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Centre for Distance-spanning Technology Annual Report
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About us
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CEO perspective
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The CDT process
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Research areas
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Our privacy projects
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CDT an expert in real-life piloting
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Becoming a business partner
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Collaborations & Networks
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Our projects
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CDT Management team
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CDT in brief
extending human capabilities by viable ICT innovation The Centre for Distance-spanning Technology is a research, design and innovation joint venture between Luleå University of Technology and the IT industry. Our mission is to develop and utilize new knowledge for viable ICT innovations with responsible and sustainable impact. WE CONNECT ACADEMIA, INDUSTRY AND SOCIETY AT LARGE IN RESEARCH, DESIGN AND INNOVATION, AS WELL AS KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER PROCESSES OUR PARTNERS ARE: • IT users (companies, organisations, individuals) • IT developers (companies, IT departments) • Innovation and research supporting organisations • Policy and decision makers • Academia (Students, teachers, researchers) CDT OPERATIONS ARE; RESEARCH, DESIGN AND INNOVATION INTEGRATION: • Projects • Proposals • Experimentation • Spin-off support NETWORKING AND COLLABORATION • External (e.g. ENoLL, NESSI, Net works, EARMA etc) • LTU internal, partners (e.g. meeting with researchers, partner networking and events) KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION AND COMMUNICATION • Workshops • Handbooks • Courses • Conferences FUTURE FUNDING INFLUENCE • Contribution to policies, roadmaps, lobbying, research agendas and programs • Future studies • Regional development plans 4
Our Offer & Key Areas Our Offer Become an Effective Member of EU Projects CDT is not only a partner in a number of European Union projects. We are also an effective Member of the European Network of Living Labs and Partner of the EIT ICT Labs and FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation).
Access to Unique Experiment Environments CDT is hosting Open Innovation experimentation environments to take research concepts to the reality, for example Botnia Living Lab and IoT Innovation Lab.
We are looking for new collaborations in the following emerging ICT-areas with great challenges, change and impact.
essary to interface system and reality. This allows systems to entirely take over the daily operation of some businesses.
Big Data Data volumes are exploding, so are the resource demands and the environmental impact.
Internet of Things and Smart Cities Computer systems today can be both cognitive and operational. They can replace human senses such as eyes, ears, feelings and hands. This means that people sometimes are no longer nec-
User-driven Service Innovation ICT enabling human/business creativity and enables effortless and fast adaption of functionality to new needs. Crowd-sourcing will grow. Everyone has multimedia tools in their pockets – always!
Take Part in a Wide Partner Network CDT works at the innovation forefront, making an impact in close collaborations. CDT has an extensive network covering private and public sector, multinational enterprises and SMEs as well as academia and non-profit organisations in Sweden and worldwide.
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The CEO Perspective For almost two decades, Mikael Börjeson has been writing this part of the annual report. But since the fall of 2014, he is no longer CEO of CDT. Mikael has been recruited to the regional Data center initiative. This initiative is working to attract large establishments of data centers to north Sweden. The construction of Facebook’s huge data center in Luleå, followed by other establishments like KnC Miner and Hydro66, will hopefully be the start of a new industrial era for northern Sweden. The mega data centers now being established is a great business opportunities for the region and the municipalities. It can result in about 20 new large data centers by 2020. That would mean up to 3,000 new jobs and investments of at least five billion SEK annually. There are many advantages of establishing data centers in the north Swedish region. The electricity grid has an extremely high redundancy and capacity and the electricity prices are among the lowest in Europe. The energy is 100% renewable green hydropower and the infrastructure is highly developed. Moreover, the region is considered as one of the most secure and stable places in the world, both geologically, politically, socially and digitally. The climate enables fresh aircooling all year round. Finally, the Luleå region is well known for its higher education. Luleå University of Technology conducts research and innovation within diverse fields such as CDT’s area distancespanning technology, but also in areas like long-term digital preservation and lower energy consumption of web technologies. Mikael Börjeson’s new assignment involves gathering joining forces to collaborate between municipalities, regions, country administrative boards and universities. Even thought Michael does no longer work as CEO at CDT, he is partly remain as one of “us” through the Wattalyst and the Cloudberry Datacenters projects, which he still is deeply involved in. Michael Börjeson’s efforts for CDT can hardly be overestimated. As a key figure in the organization, Mikael has for many years work tirelessly and has been a huge asset for the organizations and as a highly regarded leader, mentor and friend. We are all very grateful for having had the fortune to work for and with him. The CDT team wishes Mikael the best of luck and hopes to keep on collaborating in the future to come, now in the areas of Data centers and cloud tech-
nologies, fields where CDT is continuously strengthening its position and its knowledge. As of June 2015, Anders Lundkvist will assume the role as new CEO. Anders come from a position as CEO at Arctic Group, a technical consultancy company that focus on customs applications and telecom. Anders has extensive experiences of international relations and collaborations together with Europe, Africa, South America and Asia and with customers such as TeliaSonera and the Swedish customs. Moreover, he has for a long time been working in one of CDT’s areas of expertise, namely security and mobile applications. In the fall and winter of 2014, Annika Sällström was assistant director of CDT. From January to June 2015, Karl Andersson will act as assistant director. Regarding new projects within CDT, the year 2014 has been a bit of an off year. This is due to the fact that the EU programs did not start as planned. Despite this, CDT has succeeded well in Horizon 2020 and received two new projects: OrganiCity and Opti. Our long-term work on smart cities, user-centered innovation and sustainability has clearly borne fruit. CDT has also shown that we are a major player in the energy sector. In addition to these successes,VINNOVA, Sweden’s innovation agency, decided to support our datacenter work with yet another project. Furthermore, CDT was strongly contributing in the process of developing the Strategic Innovation Program (SIP) agenda for the Internet of Things that VINNOVA granted last summer. Year 2015 holds many opportunities. Another project in the Horizon 2020 is under negotiation and grant preparation. The regional fund and territorial programs opened its first calls for proposals in February 2015, which gives CDT a chance for new interesting projects and innovative partnership. We will also develop our partner model, our vision and further develop our market strategy. Lastly, Anders Lundkvist, Karl Andersson and the rest of the CDT team would like to thank core partners, sponsors and supporting partners for this year. We are very much looking forward towards 2015, a year when CDT will celebrate 20 years as a center of excellence. Luleå, February 2015 Karl Andersson, Associate Professor & Assistant Director of CDT 7
Highlights 2014 Energy Efficiency in Data Centers
via Intelligent Automation
An interview with Arash Mousavi, Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space E ngineering at LTU, who is involved in one of the Cloudberry pilots concerning Energy Efficiency in Data Centers via Intelligent Automation.
Why is research in Data center energy efficiency important? Because data centers are reported to account for around 2% of the world’s total energy consumption and it is expected to overtake the carbon emission of the airline industry by 2020. Therefore, energy efficiency in this sector is more important than ever before. Although relocating datacenters to the colder climates reduces the energy which is used for cooling Server Rooms, there are still many unnecessary energy waste in datacenters. We strongly believe that Intelligent Building Automation Systems can help to reduce these unwanted energy waste. What are the major energy related challenges in datacenters? According to the company ABB, which is one of the major players in this area, there are currently two major challenges; Firstly the lack of sufficient tools for managing environmental parameters and energy use in data centers and secondly the lack of an Integrated Control and Monitoring tool for energy consuming devices, which has great impact on energy efficiency. Around 65% of the existing data centers do not have tools to monitor their energy usage. In short, they do not know how they are consuming energy, therefore we can’t expect them to consume it efficiently. You work with the challenges within the BAS (building automation system) area. That needs to be done here? 8
Building Automation System, is the application of Industrial automation in building management systems. It provides controlling and monitoring capabilities over energy consuming devices such as heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting systems. Sensory systems can be easily integrated into BAS and provide awareness from the environment where buildings are located and from inside the buildings. Having these real-time information such as temperature, humidity etc, can make rational decisions to turn on/off devices such as heaters and coolers only when it is really required. In this way a lot of energy can be saved in buildings in general and in data centers in particular. In the Cloudberry pilot, what solutions are you working towards in this area? Generally speaking, we are working on Intelligent software technologies for distributed control systems, which can be divided into four areas; simulation with external tools, knowledge driven and multi-agent based solutions for energy efficient server rooms, agent-based intelligent smart grid and power supply for data as well as IEC 61499 standard function block architecture for distributed control systems. What do you hope that your research will result in? Energy and environmental effects of consuming energy are the most important challenges and
issues for the mankind in the 21st century. Addressing these challenges requires a global effort. We hope to take our part in this global determination towards a greener, cleaner and better world. Our main motivation relies mainly on the fact that without today’s effort, no better future will be waiting for us. Therefore, if we can take even a few small but successful steps in this direction, it will create tremendous satisfaction for our group. Finally, what do you think the Cloudberry project means for datacenter research in northern Sweden and for the datacenter and cloud research at Luleå University of echnology? North Sweden has become very attractive for data centers. Therefore, very soon many data centers are expected to build their facilities here. I believe that the Cloudberry project is playing a vital role in creating a solid foundation for the data center research and development. Up until now Cloudberry has connected many researchers, industries and companies involved in research and development in data centers in north Sweden as well as all across Europe. In addition, Cloudberry is playing a great role in increasing public awareness about data centers and data center related issues. At Luleå University of Technology, researchers who are interested in this field are well supported by the Cloudberry project as well in many different aspects.
