After the launch of the public call for R&DI Advanced Services for 2022, in July this year, RNP announces the four Working Groups (GTs) selected for the first phase of the R&DI Advanced Services Program, which is focused on creating new products and services for the RNP System.  

The entire teaching and research community was invited to undertake with startups or without startups. The approved GTs will develop their respective Minimum Viable Product (MVP) over 12 months, between January and December 2023: 

GT-OnE!: Eye on the Link! (Federal University of Espirito Santo)

Coordination: Camilo A. R. Diaz (UFES)

Partnerships: PoP-ES, Startup Vixphy

The project aims to provide continuous supervision of customized optical plants for the niche of campus and metropolitan networks, allowing the identification of optical commodities to extract various information from the physical layer of the optical plant, taking advantage of large amounts of monitored data and machine learning.

GT-CampusEdge: Edge Computing for College Campuses (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Coordination: Rodrigo de Souza Couto (UFRJ)​

The project aims to create a platform for orchestrating edge computing nodes at universities. The solution will provide IEs with computing power services with greater responsiveness, scalability, privacy and availability, in addition to the benefits of traditional clouds. 

GT-SmartMed: Distributed Medical Data with Access Control based on Attributes through Smart Contracts (Fluminense Federal University) 

Coordination: Diogo Menezes Ferrazani Mattos (UFF)

Partnerships: Amsterdam University Medical Centers, City Hall of Niteroi, Technology Innovation Institute (Dubai), LIP6 (France)

The project aims to create a platform for access management based on smart contracts for healthcare organizations, based on (private) blockchain for the retrieval of documents by doctors, pharmacists, nurses and technicians, as well as other parties involved in the healthcare sector. 

GT-MetaHealth: Proposal and evaluation of a platform for teaching health in the metaverse (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) 

Coordination: Luciana Porcher Nedel (UFRGS)

Partnerships: startup SimulaEnf, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

The project aims to establish a new teaching model through a platform that uses Virtual Reality (VR), updating and monitoring the skills of health professionals and students in hospital environments using, exploring the concept of metaverse.