Cofinancing

Project name
Alliance for the Energy Transition (ATE)
Project description
The Alliance for the Energy Transition aims to strengthen the competitiveness and resilience of companies in the energy sector as a result of the creation of innovative and export-oriented products and solutions, based on technology and know-how developed and consolidated in the sector, placing Portugal at the forefront of decarbonization and fostering an effective energy transition.
Objectives
ATE will make a significant and sustained contribution to national strategic objectives, such as increasing exports (443M€), increasing investment in R&D (209.5M€), reducing emissions (3.4 MtonCO2), as well as changing the economy's specialization profile (550M€ sales in 2027). ATE involves a total of 52 companies, 28 entities from the Research & Innovation System, which will create a truly structuring ecosystem for the Energy Transition, which in addition to the expected PPS, will also involve the creation of 420 qualified jobs.
ARMIS' participation aims to develop a set of Virtual Test Set and diagnostic module tools that will allow automation engineers to test and validate specific IED configurations without the need to have the IED live. It also aims to design a proof-ofconcept Digital TWIN IED for IED Virtualization.
Investment
TOTAL INVESTMENT IN THE AGENDA: €274,195,106.32
ARMIS INVESTMENT: 270.835,99€
BENEFICIARY ENTITY: Armis - Sistemas de Informação, Lda.
START DATE: November 1, 2021
COMPLETION DATE: December 31, 2025
TOTAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE AGENDA: 157.037.145,91€
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR ARMIS: 151.832,22 €

Project name
Be.Neutral – Mobility Strategy for Carbon Neutrality in Cities
TOTAL INVESTED IN THE STRATEGY | €221,376,867.92
INVESTED BY ARMIS | €2,371,242
MEASURE | Green Agendas for Business Innovation
BENEFICIARY | Armis – Sistemas da Informação, Lda.
START DATE | October 1, 2021
COMPLETION DATE | December 31, 2025
TOTAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE STRATEGY | €128,191,402.26
FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO ARMIS | €1,624,981.33
Goals and expected results
Be.Neutral seeks to position Portugal as an exporter of cyber-physical zero-carbon mobility products to cities around the world. Its design arose from an opportunity to develop, industrialise, and operate new mobility products and services (physical devices, connectivity and data science platforms) that are able to quantify the emissions avoided in real time so as to accelerate carbon neutrality by 2030.
The participation of ARMIS focuses seeks to develop an integrated first/last-mile mobility hub system. The proposed system consists of a network of modular and flexible infrastructures that aggregate demand for sustainable mobility services in cities. These infrastructures promote the adoption of eco-friendly and shared mobility modes, complementing public transportation. Additionally, the system is highly digital and provides easy access to real-time information about mobility services through interactive solutions.
The mobility hub is multifunctional, modular, scalable, sustainable, and offers a variety of services, including public transportation information and user experience enhancements.

Project name
Project: Route 25: Agenda for Autonomous, Intelligent, Interoperable, and Inclusive Mobility
TOTAL AGENDA INVESTMENT | €51,331,437.19
ARMIS INVESTMENT | €1,678,375
MEASURE | Agendas for Business Innovation
BENEFICIARY ENTITY | Armis – Sistemas da Informação, Lda.
START DATE | October 1, 2022
COMPLETION DATE | September 30, 2025
TOTAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE AGENDA | €32,584,211.15
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR ARMIS | €839,187.50
Goals and expected results
Route 25 aims to "position Portugal at the forefront of intelligent and inclusive transportation technologies." This project leverages research and development of disruptive technological solutions for Autonomous, Intelligent, Interoperable, and Inclusive Mobility, creating a new value chain in Portugal in high-tech activities and territorial cohesion, generating €80 million in sales and 488 jobs.
Route 25 is based on areas of intervention that will result in the introduction of 47 innovative and disruptive PPS into the market. ARMIS' participation focuses on 3 PPS with the goal of 1) promoting and redesigning traffic management and energy efficiency architectures, 2) improving the quality of navigation services and flexibility of traffic management measures, and 3) enhancing support for automated vehicles to provide guidance on the road network's readiness for the next era of road automation.

