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

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

Following the Industry 4.0 vision of a full digitization of the industry, time-critical services and applications, allowing network infrastructures to deliver information with determinism and reliability, are becoming more and more relevant for a set of vertical sectors.