O-CEI Horizon Continues the Standardisation Legacy of the aerOS Project

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We are proud to announce that, as of October 1st, O-CEI Horizon has officially taken over the outstanding standardisation work initiated by the our Project. This effort will continue under the ongoing ISO/IEC JTC1/SC41 standardisation activities, with O-CEI Horizon leading the Preliminary Working Item JTC1-22 Architecture.

Several aerOS partners — including Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”, Innovalia Association, FIWARE Foundation, Telefónica Innovación Digital, have joined the O-CEI Horizon consortium. Their participation ensures continuity and strengthens our shared commitment to standardisation, interoperability, security, connectivity, and trust.

Today, during the final event of the aerOS project, our partners from Atos IT Solutions and Services Iberia, S.L. and Trialog will deliver a presentation on the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41 Internet of Things and Digital Twin standard — further highlighting the collaborative spirit and shared vision between aerOS and O-CEI Horizon.

By building on the achievements of aerOS, O-CEI Horizon will continue to contribute to international alignment in IoT and Digital Twin technologies, paving the way for a more connected, secure, and interoperable digital ecosystem.

aerOS Pilot 4: Smart edge services for the Port Continuum – Final Video

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This video describes Pilot 4 of Horizon Europe’s funded project aerOS, focusing on Smart edge services for the Port Continuum. This pilot explores two important and practical use cases for smart maritime container terminals: (1) Predictive Maintenance of Container Handling Equipment such as Ship to Shore Cranes and Straddle Carriers using machine learning at the edge; (2) Computer Vision for automatically detecting container damages or broken container seals in real time, while containers are unloaded from ships. EUROGATE Container Terminal Limassol, serving as the industrial partner of the pilot, have joined forces with PRODEVELOP and the Cyprus University of Technology, both bringing valuable experience and knowledge for developing edge technology and AI solutions through the capabilities offered by aerOS.

Find the link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEICM1bSJeg

IoT Tech Expo 2025

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The IoT Tech Expo World Series in Amsterdam has just concluded, bringing together over 8,000 attendees, 200+ speakers, and 200+ exhibitors to explore IoT, edge, IIoT, and beyond. aerOS was proud to join forces with the NEPHELE, MetaOS, NebulOuS, NEMO, ICOS, and FLUIDOS projects, showcasing three years of dedicated collaboration. At our booth, we highlighted how aerOS advances edge-cloud orchestration, safe automation, and IoT applications, while connecting with innovators who share our vision for the future.

aerOS Pilot5 IoT Expo 2025 Video – COSMOTE

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The aerOS project demonstrates its architecture in the Smart Buildings domain with a real-world deployment at COSMOTE’s premises. Through autonomous IoT ecosystems, edge intelligence, and frugal AI, aerOS optimises energy use, workplace safety, and cybersecurity. Find the video online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG7JV2Au_RI

AIOTI DAYS 2025

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AIOTI Days 2025 took place on 22–23 September 2025 in Madrid, at the Colegio de Aparejadores. The conference brought together thematic sessions, project presentations, and the second edition of the scientific conference GIECS, all under the overarching theme of Cities 5.0 — exploring how AI, continuum computing and virtual twins can foster human-centric, sustainable, and intelligent urban living. It also featured sessions on green ICT, standardisation, collaboration across domains, and showcased EU-funded projects from sectors such as 5G/6G, IoT, AI, smart cities and more. At OpenSource Community Day 2025, aerOS showcased how open source is powering the future of computing! Our Meta Operating System spans the full spectrum—from IoT & edge to cloud—presented by Rafael Vaño Garcia at AIOTI DAYS 2025.

