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D6.4 Final update to the dissemination, communication and standardization activities 21/07/2021
D6.4 Final update to the dissemination,
communication and standardization activities
Revision history
Administration and summary
Project acronym: DECENTER
Document identifier: D6.4: Final update to the dissemination, communication and
standardization activities
Leading partner: UL
Report version: 1.0
Report preparation date: 21.07.2021
Classification: PU
Nature: Report
Author(s) and Janez Brežnik (UL), Seungwoo Kum (KETI), Seok Hee Lee
contributors: (SNU), Adrian Arroyo (ATOS), Bertrand Copigneaux (KENT)
All partners
Status: - Plan
- Draft
X Final
The DECENTER Consortium has addressed all comments received, making changes as
necessary. Changes to this document are detailed in the change log table below.
Date Edited by Status Changes made
16.12.2020 Janez Brežnik Plan Final plan of the dissemination activities
1.3.2021 Janez Brežnik Draft Document structure and initial inputs
5.5.2021 Janez Brežnik Draft Update from all project partners
30.5.2021 Janez Brežnik Draft Update
7.6.2021 Janez Brežnik Final Deliverable ready for internal review
10.6.2021 Bertrand Copigneaux Final Content contribution
14.6.2021 Seungwoo Kum Final Update
15.6.2021 Adrian Arroyo Final Content contribution
16.7.2021 Seok Hee Lee Final Internal review
20.7.2021 Domenico Siracusa Final Internal review
21.7.2021 Janez Brežnik Final Final version
Notice that other documents may supersede this document. A list of latest public DECENTER
deliverables can be found at the DECENTER Web page at https://www.decenter-project.eu/.
*Dissemination Level
PU Public
CI Classified, information as referred to in Commission Decision 2001/844/EC.
CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission
Services)
**Type
R Document, report (excluding the periodic and final reports)
DEM Demonstrator, pilot, prototype, plan designs
DEC Websites, patents filing, press & media actions, videos, etc.
OTHER Software, technical diagram, etc.
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Copyright
This report is © DECENTER Consortium 2020. Its duplication is restricted to the personal use
within the Consortium, funding agency and project reviewers.
Acknowledgements
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement no. 815141
(DECENTER: Decentralised technologies for orchestrated Cloud-to-Edge
intelligence).
The DECENTER project is co-funded under the agreement for scientific and
technological cooperation between the European Union and the Republic of
Korea.
The partners in the project are FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER (FBK), ATOS (ATOS),
COMMISSARIAT À L’ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (CEA),
KENTYOU (KENT), COMUNE DI TRENTO (TN), ROBOTNIK (ROB), UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI
(UL), KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (KETI), GLUESYS (GLSYS),
DALIWORKS (DW), LG U+ (LGUP) and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (SNU).
The content of this document is the result of extensive discussions within the DECENTER ©
Consortium as a whole.
More information
Public DECENTER reports and other information pertaining to the project are available through
DECENTER public Website under https://www.decenter-project.eu.
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Contents
Revision history...........................................................................................................................1
Copyright ....................................................................................................................................2
Acknowledgements .....................................................................................................................2
More information .........................................................................................................................2
Contents .....................................................................................................................................3
Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................6
1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................7
2 Overview of the DECENTER Project Dissemination and Communication ............................8
2.1 DECENTER Third Year Dissemination Activities ...........................................................8
2.1.1 News and press releases .....................................................................................9
2.1.2 Other media news and press releases ...............................................................12
2.1.3 Video news.........................................................................................................19
2.1.4 Project deliverables and scientific publications ...................................................20
2.1.5 Participation to and organisation of events, conferences and workshops ...........21
2.1.6 Organisation, presentation and participation at related events............................22
2.2 DECENTER Website ...................................................................................................35
2.2.1 Website updates (M14-M36) ..............................................................................35
2.2.2 Website statistics................................................................................................37
2.3 Social Media Updates and Statistics............................................................................40
2.3.1 Facebook ...........................................................................................................41
2.3.2 Twitter ................................................................................................................42
3 Standardization Activities ...................................................................................................43
4 Annex ................................................................................................................................45
4.1 Articles (Journals, conferences, newspaper) ...............................................................45
4.1.1 Journals .............................................................................................................45
4.1.2 Conferences .......................................................................................................46
4.1.3 Newspapers .......................................................................................................47
4.1.4 Dissemination towards the wider public and distribution of promotional materials
48
4.1.5 Organisation and co-organisation of project related conferences, workshops and
other events that are used to increase the visibility of the DECENTER project ..................50
4.1.6 Other dissemination activities, such as bilateral project discussion, presentation at
bilateral event ....................................................................................................................53
4.1.7 Collaborations with other projects, clusters and initiatives ..................................54
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List of Figures
Figure 1. Collection of newsletters on the DECENTER webpage. ............................................ 10
Figure 2. Samples of Facebook posts. ..................................................................................... 11
Figure 3: Samples of Twitter posts. .......................................................................................... 11
Figure 4 Preview of TN press release on INGENIO-WEB.IT .................................................... 12
Figure 5. Company Bulletin news; ATOS, April 2021 ............................................................... 13
Figure 6. INTEREMPRESAS portal; April 2021 - Article about the project (ROB) ..................... 14
Figure 7. Company Bulletin, April 2021 (GLSYS). .................................................................... 15
Figure 8. Screenshot of DECENTER related news in ETNews. ............................................... 16
Figure 9. Preview of the article about DECENTER in EU Research Summer 2021 journal. ..... 17
Figure 10. Preview of article in HiPEAC info magazine. ........................................................... 17
Figure 11. Screenshots of a general public video. .................................................................... 18
Figure 12. Screenshot of KETI institute's official YouTube channel, Jan 2021. ........................ 19
