare expenditure or about 500bn USD per year
globally, can be avoided with optimized use of medicines (IMS Health). eMediCare is a online
medicine dispenser for home care use that connects the person taking the medication directly to
the distributor and prescriber (GP). This challenges and disrupt the current suboptimal medication
delivery from nurses or pharmacies, eMedicare offers a secure and monitored logistics chain of
drug delivery where the prescriber (GP) frequently adjust the dosage to the appropriate level.THE
SOLUTION:This ICT driven disruptive business model and product innovation will reduce the
amount of medicines prescribed, dispensed or sold inappropriately. We base the project on a
existing cloud ICT infrastructure where the intelligent online medicine dispenser eMediCare will
eliminate error sources and secure that patients take medicines correctly at right time. THE
USERS: eMediCare is intended for home care use and build a strong link but at the same time
disrupt the current interplay between the health-care provider, the patient and the pharma
companies producing and distributing the medication. THE PROJECT: The phase 1 of the project is
devoted to establishing business model and deliver a business plan for the key market Scandinavia
and UK. The phase two of the project will pilot and further refine the business model and systems
engineering design of the eMediCare and create a working prototype to be implemented in test
cases in the key markets. THE MARKET: The EU market for pre packed medication, online
medication distribution with the supporting ICT/telehealth solution is estimated to 2.5B bill
EUR/year that will result in a 25 bill EUR/year in healthcare cost reduction. THE EU DIMENTION:
The success of this project supports the Digital Agenda Action 75: set to give Europeans secure
online access to their medical health data and achieve widespread telemedicine deployment.
Project Acronym:
eMediCare2
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Saturday, 3 January, 2015 to Friday, 9 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Hospital Organiser
YouBeep – InStore mobile shopping and
analytics
This project is YouBeep, a patented new checkout system, available free to use with a smartphone,
expected to change the way people do their shopping in a retail store, allowing checkout a full
shopping cart in under a minute. The long queues and waiting time at checkout lines are a key
factor in customer satisfactions, and effectively represent a real high cost for retailers worldwide.
Our proposal addresses this issues.
Shoppers will be able to scan their items as they shop, saving time, while keeping the control over
the overall amount to be paid, and their grocery list. At checkout, the shopper just needs to use
their phone at any available checkout, by scanning a Qrcode.
YouBeep is supported by a hardware component (patented USB device), mobile App and a cloud
solution. It allows integration in any POS systems and zero software integration. Installation is
simply connecting a USB cable, and all loyalty and couponing programs are still supported.
The potential market for the product is very promising. The overall market for this product overlaps
and greatly exceeds the market of self-checkout system that is growing at a rate of 15% per year.
YouBeep usage data provide valuable analytics to retailers and Brands, and effectively leverages
retailers, by providing top innovative retail technology, usually only available to top retailers, to
more challenging retailers, at a viable cost, increasing EU competitiveness. The company has made
an agreement with the major retailer in Portugal, for a public Pilot Trial at their stores.
The objectives set for the feasibility study are validation of user traction in a meaningful pilot trial
at several stores, Retailer validation, and creation of a business and marketing plan, including
pricing model. In addition to this we also intend to progress and make sure our project takes the
necessary steps to be eligible for Phase 2 funding of SME Instruments.
