MARINEMO
“MARINEMO is a project within the NEMO Open Call #1 which started on 1 March 2024
Project title: Efficient Resource Utilization and Maritime Network Slicing
Plugin for NEMO metaOS
Acronym: MARINEMO
Project’s identification number: NEMO-OC-2023/MARINEMO
Project leader: Dr. Alexandru Vulpe (BEAM Innovation SRL)
Project financed by the European Commision via NEMO project Grant Agreement No. 101070118 through the NEMO Open Call #1
The maritime sector plays a pivotal role in global trade, logistics, and environmental preservation. However, it grapples with the complexities of managing resources efficiently, ensuring safety, and meeting the demands of diverse maritime applications. Traditional communication infrastructures often struggle to deliver real-time connectivity, leading to inefficiencies and potential safety hazards.
In an era driven by digital transformation and data-driven decision-making, the maritime industry faces the pressing need for innovative solutions to enhance resource utilization and communication efficiency. This project, “Efficient Resource Utilization and Maritime Network Slicing Plugin for NEMO metaOS,” seeks to address these challenges by developing a beyond state-of-the-art network slicing plugin tailored for the NEMO metaOS ecosystem.
The proposed plugin takes a bold step forward by integrating into the NEMO metaOS architecture, a versatile and open-source network slicing plugin designed for the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing. This integration will equip maritime stakeholders with the ability to dynamically allocate network resources, creating a tailored and efficient communication environment.
The planned experiment follows an iterative development approach, incorporating feedback from maritime stakeholders, end-users, and the NEMO community. This circular process ensures that the plugin aligns with evolving industry needs and delivers on its promise of resource efficiency and sustainability.
| A1. Requirements Gathering – Conduct research on maritime IoT challenges, existing solutions, and state-of-the-art technologies. Gather requirements for efficient resource utilization and maritime network slicing |
| A2. Architecture and System Design – Design the overall system architecture and system requirements to be achieved |
| A3. Core Functionality Prototyping – Create a minimal yet functional version of the plugin, emphasizing the dynamic allocation of resources, real-time monitoring, and adaptive network slicing and showcasing how the solution addresses specific maritime challenges, such as ensuring low-latency communication for safety-critical applications |
| A4. Initial integration and testing – Set up a controlled testing environment that replicates essential maritime conditions that allows for the evaluation of the MVP’s performance, including its ability to adapt network slices in real-time, allocate resources efficiently, and meet the QoS requirements of critical applications. Testing scenarios that simulate changing maritime conditions and resource constraints will be executed. |
| A5. Protocol Alignment and Compatibility Assessment – The project team will review and analyze the existing protocols, APIs, and communication standards utilized within the NEMO ecosystem. This assessment will help identify areas where our software can align with and seamlessly integrate into the established NEMO protocols without significant modifications |
| A6. Interoperability testing – Test various scenarios and use cases to ensure that data and commands can flow smoothly between the newly developed components and the broader NEMO ecosystem. Verify that the components can effectively utilize resources and network slicing within the NEMO metaOS framework |
| A7. Security and Access Control Integration – Collaborate with the NEMO metaOS team to incorporate security features such as authentication, authorization, encryption into the project’s components. This ensures that maritime data and communication remain secure within the integrated ecosystem. Develop access control policies that align with NEMO’s security standards. |
| A8. Evaluation of results and KPIs – Assessment of the project solution operation in real conditions with a maritime partner, measurement of the defined KPIs, evaluation of the system performance and validation of the overall solution |
| A9. Stakeholder Feedback – Collaborate closely with maritime domain experts, operators, and end-users to collect feedback on the user interface, system functionality, and overall user experience. Evaluate whether the system effectively supports critical maritime applications and decision-making. |
