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.
Why not see the on-line Hydrademo? You can turn on and off devices and follow the energy consumption in real time. Just click on the picture and you see it!
The high level objective of
the ANDRES project is to improve the competitiveness of innovative
European industries, such as the telecommunication and automotive, by
reducing the design time and cost of highly integrated embedded systems.
These systems are heterogeneous in nature and include up to four
different domains: software, analogue hardware, static hardware, and
dynamically re-configurable hardware, the latter gaining importance
because of its new attractive combination of flexibility and efficiency.
Currently
no methodology exists allowing to seamlessly build; that is, to model,
synthesize and verify such systems, because each domain comes with its
own computational models, languages and design tools. This prevents
early system verification and postpones error detection to the system
integration phase causing long, costly and most importantly
time-consuming design reiterations. ANDRES will develop solutions to
overcome this incompatibility in component design by developing an
integrated design approach for heterogeneous embedded systems. This
approach builds on the open-source modelling language SystemC already
adopted by many European companies. Next ANDRES will close the gaps in
the design flow by developing a tool for dynamically re-configurable
hardware components.
Relevance to HYDRA:
The prime result of ANDRES is a seamless design
flow, which provides the possibility of designing embedded
hardware/software systems on a higher level of abstraction emphasising
in particular the application of run-time re-configurable architectures.
The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
