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project info
Start date: 1 February 2017
End date: 29 October 2021
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 2 292 658,95 €
EU contribution: 2 292 658,95 € (100%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Nemzetgazdasági Minisztérium Gazdaságfejlesztési Programokért Felelős Helyettes Államtitkárság

Internet of Living Things

A) In the area of cross-cutting ICT, IoT (Internet of Things) is one of the most dynamically developing sectors, with numerous international conferences organised around IoT research (e.g. IEEE WF-IOT, ACM IPSN, IoT 360) and H2020 R & D programmes. For the development of IoT, leading companies (e.g. Intel, Samsung, Microsoft, Cisco) have established the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) to enhance previous standardisation collaborations. This organisation is open to cooperation with university partners. The main objective of the OCF is to support the creation of uniform standards in the field of IoT and to develop an open source reference software (IoTivity) for the implementation of standards. In the development environment of IoT applications, JavaScript has become a key language because it helps create platform-independent applications and, on the other hand, it is possible to create systems that solve complex problems without deep programmer knowledge. One of the biggest technological and R & D challenges in IoT is the need to ensure the efficient running of JavaScript programs on very low-capacity devices. The employees of the Department of Software Development of SZTE have been carrying out R & D activities in this field for years under the direction of the professional leader of the tender in cooperation with Samsung. An open source software (JerryScript) has been developed to run JavaScript programs on IoT devices with very small resources (128 KB RAM). The developers of the IoTivity OCF reference system have announced that JerryScript will be integrated into the IoTivity platform, so SZTE can participate actively in the international standardisation process of IoT. One of the most important applications of IoT is the development of intelligent sensor systems that collect data about living organisms, which can be called IoLT (Internet of Living Things) because of its special nature. Based on our previous R & D results, the project will create a platform to help develop IoLT applications. The platform supports high-level programming of very low-resource sensors to ensure adaptive data collection and processing. The IoLT area requires maximum monitoring of data and software security, so related research plays a prominent role in the project. We develop distributed data processing algorithms that pay particular attention to data security. To improve software security, we develop methods and software tools for static and dynamic analysis of JavaScript programs. In the project we demonstrate the use of the IoLT platform with real plant biology, psychiatric and automated smart laboratory applications. The platform will be open-source, so it can attract a wide range of interest and have a good chance of playing a significant role in international IoLT R & D projects. Our goal is to involve the resulting IoLT platform in the OCF standardisation process and thus create a sustainable IoLT centre of excellence in Szeged. Three milestones (M1, M2, M3) are planned for the project. The first and second phases of the project will last 1.5 years and the third 1 year. Information flows between core technology task groups are carried out from the outset, and the results of each other are used. Applied research is characterised by the first implementation of an experimental phase extended with IoLT technology. This is followed by data collection, then evaluation and conclusions. The applications use algorithms developed in basic technology task groups, and solving problems encountered during the process involves new research tasks for core technology task groups. During the 4-year project, an average of 0.5 professional leaders, 1,125 senior researchers, 7.83 researchers, 5.4 PhD students, 7.1 students and 0.5 technicians will be employed in the FTE, and the SZBK will employ 0.85 senior researchers, 5.6 researchers, 3 young researchers and 0.25 assistants. With regard to the scientific conferences, we counted 40 roads on the part of the SZTE (10.2 mFt) and on the side of the SZBK we calculated 8 roads per year, with a total cost of 13.6 mt. B) The project consists of 3 research task groups, in which the subtasks included are assigned to 3 milestones. During the 4-year implementation, the first and second milestones are 1.5 years, the third one is 1 year. Until the first milestone, we will acquire the planned IoLT equipment. The largest part of the costs is the cost of staff involved in the technical implementation (salaries and conference trips). We do not use services. We will have relatively small investment-related costs (assets and material costs). The reasons for this can be found in the cost plan, where we present the necessary man-month expenses and HUF costs per task. The average FTE expenses of the project are also given per employee category. We also planned to purchase material costs in the project amounting to HUF 31.2 mt.

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