Recently the first open-source software was released as part of the FERARI project ("Flexible Event Processing for Big Data Architectures"), Poslovna Inteligencija reported on its web site on Tuesday.
Included in the project are the German Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Intelligente Analyse und Informationssysteme, IBM Haifa Research Labs, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technical University of Crete, and Hrvatski Telekom.
The project is to be funded for a total of 36 months as part of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7) and was launched due to the growing role of direct machine-to-machine communication (M2M).
"FERARI is intended to provide a general sense of relief to data processing systems. The individual sensors of the associated machines ultimately decide for themselves if they want to communicate the information they collect and which other components within the system they consider it relevant to," comments Dr. Michael Mock, project manager at Fraunhofer IAIS.
This means that users can get started immediately after the download without the need for any further installations. Supplementary video documentation shows how the initial applications can be developed with just a few steps and subsequently tested using the data sets supplied as examples. The idea behind the easy access is to advance the distribution of modern Big Data applications for science and economy as widely as possible, Mock said.
Poslovna Inteligencija CEO Drazen Orescanin expressed satisfaction that the company had been given an opportunity to participate in the project and that the work conducted so far had been positively assessed.
The FERARI project was launched in February last year.