The SODA project was a European research and advanced development project from 2006 to 2008, part of the ITEA programme, itself a "cluster" organisation within the Eureka framework.

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 SIRENA project has played a pioneering role by applying the SOA paradigm to communications and interworking between components at the device level. This service infrastructure for real-time embedded devices, used as a foundation for the SODA project, is defined in a platform-, language- and network-neutral way, applicable to a wide variety of networked devices for diverse applications in domains like industrial automation, automotive electronics, home and building automation, telecommunications, telemetry, medical instrumentation, etc.

On top of this communication infrastructure, there was a need to implement a comprehensive, scaleable, easy-to-deploy SOA ecosystem (complete tool suite) on industry-favourite platforms, supported by wired and wireless communications.

The SODA project was able to embed web services in 5 euro devices. This integration led to a significant reduction of time to market for innovative services. It also succeeded in promoting Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) as an OASIS standard and delivering different implementations.

The SODA project has been awarded the ITEA Achievement Award 2009 - Bronze for outstanding contributions to the ITEA programme.

Furthermore, the SOCRADES project used also the results of SIRENA and SODA projects.

The goal of the SOCRADES project was 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.

Finally, 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.