Date and Location | MONET partners | Event Name | Main Participants | Objective | Results for MONET |
17th February, 2009, UME Head Quarter, Madrid, Spain | ISDEFE | Personal interviews with Spanish Military Unit (UME) for Emergencies | UME members. | Presentation of MONET in order to involve them first during MONET proposal submission phase and after during the beginning of the project phase to collect their impressions and view about the objectives planned. | The involvement achieved from them for MONET project is as observers. |
17th March 2010, UME Head Quarter, Madrid, Spain | ISDEFE | Personal interviews with Spanish Civil Guard (Communications Department) | UME members. | To obtain from them their ideas and suggestions about MONET functional and operational requirements. One of the missions of Civil Guard is to deal with Spanish Borders Surveillance, and our interest where to involve them to define the Border Control Scenario. | The involvement achieved from them for MONET project is as observers. |
12th April 2010, Fire Brigade Office, Madrid, Spain | ISDEFE | Personal interviews with Madrid Fire Brigade | Head of Unit of Madrid Fire Brigade. | Double finality: a) explaining to them more in detail technical aspects of the project; b) collect valuable information for the definition of Forest Fire Scenario and requirements. | They provide crucial end user requirements included in MONET reports (weight of nodes, necessity of relay nodes, number of required fire fighters, operational procedures of fire brigades etc). |
12th April 2010, Fire Brigade Office, Madrid, Spain
| ISDEFE | Personal interviews with Madrid Medical Services SAMUR | Head of Unit of Madrid Fire Brigade. | Double finality: a) explaining to them more in detail technical aspects of the project; b) collect valuable information for the definition of Public Safety Scenarios and requirements. | They provide crucial end user requirements included in MONET reports (voice requirements between hospitals and ambulances, number of required medical services, operational procedures of medical services, etc). |
14th April 2010 and 14th June 2010, ISDEFE offices and Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain | ISDEFE | Personal interviews with AENA | The first interview with two experts in Airport Systems, and the second interview with operations control manager of Barajas airport | 1) Gather information about current technologies used in communications within the airport, needs and possible MONET requirements. 2) Obtain information about operational procedures, current positioning systems and communications used for airport control, maintenance and emergency operations. | They provide crucial information relating Airport Control scenario definition and specific related requirements. |
16th-18th June 2010, Florence, Italy | UNIS, CRAT | Future Network & Mobile Summit 2010 | International conference audience, with strong interest on EU FP7 projects. | Presentation of the MONET concept. | MONET concept presented to the international research community. |
20th-22nd September 2010, Portoroz, Slovenia | URSZR | Nineteenth International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference | Electrical and computer science experts. | Presentation of the MONET concept and usage the MONET art in the field of public warning systems. | MONET concept presented to the international research community. |
6th-10th December 2010, Miami, USA | UNIS | IEEE Globecom 2010 | Satellite and ad hoc network community on a global scale. | Paper Presentation and networking with ad hoc network research community. Chair Ad-Hoc Routing session (UNIS). | Bringing new ideas and state-of-the art of ad hoc networks to the project. |
24th March 2011, Toulouse, France | ASTR | EADS Astrium Internal presentation | Astrium managers and engineers | Identification of possible synergies with other activities, internal dissemination and possible identification of future activities in line with MONET | Discussion on-going for future activities to pursue MONET investigations |
7th-8th June 2011, Brussels, Belgium | ASTR, TEK | PSCE Forum | Public Safety key players: users, industrial, operators and institutional representatives | Gather PSC feeling about future communication systems – to be in line in MONET and to keep in mind users requirements and key issues for Public Safety community | Discussion about a possible presentation of MONET results during a next Forum (target in June 2012) |
April-May 2011, Portugal | TEK | Ad-hoc meetings | Portuguese Navy, Portuguese Army, Public Safety Police | To present the project, its objectives and achievements to potential end-users and gather their feedback | Project and challenges awareness by the end-user community |
17th-20th May 2011, Budapest, Hungary | CRAT | ISI General Assembly and ISI-ICT meeting | Satellite segment experts | To assess the status and the future of satellite projects in FP7, being representative of MONET, which is one of the few on-going satellite-related projects | MONET concept presented to the international satellite-segment research community |
21st October 2011, Spain | ISDEFE | Presentation to Civil protection | Civil protection members | Dissemination of the progresses and current status of MONET | The involvement achieved from them for MONET project is as observers |
18th November 2011, Spain | ISDEFE | Presentation in INTA (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial) | INTA members | Dissemination activity of MONET scope and usefulness | MONET concept presentation in INTA in order to obtain their support for the field trial in such premises |