IoT-NGIN comes to an end, boasting of rich portfolio of next-generation IoT tools, designed, developed, validated and piloted within the project. IoT-NGIN has delivered innovations on the network, communication, security and application side of IoT. Specifically, IoT-NGIN has developed enhancements …

In the age of smart cities, data has become the driving force behind urban planning and development. As the cross-border cities of Tallinn and Helsinki become more interconnected, understanding the needs, preferences, and trends of their inhabitants is crucial. In …

Blockchains and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) have enabled many new applications, particularly in the area of financial operations, but increasingly also in other areas. However, each blockchain and ledger type is always a compromise between different desirable properties, so …

One of the industrial automation ecosystems is known as the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), which can be considered as a collection of systems, which need to collaboratively cover a set of functionalities, for example a set of power …

On the 16th of January 2023, the NIS2 (Network and Information Security) Directive (EU 2022/2555) was adopted by the European Union. The directive comes in a context marked with a resurgence of cybercrime both in forms and numbers. In this …

Production plants need practical help for operational everyday life. Different information is needed to support different functions. The best result and added value are achieved through cooperation. A digital system alone does not maximize the targeted savings. When the decision …

The Polyglot Model Sharing framework offers a secure environment to manage the storage of ML models and datasets, addressing four main objectives: i) enabling the traceability of assets, ii) guaranteeing their immutability, iii) ensuring the  reproducibility of trained ML models, …

This is the second part of a mini-series about our recently published paper “The Role of Open-Source Software in the Energy Sector”. In the first part of this mini-series, we have discussed on the general implications and properties of open-source …

As an EU-funded project, open source is one of the key principles of our work. It can also be observed that this principle is gaining more and more traction in the software landscape. Especially in the cloud computing sector, Open-Source …

As the IoT-NGIN project is reaching its end, it’s a good opportunity to present all efforts in terms of dissemination that the project made during the last 3 years. The Project’s website is the best place to find all marketing …

In IoT-NGIN, we have adopted Google’s Nearby Connections as the baseline framework to put in practice the project’s advances in regard to data traffic offloading. One of the problems that we faced when developing applications using this framework is that …

In IoT-NGIN, we use Nearby Connections as an off-the-shelf framework to showcase the project’s contribution toward device-to-device communications. Contributions include 5G coverage extension and direct link characterization. Recently, we have investigated Nearby Connections deeply and have derived several observations. In …

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized our interaction with technology, facilitating unparalleled connectivity and data exchange capabilities. Among the remarkable applications of IoT is its integration with Digital Twin technology, which involves creating virtual replicas …

Within the Smart City Living Lab of the IoT-NGIN project, Forum Virium Helsinki has taken the development of a dynamic dashboard aimed at showcasing tangible outcomes of congestion prediction to enhance urban mobility. This dashboard functions as a comprehensive tool, …

Autonomous crop disease prediction has attracted the attention of IoT systems and AI developers, as an essential enhancement in existing agricultural solutions, even in smart ones. IoT-NGIN could be no exception in this race, offering a set of next-generation internet …

In the ever-evolving landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT), ASM Terni S.p.A. has embarked on a pioneering journey as a living lab and data integrator. Within the ambitious IoT-NGIN project, ASM Terni has played a pivotal role in shaping …

In an era where the IoT use cases and associated technologies are evolving rapidly, it is crucial for the IoT-NGIN project to monitor key business and market trends that both impact and influence the IoT-NGIN landscape. The European IoT ecosystem …

Authors: Mario Montagud, Mohamad Hjeij (i2CAT Foundation) Next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) technologies will open the door to Ambient Intelligence scenarios. EU H2020 IoT-NGIN project provides components, modules, and methods to enable Ambient Intelligence and Contextual IoT Sensing / Actuating …

What is Environmental Monitoring? IoT-based environmental monitoring entails the systematic gathering of measurements and data from the physical environment by utilizing sensors and interconnected devices. These sensors can be integrated into various infrastructures such as irrigation systems, pipelines, tanks, weather …

