O-CEI

AGRITECHNICA
2025-11-09 - 2025-11-15
Zetrack at AGRITECHNICA 2025: Showcasing the Future of Autonomous, Sustainable Agriculture
Zetrack participated in AGRITECHNICA 2025 in Hanover, Germany, the world’s largest trade fair for agricultural machinery, where the company presented the new autonomous, driver-optional prototype Zetrabot 1.1, equipped with removable batteries. Designed to enhance productivity and sustainability in vineyards and a wide range of crop environments, Zetrabot captured strong attention from farmers, industry leaders, and potential partners.
A major highlight was the introduction of Zetrack’s Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) model. Together with leading partners and specialists, Zetrack implemented an innovative system of interchangeable, rentable batteries for agricultural vehicles. This approach replaced fixed-capacity battery designs, typically more expensive and less flexible, with a model that allows farmers to adapt energy autonomy to real operational needs. With additional batteries available for rent only when necessary, the solution reduced total ownership costs while supporting zero-emission farming practices.
Through its presence at AGRITECHNICA 2025, Zetrack demonstrated how Zetrabot represents a significant leap forward for precision agriculture, combining autonomy, sustainability, and flexibility to empower the new generation of farmers.
Zetrack will further develop and use Zetrabot during Pilot 6 of O-CEI Horizon.

Smart City Expo World Congress 2025
2025-11-04 - 2025-11-06
The Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona is the world’s leading event for urban innovation, uniting global leaders to shape more sustainable, efficient, and human-centered cities. Key themes include smart technologies, energy and environment, sustainable mobility, inclusive governance, infrastructure, and the blue economy.
Ubiwhere has participated in the SCEWC as an Industry Partner and active contributor since 2014, showcasing its innovative solutions that are transforming cities. During this year edition, Ubiwhere presented several ongoing projects, including the O-CEI project.

Smart City Expo World Congress 2025
2025-11-04 - 2025-11-05
Digital Twins for Sustainable Travel and Living Communities. Focus on SDV: O-CEI showcase
As the leader of O-CEI Pilot 2, ERTICO-ITS Europe presented the pilot at the Smart City Expo. The pilot aims to revolutionise urban mobility and sustainable living by developing smart, scalable, eco-friendly, and human-centric solutions for European cities. The project’s vision aligns closely with the European Commission’s objectives and the priorities of the Digital Europe Programme, particularly regarding the integration of innovative digital technologies into sustainable urban development frameworks.
By advancing the O-CEI initiative, the proposed SDV scalable solution demonstrates how interoperable and intelligent digital twins can foster greener mobility, efficient resource management, and inclusive urban spaces. Its activities directly contribute to the EU’s Local Digital Twin (LDT) Toolbox, supporting the creation of a connected and sustainable European CitiVerse ecosystem for autonomous vehicles.
This successful event showcased the practical SDV application and highlighted the added value of the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum technologies championed by O-CEI.

O-CEI Pilot 8 Engages with Smart Energy District Community in Fribourg
2025-10-30 - 2025-11-03
The partners in Pilot 8 of the O-CEI Horizon project attended two important information events organized by the Smart Energy District (SED) Project, held in Fribourg on Thursday, October 30th, and Monday, November 3rd.
Private households, both producers and consumers of electricity, are becoming major players in the new electricity system. To gather residents’ opinions and expectations, and set up a panel of consumer-producers, two information sessions were organized: October 30th and November 3rd.
The discussions confirmed the initial research hypotheses, in particular the need to better understand the context and existing installations, as well as the possibilities for optimization at the housing level: self-consumption, storage, flexibility, exchanges, etc. Participants emphasized their desire to have all the information they need to implement energy measures that bring real added value given their situation. This involves parameters that affect financial resources and return on investment as well as the acceptability of a more community-based approach to energy management at the district level.

