UBITECH participats at the kick-off meeting hosted by Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa in Palermo, Italy (October 3-4, 2022) of the TALON Research and Innovation Action, officially started on October 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101070181) and spans on the period October 2022 – September 2025. TALON aims at sculpturing the road towards the next industrial revolution by developing a fully-automated AI architecture capable of bringing intelligence near the edge in a flexible, adaptable, explainable, energy and data efficient manner.

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The EC co-funded 5G-INDUCE project has successfully completed its mid-term progress review process on the 29th of September. The partners have highlighted the key achievements of the project in the fields of a) the service oriented 5G-INDUCE NetApp orchestration platform, b) the NetApp based use cases for Industry 4.0 verticals and c) the deployment of the industrial 5G testing infrastructures in Spain, Italy and Greece with operator grade 5G connectivity. Positive feedback has been received with respect to the achieved technical progress, and kind recommendations for promoting the exploitation potentials of the project to unfold its full potentials in the emerging 5G industrial service deployment sector.

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UBITECH hosts, in Athens, Greece, the kick-off meeting (September 22-23, 2022) of the CONNECT Research and Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101069688) and spans on the period September 2022 – August 2025. CONNECT addresses the convergence of security and safety in CCAM by assessing dynamic trust relationships and defining a trust reasoning framework based on which involved entities can establish trust for cooperatively executing safety-critical functions. This will enable both a) cyber-secure data sharing between data sources in the CCAM ecosystem that had no or insufficient pre-existing trust relationship, and b) outsourcing tasks to the MEC and cloud in a trustworthy way.

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UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by Suite5 in Limassol, Cyprus (September 21-22, 2022) of the SYNERGIES Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101069839) and spans on the period September 2022 – February 2026. SYNERGIES brings forward a reference Energy Data Space Implementation that will attempt to unleash the data-driven innovation and sharing potential across the energy data value chain by leveraging on data and intelligence coming from diverse energy actors (prioritizing on consumers and introducing them as data owners/ providers) and coupled sectors (buildings, mobility) and effectively making them reachable and widely accessible.

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A new article, entitled “Towards Blockchain-Based Fog and Edge Computing for Enabling Privacy-Preserving Smart Cities”, has been published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, section Smart Technologies and Cities, thanks to the collaborative work done in the DataCloud H2020 Research and Innovation Action. UBITECH’s Giannis Ledakis and Ioannis Plakas, and their co-authors from SINTEF, TELLU (Norway), IEXEC (France) and JOT (Spain), discuss a variety of modern technologies for Smart Cities and proposes our integrated architecture, which connects Blockchain technologies with modern data analytic techniques (e.g., Federated Learning) and Edge/Fog computing to address the current data privacy issues in Smart Cities.

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UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by UPRC in Athens, Greece (September 20-21, 2022) of the MobiSpaces Research and Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101070279) and spans on the period September 2022 – August 2025. MobiSpaces aims to deliver an end-to-end mobility-aware and mobility-optimized data governance platform with key differentiating factor that the outcomes of mobility analytics will be utilized to optimize the complete data path, in terms of efficient, reliable, secure, fair and trustworthy data processing.

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On 15 September 2022, the final review meeting of  SPIDER H2020 was held in Athens, Greece, with the physical presence of the majority of the Consortium partners as well as the external reviewers and the project officer from the European Commission side. The meeting was organized in hybrid form, allowing partners with restrictions on travel, to also join digitally. UBITECH was in charge of the technical coordination of the entire project activities, as well as task leader, responsible for the conceptualization and design of the platform architecture; development of the 5G threat knowledge base and incident repository; and integration as well as evaluation of the different components and interfaces of the SPIDER 5G Cyber Range.

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NOVA and UBITECH ENERGY co-host the kick-off meeting in Athens, Greece (September 14-15, 2022) of the ENFLATE Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101075783) and spans on the period September 2022 – August 2026. ENFLATE aims at developing and demonstrating in six demonstration campaigns across five countries, a collaborative platform of tools enabling consumer-driven business models for energy services, valorising their multi-vector flexibility potential, integrating them with other non-energy services (cross-industry services), like health and mobility ones.

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UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by EURECAT in Barcelona, Spain (September 14-15, 2022) of the NebulOus Research and Innovation Action, officially started on September 1st, 2022. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101070516) and spans on the period September 2022 – August 2025. NebulOus aims to transparently manage all the layers of the cloud continuum stack, in an equivalent manner to an Operating System (OS), managing the available computing capacity to facilitate an adaptive application hosting environment, driven by the processing proximity to data sources and optimised based on the data involved, the defined QoS requirements and the regulatory, security or privacy constraints.

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Following a peer-review process, Sensors MDPI Journal has accepted to publish a scientific manuscript, co-authored by UBITECH’s Theodora Anastasiou, Sophia Karagiorgou, Petros Petrou (members of the Privacy-preserving Distributed Machine Learning Research Group), Dimitris Papamartzivanos and Thanassis Giannetsos (members of the Digital Security and Trusted Computing Research Group), entitled “Towards Robustifying Image Classifiers against the Perils of Adversarial Attacks on Artificial Intelligence Systems”. UBITECH’s team members and their co-editors (from the Hellenic Army Information Technology Support Center and Phillips Netherlands) introduces an AI architecture augmented with adversarial examples and defense algorithms to safeguard, secure, and make more reliable AI systems.

Continue reading New manuscript on adversarial attacks on Artificial Intelligence systems has been published at the Sensors MDPI Journal