Figure 13. Preview of links to collections of repositories. .......................................................... 20
Figure 14. Preview of the list of scientific papers at conferences. ............................................. 21
Figure 15. Preview of scientific papers in journals. ................................................................... 21
Figure 16. Flyer of GECON 2020 conference. .......................................................................... 22
Figure 17. Global Smart City Trends 2020 flyer........................................................................ 23
Figure 18. UTA virtual conference environment. ...................................................................... 23
Figure 19. DECENTER Booth at Global Smart City Trends 2020. ............................................ 24
Figure 20. Screenshot of the presentation video. ..................................................................... 24
Figure 21. GECON 2021 flyer. ................................................................................................. 25
Figure 22. Webpage and flyer of KIBME Summer Conference 2020. ....................................... 26
Figure 23. Big data & AI per smart cities e mobilità sostenibile flyer. ........................................ 26
Figure 24. Smart city now Conference & Expo website screenshot. ......................................... 27
Figure 25. Korea-EU Joint R&D Conference flyer. ................................................................... 27
Figure 26. Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 flyer ............................................................................ 28
Figure 27. Creation and orchestration of cloud-native AI applications in edge environments panel
flyer. ......................................................................................................................................... 28
Figure 28. ICIN 2021 flyer. ....................................................................................................... 29
Figure 29. Best demo award at the 24th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and
Networks (ICIN 2021) for DECENTER paper “An Application of Kubernetes Cluster Federation in
Fog Computing”. ...................................................................................................................... 29
Figure 30. BECS 2021 flyer...................................................................................................... 30
Figure 31. AI-SPRINT flyer....................................................................................................... 30
Figure 32. Veneto Smart Region 2021 flyer. ............................................................................ 31
Figure 33. CES logo. ................................................................................................................ 31
Figure 34. Kentyou presentation preview on CES 2021. .......................................................... 32
Figure 35. ICT Verticals and Horizontals for Blockchain Standardisation roundtable flyer. ....... 32
Figure 36. Flyer of Blockchain tehnologija za cirkularnu ekonomiju event. ............................... 33
Figure 37. Innopolis 2021 flyer. ................................................................................................ 33
Figure 38. Smart City Expo world congress 2021 flyer. ............................................................ 34
Figure 39. Updated DECENTER home page with interactive Architecture scheme. ................. 35
Figure 40. Partial screenshot of webpage updated Use Cases section, showing a implementation
of demo video of Use Case 1. .................................................................................................. 36
Figure 41. Screenshot of the extended INNOVATON section with links to more detailed
presentation of assets. ............................................................................................................. 36
Figure 42. Preview the websites of individual assets. ............................................................... 37
Figure 43. DECENTER Website; statistics summary overview. ................................................ 38
Figure 44. DECENTER webpage; category posts sorted by hits. ............................................. 38
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Figure 45. DECENTER webpage; top 10 viewed pages. .......................................................... 39
Figure 46. DECENTER webpage; used browser. ..................................................................... 39
Figure 47. DECENTER webpage; used platform...................................................................... 40
Figure 48. DECENTER webpage; hits statistics chart. ............................................................. 40
Figure 49. DECENTER Facebook screenshot and sample of community response numbers. . 41
Figure 50. DECENTER Facebook boost example. ................................................................... 42
Figure 51. DECENTER Twitter page screenshot...................................................................... 42
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Executive Summary
This deliverable is the third and final update of the DECENTER dissemination and communication
plan, activities and accomplishments. The last two dissemination deliverables have been
documented as D6.2 and D6.3.
During the project lifetime the DECENTER consortium partners developed coherent
dissemination, communication and standardisation plans. Several target dissemination groups,
projects and initiatives were identified with the major goal of raising awareness about the
DECENTER project among those stakeholders. Our project website served as a key focal point
for news about all ongoing project developments. In the third year of the project, we were already
versatile with specific dissemination strategies suitable for the difficult situation of the Covid-19
pandemic: frequently using our Twitter and Facebook accounts, and publishing news on the
website regularly.
We co-organised and participated in a range of international online events including: Global Smart
City Trends 2020, GECON 2020 and some are also planned in the near future.
The third year of dissemination also includes many scientific and non-scientific papers,
contributions to standardization all of which are documented in the tables in the appendix.
In addition, following the comments from the previous project reviews, we have
- updated our web site to give clearer insights about the innovations being brought by the
DECENTER project in terms of architecture and used assets,
- updated a use cases section with demo videos of each use case.
The project partners are participating in standardization activities by both following the progress
of standardization that can impact the project adoption (ensuring that the project development is
in line with standards) and by identifying potential inputs to standards within ad hoc groups
ISO/IEC SC29 WG11, such as NNR, IoMT which are further elaborated in the deliverable.
The project results were also presented at the EC blockchain standards concertation activity on
2nd June 2021.
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1 Introduction
Deliverable D6.4 provides information about the project’s third year dissemination and
communication activities while also providing a good overall review of achievements. It provides
the current status of progress in terms of communication objectives, gives detailed information
about the third year dissemination activities, in particular in terms of scientific publications,
organised events, etc. The deliverable also provides information about the evolution of the
project’s web site and social media strategy and gives updates introduced in the third year.
Dissemination and communications activities were systematically followed and recorded in
dissemination tables and are presented in the Annex.
This deliverable marks the final point of reporting on our dissemination and communication
activity in addition to outlining our overall strategy in this area. It continues the strategy laid out in
D6.1 Visual identity and project website, MS15 – the Initial dissemination and communication
strategy (M6), D6.2 – First year update to the dissemination, communication and standardization
activities, MS 17 – First community event organised, D6.3 – Second year update to the
dissemination, communication and standardization activities; and describes the core elements of
efforts to disseminate the results of the DECENTER project.
