Imagine your computer is like a brain that can't handle everything alone, so it borrows power from nearby devices and giant data centers. Instead of sending all your info to a far-away warehouse, this system finds the closest available 'brain power' to process data right where it's created. It acts like a traffic controller that automatically picks the cheapest and fastest route for your data to travel.
Companies struggle with high costs and slow speeds when sending massive amounts of IoT data to distant cloud servers. Current multi-cloud setups fail to efficiently bridge the gap between where data is born and where it is processed.
A Meta Operating System and platform for fog brokerage. It includes tools for modeling data streams, multi-criteria decision tools for selecting cloud offerings, and smart contract-based SLAs.
If you are a traffic management provider dealing with massive data from thousands of street sensors — this project developed a meta-operating system that processes data closer to the source. This reduces network traffic and ensures low latency for real-time signal adjustments.
If you are a factory operator dealing with 50 billion connected devices globally creating data — this project developed a brokerage system that uses local fog nodes. This allows for immediate processing of machine data without relying on distant cloud centers.
If you are a logistics firm dealing with data generated outside the data centre — this project developed a tool for optimal application provisioning. This helps maintain quality of service guarantees while moving data across different cloud providers.
Based on available project data, it minimizes network traffic and cost issues by processing data closer to the source rather than delegating everything to distant cloud data centres.
Yes, the system is designed to cope with the increase of connected devices, specifically addressing the trend toward more than 50 billion connected devices worldwide.
Based on available project data, the specific licensing terms are not mentioned, but the project involves 11 industry partners and 7 SMEs who may hold joint intellectual property.
The system optimizes hosting based on regulatory, security, and privacy constraints, using secure network overlays and access control.
It uses smart contracts-based service level agreements and multi-criteria decision-making methods to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) requirements are met.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward commercial application, with 11 industry partners (65% ratio) including 7 SMEs. This suggests a strong focus on market viability and practical implementation across 8 different European countries, balanced by 5 research-oriented entities.
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