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    Smart IoT Data Collection

    Funding: EU Horizon 2020

    Homepage: https://mm.aueb.gr/projects/besmart

    The Internet of Things will involve a huge number of sensors. Periodically collecting data from all IoT sensors will waste a large amount of communication and storage resources, in addition to a large amount of energy, which impedes the scalability of IoT systems. Moreover, it introduces significant privacy risks. The goal of the project is to experiment with procedures for efficiently collecting IoT data while achieving target requirements in terms of data accuracy, timeliness, energy efficiency, and privacy protection. The procedures dynamically adapt the IoT data request density in time (frequency of requests to a particular IoT sensor) and space (requests for the same type of data from IoT sensors located in the same area), as well as the corresponding results. The adaptation of the requests will be performed by exploiting the temporal and spatial correlation of measurements, which will be estimated based on the history of data measurements and the location and type of the IoT sensors, whereas the adaptation of the results will be performed by considering privacy-accuracy tradeoffs. The data collection procedures will be applied to two application domains: environmental monitoring (air and water) and IoT network monitoring (link quality and power consumption). A key outcome of the project will be the development of application-aware closed-loop IoT workload models, which will be made available as open source software.

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    Network Infrastructure as Commons

    Funding: EU Horizon 2020

    Homepage: https://netcommons.eu/

    netCommons is a Horizon2020 research project, which follows a novel transdisciplinary methodology on treating network infrastructure as commons, for resiliency, sustainability, self-determination, and social integration. Project partners have expertise in engineering, computer science, economics, law, political science, urban, media, and social studies; and close links with successful Community Networks like guifi.net, ninux.org, and sarantaporo.gr.

    Secure Open Federation for Internet Everywhere

    Funding: EU Horizon 2020

    Homepage: http://www.sofie-iot.eu/

    Fragmentation and lack of security are among the biggest problems of IoT systems. Most IoT platforms are vertically oriented closed systems, dedicated to specific application areas. The main goal of SOFIE is to enable diversified applications from various application areas to utilise heterogeneous IoT platforms and autonomous things across technological, organisational and administrative borders in an open and secure manner, making reuse of existing infrastructure and data easy.
    SOFIE will design, implement and pilot a systematic, open and secure way to establish new business platforms1 that utilise existing IoT platforms and distributed ledgers. With "openness", we mean flexible and administratively open business models, as well as technically decentralised federation to enable the interoperability of different IoT platforms, ledgers, and autonomous devices.
    SOFIE is guided by the needs of three pilot use cases, for which we will federate and field-test IoT business platforms. We have chosen three quite different application areas: food-chain, mobile gaming, and energy, with diverse business requirements. Furthermore, we explore the sometimes surprising synergies between these areas, building a foundation for cross-application-area use of existing IoT platforms and data.

    Download SOFIE's white paper here.
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