2.3.1. State of the Art (SotA) analysis

(Recommended length: 5 pages) Describe the current technological situation in the project domain with a detailed technical state-of-the-art, with regard to current products, prototypes and research results and trends, both on the industrial and academic sides. For the research state-of-the-art (SotA), also document how your proposed project relates to, and/or builds on results of, and differentiates from, other (past or running) cooperative (e.g. ITEA, H2020, or national) projects or national ICT clusters tackling related issues: we recommend filling in, for each of such projects or national ICT clusters, a short description thereof in the suggested table below, focusing on the aspects related to the proposed project and a short description of how the proposed project relates to, and/or builds on and differentiates from it. Please note that in this table below, the last column, “Relationship”, should explain:  which input modules will be reused from the mentioned project;  and/or what will be transferred from this proposal to the mentioned project;  or the reasons why the consortium does not intend to reuse/transfer results from/to the mentioned project (i.e. why the results already achieved are not useful for this proposal). NB1: The ITEA Living Roadmap (accessible through the ITEA Community website) provides a rich source of information with regard to the existing SotA. Use it but go also beyond its content to extend the known SotA (e.g. with the very latest products, achievements, publications, etc.). NB2: For each past or running ITEA project, a two-page description ("Leaflet") is available on the ITEA public website. The state-of-the-art described in the project proposal will have to be updated / extended in the course of the project and integrated in a public deliverable. Except for specific cases, the state-of-the-art section of the project proposals will be considered by the ITEA Office as a public document which could be added to the Living Roadmap. This subsection should convince evaluators that the project partners have detailed knowledge of the technological background (and evolution) in the targeted field. ITEA considers the State-of-the-Art analysis as a key tool to clearly understand and steer innovation all along the project lifespan.