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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Remote route optimisation and task planning of robot tractors

The O-CEI AI-block will optimise agricultural tasks in kiwi plantations, using state-of-the-art models for efficient operations and route planning, with real-time data storage and semi-autonomic management.
Pilot 6: Smart re-charging and efficiency of robot tractors in large fruit production fields
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Real-time energy consumption aid for agricultural decision

The O-CEI platform will offer tools to be integrated in the Zetrack app and provide farmers with energy optimization suggestions, managing fleet, climate, and location data.
Pilot 6: Smart re-charging and efficiency of robot tractors in large fruit production fields
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Calculation of energy footprint of dairy (halloumi) products

Aggregates energy consumption data across the farm-production chain, to calculate batch-level energy and environmental footprint.
Pilot 5: Energetically and environmentally sustainable Halloumi cheese production
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Intelligent selection of energy mix of dairy production

Optimises cheese production energy sources (grid, solar) based on demand, availability, and price.
Pilot 5: Energetically and environmentally sustainable Halloumi cheese production
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Controlled sharing of data from various stables to the dairy production factory

O-CEI mechanisms and marketplace will securely share trusted farm data such as milk quality, feed mix, and energy footprint, using AI to forecast parameters, optimise energy consumption, and improve production practices with secure data management.
Pilot 5: Energetically and environmentally sustainable Halloumi cheese production
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IoT-Assisted Livestock Management based on Edge Intelligence and automation

Optimises energy use in livestock stables while reducing animal heat stress, using IoT sensors for environmental monitoring, livestock behaviour assessment, and HVAC control.
Pilot 5: Energetically and environmentally sustainable Halloumi cheese production
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Home Consumers

This scenario replaces home electricity meters with an O-CEI orchestrated control system, managing device priorities for critical services and appliances through secure data governance and pub/sub-models of the project.
Pilot 4: Variable demand in challenging maritime terminal landscape
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Terminal Energy Management

This scenario integrates terminal asset energy data with O-CEI orchestration, coordinating peak power demands from Container Handling Equipment (CHE), and refers to avoid unnecessary peaks, with individual control systems.
Pilot 4: Variable demand in challenging maritime terminal landscape
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Vessel Energy Management

The O-CEI platform will integrate energy flows from berthed vessels, using decentralised monitoring, IoT, and cybersecurity utilities to minimise blackouts and optimise energy control.
Pilot 4: Variable demand in challenging maritime terminal landscape
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Smart and Innovative Energy Management Systems

This scenario evaluates mobile energy storage systems, such as delivery vans, to support grid peak shaving and reactive power management.
Pilot 3: Energy consumption and emission reductions in postal service fleet operation
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Vehicles as Mobile Energy Storage Units

Optimises EVs as mobile storage units, utilising O-CEI for intelligent charging, discharging, and fleet route planning, enhancing fleet resilience and battery autonomy.
Pilot 3: Energy consumption and emission reductions in postal service fleet operation
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Infrastructure analysis to optimise Storage Battery Systems

This use case analyses the power infrastructure, the control and communication infrastructure, and the various communication protocols.
Pilot 3: Energy consumption and emission reductions in postal service fleet operation

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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