In the first half of the project, the advance has been massive. The technological foundations of aerOS meta operating system have been established (architecture published in D2.6 in M12), and the way all the components intertwine has been oriented to relevant use cases (divided in 5 pilots) is already giving its fruits.
The various technological tasks defined clearly the individual and integrated pieces to be delivered, and proper tools and plans for such integration (and the packaging and publication) were established (in task T5.1). A prioritisation within the tasks was made in order to structure the work. Network components, APIs, cybersecurity elements, self-* toolsuite and more have been progressed. Here, the most relevant and promising outcome is the innovative multi-layer orchestrator. On the other hand, tools related to data composition (including the first comprehensive data model for the continuum); AI pipelines, serverless analytics and other trustworthiness tool have been initiated. By M18, the most prioritised software pieces of the previous list conformed the delivery of an MVP (condensed as compressed repositories in the software deliverables D3.2 and D4.2). Such MVP has already been deployed in various lab scenarios, including the demonstration performed in the mid-term review. All of that governed by a private, secure CI/CD methodology named DevPrivSecOps.
Evolving from lab scenarios, pilots in aerOS are advancing at different speeds. While thorough description of their objectives, requirements, KPIs, needs, etc. is well completed in all (D2.2 and D2.3) the transfer of aerOS technology will intensify since the beginning of RP2.
Managerially, all expected deliverables (17) and milestones (4) have been delivered and met on time, having needed 5 Plenary Meetings, one KickOff and two Technical Workshops. An amendment to the Grant Agreement was launched and successfully incorporated as a new official document within the period. One round of Open Calls has concluded, and 7 projects from SMEs or Universities are about to land into the project.
More information is provided in the Technical Report Part B.
