The second version of the aerOS newsletter is now available! In this issues you may learn all the insights about project related activities for the December 2022 to February 2023 period. You may find it online, at the aerOS website here: https://aeros-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aerOS-newsletter-2.pdf
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The aerOS journal paper entitled “Cloud-Native Workload Orchestration at the Edge: A Deployment Review and Future Directions” was accepted in the MDPI, Sensors Journal, Volume 23, Issue 4.
Cloud-native computing principles such as virtualization and orchestration are key to transferring to the promising paradigm of edge computing. Challenges of containerization, operative models and scarce availability of established tools make a thorough review indispensable. Therefore, the authors have described the practical methods and tools found in the literature as well as in current community-led development projects, and have thoroughly exposed the future directions of the field. Container virtualization and its orchestration through Kubernetes have dominated the cloud computing domain, while major efforts have been recently recorded focused on the adaptation of these technologies to the edge. Such initiatives have addressed either the reduction of container engines and the development of specific tailored operating systems or the development of smaller K8s distributions and edge-focused adaptations (such as KubeEdge). Finally, new workload virtualization approaches, such as WebAssembly modules together with the joint orchestration of these heterogeneous workloads, seem to be the topics to pay attention to in the short to medium term.
You may find the publication online here: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/4/2215
aerOS project participated at the EUCloudEdgeIoT’s – Task Force 5 “Market and Sectors” Workshop. It was an online workshop where all related partners presented fundamental insights about their projects. Also, at this workshop Anastasios Gogos presented the basic elements of our Athens use case
The official launch of the EUCloudEgdeIoT took place on 8th of February, and aerOS project was present! In this introductory meeting participants had the chance to meet the coordination team and the new Task Forces!
loud and edge computing are essential technologies in a computing continuum to ensure data is managed more efficiently – closer to the originating source rather than transmitting raw data to data centres. As recent studies suggest, data processing is moving closer to the edge.
Thus, advancing the IoT can reduce communication and storage costs, energy consumption and produce benefits for citizens and businesses thanks to the integration of AI and Machine Learning.
These trends call for a shift towards the technical and business convergence of the so-far formally separated Cloud, Edge and IoT domains.
In this context, the European Cloud Edge IoT Continuum aims to realise a pathway for the understanding and development of the CEI Continuum by promoting cooperation between a wide range of research projects, developers and suppliers, business users and potential adopters of this new technological paradigm.
More precisely, the European Cloud, Edge & IoT Continuum will be supported by the effort of two Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs), namely Open Continuum and UNLOCKCEI, which will cooperate to reach the stated common goal, focussing respectively on the supply and demand sides of the CEI Continuum. These will also benefit from the synergies and legacy of other existing EU projects in the domains of Cloud, Edge, IoT, AI, and connectivity.
Information about the aerOS project are available in Cordis platform. In case you want to learn about our project, you may visit Cordis page. Find out more: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101069732
Ignacio Lacalle from Universitat Politècnica de València UPV and Vasilis Pitsilis from NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” attended EuCloudEdgeIoT workshop in Toulouse on January 2023! It was the first workshop on the topic: “Future European platforms for the Edge”–>”Define an Open Source stack”. You may learn more about EuCloudEdgeIoT here: https://eucloudedgeiot.eu/
The European Commission invites stakeholders from industry, academia and innovators to participate in the Horizon Europe Info Day on 30 January 2023. This event is an Information Session on the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2024 on “World leading data and computing technologies”.
The open and FREE half-day virtual event will introduce three calls under Destination 3:
You may find more information here:
https://www.ngiot.eu/event/horizon-europe-info-day/
aerOS will be presented during the “MetaOS and Swarm projects” slot at 15:00 CET.
Open Source Software (OSS) is already at the core of modern Cloud Computing and Big Data infrastructure and is rapidly gaining ground at all levels of the Internet of Things. From a European perspective, a solid consensus (now corroborated by systematic studies and official EC policy directions) has formed around the critical role of OSS and Open Source Hardware for multiple European objectives, from GDP growth to digital autonomy.
You may find more information here: https://eucloudedgeiot.eu/open-source/
aerOS is an active member of the EUCloudEdgeIoT association utilizing the resources on the edge-to-cloud computing continuum for enabling applications in an effective manner while incorporating multiple services.
Data is the heart of an IoT system, and with the proliferation of IoT devices, more than 500 zettabytes of data will be generated by 2025. Edge computing techniques allow these data to be processed locally, reduce security risks by data transmission to the clouds, enable real-time analysis, and offer greater privacy – such as helping organisations to take safe and reliable decisions at the point of interest. The Edge Computing paradigm will spur the next wave of Innovation of decentralised intelligence by optimising operations in a broad section of industries like mobility, farming, home/buildings, energy, logistics and manufacturing, and by mastering increasing volumes of data in their green and digital transition. These trends call for a shift towards the technical and business convergence of the Cloud, Edge and IoT domains, paving the way to a computing continuum and embedding topics like cognitive cloud and open source, which require both research and application perspectives and a strong cooperation among the two. In this context, EUCloudEdgeIoT.eu aims to realise a pathway for the understanding and development of the CEI Continuum by promoting cooperation between a wide range of research projects, developers and suppliers, business users and potential adopters of this new technological paradigm. It will do so by contributing to the coordination of a portfolio of projects in the CEI Computing Continuum funded under the Meta-Operating Systems for the Next Generation IoT and Edge Computing and ensuring consistent exploitation of their outcomes to help regain European competitiveness in core internet infrastructures.The initiative was preliminarily presented at the IoT week in Dublin in June 2022. The ultimate goal is to support the definition of the large-scale pilots envisaged by the European Commission in line with the EU Data Strategy. Future calls and projects on similar topics awarded by the EU Commission as part of the 2023- 2024 workplan will also be included in the cluster of projects cooperating under the European Cloud, Edge & IoT Continuum.
aerOS project is member of the Next Generation Internet of Things – NGIoT ecosystem. You may learn more about NGIoT organisation here: https://www.ngiot.eu/
The Next Generation Internet of Things (NGIoT) initiative is a growing community of projects and related initiatives at work to maximise the power of IoT made in Europe. NGIoT works to lower the barrier for adoption and development of IoT-empowered solutions, by supporting business models, innovation and skills. In a “network of network” ecosystem, NGIoT consists of ongoing projects and upcoming funding opportunities at work for a human-centric and sustainable digital transition. NGIoT projects are working to achieve H2020 goals while Horizon Europe will bring new opportunities to launch research and innovation projects across Europe and beyond. NGIoT works in close collaboration with related technology networks including cloud, Edge, Artificial Intelligence, 5G telecommunications networks and services, cybersecurity and blockchain. In complex IoT scenarios, people are becoming an essential part of interconnected cyber-physical systems. End users are both benefiting from connected devices and appliances as well as generating data which reinforces the effectiveness of IoT. Europe is leading the way to ensure the development and adoption of trusted and sustainable IoT that in combination with other advanced technologies can drive the digital and green transformation of our society and economy, across areas such as manufacturing, energy, agriculture, smart cities, mobility, retail and health care. The NGIoT is sharing best practices and building a growing and on-the-move ‘network of networks’ for knowledge and technology transfer, at the intersection of different research and innovation communities and industrial-driven initiatives.
This project has received funding from Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, under grant agreement No 101069732