Interview with a
Cloudberry Datacenters thesis student Interview with Ramin Faderanis, student at the LTU Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, that recently did a thesis for the Facebook Datacenter in Luleå, named “Installation of new network infrastructures in data centers”.
How was it, doing your thesis for Facebook? It was really cool and exciting that I got to do my thesis on Facebook Data Center in Luleå. It was interesting to see an IT environment relate to a large data center such as Facebook up close. I have learned a lot from having worked there for five weeks and I’m very grateful that I got to do my thesis there. What was the background to your thesis? Facebook Data Center in Luleå took the decision to install a new internal network for Facilities, which could then replace their previous network that was in operation during the time the new network was installed. The network would be replaced because the structure was too old-fashioned, which caused problems with redundancy if any link in the network would suddenly be broken. The project was called “Facility Network” (FacNet) and the network would be used by facilities where their role is to monitor, among other things as cooling system and power supply for the server rooms. Software upgrades was performed on the routers and switches which were used in the project.
Did it work? Yes, the network passed all the tests that were run and were ready to be deployed.
And what was the purpose with your thesis in this?
How was your thesis received by Facebook?
Well, it was to show how I have gone about and done my project during the five weeks period.
The tasks to be carried out was performed and the network was ready to be deployed. They appreciated my work and thanked for my efforts that had been carried out during the five weeks.
Tell us more about it. The goal of the work was to install an internal network that would replace another internal network. These units were installed later in the respective racks. Software upgrade was performed on the routers and switches used in the project. Finally, tests were conducted on the new network to make sure that the network was ready to go into production.
What are you planning to do next? I will start my employment at an IT consulting company in Luleå with an one year long trainee program and hopefully become a part of the company as an IT consultant. 9
Highlights 2014 Feeds from CDT’s Facebook page during 2014
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January. Earthquake Secure network developed by researcher Dr. Ved Kafle at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT, and Karl Andersson, CDT-LTU as well as together with other researchers within the two organizations.
February. Great interest for the Cloudberry Datacenters partner day in Skellefteå.
March. The Energy saving project Smart Campus made a film about the Luleå pilot work. In the picture: Toyne Ringwalds at Akademiska hus.
April. CDT participated in Berlin at the EIT ICT Labs partnering event that attracted 400 persons. In the phot: Björn Hovstadius, Josef Hallberg and Olov Schelén.
May. CDT participate at the regional event “Vi tar tempen på länet”. Innovation and how to create growth is on the agenda.
June. CDT chaired a session on Gender in Research and Administration in the EARMA Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
July. The Complutense University of Madrid, Spain visiting CDT.
August. Cloudberry Datacenters and iRoad presented the activities and pilots at the “Enabling ICT Day” at Vetenskapens Hus i Luleå, Sweden, August 29.
September. The VIT project is installing Ghost Driver Detection system on the highway outside Luleå. This system will detect drivers going in the wrong direction. There will also be a warning system connected to this.
October. CDT and Karl Andersson participates as a rapporteur at the 5th EU-Japan Symposium on ICT Research & Innovation, at the European Commission in Brussels.
November. Demo of the nursing simulation lab. Alexandra Brazinova, Trnava University (TU), Slovakia, visiting CDT and the Health Department at LTU. LTU and TU are partners in the Genovate EU FP7 project. The aim of the Genovate project is to promote equal opportunities for women and men in research and innovation.
December. Jan-Olov Johansson and Marita Holst at CDT are visiting the Facebook Luleå Data center exhibition at Teknikens Hus. Here they are building a house and connecting it to the grid. 11
Highlights 2014 Take control of your data in cyberspace Apps and new technologies can help us take control of data we provide on social media. Technology can also make it possible to charge companies and others for information provided. Mapping the patterns of sharing data in social networks, so-called data mining, giving businesses and stakeholders huge opportunities to reach individuals and specific target groups with different offers.Your privacy and personal digital profile is the focus of an interdisciplinary research project, USEMP where CDT collaborates with universities and companies in six European countries. - Apps that give you warnings how the data you provide in social media may be used by others, and tools to help you assess the data you provide into money, will be the result of the project, says Anna Ståhlbröst, senior lecturer in information systems at Luleå University of Technology. Technology can help citizens to take control of the data that leaks out when we are on-line. It also helps individuals to do business and sell their data to various companies and stakeholders. Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance of citizens, pin points new issues around privacy online. Results from the USEMP project is also expected to contribute to the debate about mass surveillance. The USEMP project analyzes legislation linked to digital social networks user’s needs and concerns , marketing and payment models and how new knowledge can be translated to new applications and tools to protect and support the individual user on-line.
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Event that inspired future open data innovation During 8-9 October, an open data event was held in Skellefteå. The event was organized by the Open Data innitiative created by the group Open North with the participants LTU, Skellefteå- and Umeå Municipalities as well as Umeå University. During the two days the participants discussed open data as an opportunity for future innovation and new services. The event focused also on how the public sector services can be improved by not only making data available, but also to interact and listen to what information is required and how it can be provided in the best possible way to the citizens. The event inspired the participants by demonstrating the possibilities of open data, and also provided an opportunity to network and exchange experiences in the field. The speakers came from Google, Manchester Digital Development Ageny, SKL, Skellefteå Municipality, Interactive Institute, Hello Future etc.
One million Swedish citizens learned about Sense Smart City pilot
More than one million Swedish citizens learned about the Sense Smart City pilot “City Flow” through the national and local Swedish media. The pilot, a cooperation between CDT, the Skellefteå municipality and the company “DFRC” from Switzerland, is now running in the city of Skellefteå. The pilot uses sensors to see how people move in the city through locationbased sensor solutions to make the city one of the European Smart Cities. The deployment of this high tech infrastructure is used as service for the whole community, from flow analysis to traffic monitoring.
CDT – a great contributor to the IoT Week
The International Conference on Internet of Things, or the IoT Week, is an association where Luleå University of Technology is member of the board. The IoT Week is arranged as a get-together under the European Commission and the IERC – the European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things. The IoT Week is the meeting place for the European Internet of Things research and innovation community, with academics, industrials and stakeholders engaging around hot topics, collaborations, and policies and just simply to network. This year, over 400 participants gathered
for discussions in over 40 sessions. CDT gave a number of workshops during the week, among others as responsible for the interactive workshop “User-generated Sensor-based Services” where the participants were introduced to the LTUdeveloped tool-kit SATIN, where users without programming experience may are given the possibility to develop mobile services. Moreover, Marita Holst, project Manager at CDT, organized a ”Social Track,” where presentations focused on research in citizen-centered processes related to the Internet of Things.
The Datacenter and Cloud days in Luleå, June 4-5, arranged by Cloudberry and EIT ICT Labs, gathered 60 something people from both academia and the industry. During the two days event the participants listened to and discussed current research and innovations in the areas of cloud, big data, future networks, data centers and related topics.
Data center & Cloud Days The event gave an increased knowledge on the on-going and new multidisciplinary pilot Cloudberry projects and an opportunity to network both during the days as well as over the evening event and dinner at the World Heritage Site Church Village of Gammelstad. One of the Keynote speakers was Michael Franklin, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, specializing in large-scale data management infrastructure and applications (Big Data). Michael Franklin is also a Director of the Algorithms, Machines and People Lab (AMPLab) that specialize in data management, cloud computing and statistical machine learning. Professor Franklin talked about The Berkeley Data Analytics Stack and its present and future challenges and opportunities. An other highlight during the event was the keynote by Joel Kjellgren, Data Center Manager at Facebook in Luleå. He talked about innovative mega data centers and its operations and future challenges. There were also time for a panel discussion and a number of group discussions focusing on meta datacenters, data center infrastructure monitoring and automation, energy big data analytics, efficient IoT contents as well as big data router for real-time analytics. The event was co-financed by VINNOVA. 13
Highlights 2014
EAR-IT project on Euronews
Mobile Summer School
In the EAR-IT project the walls have ears! EAR-IT has been researching the possibilities of intelligent sound and smart services in indoor and outdoor environments. Now, event Euronews have reported about the project. The purpose is to use sensor technology to improve safety, energy, traffic and much more. The project experiment with acoustic sensors in different types of environments, both indoor and outdoor. Examples of different usage of audio sensing is to detect sirens or other specific events in an outdoor environment. These sounds are then used to, control traffic and gain control of the emergency scene in order to help an ambulance or the police. Or to capture when a car window is damaged in a parking area. These sounds are then used to trigger actions such as turning on a camera. Other experiments may be to detect a specific acoustic event, such as the word “Help”. The event is then used to trigger an action in order to improve safety. Annika Sällström at CDT believes people won’t feel they are being spied on: “People don’t want to be listened to, but still they can accept that audio is captured if it comes down to security and safety. We have found in our study that they can even give up a bit of their privacy for security, so if they can feel a safer city they can give up their privacy a bit. We can monitor the traffic situation by measuring the noise levels on the streets, or we can even detect emergency situations: if there’s a cry for help or a gunshot, authorities can be alerted automatically.”
