Using swarm Intelligence to tackle the resource slack crisis at the edge

July 31, 2025
Posted by Melanie Schranz

Modern edge computing faces a silent efficiency killer: resource waste. Traditional orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes often rely on conservative, rule-based scheduling where applications overestimate their CPU and RAM needs. This leads to significant “slack resources”—allocated capacity that sits idle while other tasks wait in queues. The Horizon Europe project ACES is tackling this challenge through a novel, self-organizing local decision mechanism inspired by the natural world. A multi-agent approach to…

Project 6G-SKY concludes with excellent review

June 27, 2025
Posted by Christian Raffelsberger

Lakeside Labs is proud to announce the successful completion of the project 6G for Connected Sky. It has been awarded the highest possible grade “excellent” at the final CELTIC-NEXT EUREKA review on June 26, 2025 at Airbus, Ottobrunn. This recognition reflects the project’s exceptional ambition, technical quality, and strong impact potential for future 6G-enabled airspace connectivity. As leader of the work package “Integration and Demonstration,” Lakeside Labs played an important…

Redefining distributed knowledge and data management

February 6, 2025
Posted by Melanie Schranz

The evolution of the edge-to-cloud continuum brings transformative potential, but also significant hurdles in distributed data management. The European project ACES is addressing these challenges through a cognitive-by-design methodology, moving beyond simple data storage toward active knowledge interpretation. A core innovation in ACES is the introduction of a resource pool, which presents a significant shift from current edge definitions. By leveraging technologies like CXL and PCIe switches, the system can…

Talk “Unlocking Nature’s secrets”

October 31, 2024
Posted by Melanie Schranz

Melanie Schranz, senior researcher and project leader at LAkeside Labs, headlined a Discover-US webinar, delivering her presentation Unlocking Nature’s Secrets: Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems with Swarm Intelligence. The session is available on the YouTube channel HiPEAC TV. From biological inspiration to cyber-physical reality The presentation took the audience on a journey from observing natural phenomena—such as the foraging of ants, the coordination of bee colonies, and the flocking of birds—to the…

Swarm intelligence in the factory

July 2, 2024
Posted by Melanie Schranz

Modern semiconductor production is a operating at huge complexity, often involving over 1,500 products moving through 300 processing steps across 1,200 different machines. Traditional centralized scheduling methods frequently fail to optimize these NP-hard environments in real-time. To address this, the SwarmIn project leverages Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithms to create a self-organizing, bottom-up scheduling system. Unlike standard scheduling that calculates a global plan from the top down, the SwarmIn approach…

Successful drone test flights for 6G-SKY

April 30, 2024
Posted by Christian Raffelsberger
Group picture at test flights

The research project 6G-SKY has reached a major milestone: Lakeside Labs and the company Twins have successfully conducted a series of flight tests using an integrated drone platform at the Logistics Center Austria South. Aerial image analysis via wireless connectivity The main goal of these flights was to evaluate the performance of three interconnected drones in an image analysis scenario. The drones were equipped with optical sensors and wireless communication…

Futurezone award for most innovative 5G project

December 15, 2022
Posted by Christian Raffelsberger

Lakeside Labs won the futurezone award in the category 5G innovation of the year for its work on communication in swarms. The award was presented by Huawei at an award ceremony in Vienna. The runner ups for the award were the University of Klagenfurt with a virtual realities use case and the TU Vienna with a smart 5G machine vice. The use case “Communications in Swarms” is being developed at…

Robots inspect ship hulls

July 29, 2020
Posted by Melanie Schranz

The objective of the European project BugWright2 is to develop and demonstrate an adaptable autonomous robotic solution for servicing ship outer hulls. By combining the capabilities of autonomous micro air vehicles and small autonomous underwater vehicles, with teams of magnetic-wheeled crawlers operating directly on the surface of the structure, the inspection and cleaning system will be able to seamlessly merge the acquisition of a global overview of the structure with…

UWB4Industry: Self-sufficient UWB-based industrial sensor networks

November 28, 2019
Posted by Andreas Kercek

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has recently attracted significant attention since smart phone manufacturers like Apple announced its integration into their next generation’s smart phones. Currently, they focus on tracking applications since UWB is known as one of the most precise localization methods far superior in terms of accuracy and speed compared to competing technologies (Bluetooth, GPS, etc). Moreover, it is very energy efficient, secure, and robust. But UWB can also be…