On 9th April 2025, TaRDIS had the great opportunity to participate in the Webinar “Latest research results in IoT Supply Chain security to ensure compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)”. This webinar was part of the Global IoT Day series of events, one of the over 80 webinars that took place globally in IoT topics!

About 100 participants joined this webinar whose objective was to explore IoT technologies and research that offer tools that monitor and validate the Supply Chain of IoT architectures, improve the security and reliability of IoT operations and ensure compliance with a number of requirements of the Cyber Resilience Act.
TaRDIS came into play as TaRDIS offers secure and resilient programming tools to build decentralized IoT intelligence. 

TaRDIS in a nutshell

Developing and managing distributed systems is a highly complex task that requires expertise across different domains, from programming languages to hardware, networking, operating systems, and distributed protocols.

TaRDIS project’s primary goal is to significantly ease the complexity and reduce the effort of building correct and efficient heterogeneous swarms.

The project focuses on supporting the correct and efficient development of applications for swarms and decentralised distributed systems, by combining a novel programming paradigm with a toolbox for supporting the development and execution of applications.

TaRDIS viewpoint on the webinar

At the IoTDay 2025 webinar, the project’s coordinator, Prof. Carla Ferreira, NOVA University Lisbon, presented the TaRDIS project briefly, its goals, mission and objectives and key technological challenges and outcomes that have been achieved in the project so far. 

She talked about the challenges faced across multiple domains in the field of decentralised computing, e.g., a lack of automated verification tools with integrated open-source tools, high dependence on non-European proprietary tools, and a lack of mechanisms for decentralised intelligence.  

Prof. Ferreira emphasised the importance of the Cyber Resilience Act and the AI act as well as the efforts that the legislations are taking in order to force companies to comply with the regulations. However the challenge comes to SMEs that are probably not equipped and ready for such compliance requirements, and there is paramount need for including “security”, “reliability”, “interoperability”, “sustainability” etc, in the technology’s core elements to be able to comply with the overall requirement.