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!
Embedded Peer-to-Peer
Systems (EP2P) represents a new challenge in the development of software
for distributed systems. These systems have brought about an important
revolution in distributed computing paradigms, now that the roles of
client and server, which are the basis of the most widely used
distributed computation models, are disappearing. The new scenario
consists of systems in which all the elements of the network are
symmetrical and in most cases, the mechanisms of communication are not
based on pre-existing infrastructures, but rather on dynamic ad-hoc
networks among peers. At the same time, the recent technological
advances in short distance wireless communications have opened up new
areas of application, which represent an important technological
challenge. In addition, these systems are extremely vulnerable against
any type of internal or external attacks, due to resource constraints,
lack of tamper-resistant packaging, and the nature of open and public
communication channels.
One of
the keys in the success of these systems is the possibility to abstract
all these problems by means of convenient middleware. This middleware
should hide the complexity of the underlying infrastructure while
providing open interfaces to third parties for application development.
The development of such a middleware is challenging, since besides the
disappearance of the roles of client and server, other critical
requirements appear, which have to be supported by these infrastructures
(mobility, new security problems, discovery and localization protocols,
new quality of software criteria, etc). The main objective of this
project is to develop a new secure andgeneric middleware, based on a new network centric
abstract model for EP2P systems. Its suitability will be demonstrated by
the development of two real-life applications in the domains of
Environmental Monitoring in Industrial Plants and Mobile Telephony.
Relevance to HYDRA:
The main objective of this project is to develop a
new secure and generic middleware, based on a new network centric
abstract model for EP2P systems. Important part of the project with the
remarkable relevance to the HYDRA project is its ability to provide open
interfaces of middleware, especially in case of security, trust and
quality-based aspects.
The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
