The SoDa Project Fact Sheet
Proposal Number: IST-1999-12245 Version : 2
Acronym: SoDa
Title: SoDa. Integration and exploitation of networked Solar radiation Databases for environment monitoring
Key Action: KA I
Research Area:
Action line: 1.1.2.-1.5.1
ABSTRACT: The project SoDa answers the needs of industry and research for
information on solar radiation parameters with a satisfactory quality.
The methodology is user-driven with a large involvement of users
in the project. A prototype service will be developed that will
integrate and efficiently exploit diverse networked information
sources to supply value-added information in a selected number of
environmental applications. A multi-disciplinary consortium has
been assembled, which gathers companies and researchers with the
necessary expertise in solar radiation and information and communications
technologies. Customers and potential users are also represented
as partners in the consortium via the involvement of commercial
private vendors of solar radiation databases and of representatives
of large international or local environmental research and development
programmes.
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the project SoDa are:
- to answer the needs for high quality customer-tailored information on solar radiation to integrate diverse sources of information presently available separately within a smart integrating network to develop and operate a prototype service, which efficiently exploits this smart network, and which will be used and gauged by selected users to increase the quality of the delivered information through improved modelling of time and space structures of the solar radiation, and improved matching to actual customer needs
- to disseminate the achievements of the project, and assess the sustainability of a permanent commercial service
MILESTONES:
m6 Dissemination and Use Plan
m12 - m19 A prototype service version
1, then 2, is available and tested by customers
m18 - m24 1st and 2nd critical reviews
of the project
m22 - m26 Final versions of schemes for
improved customer-tailored information
m30
Final version of the prototype service. Conclusions and recommendations
from users. Expression of benefits and value of the service
m36 End
of project. Final version of the technology implementation plan
Last update: 2/23/12 5:20 PM