The FLUIDOS project has officially concluded, marking the end of a three-year journey to redefine how Europe’s digital infrastructure connects the cloud, edge, and IoT. By focusing on simplicity and real-world impact, FLUIDOS delivered technology that makes distributed computing efficient, transparent, and sustainable.
“The key results of the project are several new ideas backed by scientific papers and also proofs of concept, which translated into real code that has been pushed into existing open-source projects,” explains Dr. Fulvio Risso, the project's technical coordinator, mentioning that what was developed during the course of the project will continue to evolve beyond the project itself.
Through collaborations across multiple industries, FLUIDOS demonstrated its technology in energy, logistics, and agriculture, showcasing how a fluid computing continuum can optimise operations. In robotic logistics, the FLUIDOS continuum significantly decreased robots’ battery usage. In smart viticulture, the technology decentralised and simplified the management of vineyards and ensured business continuity. And in energy systems, the same technology strengthened grid resiliency through distributed orchestration.
Dr. Risso added that usability and transparency were central to the project:“Technology should be invisible. That is the best technology that you have.”
Looking ahead, Lorenzo Moro, exploitation leader, stated that the FLUIDOS solutions can already be reused and integrated in several industries: “The FLUIDOS software could easily be adopted by companies.” He also emphasised the project’s contribution to a federated European cloud market, one where local providers can collaborate through shared standards and connectors. “FLUIDOS builds upon the European Community vision of creating digital sovereignty. We, as Europe, need to foster the adoption of common standards and common ways of making interoperability.”
FLUIDOS made its final public appearance at the IoT Tech Expo 2025 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where partners presented to the public the project’s outcomes and future directions.
About FLUIDOS
The FLUIDOS project is a pioneering initiative under the Horizon Europe framework, designed to advance edge computing technologies and solutions. FLUIDOS (Flexible, scaLable, secUre, and decentralIseD Operating System) aimed to leverage the enormous, unused processing capacity at the edge, scattered across heterogeneous edge devices that struggle to integrate with each other and to coherently form a seamless computing continuum. For more information, please visit the project website.
The FLUIDOS project is a pioneering initiative under the Horizon Europe framework, designed to advance edge computing technologies and solutions. FLUIDOS (Flexible, scaLable, secUre, and decentralIseD Operating System) aimed to leverage the enormous, unused processing capacity at the edge, scattered across heterogeneous edge devices that struggle to integrate with each other and to coherently form a seamless computing continuum. For more information, please visit the project website.