# Sunesis — Open Source and Research & Innovation

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> - Open Source: [https://sunesis.si/en/references/open-source/](https://sunesis.si/en/references/open-source/)
> - Research & Innovation: [https://sunesis.si/en/references/research-innovation/](https://sunesis.si/en/references/research-innovation/)
> - Homepage: [https://sunesis.si/en/](https://sunesis.si/en/)
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> - Index: [https://sunesis.si/llms.txt](https://sunesis.si/llms.txt)
> - Research Guide: [https://sunesis.si/agents.md](https://sunesis.si/agents.md)
> - Awards & Recognition: [https://sunesis.si/ai/awards.md](https://sunesis.si/ai/awards.md)

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## 1. Open-Source Commitment

Sunesis has a strong commitment to open-source software, open standards and reusable digital infrastructure. Its teams do not only use open-source technologies — they help build complete open-source solutions that continue to evolve through international communities, including projects connected to Linux Foundation ecosystems such as AgStack and LF Energy. Sunesis brings enterprise engineering discipline to open-source projects: architecture, security, maintainability, documentation, integration capability and production-quality implementation.

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## 2. Key Open-Source Projects

### KumuluzEE

- **Framework:** Lightweight microservice framework for standard Java EE / Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile.
- **Innovation:** Allowed developers to package enterprise Java applications into lightweight JARs with fast startup times and tiny container footprints, avoiding heavyweight application servers.
- **Recognition:** Winner of the **Duke's Choice Award** at JavaOne in San Francisco (2015), recognizing outstanding global innovation in the Java ecosystem.
- **Website & Documentation:** [https://ee.kumuluz.com/](https://ee.kumuluz.com/)

### Linux Foundation AgStack — INATrace

- **Ecosystem:** Linux Foundation AgStack community.
- **Focus:** Open-source agricultural supply-chain traceability solution focused on transparency, fairer value chains and digital traceability from production to final product.
- **Sunesis role:** Main development partner, contributing full-stack engineering, backend architecture, web and mobile development, data workflows and open-source implementation.
- **Reference Detail:** [https://sunesis.si/en/references/open-source/](https://sunesis.si/en/references/open-source/)

### CUPID

- **Ecosystem:** LF Energy.
- **Focus:** Open-source energy interoperability toolkit for distributed energy resource (DER) communication.
- **Sunesis role:** Main development and contributing partner, supporting Java-based development, NATS messaging, interoperability patterns, protocol integration and edge, on-premise and cloud deployment scenarios.
- **Reference Detail:** [https://sunesis.si/en/references/open-source/](https://sunesis.si/en/references/open-source/)

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## 3. European Research & Innovation

Beyond client delivery and open-source contribution, Sunesis participates in international research and innovation projects that explore the future of artificial intelligence, cloud-edge architectures, IoT, cybersecurity, data platforms and next-generation digital infrastructure. Where an entry is written as "A / B", A is Sunesis's own project and B is the European initiative it belongs to.

### GreenDat.AI

- **Area:** AI and data-driven digital sustainability.
- **Focus:** Research and innovation focused on AI, data platforms and greener, more efficient digital systems.
- **Themes:** AI, data platforms, sustainability, digital infrastructure, AI-ready data services.
- **Funding:** Horizon Europe R&I programme (GA No. 101070416).

### Interstore

- **Area:** Future-ready energy and digital infrastructure.
- **Focus:** Advanced digital technologies for energy, interoperability, distributed systems and intelligent digital services.
- **Themes:** Energy systems, interoperability, data-driven systems, enterprise technology.

### Headlight / NEPHELE

- **Area:** Compute continuum orchestration.
- **Focus:** AI-enabled, context-aware orchestration for next-generation compute continuum environments.
- **Themes:** Cloud-edge continuum, orchestration, AI-enabled infrastructure, distributed systems.

### BONSAI / COSMIC

- **Area:** Cloud-edge-IoT systems.
- **Focus:** Research and innovation in advanced cloud-edge-IoT systems and intelligent digital infrastructure.
- **Themes:** Cloud-edge systems, IoT, distributed infrastructure, intelligent services.

### EDGEWISE / dAIEDGE

- **Area:** AI-native edge orchestration.
- **Focus:** AI-native orchestration for trustworthy and energy-efficient systems across the IoT–Edge–Fog–Cloud continuum.
- **Themes:** AI-native orchestration, edge computing, federated environments, energy efficiency.

### CHAMELEON / Resilmesh

- **Area:** Kubernetes resilience and cybersecurity.
- **Focus:** Adaptive Kubernetes resilience and cybersecurity using lightweight mesh concepts and advanced protection mechanisms.
- **Themes:** Kubernetes, cybersecurity, resilience, mesh architectures, distributed systems.

### AURORA / HEDGE-IoT

- **Area:** Intelligent IoT and edge computing.
- **Focus:** Innovation in intelligent IoT, edge computing and energy-aware digital infrastructure.
- **Themes:** IoT, edge computing, distributed intelligence, energy-aware systems.

Sunesis collaborates in these consortia with universities, research institutes, technology companies and industry partners. Project overview: [https://sunesis.si/en/references/research-innovation/](https://sunesis.si/en/references/research-innovation/)