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2 Overview of the DECENTER Project Dissemination and Communication
The DECENTER project has given and will continue to give special importance to communication
and dissemination activities in order to increase the impact that DECENTER can create through
the innovation created in the project. Ubiquitous communication with relevant stakeholders on
the progress and results of the DECENTER program enables the appropriate international
visibility of the DECENTER program and the further acceptance of its results by the relevant
community.
Dissemination (and exploitation) activities have greatly strengthened cooperation between the
EU and Korea in technology areas involving IoT, AI, cloud computing and Blockchain
technologies, and enabled further collaboration, in addition to results, beyond the life of the
project.
2.1 DECENTER Third Year Dissemination Activities
The DECENTER project followed the outlined dissemination and communication plan set out at
the beginning in deliverable D6.1 and the consortium members were fully committed to be active
in dissemination activities throughout the whole duration of the project. Derived and planned
dissemination activities make a significant contribution to the DECENTER project's visibility and
were constantly adapted to the current project activities.
The dissemination and communication activities in the first two years (see Deliverable D6.2 and
D6.3) had mainly focused on building the initial communication materials (web site, flyers, social
media, etc.), continue and to increase the participations in relevant events, publishing scientific
and non-scientific papers such as newsletters and blog posts, etc.
After our first two years’ experience and the project review feedback, the third year of DECENTER
focused mainly on the following points:
- Increase scientific publications, particularly joint EU-KR ones.
- Continue being active in international scientific and industrial events
- Update the project´s web page with more information about the DECENTER innovation,
architecture, assets and continuous updates about its achievements
- Use more actively the social media
- Be more active in standardisation groups to ensure the project results sustainability
- Identify the project assets, define DECENTER product better to identify target groups,
relevant stakeholders and competitors.
The actions taken in the third year give the DECENTER project impact beyond the project lifetime
and put in place a replication strategy of the services/results from the project towards similar use
cases involving external stakeholders in future R&D and business opportunities.
Zooming into the initial timeline planned for the third year dissemination activities, Table 1 gives
the timeline for the key dissemination materials that were prepared progressively and which were
distributed through traditional communication channels such as the project website and scientific
conferences as well as through social media and newspapers.
The list of third year dissemination materials includes: Press releases, Poster, Newsletters,
Dissemination video, Deliverables lot, Scientific paper lots, White papers and a Cookbook.
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Due to the still active pandemic (COVID-19), most activities were still online. Despite the
inevitable situation, we managed to realize more than the expected volume of scientific papers
and newsletters. The Table 1 below shows the original plan from the big agreement, which was
only slightly adjusted according to the health situation, and the vast majority of us managed to
meet the set goals.
Table 1. Timeline for key dissemination materials and third year plan.
Dissemination activities are documented by the consortium partners in dissemination tables (see
Annex). The dissemination tables are permanently accessible on a project online depository
(Google Drive), where the project partners can plan and document their individual and joint
dissemination activities.
2.1.1 News and press releases
Newsletters and Press releases about the project’s progress have been published in different
media. DECENTER consortium’s main channels are website and social media.
All consortium partners, on the other hand, used their established media channels in parallel or
disseminated news through relevant local or dissemination media, whether related business
entities, related research projects, educational institutions or professional media.
Website news and press releases
Newsletters are used as a motor to promote the project visibility, and to provide detailed
information about the work carried out and about the technical results of the project. Figure 1
shows a set of website newsletters (the section NEWS), which were published at important or
interesting project events. In the third year, we significantly increased the number of news, and
this was also reflected in the social networks Facebook and Twitter (Figure 2 and Figure 3).
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Figure 1. Collection of newsletters on the DECENTER webpage.
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Figure 2. Samples of Facebook posts.
Figure 3: Samples of Twitter posts.
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2.1.2 Other media news and press releases
• INGENIO-WEB.IT; Trento, Smart City sempre più intelligente: dall’illuminazione telecontrollata
ai sensori nei parcheggi; TN, Feb 2020
Figure 4 shows an extensive press release, prepared by Giacomo Fioroni from the Municipality
of Trento, about DECENTER and use cases, published on the online newspaper INGENIO-
WEB.IT.
Figure 4 Preview of TN press release on INGENIO-WEB.IT
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• ATOS Company Bulletin; News in the company bulletin about main project outcomes; April
202; ATOS. See Figure 5. Company Bulletin news; ATOS, April 2021
Figure 5. Company Bulletin news; ATOS, April 2021
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• INTEREMPRESAS; Article on specialized portal; Robotnik y Decenter, tecnología
descentralizada para la IA; April 2021; Robotnik
See Figure 6.
Figure 6. INTEREMPRESAS portal; April 2021 - Article about the project (ROB)
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• GLSYS Company Bulletin; News in the company bulletin about main project outcomes; April
2021; GLSYS. See Figure 7.
•
Figure 7. Company Bulletin, April 2021 (GLSYS).
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• ETNews; Korean Newspaper; March 2021; KETI, Robotnik and FBK
A press release about EU-KR collaboration of DECENTER project has been distributed in a few
newspapers in Korea. It describes how DECENTER partners collaborated on the implementation
of use cases - mostly on use case 3, between FBK, KETI and Robotnik, to offload the workload
of a robot to the edge or cloud resources. Figure 8 shows the article on ET News, one of the
biggest technology newspaper in Korea.
Figure 8. Screenshot of DECENTER related news in ETNews.
