The Anglo-French software house Sema Group Plc, which is serving as project leader for the PRIAM – Prenormative Requirements for Intelligent Actuation and Measurement – Esprit project, says the European Commission has approved the PRIAM’s conceptual framework for standardising industrial command and control systems. As a result, the project will attempt to extend the prototype standard to other industrial sectors besides energy, where it had been focused. The company says a prototype is expected in early 1994. The three-year PRIAM project, which was initiated in June 1992 at a budget of $8.7m, aims at specifying, developing and experimenting with the intelligence of collectors and activators to arrive at a standard. Sema’s partners in the project include European energy firms Electricite de France, ENEL SpA, EDP Ltda, Portugal, Laborelec, Belgium and Elf Aquitaine, France.
