SMARTY Project: October 2025 Innovations – Secure Edge, AI, and Quantum Security
This month, SMARTY delivered cutting-edge advances in secure networking: 🔗 Explore the roadmap: SMARTY Project
0311, 2025
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3010, 2025
Unlocking Collaboration: SMARTY’s Confidential Workflows & Secure Accelerator Interface!
In today’s complex digital world, tackling big problems often requires multiple partners. But how do you collaborate effectively when each party needs to protect its sensitive data and intellectual property (IP)? At SMARTY, we’re building the future of secure cooperation with our Confidential Workflows! We’ve developed a groundbreaking framework that enables multiple stakeholders to work together on sensitive data without compromising confidentiality. Imagine hospitals training an AI model on patient
2710, 2025
Smarter Monitoring: SMARTY’s Integrated Data Sketches for Traffic and Threat Detection!
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, efficient traffic monitoring is absolutely vital for detecting anomalies and cyberattacks. However, processing network traffic at “wire speed” is a significant challenge. Traditional methods, while effective, often involve using multiple separate data structures, which isn’t always the most efficient approach. At SMARTY, we’re changing the game with our innovative work on Integrated Data Sketches for Traffic Monitoring and Threat Detection! We’re developing a novel, integrated
2310, 2025
Unleashing AI at Wire Speed: SMARTY’s Defensive Wirespeed AI!
The digital world is moving faster than ever, and with it, the challenges of detecting evolving cyber threats. Traditional security methods simply can’t keep up with the sheer volume, speed, and complexity of today’s network traffic. That’s why at SMARTY, we’re developing game-changing solutions, including our innovative Defensive Wirespeed AI! Our new methodology leverages the power of computer vision techniques for real-time network intrusion detection directly at the 5G base
2010, 2025
Securing the Speed: SMARTY’s Approach to Confidentiality in Optical Networks!
Optical networks are the backbone of our high-speed, high-capacity digital world, demanding unparalleled performance and quality. But with their increasing complexity, manual monitoring for issues like ‘soft failures’ is no longer viable. Automated network management is key, but how do we ensure data privacy when sharing network data with third parties for fault detection? At SMARTY, we’re tackling this challenge head-on with our research into the Effectiveness of Confidentiality-Preserving Clustering
1610, 2025
Detecting the Undetectable: SMARTY’s Real-Time GNN for Malicious Traffic!
In an era where cyber threats constantly evolve, traditional detection methods often fall short. At SMARTY, we’re pioneering a powerful new approach: a Real-Time Graph Neural Network (GNN) for Malicious Traffic Detection. This innovative framework is designed to identify sophisticated and unknown attacks by modeling complex relationships within network traffic data. Our GNN-based anomaly detection framework operates through a sophisticated three-stage pipeline: What makes this particularly exciting is our focus
1310, 2025
Seamless Security: Discover SMARTY’s Transparent Communication Protection!
In the complex landscape of digital operations, ensuring your data is secure at all times – whether in use, in transit, or at rest – is paramount. At SMARTY, we’re taking this a step further with our advancements in Transparently Securing Communications, focusing on policy-controlled protection that works without you even noticing! Our objective is to define a Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) in a declarative manner, allowing network communication to
0910, 2025
Quantum-Proof Your AI: SMARTY’s Next-Gen IPsec Tunnels!
The future of computing is rapidly approaching, and with it, the challenge of quantum computers potentially breaking our current public key cryptography methods. At SMARTY, we’re not waiting; we’re actively developing solutions to withstand this “quantum threat” today, especially for confidential AI training! We’re pioneering a Post-Quantum Secure Optical IPsec Tunnel for Confidential AI Training. This isn’t just theory; it’s a vital step towards securing the massive data flows inherent
0610, 2025
Unlocking Secure Data Processing: Dive into SMARTY’s Capability-Based Access Control!
In today’s data-driven world, with the rise of hardware accelerators like GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAs transforming cloud platforms, ensuring stringent security and regulatory compliance (think GDPR and CCPA!) is absolutely critical. At SMARTY, we’re at the forefront of tackling these challenges with our innovative approach to Capability-Based Access Control. Traditional trusted computing often relies on large Trusted Computing Bases (TCBs), offering limited fine-grained control over data processing and inter-device data
0110, 2025
SMARTY’s September 2025: A Month of Innovation in Edge Security
The SMARTY project advances trustworthy edge computing with groundbreaking innovations: 🔗 Explore the roadmap: SMARTY Project
2509, 2025
🛡️ Breaking New Ground in Network Security: Inside SMARTY’s Cutting-Edge Framework for Trustworthy Edge Computing
The digital era demands unprecedented security, scalability, and intelligence in communication networks. In our latest milestone, the SMARTY project unveils the design and preliminary implementation of revolutionary secure networking solutions tailored for next-generation fibre-wireless ecosystems. This work lays the foundation for resilient, AI-driven infrastructures capable of thwarting evolving cyber threats while enabling seamless multi-stakeholder collaboration. 🔒 Core Innovations Highlighted: As 5G/6G networks converge with edge computing, vulnerabilities multiply. SMARTY’s integrated
2708, 2025
Semantic-Driven Interoperability, Embedded AI, and Hardware/Software Integration in SMARTY
Service Mediation via Semantic Web Mappings The SMARTY Project addresses interoperability challenges through declarative semantic-web based service mediation, resolving both syntactic and semantic mismatches across systems. Traditional any-to-any mappings require pairwise translations between systems, leading to scalability issues. Instead, SMARTY adopts an any-to-one approach, where a central RDF-based reference model serves as a semantic pivot. This approach ensures seamless integration across partners’ systems, critical for use cases like secure edge
