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"*": "IDC predicts that IoT market spending in Romania will expand from $524.70 million in 2015 to reach $1.33 billion in 2020, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.4%. \n\nTelemedicine systems have gained adoption in order to support smaller hospitals that do not offer a full range of medical services. For example, the Targu Mures Emergency County Hospital is connected to another 40 hospitals in several counties in Transylvania, while the Floreasca Clinic Emergency Hospital in Bucharest is connected to several hospitals in the southern counties of Romania.\n\nSmart parking solutions have been launched in Bucharest and other large cities such as Timisoara, Oradea, Cluj-Napoca, and Iasi, while GPS-based monitoring systems for public transport have also been implemented in various large cities. And the country's first traffic monitoring system was implemented in Timisoara with the help of SWARCO in late 2015.\n\nAnother effective implementation case is Brasov, where all buses are equipped with GPS systems. Collected data is used to offer estimated arrival time to travellers in the bus stations. Same time, during FP7 CityPulse <nowiki>[117]</nowiki> project execution a CKAN platform have been implemented aiming to offer a coherent instrument for a future open data strategy, covering transport, air quality and citizens information and feedback regarding public works in the city. All those systems are correlated with street lighting systems and public safety monitoring, targeting a meaningful and effective use of public services and resources.\n\nA reference case for Smart City implementations is Alba Iulia, where a coherent agenda is in place, addressing strategic needs at all levels, being supported on specific areas by an ecosystem of large and small companies.\n\nIn terms of public safety and emergency response, the most notable achievement thus far is the cooperation between Vodafone and the SMURD emergency rescue service. More than 1,000 SMURD ambulances are connected to a telemedicine system and the on-board medical devices gather and transmit complex data in real time to the connected hospitals. According to SMURD officials, the system is used for more than 30,000 interventions each year in Bucharest alone.\n\nFollowing the initial European Union recommendation that member states roll out intelligent metering to at least 80% of electricity customers by 2020, energy companies started deploying pilot projects throughout Romania. As of the end of 2015, it was estimated that nearly 300,000 smart meters had been deployed, and around 200,000 more were planned for deployment in 2016. Even though the EU extended the period until 2022 after taking into consideration the slow pace of smart meter rollouts in some countries, Romanian authorities are thinking of renegotiating the 80% target, as 8.2 million smart meters still remain to be deployed.\n\nCarrefour currently utilizes a total of 600 beaconing devices across 28 of its Romanian hypermarkets, which work in conjunction with the Carrefour Smart Shopping app running on shoppers' Android smartphones.\n\nOne of the main reasons the Eastern European country is one of the fastest growing IT markets in the region is due to the deregulation of the telecom sector which allowed for significant investment in the ICT sub-sector. Over the last 15 years, they have developed to the point where Romania now has one of the fastest internet connections in the world. The activity in the ICT sector is one of the country\u2019s major growth drivers with a forecast of \u20ac4 billion by 2020. This is no wonder if we take into consideration the 7,000 students that graduate in the IT field each year. Universities across the country were very receptive to the market\u2019s needs and quickly adapted their educational programmes. In consequence, companies like Google, IBM, Microsoft and telecom players such as Vodafone, Telekom and Orange are provided with an educated and forward-thinking workforce. Having the means and the knowledge in place paved the way for new technologies to develop. Romanian start-ups deliver solutions for a whole range of products and services. From Zonga, the four-year-old cloud-based music player to Printivate, the 3D printing optimisation software start-up, Romanian incubators provide with innovative ways to manage the many different aspects of both professional and personal lives <nowiki>[21]</nowiki>.\n\nLooking at recent year another relevant aspect for overall technology exposure is the aquisition of Romanian smart watch producer Vector Watch by world leader in wearable devices \u2013 Fitbit \u2013 followed by the announcement of a new large R&D centre setup in Bucharest.\n\nLooking at R&D activities we can observe a consistent growth of subjects' quality approached and the distribution of them, mostly in collocation with large technical universities as relevant sources of talent pools. Large companies like Continental, Bosch, Siemens, Adobe, Infineon, BMW, Elektrobit involve consistent R&D teams focused on future ready topics like Remote Diagnostics, car instrumentation, connected media. Focus on the subjects is supported by large developers' oriented events like DevTalks <nowiki>[118]</nowiki>. \n\nThe <nowiki>RomanianStartups.com</nowiki> brings together, in one place, the Romanian technology and Internet/IoT related start-ups, founders, accelerators/incubators, events, co-working spaces, mentors, investors and makes it a one-stop-shop for all the information needed to get an overall view of what is happening in the Romanian tech field <nowiki>[22]</nowiki>."
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"*": "Innovation in industry and society is not about technology as such but about a better life for all of us. To achieve that, business and technology have to think in a more holistic way - uniting different modes of thinking - to conceive radically novel products, services and processes that are putting the human being in the center.<br>\n<br>\n''Artistic creativity and critical thinking are essential for innovation in today's digital world\u2026''<br>\nG\u00fcnther H. Oettinger, European Commissioner (2014-2019), Budget & Human Resources. <br>\n\n==(S+T)*ARTS = STARTS==\nInnovation at the nexus of Science, Technology, and the Arts.\nThe European Commission has launched the [https://www.starts.eu/ STARTS] initiative to promote inclusion of artists in innovation projects funded in H2020. In the STARTS perspective, industry has to think more holistically about technologies and services that put people in the center and create values for all. At the same time, the digital transformation of industry and society is already naturally uniting science and engineering with design and artistic approaches. Recognizing these trends, STARTS is bringing artists into innovation. \nOne of the areas in which STARTS is naturally collaborating with is Internet of Things (IoT), the new wave of ubiquitous connectivity and intelligence that represent the next step towards the digitization of our society and economy. The arts can bring resourceful insights in the process of creating lively, human-centered and trustworthy IoT systems for broader adoption. <br>\n<br>\n''I think that more and more we all understand that innovation in the future will be on the intersection of arts and sciences.''<br>\nCarlos Moedas, European Commissioner (2014-2019), Research, Science and Innovation.<br>\n\n\n\n===STARTS Cooperation Model===\n//image//<br>\nThe graphic above describes the STARTS challenge focused on the Arts as catalyst of an efficient conversion of Science and Technology research activities into innovative products, services and processes. The key element of this conversion process is Industry, as it what spreads Innovation in Society and Economy through the introduction of new products, services and processes in the markets. In detail, the Arts have the fundamental role of understanding the needs (and feelings, to that matter) of Society, because Artists are highly sensitive beings that work as sensors that can integrate and express contextual feelings \u2013 what we call in bureaucracy of Societal Challenges. Therefore, Artists are also sensitive to Economy as the survival mechanism of the human species. Artists react, consciously and, most importantly, unconsciously to fluctuations in the stability of economic systems. \nThey can express those fluctuations and survive them by creating alternative paths. This creation of alternatives is the catalytic process in Innovation. Furthermore, Artists can easily make ideas flow in-between Science, Technology, Industry, Society and Economy because of their capability of establishing dialogues.\n\n===STARTS Innovation Model===\n//image//<br>\nThe STARTS Innovation Model creates neutral grounds for transdisciplinary collaboration. In the context of Regional Development, STARTS is creating innovation centers made available by cities or regions. These spaces do not belong to a specific institution. They belong to all. Therefore, in this context, all participants of STARTS driven projects are outside the comfort zone of their labs, studios or offices of their universities or companies. Along the duration of the project, participants will contribute to the creation of innovative approaches to be shared widely and openly, in the spirit of open innovation.<br>\n<br>\nThe [[STARTS IoT Co-Creation Workshops]] are inspired in these models."
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