PRONTO emphasises the role of event recognition in intelligent resource management. The project proposes a methodology for fusing data from various sources, analysing it to extract useful information in the form of events. The resulting knowledge will be delivered for decision making through a user-friendly intelligent resource management (IRM) service including a digital map interface (MAP).

PRONTO derives its motivation from the fact that today's organisations are able to collect data in various structured and unstructured digital formats, but they do not have the capability to fully utilise these data to support and improve their resource management process. It is evident that the analysis and interpretation of the collected data needs to be automated and transformed into operational knowledge.

Events are particularly important pieces of knowledge, as they represent the temporal nature of the processes taking place in an organisation. Therefore, the recognition of events is of outmost importance in resource management.