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UBITECH ENERGY: The new member of UBITECH family

UBITECH joins forces with Energy Research Innovators, with a long track record in the identification, design, development and commercialization of research and innovation smart energy projects, and establishes UBITECH ENERGY in Brussels, Belgium. Building upon a deep and thorough understanding of energy systems current needs and future challenges, and addressing a wide range of technologies and domains – including smart grid solutions, energy efficiency, IoT, cybersecurity and data privacy, renewables integration, energy markets and services, blockchain technology, cloud computing and big data analytics, the vision of UBITECH ENERGY is to revolutionize the energy value chain with new technologies and pave the way for its new digital era.

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UBITECH receives Best Paper Award for a scientific paper on collaborative, data-driven intelligence for maritime at IARIA UBICOMM 2018 in Athens, Greece

A scientific paper entitled “Enabling collaborative, data-driven intelligence for the Maritime Sector” has been co-authored by UBITECH and is presented at the 12th International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2018), hosted between November 18-22, 2018 in Athens, Greece – receiving the Best Paper Award. In this paper, Dimitris Miltiadou, Stamatis Pitsios, Kostas Perakis and their co-authors propose a big data-enabled platform that facilitates and incentivizes businesses active in the maritime sector to share their (previously isolated) data, towards building a data foundation that will disrupt the maritime industry, allowing the implementation of cross-sectorial data driven services that will aid maritime organisations to modernise their everyday activities and come up with added value accruing from previously raw data that seemed useless or irrelevant. Thus, the platform will allow data-driven decisions based on diverse data resources, coming from public and private providers and enable new business models that will secure sustainability and transparency in organisations’ operations.

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Successful Demonstration of the MAESTRO Orchestrator at the 2nd MATILDA review

UBITECH has successfully demonstrated the MAESTRO end-to-end orchestration framework for Cloud-native applications over 5G infrastructure in the MATILDA review meeting that took place in Genoa during 22-23 November 2018. The realised demonstration regarded the deployment and orchestration of a “5G emergency communications” application, provided by ININ (Ljubljana, Slovenia), supporting communication and interaction among first responders over an application aware network-slice. In more detail, the provided application was on boarded to the MAESTRO development environment, where the set of networking requirements to be considered during placement were specified. Such requirements led to the creation of a slice intent (description of the network slice to be supported for this application). The latter led to a request from the Cloud orchestration mechanisms to the underlying, fully incorporated OSS for the automated creation of the appropriate network slice, as well as the activation of the required network services in the NFVO (OSM). It should be noted that the request is based on the specification and implementation of open APIs for the interaction among the Cloud orchestration mechanisms and the OSS, following the evolving 3GPP specifications (e.g. based on the results of the 3GPP Common API Framework Study). Upon the creation of the network slice instance, Cloud and network orchestration mechanisms were activated, leading to the efficient provision of the application. The deployment was realised over the 5G end-to-end facility provided by CNIT (Genoa, Italy), covering the radio access, transport and core network part. Following the application’s provision, scenarios related to the scaling of the application components given the workload characteristics were realised. The overall demonstration showed the main operational aspects of the MAESTRO orchestration framework, focusing on the capacity for realising end-to-end orchestration of Cloud-native applications over 5G infrastructure.

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UBITECH presents CYBELE HPC and Big Data technologies fostering Precision Agriculture and Precision Livestock Farming at EBDV Forum 2018

UBITECH presented the CYBELE H2020 project (https://www.cybele-project.eu/) at the European Big Data Value Forum on 12-14 November in Vienna. The European Big Data Value Forum is a key European event for industry professionals, business developers, researchers, and policy makers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the European data economy and data-driven innovation in Europe. Several keynotes and presentations were given, ranging from cutting-edge industrial applications of Big Data technologies, artificial intelligence, innovative business cases of the data economy, inspiring future visions, and insights on EU policy-making and R&D&I funding in this area. Konstantinos Perakis presented the concept and approach of the CYBELE project, focusing on HPC and Big Data testbeds for bioeconomy, during the “Big Data Solutions for Bioeconomy” session on Day 1.

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UBITECH participates in the ENDORSE National Research Project on self-management of health in children and adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and/or Obesity

UBITECH participates in the kick-off meeting, in Athens, Greece (October 31, 2018) of the ENDORSE Greek research project, officially started on September 6th, 2018. The project is co-funded by the action “Researching-Creating-Innovating” (under the instrument “Partnerships of Enterprises with Research Organizations”) of the operational programme for Research, Technological Development and Innovation of the Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religion Matters (Grant Agreement No. T1EDK- 03695) and spans on the period September 2018 – August 2021. The ENDORSE project aims at the design, implementation and evaluation of a prototype integrated platform based on advanced and emerging gamification technologies and biofeedback mechanisms facilitating self-management of health in children and adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) and/or Obesity. ENDORSE will focus on the development of a pervasive environment able to deliver applications and services with the ultimate goal to raise awareness, to train, to monitor, to comply, to promote healthy lifestyle behavioral changes and to support decision-making by placing the target groups (children and adolescents with T1DM and/or obesity) at the center of their healthcare.

