The new Hydra brochure explains how the Hydra middleware allows developers to create AmI services and systems through a Service Oriented (SoA) and Model Driven Architecture approach. The Hydra middleware hides device dependent and network-dependent details and provides comprehensive open interfaces to the display, communication port, input facilities and memory management of each class of device.

A major novelty in the Hydra approach is that the middleware provides support for using devices as services both by embedding services in devices and by proxy services for devices.

Security goals such as confidentiality, authenticity, and nonrepudiation are addressed by a particularly trustworthy design and implementation of web servicebased mechanisms, enriched by ontologies and semantic resolution techniques. The concept behind the Hydra security metamodel is ”semantic resolution of security” focussing on moving security from being identity-based into a semantic, credentials based framework.

You can download the brochure here.