http://www.tid.es/

Contact person: Pierre Plaza


Skill: Telefonica I+D is a company totally owned by Telefónica S.A and operational since 1988. Telefónica S.A has created TID to fulfil its Research and Development requirements with more excellence and profitability and to contribute to Telefónica Group competitiveness through technological innovation. Over the last years, the line of work of TID has evolved to conform to the objective of becoming a services creation lab. This objective is driven by the emergence of interactive multimedia services, which are increasingly becoming a major force in the telecommunications market. TID employs over 1200 persons, 93% of them hold a University degree. Nowadays TID is the most important private company in Spain devoted to R&D and very active in the following major areas: (i) Services creation, related to the broadband, ADSL, intelligent network, data communications, narrow band ISDN, mobile communications, speech technology, multimedia services, and public use telecommunications; (ii) Network and services management, both fixed and mobile, using solutions based on the latest standards; and (iii) Network innovation, with the purpose of supporting Telefónica in its effort to offer the widest possible range of services.. The TID group that will participate in PLASTIC is working on residential services. The main objective of the group is to build a technological framework and a set of solutions for the provision of services to residential users, SME's ("Intelligent offices") that are now evolving to a pervasive computing environment where the user will have access to his personalised services in most situations, e.g., through the mobile cellular networks (GSM, GPRS and UMTS) when away from his residence, for example, in his car, or through hotspots when in public spaces.

Role: TID will contribute to the development and assessment of the integrated PLASTIC platform, in particular using PLASTIC to develop innovative, mobile eHealth application services.

CVs of key persons:

Pierre Yves Plaza Tron studied Electrical and Communications Engineering bachelor degree at the "Universidad Iberoamericana" Mexico city. He graduated at the beginning of 1985 and joined ERICSSON Mexico, ATE division. In 1986-1987 he studied a Master in Electrical Engineering (MEE) at the Philips International Institute-The Netherlands. He has developed his Master thesis at the Philips Research Labs in the analysis for the implementation of a CD player using a “minimum” chipset. From 1987 until 1989 he worked at the Philips Research Laboratories (Eindhoven) in the field of VLSI design. His work then was related to silicon compilation and designs of DSP processors. In 1989 he joined Philips Consumer Electronics Division at the Integrated Circuit Laboratory (Eindhoven), doing some consultancy and analysis of new CAD tools and participating in the development of several IC’s ( DCC chip set, Match Line TV Video processor). From 1991 he joined TELEFONICA I+D and worked in the microelectronics division. He has participated in several Telecom ASIC designs in the field of ATM. He has published several papers in different conferences in the field and got “Best paper awards” in several conferences: ASIC’95, IVC’95, ED&TC’94 and ED&TC’95, DATE'97, IWLAS'98 and CICC'99. He has participated in several Esprit projects such as FORMAT (Tools for Formal verification), EVEREST (tools for test), CHIPPAC (New and advanced MCM and packaging technologies). Where he was task responsible and TID PMC member. He has also been task leader of a couple of JESSI projects in the field of ATM. (AE97, AE102 and AE103). He has reviewed several ESPRIT projects for the EC. In 1996 he was appointed as manager of the Hardware Technology Division which has as main responsibilities: IC design, PCB layouting and the design of public telephony systems. In 1999 he has lead an IST project: IST-10425-VIP (Versatile Integrated Payphone). From 2001 he is in charge of the Control in the Mobile Environment division. The main task of the division is to define and develop services for the smart home. A demonstrator of the "Digital home" has been built in Madrid (2002) integrating a residential Gateway and several home networks (automation, data and entertainment). The results have been disseminated in many events and conferences in the field in Spain.

Carlos Mario Acuña is MS degree in Optical Fiber Telecommunications from the Escuela Superior Técnica de la Republica Argentina (1983), MS in Telecommunications Software from the Cornell Univ., USA (1985) and MS on BA from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (1999). He joined in 1980 the Argentina Naval Electronics Department, working on the design of a meteorological radar, in 1983 the R&D department of the Argentina PTT, working on digital signal processing, optical networking and optical transmission systems. He also served as associated professor in digital techniques and parallel data processing systems at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional Argentina (1983-1986) and Computer interworking systems at Universitas Estudios Superiores of Buenos Aires-Argentina. In 1987 he joined Optical Transmission Division of Telefónica I+D engaged in the field of optical receivers and transmitters as well as in optical coherent multicarrier systems. Since 1992 he moved to the Broadband Switching Division where he has taken part in the RACE 2023 "UNOM" project, I2001 CEC ISABEL, IBER (leader) project, ACTS CANCAN, CIC, ELisa and TECODIS projects, as well as working in the COST 239 project. He is currently involved from 1999 in Home Networking and services related projects. He has also involved in the EURESCOM EU-P231, P616, P918, P941 and P1003 Projects. Currently he is involved (among other issues) in the IST ALBATROSS project and in the Eureka-ITEA OSMOSE project proposal. Carlos Acuña has authored and co-authored more than twenty five papers and has issued two patents.