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Mobile Summer School is an annually recurring event where teachers of all levels are invited to take part in current state-of-the art in IT technology for the classroom. The event takes place in the serene surroundings of Finland’s oldest agricultural school in Tammela, about 150 km north of Helsinki. The site, with green pastures, gigantic old trees, mooing cows and chirping birds, is in itself a welcome interruption from the daily workday life, and the participants really enjoyed the opportunity to try some of the latest technology. Pasi Mattila, University of Oulu and one of the founders of Mobile Summer School, says “We are extremely pleased with the response we have received from the participants. Many return year after year and we are happy to be able to provide this meeting place where school personnel are able to see some of the latest from IT developers in business and research. It also provides a good feedback to the technology developers. And it is fun!”. CDT participated with the SATIN toolkit, a toolkit that allows non-programmers to create their own mobile apps. In the event, participants were engaged in eight groups of 10-20 per group walking
through the different stations. In the SATIN station, we gave a short intro to SATIN, after which the participants sat down and started building apps themselves. A common comment was: “Wow, I really enjoy being able to create my own apps!” From our side, the Mobile Summer School was a good opportunity to test the SATIN toolkit in an unfamiliar environment, and we were very pleased with the outcome. Not only did the technology work well and everybody was able to get a good possibility to test the toolkit, but we also received many interesting and valuable ideas for continued improvement! And it was fun!
Try the new
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The European CompEIT project has released a video conferences app where participants are mixed toward a common background (so-called green-screen) that enhances the feeling of presence in e-meetings. The CompEIT project is a collaboration between seven academic and industrial partners in EIT ICT Labs. From Sweden participates Luleå University of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology and Ericsson AB. The project is involved in a synergy cooperation to make media experiences on the Internet better, for example, making it easier to to see each other in the eyes during video meetings, watch videos together and other fun and exciting things. You will also be able to, in an easy fashion, move it between your computer and you mobile phone. Remote controls can also be used to automatically control lighting and other things. After one year’s intensive work, it is now possible to try it out including video conferencing, where multiple people are cut out against a common background. You can also try out the games and other things where you simply plug in the phones to a game on the screen (eg, card games using mobile phones and the computer screen as “table”). The project seeks comments on how these prospects should work through its Experience Lab. Link to the project: www.compeit.eu Try the CompEIT Experience Lab here: http://experience.compeit.eu
Innovation and gender The establishment of CDT’s innovation and gender platform is made possible by the combined efforts of CDT’s concluded and ongoing initiatives and projects in gender equality and diversity.The innovation and gender platform supports CDT’s strategic business activities as well as CDT’s and its partners’ gender mainstreaming processes both in academia and industry.The aim of the innovation and gender platform is to contribute to an inclusive, innovative and reflective society. We want to empower people to accomplish sustainable results in research and innovation through gender equality and diversity. We seek to better understand gender mainstreaming processes and aim to build and disseminate new knowledge. Our ambition is to inspire people, develop tools, methods and processes as well as provide good examples of collaboration with gender researchers and gender consultants. For us it is important to go from saying to doing based on gender science. CDT’s gender and diversity ambassadors are our biggest asset. Our goal is that project partners including ambassadors collaborate on equal terms in joint learning and knowledge sharing processes. In the ideal situation of interactive collaboration all participants are seen as experts in their own fields. This is to ensure that the gender equality and diversity work continues when the project is over and the process leaders and gender researchers have left. Our working model which promotes tailored tools and more sustainable change of attitudes and
behaviour is mostly appreciated. The toolbox, the gender app and the innovation and gender handbook have gained attention both in Sweden and Europe. We invite for collaboration any university, research centre, public organisation or company interested in enhancing excellence in research and innovation through gender equality and diversity. We offer partnership in development of tailored tools and methods in close collaboration with gender researchers. CONTACT: Paula Wennberg E-mail: paula.wennberg@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 247 54 21 Our assets are: n Research expertise in innovation and gender n Methods, tools, handbooks n Gender app n Network of ambassadors n Large partner network Gender & Diversity Toolbox: gd.toolbox.eu Gender app: gd.toolbox.eu Handbook: Innovation and gender – how to boost and measure change 15
Highlights 2014
Tools for promoting gender equality A toolbox and a gender app for gender mainstreaming shall change norms and get more women into the field of information and communication technology. – Now, we always have gender equality on the agenda on our project meetings, says Arne Gylling, project leader at Centre for Distancespanning Technology, CDT. – For us at our department, gender issues are especially important. We have few women attending our programmes and we have yet as hard to get women as teachers, says Jonas Ekman, Dept. of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineeering, LTU. Arne Gylling, CDT, uses both the toolbox and the gender app in project applications.
– We are forced to think harder: how can we get more women in our projects? The effort has also taught us to think about design processes – how we can create more relevant products. – Taking into account how the consequences of a decision affect both women and men, is part of gender mainstreaming. As well as ensuring that there is gender balance in work groups and steering groups, and that gender and diversity mainstreaming is in the project’s description already during the project initiation phase. And, not least, to challenge ingrained gender roles,
ways of thinking, working methods and norms. Previously, we thought in given patterns. Now, we have learned to reflect and think about how we act – who gets to speak, to whom do I listen? says Mikael Börjeson, CDT – Beside everything else, we keep this process in mind all the time. Diversity is a good way to ensure you do not put all your eggs in one basket and, in the long run, gives more profitable businesses, says Anders Lundkvist, Arctic Group.
Sensors for better road safety Roland Hostettler at CDT-LTU has developed a new method to monitor traffic using sensors on the roadside. In his doctoral thesis Traffic Monitoring using Roadside Sensors: Modelling and Estimation, he shows how sensors can provide information about the vehicle’s position and speed. According to Roland Hostettler research, carried out at the Division of Signals and Systems, small sensors can be used on the roadside to monitor traffic. The sensors work in conjunction with an accelerometer that measures the mechanical waves on the road surface, and a magnetometer, which measures magnetic fields. – In order to show that it works, I have developed a model that describes how waves caused by cars passing the sensor, extends on the road surface, explains Roland Hostettler. – I have connected my model to an existing 16
model for a magnetic sensor and signal processing algorithms. Then you can for example estimate the vehicle’s position and speed as well as its movement on the road. In short term, Roland Hostettler is convinced that the new technology could replace traffic counting systems, such as black hoses across roadways, which are used today. – There are several advantages of our system. Because the sensors are small, they do not affect the drivers and they wont adapt their driving behavior. The sensors are torn much less and the people who will install the system
are safer in traffic which reduces the risk of workplace accidents. Should the sensors start to be used more extensively, Roland Hostettler sees even more benefits in the long term. Simpler assessments of road wear may facilitate maintenance of roads and new security features developed and coupled to the sensors, for example, information from sensors on the roadside on your car’s surroundings, would increase road safety.
The CDT Process Our organisational fundament is a contractual partnership between Luleå University of Technology and IT companies.The University is host and legal body for our operations, a board of directors with industrial majority sets our strategic directions and a core management team is responsible for tactical planning and daily operations. Our integrated projects very much depend on collaboration between people from different organisations. Our means of operation essentially comprises three ingredients: • Partnership for new business • Research integration • Innovation management. PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW BUSINESS
Advanced distance-spanning technology instruments continuous transformation of virtually all types of businesses. Based on regular forecasts, we select business segments, engage partners and jointly form what we call strategic partnership programmes or “Partnerships for New Business”. In context of the partnership programmes, we analyze and define driving scenarios. Based on driving scenarios, we initiate and conduct prototype-driven projects for research, development and test of new products, new services and new business models.
RESEARCH INTEGRATION
INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
Are good business innovations driven by needs or emerging technology? Well, arguments are eternal. At CDT we are fine whatever comes first. For certain, it is important that they both are present and can match! The driving scenarios are complex, so our projects rely on our ability to define and integrate a suitable blend of different organisations and competences. We call this “Research Integration” and it includes integration of different research areas. It also includes integration between academic and commercial objectives and perspectives.