In the context of UC09 of IOT-NGIN ENG and ASM worked together to a dashboard for system operators. The dashboard is a powerful and versatile tool that connects to ASM providing users with a comprehensive experience of data visualization and …

The rise of quantum algorithms that can compromise modern cryptography has led to global efforts in researching stronger security measures. Today cryptographic schemes rely on solving computationally difficult mathematical problems, but they are at risk of being broken by computational …

In IoT-NGIN, we use Nearby Connections as an off-the-shelf framework to showcase the project’s contribution toward device-to-device communications. Contributions include 5G coverage extension and direct link characterization. Nearby Connection is a feature developed by Google for the Android operating system …

Machine learning is used to enhance many industrial and professional processes. Such applications leverage classification or regression models deployed in real-world scenarios with real and immediate impact. However, these models, and especially deep learning models, require vast amounts of data …

IoT-NGIN has been gracefully passing through its final semester. In the past months, the project has successfully delivered 2 releases of components enhancing IoT technology, an integrated version of the IoT-NGIN framework, as well as intermediate validation results in the …

Industry automation systems are using the PROFINET protocol to allow multi-vendor implementation. From a mobile network technology perspective, PROFINET requires communication to happen on Layer 2 instead of traditional Layer 3. For some time, there has been available VLAN technology …

IoT-NGIN WP4, called Enhancing IoT Tactile & Contextual Sensing/Actuating,  research to improve IoT devices discovery, recognition, and indexing and to specify a new way to control IoT devices, using augmented reality technology; in Smart Energy Grid Active Monitoring/Control Living Lab, …

What is Computer Vision? Computer vision, which is an advanced branch of AI, pertains to any technique that enables machines to understand visual inputs. In its early stages, computer vision involved breaking down an image into a one-dimensional pixel array …

Developers of the Internet of Things (IoT) face a fragmented landscape consisting of very different devices. These range from bare metal devices to those equipped with powerful support for AI and with built-in hardware (HW) to implement Root of Trust …

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a machine learning discipline centered on the learning of optimal behavioral policies for decision making of a group of agents interacting in a common environment, leading to a maximization of a cumulative reward (i.e., expert-defined performance …

Nowadays, market competes to show new innovations and technologies, that will make our life easier, whereas the industry will become more efficient and profitable. Unsurprisingly, the work is also being done to satisfy customers reaching for more entertainment.  We all …

Crop diseases can be in many cases predicted or early detected using micro-climate measurements (mainly temperature and humidity in the air, the leaves, and the soil), crop image processing, and visual analytics (see here). Within IoT-NGIN “Smart irrigation and precision …

Two out of three people at retirement age have at least two chronic conditions [1]. Globally, Europe has the highest burden of chronic diseases, which are responsible for 86% of all deaths [2] and a major cause of morbidity and …

The Electric Grid Monitoring by Open-Access IoT (EGMOI) project, led by Energiot, is an innovative solution that aims to provide an intelligent IoT platform for grid operators to monitor their assets in real-time and with precision. Energiot is a company that specializes in developing sustainable …

Problem Keeping hundreds of thousands of HVAC devices from three generations up to date pushed Bosch Thermotechnology to its limits: the growing number of devices meant high costs and an enormous workload for developing and providing the update service. Solution …

What is augmented reality or AR? Augmented reality (AR) is an enhanced version of the real-world environment that is achieved through digital visual elements, sound, or other sensory stimuli delivered via technology. To distinguish it from virtual reality (VR), which …

The creation and evolution of open cellular standards: Mobile systems function on a global scale. They are enormously complex.  The standardization of the interfaces and functionality of these systems ensures that systems and components from different manufacturers interwork on a …

Undoubtedly, the advancement of technologies in Tallinn and Helsinki has greatly contributed to making travel between Estonia and Finland more quantifiable. Currently, both cities are striving to establish collaborative data models in the transportation sector to enhance the quality of …

The integration of the IoT-NGIN framework is based on the principle of adopting the cloud-native computing paradigm, which provides the benefits of Increased efficiency, reduced costs and ensured availability and scalability. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) provides the Cloud …

