Research & Innovation

Fleet Sharing @ Thumbeo Corporate aims to enrich Ubiwhere’s Thumbeo Corporate solution with a fleet sharing feature and leverage the creation of a marketplace for car-sharing between distinct companies. The innovative functionality of fleet sharing will tackle the challenges of companies with a large fleet that, especially in periods of lower productivity, often remains unused, presenting no operating profit. It will do this by offering them the possibility to rent these vehicles in a secure and trusted manner to other companies lacking these resources and aiming to expand their business.

5GZORRO is a 5G-PPP Phase 3 project, hoping to leverage the previous work conducted in various SDN and NFV projects and advance such research and acquired know-how into a zero-touch automated solution capable of autonomously managing and orchestrating 5G networks and services, in a multi-stakeholder environment. To do this, a security and trust layer must be designed and implemented, so that multiple parties can safely negotiate with one another while being assured that negotiated SLAs (Service Level Agreements) will be maintained and intelligently managed - all of this autonomously, having in mind different policies, constraints and requirements.

FogProtect is designed to ensure the secure mobility of sensitive data, end-to-end (from IoT sensors, through fog nodes up to cloud servers and ultimately to end-user devices). It will essentially comprehend the development and demonstration of advanced technologies in real scenarios, combining the fundamental areas of innovation of this field to address the challenges of data protection in smart cities, industries and media. These solutions will benefit from fog computing technologies, capable of adding a certain capacity of memory, storage and computing to a distributed point of the network to handle data processing, the fog node. This technology allows the data processing (e.g. analysing CCTV footage) to occur in a decentralized way and much closer to its source, turning this, into a faster, safer and more sustainable process, as well as opening doors to smart analysis and resource decisions based on the vulnerability of the data or on the network’s capacity.

DEMETER aims at the integration of data collection technologies on the basis of a sustainable agri-food system, to ensure the quality of food, optimize farmer’s decision-making and propitiate cost-effective, environmentally-friendly operations. Its ultimate goal is to potentiate a secure and sustainable European IoT technology and business ecosystem, that transforms the agri-food sector in the EU and eventually, in the whole world. To this end, it will cover the large-scale deployment of interoperable smart farming IoT-based platforms, through 20 pilots across 18 countries.

Ubiwhere participated in QPARK, with the intention of enriching its current Smart Parking solution with urban planning functionalities to access new business opportunities and stand out from its competition in this crowded field. QPARK provided the additional capability of generating reports based on the analysis of which roads and parking areas of the city are mostly affected by certain events and situations.

SymbIote is created on the scenario of a highly fragmented Internet of Things (IoT) system. IoT solutions usually integrate specific implementations and connect smart spaces using a back-end cloud hosting with exclusive software components. Thus, when accessing the new smart environments, people are forced to download numerous apps, since each one of these usually serves one purpose or environment. symbIoTe is a platform that adapts people’s presence to the smart environment they interact with, allowing them to use the same mobile app for various IoT platforms.

SynchroniCity is an ambitious digitalization strategy that projects the architecture of a global marketplace for the development of IoT solutions and Artificial Intelligence services. This platform enables access to spots and interfaces of interoperability and data models for several verticals, creating a balanced ecosystem where creators and distributors of solutions and devices and system integrators are able to openly compete.

On industries integrating the Cooperative Connected and Automated Mobility, security gaps can reach incalculable negative consequences. From smaller inconveniences, for the automated vehicles retailers such as a decline on their reputations or loss of clients, to issues of higher scale like material damage, increase on environmental pollution, and loss of human lives. The main goal of CARAMEL is giving response to the challenges imposed by cyberattacks in this industry and, through the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques, developing solutions to minimize the safety risks triggered by their impact.

Widemonitor comprised the creation of a real-time radioelectric spectrum monitoring system, covering 90% of the wireless communications and the construction of a low-cost probe, capable of measuring the broadest band possible. This probe integrated a mechanic and monolithic structure of simple installation on the urban, semi-urban and rural scenarios that enabled its unattachment from public power sources.

SliceMon it’s a solution for Slice Quality of Service monitoring created on the scope SoftFIRE’s Open Call. It focused on the analysis of several metrics within a service to define the quality of its performance. To this end, Ubiwhere carried out an experiment in which deployed and monitored a virtual Content Distributed Network (vCDN) in the form of a VNF on SoftFIRE’s platform. This vCDN employed a commercial methodology, allowing each service to manage the content delivered to multiple clients.