Twelve members of UBITECH team, including Software Engineers, Web Developers, UI/UX Experts, Data Scientists, Mobile Developers and Blockchain Engineers, have submitted the CovIDpass idea and proof-of-concept at the online hackathon of Global Hack, entitled “Fight for our Future” (https://theglobalhack.devpost.com/), that takes place on April 9-12, 2020 and attracted more than 6,000 individuals submitting more than 1,000 ideas. CovIDpass proposes a privacy-preserving and secure infrastructure for the issuance and validation of the COVID-19 Immunity Certificate of citizens, enabling their mobility across different countries.
As COVID-19 is rapidly spreading across the globe, more restrictions on cross-country travelling are being imposed, significantly disrupting the air transportations. Worldwide public health safety restrictions have grounded more than 80% of flights, leading the industry and populations’ movement in unprecedented turbulence. It is inevitable that these strict policies are going to gradually transform into a system that incoming passengers will be obliged to prove their health status. Therefore, a global standardized COVID-19 immunity certification will be asked before boarding, as the humanity needs to ensure that in the post-COVID crisis era, people may move between countries in an objectively riskless fashion, both for themselves as well as for the public safety.
UBITECH is participating at the kick-off e-meeting (March 27, 2020) of the TheFSM Innovation Action , officially started on February 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 871703) and spans on the period February 2020 – January 2023. The vision of the TheFSM project is to deliver an industrial data platform that will significantly boost the way that food certification takes place in Europe. The platform will facilitate the exchange and connection of data between different food safety actors, who are interested in sharing information critical to certification. The project is going to accelerate the pace by which this type of certification bodies (in Europe and beyond) adopt digital innovation and offer data-driven services. Eventually, TheFSM aspires to catalyse the digital evolution of the quite traditional but very data-intensive business ecosystem of global food certification.
UBITECH participated in the experts panel in the first live webinar of the UPTIME H2020 project on 19 March 2020, as the technical coordinator and the UPTIME platform integrator. The UPTIME 1st Live Webinar highlighted the differences between classic preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance using historical data and real time dataas well as illustrated benefits of predictive maintenance by a concrete implementation in the White Goods Industry.
Following a peer-review process, the Computer Networks international journal published by Elsevier has accepted to publish the scientific manuscript entitled “CYBELE – Fostering Precision Agriculture & Livestock Farming Through Secure Access to Large-Scale HPC Enabled Virtual Industrial Experimentation Environments Fostering Scalable Big Data Analytics”, that has been co-authored by UBITECH. In this paper, Konstantinos Perakis and his co-authors introduce CYBELE, a platform aspiring to safeguard that the stakeholders involved in the agri-food value chain (research community, SMEs, entrepreneurs, etc.) have integrated, unmediated access to a vast amount of very large scale datasets of diverse types and coming from a variety of sources, and that they are capable of actually generating value and extracting insights out of these data, by providing secure and unmediated access to large-scale High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures supporting advanced data discovery, processing, combination and visualization services, solving computationally-intensive challenges modelled as mathematical algorithms requiring very high computing power and capability.
The final contractual review meeting for the ANASTACIA H2020 co-funded research project (
The first contractual review meeting for the InteropEHRate H2020 co-funded research project (
A scientific paper entitled “Toward the 6G Network Era: Opportunities and Challenges” has been co-authored by University of Patras, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, EULAMBIA and UBITECH, and is published at the IEEE IT Professional Magazine (vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 34-38). In this paper, Dr Dimitris Klonidis and his co-authors discuss the transformation and convergence of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile network and the internet of things technologies, toward the emergence of the smart sixth-generation (6G) networks which will employ AI to optimize and automate their operation.
The second and final contractual review meeting for the PrEstoCloud H2020 co-funded research project took (
UBITECH is hosting the kick-off meeting, in Athens, Greece (February 5-6, 2020), of the RAINBOW Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2020. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 871403) and spans on the period January 2020 – December 2022. The vision of the RAINBOW is to design and develop an open and trusted fog computing platform that facilitates the deployment and management of scalable, heterogeneous and secure IoT services and cross-cloud applications (i.e, microservices). RAINBOW falls within the bigger vision of delivering a platform enabling users to remotely control the infrastructure that is running, potentially, on hundreds of edge devices (e.g., wearables), thousands of fog nodes in a factory building or flying in the sky (e.g., drones), and millions of vehicles travelling in a certain area or across Europe.
The second and final contractual review meeting for the UNICORN H2020 co-funded research project (
