Reliable, Efficient and Fast Industrial Internet: A High-Resilience, Low-Latency API acceleration for global and interplanetary industrial services

Project Information

XRTC

Grant agreement ID: 101188710

DOI

10.3030/101188710

EC signature date 27 November 2024

Start date 1 September 2024

End date 28 February 2027

Funded under

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 2 262 530,08

Coordinated by

Delta Cygni Labs Oy
Finland

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - XRTC (Reliable, Efficient and Fast Industrial Internet: A High-Resilience, Low-Latency API acceleration for global and interplanetary industrial services)

Reporting period: 2024-09-01 to 2025-06-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Industries such as mining, energy, and maritime face major operational inefficiencies and risks due to communication delays and unreliable data transmission. XRTC is a novel ultra-resilient TCPbased solution that enables real-time, low-delay communication even under extreme network conditions. The project aims to optimize and validate XRTC technically and commercially, ensuring it meets industrial standards while expanding compatibility across all majorcustomer segments. By enabling fast and efficient connected operations, XRTC empowers European industries to become more competitive and sustainable. This project positions Europe at the forefront of advanced realtime communication, strengthening technological sovereignty and supporting global market leadership.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Successfully completion a full backend overhaul, moving from a Java to a new dotnet backend, dramatically improving processing delays to as low as 6 milliseconds at p95 levels, which enabled achieving data transmission delays within 20–30 milliseconds above the ping baseline in longdistance tests, surpassing the original target. The infrastructure was further optimized to be memory efficient and fully asynchronous, improving read/write times and reducing CPU usage. Robust testing systems were developed using Netropy to simulate high-loss and fluctuating industrial environments, confirming XRTC’s stable and low-delay performance even under up to 10% packet loss. Moreover, optimizations in packet sizing and dynamic rate adjustments reduced head-of-line blocking risks, ensuring smooth real-time streaming. In addition, milestones included establishing scalable deployment infrastructure, implementing improved authentication mechanisms, and creating an advanced continuous integration pipeline, all supporting strong scientific and technical readiness for upcoming validation phases.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The XRTC project has already achieved results that go decisively beyond the current state of the art in real-time industrial communication. Industrial benchmark can perform remote operations at 1000km distance at 1000ms delays, while the achieved results in this project are able to bring this benchmark to 10000km distance and 300ms delays. This breakthrough is giving 30x effective technical benefit over the state of the art. This level of performance is unprecedented in industrial contexts, especially considering the demonstrated stability with up to 10% packet loss, where most existing solutions either fail outright or degrade sharply in quality. Ultimately, these achievements not only unlock new levels of efficiency and safety for industrial remote operations but also position Europe as a leader in ultra-resilient real-time communication technology, enabling transformative applications in autonomy, teleoperations, and beyond.

XRTC team

XRTC Team

XRTC team