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A consortium of 39 European organisations from 14 countries has launched the new DOME projectto support cloud-to-edge infrastructure and services in Europe. The project aims to create a single access portal for stakeholders in cloud and edge services from providers to consumers, focusing on the principles of ease of use, inclusiveness and equality. DOME will take the form of an online catalogue of service offerings through a federated collection of independent marketplaces connected to cloud and platform offerings connected to cloud and platform providers' offerings.

Cloud computing is a key part of Europe's digital future, the data processing capacity needed to support its digital future. digital transformationThe EU's digital strategy objectives are being met through EU programmes such as the Digital Europe Programme and the Connecting Europe FacilityThe European Commission proposes actions to build essential capacities to be achieved by Member States in new high-end digital infrastructures and services and by improving and strengthening the capacities available at national and EU level.

In this context, the European Commission has redoubled its efforts to support the deployment of state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure and services:

• Improve the availability of curated, high-trust cloud and edge services that serve the interests of crucial sectors that handle sensitive data, such as the public sector.
• Increase adoption of cloud-to-edge services among public and private entities alike and in verticals lagging behind in cloud adoption, such as the European healthcare sector.
• Strengthen the EU's open strategic autonomy, ensuring that the digital transformation of the economy takes place on the basis of secure, fair and resource-efficient infrastructure and services.

"The vision of the project consortium is to create a dynamic ecosystem that brings together all stakeholders in cloud and edge services, including infrastructure and data providers, platform providers, service integrators, certification agencies and diverse customers from all sectors. Our goal is to drive the EU cloud industry forward by streamlining current practices and giving EU customers more power than ever before".says Giovanni Frattini, Technical Director of Engineering Ingeniería Informática Spa, responsible for the project.

DOME - Distributed Open Marketplace for Cloud and Edge Services in Europe

With the aim of boosting the adoption of Cloud and Edge services in Europe, the first call of the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL-2021 CLOUD-AI-01) drove actions to deploy and operate a Marketplace of federated cloud-to-edge based services. The DOME project consortium, consisting of 38 members from 14 EU Member States, including 11 large companies, 23 SMEs, 2 research institutions, 6 non-profit organisations and 2 public bodies, was selected and will carry out the following strategic activities over 36 months:

• Operate the platform in accordance with security, energy and resource efficiency, data protection, ethical standards and portability requirements;
• Ensure the integration of state-of-the-art identity and access management services into the market platform to support its operation;
• Design a curation/verification process for services offered on the market, in particular for specific services in regulated sectors (e.g. healthcare, energy, finance...);
• Implement interconnections with similar markets and service catalogues that already exist in some Member States;
• Enable access, through a single EU portal, to an online catalogue of existing cloud-based service offerings up to the edge that comply with a pre-defined set of EU rules and requirements available in the forthcoming EU Cloud Rulebook;
• Implement service brokering functionality to enable transactions between providers and users in the marketplace; and
• Ensure a vendor-independent technical architecture and reference framework.

Key assets: Sovereignty, trust and reputation.

By meeting EU market requirements, the quality of DOME's service catalogue will ensure its reputation for building a trustworthy information brand, through governance mechanisms and trust-enhanced transactions, in line with Gaia-X specifications.

DOME ensures fair competition and strict vendor neutrality in the positioning of services in the market, offering equal business opportunities to all players in a win-win model that is fair and open to all who meet the established rules and requirements. This will enable European technology providers to develop new digital services and offer cutting-edge AI-enhanced solutions to increase and optimise productivity in the public and private sectors.

38 members of the consortium from 14 EU countries joined forces

DOME is coordinated by Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa in collaboration with the FIWARE Foundation as technical coordinator, and the partnership involves organisations from industry, research institutions and academia such as: Active Ageing Association; Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza; Beia ConsultInternational; Cloudferro; Consorzio Red Alastria; Consorzio Sistema Informativo; Dawex; Dekra Testing And Certification; Demetrix; Digitanimal; E-Group Ict Software; Elliot Cloud; Etna Hitech; Eurocrime; European Dynamics; Expert.Ai S.P.A. ; Fundingbox Research; Future Internet Consulting; Golem; Hashnet; Idom Consulting; In 2 Ingenieria De La Información; Inno-Focus; Ionos; Libelium Comunicaciones; Nicos Aktiengesellschaft; Orange; Outscale; Pons Ip Sa; Portel Logistic; Stichting Ishare Foundation; Teamdev; Tecnalia Fundacion Research & Innovation; Time.Lex; Torino E Piemonte Exchange; Ubiwhere.

DOME has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101084071.

The Riojan companies support the athlete Miguel Ferrer in his solidarity challenge to run the six great marathons of the world in order to raise funds to fight the disease.

