Several transportation agents belonging to various sectors, such as maritime hubs, or logistic companies, are facing similar challenges with regards to data processing and services execution. Whilst they rely on machinery to perform their business operations (e.g., load/download, delivery, carrier...), and though they sometimes equip some intelligent computation elements, they are usually managed by PLCs that are execute a particular logic and generate limited outputs. On another note, such companies are currently leveraging certain Big Data, AI/ML, and IoT techniques, but mostly based on remote servers and/or cloud technologies. These cases are illustrative in sectors such as EV charging or Software-Defined-Vehicle as well as for any autonomous driving scenarios. Thus, there is a gap between the place where the data is most precise, and where the intelligence is exploited to generate game-changing estimations and predictions. Some of the reasons posed in the past for such gap was latency -for observation/actuation in real time- and the lack of technology to orchestrate and handle distributed services in an effective way over a heterogeneous set of computation assets. These constrains have hijacked operators' capacity to improve efficiency. With aerOS Meta Operating System and its transfer to larger scale pilots in O-CEI project, these barriers are overcome, allowing the operator to take better decisions by improving the availability of the information and the way it is presented and exploited by the staff. This is due to the deployment and orchestration capacities provided by these projects, and their capacity to choreograph smart services in the edge, allowing companies to react faster without the need of a high-performance processing in the cloud.

Organiser:

• Eusebiu Catana, ERTICO - ITS Europe     

Moderator: 

• Ignacio Lacalle, Universitat Politècnica de València    

Speakers:

• Mihail Gaianu, Continental Corporation     
• Eduardo Garro Crevillén, Prodevelop S.L.     
• Michalis Michaelides, Cyprus University of Technology     
• Georgios Spanos, Information Technologies Institute, Centre