Zentrix Lab’s cutting-edge PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) sensor has been selected as one of the top ten European innovations to be showcased at a CEATEC 2024 international event in Japan. This recognition highlights the growing importance of real-time environmental monitoring solutions as Europe and Japan strengthen collaborative efforts in tackling global sustainability challenges.

The sensor, designed by Zentrix Lab engineers, is capable of detecting PFAS contaminants in water sources at trace levels, providing real-time data to aid environmental protection and regulatory compliance. Unlike conventional methods that require laboratory testing and lengthy analysis times, Zentrix’s sensor offers rapid, on-site detection, significantly reducing the time required to respond to contamination threats. This advancement aligns with the EU’s objectives to promote circular economy solutions and minimize pollution in water resources.

In 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency determined “health advisory levels” for two of the most hazardous PFAS chemicals, known as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctyl sulfonate (PFOS). 

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REVIVE (Community-centred language REVItalisation powered by heritage-led storytellling and digital innoVation in Europe) brings together an international consortium of European academic and industry partners from the UK, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and Estonia.

The aim of this project to use 3D immersive technologies and digital innovation such as Extended Reality (XR) technologies, data visualisation and archival research for the protection of Europe’s heritage and linguistic capital. This is aligned with the Faro Convention and the principles of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), and European policies in the context of Endangered Languages and Linguistic Diversity and Digital Society.

Languages are part of our shared Cultural Heritage and gateways to European multicultural identity. Within this framework, Endangered Intangible Heritage and Language (EIHL) communities hold unique traditional knowledge that supports a distinct sense of place-making and long traditions of cultural and heritage sustainability within some of the most vulnerable ecosystems. Although digital technologies provide a uniquely powerful opportunity to revitalise EIHL, previous efforts have predominantly concentrated on preserving grammatical/lexical aspects. There remains untapped potential in exploring the integrated use of immersive technologies and participatory storytelling for linguistic heritage revitalisation through active community engagement.

Zentrix role in the project 

Zentrix Lab is working on the digital platform for preservation of endangered languages in Europe based on two concrete case studies and cultural contexts: Cornish (UK), and Griko (Italy).

Meet the REVIVE team – Members of the Consortium

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PRESS RELEASE
Date: [25 July 2024]

Zentrix Lab Partners in CONFIDENTIAL6G to Secure the Future of 6G Networks

Belgrade, Serbia – Zentrix Lab is proud to reaffirm its role as a consortium partner in the CONFIDENTIAL6G project — “Confidential Computing and Privacy-preserving Technologies for 6G” — funded by the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under Grant Agreement No 101096435.

Through this partnership, Zentrix Lab contributes its expertise in distributed systems, security, and industrial software in order to help ensure that the upcoming 6G ecosystem is resilient, trustworthy and privacy-enabled.

Project Overview

CONFIDENTIAL6G brings together 15 organisations across Europe, spanning industry, SMEs and academia in 8 countries, to develop cryptographic, computing and networking enablers for confidentiality in the cloud-edge-continuum of 6G systems.

Key technology domains include:

• Post-quantum cryptography (PQC), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), secure multiparty computation (SMPC) and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP).
• Confidential computing and secure orchestration on heterogeneous infrastructure (edge, cloud, IoT).
• Confidential networking: quantum-resistant protocols, blockchain/DLT for privacy, federated AI/ML orchestration in mission-critical environments.

2024 Milestones and Activities

In the course of 2024 Zentrix Lab and the consortium have achieved the following:

• Presented CONFIDENTIAL6G at the OpenInfra Edge Computing Working Group where Zentrix Lab, together with Telefónica, introduced the project and engaged with key industry players such as Verizon to discuss federated learning and edge-security.
• Contributed to the “Confidential Computation Toolkit” use case, including architecture work on trusted execution environments and quantum-safe orchestration for industrial/automotive edge scenarios.
• Advanced dissemination and open-source contributions: the newsletter covering months 19-30 reports on joint publications, partner additions (e.g., TU Wien) and ecosystem outreach led by Zentrix Lab.

