UBITECH participates in the virtual kick-off meeting, hosted by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (September 8-9, 2020), of the FUDGE-5G Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 957242) and spans on the period September 2020 – February 2023. The vision of the FUDGE-5G project is to create a new generation of world leading 5G core network technology companies for private 5G networks based in Europe. FUDGE-5G will make a leap forward in realizing the notion of cloud-native 5G private networks by developing a further enhanced Service-Based Architecture (eSBA) for both control plane and user plane with “decomposed” players of the ecosystem divided into: New Radio (NR) access network infrastructure provider, eSBA platform provider, mobile 5G Core (5GC) provider, vertical application orchestration provider and vertical service provider.
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UBITECH undertakes the project management and technical coordination of the PUZZLE Innovation Action on Digital Security and Privacy for Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises
UBITECH is hosting the kick-off e-meeting (September 7-8, 2020) of the PUZZLE Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 883540) and spans on the period September 2020 – August 2023. The vision of the PUZZLE project is to design and implement a novel highly usable cybersecurity, privacy and data protection management framework targeted at SMEs&MEs that enables them to dynamically monitor, forecast, assess and manage their security, privacy and personal data protection risks through the usage of targeted cybersecurity management services, increase their cybersecurity awareness through the efficient processing of heterogeneous information flows and the establishment of online collaboration and knowledge sharing with other SMEs&MEs, and extract insights and threat intelligence reports based on analysis over the processed data through the application of artificial intelligence mechanisms.
UBITECH presents a scientific paper on Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments at EAI SPNCE 2020
Following a peer-review process, UBITECH’s scientific paper entitled “A Secure Experimentation Sandbox for the Design and Execution of Trusted and Secure Analytics in the Aviation Domain” has been accepted by the 3rd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments (EAI SPNCE 2020), held online between 6-7 August 2020. Mr Dimitris Miltiadou, delivery manager of the Data Science and Analytics research group of UBITECH, and his co-authors presented the provisioning of a sophisticated environment that can completely guarantee the safety and confidentiality of data, allowing to any interested party to utilize the ICARUS big data-enabled platform to conduct analytical experiments in closed-lab conditions.
Continue reading UBITECH presents a scientific paper on Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments at EAI SPNCE 2020UBITECH announces the launch of the ChildRescue mobile app that fosters the investigation of missing children and unaccompanied refugee minors
UBITECH is happy to announce the launch of the ChildRescue App, an innovative application that can help the investigation of missing children and unaccompanied refugee minors cases. The App will be available for free download, for both iOS and Android devices, from the 28th July 2020 and on. For the ChildRescue Innovation Action, which is co-funded by the Horizon 2020 framework of the European Commission, UBITECH had the opportunity to work with a great team of partners, and contribute to the implementation of a secure and privacy-preserving mobile application, compatible with both Android and iOS operating systems. For more info, please have a look at the official video promoting the ChildRescue App launch or go through the press release of the ChildRescue consortium.
UBITECH establishes strategic partnership with Exit Bee both as an investor and as their main technology provider
As the related due diligence process has completed successfully, UBITECH is signing today an investment agreement with Exit Bee for acquiring almost 10% of this novel start-up specialized in digital marketing and online advertising, as well as a strategic partnership agreement for becoming their main technology vendor, providing Exit Bee with software engineering and devops consulting services. Exit Bee re-defines what’s possible in display advertising with Smart Exit Ads, a new, premium channel for advertisers and a new revenue stream for publishers. Smart Exit Ads outperform any other display advertising format achieving over 96% viewability and up to 40 times higher click-through rate compared to the avg. banner, while introducing new ad formats and unlimited creative options. Smart Exit Ads are already being used by large advertisers across all industries (e.g., automotive, cosmetics, news media, banking, etc.) and by top publishers and media agencies in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Kenya, South Africa, UK and UAE. For more info about the activities and services of Exit Bee, the new member of UBITECH Group, please visit their corporate website: www.exitbee.com
UBITECH kicks off the Search and Rescue Research and Innovation Action on Emerging Technologies for the Early location of Entrapped Victims and the First Responders Safety in SAR Operations
UBITECH participates in the virtual kick-off meeting, hosted by the National Technical University of Athens (July 21-22, 2020), of the Search and Rescue (S&R) Research and Innovation Action, officially started on July 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 882897) and spans on the period July 2020 – June 2023. The vision of the S&R project is to design, implement and test through a series of large scale pilot scenarios a highly interoperable, modular open architecture platform for first responders. The governance model of S&R will be designed to operate more effectively and its architectural structure will allow to easily incorporate next generation R&D and COTS solutions which will be possibly adopted in the future disaster management systems. The Model will also support a unified vision of the EU role and will provide a common framework to assess needs and integrate responses. The framework will enable supportive approach using a wider range of decisional support features and monitoring systems and will also give to first responders an effective and unified vision of (a) the dynamic changes going on during event’s lifetime and (b) the capabilities and resources currently deployed in the field.
