Beia Consult disseminated SWITCH at BlackSeaCom, speaking about IoT and how SWITCH make use of it to boots its cloud based application on different devices.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is considered one of the major businesses in the field of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) for the next decade. Application areas span from vehicles, to agriculture, health, industrial processes, and smart cities. The IoT market is therefore huge and comprises players of different nature: commercial players (thing manufacturers or service providers), governments and utilities, research institutions, and academia. The role of these players is different, but they all need to cooperate to make IoT a successful business.

The SWITCH project (Software Workbench for Interactive, Time Critical and Highly self-adaptive Cloud applications) addresses the urgent industrial need for developing and executing time critical applications in Clouds. Time critical applications such as disaster early warning, collaborative communication and live event broadcasting can only realise their expected business value when they meet critical requirements for performance and user experience.