Hydra is affilliated with the following programs and organisations:
The Hydra coordinater FhG FIT is a member of ARTEMISIA, the association for R&D actors in the field of ARTEMIS: Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems.
The Hydra middleware allows developers to create inclusive applications with a high degree of accessibility for all. The Hydra project supports the Commissions campaign: eInclusion - be part of it!
The Hydra project is part of the Cluster of European projects on the Internet of Things. The Cluster aims to promote a common vision of the Internet of Things.
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The main objective of this
project is to develop methods and tools for building heterogeneous
systems in which Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and traditional
communication networks cooperate to monitor and improve the quality of
life in common habitats, e.g., home, car and city environment. In
particular the maintenance of the personal health potentiality will be
addressed.
In the
analysed scenario, users communicate with WSN's through a dedicated node
called gateway. This node is responsible for injecting queries into the
network, gathering responses and presenting them to users. The gateway
communicates with the WSN through short-range wireless links, and it
interacts with the user directly or remotely through traditional
communication networks both wire-line and mobile.
Relevance to HYDRA:
The project considers the mobile handset as the ad
hoc gateway. The usage of a co-simulation tool, based on NS-2, SystemC
and ISS, guarantees the optimised interaction between the ad hoc network
and the mobile infrastructure. Moreover thanks to this co-simulation
environment a fine-tuning of the protocol stack and algorithms, to
obtain efficient synergy and design optimisation. The project addresses
the security issues in terms of encryption algorithms and protocols to
define a trusted architecture.
The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