European Open IoT Edge/Cloud Continuum as Enabler for Energy Flexibility
2025-10-22
On October 22, the O-CEI project will host a dedicated Special Session at the IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT) conference, highlighting the transformative potential of an open and federated IoT Edge/Cloud Continuum in enabling energy flexibility across sectors and borders.
As energy systems evolve towards greater digitalisation and decarbonisation, coordination between distributed assets, real-time intelligence, and advanced data exchange becomes essential. This session will showcase how O-CEI advances this vision through edge computing, cloud-native architectures, open-source middleware, and AI-driven orchestration to optimise energy flexibility and efficiency.
Invited talks will present the project’s overall architecture, large-scale energy pilots, and AI-based tools for smarter grid management and cross-domain interoperability. The session will also emphasise collaboration between energy stakeholders and digital innovators, demonstrating how open ecosystems can unlock new value in flexibility markets, grid optimisation, and energy communities.
The Special Session will feature presentations by:

Prof. Andreas Kassler (Deggendorf Institute of Technology) – Chair
Dr. Ignacio Lacalle (Universitat Politècnica de València), member of the O-CEI Coordinating team
Francisco Blanquer (CMA CGM), member of the O-CEI’s Pilot 4 team
Dr. Jussi Poikonen (Awake.AI), member of the O-CEI’s Pilot 4 team
Prof. Nabil Abdennadher (HES-SO, HEPIA), member of the O-CEI’s Pilot 8 team
Brian O’Regan (IERC, Ireland), member of the O-CEI’s Pilot 1 team

By fostering dialogue among researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers, the O-CEI Special Session aims to strengthen international cooperation and reinforce Europe’s leadership in open digital infrastructures for sustainable energy systems.

EU-Canada Digital Partnership Week on ICT Standardisation
2025-10-14 - 2025-10-16
O-CEI Partners Join the EU–Canada Digital Partnership Week on ICT Standardisation
Starting on 14 October 2025, O-CEI Horizon partners are participating in the EU–Canada Digital Partnership Week on ICT Standardisation, a key event bringing together policymakers, industry leaders, and standardisation experts to strengthen international cooperation on digital standards.
O-CEI plays an active role during the first day of the event, dedicated to Cloud-Edge-IoT (CEI): Building Cross-Sectoral Standardisation Interfaces — a theme central to digital innovation in mobility, energy, and manufacturing.

Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), O-CEI Project Coordinator, will participate in the session “Scaling Innovation: How Large-Scale Pilots and Industry Activities Inform Standardisation.” Dr. Ignacio Lacalle Úbeda, from UPV, will present the project’s standpoint on standardisation initiatives, showcasing how O-CEI pilots can contribute content, inspiration, and materialisation towards pre-normative efforts. The large-scale nature of O-CEI pilots allows innovations to be channelled and demonstrated in real environments across multiple domains. The Hourglass Model will be used to characterise the strategy partners will follow in this regard.
Trialog, O-CEI’s standardisation leader, represented by Antonio Kung and Cécile Rabrait, will join the panel “Cross-Border Interoperability – Concrete Steps Towards Open CEI Standards.” They will highlight how interoperability, connectivity, security, and trust are fundamental pillars of O-CEI’s standardisation roadmap, and how the project contributes to strengthening international collaboration in the CEI domain.

Through this participation, O-CEI reinforces its commitment to advancing cross-border collaboration, fostering industrial competitiveness, and supporting the creation of trusted, interoperable digital ecosystems across Europe and beyond.

Busworld
2025-10-06 - 2025-10-08
Our partner, E-GAP, will participate in Busworld, the world’s leading exhibition for the bus and coach industry. E-GAP will have a dedicated stand at the event, where they will feature O-CEI’s marketing materials.
Visitors can learn about our work through a dedicated poster and flyer, with a specific focus on Pilot 7’s V2G technologies and EV charging solutions.
Event website: Busworld Europe 2025 Congress | Busworld Europe 2025

European Researchers’ Night
2025-09-26
Our partners from UPRC will attend the European Researchers’ Night in Greece on September 26, 2025. This exciting event, which promotes the value of research and science in over 400 European cities
UPRC will introduce the O-CEI project to attendees and distribute project leaflets, giving the public a chance to learn more about our work.
Event website:

https://researchersnight.gr/en/home-page-en/
https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/msca-citizens/join-a-celebration-of-science

Projects Exchanges Dissemination Event
2025-09-24 14:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Zurich)
Trialog will continue its “tour de force” in Madrid through the coordination of the Projects Exchanges Dissemination Event. Moderated by Antonio Kung, this session brings together several Horizon projects, including O-CEI, CEI-Sphere, COP-PILOT, Hedge-IoT, TwinEU, and LICORICE, to foster cross-project collaboration. The discussion will focus on two key topics:

Synergies around the hourglass model: exploring the usage and dissemination of this model across various EU-funded projects.
Synchronization of semantic interoperability activities: aligning efforts to ensure seamless data exchange and communication among projects.

