Objectives:
KITT4SME (platform-enabled KITs of arTificial intelligence FOR an easy uptake by SMEs) specifically targets European SMEs and mid-caps to provide them with scope-tailored and industry-ready hardware, software and organisational kits, delivered as modularly customisable digital platform, that seamlessly introduce artificial intelligence in their production systems.
Uptake of the resulting packages and of the provided devices is strongly supported by the clear characterisation and market readiness of the individual components as well as by the platform grounding on the already established RAMP Marketplace. Leverage on the network of Digital Innovation Hubs, three of which are represented in the consortium, ensure that KITT4SME are widely distributed to a wide audience of companies in Europe. Seamless adoption of the customised kits is made possible by a Powered by FIWARE infrastructure that flawlessly combine Factory systems (such as MES and ERP), IoT sensors and wearable devices, robots, collaborative robots and other Factory data sources with functional modules capable to trigger data-driven value creation.
The KITT4SME concept comes into being from the acknowledge that companies are unprepared and inadequately exposed to extremely complex and widely diverse digital solutions in the field of artificial intelligence that are often much too broad in scope and relentless in dictating their own objectives instead of focusing on the issues a company really faces. Yet, whereas big companies have capitals and resources to research and build platforms internally, SMEs struggle in finding solutions that are fitting to their needs and, even when exposed to them, have to bear significant financial risks to embrace them while lacking the competences for a first-right selection. Lag in the digitisation race for them is not a system by-product it is a designed feature.
- To make available to SMEs ready-to-use customised digital packages for embracing artificial intelligence opportunities at affordable prices and proper scale.
- To seamlessly fuse artificial intelligence and human problem-solving expertise into a single digital brain with unprecedented shop floor orchestration capabilities
- To build a competence development centre that advances European workforce in line with digital skills trends and workers’ aspirations
- To extend the offer of local ecosystem so that players with different competencies can thrive while collaborating in the creation of customisable artificial intelligence kits
- To support standardisation in the fields of sovereign data economy and characterisation of workers’ skills and training experience.
GAMHE participated in:
WP09 -> Dissemination and Comunication Plan
WP06 -> Demonstration of Pilots
Period of the project: 2020 – 2024
Link to the website: https://kitt4sme.eu/