Project Acronym:
YouBeep
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Xhockware
3 Dimensional Light Sensor for Advanced
Portable Devices
This proposal aims to develop miniaturized 3 Dimensional (3D) cameras for mobile phones, tablets
and laptop computers; more specifically embedded camera modules providing 2D and 3D-Images,
integrating image-sensing electronics and light-field optics in a single lens Wafer Level Camera
(WLC).This disruptive device is aiming towards significant market-shares and global leadership in
3D-imaging camera modules, accelerating our growth and Europe´s Competitive position in Smart
Cameras for 3D-imaging. We introduce a paradigm changer in one of the highest growth areas
addressable in consumer technologies, setting entry barriers difficult to overcome for current and
new market players; we will hit the market while established competitors will still be trying to
figure out our algorithms, our IPR and our hardware solution.Our most disruptive competitive
advantage is based on our algorithms, exploiting a novel hardware structure.First contacts with
Taiwanese distributors and manufacturers of laptop/network/tablet computers and mobile phones
allow us to think that such a disruptive device can sell millions of units.This phase-1 study will
minimize technical and market acceptance risks. We extend the well-known FSV-model to FSOV
(Fabless Semiconductor and Optical Vendor). Manufacturing, both for the semiconductor image
sensors and for the optical layers on top of it, will be performed by third parties (silicon foundries
and optical foundries). One of the main tasks of this feasibility study is to choose the best
manufacturing partners from the handful of candidate companies in both sectors (silicon and
optics), as well as obtaining exact quotations for the costs of the BOM (Bill of Materials); we will
also visit some potential customers to verify correctness of the data (sales volumes and price
targets) and build a Business Plan that will include Product Roadmap, Project Plan and Marketing
and Sales Plans.
Project Acronym:
3D-LEAP
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Thursday, 1 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Photonic Sensors and Algorithms
Black Binder, all-in System of Digital Scores
Musicians play the scores basically like they did 200 years ago.The musician must hand off the
instrument to turn the page and it is complicated passing scores and maintain proper posture. They
also spend large spaces and budget to store and preserve scores that are easily deterioorated. In
addition, collaborative work is a hard task due to the lack of synchronization.With BlackBinder
solution, New Music Now will offer the music community a "pageless scrolling" technology-based
system that allow: Continuously display of scores at the pace the musician sets and improve in this
way the interpretation, allowing the musician being holding the instrument at any time (Page
concept disappears).Synchronization for collaborative work is possible, annotations writing and
sharing, and specific functionalities for every instrument.To benefit from this, the musician must
download to his tablet the bbApp application which is complemented with 3 other services/products
that offer maximum utility being used supplementary:bbSet: physical device that supports the
tablet and allows the user to interact with the app by wireless pedals.bBinder: storage space in the
cloud for scores downloaded from bbsore or uploaded by the musician from his own background
music and turned into XML format.bbStore: online store for individuals or publishers to sell scores
with bbsecure technology anti-piracy. Impossibility to get the score of bBinder and send it to
another user. Its visualization is only possible with the bbApp. Scores are also encrypted (for user
recognition) so if they were finally removed from the bBinder, even so, they cannot be used for
another user who is not the owner.Taking into account the high number of musicians worldwide,
the described needs and the BlackBinder characteristics show a clear link between the really large
gap in the musicians environment and the great business opportunity for the proposed solution.
Project Acronym:
BLACKBINDER
EU Contribution:
50.000
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
NewMusicNow
APPS for geotechnical field work
The construction market (including civil engineering, environment, energy and mining activities), is
a very important market at international level, mainly in the emerging countries. In most of the
construction activities, important geotechnical problems must be solved, like slope stability, laying
foundation, etc. For solving them, it is necessary to perform a big number of in situ measures and
tests, call field work. For example, in the construction of a bridge, SPT test will be needed each 2-5
m for designing the foundations. This work field requires taking measures in situ and then
processes them, at the office, for then elaborating the reports to the client. This process is manual,
and therefore is high time and cost consuming. Nevertheless, the apps technology and the new
smartphones functionalities present a new opportunity to automatize the process: taking the
measures with the smart phone, processing them in the smart phone and elaborating the
corresponding reports in the smart phone for being sent to the client by e-mail, cloud uploading,
server connection, etc. TERRASOLUM, as international geotechnical engineering, with expertise in
apps development, detected this business opportunity with high market impact possibilities, and
decided to develop a family of 30 apps for field and laboratory tests and checking and designing
calculations in the field works (on-the-fly). Thanks to this apps, the end users (geologists,
geotechnical engineers, builder engineers, architects, civil construction technicians) will reduce the
time for taking measures from 1-2 days to 1 hours and the cost from 720€ to 75€, obtaining a very
relevant improvement in their productivity.GEOAPPS will be a strategic project for TERRASOLUM.
This project will allow to increase its staff in 6 persons and invoice more than 9,000,000 euros in
three years.