About Zentrix Lab’s Role

As a partner organisation, Zentrix Lab supports:

• Requirement gathering and architecture definition for secure, distributed and collaborative computing across edge and cloud environments.
• Implementation of middleware and software libraries for confidential containers, federated learning and secure orchestration in multi-tenant environments.
• Contribution to standardisation and exploitation activities ensuring European leadership in secure 6G systems.

Looking Ahead

Over the remainder of the project (running through 2025), Zentrix Lab will focus on:

• Validation and pilot deployments of selected use cases including aviation predictive maintenance, telecom-cloud threat mitigation and connected vehicles with OTA updates.
• Strengthening open-source toolchains and building an ecosystem of users and stakeholders around confidentiality-by-design for 6G.
• Supporting exploitation and business model development to translate research into impact and commercial value.

About CONFIDENTIAL6G

CONFIDENTIAL6G is funded under Horizon Europe via the SNS JU (Grant Agreement No 101096435). The project aims to define, design, implement and validate cryptographic, computing and networking enablers for confidential and privacy-preserving connectivity in future 6G systems. For more information see: https://confidential6g.eu/

Zentrix Lab was honored to be invited by Mobile World Capital Barcelona to participate in Mobile World Congress 2024, reaffirming our role as an active member of European innovation ecosystem, and trusted provider of data-driven services. We have participated to an invited networking event and sessions with the industry.

Zentrix Lab delivers a comprehensive range of services that ensure reliability, security, and performance across modern infrastructure. Our focus is on providing advanced tiers of secure operations and data management, including:

• Secure Tier for End-to-End Authentication and Communication: We implement solutions to ensure robust and seamless identity verification and encrypted communication across networks and platforms.
• Federated Data Access Infrastructure: Our infrastructure supports secure, privacy-preserving data sharing and collaboration between multiple stakeholders and locations, maintaining data integrity and compliance.
• Infrastructure Support and Optimization: We provide scalable network and cloud platform services with real-time monitoring to enhance performance and minimize downtime.
• Platform Integrity Measures: Our trusted execution environments protect critical data and system operations against risks and unauthorized access.
• Advanced Data Verification: We use blockchain-based control mechanisms and zero-knowledge proofs to ensure that data access is secure and auditable.

Spotlight on Confidential6G

One of the key projects we are contributing to is CONFIDENTIAL6G, which aims to develop secure, quantum-safe communication systems. Zentrix Lab’s role focuses on implementing secure networking technologies, privacy-preserving computations, and distributed AI operations to protect both data in transit and system infrastructure.

This initiative reflects our ongoing efforts to help organizations build future-proof infrastructure, capable of handling the evolving security challenges in next-generation networks.

Stay updated as we continue to lead advancements in infrastructure and technology development across various sectors.

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Zentrix Lab is developing Federated Machine Learning Software

Use of available large volumes of user data is very limited due to the privacy concerns, which is the reason why the data are kept isolated in islands of system, not available for secondary use and processing. Furthermore, practice showed that in many scenarios data are unrightfully accessed and shared with third-party, and even, when the consent for the data processing exists, the learning models incorporate proxies that are inexact, biased and often unfair. 

Zentrix role in the project 

Zentrix is developing federated machine learning platform to allow privacy preserving AI and processing of the datasets. Federated learning platform will enable training an algorithm across multiple decentralized edge devices or servers holding local data samples, without exchanging them. 

Furthermore, Zentrix has an important role from the start of the project as a project lead for the dissemination, exploitation and standardization. The task will include participation in (standardization) working groups and delivery of new standards, with a focus on the consent and interoperability ontology for personal data (Electornic Data INterchange) EDI with enforced GDPR. 

HARPOCRATES team and project duration

Harpocrates team comprises a consortium of 13 members, including universities, university hospitals, SMEs and regional government administration bodies from 9 different countries including United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Serbia, Germany, Spain, Italy and France. Coordinator of the project is The University Of Westminster Lbg (UK). Project kickoff is in October and its planned to last until October 2025.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101069535.

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Zentrix Lab is developing an Early Warning System Climate and Detection and Mitigation for Sand Fly-borne Diseases (Environment and health), based on retroactive dataset of climate and vector disease, originating in last 50-100 years back.