Ability to generate innovations is one thing. Bringing innovation to new business is another, and CDT do both. Each groundbreaking innovation is unique by definition, and it is inherently difficult, also for the innovators, to fully grasp its nature and potential. Hence, efficient exploitation of each innovation represents a unique management challenge. Our Innovation Management processes rely heavily on our network of senior entrepreneurs.
The CDT process Gathering of IPR´s (negotiation) Business Concept Development Need-driven idea generation
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Research CDT initiates and manage integrated RDI-projects
Business Transition Analyses
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Research areas World class research at Luleå University of Technology is the core for our operation. Consequently, an important part of CDT´s mission is to support the strong university research environments.Today, we collaborate actively with several different areas of research. Construction Engineering The research area Construction Engineering and Management is focused on creating an integrated industrialized construction process by developing processes, methods and systems for customizing and optimizing the design and production of the final product. The research include planning, design and management of construction projects as well as IT-system for information management of an integrated building process. CONTACT: Thomas Olofsson, Professor E-mail: Thomas.Olofsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 493662
Control Engineering Control Engineering is “The sience of automated systems”. Automatic control Engineering is a broad and exciting area of technology with a long history. Already in the 1700s they used Centrifugalregulator to ensure that windmills spinning at constant speed and the same system was applied later for steam engines. Control systems have long been used in automatic pilots for airplanes and boats. Already in 1912 designed the American inventor Elmer A. Sperry, an autopilot for the aircraft. Simply put, automatic control theory is about to control systems so that they behave as desired. Some examples 18
where automatic control technology is used are space travel, skyscrapers in order to reduce the swaytion, or for climate control in buildings and vehicles. Control is also used in telecommunications to create interference broadcasting and in a processing plant, there may be thousands of control loops for controlling pressure, temperature, flow, etc. CONTACT: Thomas Gustafsson, Professor E-mail: Thomas.Gustafsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 491323
Entrepreneurship and Innovation The subject deals with development of firms and organizations with a specific focus on business development based on innovative products and services, production solutions or ways to lead and organize activities. In particular focus is the topic of interorganizational relationships for entrepreneurship and innovation involving companies operating in competitive markets, but we are also interested in individuals and systems of interacting actors. Established in 2006 the Entrepreneurship and Innovation group at Luleå University of Technology undertakes research on organizational development with a specific focus on firm development based on innovative products, services, production solutions or management modes. CONTACT:
Dependable Communication and Computation Systems The research subject focuses on function block architecture IEC 61499 for distributed automation systems. Moreover, the subject focus on cyberphysical systems and Internet of Things, simulation of complex distributed systems, agent-based architectures and bio-inspired control in complex industrial infrastructures, formal semantics of distributed systems, wireless sensor networks, formal verification by modelchecking and automatic test generation, software tools for visual development of automation systems and resource efficient algorithms.
Joakim Wincent, Professor E-mail: joakim.wincent@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920-492161
Gender and Technology Gender & Technology is a research topic under the Department of Work Science at the Department of Economics, Technology and Society. Our research and education focus on gender perspective of regional development, technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and communications in rural areas. We use an interactive research approach in close collaboration between researchers and the community.
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CONTACT:
Valeriy Vyatkin, Professor E-mail: valeriy.vyatkin@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 492505
Lena Abrahamsson, Professor E-mail: lena.abrahamsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920-492107
Fluid Mechanics The research within the subject fluid mechanics is done with contemporary methods in a creative environment and often in larger groups together with researchers from other subjects and/or universities/companies. Focus is on flow through porous media, multiphase flow, flow with free surfaces and in-stationary flow. The tools applied are experimental, analytical and numerical methods. The research is applied within hydropower (production, security, environment), mining and steel industry and within areas such as composites manufacturing, health aspects, flow of grease, flow within bearings and filtertechnology. CONTACT: Staffan Lundström, Professor E-mail: Staffan.Lundstrom@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 492392
Information Systems At LTU, Information Systems (IS) is defined as an inter-disciplinary research subject, which covers design and use of information technology in relation to people, organizations and societies. IS –related research relates mainly to the strategic research area of Enabling ICT. Several research projects have recently focused on such areas as Digital Service Innovation, Information Security, and Sustainable Data and Information Management. Digital Service Innovation regards services as a driver for individual, organizational, and societal change. Information Security research focuses on the management and behavioral aspects of information security, network and infrastructure security and pedagogical issues of on-line security education. Sustainable Data and Information Management regards data, information, and knowledge as a valuable resource that needs to be managed, cultivated, and utilized systematically throughout its life-cycle both in enterprises and in the public sector. CONTACT: Tero Päivärinta, Professor E-mail: tero.paivarinta@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 491477
Pervasive and Mobile Computing Pervasive and mobile computing address distributed systems and mobile networks, which enable mobility, ubiquity and interactivity of computers, data, software and users. Pervasive computing is based on that technology is moving beyond the personal computer to everyday devices with embedded technology and connectivity as computing devices become progressively smaller and more powerful. Pervasive computing goes beyond the realm of personal computers: it is the idea that almost any device, from clothing to tools to appliances to cars to homes to the human body to your coffee mug, can be imbedded with chips to connect the device to an infinite network of other devices. Mobile computing enables continuous Internet access of computing devices (laptops, smart phones sensors etc.) via a multitude of access networks with maintained service availability. Mobility is enabled by devices connecting to access technologies that scales for a service. Further, software may be moving to be executed on the most efficient device present, adapting to its environment. CONTACT: Christer Åhlund, Professor E-mail: chister.ahlund@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)910 585331
Industrial Work Environment Research in Industrial Work Environment include Production and Work, Work organisation, Change processes and learning, Education, Employment and Society as well as Gender Studies. Our research is carried on at both large and small companies and organisations, both manufacturing companies and service companies, and in both the public and the private sector. We are for example running a number of projects in heavy process industries such as paper and pulp, steel and mining and in the engineering industry. We also have many research projects in health care
Enabling ICT The need to communicate independent of time and place is constantly increasing.There has been a rapid increase in the amount of information and the number of applications available. Information and communication technology (ICT) has an infinite number of applications in society and the business community, and the requirements for accessibility, usability, reliability, and security are high. At Luleå University of Technology, we have developed applications within smart cities, e-health, e-government, e-commerce, transport, environment and energy, safe and scalable systems for e-services and data storage. ICT is expanding strongly and the need for research is considerable. At Enabling ICT LTU’s research resources have been gathered together in connection with ICT in order to highlight research issues both in depth and from a multidisciplinary perspective. CONTACT: Christer Åhlund, Professor E-mail: chister.ahlund@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)910 585331 Anna Ståhlbröst, Associate Professor E-mail: anna.stahlbrost@ltu.se@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 492091
and medical treatment, upper secondary school, and vocational education. Thematically, our projects can be described in terms of areas, that may appear to be quite different but are often interrelated and overlapping. CONTACT: Jan Johansson, Professor E-mail: jan.johansson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 491412 19
Results Accumulated –The creation of society growth
CDT supports and finances the commercialization process of research innovations. A powerful way to do this is the generation of commercial spin-off companies. Since start, CDT has been involved in the forming of 13 spin-off companies based on academic research from Luleå University of Technology.The creation of these companies is beneficial to local economic development in the region. led to that the company expanded its activities and registered as a limited liability company. www.actegra.se iGW is a company focusing on a developing infrastructure for collection, management and visualization of large amounts of data. www.igw.se Oricane AB – The target customers of the company are vendors of software based network equipment, such as routers and firewalls, as well as vendors of custom hardware classification engines for high-end network equipment, 2006. www.oricane.se Parnes Labs – Realizes dreams in the realm of development for the Web, Android, iPhone/iPad and just about anything related to the Internet! www.parnes.com/labs Actegra – A design, product development and manufacturing company of electronic equipment for wireless communications and positioning. The concept behind the company arose in year 2009. In 2011, the collaborations with the CDT project “Sense Smart City”, was one of the factors that 20
KYAB – KYABs business idea is to assist house owners to reduce their energy consumption by combining measurement, visualisation and advise. www.kyab.se Adela Innovation AB – A company developing products and services within area of enabling
people to receive and listen to speech newspapers, 2008. www.adela.nu Rubico AB – A company targeting the Swedish market for digital audio newspaper receivers/ recorders, 2004. www.rubico.se Operax AB – Operax develops key technology for data and telecommunication over Internet and Intranet within fixed and mobile systems, 2000. www.operax.com Internet Bay – A commercial cluster that supports its members’ growth strategies in distancespanning and mobile applications, 1999. www.internetbay.se Marratech AB – An Internet company developing products and services, which facilitate meetings between people on Internet, so called e-meetings, 1998. Bought by Google 2008, now a part of Google toolbox. www.marratech.com Effnet AB – A developer of Internet Protocol (IP) header compression technologies, 1997. www.effnet.com IT Norrbotten AB – A regional development company with the objective to create economical growth and develop work and industry in Norrbotten, 1996. www.itnorrbotten.se Bollen Labs – A company that experiment with new ways to interact with computers, and new types of data visualization. www.bollenlabs.com
Results Moreover, our research groups at Luleå University of Technology, is a key asset of our activities. To secure continuous world class innovations, academical achievements are of great importance to us. Consequently, we measure the number of publications, reports, MSc degrees, Doctoral degrees as well as how many Licentiate degrees that receives their hats each year.