aerOS Pilot5 IoT Expo 2025 Video

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The aerOS use case aims to demonstrate its architecture in the Smart Buildings market by optimising enterprise efficiency and safety through process and data autonomy and self-orchestrated IoT ecosystems, enhancing the energy efficiency of large buildings with real-time processing and frugal AI, and extending capabilities via 5G, NFV, and Network Apps. Expected benefits will be derived from intelligent aerOS nodes that enable autonomous, decentralised decision-making at the edge, while its unique abstraction approach bridges heterogeneity in data and platforms to orchestrate sensors, systems, and analytics across the IoT edge-cloud continuum. In Scenario 1 – Intelligent Occupational Safety and Health, aerOS will be integrated into the IoT ecosystem of a COSMOTE corporate building in Athens to monitor energy, luminosity, CO₂, humidity, temperature, motion detection, and desk occupancy, using embedded analytics and real-time/historical data to inform clustering and seating of employees, while actuation of ventilation, heating/cooling, and lighting systems with edge intelligence and frugal AI will ensure decentralised, secure, and low-latency management of office conditions for health and efficiency. In Scenario 2 – Cybersecurity and Data Privacy in Building Automation, COSMOTE will deploy aerOS cybersecurity components for authentication, authorisation, data governance, ownership, and sharing, alongside 5G, VNF, and potentially NetApps for executing security and privacy functions; video identification for safety will be supported by anonymisation and secure storage mechanisms. Driven by COSMOTE, NCSRD, FOGUS, INFOLYSIS, and UPV, this use case will showcase the energy-efficient, sustainable, flexible, and health-safe potential of aerOS in a real-world deployment and validation within COSMOTE’s enterprise office building in Athens, Greece.

Find it online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG7JV2Au_RI&ab_channel=aerOSproject

IWAPS at ARES 2025

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aerOS proudly participated in the 5th International Workshop on Advances on Privacy Preserving Technologies and Solutions (IWAPS) at ARES 2025. It was a great platform to share insights, collaborate with experts, and contribute to the future of secure, privacy-enhancing technologies. Exciting discussions on privacy, AI, and cyber-defense took place.

aerOS Pilot 4: Smart edge services for the Port Continuum: The EUROGATE Container Terminal Limassol Video

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This video describes Pilot 4 of Horizon Europe’s funded project aerOS, focusing on Smart edge services for the Port Continuum. This first part focuses on EUROGATE Container Terminal Limassol, serving as the industrial partner of the pilot, having joined forces with PRODEVELOP and the Cyprus University of Technology, both bringing valuable experience and knowledge for developing edge technology and AI solutions through the capabilities offered by aerOS.

Find it online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shne2gYwlIg&ab_channel=aerOSproject 

aerOS Project to Showcase Cutting-Edge Edge–Cloud Innovation at IoT Tech Expo Europe 2025

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aerOS project is excited to announce its participation in the IoT Tech Expo Europe 2025, taking place on September 24–25 at RAI Amsterdam, Netherlands. As one of Europe’s flagship events for IoT and emerging technologies, the expo will gather over 7,000 industry professionals, 200+ expert speakers, and 200+ exhibitors, covering key topics such as IoT, AI, edge computing, cybersecurity, and more.

At this year’s event, aerOS will be featured among leading European innovators and EU-funded cluster projects, presenting its visionary work on a meta-operating system designed to enable secure, flexible, and vendor-neutral orchestration of computing resources across the edge–cloud continuum. The project’s ambition is to simplify distributed computing while fostering data autonomy and interoperability across diverse environments and sectors.

Visitors to the metaOS booth will experience live demonstrations, technical deep-dives, and interactive sessions that bring the project’s goals to life. Key use cases from the project’s pilot sites—including smart manufacturing, precision agriculture, renewable energy, smart ports, and intelligent buildings—will be showcased, offering attendees a firsthand look at how aerOS is driving digital transformation and enabling AI at the edge.

By participating in IoT Tech Expo Europe, aerOS strengthens its role in shaping the future of European digital infrastructure and contributing to a resilient, scalable, and open-edge ecosystem.

 Learn more and register here: https://www.iottechexpo.com/

“Dependency-Aware Microservice Deployment for Edge Computing: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach With Network Representation” Paper

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The popularity of microservices in industry has sparked much attention in the research community. Despite significant progress in microservice deployment for resource-intensive services and applications at the network edge, the intricate dependencies among microservices are often overlooked, and some studies underestimate the importance of system context extraction in deployment strategies. This paper addresses these issues by formulating the microservice deployment problem as a max-min problem, considering system cost and quality of service (QoS) jointly. We first study the attention-based microservice representation (AMR) method to achieve effective system context extraction. In this way, the contributions of different computing power providers (users, edge servers, or cloud servers) in the networks can be effectively paid attention to. Subsequently, we propose the attention-modified soft actor-critic (ASAC) algorithm to tackle the microservice deployment problem. ASAC leverages attention mechanisms to enhance decision-making and adapt to changing system dynamics. Our simulation results demonstrate ASAC’s effectiveness, prioritizing average system cost and reward compared to the other state-of-the-art algorithms.

Find more information here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10663201