Open Call: IoT2Cloud Operating System (ICOS) Project

ICOS is a project funded by the European Commission covering a set of challenges emerging from the continuum paradigm. A continuum, today also referred to as Cloud Continuum, IoT Continuum, Edge-to-Cloud or Fog-to-Cloud, is expected to provide the means for data processing both in the edge and cloud, while inferring and persisting important information for post-mortem and offline analysis. The ICOS project will embed a well-defined set of functionalities, ending up in the definition of an IoT2Cloud Operating System (ICOS).

Objectives

• The main objective of the project ICOS is to design, develop and validate a meta-operating system for a continuum, by addressing the challenges of:
  • devices volatility and heterogeneity, continuum infrastructure virtualization and diverse network connectivity;
  • optimised and scalable service execution and performance, as well as resources consumptions, including power consumption;
  • guaranteed trust, security and privacy, and;
  • reduction of integration costs and effective mitigation of cloud provider lock-in effects, in a data-driven system built upon the principles of openness, adaptability, data sharing and a future edge market scenario for services and data.

What they offer?

• The selected projects will receive:
  • 6 month support from ICOS partners to integrate their solution into the ICOS system
  • up to 60,000 € per project.

What they are looking for?

• In order to achieve its goals, the ICOS project is looking for:
  • ICOS uptake projects (2nd Open Call): technology providers (SME/midcap) developing services/ products in the sectors of the ICOS PILOT use cases and the use cases proposed by the projects from the 1st Open Call. The 2nd Open Call winners must address the uptake of ICOS platform. The services/products must be onboarded to the ICOS system and should address the possibility to test the ICOS functionalities and performance allowing the ICOS team to improve the ICOS final product.
  • The ICOS use cases play an important role in the project: they will provide functional and non-functional requirements for the ICOS System and they will be early adopters of the system providing essential feedback on how to improve it. At the same time, the adoption of ICOS will enhance the use cases with unique application deployment and runtime management features implemented by ICOS.

Eligible Activities

• The activities that qualify for financial support have to fall within the scope of the ICOS project, which means that applicants, acting as technology providers, must address the uptake of ICOS platform in different sectors.
• Activities will range from general applications to specific services that could be applied in one of the 9 pre-defined sectors (mentioned below). Those applications must be onboarded to the ICOS system and should address the possibility to test the ICOS functionalities and performance allowing the ICOS team to improve the ICOS final product.
• Applicant must address one of the following sectors:
  • agriculture robotics;
  • railway monitoring;
  • automotive multimedia management;
  • energy management at domestic uses;
  • structural health monitoring;
  • smart cities;
  • energy management – smart grids;
  • climate and space weather;
  • occupational safety.

Who can apply?

• An individual entity (SME or Midcap) registered as a legal entity before the 30th of Sept 2024 in one of the following countries:
  • The Member States of the European Union and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or
  • Horizon Europe Associated Country.

For more information, visit European Commission.