O-CEI aims to create an open CEI platform that emphasizes interoperability, security, and reliability. The platform seeks to build an ecosystem to accelerate innovation and adoption of CEI solutions, enable energy flexibility, establish CEI standards, and create viable and scalable business models.
O-CEI platform will be developed based on information collected across six strategic verticals, addressing critical sectors such as electricity grids, electromobility, software-defined vehicles, agriculture, logistics, and urban environments. To this end, O-CEI will conduct 8 large-scale pilots to showcase innovative applications, including optimizing renewable energy grids, promoting sustainable dairy production, enabling smart electric vehicle charging, and managing energy in maritime ports. Through 28 real-world scenarios, the project looks to demonstrate its flexibility and scalability, emphasizing its potential to transform diverse sectors and drive sustainable innovation. The project have also allocated up to 4 million euros for two Open Calls which will start as of January 2026.
O-CEI unites 58 partners from 20 countries, including leading industrial players, research organizations, academic institutions, SMEs, and non-profits.
Eviden - an Atos business - will contribute two major assets to this project:
- Orchestrator, to improve its robustness and interoperability while integrating it into different CEI scenarios. Such scenarios rely on a wide variety of resources, ranging from network or computing capabilities to physical infrastructures or small devices, posing the challenge of deploying applications in the most efficient way without compromising QoS and saving energy.
- Monitoring & Observability framework, to enhance robustness and validate it in operational, high-workload scenarios, that require a continuous monitoring and a near real-time decision making procedure to ensure that the system is performing according to pre-defined parameters.
