Eight Bells Ltd. participates in the ENCRYPT Project, funded by the European Union’s Research and Innovation Framework Programme Horizon Europe, with a duration of three years (July 2022 – June 2025).
The project’s main goal is to address challenges related to existing Privacy Preserving technologies, thus providing researchers and service providers working with personal and other sensitive data, with a scalable, practical, adaptable privacy-preserving framework facilitating the GDPR-compliant processing of such data stored in federated cross-border data spaces. Within this framework, a recommendation engine for citizens and end-users will be developed, providing them with personalised suggestions on privacy preserving technologies depending on the sensitivity of data and the accepted trade-off between the degree of security and the overall system performance.
14 partners from 8 countries have formed an interdisciplinary consortium, covering the value chain for privacy- preserving computation technologies, and they will work together for the next 36 months to realise ENCRYPT offer.
8BELLS in ENCRYPT serves primarily as key technology provider of a quantified measure of privacy, offered by Differential Privacy, allowing AI systems to choose the explicit tradeoff between privacy and accuracy, while ensuring reliability. Additionally, 8ELLS participates in the Cybersecurity Use Case, as data owner and end-user. Finally, 8BELLS leads, manages and coordinates the activities towards increasing the impact of ENCRYPT, namely serving as the Communication and the Exploitation leader.
Eight Bells is very proud to participate in aerOS Project
The aerOS kick off meeting started yesterday at the premises of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and will last for two days! Stay tuned for more!
EIGHT BELLS | From EUROSATORY to EDF programs with dynamic participation
The Cypriot company Eight Bells participated in the International Defence and Security Exhibition Eurosatory 2022 in Paris. The DEFENCE ReDEFiNED team had the opportunity to talk with company executives during the event and learn everything about Eight Bell’s ongoing Defence and Security programs.
EIGHT BELLS LTD was founded in 2016 and has offices in Nicosia (Headquarters) and Athens. It is an independent research and services company specialising in information and communication technology, but also in simulations and analysis. It has developed a variety of systems and applications, some of which stand out for their contribution to the field of security and defence.
Among others, the company developed and designed the 8BMGT and 8BUGM. The 8BMGT (Maritime Gimbal Thermal Camera) is a gimbal-mounted dual sensor camera (thermal and colour camera) designed and developed solely by Eight Bells.
It detects the thermal radiation of objects and humans and can be used both for ground and maritime surveillance purposes. It has a high-definition colour camera with x10 focus, a thermal camera and a laser range finder (LRF).
The 8BMGT captures images and video while its size and design make it suitable for use in vessels. It can be used for coastal surveillance and surveillance in borders that are vulnerable to illegal migration flows, for the protection of critical infrastructure while it can also be used for search and rescue purposes. Furthermore it can be used for early fire warning in forests.
Eight Bells also developed the 8BUGM, a similar system for use in unmanned aerial vehicles. With similar specs as the 8BMGT, the 8BUGM weighs 3 kg while its compact size (16 cm high and 10 cm long) makes it ideal for integration into unmanned aircraft. It can provide a complete picture by upgrading aerial surveillance capabilities where necessary.
8 BMGT and 8 BUGM data sheet:
Video output: Digital and analog
Operation temperature: -30°C up +70°C
Input Voltage: 24VDC
Digital Zoom (Thermal Camera): 2x, 4x
Field of View – FOV (Thermal Camera): 18° x 13°
Optical zoom (Day Camera): 10x
Field of View (Day Camera): 6.7° x 68°
Azimuth (Gimbal): 360°
Maximum Range of (Lazer Range Finder – LRF): 4.5 km
In addition, the company also developed the XBELLO, an easy-to-use and above all secure communication application. ΧBELLO allows the exchange of messages, data and group calls, with a reduced risk of malicious interception. It can be deployed in private servers, while it is compatible with smartphones, computers and tablets.
Cooperation with the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Cyprus
Eight Bells participates in the THISEAS, collaborative project which concerns the development and demonstration of an electronic situational awareness and decision-making support system. EIGHT BELLS participates in THISEAS together with the KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence (KIOS CoE) of the University of Cyprus, SignalGeneriX and CYENS. The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Defence via the “Athena” program.