Project Acronym:
GEOAPPS
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Sunday, 4 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Terrasolum
LEGEND, Sport goes viral
We are building an ecosystem of tools and apps to key agents of the sport sector. We see it as
Google does with its platform. Their core is Search but then it provides with dozens of tools like
Gmail, Calendar, Youtube or Analytics so user stay in their platform. Using sport as the soul of our
platform we have started building this ecosystem.
Currently, we have developed a tournament manager where league and championship organizers
can manage them. We allow them to create as many tournaments as they need, create teams and
assign them players. They can organize almost every league or championship that may come to
your mind.
With this tool, public (local government, Universities or Schools) and private (sport facilities,
individuals, federations, associations, etc) managers from all around the world can send real time
alerts, manage the classifications in an easy way, generate automatic calendars, publish the rules
and news, define roles as referees or team managers and many more features to come.
We have also developed mobile apps for following the league but also the users can organize their
friendly matches, comment on them before and after the match, check the results of their friends
and to share them in other social networks.
Not only we ease the organization of the matches but we also motivate them to report the results
by adding an algorithm to calculate their skill level of every sport. We have also added gamification
technics to the app so users can get badges depending on their results. Finally, users can track and
check all their stats and historical results.
LEGEND project will help miLeyenda to create a feasibility plan for going international. Currently,
we have acquired more than 120.000 users in 3 months and we are ready to go a step further.
Project Acronym:
LEGEND
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
miLeyenda
MED1C : Video Management in Medical
practice
Med1c goal is to solve needs of video usage within medical community. Video is increasingly being
the basis for medical interventions and clinical story of patients. While some medical specialties use
it more than others, video usage is experiencing a growing tendency in all of them.Med1c main
features include a user friendly interface, fixing the complexity of having many video formats,
allowing to tag and label actions within an intervention, reducing reports and video storage solely
to relevant parts, allowing video mining for best case solutions across data bases, and offering a
cooperative solution while reducing costs, among others. At the moment, generic solutions or
standards to cope with video usage needs are non-existent within medical environment. In the
same way images were fixed with PACS some years ago, now is time for video application. Even
there are some few proprietary solutions made by Medical HW manufacturers, they are expensive
in terms of acquisition and maintenance, and do not allow integration in open platforms like
Windows, which Med1c is based on, not to mention their very limited functionality.The target
market is the health sector, being doctors and health professionals its main potential users.
Therefore, in order to adapt the Med1c tool to every individual purpose and medical speciality,
1d3a already has cooperation agreements with some hospitals such as the ALTHAIA Foundation
(ES).Med1c software solution has a solid foundation, since it is based in Er1c, launched 7 years ago
by the SME 1d3a to cope with similar needs within the sector of Elite competition in sports. Some
of their main customers are FC Barcelona, Aspire (QA), CSKA (RU) and FIBA.The objective of
Med1C in the Phase 1 of the SME Instrument is to complete a feasibility study for all relevant
medical cases including at least two EU countries. Moreover, the proof of concept for three
applications (bronchoscopie, gynecology and oncology committees) will be developed.
Project Acronym:
MED1C
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Tuesday, 6 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
1d3a
Novel clothing e-commerce application for
reliable size assignment and realistic fitting
visualization
E-commerce has become a focal point of expansion and growth for the consumer goods industry.
However, clothing market still accounts for a low ratio of online sales compared to more
established sectors. Online apparel retailers have a 40% return rate, the highest in e-commerce,
being bad fit the main barrier for the online market and causing 75% of these returns. In addition,
final buying decision for fashion shoppers relies on the possibility to visualize realistically the look
and fit of the garment and this is not possible with the current available technologies.The overall
objective of TecnologíasDIM with this innovation project is to introduce in the clothing e-commerce
market a disruptive web-based application (VisuaLook) for reliable size assignment and realistic
fitting visualization integrating advanced ICT technologies: mobile application to capture the
‘personal avatar’ (3D body geometry and photorealistic visualization), web-based virtual try on
software, and ICT architecture that supports the integration and communication. We expect to
reach a leading position in the market, increasing rapidly the market share and sales of the
company, encouraged by an innovative and competitive solution for our clients (clothing
manufactures and e-retailers) and an easy and fast adoption of the end users (e-buyers),
becoming a reference for clothing e-commerce.Firstly, we will conduct a feasibility study in Phase 1
in order to assess the integration of the core technologies, the shopping experience outline, the
regulatory issues and the commercialisation strategy, ending with the elaboration of a
comprehensive business plan. In Phase 2 we will perform a pilot study to demonstrate VisuaLook in
a real environment with the collaboration of a relevant e-retailer of the clothing sector. VisuaLook
will be ready for commercialization in Phase 3.
