TNO Netherlands
The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) is a non-profit research organisation. Established in 1932, TNO's public mission has been laid down in a special law: to support industry and society in general in transforming knowledge into products and processes of economic and societal value. TNO is fully independent and acts as an interface between science and the market. TNO has about 4,700 employees working in five core areas, including Information and Communications Technology. Currently, this division comprises 320 highly qualified scientific and technical staff.
TNO brings in the background and expertise through their experience with utilities projects. TNO is e.g. part of the Smart Power System consortium, developing management systems for de-centralized energy systems. In particular TNO develops for these smart energy setups ICT architectures with a focus on administrative processes such as billing. Furthermore, TNO has in-depth experience from standardisation activities, in particular in the field of telecommunication standardisation. There are key contributions to all telecommunication standards.
TNO's Contributions
In the MIRABEL project, TNO will contribute to the overall architecture. Building on top of the overall architecture, TNO is the work package leader for WP2, which describes the contents and procedures for exchanging information (e.g. micro-requests) between the different roles identified in MIRABEL. TNO also leads the activities focusing on standardising the results of the project.
Key personnel
TNO's MIRABEL team is led by Dr. Ir. J.P.C. Verhoosel, a Senior Business Consultant and
IT-Architect with a PhD in Computer Science. He has already worked as a researcher and project manager at the Telematics Institute and Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, and since 2003, he has held the position of the group leader on "Connected Business" at TNO. The group's focus is on interoperability, architecture and standardisation of organisations and IT to support the exchange of information. Dr. Verhoosel is supported by M.J.Konsman, M.Sc., an Architectural Engineer at TNO in the domain of Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures, who combines the research in Event-Driven Architectures with sensor technology. He has applied this research in the telecommunications sector and also in the area of environmental safety (IJkdijk). He has strong skills in the development of solution architectures and has engineered numerous innovative concepts for the telecommunications and utilities domains for prototyping and trial purposes.