A global tech leader has recently awarded UBITECH with 16-month research contract, aiming at building and demonstrating a V2X Communication Security Architecture Including Pseudonym Usage and Re-usage as well as Pseudonym Revocation based on the Use of the Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA) Protocol. More specifically, in the course of this action, a new solution (that changes that traditional PKI-based landscape) based on the use of the Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA) protocol will be built by UBITECH. DAA is a user-controlled anonymous digital signature mechanism, where for each signature no entity can discover the signer’s identity. However, DAA still has the property that only a legitimate signer (e.g., vehicle) can create a valid signature through the use of trusted computing hardware or software. Under DAA, vehicles will be responsible for generating their own pseudonyms resulting in simplified infrastructure models where there is no need for a dedicated entity to take up this role.

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UBITECH participates at the virtual kick-off meeting hosted by EXUS (January 7, 2021) of the ELEGANT Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2021. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 957286) and spans on the period January 2021 – December 2023. The vision of the ELEGANT project is to solve the ever-increasing problem of software fragmentation in the IoT/Big Data interoperability domain, proposing a novel software programming paradigm, along with an associated set of methodologies and toolchains, to program IoT and Big Data frameworks using a unified programming framework.

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The scientific paper entitled ”A big data intelligence marketplace and secure analytics experimentation platform for the aviation industry” has been accepted and presented at the 10th EAI International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications, which was held online worldwide on the 11^th of December 2020. Mr Dimitris Miltiadou, delivery manager of the Data Science and Analytics research group of UBITECH, and his co-authors presented the architecture of the ICARUS big data-enabled platform that holistically handles the complete big data lifecycle from the data collection, data curation and data exploration to the data integration and data analysis of data originating from heterogeneous data sources with different velocity, variety and volume in a trusted and secure manner.

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UBITECH participated at the 4th FITCE Technology Forum on “Technologies and Services as we move to the advancement of mobile and fiber communications”, that was held online on Friday 11th of December 2020 and is sponsored and co-organized by COSMOTE. A presentation was delivered by Dr Dimitris Klonidis, the head of the Network Softwarization and IoT group of UBITECH, within the session “Emerging SMEs and their role in the Greek Economy” which included presentations from industry and SME companies on innovative outcomes stemming from research activities with a view towards telecom market products.

The presentation has focused on the capabilities and the new extensions of UBITECH’s Vertical Application Orchestrator (VAO) that has emerged from the MAESTRO platform and offers an innovative application deployment and management solution for 5G systems. UBITECH’s VAO is currently attracting significant interest in the 5G research innovation community and is already included in 4 new 5GPPP phase III Innovation Action projects. The talk highlighted the key features and the architecture of VAO as well as the way that it is linked to 5G service and infrastructure management platforms. The new features and extension of the VAO were also presented, while emphasis was given on the offered benefits for service providers, infrastructure owners and application developers.

UBITECH co-hosts (along with SUITE5) the virtual kick-off meeting (December 9-10, 2020) of the BEYOND Innovation Action, officially started on December 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 957020) and spans on the period December 2020 – November 2023. The vision of BEYOND is to bring forward a reference Big Data Management Platform, on top of which an advanced AI analytics toolkit will be offered allowing for the delivery of derivative data and intelligence out of a blend of real-life building data and relevant data coming from external sources (batch and real-time). The Analytics Toolkit will enable the execution of a wealth of descriptive-predictive-prescriptive analytics on the basis of pre-trained algorithms focusing on Personal Analytics (consumer behaviour, comfort and flexibility profiling), Industrial Analytics (Energy Performance, Predictive Maintenance, Forecasting and Flexibility analytics), along with Edge Analytics towards intelligent real-time automated control of building assets.

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The H2020 Transmission Grids Projects Clustering Workshop, organized by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), took place virtually on 2nd December 2020. The goal of this clustering activity was the analysis of the efforts by different H2020 projects on Electricity Transmission Grids to define TSO-DSO collaboration schemas. In the course of the workshop, UBITECH Energy presented FARCROSS project that promotes state-of-the art technologies to enhance the exploitation, capacity and efficiency of transmission grid assets, either on the generation or the transmission level.

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UBITECH participates at the virtual kick-off meeting hosted by the University of Western Macedonia (November 23-24, 2020) of the TERMINET Research and Innovation Action, officially started on November 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 957406) and spans on the period November 2020 – October 2023. The vision of TERMINET is to provide a novel next generation reference architecture based on cutting-edge technologies such as SDN, multiple-access edge computing, and virtualisation for next generation IoT, while introducing new, intelligent IoT devices for low-latency, market-oriented use cases.

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The first technical virtual review meeting for the ASCAPE H2020 co-funded research project (https://ascape-project.eu/) with external reviewers and the project officer from the European Commission side, took place November 13, 2020, wherein the ASCAPE consortium successfully presented the results of the work of the project during the first 10 months of project. UBITECH, as the Project Coordinator of the ASCAPE project, gave an overview and assured the fulfillment of ASCAPE Vision based on the promising preliminary results. The reviewers and the PO were satisfied with the results, recognizing the hard work of the whole consortium in a short period of time and provided some feedback and recommendations for the future work.

UBITECH was invited, as a Cloud Computing expert and coordinator of the RAINBOW H2020 Research and Innovation Action, to provide feedback on the draft of the document “Cloud Computing in Europe: Landscape Analysis, Adoption Challenges and Future Research and Innovation Opportunities”, developed by the H-CLOUD project. H-CLOUD (https://www.h-cloud.eu), that is an H2020 CSA project supporting the European Commission in the linking with the Cloud Computing Community in Europe, is organizing a set of webinars to discuss challenges and opportunities of Cloud Computing for the next work programmes spanning from research and innovation (Horizon Europe) to deployment (Digital Europe and Connecting Europe Facility 2) of Cloud technologies. Dr Panagiotis Gouvas, the co-founder and R&D Director of UBITECH, participated in the online webinar called “Strengthening EU Cloud Providers: Paving the Way for Edge and Green ICT” and provided feedback based on his extended experience in Cloud related research projects and his expertise in Security, Networks and Cloud/Edge computing. The final version of the white paper can be found in h-cloud website: https://www.h-cloud.eu/download/green-paper/?wpdmdl=764&masterkey=5fad315e7100d

UBITECH participates at the virtual kick-off meeting hosted by TXT E-SOLUTIONS (November 10-11, 2020) of the XMANAI Research and Innovation Action, officially started on November 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 957362) and spans on the period November 2020 – April 2024. The vision of XMANAI is to place the indisputable power of Explainable AI at the service of manufacturing and human progress, carving out a “human-centric”, trustful approach that is respectful of European values and principles, and adopting the mentality that “our AI is only as good as we are”. XMANAI will help the manufacturing value chain to shift towards the amplifying AI era by coupling (hybrid and graph) AI “glass box” models that are explainable to a “human-in-the-loop” and produce value-based explanations, with complex AI assets (data and models) management-sharing-security technologies to multiply the latent data value in a trusted manner, and targeted manufacturing apps to solve concrete manufacturing problems with high impact

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