National Mechatronic Platform—The Foundation of a Smart and Sustainable Society Development

Abstract

The paper aims to explain details related on the innovative potential of mechatronics as environment for smart education, organizational learning and sustainable development, to enhance the pillars of a Smart and Sustainable Society. At the EU level these pillars are defined as smart governance, smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment and sustainable development, smart living and smart people. Mechatronic platforms as complex technical systems integrating elements of mechanical engineering, electrical-electronic engineering and computer science engineering are the basic infrastructure of these environments. The National Mechatronic Platform (NMP) is conceived as a national mechanism of a network structure to activate the human and material resources at all the levels and to ensure the systemic approach of the complex problems regarding smart education, organizational learning and sustainable development in Romania. Based on this technical and scientific support, the Platform for Smart Education, Organizational Learning and Sustainable Development will be developed. Specific details are also presented in the paper. The proposed solutions are useful to get the main goals of the UN 2030 Project too. As it is known, Mechatronics (the backbone), Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT), are the triangle of the twenty-first century technologies, the foundation of the 4.0 industry