Post-Graduate Degrees Accumulated Associate Professors Anita Mirijamdotter Anna Ståhlbröst Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn Dick Schefström James P LeBlanc Jeaneth Johansson Kåre Synnes Malin Malmström Mikael Wiberg Olov Schelen Peter Parnes Wolfgang Birk Doctors Anders Lindgren Anna Ståhlbröst Dan Johansson Dick Schefström Frank Sjöberg Jan-Jaap van de Beek
Jeremiah Scholl Johan Karlsson Johan Kristiansson John Lindström Josef Hallberg Juwel Rana Kåre Synnes Lars-Åke Larzon Malin Malmström Marita Holst Mikael Degermark Mikael Drugge Mikael Sundström Olov Schelén Per Ödling Peter Parnes Roland Hostettler Roland Parviainen Thomas Pederson Ulf Bodin
Licentiates Anders Lindgren Andreas Jonsson Anna Ståhlbröst Dan Johansson Daniel Granlund Frank Sjöberg Helena Oskarsson Jeremiah Scholl Johan Karlsson Johan Kristiansson Johan Nykvist Josef Hallberg Josefin Lassinantti Kåre Synnes Lars-Åke Larzon Laurynas Riliskis Lena Palmqvist Marcus Nilsson Martin Sehlstedt Mats Folke Matthias Wahlqvist Mikael Drugge Pierre Fransson Richard Nilsson Robert Granlund Roland Parviainen Stefan Elf Tomas Nilsson Ulf Bodin Ulrika Wiss
Our aim is to identify highly innovative and novel research findings with technical and commercial potential. Moreover, we also need to export these ideas to society and companies by creating sustainable business innovation. As a result, we measure the number of concepts, prototypes, patents, products, services and spin-offs, our operations generate each year.
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Awards Ericsson Patentable Invention Award
Best Paper NOMINATION
Best Student Paper
Award received by Ph D student Juwel Rana, LTU, Associate Professor Kåre Synnes, LTU and Stefan Håkansson and Johan Kristiansson at Ericsson in 2012, Sweden.
Awarded Bigitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, Marita Holst and Anna Ståhlbröst for “Concept Design with a Living Lab Approach at HICSS-42 at Big Island, Hawaii, in 2009.
Awarded Anna Hedman, David Carr, Hans Nässla in year 2004 for “Browsing thumbnails: A comparison of three techniques” by ITI2004 in Croatia.
Ericsson Inventor of the Year
Received by Kimmo Yliniemi (KYAB) in 2008.
Awarded Krister Svanbro at Ericsson in year 2001 for Headercompression by Ericsson.
Mobile Technology of the Year 2008
No 1 Swedish Research Project
GULDMOBILEN
Awarded Oricane in 2008.
Awarded Rocco project in 2000 by magazine Ny Teknik.
The International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications awarded Juwel Rana, Kåre Synnes and Johan Kristiansson “Best Student Paper Award”, in November 2012, in Xiangtan, China.
The Competence Gala´s Great Honorary Prize
No 1 Swedish Researcher “Chester Carlson Prize”
Shared by Östen Mäkitalo and Anton Abele in 2008.
Awarded Mikael Degermark in year 2000 for “high performance routing” by IVA.
Best Paper
Awarded Operax AB in year 2007 by the European Commission.
IT Personality of the Year Dataföreningen i Norr, awarded Professor Christer Åhlund “IT personality of the year 2012”, in Skellefteå, Sweden.
Best Student Paper Award
Best paper awarded Laurynas Riliskis and Evgeny Osipov for “Analysis of the adaptive threshold vehicle detection algorithm applied to traffic vibrations” at Baltic Conference on Future Internet Communications, Riga, in 2011.
Best Idea Awarded the research project Sense Smart City at the European summit on the future of Internet in Luxembourg, 2011.
IT Organization of the Year Awarded CDT in year 2011 from the IT society in Norrbotten, Sweden.
Chester Carlson Prize NOMINATION Finalist Mikael Sundström in 2009 by IVA for efficient compression, storage and retrieval of information. 22
SBAPA Award
European Grand Ict Prize FINALIST
Best Presentation Award Awarded Mikael Sundström at ItechPartner Forum in Porto, Portugal, in 2007.
Best Paper Awarded Christer Åhlund, Robert Brännström, Karl Andersson, and Örjan Tjernström for ”Multimedia Flow Mobility in Heterogeneous Networks Using Multihomed Mobile IPv6” at The 4th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2006.
Best New-Establishment In Luleå
European Grand IST Prize
FINALIST
Awarded Marratech AB in year 2000 in Nice by the European Commission.
Best Paper Awarded Mikael Degermark in year 2000 for “high performance routing” by ACM/SIGCOM.
European Grand IST Prize (1st) Awarded Effnet AB in year 1999 in Helsinki by the European Commission.
1st Prize In Swedish Innovation Cup 1998: Brodnik/Carlsson/Degermark/Pink – The Luleå Algorithm
Rubico AB, a CDT-offspring, awarded for the best newestablishment in Luleå in 2006.
Spin-off of the year
Competetive Regions Best Practice 3
The CDT spin-off company KYAB receive the award “Spin-off of the year 2013” from the Luleå University of Technology.
VITAL Project selected for presentation in Magdeburg, Germany, 2005.
Methods and Manuals HOW TO BOOST AND MEASURE CHANGE The purpose of this handbook is to provide guidance on promoting a gender equality and diversity perspective in ICT and educational environment. The handbook answers questions such as - How to measure effects of gender equality and diversity activities in ICT (both academia and industry)? What we mean by change and how to measure it? How to promote a more sustainable change process? The handbook not only highlights the need for change but describes the change that occurred in two pilots.
THE LIVING LABS HANDBOOK Based on results from the project SmartIES and the process of using and evaluating the FormIT methodology in a Nordic cross-border pilot. The goal has been to make the Living Lab Key Principles and the application visible and easy to use.
RACE TO SCALE FormIT is a methodology for user involvement, created and tested at CDT. In this guide, specialists in user-driven innovation share their knowledge.
PEOPLES VOICE Involving users in the development of interactive systems increases the ikelihood that those systems will be useful and usable. How do we mobilize users? What motivates people to take part in the development of an innovation in their spare time?
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Our Privacy Projects Advances in information communication technology are dramatically improving real-time communication and information-sharing. But at the same time it has become clear that these new technologies are vulnerable to electronic surveillance and interception. Such surveillance threatens individual rights.With several projects in the areas of digital privacy, CDT is doing its share to help to raise citizens´ awareness of their digital footprint in social media and give the users´ the control of their personal data.
USEMP
EAR-IT – putting ears on the Internet
USEMP’s mission is to raise citizens´awareness of their digital footprint in social media and give the users‘ the control of their personal data.
The project is about research in intelligent acoustic solutions.
