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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MORE is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP)
that is going to implement new technology to facilitate communication and
distributed intelligence across groups of users using different wireless
standards. The project addresses the problem of how the interaction
between humans and embedded systems can be efficiently supported by
developing a system that can be tailored to the specific needs
of diverse organizations.
The EMMA project aims at using new embedded
middleware to support the underlying logic and communications required for
future cooperating wireless objects. The project is committed to deliver a
middleware platform and a development environment which facilitates the
design and implementation of embedded software for cooperative sensing
objects.The ultimate aim that the project will focus on delivering is to
hide the complexity of the underlying infrastructure whilst providing open
interfaces to third parties enabling the faster, cost-efficient
development of new cooperative sensing applications.
The project explores the possibility to develop a
novel technology for Wireless Sensor Networks, which has significant
potentials for overcoming conventional technologies in terms of cost, size
and power consumption. The key idea of WINSOC is the development of a
totally innovative design methodology, imitating biologically systems,
where the high accuracy and reliability of the whole sensor network is
achieved through a proper interaction among nearby, low cost, sensors.
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.
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.
The main objective of the project is to develop the
enabling technology and infrastructure required to effectively use the
most advanced techniques developed for real-time applications with
flexible scheduling requirements, in embedded systems design methodologies
and tools, providing the necessary elements to target re-configurable
processing modules and re-configurable distributed architectures.
The SENSE project will develop methods, tools and a
test platform for the design, implementation and operation of smart
adaptive wireless networks of embedded sensing components. The network is
an ambient intelligent system, which adapts to its environment, creates
ad-hoc networks of heterogeneous components, and delivers reliable
information to its component sensors and the user. The sensors cooperate
to build and maintain a coherent global view from local information. Newly
added nodes automatically calibrate themselves to the environment, and
share knowledge with neighbours. The network is scalable due to local
information processing and sharing, and self-organizes based on the
physical placement of nodes.
The goal of the SOCRADES project is to create new
methodologies, technologies and tools for the modelling, design,
implementation and operation of networked hardware/software systems
embedded in smart physical objects. The smart embedded system is to be
applied in perception and control systems in intelligent environments, in
which enhanced system intelligence is achieved by cooperation of smart
embedded devices pursuing common goals. These devices with embedded
intelligence and sensing/actuating capabilities are expected to be
heterogeneous yet they need to interact seamlessly and intensively over a
network (wired/wireless).
In this project, a
middleware named COGMA for mobile appliances was developed. It enables the
easy development of cooperative applications among various kinds of
appliances in mobile environment.
DECOS is an integrative
project that will develop the basic enabling technology to move from a
federated distributed architecture to an integrated distributed
architecture in order to reduce development, production and maintenance
cost and increase the dependability of embedded applications in many
application domains. DECOS plans to develop technology invariant software
interfaces and encapsulated virtual networks with predictable temporal
properties such that application software can be transferred to a new
hardware and communication base with minimal effort (legacy re-use).
WiSeNts intends to explore the actual needs of manufacturers and appliers
of this technology as well as the ensuing, most challenging research
issues; to identify road blockers for progress; to present a roadmap how
these road blockers can be removed; and to foster teaching and education
to form a basis for future research.
The GOLLUM project aims at
studying and creating key parts of an embedded, open, operating system
independent link-layer API to unify the various methods for accessing
different wired and especially wireless links. The aim is to remedy the
current, very difficult situation where a separate programming interface
exists for almost every wireless technology.
The aim of the NeCST
(Networked Control System Tolerant to faults) is to explore research
opportunities in the direction of distributed control system in order to
enhance the performances of diagnostics and fault tolerant control
systems. This will lead to improving the intensive use of NeCS
technologies for the reactivity, autonomy and monitoring of large scale
systems.
The ICODES project will
produce research results and prototypes of Electronic System Design
Automation tools, which will enable the European electronic system
industry to reduce their design time and cost of the next generation of
embedded intelligent devices. These devices will enable new powerful
services as well as innovative products. In particular ICODES main target
is to provide a design technology for embedded systems containing many and
heterogeneous communicating components in hardware and software.
HiPEAC addresses the design
and implementation of high-performance commodity computing devices in the
10+ year horizon, covering both the processor design, the optimising
compiler infrastructure, and the evaluation of upcoming applications made
possible by the increased computing power of future devices. The
objectives of HiPEAC are to ensure the visibility of European institutions
in the high performance embedded marked, and to promote the integration of
research efforts in a common direction. HiPEAC will also provide the means
for easy collaboration among members, and rapid dissemination of knowledge
among the community, as well as strengthening the relationships between
academia and European industry.
The objective of the NoE
HYCON is establishing a durable community of leading researchers and
practitioners who develop and apply the hybrid systems approach to the
design of networked embedded control systems as found, e.g., in industrial
production, transportation systems, generation and distribution of energy,
communication systems. HYCON aims at a major advancement of the
methodology for the design of such systems and their application in power
management, industrial controls, automotive control and communication
networks.
The objective of the ENACTIVE Network of Excellence is to join excellent
researchers to define and develop reliable solutions for enactive
interaction and overcome the two main bottlenecks of present Interface
Technologies:
The
need of increasing of artificial systems reactivity to reach the same
level of human action-perception abilities in complex tasks;
The link of physical
sensory-motor events (enactive experiences) with the symbolic
information and knowledge technologies.
SIMILAR will create an
integrated task force on multimodal interfaces that respond efficiently to
speech, gestures, vision, haptics and direct brain connections by merging
into a single research group excellent European laboratories in
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Signal Processing.
The Mission of AIM@SHAPE is
to foster the development of new methodologies for modelling and
processing the knowledge related to digital shapes. The goal of AIM@SHAPE
is to integrate research on digital shapes modelling and processing with
Knowledge Technologies and Semantic Web tools.
This Integrated Project
addresses a wide range of critical multi-disciplinary activities and
applications, including: multimodal input interfaces (primarily speech and
visual input); integration of modalities and coordination among
modalities, e.g. (asynchronous) multi-channel processing; meeting dynamics
and human-human interaction modelling; content abstraction, including
multimodal information indexing, summarising, and retrieval; technology
transfer; and training activities, including an international exchange
programme.
The objective of this
project is to explore and create environments in which computers serve
humans who focus on interacting with other humans as opposed to having to
attend to and being preoccupied by the machines themselves.
The
project SIMS will provide tools for design and validation of service
components with semantic interfaces. SIMS will provide middleware that
enables discovery and validation of service opportunities between peers in
ad-hoc interactions. The middleware will support efficient deployment of
service components through runtime composition of applications from service
components.
The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
