European Research and Innovation Projects
EUCloudEdgeIoT.eu coordinates a portfolio of projects in the CEI Computing Continuum to ensure consistent exploitation of these projects outcomes to help regain European competitiveness in core internet infrastructures.
Check the current members per different call:
AI Sprint
AI-SPRINT defines a novel framework for the design and operation of AI applications in computing continua.
AI-SPRINT goes beyond supporting AI applications development by enabling the seamless design and partition of AI applications among the plethora of cloud-based solutions and AI-based sensor devices, providing security and privacy guarantees.
More info: ai-sprint-project.eu
Charity
CHARITY aspires to leverage the benefits of intelligent, autonomous orchestration of cloud, edge, and network resources, to create a symbiotic relationship between low and high latency infrastructures that will facilitate the needs of emerging applications.
More info: charity-project.eu
SERRANO
SERRANO’s overall ambition is to introduce a novel ecosystem of cloud-based technologies, spanning from specialized hardware resources up to software toolsets. This will enable application-specific service instantiation and optimal customizations based on the workloads to be processed, in a holistic manner, thus supporting highly demanding, dynamic and security-critical applications.
More info: ict-serrano.eu
DATACLOUD
DataCloud delivers a toolbox of new languages, methods, infrastructures, and prototypes for discovering, simulating, deploying, and adapting Big Data pipelines on heterogeneous and untrusted resources. DataCloud separates the design from the run-time aspects of Big Data pipeline deployment, empowering domain experts to take an active part in their definitions.
More info: datacloudproject.eu
PHYSICS
PHYSICS is empowering European cloud service providers to leverage cutting-edge, scalable and cost-effective cloud models, such as function-as-a-service (FaaS) ones, operated across multiple hardware types, locations, edge computing nodes and multi-cloud resources. The project will apply a vertical solution consisting of a cloud design environment enabling the design of visual workflows and an optimised platform-level FaaS. A back-end optimisation toolkit should enable cloud service providers to enhance baseline resource performance, tackling issues such as cold-start problems, multitenant interference and data locality. The project’s outcomes will be validated in three applications – eHealth, agriculture and manufacturing.
More info: physics-faas.eu
IntellIoT
IntellIoT is a Pan-European project focusing on developing integrated, distributed, human-centred and trustworthy IoT frameworks, applicable to agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, construction, and smart city. Enabling technologies such as 5G, cybersecurity, distributed technology, Augmented Reality and tactile internet, IntellIoT champions end-user trust, adequate security and privacy by design.
More info: intelliot.eu
Terminet
The vision of TERMINET is to provide a novel next generation reference architecture based on cutting-edge technologies such as SDN, multiple-access edge computing, and virtualisation for next generation IoT, while introducing new, intelligent IoT devices for low-latency, market-oriented use cases.
More info: terminet-h2020.eu
VEDLIoT
VEDLIoT – “Very Efficient Deep Learning in IoT” is an EU H2020 ICT-56-2020 funded research project running for 36 months, driven by challenging use cases in key sectors like automotive, automation, and smart home. The main objective of VEDLIoT is to develop the next generation of connected IoT devices utilising distributed deep learning. You can become part of the project by applying for an Open Call project! We expect to fund around ten research experiments incorporating additional use cases in the project utilising the developed technologies
More info: vedliot.eu
Assist – IoT
ASSIST-IoT is a EU H2020 ICT-56-2020 funded research project which aims at design, implementation and validation of an open, decentralized reference architecture, associated enablers, services and tools, to assist human-centric applications in multiple verticals. ASSIST-IoT will design, implement and validate, in a realistic, measurable, and replicable way, a unified innovative multi-plane (semi-)autonomous decentralized edge-cloud reference architecture, supplemented by cross-cutting digital enablers. The architecture will support continuous integration and long-term sustainability of domain-agnostic, interoperable, self-* capable, intelligent, distributed, scalable, secure and trustworthy IoT ecosystems.
More info: assist-iot.eu
INGENIOUS
INGENIOUS aims to design and evaluate the Next-Generation IoT (NG-IoT) solution, with emphasis on 5G and the development of Edge and Cloud computing extensions for IoT, as well as providing smart networking and data management solutions with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). The project embraces the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA) and Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) vision for empowering smart manufacturing and smart mobility verticals.