USEMP stands for user empowerment for enhanced online presence Management. The USEMP initiative will take up the challenge of developing tools to empower users with regard to their volunteered (posted), their observed (behavioural) data and the inferred data, which basically drive most of the business models of OSNS of key importance for the project will be to empower users by enhancing the understanding and control over the data they distribute or interact with. Two tools will be deployed that give users the control of their personal data: • USEMP Presence Control Tool –Who am I in social networks? • USEMP Economic Value Awareness Tool – What is the value of my personal data? The project will run for three years with partners from six countries applying a living lab approach involving users in the design, development and testing of the USEMP tools. www.usemp-project.eu PROJECT PERIOD: October 2013 – September 2016 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14 24
Acoustic sensing is powerful because of the amount of information that it can extrapolate from the environment, but to put sensors to monitor peoples life is always a challenge, not technologic but ethical. people are always reluctant to the adoption of this new kind of technologies, due to the fear of big brother effects. the ear-It project idea is to conduct a large-scale ‘real-life’ experimentation of intelligent acoustics on two different testbeds: Santander and Hobnet, for supporting high social value applica- tions fostering innovation and sustainability. The project will apply a user-centric approach by people participating throughout the design process to influence the technology being developed. of specific emphasis will be the investigation of national and international legislations of audio sensing in indoor and outdoor environments as well as user-perception of audio-monitoring in the view of privacy and ethics. www.ear-it.eu PROJECT PERIOD: October 2012 – September 2014 CONTACT: Anna Ståhlbröst E-mail: anna.stahlbrost@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0) 70 624 01 86
IoT Labs IoT Lab is a FP7 research project exploring the potential of crowdsourcing to extend IoT testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments with more end-user interactions. CDt is responsible for end user and Societal added value analysis and mainly involved in performing multidisciplinary experiments, including end-user driven experiments through crowdsourcing, to assess the added value of such approach. ltu- researchers involved are from Social Informatics. the project mission is to research and develop: • Crowdsourcing mechanisms and tools enabling testbeds to use third parties resources (such as mobile phones), and to interact with distributed users (the crowd). • Virtualization of crowdsourcing and testbed components • Ubiquitous Interconnection and Cloudification of the testbeds resources. • End-user and societal value creation by analyzing the potential end-users and crowdsourcing participants to propose an optimized model for end-user adoption and societal value creation. • “Crowdsourcing-driven research” as a new model in which the research can be initiated, guided and assessed by the crowd. It will compare it to other models. economic dimension of crowdsourcing testbed, by analyzing the potential markets and business models able to monetize the provided resources with adequate incentives, in order to optimize the exploitation, costs, profitability and economic sustainability of such testbeds. • Performing multidisciplinary experiments, including end-user driven experiments through crowdsourcing, to assess the added value of such approach. www.iotlab.eu PROJECT PERIOD: October 2013 – September 2016 CONTACT: Anna Ståhlbröst E-mail: anna.stahlbrost@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0) 70 624 01 86
Mobile Shield 2014 Mobile Shield or Real-time security shield for mobile platforms, has as objective to deliver and package new fraud-detection and privacy services specifically tailored for mobile platforms. As part of the project three different technologies will be developed and tested in real world pilots. Further business models will be created to introduce the technologies into the market. The first technology is a set of fraud-detection algorithms for mobile with new features such as being real-time, offering continuous monitoring and be based on anomaly behavior detection, developed by Trento University. The second technology developed by the University of Technology in Bern is a mobile virtualization technology to protect the fraud detector implementing the algorithms on the mobile itself against possible attacks from malware. Finally, a third technology is a security app from F-secure called Freedome. Freedome is an app for smartphone and tablet devices running Android and iOS. The app the targeted to protect users from the several privacy and security breaches. Issues such as integration, product engineering and usage scenario definition will be addressed as well as privacy, usability and acceptance of the service will be tested and validated by real users in Botnia living lab. Finally, the economic feasibility of the solutions and elaborated effective business models around which it is possible to build a commercial offering of the new fraud-management services will be created. www.eitictlabs.eu/innovation-entrepreneurship/privacy-security-trust/ real-time-security-shield-for-mobile-platforms/ PROJECT PERIOD: January 2014-December 2014 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14
Upcoming project 2015 OrganiCity A key ambition of OrganiCity is to make the creation and design of technologies and services for cities more inclusive for citizens and communities. It aims to tackle the question of how smart cities can be organically grown from citizens and communities instead of being engineered by the visions of large cooperates and city governments alone. www.organicity.eu PROJECT PERIOD: January 2015 – December 2017 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (7)0 646 54 14
Mobile Shield 2015 This project is a continuation from Mobile Shield 2014. The goal of the activity is the launch and offering of security services for the detection and identification of mobile malware, the security rating of mobile applications and their trusted distribution. www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Projekt/Pagaende-projekt/MobileShield-2015-1.127616?l=en PROJECT PERIOD: January 2015 – December 2015 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (7)0 646 54 14
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CDT an expert
in Real-life Piloting For more than ten years CDT has been running pilots and tests to evaluate, validate and improve the design, functionality as well as usability, utility and usefulness of new innovative ICT products and services. This means that we plan, run and lead experimental pilots with users (i.e. involvement of end-users for validation and assessment) in their real-life context. We do this with a quatro helix approach, i.e. relevant stakeholders from academia, industry, society and end-users are involved in the process. We also design the pilots taking five key principles into account. These principles are: 26
VALUE
OPENNESS
• Experienced value of the innovation • Focus on understanding needs and motivators • Values arising from experiences and reflection of use
• Engage multi stakeholders to participate
INFLUENCE • The input from stakeholders must be used • The results of the input should be communicated • Users are active, competent partners and domain experts
SUSTAINABILITY • Continuous learning – development of
theories, models and methods • Consider environmental, social and economic impact by developing sustainable innovation processes
• Openly share ideas and designs • Have an open mind
R EALISM • Make real world implementations • Stimulate real use situations • Understand stakeholders different views on reality • CDT Key Competence: Efficient methods and research expertise for planning and performing user-involvement activities in pilots • CDT Key Capabilities: Professional management and performance of pilots in real life setting including both technology and involvement of the entire value-chain of the actual solution being tested incl the end-users.
Real-life
Experimentation Environments
Benefits are: For Companies: an efficient development cycle with more innovative ideas, broad market understanding and potentially increased use of products and services due to the involvement of more stakeholders
For Public organisations: an opportunity to increase the value of innovation investments and contribute to democracy through the involvement of citizens in regional and national development processes
For Users: an opportunity to have influence on technology and societal development through active engagement in innovations processes hence, their different needs can be fulfilled For Researchers: access to multidisciplinary networks and opportunities to experiment in real life situations with for example, methods for user involvement or innovations systems
Expected results when running pilots with this approach are: • Redesign of products/services • Decisions for implementation of new functions • New target user groups • New ideas as result of user involvement • Increased knowledge on use preferences and situations • Established relations with new business partners • Faster innovation process (shortened time for development) by support from end-users for decision making.
IoT Innovation Lab
Botnia Living Lab
Boost Future Internet by real life testing in challenging contexts.
Botnia Living Lab is CDT´s open environment for humancentric research and development of new innovative ICTbased products and services
We provide physical IoT environments in especially extreme, diversified and challenging contexts: • Test your sensors in demanding environments • Get access to a cloud sensor platform with services • Get access to a platform with customizable mobile application possibility • Connect with researches interested in experimentation on the IoT testbed CONTACT TO KNOW MORE: Karl Andersson E-mail: karl.andersson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0) 70 819 54 84
Botnia started in 2000 and has matured from a test-bed to a real-life laboratory, powered by more than 6000 co-creative pilot users. Today Botnia is a worldleading environment for usercentric research, development and innovation (RDI), instrumented by methods, tools and experts and a web-portal, for interaction with user groups. With its focus on advanced IT services and products, Botnia’s strategy is to be independent from (geographically) fixed assets and essentially, service experimentation relying on readily available hardware and communication infrastructure. Botnia’s track record includes application areas such as: mobile marketing, traffic information, energy saving, sports and culture, e-democracy and security. CONTACT TO KNOW MORE: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@.ltu.se Phone: +46 (0) 70 646 54 14 27
FINANCES ENABLING OUR EFFORTS
CDT is mainly financed by institutional sources, both nationally and internationally.This is for example EU framework programs and structural funds, along with national and regional governments. CDT is a non profit organization. Nonetheless, a strong financial position helps us achieve our goals by being able to better support the projects we are involved in.
CDT income 2014 (SEK ´000) CDT Income including the in-kind contribution of the partners and transfer of EU funds to the partners.