Event website: https://www.eclipse.org/events/2025/oscd/

Open-Source Community Day 2025
2025-09-24 11:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Zurich)
Open Source and Standardisation
Trialog, the Standardisation leader in O-CEI Horizon, is organizing a session on Open Source and Standardisation at the upcoming Open-Source Community Day. The session will be moderated by Antonio Kung (Trialog) and Rosaria Rossini (Eclipse Foundation).
The discussion will highlight how open-source implementations and formal standards are crucial for the widespread adoption of new technologies. We will showcase how various research projects are leveraging these initiatives to facilitate access and ensure conformity across the cloud-edge ecosystem. During the session, Cecile Rabrait (Trialog) will present the O-CEI project’s specific standardization activities.
Event website: https://www.eclipse.org/events/2025/oscd/

IoT Tech Expo Europe 2025
2025-09-24 - 2025-09-25
The O-CEI project will be represented at the IoT Tech Expo Europe 2025 in Amsterdam.
Our Project Coordinator, Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), will be at the event presenting the aerOS project. On that occasion, UPV will highlight O-CEI’s potential to continue some of the foundational work initiated by the aerOS project. This is a key opportunity to showcase how O-CEI builds upon previous successes to advance the future of the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum.
To raise awareness about O-CEI’s vision and goals, UPV will be distributing project leaflets to attendees throughout the expo. We look forward to engaging with the community and promoting our efforts to create an open, interoperable, and sustainable digital landscape.
Event website https://www.iottechexpo.com/europe/

Open-Source Community Day 2025
2025-09-23 - 2025-09-24
Our consortium partner, the Eclipse Foundation, will be organizing the Open-Source Community Day, a dynamic event that brings together open-source contributors, researchers, and innovators. Held in collaboration with EUCloudEdgeIoT.eu, this gathering provides a unique platform for EU-funded projects to connect with the open-source community, fostering collaboration and the exchange of ideas.
O-CEI will be actively represented at the event. UPV, our project coordinator, will communicate the O-CEI project, including its open-source strategy.
The Open-Source Community Day offers a rich program of presentations, discussions, and networking opportunities designed to strengthen Europe’s open innovation ecosystem and explore the future of digital technologies.
Event website: https://www.eclipse.org/events/2025/oscd/

AIOTI
2025-09-23
Projects on edge cloud continuum
On September 23rd, O-CEI will co-organize a workshop at the AIOTI Days 2025 conference in Madrid, Spain. The workshop, titled “Projects on edge cloud continuum,” is a collaborative effort with the aerOS project. It aims to demonstrate how key results from the Meta OS cluster can be transferred to large-scale pilots within the computing continuum.
The event will showcase the O-CEI project’s innovative approach, highlighting the deployment of solutions in various cross-energy-related sectors. O-CEI’s overview, blueprints, and marketplace concept will be presented to attendees. The O-CEI Consortium will be represented by UPV, with a presentation from Dr. Andreu Belsa.
Event website: https://aioti.eu/aioti-days-2025/

AIOTI
2025-09-22
Standardisation Leveraging the Hourglass Approach
On September 22nd, O-CEI partner Trialog will organize the “Standardization Leveraging the Hourglass approach” workshop at the AIOTI Days 2025 event in Madrid. The session will explore the widely adopted hourglass framework for promoting interoperability and scalability in technology.
Moderated by Antonio Kung (Trialog), the discussion will focus on how this effective standardization approach can be leveraged by EU-funded projects and aligned with EU policies related to infrastructure. The hourglass model has proven highly successful in creating resilient and adaptable systems, making it a critical framework for ensuring long-term scalability and compatibility in the technology and communications sectors.
Event website: https://aioti.eu/aioti-days-2025/

AIOTI
2025-09-22
CEI-Sphere is organizing a workshop on September 22nd at the AIOTI Days 2025 event. The session will formally introduce its Spheres and present how they align with the large-scale pilots of the O-CEI and COP-PILOT projects.
The workshop will also highlight the Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) opportunities via the Open Calls, which will be launched by both O-CEI and COP-PILOT. On that occasion, O-CEI will provide detailed information on its eight pilots and specifications for Open Calls for each of these pilots.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startups are particularly encouraged to attend and submit their innovative proposals.
Event website: https://aioti.eu/aioti-days-2025/

