HERMES dissemination and communication activities (WP2) carried out can be grouped into main actions:
1. HERMES visual identity and website development to communicate the aim of the project, its results and progress:
https://www.HERMES-taitus.eu(öffnet in neuem Fenster) with links to and from the TAITUS website (
https://www.taitussoftware.com(öffnet in neuem Fenster)) is regularly updated with news and events on the project. Internet presence has been created through specific blogs and groups in main social media.
2. Physical and electronic marketing material for press releases have been created, such as posters, editing of promotional docs, mailing and dissemination pack for widespread use, online communication tools, brochures.
3. To successfully exploit the results of our innovation the following actions have been developed:
- Reaching target end-users with marketing campaigns and commercial presentations at trade shows.
- Establishing business relationships and partnerships with potential customers;
- Populating a CRM to manage, update, sort commercial information efficiently.
- Presenting a promoting new product developed during the project.
The porting activity (WP3) carried out can be grouped in 2 main areas:
1. Substitution of Windows proprietary foundation classes with multi-platform equivalents in the whole Core libraries baseline. We used as much as possible the C++ standard libraries as well as the Boost libraries to avoid dependencies from 3rd party cross-platform frameworks. The ported Core libraries have been integrated into our main product, SaVoir, and they have been delivered to our clients across the world.
2. Transition from vector to raster technology to perform geometrical calculations. We passed from a vector representation of the GIS elements to a raster representation that allowed us to improve the performance of the computation engine. We also increased the robustness of the acquisition plan generation engine which has been made independent from the complexity of the input areas of interest. Work on porting is still ongoing.
The HERMES SDK development (WP4) has been steered from the original path towards a web-oriented approach, following the needs we collected from our old, new, and potential customers during the many space industry events we attended during the project. As a results a new product “SatX Online” has been developed.
- The entire API and the associated documentation (WP5), including the user/developer guides, a complete set of examples (training packages), and all the necessary web-based resources to provide the best user and developer experience to our clients (forums, newsletters, FAQs, technical support online, wikis, etc.) were uploaded online and continuously updated in parallel to the development activities. In addition, we have added a PowerPoint presentation and some online videos to explain how HERMES works.