Project Acronym:
VisuaLook
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Tecnologias DIM
Visual Notify - Improving Deaf People's Life
Visualfy is developing a suite of smartphone Apps, through which it enables people with hearing
deficiencies to more seamlessly interact with their environment. Visualfy’s current minimum viable
product (MVP) allows Smartphone events, such as incoming (Video)-Calls, E-mail, and Whatsapp,
to be linked to different screen-flash and vibration patterns, to notify a deaf person. Therewith, the
MVP solves one of several key problems. Validation of the MVP is currently under way, with early
positive responses reflected through currently 5000 customers, with around 200 new customers
joining per week.
It is clear that deafness can cause all kind of problems in daily life, like not being able to note
alarm sounds, or simply problems with inter human communication. It is less well known that
people with pre-lingual deafness (deafness before the acquisition of language) have difficulties to
develop a spoken language and even to read and write, as these capabilities are tightly intervened
with the formation of language (think of the spoken word forming in your brain while reading).
According to the World Health Organization, partial hearing loss affects about 360 million people
worldwide, 0.1% being pre-lingual. Considering at the same time a dramatically growing
Smartphone penetration, even in poorer societies, establishes a growing market environment.
Initial sales of the MVP are qualitatively validating one key customer problem, and the market
seems ripe for disruptive innovation, allowing the introduction of Visualfy’s Smart Space Concepts
to “Improve Deaf People’s Life”.
Project Acronym:
Visualfy
EU Contribution:
50.000
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Fusio d'Arts Technology S.L.
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATIONS
FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES AND BIG DATA
The objective of this proposal is to receive funding and support for commercializing a set of
disruptive high-speed communication protocols (IPR protected by patent and trade secret) which
bypass the legacy and inefficient TCP/IP, the Internet protocol, designed 40 years ago. The
technology is the result of +10 year R&D at University of A Corunna and the successful
outcome of a Proof-of-Concept project (2011-2014) funded by Fundacion Barrie (0.5 M€
investment), which led to incorporate TORUS in April 2013 to further develop, commercialize and
support the technology. TORUS has 3 products in the market (Java Fast Sockets, Universal Fast
Sockets and FastMPJ) which are up to 40 times faster than TCP/IP. These products reduce
significantly the time-to-results of critical software, providing significant competitive advantages in
multiple sectors, particularly for financial services, real time Big Data analytics (with multiple
applications, such as real time online advertising), biotech (supporting DNA processing in hours,
instead of weeks), and defense/space (FastMPJ has reduced up to 94% the time to distribute
satellite images of ESA’s Gaia Mission). Additionally, the technology reduces costs (power and
software licensing) significantly, as fewer servers with TORUS outperform a higher number of
servers interconnected via TCP/IP. The specific objectives of the feasibility study are: (1) acquire
knowledge on how clients perceive TORUS value; (2) develop an effective go-to-market strategy;
and (3) partner with key industry players (TORUS is in talks with two multibillion companies listed
in NASDAQ). TORUS is about to rise 1M € for funding next commercialization steps during 20142015. A new round of 4M € is expected in 18-24 months, to definitively enter in the growth stage.
SME Instrument would definitively fuel this high-tech disruptive European project. Our mission is to
make servers respond faster than the speed of thought, no more waiting for computers!
Project Acronym:
TORUS PROJECT
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Saturday, 11 January, 2014 to Monday, 5 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
TORUS
Making Lifts Smart for More Connected and
Intelligent Services.
