S-TEN Project: Intelligent Self-describing Technical and Environmental Networks

S-TEN is a research project having started in April 2006 during till October 2008. It is co-funded by the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). 8 Partners from 5 European countries are participating as contract partners.

Objectives

• to provide decision support in a continually changing technical or environmental network of measurements, human observations and product design information
• to assist data acquisition and process control by self-describing devices, e.g. measurement sensors or intelligent sub-systems
• to tap the new possibilities of the Semantic Web for applications in the technical domain

Innovations

• to design an ontology that enables a device to announce its existence, its position in a network and the services it provides on the web
• to capture human qualitative observations and to publicate them on the web
• to link two generic worlds describing the life cycle of products, i.E. STEP (ISO 10303) and OWL (Ontology Web Language)

Activities

• to evaluate relevant technology in the fields of the semantic web and artificial intelligence
• to design appropriate ontologies derived from existing standards
• to provide appropriate software interfacing the S-TEN ontologies and applying rules to the data
• to demonstrate the technology with practical examples