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• EU Research Summer 2021 journal; General public article about DECENTER; Artificial
Intelligence at the Edge; June 2021, FBK.
See preview on Figure 9 and on the link:
https://issuu.com/euresearcher/docs/digital_magazine_eur27.
Figure 9. Preview of the article about DECENTER in EU Research Summer 2021 journal.
• HiPEAC info; Article about DECENTER; EU-KOREA COLLABORATION: DECENTER; No 63,
June 2021; Clara Pezuela (ATOS).
The article is available at https://www.hipeac.net/news/#/magazine/. (See Figure 10)
Figure 10. Preview of article in HiPEAC info magazine.
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• General public video, June 2021.
The DECENTER project created a short video clip to be used as an introduction to the project
for a general audience.
Targeted audience: Due to the scope of the project, the targeted audience is considered to be
relatively broad, but with still a minimum technical background. The public is considered able to
recognize technical concepts such as “Cloud”, “Artificial Intelligence” or “Internet of Things” and
have a very general understanding of what they mean. As such the “general” audience of the
project is ranging from professionals from the digital industries to the scientific community as a
whole, or journalists and technology enthusiasts. This represents already a very broad audience
for a project such as DECENTER.
Objective of the video: The video is voluntarily short (1m40s) and dynamic to attract and retain
the attention of the audience. In such a short time it is not possible to present the project in all its
complexity, but the goal of the video is to attract the interest of the audience, who can then get
more information through other media of the project (use case videos, website, articles,
conferences…).
Script: The general idea of the video is to present the topics addressed by DECENTER, to
contextualize their relevance to the general public and to promote some of the project
achievements. The video starts from a general perspective on the prospects of digital
technologies but also on the challenges associated. The video then emphasizes the role of the
joint research project between Europe and Korea to address these challenges. A list of technical
topics and of use cases addressed in DECENTER is then introduced very shortly. Here the video
doesn’t take time to provide details on the concepts, preferring to just attract the interest of the
audience (who can then look for more detail in the project productions). Finally, the video
concludes on the achievements of the project and a call to action to learn more on the project.
See screenshots of a video on Figure 11.
Figure 11. Screenshots of a general public video.
Production of the video: Kentyou oversaw the production process of the video. A first draft script
was presented to the project partners to gather agreement on the concept of the video and an
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initial script. In April 2021 the consortium agreed on the proposed vision, and the production was
launched with a subcontractor specialized in video edition.
Use of the video: the video was uploaded to the project YouTube channel and is used on the
project website and social medias. The video will also be used in other project communications
and can be considered as “short project description” that can be used to ensure the legacy of the
project and the visibility of its results.
2.1.3 Video news
KETI, Demo video on KETI institute's official YouTube channel, Jan 2021
KETI has joined the Korea Electronics Show 2021 (KES 2021), one of the biggest exhibitions in
the technology area in Korea, and DECENTER outcome has been presented at the booth. It
includes a demonstration of edge resource orchestration methods of DECENTER and the video
has been posted on the official YouTube channel of KETI.
Figure 12. Screenshot of KETI institute's official YouTube channel, Jan 2021.
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2.1.4 Project deliverables and scientific publications
Deliverables are deposited on the project online depository. Copies of deliverables marked as
Public are published in the Accomplishments section on the project website. The collection
comprises certified deliverables, of which the public are available for download (Figure 13).
Figure 13. Preview of links to collections of repositories.
Scientific articles were encouraged to be published in the Open Access in order to be compliant
with the general principle of the Horizon 2020 funding programs, mainly targeting publishers that
provide ‘gold’ access, either by making the articles immediately accessed online for free of
charge, or by having each affiliated partner to cover the relevant cost. Whenever the ‘gold’ access
model could not be applicable, we took the benefits of the ‘green’ model instead, by
supplementary publishing the relevant articles to an online repository, in consultation with the
publisher, in case that an embargo period is needed. The most convenient option was Zenodo,
where a DECENTER tag is available. Initial project publications were also published by several
scientific journals such as Sensors, ICE Journals, IEEE IoT Magazine, Electronics etc. and also
published at various professional conferences and congresses. List and links of publications are
documented in Google Drive project online repository and in section Accomplishments on project
website where articles are arranged in three sections Journals, Conferences and Newspapers.
The set of scientific papers has significantly increased in the 3rd year, for a total of 15 Journal
papers, 19 Conference papers and 1 article in a Newspaper published in the first two years of the
project (Figure 14 and Figure 15). The complete list of publications and samples can be found in
the Annex to this document.
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Figure 14. Preview of the list of scientific papers at conferences.
Figure 15. Preview of scientific papers in journals.
2.1.5 Participation to and organisation of events, conferences and workshops
Scientific and public events are powerful dissemination activities to reach the relevant community
and increase their awareness about the project achievements. They are important means to get
feedback from the community and engage them for further exploitation of the project results, for
instance via contributions to project achievements as open-source code from developers,
establishing new collaborative research proposals around new ideas generated from
DECENTER, building standardisation activities or developing business relations with the most
mature outcomes of the project.
In the third year of the project, despite the still ongoing global epidemic, we managed to realize a
series of presentations and participations which are presented in the following subsections. The
complete list of the project participants to the workshops and other public presentations is in the
dissemination table in Annex 5.2.
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2.1.5.1.1 Tutorials/Hackathons
Due to difficult, diverse and constantly changing epidemiological situation, we were not able to
organise or to follow the additional tutorials that were planned in the last year, so we have focused
more on other online events.
2.1.6 Organisation, presentation and participation at related events
DECENTER has successfully co-organised the following events and two are planned or in
progress.
