Daniel Ramsauer successfully defended his Master thesis with the title ” OPC UA / DDS Gateway” on the 5th of June. The main goal was the development of a prototype based on the OMG Group published specification for the connection of the two middlewares. In addition, three scenarios for connecting OPC UA clients through the global DDS data space were generated to evaluate the gateway features and deficiencies. The results…
The figure shows two poorly synchronized distributed tasks producing PWM signals. PWM signals are a widely used mechanism that allows controlling servos and motors as well as various IO devices. In a distributed system with multiple actuators, task-level and network-level time synchronization can become a critical requirement as it can lead to malfunctioning operation of a cyber-physical system.
The current research aim of Salman (ABB) and Vaclav (MDH) is to introduce a strict real-time behavior in the fog computing layer in an industrial setting (robot control). This will enable the consolidation of the robot control functions in the fog computing layer and allows an easy extension of the industrial system (new robots, sensors, applications) and overcomes limitations of the current state of the practices (e.g., limited computation capacity…
Koen presented some preliminary findings of his systematic survey paper on security requirements for the Industrial Internet of Things at the CPS-IoT week earlier this year in Montreal, Canada. These findings were mainly about how IIoT security research has progressed in the past 6 years, and which countries are most active in this area. Since then, he has further analyzed the papers that were found and has produced a finished…
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 applications—must be faced to deliver on the potential…
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. Paul Pop and Dr. Bahram Zarrin from…
The Workshop on Fog Computing and the IoT (Fog-IoT) was held on April 15th-19th in Montreal, Canada. It was co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2019. The workshop was organized by FORA and co-chaired by Prof. Paul Pop and Prof. Karl-Erik Årzen. More details are available from here.
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 from the Technical University of Denmark. The…
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 seminar on ethics (including research integrity) and gender…
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)…
