On June 20, 2025, a delegation from SMARTNESS visited Ericsson’s facilities in Budapest. The visit included technical presentations and discussions on ongoing activities and served to strengthen the research collaboration.
The SMART NEtworks and ServiceS for 2030 (SMARTNESS) FAPESP Engineering Research Center (ERC) aims to advance cutting-edge research in computer networks and digital application services focused on strategic areas where scientific and technological impacts can be achieved by the year 2030, in collaboration with research communities of cloud and networking.
With the deployment of 5G and the 6G vision being developed, the main challenges for SMARTNESS are how to design and operate cloud computing infrastructures and networks with adequate capabilities to leverage the next generation of Internet services and applications. The scope of end-to-end services at the Internet scale is exceptionally broad and requires contributions across multiple disciplines along with large investments in capital and human resources.
SMARTNESS aims to explore well-planned opportunities through an appropriate methodology based on the confluence of Research Strands (RS) designed to successfully impact world-class research and innovation through Scientific and Technological Advancements (STA) to address challenging use cases in Internet scenarios for industry and society with a vision on the horizon for the year 2030.
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On June 24, 2025, SMARTNESS received a visit from Siemens Energy executives from Brazil and the USA. The delegation met with Dr. Eduardo Sartori and learned about the center’s research and lab facilities. Researchers presented technologies aligned with Siemens’ areas of interest, such as resilient grids and decarbonized processes, opening space for potential collaboration.
SMARTNESS took part in the FT de Portas Abertas event at Unicamp Limeira with an immersive communication experiment. The activity was coordinated by Prof. Vanessa Testoni and carried out by students Alan Teixeira da Silva (PhD) and Rafael Pedrosa Silva Clerici (Master’s). It attracted over 400 visitors, with more than 50 actively engaging in the demo.