Representation of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Cyprus and participating bodies of the THISEAS program EIGHT BELLS executives and the AI4DEF program
Participation in European Programs
EIGHT BELLS also actively participates in several co-financed European programs and recently in a program of the European Defence Fund (EDF).
European Defence Industrial Development Program (EDIDP)
The European program AI4DEF (under the EDIDP) aims to examine the benefits of applying artificial intelligence (AI) in areas critical to the military, such as situational awareness, decision making, and operational planning improvement.
The RESPOND-A, in which Eight Bells participates together with companies and institutions from a total of 13 countries, operates within the framework of the European HORIZON 2020 Program. It aims to develop technologies based on 5G wireless communications, augmented and virtual reality or autonomous robots to optimize the work of first responders.
The EIGHT BELLS stand at EUROSATORY 2022 Visit of the Chief of the General Staff of the National Guard and a delegation of Officers to the Cypriot Pavilion at EUROSATORY 2022
In addition, EIGHT BELLS also participates in the DRYADS. The project is based on the development of a new and innovative systemic and technological framework that will cover three areas: The DRYADS project will adopt a holistic fire management and an adaptive, collaborative governance approach based on the deployment of a new systematic and technological framework covering all three interconnected fire management stages:
1) Prevention and preparadness
2) Detection and response
3) Restoration and adaptation
European Defence Fund (EDF)
As already mentioned, EIGHT BELLS, participates-together with other major European companies- in a project under the European Defence Fund (EDF) program. The project called COMMANDS, aims to develop a Through Life Capabilities (TLC) approach to intelligent manned and unmanned vehicles. In this way it will be possible to upgrade existing vehicles on the one hand and also to integrate it into future vehicles currently under development. It is related to the Integrated Unmanned Ground System (UGS) PESCO project.
Apart from the above, EIGHT BELLS participates in the AInception project. The project ”AI Framework for Improving Cyber Defence Operations” (AInception) aims at developing Artificial Intelligence-based intrusion detection tools and techniques that outperform current military systems for selected scenarios and techniques that can abstract, aggregate, enrich and contextualise alerts into a more manageable set of abstracted meta-alerts. Among others, the General Staff of the National Defence of Greece participates in the project.
The project ”AI Framework for Improving Cyber Defence Operations” (AInception) aims at developing Artificial Intelligence-based intrusion detection tools and techniques that outperform current military systems for selected scenarios and techniques that can abstract, aggregate, enrich and contextualise alerts into a more manageable set of abstracted meta-alerts.
Another program in which EIGHT BELLS participates is ACTING (Advanced European platform and network of Cybersecurity training and exercises centers), which aims to develop a network of advanced interconnected centers for Cyber Defence training and exercises. It aims to incorporate sophisticated methods and techniques for simulation, analysis of operator performance in cyberspace, as well as assessment of the cybersecurity situational awareness. It is related to the project of PESCO, EU Cyber Academia and Innovation Hub (EU CAIH).
Finally, EIGHT BELLS HELLAS participates in the 5G COMPAD (5G Communications for Peacekeeping And Defence) program, with the aim of designing a prototype architecture for a powerful communications system based on 5G technology. This will have an application to selected platforms and defence systems.
EURONAVAL 2022
EIGHT BELLS will participate in the forthcoming International Naval Defence & Maritime Exhibition & Conference EURONAVAL 2022, which will be held between October 18-21, 2022 in Paris.
EIGHT BELLS at 1st physical plenary meeting of H2020 TREEADS
The 1st physical plenary meeting of H2020 TREEADS took place during 20-22/6/22 in Trondheim, Norway! 8Bells participated in all activities where all partners had the chance to talk about the project’s progress and results so far. Many thanks to the project coordinator, RISE Fire Research AS, for hosting this meeting and giving us the opportunity to finally meet in person.
EIGHT BELLS at 1st face-to-face meeting of the EVOLVED-5G project
We had the chance to participate in the first face-to-face meeting of the project, present 8BELLS innovative solutions (including the NetApp and L7 OVS smart switch) and get to meet in person with every partner of the project.
