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Next-Gen infotainment services


Thanks to the evolution of the digital world, vehicles are becoming more that a mean of transport: the social life of vehicle users shall be part of the journey transforming the travel experience.

The in-car advanced infotainment and multimedia management system (IAIMM) offers innovative media contents and services focused on tourism to enhance the user experience while travelling in-car and exploring new locations

A new approach to agriculture through ICOS


Nowadays, modern agriculture is experiencing a technological revolution. The management and method of growing plants is changing dramatically. It is becoming more and more obvious that we can imagine growing plants using autonomous robots that detect pests themselves, neutralize them and optimize all work with extraordinary accuracy. We implement the above vision of agriculture using the Agriculture Operational Robotic Platform (AORP). This article explores how these innovations can change the day-to-day work for the farmers in the whole world.

Celebrating Success: the first ICOS Open Call Marks Significant

Interest in Innovation


The recently finished first ICOS (Internet of Things to Cloud Operating System) Open Call generated a lot of attention, demonstrating Europe's rising interest in and commitment to innovation. The programme obtained a resounding response, with a total of 169 starting applications, of which 59 projects were successfully submitted.


Novel Approaches to securing ICOS continuum


As security attacks have become increasingly frequent and sophisticated, complex systems like ICOS for managing CloudEdgeIoT continuum, can be particularly vulnerable. To safeguard ICOS against security vulnerabilities and threats, we will also be using State-of-the-art approaches relying on AI (Artificial Intelligence).

Transforming Railway Operations with ICOS Edge-Cloud continuum system


In today's digital age, the railway industry is undergoing a profound transformation, embracing innovative technologies to enhance efficiency, safety, and sustainability. One such technological marvel that could help to improve railway operations is the ICOS Edge-Cloud continuum system. 

How Horizon Europe is Empowering the IoT-Edge-Cloud continuum with ICOS & Nuvla.io


The proliferation of IoT sensors – 41.6 billion foreseen to be connected by 2025 – and related data – 79.4 Zettabytes – paves the way for highly valuable inputs to be generated for various business sectors and government agencies, enabling the delivery of precise and targeted data analysis.

Unlocking the Potential of Machine Learning at the Edge: Challenges and Future Trends


Training highly accurate models on resource-constrained devices is an escalating challenge, particularly as the proliferation of edge devices continues to accelerate every year.  Poor performance of AI models may be caused by issues with centralized systems and a lack of scalability on limited devices.


Novel data and processing approaches for the development of hyper-distributed applications


Let us begin this post by clarifying its title; most of the readers right now will be thinking what are hyper-distributed applications? Generally, most folks in the IT industry have a clear idea of what distributed applications are: one application running at the same time on different nodes of a cluster cooperating by the exchange of messages over a stable network. But then, what does the hyper stand for?


Leveraging Federated Learning in the ICOS continuum


Federated Learning (FL) has recently emerged as a computationally efficient solution in highly complex machine learning (ML) scenarios, where data should be collected from various and diverse sources.


Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Containerization in the Cloud-Edge Continuum: A Primer 


Function as a Service (FaaS) and serverless gained more and more traction over the last few years. Especially in combined edge and cloud scenarios serverless approach can be attractive since it can ensure low latency and high computing efficiency.


Data-driven application offloading in the continuum


Although most data are being collected from the IoT, 80% of their processing is performed in the cloud, which not only overloads network facilities and causes high energy consumptions but also provokes significant communication latencies


Eclipse Zenoh: Supporting ICOS’s Data Distribution from the Cloud-to-Edge continuum


The ICOS Software platform aims to cover the range of challenges that arise when addressing the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum paradigm, proposing an approach that embeds a well-defined set of functionalities, culminating in the definition of an IoT2cloud operating system.


Predictive Monitoring and Maintenance


Unplanned maintenance is a key issue for asset-intensive industries, as it can seriously affect costs due to extended production downtimes. According to a recent report from Senseye [1], up to $20 billion is lost annually due to unplanned repairs. Predictive maintenance tackles this issue by using analytics and Machine Learning (ML) to estimate the lifespan of a machine and the failing likelihood so that maintenance can be scheduled before equipment fails, balancing costs of anticipated maintenance with production downtimes risks.


The Impact of Upstreaming Research Contributions


Horizon Europe emphasizes open science and open source technology. The program evolved from Horizon 2020, which provided financial support for research projects that promoted industrial competitiveness, advanced scientific excellence, or solved social challenges through the process of “open science”.


Press release


22 leading European organizations from 11 countries join forces to tackle the main challenges of the IoT – Edge – Cloud paradigm, proposing an approach to embed a set of functionalities and define a brand new IoT-edge-Cloud Operating System (ICOS). 


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