COP-PILOT is a HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA Innovation Action which aims to develop a Collaborative Open Platform framework geared towards orchestrating end-to-end services across diverse industry domains and ensuring robust security, automation, and intelligence features. The platform will be deployed across four large piloting clusters, spanning across energy, smart city, agriculture, and industrial manufacturing sectors. The project involves 46 partners and has a total budget of 27.7M€.
Collaborative IoT Management
Cross-Domain Exposure
Scalable IoT Orchestration
Intelligent Service Onboarding
Cross-Sector Innovation
To develop and implement an open, multi-layer orchestration platform for deploying and managing collaborative applications during runtime. This platform will span across heterogeneous domains and multiple distributed sectors, leveraging the IoT-to-edge-to-core compute continuum and incorporating specific standardization measures.
To create advanced AI-based extensions that significantly reduce the time and complexity of onboarding large-scale services through a multi-modal user interface powered by large language models (LLMs). These extensions will also seamlessly link end-user service agreements (SLAs) with automated, closed-loop platform services, ensuring SLA compliance through intelligent forecasting (IF), Zero-Touch Invocation (ZI), and Secure Actuation (SA).
The project will create an “Auto-Pilot” tool for the IoT-to-edge-to-core cloud continuum, enabling infrastructure owners and service providers to: (i) seamlessly register new domain clusters, (ii) automate platform expansion, (iii) declare domain resources and services, (iv) integrate domains into a secure connection fabric, and (v) use declarative policies to assign resources and services to trusted users. This tool leverages open standardized TMF data models and APIs to streamline the connection between stakeholders, infrastructures, and services.
To design large-scale piloting clusters serving as the basis for the integration of the platform framework and the interconnection of pilot use cases, including 3rd party infrastructures and services.
To showcase emerging piloting use cases in key industrial sectors (including third-party solutions) that emphasize cross-sector collaboration, intelligent resource management across diverse environments, and enhanced trustworthiness, verified through defined technical KPIs.
To analyse and validate the market potentials and the sustainability impact fingerprint for both the COP-PILOT platform and the targeted strategic piloting use case sectors, concerning the overall value chain of the industry sectors and the related socio-economic and environmental impact.
To maximize the impact and adoption of COP-PILOT, through specific standardization and dissemination actions, to promote the platform capabilities, attracting third-party piloting use cases, and highlighting strong business, societal, and scientific benefits contributing to sound market potentials.
p-NET’s role in the project is to offer our testbed for emulating the Distributed Energy Resources – DER real IoT data collection from the Advanced Metering Infrastructure and IoT devices (in real-time) and quantify/aggregate/enable flexibility with network state awareness. Moreover, P-NET will lead the task for expanding the original COP-PILOT Use Cases with innovative third-party services and applications deployed into the project’s cluster infrastructure.