The Secure Communicating Solutions (SCS) World Competitive Cluster
The SCS Cluster’s mission is to provide a major contribution to a policy to boost innovation by encouraging new collaborative projects in innovation centered on five main themes: connectivity, identity, mobility, traceability and security.
Among the projects officially endorsed by the SCS Cluster in 2010, was the set-up of a trusted third party (TTP) hub for human services to guarantee data integrity. The project, which aims to optimize often long and costly administrative procedures, offers an alternative to remote management using secure mobile NFC technology.
The year 2011 saw the launch of the Telecoms Hub, a unique site in the PACA region dedicated to the development of the latest generation of innovating wireless communicating solutions. The hub, which brings together under one roof a number of technologies such as mobile broadband (4G/LTE), provides companies with access to tools for developing, testing and evaluating their new products. This new flagship structure to aid innovation in the PACA region focuses on the two main areas of mobile networks and systems of the future and of M2M applications, components, networks and communicating objects.
www.pole-scs.org
PACA Labs
PACA Labs is a “life-size” experimental test bed aimed at promoting and supporting digital innovation and its applications in the region.
PACA Labs’ activity is focused on three main points:
- Life-size prototyping of innovative digital technologies and services across the region;
- Cooperation in the design of products and services with an upstream end-user input within the framework of a research and experimentation project involving ICTs;
- Digital ecosystem projects within a defined territory with a view toward a living lab concept.
“Playground” and “Personal NFC Services” are two examples of the projects supported by Paca Labs.
“Playground” is a platform for the design and publishing of geolocation games. To test these interactive games, the city of Marseilles was transformed for one evening into a vast testing ground, an initiative that was sponsored by Nokia.
The aim of "Personal NFC Services" is to deploy basic NFC services with a view to gauging the public’s requirements and the users’ adoption of the services offered. The bottom line in this experiment is to establish whether consumers are ready to take on board this new type of cell phone usage.
Through the work of PACA Labs, users are taking an active part in digital innovation in our region.
Euroméditerranée
One of the City of Marseilles’ aims with this project is to develop a “connected, intelligent city” using contactless technologies (NFC). Set right in the heart of Marseilles, the Euroméditerranée district’s role as an experimental zone for mobile technologies and applications is a perfect example of that strategy.
The first personal NFC services are already up and running in the form of NFC stickers affixed to construction site fences that the public can use to obtain information about the work in progress on their cell phones.
The NFC technology will be progressively introduced to a wide range of services, including car parks, public transport, street-side bicycle hire, retailer loyalty schemes and local government services.
http://www.euromediterranee.fr/?L=1
