This week NEMO has celebrated a two day technical meeting, to evaluate how the project is going technically and which are the next steps to be taken. The meeting was hosted by one of our partners, Eviden.

The first day was devoted on the components developed within the NEMO framework. The discussions mainly focused on the progress updates, optimization of components, resolution of integration issues and planning the last mile activities.

The second day was dedicated to the piloting of use cases. In this sense, the technical and non-technical partners presented the work carried out till month 30, the preparation of final integrations and optimizations and asked for the support of the Open Call projects.

One of the uses cases explained was the Smart Media XR, that during the NEMO trails it will investigate how the usage of AIoT devices and the use of meta-OS framework can be used to enhance TV VR experiences.

NEMO Project has attended and participated in many events along the last few month. One of the last ones has been the DATAMITE Project Meetup event in Athens, Greece. This meetup was hosted by OTE Group of Companies (HTO) IT Innovation Center. It took place on the 6 February 2025 and brought together 65 EU-funded projects and more than 400 attendees to foster collaboration between research and industry.

The event featured five expert panels on data marketplaces, monetization, healthcare, industry transformation, and privacy/security, providing insights into Europe’s digital future. NEMO showcased a both were we had the opportunity to showcase the project and its implications on AIoT and edge cloud computing.

The DATAMITE project understands the precise nature of existing barriers and develops a simple but impactful technical framework that enables European enterprises and public administrations to overcome existing challenges and facilitate the monetisation of their data. The core target consists of helping users to better monetize, govern and enhance the trust of their data by developing a set of key modules: Data Governance, Quality, Security, Sharing & Supporting Tools. Interoperability with current leading storage technologies is achieved by building them on top of existing open-source components. The community uptake is driven by providing intuitive graphical interfaces, and by detailed documentation and tailored training materials addressing both technical and business aspects.

The OC#2 applicants successfully completed a crucial phase of the program, which required them to significantly advance their proposals by fine-tuning their core application concept. This work was documented in the DESIGN deliverable, which included an early prototype, alongside a comprehensive tech-business presentation detailing their strategy and implementation plan to be followed in the next phases.

The 12 highly  competitive projects (SMEs) of NEMO 2nd Open Call have competed and evaluated in the context of the OC#2 DESIGN phase. NEMO project congratulates the 10 projects that managed to be selected for the next Experiment phase. The ones that have been selected for the next phase(with Alphabetic order) are:

• CERES

• EdgeMind

• NINEMO

• ORTHOTIC

• PINO

• Smart4Game

• SMILE

• SPMS

• TACTIGON

• TrafNET

The  NEMO project would like to thank the rest of the 2nd Open Call projects that did not manage to proceed to the next phase for their participation in the  NEMO 2nd Open Call.

NEMO Open Call #2 aim to validate user acceptance and boost NEMO massive adoption and sustainability. NEMO is delighted to announce the Open Call #2 winning proposals:

• CERES: An AI-driven Decision Support System (DSS) for farm optimization, including an Environmental Digital Twin, IoT & Earth Observation integration based on Farming Intelligence System of Systems (FISS) concept.

• DistributedRFGuard: A cutting-edge, scalable RF anomaly detection and monitoring system Designed to enhance security, efficiency, and sustainability in RF communication.

• EdgeMind: System collects biometric data from the smartwatch, processes it locally on the Android app using a small LLM, stores it securely in a web backend, and utilizes a larger LLM to generate personalized fitness plans.

• NEMOHOSP: A set of web applications providing predictive maintenance and healthcare KPI monitoring.

• NINEMO: A transformative solution to address critical challenges in modern agriculture, particularly in pest detection and management.

• ORTHOTIC: A sensor Integrated 3D printing splint-boot with AIoT connectivity for Advancing Human-Activity Recognition and surveillance through Convolutional Neural Network and VR-Based Digital Twin.

• PINO: Edge AIoT microservices enabling real-time predictive maintenance and diagnosis for diverse industrial configurations.

• Smart4Game: Applications capitalizing on wearable sensors and advanced edge-based AI extending ordinary fitness and athletes training.

• SMILE: A transformative, highly configurable platform for customizing and deploying AI-driven solutions tailored for energy optimization, and real-time anomaly detection.

• SPMS: A Smart Predictive Maintenance System which leverages ML and automates model creation and tunning with AutoML.

• TACTIGON: An open-source meta operating system AI-driven platform enabling real-time decision-making, process optimization, and seamless human-robot collaboration.

• TrafNET: Project aims to integrate AI-powered multi-sensor systems for advanced traffic monitoring and management.

