UBITECH Energy hosts the kick-off meeting (September 21 & 22, 2023) in Brussels, Belgium of the D-HYDROFLEX Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2023. The project is funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement No. 101122357) and spans on the period September 2023 – August 2026. The D-HYDROFLEX project will advance excellence in research on digital technology for hydropower paving the way towards more efficient, more sustainable, and more competitive hydropower plants in modern power markets.

Continue reading UBITECH and UBITECH Energy kick off the D-HYDROFLEX Innovation Action on improving hydropower assets’ sustainability performance and flexibility potential

UBITECH participates at the kick-off meeting hosted by TECNALIA (September 6 & 7, 2023) in Bilbao, Spain of the CERTIFAI Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2021. The project is funded by the European Commission (Grant Agreement No. 101120606) and spans on the period September 2023 – August 2026. The CERTIFAI project will develop an open software framework for cost-effective AI-driven continuous assessment and (re-)certification of ICT products and services, paving the way for a more secure and trustworthy EU’s digital world. Building on the EU Cybersecurity Act, CERTIFAI will leverage the established cybersecurity requirements, standards, and technical specifications to deliver an efficient approach for ensuring that a product, once certified, will continue to be compliant with relevant standards throughout its life cycle.

Continue reading UBITECH kicks-off CERTIFAI Innovation Action on agile conformance assessment for AI-driven cybersecurity certification

The BRIDGE Regulatory working group was established at the origin of the BRIDGE initiative with the objective of fostering knowledge sharing among H2020 projects affected or addressing by different regulatory aspects in the Energy domain. The Regulatory WG, as the entire BRIDGE initiative, structures its activities on a yearly basis. In 2022, the work of the BRIDGE Regulatory working group was structured upon 4 actions: (i) improving market access for consumers to value their flexibility; (ii) examining options for service provision by energy communities; (iii) facilitating flexibility market coordination and integration; and (iv) supporting the potential synergies coming from increased sector coupling/sector integration/system integration. UBITECH ENERGY led the work related to the 4^th action focusing on the identification of existing barriers hindering cross-sector integration.

Continue reading BRIDGE’s report on Energy Market Design and Flexibility published with the support of UBITECH ENERGY

Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group, and his co-author introduce RETRACT, an innovative and comprehensive anonymous credential scheme, at the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023), that is held August 29 – September 1, 2023 in Benevento, Italy. In particular, RETRACT enables credential holders to demonstrate their possession of satisfying credentials for any given predicate, while ensuring that only the intended verifier can validate them.

Continue reading UBITECH presents a work on expressive designated verifier anonymous credentials at ARES 2023

After a peer review process, the scientific publication entitled “ZEKRA: Zero-Knowledge Control-Flow Attestation” has been accepted for presentation at the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2023) that is held in Melbourne Australia from July 10th to July 14th, 2023. In this work, UBITECH’s Dr Thanassis Giannetsos (Head, Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group) and his co-authors propose a novel method of encasing a program-agnostic execution path verification task inside an arithmetic circuit whose correct execution can be verified by untrusted verifiers using a zero-knowledge proof system without the verifiers learning any secret inputs.

Continue reading UBITECH presents ZEKRA protocol on Zero-Knowledge Control-Flow Attestation at ACM AsiaCCS 2023

UBITECH has participated at the competitive open call on Decentralised Digital Identity of the EC funded TRUSTCHAIN Horizon Europe project (https://trustchain.ngi.eu/), that focuses on trustworthy digital identities and data, and was awarded with a cascading grant for implementing the PRIVÈ project that will result in a Privacy Respecting Identity Verification Enabler for Digital Identity Wallets, extending the decentralized user-centric identity management framework by building an open source library that can be added as an extension to any SSI wallet on the Holder side to enable the use of hardware-based keys.

Continue reading UBITECH is awarded the PRIVE cascading grant contract from TRUSTCHAIN

The final review meeting for the DataVaults H2020 research project was held on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, wherein the DataVaults consortium presented to the external reviewers and the project officer (PO) of the European Commission the final results of the project. The key goal of the project, that the consortium succeeded in accomplishing is the delivery of a novel framework and architecture that leverages personal data, coming from diverse sources to help individuals construct their unified personal data hub, collect at a single point all of their personal data in a secure and trusted manner, and retain ownership and control on what to share and with whom, also receiving compensation for the artifacts they place at the disposal of other third parties.

Continue reading Successful completion of the DataVaults Innovation Action

UBITECH hosts the virtual kick-off meeting of the CYGNUS Cypriot research project, officially started on June 1st, 2023. The project is co-funded by the “DUAL USE” action of the multi-annual development framework of Programmes RESTART for the support of Research, Technological Development and Innovation in Cyprus  (Grant Agreement No. DUAL USE/0922/0024) and spans on the period June 2023 – May 2025. The CYGNUS  project aims to deliver a dual use self-managing software platform targeting various civilian applications and usage scenarios under the frame of advanced areas’, citizens’ and neighbourhoods’ surveillance by using UAVs with high-precision detection modules for object(s), person(s) or vehicle(s) with georeferencing capabilities. CYGNUS will follow a product-oriented methodology (M) for realizing a self-managing software platform putting the human-in-the-loop of the decision-making process and supporting the entire Big Data and Causal Intelligence lifecycle from the IoT / Edge to the Centralized Computing.

Continue reading UBITECH kicks off the CYGNUS National Research Project on dual use AI-fueled technologies to fuse and analyse sensorial knowledge for situational awareness and decision-making

A scientific paper edited by researchers of University of Nicosia, INNOV-ACTS and UBITECH has been accepted for presentation at the 19th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2023) that takes place in Cyprus, at the Coral Bay near the city of Pafos. UBITECH’s Dr Sofia Karagiorgou (Head, Privacy-preserving Distributed Machine Learning Research Group) and her co-authors introduce a novel interactive and realistic VR-based serious game for training law enforcement officers in the analysis and understanding of terroristic activities.

Continue reading Research paper on trusted virtual reality for training security officers at IEEE DCOSS-IoT 2023

After a peer review process, a scientific paper from UBITECH’s Digital Security and Trusted Computing research group has been accepted for publication at the 19th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2023) that takes place in Cyprus, at the Coral Bay near the city of Pafos. UBITECH’s Dr Dimitrios Papamartzivanos, Entso Veliou, Dr Thanassis Giannetsos (Head of Group) and their co-authors suggest that the usage of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) can lead to even more efficient performance as they tackle the limitation of conventional black box models, by enabling the understanding and interpretation of a model’s operation.

Continue reading UBITECH presents how XAI enhances data trustworthiness in crowd sensing systems at IEEE DCOSS-IoT 2023