As part of a team of five organizations with strong background and interest in 5G research and experimentation, UBITECH supports the launch of the athens.5Glink initiative with the aim to enable, in an integrated large-scale end-to-end testbed, the experimentation on 5G and future network technologies. Athens5Glink will be openly accessible to the 5G community for real-life demonstration, validation and assessment of cutting-edge technologies.
UBITECH, in strong collaboration with the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, the Municipality of Egaleo, COSMOTE and ORION Innovations, proceeds with the establishment of a neutral infrastructure, able to accommodate a multitude of vendors and technologies.
Athens5Glink will be presented, for the its time, at the 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC’2017) that takes place at June 12-15, 2017 in Oulu, Finland. For more info, please download the athens.5Glink brochure or visit the initiative’s website.
A scientific paper entitled “Data Aggregation, Fusion and Recommendations for Strengthening Citizens Energy-aware Behavioural Profiles” has been co-authored by UBITECH and published at the Global IoT Summit 2017 and specifically at the Workshop on Energy Efficient Solutions based on IoT – EESIoT 2017 that is going to be held in Geneva at June 8, 2017. In this paper, ENTROPY platform, an IT ecosystem for supporting energy efficiency in buildings through behavioural change of the occupants is provided. The ENTROPY platform targets at providing a set of mechanisms for accelerating the adoption of energy efficient practices through the increase of the energy awareness and energy saving potential of the occupants. The platform takes advantage of novel sensor networking technologies for supporting efficient sensor data aggregation mechanisms, semantic web technologies for unified data representation, machine learning mechanisms for getting insights from the available data and recommendation mechanisms for providing personalised content to end users. These technologies are combined and provided through an integrated platform, targeting at leading to occupants’ behavioural change with regards to their energy consumption profiles.
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The ARCADIA consortium successfully demonstrated the results of the work of the project during the first two years during the second project review on 31st of March at the European Commission in Brussels. These results included the release (by UBITECH) of the final integrated version of the ARCADIA Smart Controller that supports the dynamic setup and management of a set of distributed applications over multi-site programmable infrastructure. A set of intelligent orchestration mechanisms including the production of optimal deployment plans, the real-time policies enforcement and the support of set of virtual functions (e.g. load balancer, overlay routing) were successfully demonstrated. For exploring the capabilities of the ARCADIA Smart Controller for building and managing highly distributed applications, please go through our 
UBITECH has actively participated in the kick-off meeting, in Karlsruhe, Germany (January 25-26, 2017) of the UNICORN Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2017. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 731846) and spans on the period January 2017 – December 2019. The UNICORN project aims to simplify the design, deployment and management of secure- and elastic- by design multi-Cloud services – achieved by a) the development and design of libraries that provide security enforcement mechanisms, data privacy restrictions, monitoring metric collection and resource management across multiple Cloud sites; and b) enabling continuous orchestration and automatic optimization of portable and dynamic Cloud services running on virtual instances or micro-execution containers for increased security, data protection privacy and vast resource (de)-allocation. UNICORN enables software developers to design and develop secure and elastic applications through a Cloud IDE plug-in, hence right where they write their code, that incorporates a set of software code annotations, validation and packaging tools for security, privacy protection, monitoring and elasticity policy definition at the platform, application, component and even code segment level – accompanied with a set of continuous risk, cost and vulnerability assessment utilities for eliminating source code vulnerabilities.
UBITECH has actively participated in the kick-off meeting, in Darmstadt, Germany (January 24-25, 2017) of the PrEstoCloud Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2017. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 732339) and spans on the period January 2017 – December 2019. The PrEstoCloud project that make substantial research contributions in the cloud computing and real-time data intensive applications domains, since it provides a dynamic, distributed, self-adaptive and proactively configurable architecture for processing Big Data streams. In particular, PrEstoCloud combines real-time Big Data, Mobile Processing, Cloud computing and Fog computing research in a unique way that entails proactiveness of Cloud resources use and extension of the Fog computing paradigm to the extreme edge of the network. PrEstoCloud enables a smooth transition toward proactive, real-time Big Data, cloud-driven systems which are able to: (a) sense the need for adapting data-intensive services proactively, (b) define on-the-fly the most suitable changes in the real-time processing architecture including offloading of processing tasks at the extreme edge of the network, (c) predict reconfigurations in the underlying Cloud computing infrastructure resources, and (d) optimise continuously the infrastructure performance. PrEstoCloud is driven by the microservices development paradigm and has been structured across five different conceptual layers: i) Meta-management; ii) Control; iii) Cloud infrastructure; iv) Cloud/Edge communication and v) Devices layers.
UBITECH has actively participated in the kick-off meeting, in Genoa, Italy (January 19-20, 2017) of the ANASTACIA Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2017. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 731558) and spans on the period January 2017 – December 2019. The ANASTACIA project develops and demonstrates a holistic solution that enables trust and security by-design for cyber physical systems (CPS) that are based on IoT and cloud architectures, addressing the increasing vulnerability of today’s smart, highly connected and dynamic CPS, by leveraging the same dynamic distributed and connected environment to enact smart security planning, enforcement and monitoring strategies. This trustworthy-by-design security framework addresses all the phases of the ICT Systems Development Lifecycle and enables autonomous decisions taking through the adoption of the emerging networking technologies of Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and the use of intelligent and dynamic security enforcement and monitoring methodologies and tools. ANASTACIA incorporates (a) a security development paradigm based on the compliance to security best practices and the use of the security components and enablers, providing assisted security design, development and deployment cycles to assure security-by-design; (b) a suite of distributed trust and security components and enablers, that are able to dynamically orchestrate and deploy user security policies and risk-assessed resilient actions within complex and dynamic CPS and IoT architectures (online monitoring and testing techniques will allow more automated adaptation of the system to mitigate new and unexpected security vulnerabilities); and (c) a Dynamic Security and Privacy Seal, combining security and privacy standards and real time monitoring and online testing – providing quantitative and qualitative run-time evaluation of privacy risks and security levels, which can be easily understood and controlled by the final users.
