Ongoing
| ID | ANO INICIAL | ANO FINAL | DESCRIÇÃO |
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| 1 | 2022 | 2025 | APO DIGITAL SYSTEM - Digital interfaces for post-occupancy assessment of environmental quality in housing |
| Role: Coordinator within FACOM Funding Agency: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estados de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) Funding Type: Public Environmental quality in housing has been a relevant topic in national and international research, notably guided by global and local sustainable development agendas aiming at its complete achievement. In other words, it is important to evaluate the environmental quality of housing since housing influences residents' daily lives in multiple aspects, profoundly marking their quality of life and their expectations and possibilities for future development. On the other hand, evaluation processes have increasingly appropriated new information, communication, and interface technologies to achieve their goals, becoming more efficient, educational, and collaborative. Therefore, this research project aims to: (i) improve the APODIGITAL Web SYSTEM - Post-Occupancy Assessment System in digital media and (ii) develop an artifact that allows assessing the environmental quality of apartment buildings in use and whose feasibility, tested in a case study in the city of Uberlândia (MG), can support its future replication in the national territory. It is intended to develop the assessment instrument (artifact) oriented to item 11 (sustainable cities and communities) of the Sustainable Development Goals - SDG/2030 Agenda. The methodology will be supported by Design Science Research and operationalized by interdisciplinary work teams in Architecture and Urbanism, Design, and Computer Science. The work will provide users with an assessment tool on "living in an apartment?" via the internet and smartphones, exploring interactive resources and friendly, collaborative, and intuitive digital interfaces. Through the information collected by the system, it aims to provide statistical and scientific data that can increase the environmental quality of projects in the area and guide the establishment of public policies, standards, and legislation. |
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| 2 | 2022 | 2025 | Intelligent Management of Autonomous Network Slices Across Multiple Domains (INTERCESSION) |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ) Funding Type: Public Sharing network resources is critical to providing personalized connectivity for future applications. One technique that has received significant efforts in the context of 5G is network slicing. State-of-the-art slicing techniques are found in private domains, such as data centers or specialized network segments. However, challenges persist, such as separating the given and control planes in these slices, especially the behavior that crosses multiple domains. A network slice must sustain connectivity and service level agreement parameters even under adverse conditions. Challenges include the specification and monitoring of parameters that support mechanisms based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to act in time on the network slices so that they behave autonomously. The need to investigate technologies and methods for their management in multiple domains also emerges as a challenge. This project aims to research, design, and experiment with an architecture for the intelligent management of slices of autonomous networks deployed in multiple domains using AI and autonomous computing techniques. This architecture will use monitoring techniques capable of measuring metrics in different domains and converging them so that the network slices between operators and their internal segments are maintained autonomously and are configured, optimized, and cured without human intervention. For this, the integration of methods accepted by the community, such as the NASOR framework and the SONAr architecture, is envisaged as a basis for managing autonomous network slices between multiple domains. Using three research fronts focusing on AI, monitoring and managing network slices, and an experimental approach, the project will build on existing software components and incorporate new methods and techniques developed in these research fronts, contributing to advances in this strategic area of knowledge. |
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| 3 | 2022 | 2023 | Smart Smoke-Dry Process |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Agência Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Industrial (ABDI) em conjunto com Brazil Foods (BRF) Funding Type: Public and Private Through IoT and AI, this project aims to reduce weight variability in the cooking and smoke sausages processes. Carried out in conjunction with Brazil Foods (BRF) and with the support of the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI), it is a project that involves industry, government, and academia with solutions within the scope of industry 4.0. |
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| 4 | 2022 | 2023 | Telco Evolution |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Instituto de Inovação BRAIN Funding Type: Privado The general objective of this project involves research activities related to the evolution of telecommunications networks through the use of architectures, methods, and techniques grouped in software components that can later be integrated into the telecommunications network. It is an international collaboration project with BRAIN, the Innovation Institute of Algar Telecom, the Telecommunications Institute of the University of Aveiro in Portugal (ITAV), and the UFU. BRAIN is the project's funder. |
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| 5 | 2021 | 2024 | BRASIL6G |
