Next Generation Internet of Things

Every Open Call applicant must select one challenge of one of the project pilots – (i) port automation, (ii) smart safety of workers and (iii) cohesive vehicle monitoring and diagnostics. Proposals must contribute to the ASSIST-IoT paradigm by validating some of its technologies in one challenge of one pilot. All the previous can be summarised, in general, in: · Design, implementation and integration of interoperable device layer components, based on different low-level communication standards or on ad-hoc proprietary device solutions. · Design, implementation and integration of interoperable networking layer components, based on different standards higher-level communication standards or on ad-hoc proprietary networking solutions to be tested in ASSIST-IoT pilots. · Design, implementation and integration of interoperable middleware layer components. These need to deal with the different middleware services such as discovery, management, querying, coordination and interaction. · Design, implementation and integration of interoperable application service components. These should exploit major standards and be integrated with ASSIST-IoT API. · Design, implementation and integration of interoperable data and semantics components. Specifically, semantics layer components have to deal with heterogeneous IoT ontology matching. · Design, implementation and integration of virtualization mechanism for smart objects, including context aware mechanisms and transfer of virtual objects between servers and cloud platforms. · Design, implementation and integration of fog/edge/cloud support mechanisms, including support for different services, inter cloud mechanisms applied to IoT and support for virtualization. · Design, implementation and integration of AI/ML libraries and tools addressing ASSIST-IoT pilots.