On April 16th, it was held the closing meeting of the Apollo project, in PT Inovação e Sistemas.

In this event were presented the project’s results, which addressed the theme of M2M/IoT. There were present speakers from the PT Group, the Faculty of Engineering of Oporto University, Ubiwhere, ESAC and Nutrimondego. In parallel, were also presented the applications developed under the Apollo project.

In the audience were employees from PT Inovação e Sistemas, PT Cloud and Data Center, PT Comunicações and from University of Aveiro, University of Coimbra and from the Engirega, MeCalbi, Nutrimondego and Enza Zaden companies.

Staring on October 1, 2011, the Apollo was an innovation project that aimed to develop a technology base for the implementation of services in the field of machine-to-machine communications (M2M/IoT; Machine-to-Machine/Internet of Things). This project was conducted by the consortium between PT Inovação e Sistemas, the leader of the consortium, and the Institute of Telecommunications of Aveiro.

This technology-based, aligned with ETSI standards, offers services that enable the construction of M2M applications (M2M Smart Services) cut across different sectors of activity. In addition to the Application Enablement features focused on the support to M2M applications and on the management of its life cycle, has also been incorporated into the platform the Connectivity Management functionality, focused on the management of the connectivities between the devices and the platform. It was still developed a tool for creating applications that allows, with the help of visual tools, manage and visualize workflows, based on services available on the platform.

In order to test in the real environment of use, the implemented solution, two pilots were developed under the Apollo project: one for the area of agriculture, which led to the installation of various sensors that monitor agricultural emissions in the School of Agriculture of Coimbra (ESAC) and the other for monitoring the road surface with the installation of sensors embedded in vehicles.