Developments in the domain of drones and cellular networks! When used to support Ericsson network operations, autonomous flights of drones have proven their value!   They can improve worker safety, reduce costs and the need for travel and provide the data …

IoT-NGIN provides support for ambient intelligence-based access control while attempting to access IoT Device data through their Digital Twin, supported by the IoT Device Indexing (IDI). The IoT Device Access Control (IDAC) acts as a security middleware between the IoT …

The electricity distribution network is currently undergoing a process of transformation towards the so-called “smart grid”: the diffusion of distributed generation, the search for higher performances, and to increase in resilience are leading to reconsider numerous aspects of network management, …

Innovative, interdisciplinary R&D projects produce large amounts of research information. Depending on the nature of the project, its scope, and research objectives, the information used or created during the project lifecycle may include personal data. It is thus important to …

Methodologies of scientific research have remarkably evolved to integrate a data-driven perception, rendering the data an indispensable asset that can acquire its own dynamism and be incorporated into a network of knowledge. It hence becomes evident that the impact of …

The manufacturer of agricultural machinery leverages the Bosch IoT Suite for data management. Problem Engineers are building ever more sophisticated farm machines to meet the expectations of an increasingly demanding agribusiness. But ease of use is still a major selling …

In the 60s Stanford computer scientist, Roy Amara coined the proverb: “we usually overestimate the impact of technology in the short-term and underestimate its effect in the long-run”. Future scenarios are important as they motivate us to create new innovations, …

Electricity distribution networks are under a period of transition: the growing demand for electricity and the increase in renewable generation is transforming the system towards ‘smart grids’. Numerous sensors distributed throughout the grid and at the consumers’ premises allow real-time …

In its first half, the project has identified the diverse use cases requirements which it is meant to satisfy, and has defined the technical design of the platform and its core components though which the envisaged functionality will be delivered. …

When it comes to heterogeneous computing, the combination of a CPU and a GPUs is probably the most used combination of very different architectures. Originating from games and media applications, they are nowadays used for all kinds of computations, because …

The transition to electric mobility has started; it is estimated that by 2025 the global electric vehicle fleet will number more than 50 million. It must be considered that electric vehicles today are IoT items, integrated with software, sensors and …

IoT applications, in many common scenarios, need to take smart decisions based on contextual information they have access to, information that is gathered from the environment by bound IoT devices. We encounter several examples in the use-cases of the IoT-NGIN …

I2CAT and Bosch have successfully deployed an initial prototype of the IoT-NGIN platform in the Bosch premises located in Aranjuez (Madrid), as part of the Industrial 4.0 use case. The aim of the trial was to assess the capability and …

“The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI’s) Reinventing construction: A route to higher productivity report, released in February 2017, found that the construction industry has an intractable productivity problem. While sectors such as retail and manufacturing have reinvented themselves, construction seems stuck …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating in our daily lives with multiple intelligent services and applications empowered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).  Traditionally, AI techniques require centralized data collection and processing that may not be feasible in realistic application scenarios …

While enjoying our first “presence” conference since the pandemic began, at the EuCNC & 6G Summit in June 2022 in Grenoble, one of the special sessions caught our attention. It was called “NetApps for Verticals” and introduced new concepts and …

As mentioned in previous posts, D2D connections are those links that do not rely on a network infrastructure to intercommunicate with one or more devices. In addition, given the flexibility of its implementation, we can cover a wide range of …

All the companies, nowadays, are competing to introduce new innovations and technologies to meet continuously changing needs and trends of the world. Chemical industry works to increase the quantitative and qualitative value of production, that is to produce more products …

It is well known that in deep learning the inference phase (inference is defined as the process of deploying a trained model and serving live queries with it) can account up to 90% of the compute costs of the application …

Access control is of utmost importance in large IoT systems, with multiple services to be protected, a variety of users and different levels of access. The need for a highly efficient and transparent mechanism, that allows multiple methods of authorization …

