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Supporto multipiattaforma per applicazioni IoT
Classification: 
national research
Programme: 
PON Ricerca e Innovazione 2014-2020
Call: 
Decreto MISE- H2020 del 1 giugno 2016, recante l'intervento del Fondo per la crescita sostenibile in favore di progetti di ricerca e sviluppo negli ambiti tecnologici identificati dal Programma quadro comunitario "Orizzonte 2020" da realizzarsi attraverso l'utilizzo delle risorse del Programma Operativo Nazionale "Imprese e Competitività" 2014 - 2020 FESR nelle regioni meno sviluppate e nelle regioni in transizione del territorio nazionale
Main ERC field: 
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Unict role: 
Co-proposer
Duration (months): 
21
Start date: 
Saturday, April 1, 2017
End date: 
Monday, December 31, 2018
Total cost: 
€ 4.161.304,75
Unict cost: 
€ 503.986,80
Coordinator: 
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.
Principal investigator in Unict: 
Bruno Andò
University department involved: 
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
Participants: 

EKA s.r.l. 

Abstract

The project aims at conceiving, specifying, implementing and experimenting through real pilot applications, a configurable, adaptive and extensible IoT (Internet of Things) platform that enables the integration and safe and reliable management of smart objects (sensors, smartphones, tablets, programmable equipment, etc.). Based on the adoption of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the platform will be open and interoperable with other existing platforms (e.g. FIWARE) in order to interconnect billions of smart objects and create IoT services and applications. The project aims to promote the platform as the technological catalyst for the creation of an open and dynamic ecosystem on a national and European scale to support IoT applications for both public and private use.

The existing IoT platform will be integrated through patterns that ensure the maintenance of security, privacy, dependability and semantic interoperability of IoT applications. In order to guarantee an increasingly broad and adequate applicability over time, the platform will be able to host new interoperability mechanisms (ie new patterns) and will offer self-adaptation capabilities through the analysis of the application of the patterns in the execution phase (self-evolving). The platform will be validated through application and evaluation in three real pilot scenarios related to the smart energy, smart health and smart manufacturing domains.