On 16 February, the NGIoT initiative, coordinated by EU-IoT, organized a community event to explore the role of Edge Computing in evolving the manufacturing sector in Europe. The event focused on the challenges and opportunities in moving from a Cloud-centric manufacturing approach to an Edge-Cloud based one. Manufacturing is a key sector in Europe’s economic […]

On 30 January 2023, the Horizon Europe Info Day, hosted by the European Commission, with the support of EuCloudEdgeIoT and EU-IoT, brought together key stakeholders to present the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2024 on “World leading data and computing technologies.” The event offered participants a platform to pitch their ideas to leading research organizations and […]

EU-IoT announces the launch of the “EU-IoT Framework for Internet of Things Skills: Closing the Talent Gap” White Paper authored by John Soldatos, Netcompany-Intrasoft. The White Paper summarises the gap in skills for automation and the future of work. Closing this skills gap is very important for adopting and leveraging cutting-edge technologies of the fourth industrial […]

ASSIST-IoT project announced the extension of the deadline for the second Open Call to 31 October, 5 pm CET.  The ASSIST-IoT project has reserved part of the budget to fund specific activities to enhance and improve IoT features and applications and boost the NGIoT community across Europe. Third parties are expected to come along and […]

The European Commission has officially announce the opening of the call for Large-scale pilots for cloud-to-edge based service solutions, as part of the Digital Europe programme (DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-03-PILOTS-CLOUD-SERVICES). The call has a budget of 40 million €, with an indicative budget per grant of 8-10 million €. The main objective of the call is the deployment of large-scale […]

IntellIoT’s mission is to enable the execution of semi-autonomous IoT applications for AI-enabled systems. Today, IntellIoT keeps building an ecosystem united by a shared vision committed to privacy, security, and trust, in which the intelligence of humans and devices can seamlessly intertwine. The consortium’s projects aim to overcome the limitations of traditional cloud-centric IoT, such […]

IoT-NGIN is running the Open Call #2 and invites SMEs active in IoT applications development to implement innovative IoT applications that use heterogeneous IoT and IoT-NGIN components to offer new services and validate the IoT-NGIN components. The total amount of funding that each SME may receive is up to €70.000, while the top#1 SME will […]

On 6 September 2022, the ASSIST-IoT team organised the first webinar to present their funding opportunity through the ASSIST-IoT second Open Call. 480,000€ are reserved for SMEs, RTOs and universities willing to provide added value to the pilots of the project while validating its technical outcomes. Watch the recording: Join us for the second ASSIST-IoT [...]

On 7 July 2022, EU-IoT and OntoCommons organised a workshop on ontological interoperability and standardisation recommendations. The workshop brought together multiple experts and different relevant European and international entities that are developing efforts towards an increased efficiency of ontologies. The topic of semantic interoperability and the role of ontologies in increasing interoperability are key pillars in the context of open and […]

TERMINET project has officially announced the launch of the Open Call, with EUR 400,000 available for academia, researchers and companies in the field of IoT. The main objective is to attract and involve third parties in TERMINET in the following R&D topics: Security by design models; New IoT intelligent devices to demonstrate them within the […]

Authors: Brendan Rowan, Tanya Suarez | BluSpecs The evolution of the IoT into the Next-generation IoT will be marked by technological advances that include contextually aware and distributed intelligence, federated services and microservices, integration of DLTs and smart contracts, and tactile and AR interfaces. It signals the meeting of cloud and edge infrastructures and a […]

On 27-29 June 2022, EU-IoT organised the EU-IoT/EFPF Hackathon, co-located with the 12th CONASENSE symposium. The Hackathon focused on mobile sustainable IoT solutions and brought together more than 140 registered participants from all across the world. As a result of the two-day hackathon, 15 teams were selected for pitching, with the presentation of innovative ideas […]

Europe is leading the way to ensure the development and adoption of trusted and sustainable IoT that, in combination with other advanced technologies, can drive the digital and green transformation of our society and economy, across areas such as manufacturing, energy, agriculture, smart cities, mobility, retail and health care. At IoT Week 2022, several sessions […]

The 2nd ASSIST-IoT Open Call is officially announced and starts on 1 July 2022! The ASSIST-IoT project has reserved part of the project budget to fund specific activities in order to enhance and improve IoT features and applications and boost the NGIoT community across Europe. Third parties are expected to come along and carry out […]

VEDLIoT project announced the acceptance of the the paper submitted to the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2022). The paper, entitled “VEDLIoT: Very Efficient Deep Learning in IoT”, was presented at the conference as a full Multi-Partner Project paper and published in the proceedings. The paper, which describes the work being developed […]