The  NEMO project would like to thank the rest of the 2nd Open Call applicants that did not manage to be selected for the DESIGN phase of the  NEMO 2nd Open Call.

NEMO participated again in the InfoCom World Conference 2024. This time our colleague, Dimitris Skias, from our partner Intrasoft, provided an overview of the opportunities and challenges in AI and IoT in the context of Edge and Cloud and introduced the NEMO concept and vision.

Moreover, Mr. Skias provided insights on the way that NEMO integrates Network and Service Management in the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum, diving into the NEMO Federated Network Management, the NEMO workload orchestration and the AI liberation that is offered through NEMO. Finally, the presentation concluded emphasizing the impact that the NEMO meta-OS aims to deliver through sustainability and exploitation activities, providing for data democratization through Open Calls (1st and 2nd ) and by exposing common API for external users, allowing for extensions as NEMO plugins, offering NEMO meta-OS as Open Source.”

InfoCom World 2024, has celebrated its 26th edition with the title “Digital Greece: Time for a Leap!”. This year, the conference has taken place on November 12, 2024 at the Divani Caravel Hotel, under the guarantee and credibility of Smart Press. The annual meeting of the market for Technology, Information Technology and Telecommunications, has focused on the dynamic development of the country through the adoption and exploitation of new technologies, the challenges and opportunities that arise, and the steps that must be taken by market stakeholders, to implement the “digital leap”!

The themed sections of the conference have covered key issues such as: private networks, artificial intelligence, data centers, e-government, smart cities and digital projects, with an emphasis on the practical application and benefits of new technologies.

The Smart Media City and XR Trial 5.5 of Nemo was presented at the Infoworld Conference that was held in Athens this week.

Mr Dimitrios Christopoulos from the Foundation of the Hellenic World as Leader of the 5.5 trials delivered the presentation titled Smartmedia/City: Cloud-Edge-IoT solutions for modern-day Media, in which he described the implementation and challenges of the three use cases that form the 5.5 trials. Infocom World is one of the biggest annual IT conferences held in Athens Greece. This year the conference took place on Tuesday 12 November 2024 at the Divani Caravel Hotel. Many other principal actors of the cloud edge continuum participated showcasing other projects related.

The Open Call #1 projects after a period of intensive development, provided an MVP of their Software Solution as described in their application. The unique solutions developed as standalone applications will be integrated with the NEMO framework.

The importance of data sovereignty and data valorisation in today’s digital economy has been highlighted by the EU’ s introduction of Data Spaces. This effort to bring improved data governance and data management together has encouraged Europe’s public and private sector to pilot a variety of novel concepts and architectures and empower the use of data in such a scale, with built-in compliance to the EU regulatory ecosystem. October marked the opportunity for the NEMO project to participate to the highly anticipated 4th Eclipse Security, Artificial Intelligence, Architecture, and Modelling Conference on Data Spaces and share our vision for the future (eSAAM 2024) in Mainz, Germany. Dr. Olga Segou, on behalf of Netcompany-Intrasoft and the NEMO consortium presented the modular NEMO architecture and detailed how it can interconnect with any given Data Space.

The NEMO consortium posited that traditional operating systems are not designed to support the growing diversity of devices and the seamless orchestration of resources in a highly dynamic environment. In such cases, opportunistic migration becomes the norm, rather than a rare exception. The NEMO metaOS was thus created to provide these capabilities across the continuum through hardware agnostic abstraction, holistic resource orchestration, optimization and intelligent scheduling. Therefore, our work became a complementary framework to Data Spaces; we showed that the NEMO metaOS can improve management and orchestration, while the Data Space can provide access to rich data sources. Connecting the two architectural paradigms became a significant and yet impactful challenge for us to address.

The eSAAM workshop presented a unique opportunity for us to show our progress. We highlighted how NEMO simplifies the on-boarding of a new Data Space connector on the metaOS through the use of plugins. Although the metaOS was not initially designed with Data Spaces in mind, the plugin-based architecture allowed the on-boarding of a new connector and its management through the NEMO Intent-based API. We further presented a case study of the FIWARE Industrial Data Space connector and guided the audience throughout the process for all the stages of validation, on-boarding, registering and provisioning through the Intent-based API. We also showed how NEMO enforces proper Access Control policies. Our vision for access control goes beyond simply providing authentication and authorization; NEMO can enforce additional policies (e.g. rate limiting, blacklisting etc.) and ensure they are respected by both communicating sides.

Our early results show that the NEMO architecture proved flexible and modular enough to take into account new developments in Data Spaces. The consortium considers that the two paradigms are highly complementary and can benefit from a closer integration between the metaOS and a standardized and trustworthy Data Space.