As part of its corporate commitment to solidarity and sport in La Rioja, and with the aim of contributing to the fight against cancerThe companies Bosonit and Elliot Cloud support the athlete Miguel Ferrer in his challenge to complete the 6 World Marathon Majors in less than a year in order to raise funds to fight the disease.

The presentation of this solidarity initiative, which took place this Friday at Bosonit's headquarters in Logroño, was attended by the head of Culture of BosonitMaría Díez Arnaíz; the CEO of Elliot Cloud, Óscar Ruiz; the long-distance runner Miguel Ferrer and the president of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in La Rioja (AECC), Elena Eguizábal.

The technological companies of La Rioja have taken part in this challenge and have registered the participation of 600 employees to collaborate with a donation that will serve to continue advancing in treatments and research in the fight against cancer.

The long-distance runner from La Rioja will put the names of each of the donors on the T-shirts that he will wear in all the marathons that make up the challenge and the proceeds, which amount to 1,200 euros, will be donated in their entirety to the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC).

Sport represents fundamental values and principles such as effort, perseverance and self-improvement, and through it, different achievements can be made. In this case, helping to promote research, giving visibility to the disease and demonstrating that together we can achieve important advances," said María Díez Arnaíz, Head of Culture at Bosonit. This initiative is aligned with the corporate social responsibility strategy promoted by Bosonit, through which ?it also promotes other types of solidarity actions aimed at the development of society, such as the dissemination of fundamental technological knowledge with the aim of reducing the digital divide, the collaboration agreement established with the Riojan women's basketball club Bosonit Unibasket or the donation to the Food Bank, all guided by the technological consultancy's adherence to the United Nations Global Compact?, explained Díez Arnaíz.

Elliot Cloud's CEO, Óscar Ruiz, underlined that the initiative ?strengthens the company's voluntary commitment towards the progress of societyby encouraging the active collaboration of our employees? In this regard, he said: "Not everything is technology and work, there are much more important issues in life in which companies must help as much as possible in an altruistic way and thus give back to society what it is giving us, in addition to offering economic development and jobs".

For his part, Miguel Ferrer has acknowledged his desire to take on this challenge once ?he has achieved all his sporting goals and is convinced that it is time to do, through sport, a solidarity action to raise funds to fight against a disease such as cancer, which has touched us all, in one way or another, and which I, in particular, in the figure of my mother, has had to suffer it up to three times? In this sense, he assured: "With the symbolic act of wearing all the names on my T-shirt, I want everyone to feel that they are with me and participate in crossing the finish line of the 6 most famous marathons on the planet".

During the event, the t-shirt with the 600 names of Bosonit and Elliot Cloud employees was handed over to the president of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in La Rioja (AECC), Elena Eguizábal, who expressed her excitement and gratitude for this action that supports the fight against cancer in La Rioja. It is exciting that we can go together around the world representing, supporting and crossing the finish lines of these marathons to make the fight against this disease visible," said Eguizábal. I can only thank Miguel Ferrer, the Riojan companies Bosonit and Elliot Cloud, and everyone who promotes this type of initiative in La Rioja because it shows that we are a very supportive and participative community.

Together for a good cause

The challenge is to run in one year the 42 kilometres of the Six Majors, the most famous marathons in the world that take place in Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York.

On 24 April, Miguel Ferrer ran the first marathon in London, followed by Berlin on 24 September, Chicago on 8 October and New York on 5 November. In 2024, he will run the Tokyo Marathon on 10 March and finish in Boston on 15 April next year.

The moments of his training sessions and races in which he participates can be followed through his Instagram profile (eldeporteyyo) where Miguel Ferrer already has 62,000 followers.

Individuals and companies wishing to join the initiative can contact reto@6destinos1meta.es.

NWorld Business Group

Bosonit is an advanced technology services consultancy that helps companies and institutions in their digital transformation and evolution. It specialises in data processing through Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, and works with advanced technologies in Cybersecurity, Cloud & Devops and Development.

Elliot Cloud is a company that has developed a native solution for infrastructure management in the industrial sector, smart cities and buildings, energy and water. It is a platform that applies IoT technology for the capture, transformation and analysis of data that favours the management, control and optimisation of infrastructure processes.

Bosonit and Elliot Cloud are part of NWorld, one of the leading independent groups formed by 100% Spanish capital. With a global presence, it executes projects in 20 countries, with a special focus on Europe and America, where more than 1,800 professionals work.

Elliot Cloud, a company dedicated to the development of technological solutions for the management of infrastructures, has been part of the I Technical Committee of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities 2023. The event, which was sponsored by Elliot Cloud, brought together more than 120 public and private agents involved in the sector to share best practices, trends and challenges for further progress in the development of Smart Cities in Spain. 

