SPICE

The SPICE project addresses the growing scale and complexity of the Cloud, which has led to the emergence of Edge and IoT computing within the “compute continuum” — an ecosystem crucial for applications relying on sensor data and time-critical, AI-assisted data processing. The aim is to enable intelligent decision-making and provide deeper insights across this continuum, while overcoming the numerous technical, operational, and organizational challenges in assembling and maintaining robust data pipelines.

SPICE

Objectives

The SPICE project’s core mission is to radically simplify complex, distributed data processing and deliver a secure, trustworthy, and adaptable platform for SMART data pipelines.

Key objectives include:

  1. AI-assisted composition of smart data pipelines for streamlined and automated configuration of complex workflows.
  2. Optimized execution environments and resource management to enable secure, smart, and efficient data processing across IoT–Edge–Cloud.
  3. Secure and trustworthy design ensuring quality, performance, and dependability in data analytics.
  4. Establishing an innovation transformation incubator to foster adoption and exploitation of the project’s outcomes.

Relevance

Data pipelines are the backbone of intelligent data processing in the compute continuum. They systematically ingest, move, process, and analyze vast volumes of data from heterogeneous and widely dispersed sources, leveraging both compute and storage capabilities across IoT, Edge, and Cloud environments.

The project aims to deliver a human-centric, trustworthy, energy-aware, and fair AI system for distributed industrial and scientific decision-making.

The SPICE platform will provide:

  • A semantically enriched, platform-agnostic, and secured data pipeline composition and execution environment.
  • Automatic resource management tailored to performance and quality demands.
  • Compatibility with European initiatives such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and European common data spaces.

By addressing scalability, adaptability, and trustworthiness, SPICE will remove barriers to widespread adoption of advanced data pipelines and set a new standard for distributed AI-driven data processing.