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DITAS at NTUA – Hands-on meeting on a VDC Use Case
The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, on May 14th of 2019 organized a meeting regarding the DITAS Project. During the meeting, was presented an overview of the project and was examined a use case concerning the VDC. After the presentation followed a...
Data connectivity driving Industry 4.0 use case
The Industry 4.0 revolution has transformed the machines into data generation artefacts. Lots of gadgets, acquisition cards, data gathering systems, the Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) itself and ad-hoc applications can nowadays keep an eye on the machine and...
Governance Enforcement @ Scale: Fast Enforcement with Fine Grained Policies
Today, large data sets stored in the cloud or data lakes have made scalable solutions for governed access control essential. Everyone needs to stay compliant. Our goal is to provide fine-grained governance that can deal with the challenges of GDPR, like consent for...
A Decision Model to Support Movement between Cloud and Edge
Modern applications are eager to acquire and consume more and more amounts of data coming from distributed heterogeneous devices and sources. The spread of Edge Computing answers to the needs of these applications by enabling access and usage of data directly near the...
Electronic Health Records and Patient Safety
Post by Mariet NouriJanian, Eleonora Ciceri, Paola Aurucci and Andrea Micheletti. Image from forbes.com. An Electronic Health Record (henceforth, EHR) is a collection of health information about a patient, which is stored in a digital format. Electronic records in an...
Access control in the GDPR era
With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its requirements for privacy by design and privacy by default, business operators have started to review the available options for integrating appropriate Access Control mechanisms into their...
Node-RED in DITAS
If one could describe DITAS in a simple and intuitive way (from the perspective of an application developer), it can be said that is a tool that eases and optimizes data accessibility and provision, offering them timely, securely and accurately under a layer of...
The execution of data-intensive applications in mixed cloud/fog environments
The Internet has become such an integral part of our lives, that we often take for granted just how much it has transformed the way we communicate, share and consume data. The transformation is both seamless and relentless, so perhaps we can forgive the uninitiated...
Data-driven applications in manufacturing – drowning in the data lake
The new industrial revolution, nowadays called Industry 4.0, pursues the adoption of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) to enable the creation of a real-time, precise, reliable, monitoring system able to feed analytics solutions to support the automation, the control, and...
Monitoring Formats for distributed File Logging
Logging and monitoring for IoT devices are critical in larger deployments. Smaller edge devices can have unpredictable availability; they might go offline for long periods, change their physical location, or reduce their bandwidth to reduce power usage. Fog, the...