ECML-PKDD 2025 SynDaiTE workshop
2025-09-15
Our partner CeADAR actively contributed to the ECML-PKDD 2025 SynDaiTE workshop, presenting both a poster and a talk on their paper DriftMoE: A Mixture of Experts Approach to Handle Concept Drifts.
The paper introduces a state-of-the-art architecture for real-time data streams affected by concept drift, leveraging a Mixture of Experts (MoE) approach that significantly reduces resource requirements and is well-suited for deployment across the cloud-edge continuum.
The methodology outlined in DriftMoE holds strong potential for adaptation within O-CEI Task 3.5 (Implementation of intra- and cross-domain data management, observability, and AI orchestration mechanisms), where CeADAR plays a leading role. The intent is to use router networks to recommend relevant models from O-CEI’s marketplace. Furthermore, CeADAR is investigating ways to compress a MoE, which would make it even more efficient for recommending resource-intensive models like LLMs, a key part of our future research efforts. The paper acknowledges O-CEI.
Event website:
https://aiimlab.org/events/ECML_PKDD_2025_SynDAiTE_Synthetic_Data_for_AI_Trustworthiness_and_Evolution

Pilot 8 workshop in Val D’Anniviers
2025-08-28 - 2025-08-29
Pilot 8 partners met on 27 and 28 August in Val d’Anniviers. This meeting brought together key stakeholders to present the Swiss pilot project and define the role of local partners in its pilot phase.
On 27 August, participants included the Energy Director of the St-Luc/Chandolin ski lifts (also an owner of hotels and restaurants in the area) and the Director of the Boutique Hôtel Chandolin. The discussions focused on outlining the benefits and expectations of their involvement, while clarifying how their contributions will shape the project’s local pilot.
The following day, 28 August, the team met directly with stakeholders on-site to identify challenges, co-design potential solutions, and prepare for the upcoming CLEMAP deployment.
This session also addressed the crucial topic of social acceptance, gathering insights into partners’ needs and setting the groundwork for future meetings to build a robust case study.
Holding the sessions in Val d’Anniviers was particularly significant: the region itself will act as a “living lab”, positioning it as a hub for innovation, sustainability, and technological progress.
For local partners, participation brought tangible benefits:

Visibility as contributors to a pioneering sustainable energy initiative
Access to insights and results from the project
Recognition as forward-thinking leaders in the energy transition

IWAPS @ ARES 2025
2025-08-11 - 2025-08-14
At the 4th International Workshop on Advances in Privacy Preserving Technologies and Solutions (IWAPS), O-CEI Horizon was briefly presented during a session showcasing ongoing research initiatives. The presentation highlighted the project’s objectives, its role within the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum, and its expected impact. It was positioned alongside other related EU-funded projects to emphasize potential synergies.
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NCSRD 60th Summer School for Graduate and Postgraduate Students in Technology Fields
2025-07-07 - 2025-07-11
This week marks the 60th edition of the NCSR “Demokritos” Summer School. On July 8th, the spotlight was on the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, with a day dedicated to showcasing its work.As part of the event, the FutuRe cOmmunication NeTworks (FRONT) Research Group, the specific NDSRD team involved in the O-CEI project, delivered a series of focused presentations highlighting their research contributions to various European projects. The presentations emphasized the role of AI technologies in beyond 5G (B5G) networks and the network-computing continuum.A key highlight was the work presented under the O-CEI project by Vasilis Pitsilis, demonstrating the mutual benefits and deep integration between AI technologies and the network-computing continuum. The discussion explored how AI can enable more efficient and autonomous continuum operations, while also illustrating how the continuum itself offers new opportunities for advancing AI technologies. The presentations emphasized this bidirectional relationship, showcasing cutting-edgeresearch and innovative solutions shaping the future of intelligent networks.

Picture 1: Vasilis Pitsilis giving the presentation about O-CEI

Picture 2 : Harilaos Koumaras presenting research group scientific fields and projects

Demining Robots Course
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-05
CentraleSupelec/ZettaScale Integration Course 2025: Demining Robots
The O-CEI project, through its partner ZettaScale, supported the 2025 CentraleSupelec/ZettaScale integration course in Saclay, focused on the theme of “Demining Robots.”
Over four days, 22 students were challenged to tackle complex mine clearance scenarios. They utilized Eclipse Zenoh and its recently released Record and Replay functionality to develop their solutions. The students deployed the Zenoh framework on education and research-oriented robots equipped with cameras, programming them to execute crucial tasks: detecting mines, mapping the area, and ensuring the robots could safely return home.
This successful course showcased the practical application and educational value of the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum technologies championed by O-CEI.