Our product SmartLifts represents an integrated solution synthesizing connectivity and security. It
consists of a software-hardware suite that contains a gateway, audio modules, sensors and a
management platform that meets six key needs for lifts: Increased security at reduced
maintenance cost, guaranteed connectivity based on IP data transfer, maximum integration of
hardware already used in lift cabins, large M2M data management capability to send and receive
multimediadata, predictive maintenance and inspection applying machine learning based on expert
systems, facilitated monitoring of the 74 risks defined by EN 81-80.The final SmartLifts version to
be improved in Phase I) consists of: wireless connection (3G, GPRS) based on IP data transfer,
integrated hardware in cabins, data volume, web application for managing emergency phone,
predictive maintenance and inspection.The potential market for SmartLifts is huge considering that
the global demand for lift and related services was 86 billion Euros in 2012 and is expected to grow
by almost 6 % annually until 2017. There are about 5.2 million lifts in Europe alone. Our two main
target groups are lift manufacturers such as OTIS, Schindler, Kone and Orona. These companies
also offer lift maintenance services. The second group consists of SMEs that focus only on lift
maintenance.Our overall objective for Phase 2 is to apply breakthrough Smart technology to the
historically conservative vertical transport sector with SmartLifts by redesigning the existing
prototype and commercializing it. In Phase I, we will create a Feasibility Study and Business
Plan.We will assist in facing European and worldwide challenges improving the security of the
vertical transport industry by making lifts smart. The positive societal benefits will be that in the
long-run, SmartLifts will allow lifts to be more inclusive as the online lift will allow to send sensor
signals for falls or allow constant video surveillance.
Project Acronym:
Smartlifts
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Monday, 5 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Merak S.L. Telecomunicacions i Sistemes
Smartick games. Augmented math learning.
This project is about perfecting Smartick, a leading online math training method, to introduce into
the product a major new feature, so we can help millions of kids, mainly in Europe and Latin
America, to improve their math and cognitive skills for learning.As shown by international studies
such as PISA and TIMSS, math skills are in short supply and are very much needed to power the
high-skilled jobs required by today’s society. Those jobs are needed if we want Europe to be
competitive in a digital world currently dominated by the US, with some countries in Asia moving
rapidly, with millions of highly skilled graduates coming out their universities every year.To achieve
it, we will integrate cognitive training with Smartick math, which will move Smartick strategic
positioning into a non-occupied market space. With this unique product and the EC support, we can
boost our growth to reach over 500.000 clients and generate over €100M in revenues in a period of
4 years, and fulfil our potential as one of Europe’s ‘gazelle’ companies.With this project we want
to:- Phase I: measure the potential, analyze the competitive landscape and design marketing and
commercial strategies for the different target markets and languages,- Phase I and mostly phase
II: Scientifically challenge our vision with the help of two renowned research groups at the
University of Granada and scale up internationalization strategy.We honestly believe that, bringing
together our technical capabilities, data and existing access to thousands of children, with the
know-how, experience, scientific grounding and outreach capacity of two well-respected research
groups, we will be able to further improve Smartick and build a learning and cognitive training
platform second to none in the world.With this project, at the end of the day, we want to help
students in Europe improve their math skills to be better prepared for the technically qualified
careers which Europe increasingly need.
Project Acronym:
Smartick Games
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Saturday, 11 January, 2014 to Monday, 5 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Smartick
REVIVOS - REVIVING SINGERS THROUGH
VOICE SYNTHESIS
Music Industry is seeking new forms of monetization of their catalogue. Online music distribution
and current listening habits demand of innovative solutions for digital audiences that are today
bigger than ever. Pop stars maintain a huge popularity years after their retirement or accidental
decease. Moreover this interest gave recently a leap forward and moved to the stage, where
holographic live shows revive artists in a mixed-reality concert.In this scenario REVIVOS aims to
commercialize a technology solution for synthesizing new songs with the voice of famous artists.
