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H2020-ICT-05-2017: Internet of Things (IoT) end users and experts in supercomputing, IoT sofware and programming sought

Country of Origin: Spain
Reference Number: RDES20170222001
Publication Date: 22 February 2017

Summary

A Spanish SME specialised in ICT solutions is preparing a proposal for the ICT-05-2017 call (Customised and low energy computing) aimed to create secure intelligent services in the Internet of Things (IoT) capable of automatically optimizing their resources to be energy efficient. IT companies, universities and research centres are sought to perform tasks in supercomputing, IoT, programming, integrated drive electronics and low-power programming. IoT end users are also sought.

Description

The project’s mission is to aid software engineers in creating intelligent services in the Internet of Thins (IoT) capable to automatically optimize their resources to be energy efficient and helping them to include in the solutions secure code.

The coordinator’s vision in this research is to improve energy efficiency of computer systems by allowing the programming of self-optimizing software. This includes energy-awareness in the software and the involvement of the application in the resource allocation decision and in the scheduling. Their approach forms a stronger link between applications and the runtime system in form of an information flow used to steer the resources. This increases the self-awareness of software and is required for the research community to take the next step into energy efficient computing. Parameters of the executions like throughput, latency, energy consumption, temperature, reliability etc., can be monitored to exploit carefully the available resources. In this context, the concept of self-awareness will help to optimize the hardware resources in every situation. With this awareness, the system has a set point according to which it can be adapted to reach the globally most optimal setting. Resources can be allocated/deallocated to match the energy and performance goals.

To address the security aspect, the researchers must suppose that the solution will coexist with the risks involved in all these technological advances and the threats. So any industrial project will have to consider, in its own design, the risk associated with Industrial cybersecurity.

Programme framework conditions: Collaborative project, single stage evaluation.

Deadline for expressions of interest: 10/03/17

Call deadline: 25/04/17

Project duration: 3 years

The Spanish SME is looking for companies, universities and research centres with the suitable expertise for the following roles: Supercomputing, IoT software, IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) creators, programming languages, experts on defensive programming, experts on low-power programming and IoT end users.

Requested partner

The coordinator is looking for industrial and research partners  able to perform the following roles:

- Supercomputing experts.

- IoT (Internet of Things) software experts.

- IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) creators

- Programming languages experts

- Experts on defensive programming

- Low-power programming experts

- IoT end users