Hydra is affilliated with the following programs and organisations:
The Hydra coordinater FhG FIT is a member of ARTEMISIA, the association for R&D actors in the field of ARTEMIS: Advanced Research & Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems.
The Hydra middleware allows developers to create inclusive applications with a high degree of accessibility for all. The Hydra project supports the Commissions campaign: eInclusion - be part of it!
The Hydra project is part of the Cluster of European projects on the Internet of Things. The Cluster aims to promote a common vision of the Internet of Things.
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Dependable embedded real-time systems are an enabling technology for the
information society. Their economic impact reaches far beyond their
immediate market size, since the success of many industrial products
depends on the provision of reliable control systems. As the rapidly
growing functional and non-functional system requirements cause an
enormous increase in system complexity, it is necessary to move into
component-based design: to provide pre-validated hardware and software
components and an appropriate integration methodology for the design of
next generation dependable embedded real-time systems. The major
objective of the project DECOS is to perform research in and to develop
a set of generic hardware and software components within the framework
of the Time-Triggered Architecture.
DECOS is an integrative project that will develop the
basic enabling technology to move from a federated distributed
architecture to an integrated distributed architecture in order to
reduce development, production and maintenance cost and increase the
dependability of embedded applications in many application domains.
DECOS plans to develop technology invariant software interfaces and
encapsulated virtual networks with predictable temporal properties such
that application software can be transferred to a new hardware and
communication base with minimal effort (legacy re-use). The DECOS
methodology and the tools will be evaluated by building three
applications in the automotive, aerospace and control domain,
respectively. The components and tools developed within DECOS will
cover: cluster design, middleware and code generators, validation and
certification as well as systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) for high dependability
applications.
Relevance to HYDRA:
DECOS introduces the
approach to cost-efficient design and developement of embedded systems
providing the architecture and services in a domain and platform
independent manner. The main importance is the use of model-based
tool-chain developed by the DECOS project.
The Hydra project is co-funded by the 
