ESWEEK Tutorial 2021, October 7th, Virtual Due to the continued restrictions with the pandemic, we updated our plans to deliver another summer school in month 46. Instead, we decided to deliver a series of tutorials targeting Fog Computing. The first version of such a tutorial was submitted to the Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK), it was accepted, and will be presented to the Virtual Embedded Systems Week Conference on October 7th,…

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Forskarfredag 2021 2021, September 23rd, Virtual Forskarfredag is a Swedish equivalent of European Researchers’ Night. ESRs from MDH prepared a presentation covering thier research topics and presented their research to the audience. In the talk they discussed about the spread of IoT devices, cloud computing and novel edge and fog computing approaches. They also motivated their talk with some interesting cutting edge applications that can benefit from the paradigm. The…

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Special Session on “Fog Computing and the IoT” 2021, September 9th, Västerås MDH has been in charge of organizing the satellite event of the ETFA 2021 (IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation), which is the 26th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) focusing on the latest developments and new technologies in the field of industrial and factory automation. The conference aims to disseminate novel…

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FORA Project Meeting (January 2021) 2021, January15th, Virtual This was the last FORA project-level meeting, which took place online on Jan. 15th, 2021. The purpose was to drive the technical management process via the integration and evaluation of the technology bricks. We also used this meeting to plan the four prototype deliverables (D6 to D9) due March 31st, 2021. Reporting, status, and planning: Presentation of message from Project Officer Status…

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FORA Training School (TS3) 2020, June 15th-19th, Virtual Training School 3 (TS3) was supposed to be organized at Mälardalen University (MDH) in Västerås, Sweden, as a Summer School during the summer of 2020. However, due to the COVID19 pandemic TS3 has been organized (at the planned time, during June 2020) as a Virtual Summer School via zoom. The program, which covered week 25, 15th to 19th of June 2020, is…

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FORA Project Meeting (June 2020) 2020, June 15th, Virtual This was an online internal review meeting of the FORA beneficiaries in conjunction with the Training School 3 (TS3). Before this meeting we collected materials on the ESR progress (their status) and on the progress of the action (as presentations and videos). We discussed the following in the meeting: The progress of our ESRs. We looked at their updated CDPs, the…

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2nd Workshop on Fog Computing and the IoT 2020, April 21st, Sydney The objective of this workshop is to be a forum for presenting and discussing recent developments and trends in Fog/Edge Computing that represent challenges and opportunities for CPS and IoT researchers and practitioners. This workshop is organized by FORA and is co-located with CP-IoT Week. It was held on April 21st in Sydney, Australia. The workshop was co-chaired…

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FORA AADL Workshop 2019, December 11th-13th, Vienna The FORA AADL Workshop, in collaboration with the Institute of Information Systems Engineering of TU Wien, took place December 11-13, 2019, at the Distributed Systems Group of TU Wien, Austria.  The FORA AADL Workshop was a three-day event, organized by Bahram Zarrin (DTU), with focus on the introduction of the AADL in use cases related to fog computing and industrial applications. During the course…

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FORA Project Meeting (November 2019) 2019, November 15th, Vienna On November 15th 2019, the FORA team met on the premises of TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, in order to discuss the current progress of the training network and to lay the foundations for the upcoming deliverables.  Especially, the three core use cases of FORA, which will take place at ABB, TTTech, and Danfoss, were presented in detail. Afterwards, Bahram Zarrin (DTU)…

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European Researcher’s Night 2019, September 23rd, Vienna Eurpean Researcher’s Night is a yearly Europe-wide event providing an excellent opportunity for researchers to promote their profession to a wide audience. In 2019, European Researcher’s Night took was held on September 2019 at the University of Applied Arts in Wien, Austria. FORA ESR, Jan Ruh, has presented FORA in this event.

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FORA Project Meeting 2019, June 3rd-4th, Copenhagen The FORA Project Meeting has taken place on June 3-4, at Park Inn By Radisson hotel, Copenhagen. The meeting had the following purposes: 1) defining the FORA reference platform architecture 2) facilitate the research collaboration 3) define Use Cases and benchmarks for Fog Computing 4) Support the development of demonstrators around Fog Use Cases for industrial applications The local organizers of this event were Prof.…

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FORA Training School (TS2) 2019, June 17th-21st, Copenhagen About The Nordic IoT Summer School is a week-long intensive introduction to all aspects of IoT systems. Rich sensor systems and distributed computation allow computing systems to measure and interact with the physical world. These emerging IoT systems will necessarily stretch from edge and fog computing devices that connect to cloud servers. Challenges at all levels of abstraction—devices, software, networks, architectures, and…

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Workshop on Fog Computing and the IoT 2019, April 15th-19th, Montreal When Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) become interconnected with each other and with the internet, they form the Internet of Things (IoT), forming “the infrastructure of the information society”. Fog Computing is a system-level architecture that distributes resources and services of computing, storage, control and networking anywhere along the continuum from Cloud to Things” and is about to tremendously impact the IoT.…

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FORA Training Day 2018, December 12th, Copenhagen The FORA’s interim check meeting has taken place Dec. 12, at Park Inn By Radisson hotel, Copenhagen. In conjunction with this meeting, we had a training day on Dec.11 to define the main concepts of the Fog Computing platform and plan its development and use. We had 32 participants, with representatives from each beneficiary. The local organizers of this event were Prof. Paul Pop and Dr. Bahram Zarrin…

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FORA Training School (TS1) 2018, June 4th-8th, Vienna The main objective of the FORA Training School (TS1) is to introduce the basics of Fog Computing and Industry 4.0 very early on, i.e., 3 months after the majority of the ESRs have started. TS1 also covers resource management topics (SC3). To help plan their research, ESRs take TC1 on research methodology and scientific publishing. This is also when they have a…

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The kick-off meeting has taken place during Oct. 19-29, 2017, at TTTech’s premises in Vienna, Austria. We had 19 participants, with representatives from each beneficiary. The local organizer was Dr. Martijn Rooke, TTTech Computertechnik AG. The following items have been on the agenda: Day 1: FORA ETN: research topics and project structure (Paul Pop, Coordinator) Partner presentations: DTU, TUWIEN, MDH, TUKL, TTT, SYSGO, ABB Supervisors: main, co-supervisor, industrial supervisor (updates)…

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