CLIMOS aims to assist mitigation of climate- and climate change-induced emergence, transmission and spread of vector-borne and zoonotic pathogens based on Eco-health and One Health approaches. This will be achieved by quantifying climate and environmental-related drivers of sand fly vector populations and the sand fly-borne diseases (SFBDs) across Europe.

The project will provide an Early Warning System (EWS) and decision support frameworks for more accurate climate and health modelling, prognosis of infection risk and range expansions, and adaptation options. Socio-economic analysis and risk assessments will inform decision support providing social and cost-benefit evaluations.

CLIMOS will generate science-based predictions, actions and policy-relevant recommendations to mitigate climate change-induced emergence and spread of SFBDs, by providing: precision vector and infection surveillance methods and networks across 10 countries; creation of big data time series (on vectors, disease, micro and macroclimate, environment and health, and on infection risk) to be available also for use at the EU Climate and Health Observatory, and as European Commission ISA JoinUP open-source tool for public and healthcare; new interoperability data ontologies (Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology [OBO] and Open Geospatial Consortium [OGC] for SFBDs and climate); new innovative technical solutions for vector monitoring (new trapping solution and EWS components); and at least 45 peer-reviewed open access publications, 2 policy reports, and diversity of public engagement materials.

Zentrix role in the project 

Zentrix has an important role as a technical coordinator of the Climos Project.  Using our technical expertise and experience we will develop CLIMOS Early Warning System, assemble prototypes of sensors and traps. Furthermore, we will participate in testing and validation of the Early Warning System with other partners, analyse the hardware production, scale up of the products, traps and materials used.  

Zentrix Lab has participated in the consortium building and drafting phase, and had a leading role on the proposal preparation – using its experience in project writing and project submission process. 

Meet the CLIMOS team – Members of the Consortium

The Consortium of the CLIMOS project has been made up by 29 participants from 16 Countries. Members include prestigious European universities, research institutes, government organizations, non profit organisations and SMEs. Project coordination will be done by  Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

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Zentrix Lab is working with biggest Pharma players in the game to develop technological framework for data harmonisation and reuse in clinical trials.

FACILITATE is a project built on a patient-centered, data-driven, technological platform where dynamic consent allows the returning of clinical trial data to study participants within a GDPR compliant and approved ethical framework. FACILITATE starts off by providing clear rules in a trusted ethical, legal, and regulatory ecosystem before engaging patients as data generators.

This avoids the current situation where clinical data are siloed in separate repositories without any possibility to be used beyond their original single-sided purpose. FACILITATE will provide the technological solutions to comply with GDPR in medical research by building on the empowered stakeholders willingness to share and re-use their data.

The FACILITATE Consortium

The FACILITATE Consortium was constituted by drawing from a broad range of capacities to tackle the ambitious challenges related to future clinical trials, such as preventive, long-term, and real-world evidence trials. The Consortium took an innovative approach to the data return to study participants by asking them what they needed to be implemented to feel in a trusted ecosystem.

This required all Consortium participants to leverage on their existing networks to bring together stakeholders at all levels in the decision-making chain, including patients, healthcare professionals, software designers, clinical trials repositories processors and controllers, ethicists, lawyers, and other active regulators. Having obtained a dynamic consent on the data portability FACILITATE will re-use and cross-reference them with those contained in other repositories including RWE data captured across multiple settings and devices.

Zentrix role in the project 

Zentrix is a leading architecture and technical requirements work, including API specification. In scope of the FACILITATE project, Zentrix development will focus on the data sharing protocols, consent definition and federated platform development.

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Zentrix has participated at the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York City. We are part of the Roundtable on Blockchain for UN Charter Values and SDGs. This event brought together global experts to discuss how blockchain technology can advance the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs).

During the roundtable, Zentrix has advocating the enforcement of better monitoring in mining industry, and the need to introduce mandatory data traceability and transparency of mining operations, which can be achieved with Distributed Ledger Technology. Along these lines, we presented our innovative approach to certification and labelling of sustainable material extraction, developed through the Dig_IT project.

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