KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence
KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence

Overview

The KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (KIOS CoE) operates within the University of Cyprus. The Center was established in 2008 and was subsequently selected by the EU to advance into a Research and Innovation Center of Excellence in 2017. With collaboration with Imperial College London, KIOS has succeeded in securing funding in excess of 40 million euros, as part of the EU’s strategic Horizon 2020 program for “Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation – Teaming”.

The KIOS CoE is the largest research and innovation center in Cyprus on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with an emphasis on monitoring, control, management and security of critical infrastructures such as electric power systems, water distribution networks, telecommunication networks, and transportation systems. The vision of the Centre of Excellence is to develop excellent interdisciplinary research on a global scale, as well as to produce new knowledge and important tools that can be applied to solve real… The KIOS CoE has several dedicated laboratories investigating different key enabling technologies in monitoring, control and security of critical infrastructures using cutting-edge equipment for experimental evaluation, testing and prototyping. A short description of each laboratory along with the main equipment facilities is provided below.

The Embedded and Application-specific System on Chip Laboratory focuses towards the design, development, implementation and verification of low-power, high-performance and highly reliable systems on chip, suitable for embedded and mobile environments. Equipment includes:

Multi-GPU supercomputers used for machine learning and computer vision applications
State-of-the-art low-end and high-end FPGA boards for acceleration of compute intensive applications (computer vision, image processing, machine learning).
Multi-SOC FPGA-Based BeeCube Platform for large-scale hardware emulation
Embedded Computing Systems (Raspberry Pi, Gumstix Boards, Odroid Platforms)
…. The KIOS Innovation Hub of the KIOS CoE provides research and innovation services, via an Industrial Membership Program, suitable for operators of critical infrastructure systems and regulators, related commercial and governmental organizations and innovative SMEs. The Industrial Membership Program includes the following services:

Basic research and development on monitoring, control and security of intelligent systems and networks
Customized software/hardware solutions for Critical Infrastructure Systems (CISs)
Cloud/Mobile/Web-based services
Technology evaluation (pilots) / Training / Demonstration on Critical Infrastructure System Testbed Platforms (including power transmission systems, telecommunication networks, water distribution systems, transportation networks, cyber-security)
Proof-of-concept and prototype product development
Custom hardware design for acceleration of compute-intensive algorithms
Prototyping and Emulation via Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
Embedded…. Yes. service.