2.1.6.1.1 Organising events
• 17th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services
(GECON 2020)
ONLINE (previously planned in Izola, Slovenia) 15th-17th September, 2020
Co-organiser: Vlado Stankovski (UL)
Website: http://2020.gecon-conference.org/
See Figure 16.
Figure 16. Flyer of GECON 2020 conference.
• Urban Technology Alliance, Global Smart City Trends 2020
Virtual event, 8-10 December, 2020
Co-organizers: Levent Gürgen and Bertrand Copigneaux (KENT)
Website: http://www.urbantechnologyalliance.org/2021/02/05/global-smart-city-trends-key-
takeaways/
Presentation: DISTRIBUTED AI WITHIN THE CLOUD THINGS-TO-CLOUD CONTINUUM
presented by Domenico Siracusa (FBK); presentation available on YouTube:
http://www.urbantechnologyalliance.org/2021/02/05/global-smart-city-trends-key-takeaways/
Link: http://www.urbantechnologyalliance.org/2021/02/05/global-smart-city-trends-key-
takeaways/
See: Figure 17, Figure 18, Figure 19, Figure 20.
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Figure 17. Global Smart City Trends 2020 flyer.
Figure 18. UTA virtual conference environment.
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Figure 19. DECENTER Booth at Global Smart City Trends 2020.
Figure 20. Screenshot of the presentation video.
• Webinar at HIPEAC Computing Systems Weeks,
Virtual event, 6 May, 2021
Co-organizers: Clara Pezuela (ATOS), Bertrand Copigneaux (KENT)
Website: https://www.hipeac.net/csw/2021/spring-webinars/#/program/sessions/7894/
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Planned (upcoming) events:
• 18th International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services
(GECON 2021)
Online event, 21 - 23 September, 2021
Co-organizer: Vlado Stankovski (UL)
Website: http://2021.gecon-conference.org/
See Figure 21.
Figure 21. GECON 2021 flyer.
• Urban Technology Alliance, Global Smart City Trends 2021
Virtual event, Q3 - Q4 2021
Organizer: Levent Gürgen and Bertrand Copigneaux (KENT)
Website: http://www.urbantechnologyalliance.org/
2.1.6.1.2 Presentations and participations & networking
DECENTER has actively participated to conferences, workshops and networking events, which
are listed in this subsection. The events, despite their online execution, have been successfull
and provide a good foundation for future generations of similar events.
• Special session on KIBME (Korean Institute of Broacast and Media Engineers) Summer
Conference 2020
ONLINE, 13 July 2020
Special session: Seungwoo Kum (KETI)
Website: http://www.kibme.org/academic/academicDetail?ae_idx=2303&ae_type=0
Korean partners have organized a special session in 2020 Summer Conference of Korean
Insttitute of Media Engineers. The session consists of nine papers describing major activities of
DECENTER collaboration. See Figure 22. Webpage and flyer of KIBME Summer Conference
2020.
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Figure 22. Webpage and flyer of KIBME Summer Conference 2020.
• Big data & AI per smart cities e mobilità sostenibile. Smart cities: come big data e AI
daranno vita alle città del future
Online event, 24 September, 2020
Participation/ speaker: Giacomo Fioroni (TN)
Website: https://www.theinnovationgroup.it/events/big-data-smart-cities-mobilita-
sostenibile/?type=0&lang=it
See Figure 23.
Figure 23. Big data & AI per smart cities e mobilità sostenibile flyer.
• Smart city now Conference & Expo. BEYOND SMART CITIES: Le sfide del futuro nelle
città italiane
Online event, 25 November, 2020
Participation/ speaker: Giacomo Fioroni (TN)
Website: http://www.smartcitynow.it/agenda2020/#rotonda2
See Figure 24.
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Figure 24. Smart city now Conference & Expo website screenshot.
• 2020 Korea-EU Joint R&D Conference
Virtual event, 12 November 2020
Presentation: Domenico Siracusa (FBK)
Website: http://www.korea-eu2020.org/
See Figure 25. Korea-EU Joint R&D Conference flyer.
Figure 25. Korea-EU Joint R&D Conference flyer.
• Horizon Cloud Summit 2020
Virtual event, 25-26 November 2020
Presentation: Domenico Siracusa (FBK)
Website: https://h-cloud-summit.b2match.io/
See Figure 26. Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 flyer
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Figure 26. Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 flyer
• HIPEAC Computing Systems week
Webinar, 6 May 2021
Project presentation, use cases demo and experts panel: Domenico Siracusa (FBK), Guillem
Garí (ROB) and Seungwoo Kum (KETI)
Website: https://www.hipeac.net/csw/2021/spring-webinars/#/program/sessions/7894/
See Figure 27.
Figure 27. Creation and orchestration of cloud-native AI applications in edge environments
panel flyer.
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• ICIN 2021
Virtual event: 1-4 March 2021
Demonstration of the DECENTER cloud federation approach: FBK
Website: https://www.icin-conference.org/
See Figure 28.
Achievements: DECENTER paper entitled: “An Application of Kubernetes Cluster Federation
in Fog Computing” received the best demo award. See Figure 29.
Figure 28. ICIN 2021 flyer.
Figure 29. Best demo award at the 24th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and
Networks (ICIN 2021) for DECENTER paper “An Application of Kubernetes Cluster Federation
in Fog Computing”.
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• ISPL Seminar 2021
Seoul, Korea; Feburary, March 2021
Presentation of project results: SNU
• BECS 2021 (1st International Workshop on Big data driven Edge Cloud Services)
Online (Biarritz, France), 18-21 May 2021
Keynote: Distributing Intelligence in the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum, presented by Domenico
Siracusa (FBK)
Website: http://becs.kaist.ac.kr/iwbecs2021/
See Figure 30.