The event was attended by the company's CEO, Óscar Ruiz Chicoteas part of the round table discussion "Water management", in which he spoke about the main challenges and opportunities in the digitalisation of the urban water cycle and how technological solutions help to achieve efficient management of infrastructures. ?Taking a holistic view of the water life cycle and applying predictive technology, which helps to improve water management systems, is key to being economically and environmentally sustainable?said Óscar Ruiz Chicote during his speech.  

A table at which our CEO highlighted that ?et is essential to digitise in a meaningful way. We must analyse the situation, know the needs we have and prioritise the objectives we want to achieve in order to apply technology?. 

Likewise, Elliot Cloud's Director of Administration and Public Services, David Galán Gijón, also took part in the event to share with the attendees the good practice of Elliot Energy as solution for energy and asset management in smart cities within the energy block. Galán defined it as ?a platform that Does it have the capacity to have the information and carry out the analysis of the supply points in aspects such as: consumption, active and reactive ratio, as well as maximum and excess power?.  

Elliot Cloud enables the creation of solutions for the operational and transactional control of infrastructures with different technologies in a common and secure data space for data sharing, allowing management in a smarter, more efficient and sustainable way. 

The Spanish Network of Smart Cities has more than 130 member cities with more than 650 technicians, managers and agents from the public and private sectors. The Association aims to promote and collaborate between cities in order to establish a Spanish network of Smart Cities that promote the automatic and efficient management of urban infrastructures and services.  

Elliot Cloud, dedicated to the technologies applied to infrastructure management, has participated in IWA Digital Water Summit to present their solution Elliot Wateraimed at digitising the entire water cycle. The event was attended by the CEO of the company, Óscar Ruiz Chicoteand the technical director, José Díaz de Greñu.

IWA Digital Water Summitwhich is being held at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao until 2 December, has hosted an exhibitor area where Elliot Cloud has had a stand where it has had the opportunity to explain how the company develops solutions for the management of infrastructures linked to the water, energy, industry, buildings and cities sectors. Elliot Cloud allows the creation of solutions for the operational and transactional control of infrastructures with different technologies in a common and secure data space for data sharing, enabling management in a more intelligent, efficient and sustainable way.

The first edition of this fair welcomed technology providers and companies involved in the digitisation of the global water sector. The IWA Digital Water Summit focused on addressing the importance of applying digital technology to the water sector and conveying the importance of using data to improve its services and operations.

Elliot Water, a solution to optimise water usage

As part of the programme's activities, the technical director of Elliot Cloud, José Díaz de Greñu, gave a talk entitled "Improving the processes of water companies. Energy efficiency, non-revenue water and leaks? in which he explained Elliot Water and how this open source tool helps companies and administrations to digitise the entire water cycle, optimising costs, reducing leaks, managing the assets of organisations and increasing energy efficiency after applying advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to the data captured.

During his presentation, Díaz de Greñu shared two specific use cases where Elliot Water is currently being applied and how its use contributes to saving energy costs, detecting leaks and reducing unaccounted-for water.

Elliot Cloud, with the purchase and integration of Entorno de Medición Inteligente, reinforces its capacity to apply technology to the management of infrastructures linked to the energy sector, water resources, industry and smart cities.

Elliot Cloud continues its commitment to become a benchmark in the application of technology for the intelligent management of infrastructures, with the purchase and integration of Entorno de Medición Inteligente (EMI), a company that offers technological solutions and services for the measurement and remote reading of devices.

With this operation, Elliot Cloud strengthens its capacity to apply technology to infrastructure management, as EMI's activity contributes to cover the digitalisation needs of strategic sectors such as water and energy; through remote reading systems in primary energy meters, secondary energy (heat or DHW), drinking water, providing solutions in the following areas: water and energy, water supply and energy management. remote control of irrigation infrastructuresThe company is also developing other solutions for smart cities and Industry 4.0.

This acquisition is in line with Elliot Cloud's commitment to the IoT market by constantly incorporating talent since its founding in 2019. The purchase involves the integration of EMI in Elliot Cloud and, therefore, the firm maintains its current structure and incorporates six employees to the Elliot team.

Following this operation, Elliot Cloud is able to deploy, with its own teams, Advanced Measurement Infrastructure (AMI) solutions complementing its widely implemented cloud platform for data acquisition and data processing through algorithms based on artificial intelligence, providing a service end-to-end by bringing the physical and digital worlds together in a native way.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is an integrated system of water meters, communication networks and data management systems that enables two-way communication between meter and utility endpoints. Unlike Automatic Meter Reading (AMR), AMI does not require utility or external personnel to collect data. The system automatically transmits the data directly to the cloud platform where, in addition to displaying data, sending alerts, billing consumption, it can detect leaks and water losses after applying the appropriate algorithm.