Total Transfer of Funds 23 407
Other Funds 3 730 Company Funds 1 004
Financial turnover (Net) 49 354
Regional Public Funds 3 936
International Public Funds 9 617 28
2014 2013 2012 2011 608 10 439 -1 407 3 871 8 692 7 583 9 332 10 666 0 0 0 0 9 300 18 022 7 925 14 537
Accounts payable Advance payments Personnel liabilities Other current liabilities Loan Total Liabilities
1 603 962 1 317 1 348 4 979 8 031 2 941 5 176 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 8 498 2 480 6 572 6 588 17 491 6 738 13 096
Profit or loss brought forward Profit or loss for the financial year Total Capital
531 2 181 2 712
1 187 -656 531
1 442 -255 1 187
1 354 87 1 441
Total Liabilities and Capital
9 300
18 022
7 925
14 537
Income Statement (SEK ´000) Governmental companies Governmental authorities and foundations County administration Other governmental funding Municipalities Private companies Private foundations Foreign funding Others Income
2014 2013 2012 2011 0 0 0 0 6 715 7 467 9 408 11 520 1 482 773 647 629 980 386 321 259 1 474 -42 1 260 1 795 1 004 2 053 1 930 25 1 321 0 0 0 6 582 5 809 5 021 122 0 0 0 2 084 19 558 16 446 18 587 16 434
Personnel costs External services Premises Equipment Travel Indirect costs Other costs Costs
5 563 5 311 5 410 5 868 7 301 7 286 8 927 5 584 429 462 326 424 469 796 540 379 1 162 928 1 170 803 2 168 2 076 2 116 2 358 285 243 353 931 17 377 17 102 18 842 16 347
Income for the Year Total In Kind contribution of the partners 6 389
National Public Funds 1 271
Balance Sheet (SEK ´000) Liquid assets Receivables Fixed assets Total Assets
2 181
-656
-255
87
CDT income 2010-2014 (SEK ´000) EU structural Funds Research Foundations European Commission Companies County Administration Luleå University of Technology Other Income
2014 2013 2012 2011 2 495 3 401 5 001 2 977 5 161 2 489 4 495 4 740 6 567 5 708 3 951 3 729 1 004 2 053 1 930 1 781 2 021 927 1 188 1 123 2 310 1 868 2 022 2 084 0 0 0 0 19 558 16 446 18 587 16 434
In-kind contribution of the partners Transfer of EU funds to the external partners Transfer of EU funds to the internal partners (LTU) Total
6 389 9 412 13 995 49 354
3 704 9 134 8 330 37 614
5 715 4 906 6 166 35 374
8 557 8 435 2 767 36 193
At CDT, we do not only work with the future, but rather “in” it. We have the skill to help you to analyze and detect emerging fields of new business opportunities or to understand which technologies to invest in. Our role is to support our partners and customers in embracing new opportunities, encounter risks and fully understand their own transformation potential.
Becoming a
business partner Companies perception of the future is constantly moving in complex and shifting patterns, and they face many challenges and hurdles when trying to get and maintain a good enough position in it. what we can offer
CDT offers an integrated environment of people, infrastructure, tools, processes and services for research, development and test. Our role is to support our partners and customers in embracing new opportunities, encounter risks and fully understand their own transformation potential. One of our specialities is to generate and exploit groundbreaking innovations with and for our partners. Innovations may be in shape of new processes, new solutions, new
products and new business. Occasionally we create new offspring companies for exploitation of innovations of perceived high market potential. how to start
Becoming a CDT partner is easy: We meet, walk through our programmes and define some initial objectives. Furthermore, we run some initial collaborative activities. After a typical period of 3-6 months we have a new meeting where we exchange our analysis of experiences from the collaboration. Provided experiences are mutually positive, we make a principal agreement that targets a sustainable continuation of our collaboration – and off we go!
agreements and ipr
The core partner joint venture is based on a General Agreement defining the overall terms and policies of collaboration such as confidentiality and intellectual property rights. Collaboration between project partners in a specific project is based on a Project Agreement, defining terms such as project objectives, background information, budget and financial commitments. Agreement terms are deliberately shaped to promote joint result exploitation and swift commercialisation process.
We have for years collaborated with CDT in different types of projects as both a partner and a subcontractor.They are skilled and professional experts in their specific fields. I heartily recommend companies that have development needs and would like to collaborate with the University to contact CDT. – KIMMO YLINIEMI, CEO, KYAB SWEDEN AB 29 29
Government & Society
Users & Citizens
Industry
Academy & Science
Collaboration & Networks – Complementary skills drive innovation
One of the most important factors in creating sustainable business innovation is a successful blend of needs, thoughts, views, competences and cultures. By forming teams, consisting of a variety of skills and knowledge, the process to transfer an innovation towards a thriving business is facilitated. Our partners come from different organizations and working cultures, located at different geographical sites. An extensive development and usage of advanced systems for electronic meetings and distributed teamwork, enables the CDT people to collaborate closely together in spite of this. Our goal is to continuously improve CDT as a preferred R&D meeting place. Therefore, we have for several years invested in building 30
long-term alliances with selected national and international scientific communities as well as business partners. Today, we consider our network one of our strongest assets, including more than 70 companies, organisations and research centres. CDT offers an integrated environment for efficient crossborder collaboration between university, commercial companies, government and end users.
Core Partners Business Partners Public Sector partners Non-profit Organisations Institutes
IT RESEARCH, DESIGN AND INNOVATION PARTNERS
Sponsors ALTEC Software AB
Behaviourmetrics AB
Narvik Composite
Home Automation Europe
Athens University of Economics and Business
The Node Pole
Tecnalia Research and Innovation
Sampol
Effnet Metria
Management in Motion AB
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
Martinsons Träbroar ArctosLabs
Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne
BNearIT AB
DunavNET Sogeti
Martel, Switzerland Explizit HW Communications Limited Archeometria ProcessVision
SQS
Tieto
Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa
IBM
Imperial College London
Neava AB
Unimob
Actegra
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
UNINOVA Institute
CEA
LNAB
Luleå University of Technology, Ericsson
SAP
Telia Sonera Hello Future
ENORO Mageve
Eistec Telefonica Luleå Energy
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
IsMobile
Erasmus Research Institute of Management
Interinnov
UP8
Test Site Sweden
Mandat International Future Cities Catapult EARMA Luleå ICT Business Council
Plan Sju
Politecnico Di Milano Alexandra Institute
The Nordic Transport Workers’ Federation (NTF) Nordic innovation center
Internit AB
LKTF KYAB
Coventry University
INRIA
Micropolis
Data Ductus
Wireless Trondheim Living Lab, Norway Universidad de Cantabria
ATEA-Exait
Skellefteå Kraft CodeMill AB
Technische Universität Wien
University of Lübeck
NEC
TST Sistemas
Easy Global Market
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
Austrian Institute of Technology
NFP Narvik forskningspark Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação
RWTH Aachen University
Vattenfall
University of Southampton
Pan European Technical University of Berlin Laboratory University of Cantabria in Spain Infrastructure Implementation (PII) Iceland Living Lab, Iceland
CERTH/ITI
Vilnius University Tampere University of Technology
Metropolia
IT Innovation University of Southampton University of Geneva
Aalto University
The Node Pole iGW
Draxis
Engineering Ingegneria Luleå City Informatica S.p.A. Boden municipality
F-secure
Agio Atea
CombiTech
Reply
Business Sweden
VaasaETT OY Arctic Group
THALES
Westbic DFRC
ICIS ActiveEon Lumiplan
Elastisys Liander
Cleopa GmbH Cleopa Gmbh Mirror Partner WUXI SMART SENSING STARS
Nokia inVivio
Logica
Aurorum Business Incubator, Luleå
Oricane
Xarepo
Alfamicro
CERTH
University of Melbourne
Aarhus Megeve Municipality Tourisme Luleå municipality
Velti
Aspling Konsult AB
Teknikens Hus
Computer Technology Institute and Press Diophantus in Greece
Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation
University of Surrey
Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS
Hochschule Ulm RheinischWestfaelische Poznan Technische Technische Supercomputing Universitaet Commissariat à l’énergie Hochschule The Braunschweig and Networking atomique et aux énergies Aachen University Complutense Center alternatives IT Innovation of Naples University of Santander Municipality Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Madrid University of Bradford Fundação de Apoio à Universidade de São Paulo
Trnava University College Poste University of Cork Italiane
Draxis Enviromental S.A. SAMPOL Ingenieria Y Obras S.A
Wirtschafts und Infrastruktur Gmbh & Co Planungs KG
Ankara University
SWU Netze GmbH
CIP (EU Competitive Innovation Programme) • County Administrative Board in Norrbotten (Länsstyrelsen) EU Seventh Framework Programme • European Regional Development Funds • Geveko • Interreg 4A North Interreg IVB Baltic Sea • LKAB • Norrbottens forskningsråd • Region Västerbotten • Skellefteå Municipality Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket) • Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten) Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation System (VINNOVA) • The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) • Umeå University
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OUR PROJECTS – Where ideas transfer into real world applications One of CDT´s main roles is to initiate and to coordinate long term research, design and innovation projects. Here, scientific curiosity is paired with an intense collaboration between industry and society. During a projects, key assets are created, such as architectures, new technologies, methods and models as well as analysis of needs, market and usability aspects. The advances may be based on any combination or blend of new technology, identified needs, new business principles or emerging market opportunities. In most of our projects, research from LTU is combined with real world applications. If the project turns out to be very successful, the results can lead to innovations in forms such as products, services, prototypes or even business concepts.
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AmpliFIRE
Cassandra
COBS – Conveyor Belt Supervision
AmpliFIRE is to prepare FIRE for year 2020, in strengthening the exploitation and impact creation capacities of Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities.
The aim of the project is to develop an Open source platform for modeling of energy consumption patterns and consumer response to targeted incentives as a support for decisions and planning of energy services.
The COBS project will develop and launch a supervision system which will increase the availability and performance of conveyor belt transports in primary industry.