Future Platforms for Edge-Cloud Continuum – Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to bring fundamental changes to all sectors of society and economy. However, realization of the IoT vision requires data processing (stream, static, or both) in an “optimal location” within the edge-cloud continuum. Here, it is assumed that far-edge/nano-edge […]

On 29 April EU-IoT organised the first NGIoT Community Events: EV charging – A case for the edge? Electric vehicles represent the future and the present of transport across Europe; in 2021, EV sales were at 18.0% of total car registrations, up from a 10.5% share in 2020. This ever-growing market will bring changes and […]

6G is currently under definition, being often addressed from a plain telecommunications perspective, as an evolutionary paradigm that represents an extension of 5G. Having as horizon 2030, 6G initiatives are being deployed across the globe, to further ignite the development of 6G services. In its philosophy core, 6G embodies the “human in the loop” principle. […]

ASSIST-IoT participates in the AIOTI Standardisation Working Group and contributed to the two latest released technical reports, through its partner in Poland (Orange). High Priority Edge Computing Standardisation Gaps and Relevant SDOs  This report introduces an approach for the definition and identification of key edge computing and/or combination of IoT/IIoT, edge computing and cloud computing gaps […]

EU-IoT announces the start of the NGIoT Community Events under the title Marking the evolution from cloud to edge with the first online webinar taking place on 29 April. These community events will address key issues related to the Next Generation Internet of Things and will bring into discussion the changes in models and approaches […]

VERY EFFICIENT DEEP LEARNING IN IOT - TEACHING THE IOT TO LEARN The Next-generation AIoT applications – VEDLIoT-Open Call is now active! The VEDLIoT-Open call for cascaded funding is foreseen to explore new opportunities by extending the application of the VEDLIoT platform to a more extensive set of new and relevant use cases. It is [...]

The Next Generation Internet of Things (NGIoT) designed four surveys which aim at identifying the most important and high in-demand technical, development, management and other soft skills for Internet of Things (IoT) professionals, for users of industrial IoT systems (including Operator 4.0 skills). IMPORTANT: Please fill in all four surveys which should take no more […]

On 23 February 2022, NGIoT organised a webinar to present the project’s final recommendation summarised in the “IoT research, innovation and deployment priorities in the EU White Paper”. The priorities and the linked roadmap were built based on the aligned work inputs from NGIoT different work packages and tasks, including the outcomes of the various […]

The ASSIST-IoT Open Call webinar, conducted by the ASSIST-IoT team on 11 February presented the current funding opportunity with €420,000 reserved for researchers and innovators from SMEs, RTOs and Universities willing to provide added value to the pilots of the project while validating its technical outcomes. Eligibility criteria, evaluation details and the submission procedure were […]

An NGIoT training webinar held on 7 February presented applications of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) in IoT including how blockchains enable massive decentralized IoT apps. Participants were given an introduction to the topic and explored areas of innovation in blockchain's potential for IoT. The session was led by John Soldatos, EU-IoT. Talks followed covering various [...]

On 2 February 2022, more than 275 stakeholders from industry, academia and innovators participated in the Information and Virtual Brokerage Session on the Horizon Europe Cloud, Edge, IoT 2022 Calls, organised by HORIZON CLOUD and NGIoT in collaboration with the European Commission (EC). The attendees had the opportunity to learn about the three Horizon Europe [...]

VEDLIoT – “Very Efficient Deep Learning in IoT” is driven by challenging use cases in key sectors like automotive, automation, and smart home. The main objective of VEDLIoT is to develop the next generation of connected IoT devices utilising distributed deep learning. The upcoming funding opportunity, which opens on 1 March, will fund around ten […]

On 11 November 2021, the European Commission, in collaboration with H-CLOUD, HUB4CLOUD, EU-IoT, and SWForum, organised the virtual workshop “Digital Autonomy in the Computing Continuum” (more information, including recordings and presentations, here). The event gathered researchers, innovators, industrial stakeholders both from the supply and the demand side, SMEs/Start-ups, policy makers, standardisation experts, regulators, as well [...]

For over a decade the Open Source Software (OSS) community has played a significant role in the development, deployment, and standardisation of the Internet of Things (IoT). This is evidenced by the increasing number of OSS projects that are developing essential components for the majority of IoT deployments worldwide, as well as by the number […]

The “IoT research, innovation and deployment priorities in the EU White Paper” presents the project’s final recommendations. The priorities and the linked roadmap were built based on the aligned work inputs from NGIoT different work packages and tasks, including the outcomes of the various stakeholder engagements, such as the series of workshops on IoT and [...]