More info: ingenious-iot.eu
IOT-NGIN
IoT-NGIN introduces novel research and innovation concepts, acting as the “IoT Engine” which will fuel the Next Generation of IoT as a part of the European Next Generation Internet. IoT-NGIN uncovers a patterns based meta-architecture that encompasses evolving, legacy, and future IoT architectures.
More info: iot-ngin.eu
aerOS
aerOS is a European research project (Horizon Europe CL4-2021-DATA-01-05) running for 3 years which aims at transparently utilising the resources on the edge-to-cloud computing continuum for enabling applications in an effective manner while incorporating multiple services. The overarching goal of aerOS is to design and build a virtualized, platform-agnostic meta operating system for the IoT edge-cloud continuum.
More info: aeros-project.eu
FluiDOS
FLUIDOS (Flexible, scaLable, secUre, and decentralIseD Operating System) aims to leverage the enormous, unused processing capacity at the edge, scattered across heterogeneous edge devices that struggle to integrate with each other and to coherently form a seamless computing continuum.
More info: fluidos.eu
ICOS
The unstoppable proliferation of novel computing and sensing device technologies, and the ever-growing demand for data-intensive applications in the edge and cloud, are driving the next wave of transformation in computing systems architecture. The resulting paradigm shift in computing is centred around dynamic, intelligent and yet seamless interconnection of IoT, Edge and Cloud resources in one computing system, to form a continuum.
More info: icos-project.eu
NebulOuS
NebulOuS will develop a novel Meta Operating System and platform for enabling transient fog brokerage ecosystems that seamlessly exploit edge and fog nodes, in conjunction with multi-cloud resources, to cope with the requirements posed by low latency applications. NebulOuS will accomplish substantial research contributions in the realms of cloud and fog computing brokerage by introducing advanced methods and tools for enabling secure and optimal application provisioning and reconfiguration over the cloud computing continuum.
More info: nebulouscloud.eu
NEMO
Introducing an open source, modular and cybersecure meta operating system, leveraging existing technologies and introducing novel concepts, methods, tools, testing and engagement campaigns.
More info: meta-os.eu
NEPHELE
Enable efficient, reliable and secure end-to-end orchestration of hyper-distributed applications over programmable infrastructure that spans across the compute Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum, removing existing openness and interoperability barriers in the convergence of IoT technologies against cloud and edge computing orchestration platforms, and introducing automation and decentralised intelligence mechanisms powered by 5G and distributed AI technologies.
More info: nephele-project.eu
Cognit Sovereign Edge.eu
Cognit will focus on a new distributed Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigm for edge application management and smart orchestration, which will change how applications and services are deployed and executed in the cloud-edge continuum. Our AI-enabled adaptive serverless framework will provide applications with secure and portable access to a continuous data processing environment that abstracts the large-scale, geo-distributed, and low-latency capabilities provided by the cloud-edge continuum.
More info: cognit.sovereignedge.eu
Decice
DECICE will study and develop an open and portable management framework for AI-based adaptive execution and optimization of applications in computing continuum. The portable framework is integrated into the Kubernetes ecosystem and validated with use-cases in smart traffic control, digital healthcare, and intelligent emergency response.
More info: decice.eu
CODECO
The overall aim of CODECO is to contribute to a smoother and more flexible support of services across the Edge-Cloud continuum via the creation of a novel, cognitive Edge-Cloud management framework. To achieve this aim, CODECO proposes a unique, smart, and cross-layer orchestration between the decentralised data flow, computation, and networking services, to address Edge-Cloud challenges derived from the rising Internet and IoT service decentralisation.
More info: he-codeco.eu
EDGELESS
EDGELESS project aims to leverage the serverless concept in all the layers in the edge-cloud continuum to fully benefit from diverse and decentralised computational resources available on-demand close to where data are produced or consumed. In particular, we aim at realising an efficient and transparent horizontal pooling of the resources on edge nodes with constrained capabilities or specialised hardware, smoothly integrated with cloud resources, which is a giant leap forward compared to state-of-the-art vertical offloading solutions where the edge is a mere supplement of the cloud.