What is Device-to-Device Communication? Device-to-device (D2D) communication is the technology that allows the direct communication between multiple user equipment (UE). This technology is an emerging device-centric form of communication that often requires no direct connection or communication with the network …

In a previous blogpost,  we briefly introduced the concept of Moving Target Defense (MTD), mentioning also the property of time as a parameter than defines the moving aspect of a MTD cybersecurity solution. In addition, we discussed a way to …

Summer is the time for relax and enjoy outdoors activities such as festivals, sports events, etc. Most of them happen outside crowded areas and that is the beauty of such events. The COVID set a halt on these events but …

The notion of time is very important in industrial automation systems. But it is also a complex notion, due to its multiple utilizations at different levels and timescales, relevant for the industrial automation arena. Some examples are the definition of one …

Bosch takes part as a partner in the IoT-NGIN project. The first Industry 4.0 Living lab will validate the IoT-NGIN federation framework in real-life applications implemented at Bosch’s facilities in Aranjuez (Spain).  Bosch combines the Internet of Things with Artificial …

Automation is increasing in all areas of society, including transport. Changes are expected to be fastest in road traffic and public transport where the first applications – self-driving lorries and their queue driving applications, autopilots for the motorway environment, as …

The concept of Quantum Computing has raised high expectations for the next generation of computing, similar to the birth of computing in mid 1900’s, when ENIAC was powered for the first time. Although several challenges still burden the commercial availability …

Digital twins are quickly becoming popular solutions as they help provide many types of services for the end-users: e.g. urban digital twins are shaping the city of Helsinki and the lives of its residents, and predictive digital twins provide a …

IoT-NGIN has been listed in the ETSI OSM Ecosystem Research by our partner, i2CAT (https://osm.etsi.org/wikipub/index.php/Research#IoT-NGIN ). ETSI-hosted Open Source MANO (OSM) delivers a production-quality MANO stack for NFV, able to consume openly published information models, suitable for all VNFs and independent …

Augmented reality (AR), or computer-mediated reality, is the enrichment of human sensory perception by means of information, generally manipulated and conveyed electronically, which would not be perceptible with the five senses. The elements that increase perception can be added through …

5G has been designed with the needs of industrial users in focus.  For smart manufacturing, it offers many possibilities such as that of replacing cables with wireless connectivity reducing maintenance costs and increasing the flexibility to reconfigure production and connectivity …

The evolution of technology and innovations during our era is vastly transforming our lives. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and their implementation in various areas such as computer vision is contributing immensely across industries. The agricultural industry is …

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is an initiative of the European Commission which aim is to develop and evolve the Internet we know, into the Internet for the third millennium and beyond. To re-imagine and re-engineer it into the Internet of Humans. …

The world is just at the beginning of a new and radical transformation that will impact all aspects of our current societies and economies: the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a technological shift that has been identified and named before actually happening …

The new 5th generation of cellular networks (5G) has gained prominence in recent years within mobile networks. This is mainly due to the increasing demand for network traffic as more and more devices are integrated into the network. In addition, …

GDPR Compliance in EU-funded Projects Protection of personal data and privacy are one of the most important ethical challenges. Across all EU research funding schemes, Ethics has a transversal nature. For that reason, it prevails all working packages and task …

Improving the observability and control of LV networks represents one of the main ambition of the distribution system operator (DSO), currently supported by the recent development of the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies …

Urban digital twins combine the geospatial data sets that describe the environment with real-time data sources and processes, offering an up-to-date view to the living city. 3D city models are a central building block for urban digital twins. By creating …

In this blogpost we are going to illustrate an innovative methodology to provide a predictive digital twin based on a graph-based model. In particular, this informative essay will cover the work proposed and described in this video, this website article …

Cloud computing has unlocked a new era of services, bringing to the user the sense of unlimited resources and always-on experience of mobile and web services. The cloud computing revolution has largely benefited business in almost any domain, offering unlimited …

Privacy is extremely important in today’s digital world. Privacy should also be considered in the scope of IoT, since an IoT device may also be a personal device such as a smartwatch or sensor in a car, therefore tracking the …

