HYDRA Project

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HYDRA Project

• Use Of Semantic Technologies for Network Embedded
  System Middleware
• WIKT 28-29 November 2006

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Contents

1. HYDRA Project
2. Project Vision
3. Project Objectives
4. Project Challenges

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HYDRA project

• Networked Embedded System Middleware for
  Heterogeneous Physical Devices in a Distributed
  Architecture
• Start 1st. July 2006
• Duration 4 Years
• 13 Partners from 9 countries (9 companies, 3
  universities, research institute)
• Leader C International Ltd.

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Project vision

• The vision of the HYDRA project is to
  (eventually) create the most widely deployed
  middleware for intelligent networked embedded
  systems that will allow producers to develop
  cost-effective and innovative embedded
  applications for new and already existing devices.

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Project Challenges

1. Allow seamless access to the features of many
   devices, regardless of its manufacturer,
   technology, interfaces, location, communication
   mechanism
2. Mobile users - ambient services and applications
   should adapt to changing local and global sets of
   accesible sensors
3. Development of a framework for secure,
   trustworthy communication among networked systems

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Project objectives

• Develop a middleware based on a Service-oriented
  Architecture, to which the underlying
  communication layer is transparent, and
  consisting of
• Support for distributed as well as centralised
  architectures
• Support for reflective properties of components
  of the middleware
• Support for security and trust enabling
  components
• Develop a generic semantic model-based
  architecture supporting model-driven development
  of applications

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Project additional outcome

• A toolkit (SDK) that will allow developers to
  develop applications on the middleware.
• A business modelling framework for analysing the
  sustainability of the developed applications.
• Validation of the middleware, toolkit and
  business models in real end-user scenarios in
  three user domains

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End Goals

• Hydra should produce a set of tools that are
  easily
• Migrated to new fields
• Adapted to new needs
• Hydra should produce a working system that is
• Scalable
• Robust
• Secure

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Domains

• Real end-user scenarios in three user domains
• Facility Management (intelligent homes)
• Healthcare
• Agriculture

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Research areas

• Embedded AmI
• Wireless networks devices
• SoA and MDA middleware
• Trust, privacy and security

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Embedded AmI

• Self-configuration of sensors, cameras, etc
• Automatic discovery of devices
• Resource awareness
• Context awareness - Integration of context data
  from data acquisition components
• Make devices aware of each others and able to
  exchange data and communicate
• Make devices understand each other and able to
  take Intelligent decisions

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SoA and MDA middleware

• Excecuting multiple simultaneous services
• Automatic device categorisation
• Apply semantic web services at the device level
• Device Ontology
• Device classes and descriptions
• Device functionality
• Security models
• Interface descriptions
• much more
• Automatic construction of ontology over devices
  and their capabilities

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Trust, privacy and security

• Conform to professional security standards
• Trustworthyness and trust policies
• Authentication of users and suppliers
• Identification
• Virtualization

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