The main results and achievements of the AIoTwin project were presented on December 5, 2025 at the 9th International Workshop on Advanced Cooperative Systems (IWACS 2025). The event was organized by the DATACROSS project and the Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Cooperative Systems at UNIZG-FER, providing a vibrant platform for engaging the national research community.
Prof. Ivana Podnar Žarko, AIoTwin Project Coordinator, stressed that the project has successfully achieved its primary goal: to significantly strengthen the scientific excellence and innovation capacity of UNIZG-FER in the field of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and edge AI.
The following measurable achievements demonstrate the impact of the AIoTwin project in boosting research capacity and collaboration:
- 7 joint research papers co-authored with researchers from partner institutions
- 6 scientific trainings of doctoral students (short-term staff exchanges) at partner institutions in Europe
- 5 software components released as open-source software in the field of AIoT
- 4 project proposals with AIoTwin partners submitted to calls under Horizon Europe
- 3 successful international summer schools organized (Šibenik 2023, Dubrovnik 2024, Split 2025)
Special attention was given to present key results from the project research component: the Orchestration Middleware for Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum. Prof. Podnar Žarko highlighted advancements in:
- Reactive Orchestration for Hierarchical Federated Learning: Methods for dynamically managing federated learning pipelines to ensure resilience and communication efficiency.
- QoS-Aware Load Balancing in the Computing Continuum: Techniques for maintaining predefined service quality metrics (QoS) across heterogeneous cloud and edge resources under variable workloads, nodes and network conditions.