TRANSACT: Towards safe and secure distributed cyber-physical systems

Abstract

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are all around us, but due to today's technical limitations and the possibility of human error, we cannot yet tap into their full potential. The EU-funded TRANSACT project aims to develop a universal distributed solution architecture for the transformation of safety-critical CPS from local, stand-alone systems into safe and secure distributed solutions. To that end, TRANSACT will research distributed reference architectures for safety-critical CPS that rely on edge and cloud computing, ensuring that performance, safety, security, and data privacy are guaranteed. Furthermore, by integrating AI services into distributed CPS, TRANSACT will enable the fast development of innovative value-based services and business models.