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May. 2017

Cloud Computing – A Fog-to-Cloud Management Ecosystem

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    Cloud Computing – A Fog-to-Cloud Management Ecosystem

    Overview

    Worldsensing is awarded with the H2020 project mF2C that address the need for an open and coordinated management of fog and cloud computing. 

    Worldsensing has been awarded the action entitled ‘Towards an Open, Secure, Decentralized and Coordinated Fog-to-Cloud Management Ecosystem — mF2C’ as described in the Grant Agreement number 730929. The mF2C is a 36-month Research Innovation Action (RIA) project funded by the European Union under the call H2020-ICT-2016, topic ICT-06-2016 Cloud Computing.
    Fog computing brings cloud computing capabilities closer to the end-device and users, while enabling location dependent resource allocation, low latency services, and extending significantly the IoT services portfolio as well as market and business opportunities in the cloud sector. With the number of devices exponentially growing globally, new cloud and fog models are expected to emerge, paving the way for shared, collaborative, extensible mobile, volatile and dynamic compute, storage and network infrastructure. When put together, cloud and fog computing create a new stack of resources, which we refer to as Fog-to-Cloud (F2C), creating the need for a new, open and coordinated management ecosystem.

    The mF2C project

    The mF2C project sets the goal of designing an open, secure, decentralized, multi-stakeholder management framework, including innovative programming models, privacy and security, data storage techniques, service creation, brokerage solutions, SLA policies, and resource orchestration methods. The proposed framework is expected to set the foundations for a novel distributed system architecture, developing a proof-of-concept system and platform, to be tested and validated in real-world use cases, as envisioned by the industrial partners in the consortium with significant interest in rapid innovation in the cloud computing sector.

    Worldsensing´s expertise

    Worldsensing is a market-leader in wireless monitoring and a provider of Operational Intelligence within the M2M and IoT industry. It has won numerous prizes and awards, has enjoyed vast press coverage by the WSJ and the BBC, has shaped many IoT/M2M standards, and has driven the R&D developments in Europe through participation of numerous FP7 projects.

    Role in the project

    The Barcelona-based IoT pioneer has three main contributions within mF2C project:

    • Provide input for real life IoT services and device requirements
    • Support the porting and integration process of the individual blocks in a reference architecture and lead the validation and assessment activities to guarantee the quality of the whole system: evaluate the performance/behavior of the management system in relevant tasks in WP5.
    • Exploitation of the project results by possibly adopting the developed technology for the company`s back end servers and fog computing solutions.


    Project members

    The project, led by ATOS, puts together a well-balanced European consortium of 10 partners, including companies, SMEs and research centers from 7 different countries: ATOS Spain (coordinator), Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya (UPC, Spain), Technische Universitat Braunschweig (TUBS, Germany), INTEL (Ireland), Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC, Spain), WORLDSENSING (UK), XLAB (Slovenia), SIXSQ (Switzerland), TISCALI (Italy) and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, UK).