Figure 30. BECS 2021 flyer.
• AI-SPRINT
Webinar, 30 March 2021
Presentation: Domenico Siracusa (FBK)
Website: https://www.ai-sprint-project.eu/events/ai-sprint-eu-perspective-future-ai-and-edge-
computing
See Figure 31.
Figure 31. AI-SPRINT flyer.
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• Veneto Smart Region 2021; Tavolo tecnico “Trasporto pubblico”
Online event, 7 May 2021
Participation/ speaker: Giacomo Fioroni (TN)
Website: http://myextranet.regione.veneto.it/web/guest/progetti/scheda-progetto/laboratori-
condivisione-2019-
20?p_p_id=schedaprogetto_WAR_myextranetnavigazione&p_p_lifecycle=0&_schedaprogetto_
WAR_myextranetnavigazione_organizationId=357544
See Figure 32.
Figure 32. Veneto Smart Region 2021 flyer.
• CES 2021
Virtual event, 11 - 14 January 2021
Booth: Levent Gürgen and Bertrand Copigneaux (KENT)
Website: https://www.ces.tech/International.aspx?lang=fr-fr
See Figure 33 and Figure 34.
Figure 33. CES logo.
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Figure 34. Kentyou presentation preview on CES 2021.
• ICT Verticals and Horizontals for Blockchain Standardisation // Extension
Virtual event, 2 June 2021
Roundtable: Artificial Intelligence
Participation/ speaker: Vlado Stankovski (UL)
Website: https://epicenterproject.eu/news-events/ict-verticals-and-horizontals-for-blockchain-
standardisation-ai-roundtable
See Figure 35.
Description: ePIcenter has present at the round table on Artificial Intelligence on the ICT
Verticals and horizontals for Blockchain Standardisation meeting. This initiative was organised
by the European Commission and brings together several standardisation bodies to discuss
data standardisation within different fields/topics.
Figure 35. ICT Verticals and Horizontals for Blockchain Standardisation roundtable flyer.
• Blockchain tehnologija za cirkularnu ekonomiju ("Blockchain technology for circular
economy")
Virtual event, 25 May, 2021
Participation/ speaker: Vlado Stankovski (UL)
Website: http://www.mipro.hr/Default.aspx?TabId=36&language=hr-HR&newsid=7a03e3c1-
a327-4b44-8817-0fe26d2451dd
See Figure 36.
Description: This Forum aims to intensify the application of Blockchain technology in Croatia
and improve the initiative to build a pilot Blockchain infrastructure (CroBSI) and create a link
with similar initiatives in the European Union. It is intended for advanced economic entities that
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intend to contribute to the development of innovative applications in new circumstances and
opportunities related to the circular economy and beyond.
Figure 36. Flyer of Blockchain tehnologija za cirkularnu ekonomiju event.
Planned (upcoming) participation at events:
• Innopolis 2021
Paris, France; September 2021 (postponed)
Booth: Levent Gürgen and Bertrand Copigneaux (KENT)
Website: http://2021.gecon-conference.org/
See Figure 37.
Figure 37. Innopolis 2021 flyer.
• Smart City Expo world congress 2021
Hybrid event; Barcelona, Spain; 16-18 November 2021
Booth/participation: Levent Gürgen and Bertrand Copigneaux (KENT), Giacomo Fioroni (TN)
Website:
https://www.smartcityexpo.com/?utm_source=webscewc&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaig
n=sclive2020
See Figure 38.
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Figure 38. Smart City Expo world congress 2021 flyer.
• Expo Dubai 2020
Dubai, UAE; 1 October 2021 – 31 March 2022
Participation*: Vlado Stankovski (UL)
*discussions to present DECENTER implementation of blockchain technologies at the Slovenia
national pavilion are in progress
• Digital Factory Alliance webinar September 2021
Online event, mid-September 2021
ATOS & Robotnik will present a webinar with the following description:
The manufacturing domain has been clearly identified as one of the main verticals that will be
radically transformed during the next years thanks to the introduction of new digital technologies
and, in particular, Artificial Intelligence and robotics solutions. The digital transformation brought
by the Industry 4.0 paradigm implies the opportunity to reinforce the competitiveness and
sovereignty of Europe’s productive fabric in a globalized economy, by increasing the flexibility,
adaptability, sustainability and efficiency of the manufacturing process while improving the
quality of the resulting products or even enabling their recycling possibilities.
During this webinar, some of the main use-cases for the usage of AI and robotics solutions in
manufacturing will be presented (e.g., demand forecasting, predictive maintenance, zero-defect
manufacturing, co-bots). The specific case of the H2020 DECENTER project will be presented
in detail, where Atos and Robotnik have collaborated in the implementation of an object
detection system to be embedded in an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) for safely interacting
with human workers and other robots during the navigation.
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2.2 DECENTER Website
2.2.1 Website updates (M14-M36)
The project website is regularly updated with new publications, news on the project and regular
maintenance work. In the third year we have done more important updates: i) update of landing
page with new clickable architecture scheme (Figure 39), ii) update of a Use Cases section with
implementation of demo video (Figure 40), iii) update of an Innovation section with more detailed
description of assets (Figure 41).
Other updates related to the website are described in the section 3.2.5
Figure 39. Updated DECENTER home page with interactive Architecture scheme.
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Figure 40. Partial screenshot of webpage updated Use Cases section, showing a
implementation of demo video of Use Case 1.
Figure 41. Screenshot of the extended INNOVATON section with links to more detailed
presentation of assets.
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The 'INNOVATIONS' section of the website has been further extended with a detailed
presentation of assets. Updates include textual and graphical data, contributed by project
partners whose activities focused on specific assets are also accessible through an interactive
architecture scheme (Figure 39).
