ALTERNATIVE will develop an innovative platform able to detect the cardiotoxicity of chemicals and their biotransformation products. The novel platform will enable regulators and industry to identify, quantify and prevent cardiotoxic co-exposures to industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals in a cost-effective way. ALTERNATIVE will particularly focus on cardiotoxic effects on the older people, which is of high relevance in view of the aging European population and the high spread of cardiovascular diseases.

Within the scope of the project and cloud data platform will be developed to enable deployment, operation and access of the machine learning data modes as well as to facilitate the data gathering and analysis between ALTERNATIVE partners.

Milestones:

• Implementation of Cloud Data Platform

• Integration of ML model and data source into the cloud data platform

Tasks:

• Consortium coordination for SI ES TI EOOD

• Management of the development team

The project is for creating an environment and managing stable coin, that will be used in payments between telco operators.

The main purpose is to eliminate cases of change in the exchange rate of the individual currencies that are used under the contracts between telcos, for example change in rates between EUR and USD.

Core components:

• Node.js application, that connects to Celo Alfajores Testnet

• Secure the application with ingress controller (TLS/HTTPS) and management of certificates

Technologies:

• Celo Alfajores Testnet

• Node.js

• AWS EKS cluster

• Ingress-controller with cert management

Tasks:

• Kubernetes deployments and automation package

• Prepare network environment on AWS

• Build docker images and store them on docker image registry

• Deploy solution on AWS

The project explores and researches different DLTs, measures them for performance and develops use cases for different Telco implementations. One goal of the project is to develop a platform to collect, process and store telco data on ledger, from the Telco?s network in real time. 

The platform generates Benchmark Reports that cover network performance and amount of transactions incl. requests/responses.

Core components:

• HL Fabric test network incl. orderers, organizations with 1 or more peers each, smart contract chaincode installed on all peers

• Distributed testing with HL Caliper with workers from different locations (TZ)

Technologies:

• Hyperledger Fabric, Celo network

• Measure tools: HL Caliper, JMeter

Tasks:

• Kubernetes deployment

• Network setup and configuration on AWS

• Building docker images and maintain the registry

• Automation of deployment

Implementation of open market specification for information exchange about electricity usage on the Bulgarian energy market.

Implementation of 6 modules according to the ESO specification:

• settlement

• billing

• metering

• invoice

• data exchange

• User Management and Authentication

Technologies:

• Docker/Docker-compose

• DotNet Core 6.0

• XML/XSD

• REST API

Tasks:

• Project management

• Task allocation for the technical team; code reviews

• Creation of technical specifications according to the higher level ESO documents for each of the modules

• Integration of production server on client?s premises

• Working on the server and frontend code bases

DIMAS project is focused on development of Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) use cases including Decentralized identifiers (DIDs), that can be used to enable self-sovereign identities in use cases.

Core components:

• Issuer: issue credentials, verify identities and use schema

• Holder: acquires, store and present identity

• Verifier: verify identifiers and schema

• Verifiable Data Registry: in our case DLT (Hyperledger Indy network or local VON network), that is used to maintain Identifiers and Schema

Technologies:

• Node.js

• ACA-py

• k3s Kubernetes

• Hyperledger Indy DLT

Tasks:

• Kubernetes deployments

• Building docker images and maintain the registry

• Automation of deployment of the organization that joins the network

• Deployment and joining the network of demo organization

• Setting up network environment on AWS

Project management and technical architecture of a cloud-native Multi-Cloud orchestrator. Main responsibilities include the integration of major public cloud provider APIs, designing the network topology using VPN, IP Routing, DNS, TLS, centralized IDM and Monitoring layers. Implementation of Multi-Cloud capable services like DNS, Monitoring and Kubernetes. Management of the developer team for backend and frontend modules, deployment via CI/CD, error handling. Integration of OpenIDConnect provider. Implementation of multi-tenant functionality.

Technologies:

• Cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure, Alicloud

• Terraform

• Ansible

• Docker und Kubernetes

• Helm

• Vuejs

• Django and Python

• CI/CD

Tasks:

• Project management

• Testing

Architecture and implementation of Blockchain platform for signing Roaming and mobile Data contracts between MNO worldwide based on Hyperledger Fabric. Adaptation for the Hyperledger project to the NOMAD use case, including migration to Kubernetes orchestrator, setting up core and operator network components, creating development and installation packages and documentation. Supporting client and partner MNO technical teams by installing the NOMAD artifacts on public and private infrastructure, supporting technical teams with running operator NOMAD components. Active role in technical discussions with GSMA and assisting the governing body and partners with technical decisions and discussions pertaining to the technical realization of the network and blockchain technologies.

Technologies:

• Docker and Kubernetes

• Public cloud: Open Telekom Cloud, AWS, GCP

• Private cloud

• Bash scripting

• NGINX

• MySQL

• HLF CA

• OpenSSL

• Golang, NodeJS

The DataLab project provides Big Data infrastructure as a service to clients. The platform provides multi-tenant environments to end users with pre-installed and configured infrastructure including Apache Hadoop (Cloudera Enterprise and Hortonworks), various big data tools, frameworks and development environments.

Our role was to design and implement the software as a service layer running on top of the OpenStack infrastructure, including the management of the Hadoop distributions, user rights and access, integration of analytics tools with big data clusters and resolving user issues within the platform.

Activities:

• Installation and configuration of Hadoop distributions: Cloudera Enterprise and Hortonworks

• Management of Hadoop Activities: HDFS, Hive, Spark, Impala, etc.

• Resource Management with OpenStack, including performance analysis, resource utilization and backup

• Remote access using VPN and HTTPS

• Communications with partners, clients regarding technical requirements

• Automatisation of user management

Technologies:

• Cloudera Enterprise, Hortonworks

• HBase, HDFS, Hive, Hue, Impala, Oozie, Solr, Spark, Sqoop, ZooKeeper, Pig, Kafka, Storm, Flume, Cloudera Manager

• Ansible

• Open Telekom Cloud

• LDAP, Kerberos

• OpenStack, KVM, Virtualization

• Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows Server 2012

• Gitlab, Jenkins