The SIRENA project was a European research and advanced development project, from 2003 to 2005, with the objective to develop a Service Infrastructure for Real time Embedded Networked Applications. The SIRENA project was attributed the prestigious 'ITEA Achievement Award 2006' for outstanding contribution to the ITEA programme. The SIRENA project has played a pioneering role by applying the SOA paradigm to communications and interworking between components at the device level. The SIRENA results was used as a foundation for both SODA and SOCRADES projects.

The objective of the SODA project was to create a service-oriented ecosystem built on top of the foundations laid by the groundbreaking SIRENA framework for high-level communications between devices based on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm.

The goal of the SOCRADES project is to create new methodologies, technologies and tools for the modelling, design, implementation and operation of networked hardware/software systems embedded in smart physical objects for industrial automation applications.

Furthermore, the SOA4D Forge (Service-Oriented Architecture for Devices), a collaborative open source development web platform, was setup in 2007, aiming at fostering an ecosystem for the development of service-oriented software components (SOAP messaging, WS-* protocols, DPWS ...) adapted to the specific constraints of embedded devices.