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This project addresses a timely and challenging topic. The team has a very good background in the area and builds on existing collaborations, bringing together academia and industry. The scientific expertise is very good but not excellent.

The project lacks details regarding how research results will be integrated, and how industrial partners will make use of project results. The dissemination plan is very solid as it targets typical publication activities but also organization of specific Workshops, approach to standardization bodies and approach to European Technology Platforms.

Comments: The main integration will take place along two lines, being (i) the simulation of security models and modules, and (ii) the integration in the test-bed by NR and the showroom of NCE Smart and eSmart Systems.

The overall plan could be improved by being more selective and focusing on quality instead on quantity and wide coverage. Several challenges remain without a convincing answer.

Comments: Thanks for the comment on quality, rather than quantity and wide coverage. However, we feel that we first need to prepare the ground in a wide sense, and then use the feedback from the industrial partners and their requirements for the Security Centre to focus on specific challenges. Thus, we expect that we can provide a more focussed approach at M06 (after the second progress meeting) with a more streamlined approach influenced by Industry

Prosjektet vurderes til et "meget godt" forskerprosjekt.

Assessment of relevance:

Prosjektets relevans i forhold til utlysningen vurderes å være "meget godt".

Prosjektet bidrar i stor grad til utvikling av sterke og robuste nasjonale forskningsgrupper. Prosjektet involverer et FoU-samarbeid mellom flere sentrale forskningsmiljø. I tillegg er flere energiselskaper med som brukerpartnere. Prosjektet har målsetting om å bidra til en nasjonal klynge innen fagfeltet og har derfor klare kompetansebyggende ambisjoner. Utdanning av tre phd stipendiater og finansiering av tre post doc stipender vil bidra til dette.

Prosjektet bidrar noe til å styrke forskningsmiljøenes internasjonale konkurransekraft. Det skyldes i hovedsak et allerede et godt internasjonalt nettverk blant partnerne. Hvilke nye internasjonaliseringsaktiviteter prosjektet skal bidra med sies det lite om og det er heller ikke dokumentert at det inngår noe internasjonalt samarbeid.

Comments: Here we have to be more precise, on how to build the international network. It includes a cross-European network for IoTSec, with a prototype network at Mondragon University (MGEP), an exchange of key personnel both ways, ... Regarding the European Technology platforms and collaborations, DG14 Energy invited us to the ICT 2015 conference to join a Network Session on Data Management, initiated by our collaboration project H2020 Empower.

Prosjektets bidrag til utvikling av nye innovasjoner og samfunnsnytte forventes å være betydelig. Innovasjonspotensialet for sikre IoT løsninger er stort og tett involvering og utstrakt samarbeid med brukermiljøene i et slikt prosjekt vil kunne sikre at forskningsresultatene raskere finner anvendelser til nytte for samfunnet.