We in Cumucore have implemented several bleeding edge 5G SA projects during the last 12 months. We have done media productions, industry 4.0 projects and public safety use cases. What can we answer to the question is “5G is over …

Virtual Machines (VM) are common and established techniques to isolate the guest from the host operating systems. They are typically designed to run common operating systems like Windows and Linux as guest operating systems. Consequently, they create a virtual PC …

The digitalization effort of industry 4.0 aims for more efficient utilization of data throughout the different stages of a product’s life cycle and value chain. A good example of this are CAD-models. CAD-models are typically used in the design and …

The concept of Ambient Intelligence was firstly introduced by the Information Society Technologies Advisory Groups of the European Commission in 2001 1. It refers to a digitalized environment that is sensitive and responsive and that proactively delivers support and services …

The Internet of Things (IoT) has launched for good in both business and everyday lives, with numerous distributed and highly diversified “things” sensing different aspects of their environment. Different combinations of devices, sensors and business scope across domains provide the …

Connectivity plays an important role in IoT-NGIN. We are investigating new 5G innovations to enhance connectivity for advanced use cases in the IoT domain. This blog post describes the role of mobile networks for mission-critical use cases.  Mission-critical sector actors …

Kubeflow is an extraordinary framework essentially allowing the emergence of MLOps or ML as a Service (MLaaS) modalities. It is readily integrated into the overall concept, context and operations of Kubernetes, rendering a perfect match for ML engineers that need to …

The growing number of mobile devices has triggered rapid advances in cellular technology and services, leading to increased demand for higher data speeds and quality of service (QoS), along with the need to access data anytime, anywhere from any device. …

Industrial automation has seen an exponential growth in the last century. Several technological advancements have been reported and implemented in various industrial sectors to increase production efficiency by orders of magnitude and allow the handling of more sophisticated tasks. On …

Charging station market is highly fragmented in Europe with intense competition for market share and direct access to customers. Central Europe countries, in particular, have built impressive charging infrastructures; 70% of all charging stations in Europe are concentrated in just …

The Internet of Things has settled in for good in the daily lives of millions of people around the world. Smart devices connected to the network and to one another, with ability not only to exchange data, but also to …

In scientific literature, there is no universally accepted definition for living lab term and plenty of other rivalling terms describing similar concepts have emerged, such as testbed, citizen science and community-based participatory research. The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) …

The Internet of Things offers high-speed communication among machines without human intervention. It is only natural that developers of industrial processes try to adapt such a promising technology to manufacturing environments. However, industrial manufacturing environments pose different challenges than those …

The deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms at the Edge (i.e., IoT devices, sensors or interfaces, gateways, robots) is generally referred to as AI at the Edge. Being an extension of the Edge computing paradigm, in which data is stored …

As most data scientists know, most of the work in producing a working machine learning solution revolves around the data itself, procuring and handling it. The actual learning algorithms are readily available and well implemented in existing libraries and frameworks. …

The need for processing power, has led generally machine learning to run on desktop computer. However once trained, a model may be executed in a more constrained environment like the tiny computer chips in wearable medical devices, household appliances, and …

The Internet of Things describes all the physical objects that are connected to the internet, providing automated services, the most common ones referring to collecting and sharing data. IoT devices require network access in order to send data to other …

IoT devices, such as sensors able to exchange data with other devices or end-users thanks to embedded solutions and/or combinations of fog and cloud computing, are the main enablers of Smart Energy and worldwide the system operators are strongly engaged …

Internet of Things (IoT) describes a network which allows various smart devices, sensors, and actuators, to be connected and be able to exchange data through the Internet. IoT faces many challenges with security being one of the majors and most …

Everybody in the IT world has heard the word container at this point. But containers are not the only way to isolate and deploy software. In this post we want to take give a high-level introduction to containers as well …

Over time mobile networks have been evolving in terms of security to reach truly secure infrastructure for personal and machine-type communications. Here we provide an overview of security techniques in mobile networks. The first generations of mobile networks 2G and …