KITT4SME

Duration

01/10/2020 – 31/03/2020 (42 months)

Cost

7999.799,25 €

Program

H2020

Action

DT-ICT-03-2020 I4MS

Coordinator

Scuola Universitaria Professionale Della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)

Description

KITT4SME specifically targets European SMEs and mid-caps to provide them with scope-tailored and industry-ready hardware, software and organisational kits, delivered as a modularly customisable digital platform, that seamlessly introduce artificial intelligence in their production systems.

Uptake of the resulting packages and of the provided services is strongly supported by the clear characterisation and market readiness of the individual components as well as by the platform grounding on the already established RAMP marketplace. Leverage on the network of Digital Innovation Hubs, three of which are represented in the consortium, ensure that KITT4SME are widely distributed to a wide audience of companies in Europe.

Seamless adoption of the customised kits is made possible by a Powered by FIWARE infrastructure that flawlessly combine factory systems (such as MES and ERP), IoT sensors and wearable devices, robots, collaborative robots and other factory data sources with functional modules capable to trigger data-driven value creation.

Objectives

To make available to SMEs ready-to-use customised digital packages for embracing artificial intelligence opportunities at affordable prices and proper scale
To seamlessly fuse artificial intelligence and human problem-solving expertise into a single digital brain with unprecedented shop floor orchestration capabilities
To build a competence development centre that advances European workforce in line with digital skills trends and workers’ aspirations
To extend the offer of local ecosystem so that players with different competencies can thrive while collaborating in the creation of customisable artificial intelligence kits
To support standardisation in the fields of sovereign data economy and characterisation of workers skills and training experiences