Substrato de red de las cosas y de dispositivos perimetrales inteligente para un mundo digital sostenible (IGNEOUS)
Funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (PID2023-146066OB-I00 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033), FEDER, EU.
September 2024 – December 2027

[ Objectives | Methodology | People | Achievements ]

• Characterisation of edge- and things-centric computing systems: An analysis of envisioned scenarios and current solutions, identifying their potential and limitations.

• Research on algorithms and systems for distributed intelligence and adaptability: Determine the building blocks for enhancing edge and things-centric services with machine learning capacity and adaptability, leveraging edge and IoT mesh networks.

• Prototypes and implementations: Design and develop the components that provide machine-learning enhancements for integrating edge wireless networks and IoT devices.

• Evaluation and validation: The evaluation of the prototypes developed for assessing performance, capacity and limitations of things- and edge-centric computing.

The project applies an experimentally-driven research methodology with a strong emphasis on experimentation in real environments. Therefore, the key work packages are of the type Research, Development and Evaluation, to improve the proposed components, protocols and algorithms.

Roger Baig, Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern, Felix Freitag, Roc Meseguer

• eXO: A commons-based community network Internet Service Provider, description and subscribers usage patterns,
  by R. Baig, Cerdà-Alabern, L., Vílchez, P., and Foglia, E. Computer Networks, vol. 254, p. 110765, 2024. (open access)

• Demo: Edge Federated Learning over a LoRa Mesh Network by Nil Llisteri Giménez, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro, Mennan Selimi. In The Ninth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), Rome, Italy, December 4-7, 2024. (Paper). (Video).

• Demo: Digital Product Passport for Circular ICT Products by Felix Freitag and Leandro Navarro. In ITU-ETSI Symposium on ICT Sustainability: Standards Driving Environmental Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland. December 11-12, 2024. (Demo).(Event).

• Presentation “Digital Product Passport for the Environmental Sustainability and Circularity of ICT Goods: Standards and Opportunities” in Session 7: Digital Product Passport: Navigating Environmental Transparency in ICTs of ITU-ETSI Symposium on ICT Sustainability: Standards Driving Environmental Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland. December 11-12, 2024. (Presentation)

• Presentation “Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials for communities” in Internet Governance Forum IGF 2024 DC3-DCDDHT Cybersecurity in Community Networks and digital health technologies: Securing the Commons. 17 December 2024. (Report)

• Testbed LoRaMesh Network Monitor. Operational at Campus Nord (UPC), code in open git repository.

• Presentation “LoRaMesher library for LoRa mesh networks” by Felix Freitag and Joan Miquel Solé at FOSDEM 2025 Lightning Talks, Brussels, Belgium. February 1-2, 2025. (Presentation)

• Presentation “Federated machine learning en nodos IoT by Nil Llisteri Giménez and Felix Freitag at Conference IA de Km.0 from Conference Series: from digital footprint to sustainable Artificial Intelligence at Canòdrom, Barcelona. February 19, 2025. (Event) (Social Media)(Presentation)

• Presentation “LoRaMesher library for LoRa mesh networks by Felix Freitag at IETF 122, GAIA IRTF WG, Bangkok, Thailand. March 13-22, 2025. (Session material)

• Long distance link added to LoRaMesh Network Monitor demonstrator.

• Decentralised search and discovery of digital product passports for circular ICT goods, by J. Cano, P. Vílchez, F.Freitag, and L. Navarro, in 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI), 25th-27th June, 2025. (pdf)

• A system for monitoring and querying LoRa mesh network nodes, by J. Griffiths , J. Miquel Solé, F. Freitag, L. Navarro, M. Selimi, in International Workshop on Sensing, Algorithms, and Intelligent Applications (SAIA-2025), in conjunction with IEEE ISCC 2025, July 2-5, 2025, Bologna. (pdf)

• Middleware for Distributed Applications in a LoRa Mesh Network, by J. Miquel Solé, R. Pueyo Centelles, F. Freitag, R. Meseguer, R. Baig. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Volume 24, Issue 4, Article No.: 60, Pages 1 - 26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3747295

• Demonstration of concurrent application provision with LoRaMesher, by J. Miquel Solé, F. Freitag, L. Navarro and Mennan Selimi, at The Experiment@ International Conference 2025 (expat’25), Portugal. (pdf).