| Role: Coordinator within FACOM Funding Agency: Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (MCTI) e Rede Nacional de Pesquisa (RNP) Funding Type: Public This project aims to make scientific and technological contributions to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to develop advanced solutions for 6th generation mobile communications networks in Brazil's telecommunications sector. These contributions will be made through proposals for technical solutions that may be incorporated into the future standard of these networks and through the training of human resources in this area. Another objective is to define the necessary steps for the future generation of mobile networks to meet the applications and use cases needed for the country's economic and social development. This project also aims to ensure the mastery of a crucial technology for national security. The fundamentals of 6G networks go beyond telecommunications and cover artificial intelligence, spatial positioning, sensing, image processing, high-definition maps, and intelligent materials. This research project will explore these different fronts, proposing technological solutions and applications that align with the national scenario and training qualified personnel to implement 6G networks in Brazil. |
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| 6 | 2021 | 2026 | Slicing Future Internet Infrastructures (SFI2) |
| Role: Coordinator within FACOM Funding Agency: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Funding Type: Public The technological evolution centered on the concepts of Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Cloud Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and, more recently, the fifth generation of mobile telecommunications networks, known as 5G, has had a significant impact on the Internet. This impact comes not only from creating new technologies, communication protocols, security solutions, energy efficiency mechanisms, and others but also from the need to jointly operate this plethora of innovations with each other and with the legacy of the Internet. As a result, several experimentation environments with different scopes have emerged in Brazil, aiming at the research of subsets of technologies, among which: FIBRE, experimentation in alternatives to the current architecture of the Internet; FUTEBOL, experimentation in telecommunications networks involving optical and wireless communications; CloudNEXT, investigation in cloud computing with hardware resource provisioning (bare-metal); FIWARE, a platform for the development of applications of the future based on the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and cloud computing; 5GINFIRE, experimentation in 5G networks, based on NFV and the use of the cloud; and lastly, NECOS focused on "slicing" and virtualizing cloud computing resources. In this scenario, the main objective of this project is to provide a solution for the provision of advanced network scenarios and the allocation of computational resources through the slicing (slicing) of these experimentation infrastructures, enabling the simplified creation of complex networks with minimal effort. From the intelligent orchestration of this multidomain slicing, configuration offers a Slice-as-a-Service (SlaaS) for developers of Future Internet applications. |
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| 7 | 2019 | 2024 | New Materials and Technologies for the Industry and a Connected Society (UFU-CAPES.PrInt-P7) |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Funding Type: Public This project is within the UFU Internationalization Program (UFU-CAPES.PrInt). The project aims to prospect and implement enabling technological solutions for application in industry and a society in which people, machines, and systems are interconnected. In this context, new technologies will be developed to produce new materials, intelligent materials, and nanomaterials, aiming at their application in the most diverse areas of the industry. Use computation and computational modeling to evaluate properties and mechanical behavior of materials applied to the petroleum and aeronautical industry. Employ computing technologies from the most diverse fields to support new networks and applications of the future, such as those based on the Internet of Things using techniques such as machine learning and bio-inspired computing. |
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| 8 | 2020 | 2023 | Use of Artificial Intelligence to Increase Productivity in Welding (Smart Welding) |
| Role: Coordinator within FACOM Funding Agency: Petróleo Brasileiro (PETROBRAS) Funding Type: Private The general objective of this project is to use Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence combined with instrumentation and a dedicated control for developing welding processes with high productivity. Still, that demands low investment (compared to non-traditional approaches) for use in welded construction, assembly of structures, and maintenance procedures. All these applications focused on the Oil, Gas, and Biofuels Sector and the Naval Sector (lower risks of failure and investment, qualifying them for use in the short and medium term). |
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| 9 | 2018 | 2022 | BRASIL5G and Beyond |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (MCTI) Funding Type: Public The BRASIL5G and Beyond project aim to carry out different actions articulated with other projects and initiatives that involve different Brazilian and international actors related to 5G, such as government (various ministries, standardization, and regulation bodies), academia, industry, civil society organizations, companies, and society generally present in different verticals. The project aims to contribute to forming a Brazilian ecosystem related to 5G and its evolution. |
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Finished
| ID | ANO INICIAL | ANO FINAL | DESCRIÇÃO |