BDVA Data Week
2025-05-27 14:00 - 15:30 (Asia/Tokyo)
On May 27th, our partners from National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSRD) and GreenSupplyChain DIH (GSC) will take part in the Data Week 2025 session titled “Democratising digital agriculture: Breakthroughs and challenges.”
GSC is the organizer of the session and the included panel on “CloudEdgeIoT Continuum, Data interoperability and Open-Source software”. It will guide the overall discussion for all presented projects and guide the discussion to help NCSRD present the impact of O-CEI in agriculture.
NCSRD will join the panel on behalf of the O-CEI project and deliver a presentation titled “Continuum technologies for optimising energy consumption in sustainable dairy production.” The focus of the presentation will be on the specific challenges that O-CEI is trying to address, to empower key industries, including the agriculture and livestock sector, to optimize resource usage, reduce environmental impact, and drive Europe’s transition to a greener, more efficient energy landscape.
O-CEI is creating an open, collaborative CEI platform that enables sectors to securely exchange digital assets, including services and AI-based solutions. It emphasizes interoperability, trust, and data governance to ensure collaboration under clear rules and safeguards. Flexible deployment practices simplify the rollout and scaling of digital tools across diverse environments, from the cloud to the edge, supporting real-world needs.
The National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSRD) is Greece’s largest multidisciplinary research centre, consisting of five independent institutes. It employs around 180 tenured and tenure-track researchers, along with over 500 research staff working on projects funded by national programmes, the European Union, and private industry. Within the O-CEI project, the FRONT Research Group of NCSRD acts as the Scientific Leader, ensuring the strategic alignment of research activities while overseeing the quality of deliverables and the overall scientific progress of the project.
GreenSupplyChain DIH (GSC) is a Digital Innovation Hub based in both Greece and the Netherlands. Its mission is to support the digital transformation of all stakeholders—large and small—within the agri-food supply chain, helping them bridge the “digital divide.” In the O-CEI project, GSC leads Task 4.6 on “Sustainable dairy extensive production processes” and Pilot 5 on “Energetically and environmentally sustainable Halloumi cheese production.”

16th ITS European Congress
2025-05-21 03:15 - 16:15 (Asia/Tokyo)
The landscape of transportation is rapidly evolving, with increasing reliance on interconnected machinery and the vast potential of Big Data, AI/ML, and IoT. However, a critical gap often exists: the distance between where crucial operational data is generated and where the intelligence to transform it into actionable insights resides. This latency and the complexities of orchestrating distributed services across diverse computational assets have historically hampered efficiency gains for transportation agents across various sectors, from bustling maritime hubs to intricate logistics networks
At the upcoming ITS European Congress in May, the Special Interest Session (SIS 71): “An open Cloud-Edge IOT platform in large-scale cross-domain pilots.” will delve into the groundbreaking work of the O-CEI project, specifically focusing on Pilot 2: Software Defined Vehicle for VaS in Urban Areas.
The ITS European Congress is Europe’s premier event showcasing smart and sustainable mobility solutions, connecting industry leaders, policymakers, and experts to shape the future of transport.
Leading experts will discuss how the aerOS Meta Operating System and its deployment within the O-CEI project are overcoming these traditional barriers. This innovative approach aims to enable operators to make more informed decisions by enhancing the availability, presentation, and exploitation of real-time information. Learn how the project’s deployment and orchestration capabilities, particularly in choreographing smart services at the network edge, empower companies to react with unprecedented speed and agility – all without the need for high-performance cloud processing.
This is a unique opportunity to gain firsthand insights into the practical implementation and potential of cloud-edge IoT platforms in revolutionizing urban mobility and beyond. The SIS is organised by Eusebiu Catana (ERTICO – ITS Europe), and moderated by Ignacio Lacalle (Universitat Politècnica de València, the Project Coordinator of O-CEI).
ERTICO – ITS Europe is a public-private partnership organisation with close to 120 members, connecting 8 sectors across the broader ecosystem in Intelligent Transport Systems and Smart Mobility. They include service providers, suppliers, the traffic and transport industry, research institutions and universities, public authorities, user organisations, the connectivity industry as well as vehicle manufacturers.

