CoGNETs

CoGNETs aims to revolutionize the Intelligent Infrastructure Management by introducing a scalable and interoperable distributed Middleware Framework for autonomous IoT-to-Cloud computing, sustainable during and after the project via FIWARE Foundation (Technical Manager) and supported by a strong Industrial & Academic EU-JAPAN ecosystem led by AVL (leader of Catena-X initiative between EU-JP in data sovereignty for the Automotive & Manufacturing supply-chain). The idea is to leverage the IT intelligence to the point where devices can self-realize their heterogeneity and self-decide how to form dynamic IoT-to-Cloud swarm continuums for responding to common AI tasks and significant items of cognitive computing in automated, secure and energy efficient fashion. At is core our Middleware will integrate new decentralized federated multi-context Broker architecture enriched with Game-intelligent Agents, Collaborative Federated Learning and End-to-End Security mechanisms (including RISC-V hardware security & AI acceleration) to effectualize the dynamic data and resource management across devices at different domains, thereby using open-source programing models and APIs to produce new orchestration, optimization, etc. routines with no vendor locking. CoGNETs will also achieve energy/CO2 neutrality and “by-design” security awareness by leveraging all its Middleware processes over unified Computing-Energy-Security optimization, thereby introducing a new logic of systemically improving Computing in joint and equal terms to Energy and Security performances that are necessary for sustaining new services and business models. Validations will be taken over 3x (per-vertical) plus 1x (cross-vertical) Demos to support key Manufacturing, Mobility and Health sectors, and examine how CoGNETs can safeguard for economic, business and societal resilience, and how it can expand Europe’s digital sovereignty, strategic autonomy and industrial supremacy in the next wave of technology evolution.

Consortium

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH), EL
AVIGNON UNIVERSITE (UAVIGN), FR
AVL LIST GMBH (AVL), AT
AXON LOGIC IDIOTIKI KEFALAIOUXIKI ETAIREIA (AXON), EL
BEYOND SEMICONDUCTOR, RAZISKAVE IN RAZVOJ, D.O.O. (BEYOND), SI
CONSORZIO MEDITECH – MEDITERRANEAN COMPETENCE CENTRE 4 INNOVATION (MEDITECH), ΙΤ
ELLINIKO MESOGEIAKO PANEPISTIMIO (HMU), EL
FIWARE FOUNDATION EV (FIWARE), DE
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV (Fraunhofer), DE
K3Y (K3Y), BG
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH “DEMOKRITOS” (NCSRD), EL
NETCOMPANY-INTRASOFT SA (INTRA), LU
SBA RESEARCH GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH (SBA), AT
SIEMENS SRL (SIEMENS), RO
TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY (VTT), FI
UBITECH LIMITED (UBI), CY
INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTECORPORATION RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONOF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS (NII), JP
The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), JP
AVL Japan K.K. (AVLJP), JP
MARTEL GMBH (MARTEL), CH
UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER (ULANCS), UK