Transparency, collaboration, security, and digital sovereignty are the open source values that are also important to many European countries and institutions.

The CROSSCON is a research project that targets developing research ideas into practical techniques and supporting prototypes, and the level of ambition is to validate results in lab conditions that are representative of a complex IoT system (i.e., technology readiness levels TRL 4 and TRL5).

In recent years, the development and refinement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have revolutionised various fields, including computer vision.