UBITECH talks about the orchestration of cloud-native application in the programmable 5G at the MATILDA 5G and Beyond Workshop
The MATILDA 5G & Beyond Workshop was originally proposed and accepted to be held in conjunction with the 6G Wireless Summit, and was planned to be held in Levi, Finland, on March 20, 2020. Owing to the Covid-19 outbreak, all Tutorials and Workshops scheduled on March 19 and 20 were cancelled, and eventually the 6G Wireless Summit itself was transformed into a virtual event. Thus, MATILDA has decided to follow a similar path, organizing the workshop as a webinar on June 30, 2020. The goal of this workshop is to present the main assets and business models for the whole MATILDA solution and its vertical demonstrators and the potential of their evolution toward 6G, where, by mapping application requirements to network slice configuration and allowing fast dynamic adaptation of resources, it may contribute to empower European SMEs and other stakeholders in the development of more efficient 5/6G-aware applications and foster innovative vertical industries. The workshop will include presentations on the MATILDA assets from Consortium partners and will also welcome invited speakers from academia and the industrial sector, from application developers to Telco Service Providers, possibly followed by a panel discussion. Presentations will be upon invitation only.
UBITECH co-authors a scientific publication on converging HPC, Big Data and Cloud technologies for precision agriculture data analytics
A scientific paper entitled “Converging HPC, Big Data and Cloud technologies for precision agriculture data analytics on supercomputers” has been co-authored by Ryax Technologies, HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, CINECA, National Technical University of Athens, LeanXcale and UBITECH, and is presented at the 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 20) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference – High Performance, between June 21-25, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. In this paper, Dr Sophia Karagiorgou and her co-authors discuss the orchestration of precision agriculture and livestock farming analytics workflows across hybrid IoT, Big Data, HPC and Cloud infrastructures. As a matter of fact, the convergence of HPC and Big Data along with the influence of Cloud are playing an important role in the democratization of HPC. The increasing needs of Data Analytics in computational power has added new fields of interest for the HPC facilities but also new problematics such as interoperability with Cloud and ease of use. Besides the typical HPC applications, these infrastructures are now asked to handle more complex workflows combining Machine Learning, Big Data and HPC. This brings challenges on the resource management, scheduling and environment deployment layers. Hence, enhancements are needed to allow multiple frameworks to be deployed under common system management while providing the right abstraction to facilitate adoption.
UBITECH Group kicks off the frESCO Innovation Action on new business models for innovative energy services for residential consumers
UBITECH and UBITECH ENERGY participates in the virtual kick-off meeting, hosted by CIRCE (June 10, 2020), of the frESCO Innovation Action, officially started on June 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 893857) and spans on the period June 2020 – November 2023. The vision of the frESCO project to engage with ESCOs and aggregators and enable the deployment of innovative business models, on the basis of novel energy and integrated energy service bundles that properly combine and remunerate local flexibility for optimizing local energy performance both in the form of energy efficiency (energy savings) and demand side management (demand response). Such new service and business models will bring under common Pay for Performance Contracts (extended form of current EPCs) two currently differentiated service offerings to enable the realization of next-generation smart energy service packages.
UBITECH presents the Technical Challenges and the Real-world Testbeds of the CYBELE H2020 Innovation Action at the BDVA HPC, Big Data, IoT and AI Future Industry-driven Collaborative Strategic Topics Workshop
The BDVA organized workshop on HPC, Big Data, IoT and AI future industry-driven collaborative strategic topics took place virtually on May 5th, 2020, aiming to analyse in depth the challenges, limitations and longer term perspectives of the Large Scale Pilot actions, that are currently being developed in the context of the ICT-11-2018-2019 calls to demonstrate the potential of these technologies in the implementation of industrial pilot test-beds, as well as other existing relevant ongoing projects and activities in other programmes. These pilots ad test-beds deal with data coming from different industrial and business domains, such as manufacturing, health and healthcare, agri-food, finance, and other business or public sector domains. Although the particular sectors covered by the pilots provide a diversity of challenges, there are many common difficulties that have to be overcome. The aim of the workshop is to outline future research and innovation needs in terms of convergence and alignment of the basic technologies and their utilization in industry and specially SMEs.
In this context, UBITECH represented the CYBELE H2020 Innovation Action that aspires at demonstrating how the convergence of HPC, Big Data, Cloud Computing (services) and the IoT can revolutionise farming, reduce scarcity and increase our nation’s food supply in a dramatic fashion, bringing enormous social, economic, and environmental benefits. In particular, CYBELE Project Coordinator Dr. Steven Davy from WIT and CYBELE Technical Coordinator Dr. Sophia Karagiorgou from UBITECH presented the technical challenges, the research activities and the convergence of Big Data, HPC and AI technologies in the CYBELE Testbeds applicable to the Precision Agriculture and the Precision Livestock Farming contexts. Within CYBELE, UBITECH undertakes the technical coordination, leads the realization of large scale HPC-enabled test beds and delivers a distributed big data management architecture and a data management strategy providing 1) integrated, unmediated access to large scale datasets of diverse types from a multitude of distributed data sources, 2) a data and service driven virtual HPC-enabled environment supporting the execution of multi-parametric agri-food related impact model experiments, optimizing the features of processing large scale datasets and 3) a bouquet of domain specific and generic services on top of the virtual research environment facilitating the elicitation of knowledge from big agri-food related data, addressing the issue of increasing responsiveness and empowering automation-assisted decision making, empowering the stakeholders to use resources in a more environmentally responsible manner, improve sourcing decisions, and implement circular-economy solutions in the food chain.
