The telecom sector continues its transition towards virtualizing infrastructure. The digitalization of assets and their commercialization in a marketplace is expected to play a central role in 6G networks.

EU-funded researchers have developed a cloud-based platform to reduce energy use in buildings and battery energy storage systems to benefit end users and utility providers.

Sarang Kahvazadeh, Vitor B. Souza, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Eva Marín-Tordera, Jordi Garcia, Rodrigo Diaz. An SDN-based Architecture for Security Provisioning in Fog-to-Cloud (F2C) Computing Systems. CIPSEC project.

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