More info: edgeless-project.eu
MLSysOps
MLSysOps aims to design, implement and evaluate a complete AI-controlled framework for autonomic end-to-end system management across the full cloud-edge continuum. MLSysOps will employ a hierarchical agent-based AI architecture to interface with the underlying resource management and application deployment/orchestration mechanisms of the continuum. Energy efficiency and utilization of green energy, performance, low latency, efficient, and trusted tier-less storage, cross-layer orchestration including resource-constrained devices, resilience to imperfections of physical networks, trust, and security, are key elements of MLSysOps addressed using ML models.
More info: mlsysops.eu
AC3
AC3 offers a common and secure federated platform that manages data source, CECC resources, and application behaviour in a unified and harmonized manner to ensure the desired SLA and save energy consumption. Moreover, the AC3 platform can adapt to a different context and events happening in the network, such as lack of resources, data deluge, or mobility of data source, by managing (i.e. deploying or migrating) micro-services across CECC infrastructures. AC3 will leverage AI, ML, and semantic and context awareness algorithms to provide an efficient life cycle management system of services, data sources, and CECC resources for ensuring low response time and high data rate while saving energy consumption.
More info: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101093129
ACES
ACES aims to solve challenges for cloud services at the edge by infused autopoiesis and cognition on different levels of cloud management to empower with AI different functionalities such as: workload placement, service and resource management, data and policy management.
More info: aces-edge.eu
COGNIFOG
The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought new opportunities for increasing safety, automation, and cost and energy savings. However, these opportunities come with an increase in data generation, which is pushing network capacity to its limits. According to an estimation by IDC, the total amount of data generated by connected devices will exceed 40 trillion gigabytes by 2025. Analyzing data closer to where it is generated, rather than sending it to a data center, can reduce network load, save energy and costs, and satisfy the requirements of low-latency applications.
More info: cognifog.eu
CLOUDSKIN
CLOUDSKIN aims to design a cognitive cloud continuum platform to fully exploit the available Cloud-edge heterogeneous resources, finding the “sweet spot” between the cloud and the edge, and smartly adapting to changes in application behavior via AI. To facilitate automatic deployment, mobility and security of services, CloudSkin will build an innovative universal container-like execution abstraction based on WebAssembly that allows the seamless and trustworthy execution of (legacy) applications across the Cloud-edge continuum.
More info: cloudskin.eu
OASEES
The OASEES project will deliver a European, fully open-source, decentralized, and secure Swarm programmability framework for edge devices and leveraging various AI/ML accelerators (FPGAs, SNNs, Quantum) while supporting a privacy-preserving Object ID federation process.
More info: oasees-project.eu
Tardis
TaRDIS addresses the ever-increasing complexities of developing correct and performant heterogeneous swarms – swarm systems that are heterogeneous, intelligent, dynamic, and decentralised – by providing a novel programming model, integrated development and analysis environment, and corresponding runtime support.
More info: project-tardis.eu
Incode
Innovating and creating a wide-open, secure and trusted IoT-to-edge- to-cloud compute continuum to realize thetrue potential of edge intelligence.
More info: incode-project.eu
Open Swarm
OpenSwarm aims to trigger the next revolution in these data-driven systems by developing true collaborative and distributed smart nodes, through groundbreaking R&I in three technological pillars: efficient networking and management of smart nodes, collaborative energy-aware Artificial Intelligence (AI), and energy-aware swarm programming.
More info: openswarm.eu
Riser
Building on top of outcomes from the EPI and EUPilot projects, RISER aims to develop the first all-European RISC-V cloud server infrastructure, significantly enhancing Europe’s open strategic autonomy. RISER will leverage and validate open hardware high-speed interfaces combined with a fully-featured operating system environment and runtime system, enabling the integration of low-power components, including the RISC-V processor chips from EPI and EUPilot and LPDDR4 memories, in a novel energy-efficient cloud architecture.
More info: riser-project.eu
Vitamin-V
Vitamin-V will deploy a complete RISC-V hardware-software stack for cloud services based on cutting-edge cloud open-source technologies for RISC-V cores with a special focus on EPI cores. Vitamin-V incorporates an innovative RISC-V virtual execution environment providing hardware emulation, simulation, and FPGA prototyping to enable software development, verification, and validation before actual hardware is released. Vitamin-V also contributes to the porting of the complete cross-compiling toolchain, software stack, and essential application libraries for the forthcoming release of the RISC-V EPI processors.
