INCODE envisions the design and development of an open platform for the deployment and dynamic management of end userapplications, over distributed, heterogeneous and trusted IoT-Edge node infrastructures, with enhanced programmability featuresand tools at both the network infrastructure level and the service design and operational level.

The platform is implementedfollowing three innovative design approaches:

• The deployment and management of the applications is conducted by anorchestration framework that follows a vertical layered approach from the end user interface to the infrastructure management whilespanning horizontally across the device-edge-core-cloud continuum. The deployment follows the user-defined networking andoperational features of the application in its northbound interface and a tight integration with state-of-the-art IoT, edge/cloudcomputing, and networking platforms in its southbound interface through a well-define driver API framework. With this approach thefull programmability and reconfigurability of resources across the continuum is enabled.
• An open and extensible, programmingtoolset facilitates application development and deployment for large swarms of devices at the edge through a multi-role InternalDeveloper Platform (IDP) and new feature development and testing,
• A secure and trusted framework for registering andauthenticating IoT device and edge nodes entering the system as well as the data sharing and application deployment.

The conceptis tested and validated over a mature testing environment that integrates diverse IoT application areas in smart logistics,manufacturing, utility inspection, and community PPDR over a programable infrastructure extended to O-RAN, 5G, SDN enable coreCloud.

The consortium addresses all the required development sectors from the platform technology innovations, to supported IoTinfrastructure and applications, including the end user interfacing and resource management intelligence.