Technological innovation is thus positioned as a differential factor in this acquisition, so that Elliot Cloud will be able to design and manufacture the necessary equipment to carry out the communication process, simplifying and automating administrative aspects related to the management of data after its reception.

Energy efficiency and optimisation of water use

Environmental awareness and the promotion of energy efficiency driven by public institutions, as well as the regulations of different bodies, both national and community, are creating a favourable scenario for society and companies to actively participate in the changes that are necessary to achieve savings in water and energy management. In this respect, the purchase of the Smart Metering Environment promotes the development of several solutions:

• Tele-reading system for drinking water meters for municipalities and local authorities: through the supply and installation of water meters, remote control of the status of stored water, water intake and consumption in the tank, available volume, detection of leaks and non-revenue water, sectorisation, water quality, chlorine levels, turbidity, etc. is favoured.
• Management of energy consumption in buildings, through the installation of energy meters, cost allocators, domestic hot water and cold water, as well as the management of electricity consumption.
• Intelligent irrigation control systemThis proprietary development, based on a low-latency, highly robust, meshed communications network, allows the control of an irrigation installation for cities or irrigation communities from any location, 24 hours a day, with the web application from a computer, tablet or mobile phone where an irrigation operation can be started, terminated or programmed.

Elliot Cloud, technology applied to infrastructure management

Elliot Cloud is a native solution for infrastructure management. It is the only one that integrates different technologies and links them together. It enables the management, control and optimisation of infrastructure processes in a single, data-driven software that has made the platform the most cost-effective, robust and comprehensive solution on the market.

Elliot Cloud is being used by infrastructures, not just regionally, but globally. The platform currently monitors more than 1 billion pieces of data per day in the industrial world, manages the Sao Paulo's drinking water networkIt manages more than 30 million utility data that improve people's quality of life, and monitors and analyses more than 25 GWP of renewable energy generation and 6 gigawatts of electricity consumption in a more sustainable way.

The company generates all this with technology made in La Rioja by Riojan talent, and with the conviction that a more efficient and sustainable management of infrastructures adds value to all processes, reducing their complexity and increasing their efficiency, competitiveness and profitability.

Elliot Cloud has recently participated in Drone Future 2022the world's leading drone event. This conference, held from 14 to 16 October in the town of Haro (La Rioja), was an opportunity to present Elliot Sarfly our solution for immediate response in disaster and emergency management.  

Our technical director, José Díaz de Greñu, gave a lecture entitled "Introduction to the app of Elliot Sarfly? where he explained the solution and the benefits it provides in the management of critical situations thanks to streaming technology. In addition, he gave a live demonstration of the possibilities of use in different critical situations and the advantages and improvements that its use entails in the management and treatment of an emergency. 

During the day he was accompanied byó Luis Manuel Ruiz, product owner, and our colleagues Eduardo Remirez, Olivia Arnedo and Jaime García. 

What is Elliot Sarfly? 

Elliot Sarfly is a powerful real-time communication and viewing tool that helps in the management of disasters, accidents and emergencies to promote faster and more effective intervention by emergency services through streaming technology. 

A combination of hardware, software and real-time services focused on maximising the efficiency of the emergency team. 

Areas of action 

• Streaming in forest fires. 
• Remote health support. 
• Thermal camera for rescue. 
• Reception of data in a fire. 
• Sneaky activities. 
• Citizen security. 

Elliot Cloud CEO Óscar Ruiz Chicote presented the technological solution in the first webinar on the "Keys to digitalisation in the water sector" organised by Isle Utilities in collaboration with iAgua.

The CEO of Elliot Cloud, has intervened in the first webinar driven by Isle Utilities in cooperation with iWaterunder the title Keys to digitisation in the water sector?. Professionals from the sector also took part in this event to discuss the most relevant technologies and learn about the most innovative case studies in the sector today.

In his intervention, Ruiz Chicote highlighted the adaptation that water management companies are undertaking to compete in an environment marked by climate change, pollution and population growth.

In this context, it has presented the benefits of Elliot Water in the digitalisation of the water sector. This technological solution, created to manage and optimise the complete water cycle, provides a complete vision and coverage of the problems of the entire process in order to relate and orchestrate all the management and operation of the systems and devices involved.

The CEO of Elliot Cloud remarked: "The core of the Elliot Water solution must be the analytical capacity, based on integrated information and processes". He also stated that the proposal is "to have a digital twin to know what is happening in real time, and at the same time, to know what may happen in the future".