In the frame of the ASSURED interview series, Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group, is talking about the future of security in next-generation smart connectivity systems comprising heterogeneous IoT and other types of cyber-physical systems. Dr Giannetsos is the technical coordinator of the ASSURED project (https://www.project-assured.eu/), dealing with Sustainable Operational Assurance and Verification for Systems-of-Systems Security and Privacy, who together with his team, is designing new operational assurance mechanisms for these types of systems by converting them into hardware-based roots of trust.

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The first review of the DataCloud H2020-101016835 project (https://datacloudproject.eu/) was successfully held by the European Commission on the 9th of February 2022, assessing project’s goal towards the creation of a novel paradigm for Big Data pipeline processing over heterogeneous resources encompassing the Computing Continuum, covering the complete lifecycle of managing Big Data pipelines. Although being only in the one third of the project duration, the DataCloud consortium successfully presented live the project results, composed of tools supporting each step of the data pipeline. Our reviewers and the PO provided their highly valuable feedback and valuable recommendations for future work.

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The 5G-INDUCE project (https://www.5g-induce.eu/) has successfully completed the technical review process for the first reporting period that included the activities of the initial 12 months of the project (out of its 36 month total duration). The consortium has presented the outcomes from the completion of the design phase of the project including the final 5G-INDUCE NetApp orchestration platform architecture, the definition of the NetApps for the 8 use cases, and the deployment plans of the industrial experimentation facilities.

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Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security & Trusted Computing Research Group, participated at the Dagstuhl Seminar 22042 on Privacy Protection of Automated and Self-Driving Vehicles, held on January 23-28, 2022, and talked about the security, privacy and trustworthiness key properties that need to be considered as we are moving towards the realization of the 5G C-V2X technology. In this context, converging all these properties by assessing dynamic trust relationships and defining a trust model and trust reasoning framework is of paramount importance; based on which involved entities can establish trust for cooperatively executing safety-critical functions.

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In close collaboration with researchers from the Smart5Grid H2020 Innovation Action, UBITECH co-authors a journal publication entitled “Demonstration of 5G Solutions for Smart Energy Grids of the Future: A Perspective of the Smart5Grid Project” that has been just accepted for publication from MDPI Energies, a peer-reviewed, open access journal of related scientific research, technology development, engineering, and the studies in policy and management and is published semimonthly online by MDPI.

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The first, interim review of the XMANAI Research & Innovation Action with the Project Officer from the European Commission and the external reviewers was virtually held on the 20^th of January 2022. During the meeting, the WP leaders and relevant Task leaders presented the progress of the project and the key outcomes of the first 12 months of project. During the meeting, the consortium received constructive feedback from both the Project Officer and the external reviewers that acknowledged the project’s advancements and the outstanding work carried out during this first period of the project.

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In close collaboration with researchers from MINES ParisTech (France) and University of Patras (Greece), UBITECH co-authors a journal publication entitled “Short-Term Net Load Forecasting with Singular Spectrum Analysis and LSTM Neural Networks” that has been just accepted for publication from MDPI Energies, a peer-reviewed, open access journal of related scientific research, technology development, engineering, and the studies in policy and management and is published semimonthly online by MDPI.

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The paper entitled “A lightweight Ontology for real time semantic correlation of situation awareness data generated for first responders” has been accepted for presentation at the 2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, that will be held in December 15-17, 2021  in Las Vegas and will be also published in the IEEE CPS proceedings.

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The Clustering Workshop, entitled “Future Proofing and Certifying Supply Chains”, co–organized by EU-funded projects ASSURED and CYRENE, wherein UBITECH participates as Technical Coordinator, aims at bringing together projects that target Supply Chain Security, Resilience and Certification aspects, experts, members and consultants from standardization and certification bodies for exploring synergies and identifying actions that can be pursued in common.

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The views of UBITECH’s 5G-INDUCE project on the benefits and challenges of the offered solutions for the manufacturing industry sector have been presented at 5G Techritory, Europe’s leading 5G ecosystem forum. A presentation in the form of interview was provided by Dimitris Klonidis (Head of NSIT group at UBITECH) and Enrica Bosani (Manufacturing R&D Project manager at Whirlpool EMEA). The focus was on the innovative developments and challenges of the 5G-INDUCE platform for managing the upper layer application services and the enabling use cases and benefits expected at manufacturing sector and specifically the Whirlpool’s testing facility.

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