A separate page was created for each asset, where individual partners prepared a more
detailed description with links. (See Figure 42) The asset pages are also accessible via an
interactive architecture scheme on the home side of the project.
Figure 42. Preview the websites of individual assets.
2.2.2 Website statistics
Data from online statistics show that the number of visits and visitors has almost tripled since the
first and second year (see D6.2 and D6.3). It is still evident that pages with images are significantly
more visited, as well as the number of visits to the website to a greater extent from mobile devices.
Due to different situations, when almost all meetings and events were online only (due to the
global health situation), most visited sites are updates of DECENTER innovations and videos.
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Here are some important recently obtained statistics that we monitored last year. See Figure
43,Figure 44, Figure 45,Figure 46 andFigure 47.
Figure 43. DECENTER Website; statistics summary overview.
Figure 44. DECENTER webpage; category posts sorted by hits.
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Figure 45. DECENTER webpage; top 10 viewed pages.
Figure 46. DECENTER webpage; used browser.
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Figure 47. DECENTER webpage; used platform.
Figure 48. DECENTER webpage; hits statistics chart.
2.3 Social Media Updates and Statistics
Social networking activities are largely an extension of the project website. The project partners
published their activities on their own profiles as well as on the profiles of the DECENTER project.
The posts served primarily as a guide to more detailed content on the website and access to
project-relevant links.
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Based on the current state of communication trends, the project partners decided, to significantly
increase our activities on social networks in the third year, and publish graphically more enhanced
messages to the public as these have an increasing advantage over traditional websites.
The number of followers and users is constantly changing, but it is noticeable that with the general
transition to digital (online) communication, users and followers have spread widely across many
platforms, indicating less dominance of important network players such as Facebook and Twitter.
With the mass use of online meeting platforms, a lot of information has been shared right through
these channels. Certainly, Facebook and Twitter are still the primary platforms, but with the flood
of information, there is a slight decline in the activity of visitors and users who may not react to all
the posts of their sources.
2.3.1 Facebook
Facebook network is used to spread and share news about the project and related topics.
Together with Twitter, they make a solid base of visitors and followers. The activities were solid
and the partners were publishing posts on the DECENTER profile or on the entities own profiles.
(See Figure 49)
Boost posts on Facebook significantly increase user reach (see Figure 50) but it is noticeable that
the network of Facebook users is slowly moving slightly in the direction of Twitter which can be
attributed to the characteristic shorter and more concise publications.
Figure 49. DECENTER Facebook screenshot and sample of community response numbers.
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Figure 50. DECENTER Facebook boost example.
2.3.2 Twitter
Twitter (see Figure 51) is considered to be the most active communication tool of the project.
Through posts, we informed our followers about our achievements, events related to the project,
participation in events, and at the same time we placed links to the project website.
We have significantly increased the number of follows in the last year and the number of followers,
compared to the previous year.
Figure 51. DECENTER Twitter page screenshot.
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3 Standardization Activities
DECENTER project is monitoring various standardisation organisations and actively contributing
to the most relevant ones to increase the impact of the project results and ensure their
sustainability.
One of the main contributions from the DECENTER project goes to the WG11 of ISO/IEC JTC1
SC29 (aka MPEG):
• Internet of Media Things (IoMT) Ad-hoc Group is about standardization of Media
Things Interfaces1, such as how to get the video feed from IP Camera, how to feed that
stream to Analyzer (AI), and how to retrieve the analysed result. The objective is to allow
building applications with easier more intuitive way, by abstracting the IoT protocols layer
with a generic access interface, thus making the end-to-end application development
easy. DECENTER has been contributing to this working group, and recently a few
International Standards have been released reflecting the DECENTER contribution,
mostly one use-case scenario and two MAnalyser interface definitions2.
In this reporting period, DECENTER has contributed two new proposals to update the
international standards.
• Study on applying cloud technology for IoMT maintenance: KETI, along with FBK and
SNU has contributed one proposal describing how to apply cloud technology for IoMT
maintenance3.
• Study on autonomous configuration of IoMT devices: KETI, along with KENT has
contributed one proposal describing autonomous configuration methods to build a service
from multiple IoMT things4.
Those two contributions are included in the Technology Under Consideration (TUC) of the same
working group, that is going to be investigated further and update the existing standard. The
partners will keep the collaboration for the continuous work in standardisation.
DECENTER contributions to other standardization work are summarized in the Table 2.
1 https://www.iso.org/news/ref2449.html
2 ISO/IEC 23093-3:2019 Information technology – Internet of Media Things, Part 3: Media Formats and
APIS.
3 M54727, On Deployment and Configuration of IoMT Software, http://dms.mpeg.experts (authorized
access only)
4 M56737, Study on MManger in MPEG-IoMT, http://dms.mpeg.experts (authorized access only)
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Table 2. DECENTER contributions to other standardization work.
target
key standardization contributions to
partners standards bodies standards degree of relevance
KETI AI as an ISO/IEC SC29 MPEG 131, M54727 Two input contributions
IoT device WG11 MPEG 133, M56737 regarding Internet of
M53732 was contributed Media Things ad-hoc
by KETI, FBK and SNU. group, reflecting our
M56737 was contributed study on cloud-edge
by KETI and KENT. technology and IoT.
