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!
SWAMI stands for Safeguards
in a World of Ambient Intelligence. It is an FP6 funded IST project
which has as its main objective to identify the social, legal,
organizational and ethical implications related to issues such as
privacy, anonymity, security and identity in the context of AmI. This
has been achieved through the elaboration of 'dark scenarios' as a
centre piece of the SWAMI project methodology. These are realistic
future scenarios which highlight threats and vulnerabilities which are
subsequently analyzed so as to extract useful options aimed at
overcoming the identified possible risks.
The
objective of many scenario exercises and foresight studies is to present
images of desirable futures and sometimes to determine the necessary
steps to realize such futures. Consequently, they have an inherent bias
towards presenting only optimistic visions of the future. The SWAMI
scenarios are different because they present certain visions of the
future that we in principle, do not want to become realities. SWAMI has
labeled them "dark" scenarios. They depict a realistic future
that could emerge from the application of new AmI technologies but focus
on the likely adverse effects which often are overlooked by technology
developers and policymakers. The first objective of the dark scenario
exercise thus consisted of the identification of potential threats and
vulnerabilities that need to be mitigated if AmI is to become a future
success story.
The SWAMI dark scenarios have been developed in ways
similar to other mainstream scenario exercises. The major difference is,
that SWAMI focuses on dark situations, i.e., situations that enable us
to highlight vulnerabilities and threats related to AmI; and those
safeguards to mitigate the dark situations are considered.
Relevance to HYDRA:
One of main potential
contributions of SWAMI project to HYDRA is design of dark scenarios that
enable to identify much useful security, but also technological
requirements that should be focused and took into account in the
middleware and SOA development phase of HYDRA project.
Dark
Scenario 1 is most related to HYDRA project, while it refers about AmI
threats in smart homes. It introduces dark situations in the smart home,
at work and while taking a lunch break in a park - presents AmI
vulnerabilities in the life of a typical family moving through different
environments.
The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
