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Dr. Ernö Kovacs

Senior Manager

Group Involvement, NEC Laboratories Europe

Data Ecosystems and Standards Group

Research Interests

Dr. Ernö Kovacs is interested in creating advanced technologies for the Internet-of-Things and the future Society 5.0.  With his team, he is addressing challenges of large scale edge-cloud systems, the creation of data spaces, and the research of how to create intelligent services. His team has created essential technologies and standards which are currently being used by over 200 cities in the world. The ETSI ISG CIM standard NGSI-LD is the foundation for products in Europe, Japan and India. It is the cornerstone of the FIWARE open source eco-system, defines the Connecting Europe Facility  (CEF) building block “Context Broker”, and is used by OASC (Open and Agile Smart Cities), IUDX (Indian Urban Data Exchange), the Korean CityHub strategic national project, and well as the Japanese SIP program for Smart Cities.

Publications

  • Luis Roda-Sanchez, Flavio Cirillo, Gürkan Solmaz, Tobias Jacobs, Celia Garrido-Hidalgo, Teresa Olivares, Ernö Kovacs; Building a Smart Campus Digital Twin: System, Analytics and Lessons Learned From a Real-World Project; IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023, IEEE.
  • Gürkan Solmaz, Flavio Cirillo, Jonathan Fürst, Tobias Jacobs, Martin Bauer, Ernö Kovacs, Juan Ramón Santana, Luis Sánchez; "Enabling data spaces: Existing developments and challenges." In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Data Economy, pp. 42-48. 2022.
  • Bauer, Martin, Flavio Cirillo, Jonathan Fürst, Gürkan Solmaz, and Ernö Kovacs. "Urban digital twins–a FIWARE-based model." at-Automatisierungstechnik 69, no. 12 (2021): 1106-1115.
  • Cirillo, Flavio; Capuano, Nicola; Romano, Simon Pietro; Kovacs, Ernö; LIoTS: League of IoT Sovereignties. A Scalable approach for a Transparent Privacy-safe Federation of Secured IoT Platforms; 2019 IEEE 44th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2019, IEEE
  • Cirillo, Flavio; Solmaz, Gürkan; Berz, Everton Luís; Bauer, Martin; Cheng, Bin; Kovacs, Ernö; A standard-based open source IoT platform: FIWARE; IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 2019, IEEE
  • Solmaz, Gurkan; Wu, Fang-Jing; Cirillo, Flavio; Kovacs, Erno; Santana, Juan Ramón; Sánchez, Luis; Sotres, Pablo; Munoz, Luis; Toward understanding crowd mobility in smart cities through the internet of things; IEEE Communications Magazine, 2019, IEEE
  • Cirillo, Flavio; Wu, Fang-Jing; Solmaz, Gürkan; Kovacs, Ernö; Embracing the future internet of things; Sensors, 2019, MDPI
  • H. Hildmann and E. Kovacs, ‘Review: Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as Mobile Sensing Platforms (MSPs) for Disaster Response, Civil Security and Public Safety’, MDPI drones, Special Issue Fundamental and Applied Research in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technology, vol. 3, no. 3, Jul. 2019, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/drones3030059.
  • Solmaz, Gurkan; Wu, Fang-Jing; Cirillo, Flavio; Kovacs, Erno; Santana, Juan Ramón; Sánchez, Luis; Sotres, Pablo; Munoz, Luis; Toward understanding crowd mobility in smart cities through the internet of things; IEEE Communications Magazine, 2019, IEEE
  • Solmaz, Gurkan; Wu, Fang-Jing; Cirillo, Flavio; Kovacs, Erno; Santana, Juan Ramón; Sánchez, Luis; Sotres, Pablo; Munoz, Luis; Toward understanding crowd mobility in smart cities through the internet of things; IEEE Communications Magazine, 2019, IEEE
  • Cheng, Bin; Solmaz, Gürkan; Cirillo, Flavio; Kovacs, Ernö; Terasawa, Kazuyuki; Kitazawa, Atsushi; FogFlow: Easy programming of IoT services over cloud and edges for smart cities; IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2017, IEEE
  • Cheng, Bin; Longo, Salvatore; Cirillo, Flavio; Bauer, Martin; Kovacs, Ernoe; Building a big data platform for smart cities: Experience and lessons from Santander; 2015 IEEE International Congress on Big Data, 2015, IEEE
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