• A two-board design for interconnected intelligence in tiny IoT, by N. Llisterri Giménez, F. Freitag, L. Navarro and Mennan Selimi, at The Experiment@ International Conference 2025 (expat’25), Portugal. (pdf)

• Demonstration of a digital product passport system for second-hand electronic devices, by P. Vilchez, J. Cano, C. Puigdefabregas, F. Freitag and L. Navarro, at The Experiment@ International Conference 2025 (expat’25), Portugal. (pdf)(jpg)

• Contribution of two new work items to ITU-T SG20/Q5: ITU-T Y.DPP-ICT “Requirements and System Architecture of Digital Product Passport for ICT Goods” and ITU-T YSTR.OS-DPP-ICT "A case study of an open-source Digital Product Passport system for ICT good use case", at SG20 meeting, Geneva, 15–25 September 2025.

• Next-Generation Wireless Backhaul Design for Rural Areas , by G. Gemmi, Cerdà-Alabern, L., and Maccari, L., IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025.

• M. Roura Salietti: “Reuse of ICT devices as commons: A property rights governance model for collective access”, PhD thesis. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, 10/2025. Doctoral Program in Sustainability. Advisors: Leandro Navarro Moldes, Roc Meseguer Pallarès.

• Reuse of ICT devices as commons: A property rights and governance model for collective access, by M. Roura, L. Navarro, R. Meseguer, and S. Ochoa. 2025. In ACM J. Comput. Sustain. Soc. September 2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3770067

• Managing a digital product passport for products with critical raw materials, by Navarro, L., Gallina, V., Freitag, F., Mladek, C., Steinwender, A., & Vilchez, P. (2026). Procedia Computer Science, 277(2280), 2271-2280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2026.02.264

• Assessing the impacts of computer reuse for digital inclusion from product information, by M. Roura, L. Navarro, R. Meseguer, S. Giménez. Cleaner Production Letters, Volume 10, 2026, 100123, ISSN 2666-7916, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100123

• Large and reliable data transfer service for LoRa mesh network applications, by J. Miquel Solé, R. Pueyo Centelles, F. Freitag, R. Meseguer, R. Baig. Volume 248, 2026, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2025.108404

• LoRaMesher: An open-source library for multi-hop LoRa mesh networks, by J. Miquel Solé, F. Freitag, R. Baig. SoftwareX 34: 102570 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2026.102570

• Presentation “Free Software, Computer Reuse, and Digital Product Passports: Experiences from eReuse.org” by Pedro Vilchez, Felix Freitag and Leandro Navarro at FOSDEM 2026 Lightning Talks Brussels, Belgium. January 31-February 1, 2026. (Presentation)

• Reliability Analysis of Wireless Backhaul for Rural Wireless ISP, by Gemmi, G., Cerdà-Alabern, L., & Maccari, L. (2026). 21th Annual Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), 1-4. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS68803.2026.11501831

• Post on Reddit a LoRa: LoRaMesher_TDMA: LoRaMesher v1.0 — open-source LoRa mesh library for ESP32, now with TDMA (05/2026)

• Contribution of text on lifecycle states and lifecycle events for ICT goods in Digital Product Passport (DPP) systems to work item ITU-T L.DPP4C "Consumer-oriented environmental information and reverse value chain information about ICT goods on digital product passports", for ITU-T SG5 meeting, Sophia Antipolis, 9–16 June 2026.

The work is part of the project PID2023-146066OB-I00 funded by MICIU / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 / FEDER, EU.