Latest white paper outlines the full scope of IoT in Europe The European IoT Hub (EU-IoT) presents an updated overview of the ongoing growth of a sustainable and comprehensive ecosystem for the Next Generation Internet of Things initiative. This latest report reflects the EU-IoT guiding principle: that to build a vibrant and impactful European IoT [...]

The 5th edition of the Global  IoT Summit conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland from June 20 to 23, 2022. Co-located with IoT Week, GIoTS 2022 will discuss new breakthroughs in IoT and the feasibility of extending IoT to become truly ubiquitous with new cloud and edge computing technologies, big data analysis, citizen engagement, […]

The Privacy Symposium, to be held Apr 5-7, 2022, Venice, Italy, is an international conference established to present and discuss original and innovative research results and technology developments related to personal data protection and compliance with data protection legislations. To this end, it brings together legal and technology experts together with researchers, data protection authorities […]

An EU-IoT Training Workshop was held on 9 November on the theme of NextGeneration IoT Architectures - Taking Full Advantage of Emerging IoT Technologies. Around 50 participants joined the session which explored key themes and examples of next generation IoT Architectures as evidenced through the NGIoT research and innovation projects. Architectures leveraging novel building blocks [...]

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ASSIST-IoT has officially announced the start of the 1st Open Call! The ASSIST-IoT project has reserved part of the project budget to fund specific activities in order to enhance and improve IoT features and applications and boost the NGIoT community across Europe. Third parties are expected to come along and carry out relevant actions during [...]

iNGENIOUS has produced a video explaining its aims to design and evaluate next generation IoT solutions by implementing a four-level cross-layer architecture to empower smart manufacturing and smart transportation and logistic verticals. The cross-layer architecture of iNGENIOUS is derived from the innovative functional and non-functional requirements that have been identified within six use cases spanning [...]

Dr. Tiziana Ferrari Director, EGI Foundation   IoT as enabler of scientific projects In the coming decade, we see IoT becoming a fundamentally enabler of scientific projects. In various scientific domains, and in particular in environmental science, research data is harvested from distributed sensors which require in-situ real time processing. All this data needs to [...]

NGIoT participated in IoTWeek. Whether you are interested in latest policy, research, funding or training, we’ve got it covered for you. Read on to see all the sessions NGIoT participated in. Recordings are available here. Monday 30 August  11.45 – 12.45 Training Session by EU-IoT: Machine Learning at the Edge and FarEdge The EU-IoT training […]

The NGIoT Open Calls are coming soon. Tune in to the session on August 30th, during the IoT Week Virtual 2021, from 15:15 – 18:30 CET, to hear all about the open calls to be launched from September 2021 onwards for the Next Generation IoT projects. In the first session, RIAs will present their new […]

NGIoT invites all stakeholders to take part in a survey targeting industry and research stakeholders involved in Edge-Cloud services. It has as an aim to gather information concerning the specific needs of Edge-based networking and interconnection services to assist a better integration of current and future Edge-Cloud services in the Gaia-X architecture, having in mind […]

Wael Elrifai Global VP of Solution Engineering   IOT and Human Compatibility That the volume of data is growing exponentially is hardly an insight to you technology professionals, and I’ll not bore you with those statistics.  We can expect smaller, increasingly precise, and more energy efficient devices in every domain from health-tech wearables to industrial [...]

More than 250 stakeholders from industry, academia and innovators participated in the “From Cloud to Edge to IoT for European Data” event on 7 July 2021, organized by the EU-IoT project with the support of the European Commission (EC). The attendees had the opportunity to learn about the section “From Cloud-Edge-IoT for European Data” under […]

When it comes to implementing AI in healthcare, the main question is not ‘why?’ – but ‘how?’. The gains are endless: starting with improved diagnosis and rehabilitation process to a reduced cost of care. Many fields, such as radiology and imaging, are already benefiting from the use of artificial intelligence. However, many sectors are yet […]

Rob Van Kranenburg Director, IoT Council In the recently published The Cybersecurity Aspects of New Entities Need a Cybernetic, Holistic Perspective we propose a holistic perspective, distributing security at two points: at the device level and a moral movement at a societal level. (https://doi.org/10.46386/ijcfati.v2i1.36) Europe is at a critical crossroads in the battle to ensure [...]

Jonathan Fürst Research Scientist, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH The Internet of Things in Europe has the potential to create a complete new generation of business similar to what has happened with the proliferation of mobile and cloud computing. IoT not only improves various aspects of our lives but also increases the competitiveness of the EU [...]

