UBITECH hosts the kick-off meeting, in Athens, Greece (January 17-18, 2019) of the ASCLEPIOS Research and Innovation Action, officially started on December 1st, 2018. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 826093) and spans on the period December 2018 – November 2021. The key goal of ASCLEPIOS is to maximize and fortify the trust of users on Cloud-based healthcare services by developing mechanisms for protecting both corporate and personal sensitive data. ASCLEPIOS utilizes several modern cryptographic approaches to build a Cloud-based eHealth framework that protects users’ privacy and prevents both internal and external attacks. ASCLEPIOS offers, on the one hand, the ability to users to verify the integrity of their medical devices prior using them while at the same time receiving certain guarantees about the trustworthiness of their Cloud service provider, while, on the other hand, ASCLEPIOS offers a novel solution through which healthcare practitioners and medical researchers are able to calculate statistics on medical data in a privacy-preserving way.
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UBITECH participates in the SECONDO Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action on digital security economics, optimal investments and cyber insurance
UBITECH is participating at the kick-off meeting, in Brussels, Belgium (January 16, 2019), of the SECONDO Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, officially started on January 1st, 2019. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 823997) and spans on the period January 2019 – December 2022. The SECONDO H2020 project aims to deliver a unique, scalable, highly interoperable Economics-of-Security-as-a-Service (ESaaS) platform that encompasses a comprehensive cost-driven methodology for: (i) estimating cyber risks based on a quantitative approach that focuses on both technical and non-technical aspects, (e.g. users behaviour), that influence cyber exposure; (ii) providing analysis for effective and efficient risk management by recommending optimal investments in cyber security controls; and (iii) determining the residual risks and estimating the cyber insurance premiums taking into account the insurer’s business strategy, while eliminating the information asymmetry between the insured and insurer. Thus, the SECONDO platform will establish a new paradigm in risk management for enterprises of various sizes, with respect to the GDPR framework, while it will enable formal and verifiable methodologies for insurers that require estimating premiums. Continue reading UBITECH participates in the SECONDO Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action on digital security economics, optimal investments and cyber insurance
UBITECH participates in the InteropEHRare Research and Innovation Action on interoperable electronic health records at the user edge
UBITECH participates in the kick-off meeting, in Rome, Italy (January 15-17, 2019) of the InteropEHRate Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2019. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 826106) and spans on the period January 2019 – June 2022. The key goal of InteropEHRate is to complement and integrate the current interoperability infrastructures with new technologies for health data exchange centred on the citizen, based on a bottom-up approach that does not require the coordination by a superior authority and that leaves more control of health data to the citizen. InteropEHRate will address the current lack of standardization and security, by defining a set of integrated protocols and conformance criteria for mobile apps, supporting secure and portable local storage and backup, released as open specifications. Moreover, the project will integrate these new protocols with technologies for information extraction and translation, to reduce the difficulties in health data exchange related to the different terminologies and languages adopted in different European countries and by different healthcare providers.
UBITECH supported the BigDataOcean Demonstration Booth at ICT 2018
UBITECH along with other five BigDataOcean consortium partners, namely NTUA, MarineTraffic, HCMR, ISMB and UNINOVA, presented BigDataOcean project results, concepts and technologies at a dedicated demo stand in the exhibition center area “Creating Networks & Technology” (Hall X4) at ICT 2018, that took place in Vienna on 4-6 December 2018. UBITECH had the opportunity to meet with several hundreds of visitors at the project’s exhibition booth, highlighting the challenges and the objectives of the project, giving a brief description of its key achievements and explaining how the platform will assist maritime stakeholders to perform Big Data Analytics. Discussions were about the BigDataOcean project’s platform and its services and the offerings were received with high interest from the booth’s visitors, which were further engaged to evaluate the platform and provide useful feedback to the consortium. Finally, the exhibition booth enabled BigDataOcean to reinforce the synergies with other projects active in the digital transformation of the mobility domain.
UBITECH demonstrates the MATILDA 5G Applications End to End Orchestration Framework at the 5G PPP Demo Stand at ICT 2018
UBITECH is going to support the demonstration of the MATILDA 5G PPP project results in the 5G In Action Demo Stand entitled “Building the next-generation network” at ICT 2018. The demonstration is going to take place at the 5th of December 2018, from 9:00 to 13:00, at the stand with number C23-C29 in the exhibition center area “Creating Networks & Technology” (Hall X4). The overall demonstration is going to show the main operational aspects of the MATILDA orchestration framework, focusing on the capacity for realising end-to-end orchestration of Cloud-native applications over 5G infrastructure. Specifically, demonstration of the MATILDA end-to-end orchestration framework for Cloud-native applications over 5G infrastructure is going to take place, based on the “5G emergency communications” application, provided by ININ (Ljubljana, Slovenia), supporting communication and interaction among first responders over an application aware network-slice. The main functionalities of the MATILDA Vertical Application Orchestrator, the provided OSS/BSS and the set of dynamic network slice creation and management functionalities are going to be demonstrated. It should be noted that, with over 60 different 5G PPP experiments planned across Europe in 2018-2020, the overall 5G In Action interactive booth will showcase demos from the best applications delivered by projects funded in the context of the 5G PPP under Horizon2020.
UBITECH presents the 5GTANGO 5G Development, Validation and Orchestration Platform at the 5G PPP Demo Stand at ICT 2018
UBITECH presents the 5GTANGO 5G PPP project results in the 5G In Action Demo Stand entitled “Building the next-generation network” at ICT 2018. The project presentation takes place at the 4th of December 2018, from 9:00 to 13:00, at the stand with number C23-C29 in the exhibition center area “Creating Networks & Technology” (Hall X4). Specifically, presentation of the main functionalities provided by the 5GTANGO ecosystem is going to be provided, including the NFV-enabled Service Development Kit for the design and development of network functions and services, the Validation and Verification framework for supporting extensive testing, validation and verification (in terms of performance and quality) of the developed software, and the modular Service Platform for efficiently deploying and orchestrating network services over 5G infrastructure. It should be noted that, with over 60 different 5G PPP experiments planned across Europe in 2018-2020, the overall 5G In Action interactive booth will showcase demos from the best applications delivered by projects funded in the context of the 5G PPP under Horizon 2020.
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.
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.
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.