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UBITECH hosts a joint workshop of I-BiDaaS and PrEstoCloud H2020 projects in the area of Big Data and Cloud technologies

On October 29, 2018 at UBITECH’s premises in Athens, partners of the Horizon 2020 co-funded research projects I-BiDaaS and PrEstoCloud will meet at a joint technical workshop to explore, discuss and promote coexistence and synergies in the area of Big Data and Cloud technologies and applications. On the one hand, PrEstoCloud (prestocloud-project.eu) focuses on the research of cloud computing and real-time big data technologies, providing a dynamic, distributed architecture that enables proactive cloud resource management reaching the extreme edge of the network for efficient data processing. On the other hand, I-BiDaaS (www.ibidaas.eu/) constitutes a self-service solution, aiming to empower users to easily utilize and interact with big data technologies by designing, building and demonstrating a unified framework that significantly increases the speed of data analysis while coping with the rate of data asset growth and facilitates cross-domain data-flow towards a thriving data-driven EU economy. Participants of the workshop will use the opportunity to identify common challenges, create synergies and optimize the research activities of both projects dealing with similar topics.

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UBITECH coordinates the PERSONAS National Research Project on multi-mode secure virtualization personas

UBITECH participates in the kick-off meeting, in Nicosia, Cyprus (October 24, 2018) of the PERSONAS Cypriot research project, officially started on October 2nd, 2018. The project is co-funded by the “Research in Enterprises” action of the multi-annual development framework of Programmes RESTART 2016-2020 for the support of Research, Technological Development and Innovation in Cyprus  (Grant Agreement No. ENTERPRISES/0916/0063) and spans on the period October 2018 – September 2020. The PERSONAS project leverages virtualization for offering additional security to the end-user, providing a device independent, user-centric and self-adaptive security system, able to cope with the concept of seamless working experience on different devices, in which a user may start a session on a device and location and follow up the process on different devices and locations, without corporate or personal digital asset loss – delivering an agile personalized system, which, based on the context, enables different features for increased security on individuals and corporate devices.

Main features include: (i) enable automation of software virtualization for protecting different types of corporate and personal data based on an active context, and (ii) assist individual users and organizations manage data security processes and related policies more effectively while maintaining a sufficient level of user awareness and control of any automated decisions made by computing devices. The key technological concepts and artefacts comprising the proposed PERSONAS framework and constituting its unique selling points are described below:

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UBITECH presents a scientific paper on semantically-enhanced health emergency management at ODBASE 2018 in Valletta, Malta

A scientific paper entitled “Semantically Enhanced Interoperability in Health Emergency Management” has been authored by UBITECH and is presented at the 17th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE’18)  that is part of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops, hosted between October 22-26, 2018 in Valletta, Malta. In this paper, Danae Vergeti, Dimitris Ntalaperas, and Dimitris Alexandrou propose the HERMES Semantic Model that consists of an ontological representation of the conceptual model of the Health Emergency Management domain and aims at: a) providing an integral conceptual model of Health Emergency Management covering all the involved knowledge domains and, b) addressing the aforementioned interoperability and integration issues. HERMES reuses existing ontologies and offers a new upper model, a set of vertical models and a data facet. The model is used by a specific mechanism which imports data from the various resources in order to provide an integrated and homogenized view of the data. The final harmonized data may be used by various incident management platforms to assist in decision making during an emergency.

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UBITECH receives Best Paper Award for the scientific paper entitled “An Ontology-Driven Elderly People Home Mobilization Approach” at SWH workshop of ISWC 2018

The scientific paper entitled “An Ontology-Driven Elderly People Home Mobilization Approach”, edited by UBITECH and presented at the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Health Data Management (SWH 2018) Workshop that is co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), hosted between October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, California, USA, has been selected as the best paper of SWH 2018. As a result, an extended version of it will be included in a journal special issue entitled “Emerging Topics in Semantic Technologies. ISWC 2018 Satellite Events” by AKA Verlag. In this paper, Sophia Karagiorgou, Dimitris Ntalaperas, Georgios Vafeiadis, Dimitris Alexandrou and their co-authors introduce a semantic interoperability agent which exploits mobility tracking and spatiotemporal characteristics to extract human profiling in order to give incentives to elderly people for mobilization at home. The agent exploits an extended ontology composed by UBITECH R&D team over the official collection of universAAL ontology, which facilitates the collation of evidence for the effects of exergaming on the movement control of older adults. This agent enables to support personalized monitoring services through a set of rules which are individually defined to generate incentives for elderly people home care taking into consideration their daily movement habits.

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UBITECH presents a scientific paper on Semantic Web technologies for elderly home mobilization at SWH 2018 in Monterey, CA

A scientific paper entitled “An Ontology-Driven Elderly People Home Mobilization Approach” has been edited by UBITECH and is presented at the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Health Data Management (SWH 2018) Workshop that is co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018), hosted between October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, California, USA. In this paper, Sophia Karagiorgou, Dimitris Ntalaperas, Georgios Vafeiadis, Dimitris Alexandrou and their co-authors propose a semantic interoperability agent which exploits mobility tracking and spatiotemporal characteristics to extract human profiling and give incentives for mobilization at home. The agent takes advantage of an extended ontology which facilitates the collation of evidence for the effects of exergaming on the movement control of older adults. In order to provide personalized monitoring services, a number of rules are individually defined to generate incentives. To evaluate the proposed semantic interoperability agent, human mobility data are collected and analyzed based on daily activities, their duration and mobility patterns. We show that the proposed agent is robust enough for activity classification, and that the recommendations for mobilization are accurate. We further demonstrate the agent’s potential in useful knowledge inference regarding personalized elderly people home care.

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