Grenoble, France, Oct. 26, 2018: Leti, a research institute at CEA-Tech, today announced that its sensiNact Internet of Things (IoT) middleware will be the core of a platform under development in an EU-Korean project. The latter is expected to empower emerging artificial intelligence (AI) applications at edge of networks with on-demand computing.
Decentralisation from the Cloud to the edge is one of the key challenges of AI technologies applied to large heterogeneous systems.
Leti said in a press release that the joint project called DECENTER, will integrate a broad spectrum of technologies such as the IoT, AI, the Cloud, edge, fog computing and smart contracts tied together with a secure blockchain. It will focus on developing a platform that facilitates the creation of a new ecosystem in which computing and IoT resources (processing, memory, storage, connectivity, sensing, actuating, etc.) can be harmoniously orchestrated in dynamically created multi-cloud, federated environments.
The ultimate goal is advanced Cloud platforms that empower emerging AI applications at the edge of infrastructure with on-demand computing.
CEA-Leti’s IoT middleware, sensiNact, which will be the core of the project’s fog platform, has been in development and trials since 2010, said Leti. It is a unified framework for integrating and managing IoT devices via generic application programming interfaces (APIs). It collects, aggregates and securely scripts data from a wide range of communicating objects, regardless of the network communication protocol. As a key component of the DECENTER platform, it will provide distributed sensing and actuation resources that will be shared and used by the blockchain-based resource orchestrator to ensure the accounting and the integrity of the transactions by smart contracts.
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