6G FORGE
2025-04-15 - 2025-04-16 | EURECOM premises, Sophia-Antipolis, France
The 6G FORGE event took place at EURECOM in Sophia-Antipolis on April 15-16, 2025, gathering network industry leaders to assess whether 6G development aligns with the requirements of the telecommunications sector and offers value beyond cost reduction. The event emphasized practical, business-oriented viewpoints in response to prevailing industry skepticism.
In this event, Lucia Cabanillas from Telefonica Innovacion Digital (TID), highlighted recent advancements in data management, including data fabric and data governance, and discussed their impact on the dynamically evolving 6G landscape. These are some of the fundamental paradigms that the TID team is exploring in the O-CEI Horizon project to deliver an interoperable, trusted data exchange across application domains within the O-CEI Open Platform.
Event website: https://telcoforge.com/6g-forge/

Trialog at the Security and Privacy for Digital Twin and Metaverse Workshop
2025-04-11
On April 11th, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) hosted a workshop in Geneva on “Security and Privacy for Digital Twin and Metaverse”, gathering experts from across the globe to explore the foundational challenges of these emerging digital ecosystems. Among the invited speakers was Antonio Kung from Trialog, a partner in the Horizon Europe project O-CEI, who brought forward critical insights on the intersection of architecture, governance, and trust.
In his presentation, Mr. Kung addressed two of the most pressing challenges facing digital twins and the metaverse: ecosystem integration and governance.
He presented the application of the Hourglass Model, designed in CEI-Sphere and O-CEI, to the description of the Metaverse Ecosystem and emphasized the necessity to be able to reuse common components to improve interoperability.
Mr. Kung also demonstrated how the Hourglass Model can be applied to define architecture patterns that embed security and privacy into the core of future Metaverse domain profiles.
This contribution highlights O-CEI’s commitment to shaping the future of trusted, interoperable digital infrastructures for industrial cloud-edge-IoT systems and the broader digital environments of tomorrow.

NEC at the LLMs to support the Semantic Interoperability Workshop
2025-04-10
NEC, a key partner in the Horizon Europe O-CEI project, actively participated in the joint BDVA and SEMIC workshop dedicated to exploring the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in enhancing semantic interoperability. The workshop brought together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss state-of-the-art techniques, tools, and use cases where LLMs support data model alignment, semantic enrichment, and cross-domain interoperability.
Representing O-CEI, NEC delivered a presentation titled “Semantic Interoperability with FIWARE and LLM,” demonstrating how LLMs can support more efficient and accessible semantic data exchange. Key takeaways from the presentation:

With careful prompt engineering, today’s LLMs are capable of processing data with formal semantics.
LLM can help with tedious translation and interpretation work.
This technology lowers the entry barrier for adopting semantically interoperable solutions across domains.

The event also fostered knowledge sharing and collaboration among key actors and communities, laying the groundwork for a dedicated group focused on advancing LLM-driven semantic interoperability.

EU-JAPAN DIGITAL WEEK 2025
2025-04-04 09:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Tokyo)
Europe and Japan are advancing trusted data exchange through Data Spaces and Data Free Flow with Trust, respectively. Europe is establishing industry-wide Data Spaces in several key sectors (like Health, Mobility, and Energy), while Japan focuses on enabling secure data sharing across entities.
O-CEI adopts Data Space technology as a foundation for its Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum, referencing initiatives like Gaia-X, IDSA, and implementations such as SIMPL and EDC.
On April 4th, during the “Towards Interoperable Data Spaces – Practical Considerations” workshop, Martin Bauer (NEC Laboratories) will present a case study on the Experience of implementing an EU-Japan cross-data space.
Due to the need for technology sovereignty of the countries and regions, EU and Japan have developed their own protocol stacks for creating data spaces. Given the strongly connected economies, the need for connecting different data spaces across borders has become obvious. This project is probably one of the first experiments that is connecting a Japanese data space with a European Data Space using a technology concept nowadays called Data Space Intermediaries. The guiding use case is carbon accounting along the supply chain of a product assembled from parts in Japan and the EU. The talk will report on the technical approach taken and will also highlight fundamental problems in data space concepts and related standards that prevent a 100% legally compliant connection of the two data spaces.