The innovation of this project is the potential commercialization of Virtual Singers modeled from
original artist recordings. The synthetic voice shall preserve not only their timbre but also the
expression and singing style that make them unique. This project has a clear global dimension,
focusing on the Western markets because they share a common popular music culture. Potential
applications include among others the production of posthumous live shows, the release of new
compositions, or the rejuvenation of the voice of a living or retired artist.For the SME Instrument
Phase 1, REVIVOS has as primary objective the realization of a study for the best business model
for this new paradigm in the music and media industries. It consists of three stages: 1) Building a
network of advisors; 2) Prototype and Demos preparation and 3) Business Plan elaboration.
Outcomes shall define the implementation steps in a future Phase 2.The team behind Voctro Labs
has demonstrated excellence and capacity in the innovation related to Virtual Singers. Voctro Labs
is an audio technology company specialized in singing voice synthesis. Cofounders are experts with
more than 15 years of research and industrial experience. Founded in 2011, it is a spin-off of the
Music Technology Group of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, a world-renowned research
lab in sound and music computing.
Project Acronym:
REVIVOS
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Saturday, 11 January, 2014 to Monday, 5 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Voctro Labs
RESURRECT YOUR ZOMBIAPP. OR ARE YOU
JUST GOING TO LET IT DIE?
The emerging game app mobile market has shown great economy potential. However, revenues
are highly concentrated. At the top end of the revenue scale there are just 1.6% of developers,
while 57% of app games are below the ‘app poverty line’ due to two main problems:
1) Developers find difficulties for getting their new apps noticed. App developers believe that
marketing is necessary for success, but small developers such as SMEs, entrepreneurs and
independent developers cannot afford or take advantage of current marketing tools.
2) Obtaining user downloads is no longer enough in order to build a great business with mobile
apps. The most successful game apps are free-to-play, monetising a tiny fraction of their audience
via consumable in-app purchases. A recent study shows that, in average, developers invest €139 in
marketing for each €100 they earn.
Thus, user attraction can be easily but costly boosted by current approaches but user retention and
optimizing revenues per user to support apps with freemium strategies is still an on-going issue.
BIKO intends to offer a disruptive game apps marketing tool, the ZombiApp service, with a twofold
innovative approach:
1) Automated assessment of users interaction for marketing recommendations.
2) User profiling/segmentation for cross-promotion focused on user engagement, IAPs
monetization strategy and user expenditure behaviour.
The service will redirect users within the network to indicated games in timely moments taking into
account its monetization potential in the current app (the likelihood of these user still spending
money on it) and the estimated exhaustion points of the app (when users tend to uninstall the
game).
Moreover, BIKO proposes a disruptive business model based on a shared revenue approach easing
the access to app promotion tools to small developers.
Project Acronym:
ZombiApp
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Biko2 2006 SL
TimeAnalyzer in real-time networks
TCN TimeAnalyzer™ is a unique application providing worst-case (and best-case) timing predictions
of a switched Ethernet
network by analyzing a model of the network.
A central part in TCN TimeAnalyzer™ is the computational engine that implements a set of
formulas that allows the
computation of upper bounds on frame latency, jitter and maximum frame buffer space required in
each switch. The formulas
are a result of applying real-time scheduling analysis to packet forwarding in a packet switched
Ethernet network. These
formulas constitute a computational model which allows the prediction of how the limited speed of
physical network devices
and contention among different packets for the same network resources gives rise to latency,
jitter, etc. for a specific packet
forwarded between two nodes in the network. The computational analysis engine will incorporate
models of every
component used in the network and also every other entity that compete for the same network
resources as the packet
under observation.
TCN TimeAnalyzer™ builds simulation models of how different configuration parameters and packet
scheduling
mechanisms of certain switches will affect worst case traffic situations.
A feasibility study shall be developed verifying the technological/practical as well as economic
viability of the innovation.
Activities will focus on innovation activities such as demonstration, testing, prototyping, piloting,
scaling-up, design aiming to
bring the product to industrial readiness and maturity for market introduction. It will also include
some research to further
develop the computational engine.
