Project description
A novel operating system for edge-cloud continuum innovation
The implementation, innovation and growth of edge-to-cloud and edge computing have highlighted the need for better infrastructure to support these technologies. The EU-funded aerOS project aims to address this need by developing a common meta operating system based on a collaborative IoT-edge-cloud architecture. This system will allow for flexible launches of applications and innovations that utilise technologies such as AI, machine learning, and Big Data analytics while providing these technologies with numerous benefits. Specifically, aerOS aims to facilitate the creation of a more efficient and sustainable digital infrastructure that will support the continued growth of edge-to-cloud and edge computing.
Objective
The project aerOS aims at transparently utilising the resources on the edge-to-cloud computing continuum for enabling applications in an
effective manner, incorporating multiple services deployed on such a path. Therefore, aerOS will establish the missing piece: a common
meta operating system that follows a collaborative IoT-edge–cloud architecture supporting flexible deployments (e.g. federated or
hierarchical), bringing tremendous benefits as it enables the distribution of intelligence and computation – including Artificial Intelligence
(AI), Machine Learning (ML), and big data analytics – to achieve an optimal solution while satisfying the given constraints.
The overarching goal of aerOS is to design and build a virtualized, platform-agnostic meta operating system for the IoT edge-cloud continuum. As a solution, to be executed on any Infrastructure Element within the IoT edge-cloud continuum – hence, independent from underlying hardware and operating system(s) – aerOS will: (i) deliver common virtualized services to enable orchestration, virtual communication (network-related programmable functions), and efficient support for frugal, explainable AI and creation of distributed data-driven applications; (ii) expose an API to be available anywhere and anytime (location-time independent), flexible, resilient and platform-agnostic; and (iii) include a set of infrastructural services and features addressing cybersecurity, trustworthiness and manageability. aerOS will: (a) use context-awareness to distribute software task (application) execution requests; (b) support intelligence as close to the events as possible; (c) support execution of services using “abstract resources” (e.g. virtual machines, containers) connected through a smart network infrastructure; (d) allocate and orchestrate abstract resources, responsible for executing service chain(s) and (e) support for scalable data autonomy.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssystem softwareoperating systems
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer security
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48008 Bilbao
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1040 Wien
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1040 Wien
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80333 Munchen
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10587 Berlin
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28050 MADRID
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151 24 MAROUSSI
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2003 Nicosia
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041386 BUCURESTI
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02310 Espoo
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118 54 Athens
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46001 Valencia
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3032 Limassol
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3036 Lemesos
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00138 Roma
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20018 San Sebastian
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68163 Mannheim
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00-511 Warszawa
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15-638 BIALYSTOK
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20133 Milano
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20133 Milano Mi
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2503 Biel/Bienne
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