Cynergy4MIE is a visionary project poised to revolutionize Europe’s industrial landscape by bridging the gap between foundational technology layers, cross-sectional technologies, and key application areas. The project addresses the pressing need for efficient resource utilization and synergy creation across ecosystems. By actively managing requirements from various key application areas, Cynergy4MIE aims to steer developments in foundational technology layers and cross-sectional technologies, enabling unparalleled collaboration and resource optimization. This approach promises faster time-to-market, efficient resource utilization, and enhanced technological exchange between key application areas. Cynergy4MIE’s strategy aligns with the EU’s agenda and emphasizes urgency, resilience, technological partnerships, and cross-domain integration to support European competitiveness. The project’s long-term impact rests on embracing urgency, fostering competitive resilience, strengthening technological partnerships, harnessing ecosystem synergies, promoting cross-domain integration, advancing AI competence, prioritizing sustainability, enhancing productivity, and ensuring user-centric digitalization while forming strategic alliances. Cynergy4MIE envisions a future where emergent cyber-physical systems serve human-centric needs, drive domain convergence, and secure Europe’s position as a global technology leader.

The project’s main objective are as follows:

• Built in multi-physical design in competitive ECS components​: Cynergy4MIE develops and integrates sensing technologies, including advanced quantum sensors (like nanodiamond-based sensors) and innovative mm-wave sensors with enhanced capabilities. These sensors enable multi-modal measurements, providing crucial data for applications ranging from battery cell analysis to advanced motor control.

• Collaborative machines for co-existence in complex content for productivity: The project advances the capabilities of industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) by addressing critical challenges in AI-driven manufacturing. These challenges include ensuring safe and secure human-robot collaboration, mitigating the risks associated with AI system failures, and establishing robust safety protocols for AI-integrated systems.

• Use emergence in systems for efficiency in operation​: Cynery4MIE enhances operational efficiency by developing AI-driven digital assets that facilitate collaboration between systems. Specifically, the project develops an open Edge-AI continuum platform that supports the collaborative work of multiple AI agents. This platform leverages advanced AI techniques, including edge computing, to optimize performance and enable efficient decision-making within these complex systems.

• Facilitate the convergence of mobility x energy infrastructure​: By aligning mobility, infrastructure, and energy ecosystems, the project enhances energy resourcefulness and drive innovation. Cynergy4MIE achieves this by leveraging CPS to optimize energy and resource use, reduce waste, and improve efficiency and safety.

• Competitive ecosystems to foster the rise of circular economy in EU: Cynergy4MIE strengthens European competitiveness by fostering industrial ecosystems that prioritize circularity, enhance resource efficiency, and minimize environmental impact. This is achieved by developing and implementing best practices, methodologies, and procedures that facilitate synergies and drive sustainable innovation across various sectors.

ITML’s role in the project

In the Cynergy4MIE project, ITML is a key contributor to the development and implementation of advanced data analytics solutions for automated driving systems. Specifically, ITML is responsible for defining requirements, designing architectures, developing algorithms, and ensuring seamless system integration and validation of the final product. Finally, ITML leads the dissemination, communication and exploitation efforts, ensuring the project’s visibility, impact and sustainability.

For more information, visit the official project website: https://cynergy4mie.eu/

Acknowledgments

The project CYNERGY4MIE has received funding from the Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) and its members (including top-up funding by the National Authority of Cyprus, the Research & Innovation Foundation – RIF) under Grant Agreement No. 101140226. The project is co-funded by the EU within the framework of the Cohesion Policy Programme “THALIA 2021-2027”.