O-CEI - Open CloudEdgeIoT Platform Uptake in Large Scale Cross-Domain Pilots
Ingénierie et Architecture
O-CEI is leveraging and upgrading technological innovations from previous successful projects and a comprehensive framework in order to be integrated, deployed and validated in 8 multidimensional pilots framed in key strategic sectors. Ranging from electro-mobility, software-defined vehicles, logistics, smart agriculture and agri-food, smart urban environments and multiple electricity grids management, O-CEI will design blueprints and provide utilities beyond the state of the art to achieve challenging objectives. Massive uptake of the proposed technology will pave the way for a more sustainable and resilient CEI ecosystem, fostering a smoother transition towards a cleaner energy future.
Energy Transmission system operators have expressed that achieving flexibility in the energy market may quickly overburden computing infrastructures. Hence, the concept of the computing continuum as a single manageable entity, breaking the silos of edge and cloud computing has gained momentum. The eight proposed pilots include multiple dimensions to achieve cross-domain including energy flexibility. With O-CEI continuum technologies, orchestration, dynamic execution of workloads (applications, services, workflows), data sharing (e.g. Energy Data Space) and interoperability will be guaranteed.
By 2030, it is expected that computing power will increase tenfold, due to factors such as the AI boom and the number of connected IoT devices. Thus, several cross-disciplinary actions are needed to minimize the related ecological impact (e.g., in renewable energy, social education). Being able to exploit those resources, having them cooperate in the matters of anticipation and prediction in energy flexibility is pivotal in O-CEI and in Europe. Predictions will be faster, more accurate and will be, if Europe's interconnected power system is considered a key lever, forming the global grid proposed by the EU Action Plan.
O-CEI will not start from scratch, but rather will build upon the past investments and developments to create a competitive market of European businesses and relevant innovation actors. It will also incorporate the latest advances made by the EU-wide initiatives related to global CEI and energy-specific data sharing. It will depart from solid technologies (TRL4+), coming from the results from Meta OS, cognitive cloud, and swarm programming actions. Developments will align with the ongoing standardization initiative moved forward by EUCloudEdgeIoT under the wing of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC41 Committee, and will continuously monitor and align with results of SIMPL platform.
Indeed, the pursue of creating a CEI adoption standard will be among O-CEI’s objectives, alongside mass-market uptake of computing continuum technologies, envisaging business strategies for commercial deployments and success. For doing so, O-CEI is formed of a total of 61 partners (and two affiliated entities), from 20 EU countries and one associated country.