More info: vitamin-v.eu
Aero
AERO aims to upbring and optimize an open-source software ecosystem that encompasses a wide range of software components ranging from operating systems to compilers, runtimes, system software and auxiliary software deployment services for cloud computing.
More info: aero-project.eu
OpenCUBE
This project proposes to design OpenCUBE, a full-stack solution of a validated European Cloud computing blueprint to be deployed on European hardware infrastructure. OpenCUBE will develop a custom cloud installation with the guarantee that an entirely European solution like SiPearl processors and Semidynamics RISC-V accelerators can be deployed reproducibly.
More info: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101092984
SMARTEDGE
The objective of the SMARTEDGE project is to enable the dynamic integration of decentralised edge intelligence at runtime while ensuring reliability, security, privacy and calability. We will achieve this by enabling a semantic-based interplay of the edge devices of such systems via a cross-layer toolchain that facilitates the seamless and real-time coverability and composability of autonomous intelligence swarms. Hence, an application can be freely built by distributing the processing, data fusion and control across heterogeneous sensors, devices and edges with ubiquitous low-latency connectivity.
More info: smart-edge.eu
Piacere
PIACERE aims to increase the productivity of DevOps teams in the development and operation of IaC through the provisioning of an integrated DevSecOps framework. DevOps teams can program IaC as if they were programming any software application.
More info: piacere-project.eu
Cosmos
COSMOS is designing and developing novel DevOps methodologies, techniques, and tools that will enable effective, continuous development and evolution of cyber-physical systems.
More info: cosmos-devops.org
XANDAR
XANDAR will deliver a mature SW toolchain (from requirements capture down to the actual code integration on target including V&V) fulfilling the needs of the industry for rapid prototyping of interoperable and autonomous ES. Starting from a model-based system architecture, XANDAR will leverage novel automatic model synthesis and software parallelization techniques to achieve specific non-functional requirements setting the foundation for a novel real-time, safety-, and security- by-Construction (X-by-Construction) paradigm. For the first time, XbC-guided code generation for non-deterministic ML/AI applications will be combined with novel runtime monitors to ensure fail-operation in the presence of runtime faults and security exploitations.
More info: xandar-project.eu
VeriDevOps
DevOps helps increase an organisation’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity. It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high-quality software. Current systems development practices are increasingly based on off-the-shelf and legacy components, which make such systems prone to security vulnerabilities
More info: sites.mdu.se/veridevops
SWForum.eu
The online discussion platform is an essential element of the Living Forum, providing a space for researchers, industry representatives, and end users to share their content.
More info: SWForum.eu
FOCETA
The underlying targeted scientific breakthrough of FOCETA lies in the convergence of model-driven and data-driven approaches. This convergence is further complicated by the need to apply verification and validation incrementally and avoid complete re-verification and re-validation efforts.
More info: foceta-project.eu
ELEGANT
Discrete GaN power electronic devices have penetrated the consumer market and first products have amply demonstrated a disruptive improvement of the performance and reduction of the form factor. With demonstrated robustness for heavy ion radiation and neutron radiation, p-GaN enhancement mode HEMTs allow disruptive innovative designs for space applications.
More info: elegant-horizon.eu
TEADAL
TEADAL is an Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action that aims to provide key cornerstone technologies to create stretched data lakes spanning the cloud-edge continuum and multi-cloud, providing privacy, confidentiality, and energy-efficient data management. The TEADAL data lake technologies will enable trusted, verifiable and energy efficient data flows, both in a stretched data lake and across a trustworthy mediatorless federation of them, based on a shared approach for defining, enforcing, and tracking privacy/confidentiality requirements balanced with the need for energy reduction.
More info: teadal.eu
Spade
Spade wain to develop an intelligent ecosystem to address the multiple purposes concept in the light of deploying unmanned aerial vehicles to promote sustainable digital services for the benefit of a large scope of end users in sectors of crop production, forestry, and livestock.
More info: spade-horizon.eu
Horizon-Trustee
TRUSTEE will focus on how to support ISS for research and space missions, based on a series of detailed scenarios developed in the early phase of the project. Through these we will identify the technical and non-technical requirements, as well as the structure of the tests executed to check functionality and user acceptance.
More info: horizon-trustee.eu
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