Italtel Among the Partners of AI@EDGE, the EU Project on AI for Edge Computing

 AI@EDGE aims at achieving an impact at European level on relevant industrial aspects of AI for networks paradigms, in beyond 5G.

Artificial Intelligence systems are considered a corner stone of the fourth industrial revolution.This trend has been acknowledged also by the EU Commission that pointed out how high-performance, intelligent, and secure networks are fundamental for the development and evolution of the multi-service Next Generation Internet. This position is further confirmed by the 5G-PPP initiative that highlighted how smart networks and services are essential for the digital transformation of all sectors of our economy and society, for addressing societal challenges, and for protecting and empowering European citizens to participate in the digital society.

Its main objectives are:

• bring distributed AI/ML methods into the edge computing environment to efficiently harness the available computing and communication capabilities;
  
  
• combine a mix of cutting-edge cloud computing and 5G concepts with a reusable, secure, and privacy preserving AI/ML layer;
  
  
• provide an effective network automation platform that can be used to develop and deploy AI-enabled cloud-native applications;
  
  
• promote the vision of a new generation of AI-enabled applications obtained through the chaining of Artificial Intelligence Functions (AIFs);
  
  
• design and validate a novel network automation platform supporting all aspects of network and service management (including AIF orchestration).

The team of partners of AI@EDGE will design, prototype, and validate a network and service automation platform capable of supporting flexible and programmable pipelines for the creation, utilization, and adaptation of secure and privacy-aware AI/ML models. Also, they will use this network and service automation platform to orchestrate AI-enabled end-to-end applications. The industrially solutions developed in the project are going to be demonstrated through the deployment of four use cases that will act as validation frameworks.

Source: Italtel media announcement