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| 10 | 2021 | 2021 | VINEVI: An Intelligent Compute and Network Monitoring Architecture |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Rede Nacional de Pesquisa (RNP) Funding Type: Public Understanding the state of a system is essential to ensure reliability and stability. Information about system health and performance helps entire teams react to issues and provides security when making changes to your services. One of the best ways to gain system insight is through robust monitoring that gathers metrics and data visualization and alerts operators when something appears wrong. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an emerging technology area that heavily influences the world of computer networks. Such technology is changing how networks are designed, managed, and primarily monitored, transforming the networking industry into a virtualization approach. In addition to the network, monitoring applications and services are also essential. The combination of network and application monitoring and using artificial intelligence techniques, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), are fundamental components for current and future networks, where virtualization and containerization will increasingly be present. The VIrtualized NEtwork VIsion architecture (VINEVI) project seeks intelligent monitoring of infrastructure, networks, and applications in both cloud and fog. The VINEVI platform combines market components widely used in monitoring with Packet Vision, a CNN-based technique that allows classifying network traffic using computer vision techniques. The objective of the project is to implement and experience this platform in the network maintained by RNP. |
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| 11 | 2019 | 2021 | AgroConnect: A Large Scale IoT Pilot in Agriculture |
| Role: Coordinator within FACOM Funding Agency: Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) em conjunto com NOKIA Funding Type: Public and Private The Internet of Things (IoT) is a fundamental technological pillar in the next generation of services and applications that will merge the real and virtual world. Large-scale pilots allow you to integrate different solutions and test them in a real environment to assess the impact of technologies, their benefits, and the challenges associated with their application. In Brazil, the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) promotes a set of large-scale IoT pilots. The objective of the AgroConnect project is to develop a pilot platform capable of integrating different solutions based on the Internet of Things (IoT) focused on agribusiness and testing various connectivity technologies that enable monitoring, through sensors and additional equipment, of the rural environment to increase productivity and profitability of production in the field. For this, the project will implement in a model farm several IoT solutions. It will build a connectivity network allowing data collection using different communication technologies. It will seek to perform simulations and tests to identify the technologies with the best performance from the conditions of use. AgroConnect also aims to identify opportunities and barriers to using different IoT solutions, considering security and privacy aspects. The project also aims to create a set of lessons learned and best practices to contribute to the definition of a business model that involves IoT solutions and allows their diffusion in the field. |
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| 12 | 2018 | 2021 | Testbed for Experimentation in Industry 4.0 (TIED4.0) |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Agência Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Industrial (ABDI) Funding Type: Public The TIED4.0 project aims to unite skills in terms of physical, technical, and personnel infrastructure for the research and development of innovative technology, devices, and applications for Industry 4.0 through the creation and use of an experimental environment (testbed) that allows the business project from different solutions created based on the needs of companies with the support of startups and academia. Since its conception, the project was born from the junction of the different sectors represented by Brasil Foods (BRF), BRAIN, FIEMG, and UFU. TIED4.0 seeks to create a technical and business model for exploring Industry 4.0 based on technological convergence, centered on the different partners involved, with a focus on aggregating new industries and facilities, further expanding its impact on the Brazilian industry. |
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| 13 | 2017 | 2020 | Future Internet Exchange Point (FIXP) |
| Role: Coordinator within FACOM Funding Agency: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) Funding Type: Public The Internet is undoubtedly one of the most important artifacts of human ingenuity. However, its main protocols remain the same as they were decades ago, preventing its modernization. Concerned with this stagnation, many initiatives worldwide began studies of new protocols to replace the current TCP/UDP/IP. These are the so-called Future Internet Architectures (FIA). Among them are the Brazilian proposals ETArch and NovaGenesis (NG). There are dozens of projects in Europe and the United States, including RINA, XIA, and CCNx. Each FIA has a particular focus and its requirements, principles, etc. All of them advance in many aspects when compared to the current Internet. Integrating all elements into a single proposal seems impossible at the current technological stage, and many question whether it is necessary. Therefore, a set of FIAs can be expected to coexist with each other and the current Internet (including IPv6). This project aims to study scenarios of joint use of NG, RINA, and ETArch architectures, specifying and implementing interconnection points called Future Internet Exchange Points (FIXPs). Finally, a simple application will be developed to test the interconnection of FIAs through RNP's FIBRE network. |
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| 14 | 2017 | 2019 | FI-GUARDIAN/Hydro: Environmental IoT Combo Specialized in Water Resources |