FBK Kubernetes Cloud Native Active participation to IoT Fog Computing
Computing Edge Working Group Platform
Foundation
(CNCF)
KETI, AI as an ISO/IEC SC29 Submitted on proposal Use case descriptions
UL IoT device WG11 related to UC3 on MPEG
130 meeting
ATOS FIWARE FIWARE Active participation to DECENTER reference
Foundation Robotics WG, including architecture for the
presentation of the roadmap of the
DECENTER reference FIWARE distributed AI-
architecture driven robotics concept
KENT OSGI IoT Expert KENT (CEA) provided an Current IoT data
Group RFP for requirements for models will need to take
a generic IoT device into account the digital
model to the IoT Expert twin functionalities of
Group IoT platforms
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4 Annex
4.1 Articles (Journals, conferences, newspaper)
4.1.1 Journals
description link
1 BUILDING APPLICATIONS FOR SMART AND SAFE CONSTRUCTION WITH THE https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2021.1
DECENTER FOG COMPUTING AND BROKERAGE PLATFORM: P. Kochovski, V. 03562.
Stankovski; Automation in Construction, vol. 124, p.103562, Jan. 2021
2 QUALITY OF SERVICE-AWARE MATCHMAKING FOR ADAPTIVE https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.6120.
MICROSERVICE-BASED APPLICATIONS: P. Štefanič, P. Kochovski, O. F. Rana
and v. Stankovski: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, e6120,
Dec. 2020
3 THROUGHPUT-AWARE PARTITIONING AND PLACEMENT OF APPLICATIONS https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9
IN FOG COMPUTING; F. Faticanti, F. De Pellegrini, D. Siracusa, D. Santoro and S. 189841
Cretti; IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 17, no. 4, pp.
2436-2450, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2020.3023011
4 SMART CONTRACTS FOR SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS IN EDGE-TO- https://link.springer.com/article/10.100
CLOUD COMPUTING; P. Kochovski, V. Stankovski, S. Gec, F. Faticanti, M. Savi, 7%2Fs10723-020-09534-y#article-info
D. Siracusa and S.Kum; J Grid Computing; 13 October 2020
5 THE USE OF A FOG COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF http://www.zveza-
APPLICATIONS FOR SMART AND SAFE CONSTRUCTION: J. Brežnik, P. dgits.si/download/13153
Kochovski and V. Stankovski; Gradbeni vestnik, vol. 69, no. 7, July 2020
6 MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING APPROACH FOR CONTAINER-BASED https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-
CLOUD APPLICATIONS: THE SWITCH AND ENTICE WORKBENCHES: P. 20190105200327
Štefanič and V. Stankovski, Tehnički vjesnik, vol.27, no. 3, pp. 1006-1013, 2020
[Online]
7 LUCID: A PRACTICAL, LIGHTWEIGHT DEEP LEARNING SOLUTION FOR DDOS doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2020.2971776.
ATTACK DETECTION: R. Doriguzzi-Corin, S. Millar, S. Scott-Hayward, J. Martínez-
del-Rincón and D. Siracusa; IEEE Transactions on Network and Service
Management, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 876-889, June 2020
8 GENERALIZED PRODUCT QUANTIZATION NETWORK FOR SEMI-
SUPERVISED IMAGE RETRIEVAL: Young Kyun Jang, Nam Ik Cho, Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR); June 2020
9 TRUST MANAGEMENT IN A BLOCKCHAIN BASED FOG COMPUTING https://zenodo.org/record/3346784#.Xt
PLATFORM WITH TRUSTLESS SMART ORACLES: Petar Kochovski; Sandi Gec; 8-x0UzaUl
Vlado Stankovski; Marko Bajec; Pavel D. Drobintsev; Elsevier, Future Generation
Computer Systems, Volume 101, December 2019
10 INTRODUCING SMARTNICS IN SERVER-BASED DATA PLANE PROCESSING: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8
THE DDOS MITIGATION USE CASE; S. Miano, R. Doriguzzi-Corin, F. Risso, D. 789414
Siracusa and R. Sommese; IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 107161-107170, 2019
11 A HETEROGENEOUS IOT DATA ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK WITH
COLLABORATION OF EDGE-CLOUD COMPUTING: FOCUSING ON INDOOR
PM10 AND PM2.5 STATUS PREDICTION, Jaewon Moon, Seungwoo Kum and
Sangwon Lee, accepted for publication at MDPI Sensors.
12 A PLATFORM PROVIDING INTERACTIVE SIGNAGE BASED ON EDGE-CLOUD
COOPERATION: Jaewon Moon, Seungwoo Kum, Sangwon Lee, Korean Journal of
Internet Computing and Services, Journal of Internet Computing and Services
(KRO), vol.20, no.2, pp. 39-49, 2019.
13 A REVIEW OF TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR SMART https://530.ablak.arnes.si/wp-
CONSTRUCTION: Matej Štefanič and Vlado Stankovski, Proceedings of the content/uploads/2018/11/A-REVIEW-
Institution of Civil Engineers – Civil Engineering, vol. 172, issue 2, pp. 83-87, 2019. OF-TECHNOLOGIES-AND-
APPLICATIONS-FOR-SMART-
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14 FORMAL QUALITY OF SERVICE ASSURANCES, RANKING AND VERIFICATION https://zenodo.org/record/2537912#.Xt
OF CLOUD DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS WITH A PROBABILISTIC MODEL 9DO0UzaUk
CHECKING METHOD: Petar Kochovski, Pavel D. Drobintsev and Vlado Stankovski;
Elsevier, Information and Software Technology, vol. 109, pp. 14-25, 2019.
15 A CAPILLARY COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE FOR DYNAMIC INTERNET OF https://530.ablak.arnes.si/wp-
THINGS ORCHESTRATION OF MICROSERVICES FROM EDGE DEVICES TO content/uploads/2018/11/A-
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Marko Grobelnik, MDPI Sensors, vol. 18, issue 9, 2018. ARCHITECTURE-FOR-DYNAMIC-
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