by Martin Litzenberger, Carmina Coronel and Kilian Wohlleben (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)

Accurate real-time traffic sensing is of key importance for optimising and managing road traffic. Often the high density of traffic sensors, needed to achieve an accurate real-time monitoring of important roads, is difficult to implement due to technical constraints or because of high installation cost. Fibre-optic sensing (FOS) is a new and cost-effective alternative technology that allows a seamless, real-time monitoring of the road traffic over large distances of up to 50 km, even in remote areas such as on critical costal or mountain roads, using existing telecom fibre-optic cable infrastructure.

by Sascha Hackel, Martin Schneider and Ramon Barakat (Fraunhofer FOKUS)

The Horizon 2020 European research project IoTAC [L1] enhances IoT security through a multi-layered approach using best practices, standards and research findings. Its technology includes privacy-friendly access-control mechanisms, ML-based attacked detection, and security-by-design methodology. Additionally, IoTAC provides developers and service providers with SDKs and APIs to seamlessly integrate the framework.

by Florian Skopik, Arndt Bonitz, Daniel Slamanig (Austrian Institute of Technology), Markus Kirschner (MUSE Electronics GmbH) and Wolfgang Hacker (Austrian Ministry of Defence)

Military field operations place high demands on information and communication technology (ICT) devices, both in terms of reliability and security. These requirements include robustness against environmental influences such as vibrations, water and humidity, as well as protection against physical attacks and cyberattacks [1]. Attempts to compromise a device must be detected immediately and, if necessary, trigger automated countermeasures such as alarms, partial deactivation or emergency wiping of all data.

by Marisa Zanotti (EnginSoft), Andrea Mignone (University of Torino) and Manolis Marazakis (ICS-FORTH)

In astrophysics and cosmology (A&C), high-performance computing (HPC)-based numerical simulations are invaluable instruments to support scientific discovery. The efficient and effective exploitation of exascale (and beyond) computing capabilities will be key to paving the way for scientific discovery in this scientific domain, but requires a coordinated effort towards adapting A&C codes for space applications on exascale HPC systems.

by Lauro Vanderborght (Digitaal Vlaanderen), Martin Kurze (Deutsche Telekom) and Ramon Martin de Pozuelo (CaixaBank)

The TRAPEZE project, titled “Transparency, Privacy, and Security for European Citizens,” is making remarkable progress as it moves forward in its journey. With its objective of demonstrating the TRAPEZE prototype solution in real-world scenarios, the three project use cases are advancing splendidly. These use cases will exemplify how the TRAPEZE solution overcomes present-day limitations and revolutionizes the way enterprises, public administration, and citizens interact with their sensitive information.

by Andrzej Blikle (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)

This project is devoted to the development of programming languages in a way that guarantees the existence of denotational semantics for them. Once such a language has been developed, we can derive such program-construction rules, which guarantee the correctness of programs constructed by their means.