Trialog at OMEGA-X standardization workshop
2025-04-04 09:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Paris)
The future of Energy Data Spaces is being shaped through collaboration, interoperability, and standardized approaches. As part of these efforts, the Trialog, our partner in O-CEI Horizon, actively participated in the OMEGA-X Standardization Workshop, a key event focused on strengthening connections with standardization committees working on Data Spaces and Smart Grids.
The workshop provided a platform to:

Review the current state of standardization activities
Identify key priorities and challenges in interoperability
Discuss opportunities for meaningful contributions to Standard Development Organizations (SDOs).

Drawing insights from OMEGA-X and related projects, the session explored the implementation of Data Spaces within the energy sector and findings from the task force on energy interoperability frameworks. A special focus was placed on addressing vertical and horizontal interoperability challenges, ensuring the development of actionable recommendations for standardization bodies.

Trialog’s Contribution: The Hourglass Model & Data Spaces Ecosystem
Antonio Kung (Trialog) played a pivotal role in these discussions by presenting the Hourglass model and the standards ecosystem in Data Spaces and Privacy. His presentation highlighted:

The relationship between information models, architecture patterns, and interoperability profiles
How minimum interoperability mechanisms facilitate seamless data exchange
The importance of open-source implementations in driving adoption

By aligning O-CEI’s vision with ongoing standardization efforts, these contributions are essential to ensuring that Data Spaces for the energy sector are both scalable and secure while maintaining compliance with evolving regulatory frameworks.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue working towards a more connected and interoperable future!

EU-JAPAN DIGITAL WEEK 2025
2025-04-02 14:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Tokyo)
On April 2nd, during the “Trusted Data Exchanges: From Standards to Pilots in a Changing World” workshop, Martin Bauer (NEC Laboratories) will present the topic: “Introducing the role of NGSI-LD in enabling flexible and interoperable data exchanges across domains including handling of provenance information.”
NGSI-LD standard (ETSI GS CIM 009) is one of the most widely adopted implementations for Minimum-Interoperability-Mechanisms (MIMs). A key goal of the O-CEI project is to ensure seamless interoperability between diverse systems, which we can achieve through the adoption of MIMs. The NGSI-LD standard facilitates the structured exchange of context information across distributed environments, promoting compatibility among various applications and platforms. By enabling efficient data sharing, NGSI-LD plays a vital role in supporting smart cities, IoT networks, and other sectors that rely on dynamic context information management.
NEC’s presentation will be done during the “Trusted Data Exchanges: From Standards to Pilots in a Changing World” workshop, which will look at the practical implementation of trusted data exchanges in support of the Memorandum of Cooperation on digital identities and trust services signed between the EU and Japan.

UPV lecture to TU Dresden
2025-04-02
On April 2nd, 2025, Dr. Ignacio Lacalle (UPV) addressed a group of professors and PhD students fromthe Construction Informatics faculty at TU Dresden to elaborate on O-CEI innovations.The session, “Cloud-Edge Technology and Its Impact on Symbiotic Buildings”, consisted of a pitchfocusing on how edge computing technologies are (and will be) a key enabler in achieving energy-positive buildings. The advanced features endorsed by O-CEI (such as networking heterogeneity,edge AI, cybersecurity, and more) are set to play a crucial role in forecasting energy consumption anddemand in increasingly complex buildings. This allows for dynamic load adjustments, networkrefeeding, and citizen participation in P2P energy trading schemes.
The event, held in a hybrid format, included a Q&A session, where relevant inquiries emerged,mostly centered on O-CEI’s capacity to drive innovations in the construction sector. Topics includedworkplace object detection, energy consumption forecasting, and decisions on microservicesplacement between cloud and edge computing locations.

2nd International Workshop on MetaOS for the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum (MECC 2025)
2025-03-30 - 2025-04-03
On March 31st 2025, Mr. Rafael Vaño, from Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) will participate in the MECC Workshop, co-organised with the ACM EuroSys conference.

Mr. Vañó will present the results of a scientific work focused on the advances of edge and cloud-native innovative technologies and concepts. The article presented, titled “Federation of domains in the distributed environment of the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum” includes reflections and applicability in engaging sectors such as those covered in O-CEI. An additional connection with the O-CEI platform will be presented.

The MECC workshop aims to provide a comprehensive look at the opportunities and challenges of deploying a MetaOS to orchestrate the Cloud-Edge-IoT ecosystem, with a strong focus on optimizing AI workloads. Through technical talks, interactive sessions, and panel discussions, key topics such as interoperability, standardization, and open-source contributions will be explored.

Attendees will engage in discussions, share research insights, and collaborate on innovative solutions to push the boundaries of MetaOS development.