| Role: Coordinator Funding Agency: Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas/Rio de Janeiro (SEBRAE/RJ) Funding Type: Public The project's objective is to develop IoT devices specialized in environmental sensing, aiming at intelligent water use management. The devices will be able to use different communication technologies, such as SIGFOX and NarrowBand IoT, prepared for using the next generation of mobile telecommunications networks, called 5G. These devices will be able to communicate with each other and with an IoT platform using APIs and open data models based on FIWARE technology. The solution composed of hardware and software, called environmental combo, will allow quantitative and qualitative water monitoring in a georeferenced way along the production and consumption chain. |
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| 15 | 2017 | 2020 | Evolving FIRE into a 5G-Oriented Experimental Playground for Vertical industries (5GINFIRE) |
| Role: Coordinator within UFU Funding Agency: Horizon 2020 (H2020) Funding Type: Public Build and operate an Open and Extensible 5G NFV-based Reference (Open5G-NFV) ecosystem of Experimental Facilities that integrates existing Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities with new vertical-specific ones but also lays down the foundations for instantiating fully softwarised architectures of vertical industries and experimenting with them. The initial instantiation of the Open5G- NFV ecosystem will be driven by the automotive vertical deployed across state-of-the-art 5G infrastructures. However, it will also be as generic as possible to host other verticals, such as Smart Cities. |
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| 16 | 2015 | 2017 | FI-GUARDIAN - Scalable and georeferenced platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) |
| Role: Coordinator within UFU Funding Agency: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(CNPQ) em parceria com a VM9 Funding Type: Public and Private The project aims to expand the FI-GUARDIAN platform towards the Internet of Things (IoT) by coupling different digital communication channels with various stakeholders (citizens, organizations, and public authorities) to monitor and control processes based on remote sensing networks. The project uses an experimental approach centered on using the FIWARE platform. |
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| 17 | 2014 | 2016 | FIWARE: Future Internet Core Platform |
| Role: Coordinator within UFU Funding Agency: 7th Framework Programme (FP7) Funding Type: Public Using a dissemination model whose focus is the potential local ICT ecosystem, the project aims to create the conditions to support local entrepreneurs' development of innovative services and applications. This will be done by exploring software components (Generic Enablers and Specific Enablers made under the FIWARE project to reduce the time to market. The project will expand the FIWARE infrastructure by implementing FILAB nodes in Brazil, creating conditions for entrepreneurs to reach the market. The research aims to collaborate with initiatives related to the Future of the Internet, promoting the use of technology that can provide a better life by exploring opportunities related to Smart Cities, the Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Applications, and Mobile Devices. These actions will contribute to implementing the Brazilian Regional Centers for Future Innovation on the Internet (FIILAB). |
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| 18 | 2014 | 2018 | Adaptive Architecture for Convergent Networks (A2RCON) |
| Role: Researcher Funding Agency: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Funding Type: Public Telecommunications are currently undergoing a process of technological revolution, particularly in the field of converged communications. The rapid transition of successive generations of mobile communications, with the changes to the so-called 3G and 4G (or LTE) technologies, and soon 5G, has imposed enormous challenges on operators and the entire communications industry. The technological reality reveals profound changes in terms of the technologies present in the operators' network: the shift to packet networks; SIP technologies; the access control, identity management, and single-sign-on aspects; the heterogeneity of access to integration with content distribution systems; triple-play and quad-play offerings - are some of the factors that have led to significant changes in operator networks. The A2RCON project aims to develop a reconfigurable network architecture optimized for future usage scenarios, where Software Defined Networks (SDN) mechanisms are applied in vital aspects of the network to provide efficient video support. Among its specific objectives, the project aims to develop access and transport mechanisms and infrastructure, which support the enormous multimedia traffic that networks are beginning to face, and an approach that allows the use of evolutionary (reconfigurable) infrastructures, minimizing time and cost. Evolution of the converged network, maintaining proximity to international trends of future 5G networks. |
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| 19 | 2012 | 2013 | EDOBRA: Extending and Deploying OFELIA in BRAzil |
| Role: Researcher Funding Agency: 7th Framework Programme (FP7) Funding Type: Public EDOBRA Project brings together a team of researchers from three different institutions in Portugal and Brazil: the Telecommunications Institute (IT), in Aveiro, Portugal, the University of São Paulo (USP), and the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), both in Brazil. This proposal aims to expand the capability of Software Defined Networking approaches, such as OpenFlow, allowing support for the simultaneous use of different access networks using mechanisms based on IEEE 802.21 and its integration with the Entity Title Architecture, an architecture for next-generation networks that provides Multicast and Mobility based on this OpenFlow substrate. In addition, EDOBRA aims to expand the physical coverage of the OFELIA experimental facility by deploying a new node in Brazil, which will expand research and experimentation in the Internet area of the future, providing these approaches to the entire research community. |
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