2208, 2025
Semantic Management for Interoperable AI and Embedded Systems
The SMARTY Project addresses the challenge of interoperability across heterogeneous systems by leveraging semantic web technologies and structured metadata ontologies. This approach ensures seamless integration of hardware, software, datasets, and AI models in secure communication environments. Interoperability Framework Interoperability is achieved through a common metadata model that unambiguously describes digital assets—from hardware components to AI models. This model enables: A central asset catalog (developed in WP5) acts as a command
1308, 2025
SAFE-SU: A Modular Performance Monitor Unit for Secure Hardware Acceleration
The SMARTY Project has developed SafeSU, a Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) designed to enhance observability and controllability in secure hardware accelerators. SafeSU is AMBA AHB/AXI-compliant and integrates with multicore systems to monitor and manage contention, latency, and resource usage in real time. Core Functionality SafeSU consists of three key components: Interfaces & Programmability Key Features Applications SafeSU is particularly valuable in secure SoC designs, where real-time monitoring of multicore interference
1108, 2025
Post-Quantum Cryptography Acceleration for Edge Computing
As quantum computing continues to evolve, existing public-key cryptographic schemes are becoming increasingly vulnerable. To address this, the SMARTY Project is advancing hardware acceleration for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) within edge computing environments. Led by BSC, the effort focuses on integrating PQC capabilities into the SELENE SoC, a RISC-V-based platform, using High-Level Synthesis (HLS) to accelerate the development of hardware modules that implement two NIST standardization candidates: Design Highlights System Integration
0608, 2025
W-Band Wireless Prototype: Advancing Quantum-Resistant Communications
The SMARTY Project is progressing toward a secure, high-speed, short-range wireless link through the development of a W-band prototype (75–110 GHz). This forms a key component of a quantum-resistant transceiver tailored for edge environments where secure communication is required but wired infrastructure is not available. W-Band Prototype: Current Status The initial laboratory setup has demonstrated a unidirectional uplink (UL) over a wireless W-band path, while the downlink (DL) remains fiber-based.
3107, 2025
Building a Quantum-Resistant Transceiver for High-Speed, Secure Wireless Communication
The SMARTY Project is advancing secure communications with the development of a quantum-resistant transceiver designed for short-range, high-speed wireless links. This innovation targets edge computing scenarios where fiber connections are unavailable or impractical, and secure, low-latency data exchange is critical. Technical Overview: Led by TUE, the prototype transceiver operates in the W-band (75–110 GHz) and is designed for chip-to-chip and short-range node communication. A J-band (220–330 GHz) version is also
2807, 2025
Power Meets Security: SMARTY’s Ultra-Low Power Processor for PQC & Edge AI
What if your smart device could learn, protect, and process AI? And all without needing a bulky battery or cloud connection? That’s exactly what we’re building in SMARTY with our Ultra-Low Power Processor for PQC and Edge-AI which is an innovation that combines next-gen security with AI capability in a compact, energy-efficient chip. As quantum computers advance, traditional encryption becomes more vulnerable. But PQC algorithms are computationally intensive. Because we
2707, 2025
From Maps to AR: SMARTY’s Blueprint for Smarter Vehicles
Smarter navigation meets augmented reality! The SMARTY Project is developing cutting-edge software for connected vehicles, blending IGo Classic (precision navigation) with IGo AR (real-time augmented reality guidance). We designed for future V2X (vehicle-to-everything) integration. This allows your car display to overlay real-time AR guidance onto the road! You will be able to see turns, hazards, and points of interest. That’s the vision behind SMARTY’s Connected Vehicle Software, developed with NNG.
2407, 2025
How SMARTY Is Reinventing Secure Elements for the Quantum Era
As quantum computing advances, traditional cryptographic systems face growing risks. In response, the SMARTY Project is developing a Quantum-Resistant Secure Element (QR-SE)—engineered to protect data and communication systems from quantum-enabled attacks. This next-generation SE targets applications where long-term data security is critical, including autonomous vehicles, healthcare, and public sector systems. Core Technical Focus Areas: Current Achievements: What’s Next? SMARTY’s QR-SE reduces PQC key sizes by over 50% without compromising cryptographic
1707, 2025
Why Do Knowledge Graphs Need AI?
As part of the SMARTY Project, we are exploring how AI enhances knowledge graph capabilities—not just for data storage, but for intelligent reasoning, search, and interaction. To support this, SMARTY integrates Metaphactory, an advanced platform developed by metaphacts, designed to enable AI-driven knowledge management at scale. Why Metaphactory? What’s Next in SMARTY? Our team is focused on: We invite you to follow our progress and explore how AI and semantics
1407, 2025
How do we run real-time AI applications at the edge: fast, secure, and with minimal latency?
SMARTY’s Answer: An Enhanced Serverless Engine that’s deeply integrated with In-band Network Telemetry (INT) developed by our partner TKI. In simple terms, this innovation helps us to deploy AI apps without waiting for a full server to spin up, monitor performance in real time, route traffic intelligently across edge and cloud, and scale instantly and heal automatically. Edge-based systems (like those in smart cars or smart cities) don’t have the
1007, 2025
How can organizations securely share data and services without compromising control?
That’s not just the future. It’s what we’re building right now at SMARTY through our work on Decentralized Feature Extraction (DFE), it is led by CNIT. The SMARTY project introduces Declarative Cooperation is a policy-driven framework that: Traditional access controls are rigid and prone to breaches. Declarative Cooperation offers: The first release is expected soon and will be tested in SMARTY’s Telco use case (UC2), where it can boost performance and efficiency in modern