NGIoT presents a new report on "IoT and Edge Computing: Opportunities for Europe: Takeaways from the NGIoT Workshops on IoT and Edge Computing Towards the NGIoT IoT Research and Innovation Roadmap, 2020/2021" Download the entire report here (PDF) NGIoT is collecting inputs and comments to the report for analysis and integration in the upcoming ”IoT [...]

Technical reports by the ASSIST IoT project are now published, Open Source Platform for Federated Learning and Tactile Internet. The project, whose full name is 'Architecture for Scalable, Self-*, human-centric, Intelligent, Secure, and Tactile next generation IoT' has as its aim to design, implementation and validation of an open, decentralised reference architecture, associated enablers, services [...]

Farming is set to transform dramatically in the coming years: automation, AI, machine learning, and edge computing unlock game-changing opportunities to increase efficiency and bolster productivity – both on and off the field. Solutions such as semi-autonomous tractors, intelligent tools for spot spraying and ploughing algorithms are developed not only to save farmers’ time – […]

Roch Guérin Washington University. Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor & Chair of Computer Science and Engineering Internet-of-Things (IoT) tends to mean different things to different people in part because, as a term, it is generic and broadly refers to the shift from a human-centric to a machine-centric Internet.  While connecting machines/things to the [...]

EU-IoT organized a training workshop on “AIoT and Edge Machine Learning”, in collaboration with H2020 projects ASSIST-IoT, IoT-NGIN, INTELLIoT, VEDLIoT and INGENIOUS. The workshop, on 21 May included tutorials on cutting-edge Machine Learning topics, including EdgeAI, Federated Machine Learning (FML) and TinyML. Relevant use cases implemented in these research projects were also presented. All together, [...]

Latif Ladid Research Fellow, Secan-Lab, University of Luxembourg. Founder & President, IPv6 Forum; Founding Co-Chair, IEEE 5G World Forum, 3GPP PCG Board Member The number of Internet Connected devices will cross the incredible total of 50 billion by 2025. The connectivity fabric of IP is used to enable more and more efficient context exchange with [...]

The EU-IoT consortium has organized its first “Standardisation and Open-source Aspects” workshop on 27.04.2021. The workshop gathered several EU-IoT partners and several representatives of the ICT-56-2020 projects IoT-NGIN, ASSIST-IoT, IntelIoT, TERMINET, iNGENIOUS, VEDLIoT, as well as representatives of the OPEN DEI consortium. The main goal of this workshop was to align the Next Generation Internet […]

Dr. Christian Winkler Senior Principal Expert IoT, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG Digital technologies and IoT were already changing the face of industry and the way we do business, but the COVID-19 pandemic has put the digital economy even more prominently at the center of our lives. Focused EU investments in digital technologies are needed to [...]

ASSIST-IoT and InGenious projects co-organise the 1st edition of Human Centric and Tactile IoT Workshop jointly held with IEEE GLOBECOM 2021, Madrid, Spain, December 7­‐11, 2021. The Call for Papers is now open! Submission deadline: 5 July 2021. Call for Papers IoT technologies and applications are bringing fundamental changes to all sectors of society and economy […]

On 22 April 2021, the European Commission, in collaboration with EU-IoT, organised the Next-Generation IoT and Edge Computing Strategy Forum. Aim of the event was to gather top technology experts from across several digital and vertical domains, as well as corporate-strategy level representatives to exchange views on priorities, challenges and opportunities, and establish a commonly […]

Celebrating the Global IoT Day, four H2020 projects – IoTAC, SerIoT, SecureIoT, and EU-IoT – organized a virtual roundtable discussion on 9 April 2021 to introduce their activities, and talk about the role of research in enhancing cybersecurity for IoT ecosystems and the potential contribution to industrial and societal development. At the event, the EU-IoT […]

Looking for funds to support your work on ICT standards? Potential applicants are standardisation specialists, defined as professionals with proven expertise and experience in standardisation activities e.g. previous contributions to standards developments, participation in various SDO groups working, previous or current chairs etc. in the respective priority area. The StandICT.eu 2023 Calls are open to […]

NGIoT held two workshops on Smart Cities and Communities and Agrifood and Rural Communities as part of a thematic workshop series on IoT and Edge computing, organised by the NGIoT and EU-IoT Coordination and Support Actions in collaboration with the European Commission and relevant associations, networks, and projects. The objective of these thematic workshops is […]

Dr. Alexander Willner Head of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Center, Fraunhofer Institut The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is driving innovation and supports the whole digital transformation of Europe’s economy, that will shape how we will work in the future. At the same time, this change opposes a number of technical challenges that [...]