Project name
GRID’S PREDICTIVE MANAGEMENT CONSIDERING DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES
General objective
The GPDER+ project aims to research and develop a SCADA/DMS system dedicated to Predictive Management of the Distribution Network (high and medium voltage) and a Demand Response Management System (DRMS) platform that allows the implementation of new business models for the Management of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) operated by different entities (e.g., aggregators, marketers, consumer cooperatives). The platforms to be developed will be prepared to deal with the specificities of Distribution Networks, namely a high integration of renewable sources and flexible resources. To this end, the technical functional and non-functional requirements necessary for the integration of flexibility into the electricity market and system operation will be taken into account, providing the Distribution Network Operator with greater capacity for monitoring and predictive control of the electricity network and the integration of new business models based on the sale of flexibility to the Distribution Network Operator. The innovative and differentiating character of the GPDER+ solution stems from the proposed development logic – Predictive Management of Distribution Networks, taking into account the modeling of uncertainty associated with renewable energy sources, ensuring interoperability between the Distribution Network Operator's systems and new business models dedicated to the management of distributed electrical resources. Replicability is also a critical objective in the design of solutions, demonstrating the fundamental importance of adopting IEC standards, developing computational applications for networks with reduced monitoring of measurements at transformer stations, and integrating different types of DER (namely distributed storage). The aim is to revisit EFACEC's SCADA/DMS solution, providing it with greater robustness and scalability to the system, new functionalities at the core module level, and applications for network operation. A DRMS platform will also be developed for two business models in active consumption management: a) a cooperative made up of normal and special low-voltage consumers, adding flexibility at the transformer station level; b) a marketer essentially aimed at industrial customers and buildings connected to high and medium voltage.
Duration
2019-2022
Promoters
Efacec Energia - Máquinas e Equipamentos Eléctricos S.A
INESC TEC
PH ENERGIA, LDA.
ARMIS – Sistemas de Informação, LDA.
Expected results
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Management of a large volume of data in distribution electric networks
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Predictive Management of the Distribution Network
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Integration of New Distributed Energy Resources (DER) into Distribution Network Management
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Increased Operators' Awareness of the Electrical Network's Operation Status
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Integration of New Electrical Network Management Paradigms into Operator Training
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Creation of technical conditions for flexibility-based business models
Financing program
Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Program (POCI)
PROJECT: No. 31/SI/2017
TOTAL INVESTMENT: €1,343,369.79
ELIGIBLE: €1,338,410.06
NON-REPAYABLE INCENTIVE: €835,942.27

Project name
Scalable Centralized Grid Protection, Automation, and Control
General objective
The SCALE project aims to centralize the control, management, protection, and monitoring of medium-voltage networks in a high-performance virtual solution with high reliability, resilience, and security, challenging current substation architectures and constituting a significant innovation in the energy sector.
The SCALE project aims to create a highly innovative solution for the control, protection, management, and monitoring of medium-voltage (MV) networks that is completely new compared to current systems, unifying functionalities in a reliable and resilient digital platform. This venture aims to revolutionize the protection, operation control, and security systems of MV power substations and networks by designing and developing an infrastructure, applications, and a centralized control and protection service platform to redesign the architecture of current power substations in the context of Smart Grids. It will be a system capable of enabling interaction between the central system and all information available at the substation and in the MV network. This new architecture will enable versatile, scalable, more secure, and easily updatable solutions.
Duration
2021-2023
Promoters
Efacec Energia - Máquinas e Equipamentos Eléctricos S.A
INESC TEC
ARMIS – Sistemas de Informação, LDA.
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Objectives
The SCALE project has seven specific objectives:
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Develop and demonstrate a centralized infrastructure for protection, automation, and control supported by a generic hardware platform and virtualization solutions.
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Design a new type of merging unit, including sensing and process-level actuation, with advanced communications based on IEC 61850 standards.
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Develop integrated components with infrastructure software and define testing methodologies to ensure the security of access, data, and communications.
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Develop advanced functionalities for the protection and distributed automation of MT networks to manage the network actively and securely.
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Specify suitable methods for testing and commissioning the proposed centralized solution.
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Validate and demonstrate a set of new approaches to primary asset protection in substations supported by the Centralized Protection and Control infrastructure in advanced simulation environments and real networks.
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Evaluate the technical and economic impact of project implementation and results on the sector, including the realization of a pilot industrial solution.
Financing program
Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) through the Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Program (POCI)
Project
Project No. 17/SI/2019
TOTAL INVESTMENT
€2,156,546.62
ELIGIBLE
€2,124,949.10
NON-REPAYABLE INCENTIVE
€1,364,405.09