Project Acronym:
TCN TimeAnalyzer
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Saturday, 2 January, 2016
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
TCN
PRIME (Push Relevantly to Increase Mobile
Engagement)
The rapid growth of smartphones and tablets pave the way for proliferation of a variety of mobile
applications. Push notifications, which provide enhanced communication when compared to SMS,
became the de facto messaging tool between application owners and mobile users. However, push
notifications are still sent carelessly which results user frustration, low open rates (10%) and
decreased user retention.
PRIME (Push Relevantly to Increase Mobile Engagement) is cloud service which aims to create the
next leap in push messaging by gathering various sensory information from mobile devices
analyzing big data and providing real-time insights by using machine learning, data mining and
home grown pattern matching algorithms. PRIME will anticipate mobile users’ context, and
forecasts their needs from previous usage patterns and dynamic models. PRIME will either send
relevant push notification immediately or refer it for a more relevant time in the near future.
PRIME anticipates the “prime time” of mobile user and send push notifications accordingly. The
dynamic model of PRIME is expected to increase open rates of push notifications among
smartphone and tablet users tremendously. PRIME has both benefits to mobile users and mobile
application owners. Sending push notifications relevantly increases customer retention due to
mobile user satisfaction and increases mobile engagement which in turn increases mobile
revenues.
The initial research for PRIME has been done by DONE A.S. and funded by TÜB?TAK (Scientific and
Technological Research Council of Turkey). The research findings, which are also published in
"Human Computer Interaction International" 2013 and 2014, demonstrated a 36% user
engagement increase and 21% increase in the number of active users. These demonstrated results
equal to an impact of 26.62 billion EURO in 2018 globally, whose details are given in the proposal
document.
Project Acronym:
PRIME
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Sunday, 4 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Done Iletisim Bilgi Sistemleri
Muli-path optical fibre modules
The business concept is to provide advanced optical fibre components, modules and sub-systems
utilising advanced, new fibres; few mode fibre (FMF), multi-core fibre (MCF). Sensing systems
based on these new fibres and space division multiplexing (SDM) systems, for enhancing future
network capacity, are being developed, but the problem is that there are no commercially available
component products to build these systems.
The project objective is to develop a range of optical fibre component, module and sub-system
products for FMF and MCF solutions in network and sensing applications. Basic building block
components and fully integrated multiplexers and amplifiers for high channel count systems will be
developed.
Demand for components utilising these new fibres is continuing to increase and technical
specifications are developing. Within this project Phoenix will have the resource to work with the
customer, to develop a required specification of product and supply to the customers’ needs.
The feasibility assessment will enable a full commercial assessment to be made. Current
technology status, competitive landscape, operator forecast and customer requirements will be
assessed. Potential partners and sub-contractors to develop the suite of products will be identified
and a roadmap with route to market will be defined.
The market is global and this project will provide the opportunity for a European SME to be at the
forefront of this key future technology.
Project Acronym:
ModeCore
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 2 January, 2015 to Thursday, 8 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Phoenix Photonics
Digital Rights Management Infrastructure
For 3D Printed Artifacts
The OWNER-CHIP project will enable a Digital Rights Management (DRM) platform to connect brand
owners of digitised assets with 3D printing bureaus. OWNER-CHIP will authenticate the
manufactured product with a unique, embedded verification technology developed in stage 2 of the
project; protecting the brand owners / IP licensors from counterfeiting and enabling added
functionality and enriched content via mobile phone and gaming platforms (digital-physical
extension).
OWNER-CHIP will initially focus on the $10Bn per annum character merchandising segment; the
OWNER-CHIP technology will enable Things3D to revolutionise this market with its disruptive DRM
platform.
Things3D is a young innovative company that needs support to be first-to-market with their DRM
platform. The EC support will enable development of the missing technology needed to realise their
revolutionary concept and turn it in to a robust, innovative solution that places the EU at the heart
of the character merchandising industry.
Project Acronym:
Ownerchip
EU Contribution:
50.000
Project Date:
Friday, 10 January, 2014 to Sunday, 4 January, 2015
Call ID:

H2020-SMEINST-1-2014
Topic:

Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (implemented through the SME instrument)
Beneficiary:
Things 3D