Discover key CEI use cases

This interactive map provides a dynamic overview of Cloud-Edge-IoT (CEI) use cases developed within Europe’s Large-Scale Pilots O-CEI and COP-PILOT, offering a concrete entry point into the CEI ecosystem.

The tool helps users understand how innovation is being translated into real-world applications across key sectors such as energy, mobility, logistics and agrifood. Each use case reflects ongoing efforts to address pressing challenges, from grid optimisation and sustainable mobility to industrial efficiency and data-driven agriculture, while contributing to Europe’s broader digital and green transition.

The map also highlights the ecosystem of actors behind these innovations, including technology providers, research organisations, industry players and public stakeholders. By visualising their roles and interactions, it helps illustrate how collaboration, interoperability and standardisation enable scalable CEI solutions.

Why this matters: the European CEI market reached approximately €158 billion in 2024 and is expected to grow steadily, driven by increasing demand for real-time data processing, AI-enabled applications and distributed computing architectures. Scaling these solutions, however, requires stronger alignment between technologies, stakeholders and market needs: CEI-Sphere aims to address this gap.

You can use the map to explore use cases by sector, location, stakeholder group or technology maturity level but also to identify key players and partnerships and discover how CEI solutions are evolving from experimentation to large-scale deployment.

The map and results update dynamically as filters are applied.

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Smart and Sustainable loT-Connected Campus

At the UPV campus, IoT devices will monitor energy consumption, water usage, waste management, and environmental conditions, among other parameters, in real time.
Cluster 2: Smart Sustainable IoT Solutions in Valencia
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Smart City Data Monitoring and Sustainable Mobility

Real-time monitoring of key urban areas in Valencia and the Almussafes Industrial Park will be achieved using sensors, radars, cameras, and other IoT devices.
Cluster 2: Smart Sustainable IoT Solutions in Valencia
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IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum for Digital Mines

This use case will act as the integration platform for UC#1.1 through UC#1.3, uniting their data and analytics streams for customers.
Cluster 1: Business Integration in Mining
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Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance in Mining

Ensuring uninterrupted material flow and logistics is vital for mining operations, particularly where limited or no stockpiles exist to buffer against unplanned downtimes within the logistics chain.
Cluster 1: Business Integration in Mining
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Logistics IoT

This use case addresses the monitoring challenges of critical infrastructure and logistics.
Cluster 1: Business Integration in Mining
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IoT Mining Seismics

This use case focuses on large-scale micro-seismic sensing, data collection, and processing for underground mining.
Cluster 1: Business Integration in Mining
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Tourism scenario

This use case is related to touristic resorts. It enables hotels, restaurants and ski resorts to optimise their energy consumption.
Pilot 8: Heightened social engagement and acceptability of energy flexibility in urban areas
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Optimising Charging Costs of EVs

This use case focuses on charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs). It enables EV owners to optimise vehicle charging through smart contracts, and new business models.
Pilot 8: Heightened social engagement and acceptability of energy flexibility in urban areas
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Flexibility application for DSOs and LECs

Deals with flexibility applications that enable DSOs to ensure Grid stability and LECs to optimise their consumption costs and minimise their dependence on DSOs.
Pilot 8: Heightened social engagement and acceptability of energy flexibility in urban areas
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Increasing trustworthiness and security in EV charging data exchange

This use case incorporates security measures, data sovereignty, and auditing to ensure trustworthy data flows from sensors and EVs.
Pilot 7: Trustworthy and secure EV charging upon reliable 5G networks
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Edge optimisation of power flow to EV needs

Transforms chargers into “intelligent” bidirectional elements, optimising grid power flow through O-CEI micro-services data management, and 5G’s low-latency, ensuring efficient load balancing and reduced environmental impact.
Pilot 7: Trustworthy and secure EV charging upon reliable 5G networks
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Autonomous tractor re-charging strategy

The tractors in this pilot will optimise battery charging through edge analytics and AI predictions, either autonomously or via a farmer-controlled app, minimising battery use, extending lifespan, and reducing costs for improved sustainability.
Pilot 6: Smart re-charging and efficiency of robot tractors in large fruit production fields

Would you like to support use cases development?

Some pilot activities will be carried out in synergy with external actors through open calls. 

These calls provide funding opportunities to support third parties in testing, validating, replicating, or extending pilot solutions, and in some cases developing complementary activities aligned with pilot objectives. 

Each open call has a defined scope and eligibility conditions, so participation may not always relate to an existing use case shown on the map.

 Please consult the open call documentation to understand what is supported in each call at the project websites below.

COP-PILOT Open Calls

COP-PILOT focuses on developing a Collaborative Open Platform (COP) framework that enables end-to-end orchestration of services across diverse industry sectors. The first call was mainly focused on selecting innovators to integrate and pilot solutions within the existing platform framework. The second call is scheduled for the second half of 2026.

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O-CEI Open Calls

 (no active calls now)

The first Open Call was focused on looking for innovative tech providers (SMEs and Startups) to develop and test their edge solutions in the form of CEI utilities (apps and services). These solutions will tackle real-world challenges identified within the existing large-scale pilots, bringing the technology from concept to impactful application.

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