SemProM - Dissemination and Impact

In the SEMPROM project “Products Keep a Diary” smart labels give products a memory and support intelligent logistics. Within the ICT 2020 research program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research the Innovation Alliance “Digital Product Memory” (IA DPM) is developing key technologies for the Internet of Things in the cooperative project SEMPROM. Through the use of integrated sensors, relations in the production process become transparent and supply chains as well as environmental influences traceable. The producer is supported and the consumer better informed about the product. 1 Lead Project in the Innovation Alliance “Digital Product Memory” ICT-supported logistics and services related to high-value products, starting from the initial consult and covering everything from maintenance and repair to recycling, has become a key success factor in many sectors. To remain competitive in the global markets, manufacturing and trading companies find they are more and more dependent on the ability to capture and track a product together with all its relevant lifecycle data. As part of the Innovation Alliance “Digital Product Memory” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the research and industry technology cooperation “SEMPROM—Semantic Product Memory” aimed at the development of the next generation of mobile, embedded, and wireless elements. While the research activities of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology within the High-Tech Strategy for Germany of the Federal Government focus on the “Internet of Services” by means of the program iD2010 (see Heuser and Wahlster 2011, and, for example, the THESEUS research program1), the SEMPROM project addresses fundamental challenges in building the complementary 1www.theseus-programm.de. A. Blocher (B) DFKI GmbH, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Germany e-mail: [email protected] W. Wahlster (ed.), SemProM, Cognitive Technologies, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-37377-0_2, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 23