It brings the concept of open innovation into the world of FIRE, involving beneficiaries across the range from infrastructure technologies to new modes of interaction, collaboration and empowerment. AmpliFIRE enhances the awareness for FIREenabled research and innovation opportunities in the business community, in societal domains and in the existing FIRE community. AmpliFIRE develops a sustainable vision for 2020 of Future Internet research and experimentation including the role of FIRE facilities, and sets out a transition path from the current situation towards 2020. It conducts an assessment of today’s FIRE capabilities, identifying the gaps relative to the 2020 demands and identifying how capabilities must evolve. FIRE capabilities include research and engineering experiment facilities, new user- and innovation-oriented instruments, platforms to attract business interest to FIRE, and collaboration and business models for partnering. By 2020, FIRE facilities shall be the backbone of European research and innovation ecosystems. AmpliFIRE proposes the capabilities, collaboration models and service offering portfolios to achieve that goal. Enhancing earlier actions and ensuring FIRE community support continuity, AmpliFIRE supports the FIRE community to identify exploitation opportunities, enhance impact creation approaches and strengthen effectiveness of the FIRE facility. Based on Key Performance Indicators, AmpliFIRE monitors the technical, operational and organizational conditions necessary to realise benefits, impact and sustainability of the Europewide Future Internet experiment facility.
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Three pilots will run to empower the Cassandra platform development. The project main outcomes will be the aggregation methodology and the framework of key performance indicators for scenario assessment, as well as an expandable software platform that provide different energy stakeholders with the ability to model the energy market, in order to assess scenarios for their own purposes. www.cassandra-fp7.eu PROJECT PERIOD: November 2011 - April 2014 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14
Cloudberry Datacenters Cloudberry is a research and innovation centre, with mission to make datacenters and clouds greener and smarter, meaning more flexible, resource-efficient and environmentally friendly. Cloudberry partners define and run medium to high risk research and innovation projects, where key challenges and opportunities are targeted with research, novel approaches and new technology. The project will catalyze national growth by initiating an attractive and efficient environment for integrated education, research, design and innovation in the area of large-scale handling of large volumes of data with a primary focus on cloud in datacenters
www.ict-fire.eu/home/amplifire.html
www.cloudberry-datacenters.com
PROJECT PERIOD: January 2013 – June 2015
PROJECT PERIOD: July 2013 - ongoing
CONTACT: Michael Nilsson E-mail: michael.nilsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20
CONTACT: Mikael Börjeson E-mail: mikael.borjeson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 529 91 20
The base in the system is the “Intelligent conveyor belt roller”; a composite based roller that will hold embedded electronics and sensors allowing measurement of critical performance parameters such as bearing temperature, vibrations, rpm etc. The data will be transmitted wirelessly to plant monitoring, and will allow preventive maintenance as well as immediate recognition of roller failures. This will reduce downtime in the plant due to unexpected failures, thus increasing availability, plant throughput, and reducing the cost for maintenance. Similar solutions are today not available on the market. Based on this, and on a patent giving the rights to the two involved SMEs, it is additionally a clear objective that the project shall result in a growth in not only these companies, but that it will also result in growth in other related industry such as electronics manufacturing, system level design, and preventive maintenance. The project is coordinated by Process IT PROJECT PERIOD: November 2010 - June 2014 CONTACT: Arne Gylling E-mail: arne.gylling@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 530 33 39
CompEIT The European CompEIT project has released an e-meeting sevice where participants are mixed toward a common background (so-called greenscreen) that enhances the feeling of presence in e-meetings. The CompEIT project part-funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme is a collaboration between seven academic and industrial partners, who work together also in EIT ICT Labs. The Sweden partners are Luleå University of Tech-
nology, Royal Institute of Technology and Ericsson AB. The project is a synergistic cooperation for making media experiences on the Internet better, for example, making it easier to to get eye contact during video meetings, watch videos together and sharing other fun and exciting activities. It supports moving between your computer and mobile phone, in a very easy manner. Remote controls can also be used to automatically control lighting and other aspects of the shared room. After one year of intensive work, it is now possible to try out a first e-meeting service where the participants are mixed-in against a common background. You can also try out games and other mini-apps where you can easily attach your phone to what is happening on the bigger screen (for example multiplayer card games using mobile phones for “the hand” and the computer screen as the “table”). The project seeks early users for finding out how these prototypes should work, within its Experience Lab. Link to the project: www.compeit.eu Try the CompEIT Experience Lab here: http://experience.compeit.eu PROJECT PERIOD: October 2013 - September 2016 CONTACT: Johan E Bengtsson E-mail: johan.e.bengtsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 173 10 00
EAR-IT – putting ears on the Internet The project is about research in intelligent acoustic solutions. Acoustic sensing is powerful because of the amount of information that it can extrapolate from the environment, but to put sensors to monitor peoples life is always a challenge, not technologic but ethical. People are always reluctant to the adoption of this new kind of technologies, due to the fear of big brother effects. The EAR-IT project idea is to conduct a large-scale ‘real-life’ experimentation of intelligent acoustics on two different testbeds: Santander and Hobnet, for supporting high social value applications fostering innovation and sustainability. The project will apply a user-centric approach by people participating throughout the design process to influence the technology being developed. Of specific emphasis will be the investigation of national and international legislations of audio sensing in indoor and outdoor environments as well as user-perception of audio-monitoring in the view of privacy and ethics.
http://www.ear-it.eu/ CONTACT: : Anna Ståhlbröst E-mail: anna.stahlbrost@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 624 01 86
development of gender equality and diversity tools and methods are main features of the work package led by LTU. In addition to internal stakeholders LTU has attracted external stakeholders such as Sogeti, Luleå ICT Business Council and EARMA (European Association of Research Managers and Administrators).
EIT ICT Labs
www.genovate.eu
EIT ICT Labs mission is to turn Europe into the global leader in ICT innovation by establishing a new type of partnership between leading companies, research centers and universities in Europe.
PROJECT PERIOD: January 2013 – December 2016
PROJECT PERIOD: October 2012 – September 2014
EIT stands for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. CDT is an affiliated partner to the Stockholm node in the EIT ICT labs coordinated by KTH, in Stockholm, Sweden. Affiliate partners are organizations participating in and contributing to the activities of EIT ICT labs. They are usually active on node level and are typically universities, SMEs or venture capital funds and companies. They have a contract with the EIT ICT labs Know-ledge and Innovation Community association and a mandate with a specific node through which they supply competence and human resources to its Co-location Centre. www.eitictlabs.eu – EIT ICT Labs PROJECT PERIOD: 1 april 2012 - ongoing CONTACT: Michael Nilsson E-mail: michael.nilsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20
Genovate The aim of the GENOVATE project is to ensure equal opportunities for men and women in research, innovation and scientific decisionmaking bodies. LTU is one of the seven partners of this EU FP7 project which is coordinated by the University of Bradford in the UK. At LTU the project is collaboration between CDT and gender researchers at Human work science with focus on engineering and ICT innovation systems. Only 17% of LTU’s professors are women despite of a long tradition of gender equality initiatives at the university and the Swedish IT sector lacking women is crucial for the further development of IT. Human work science has long experience of gender-aware recruitment and promotion practices in academia and CDT has developed several tools for mainstreaming gender in innovation systems. The further
CONTACT: Paula Wennberg E-mail: paula.wennberg@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 247 54 21
GOOSE Goose stands for Growth Optimizing Opportunities in the Supply of Energy and the aim is to create a strong partnership and project idea, which will be submitted to the first call in the new Northern Periphery and Arctic 2014-2020 program. The project is to ensure that NPP enterprises and communities gain full benefits as potential to these developments. In doing this it will promote energy efficiency, reducing transportation costs for supplies and promoting innovation in consortia supplying the industries. A pack of assistance including joint training and advice will assist SMEs and entrepreneurs to enter the supply chains for major energy developments in the NPP. It will build on good practice established in Norway and Scotland and internationalize it throughout the NPP. The project will operate on the basis of the whole life resource use, taking into account, exploration, extraction, transportation, close down and remediation. It will aim to involve regional consortia in all stages and assist communities through all stages. It thus takes place in an overall carbon reduction strategy, optimizing savings on fossil fuels, which are still the main source of energy in the region. PROJECT PERIOD: September 2013 – February 2014 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14
IoT Labs IoT Lab is a FP7 research project exploring the potential of crowdsourcing to extend IoT testbed infrastructure for multidisciplinary experiments with more end-user interactions 35
CDT is responsible for End user and Societal added value analysis and mainly involved in performing multidisciplinary experiments, including end-user driven experiments through crowdsourcing, to assess the added value of such approach. LTUresearchers involved are from Social Informatics. The project mission is to research and develop: • Crowdsourcing mechanisms and tools enabling testbeds to use third parties resources (such as mobile phones), and to interact with distributed users (the crowd). • Virtualization of crowdsourcing and testbed components • Ubiquitous Interconnection and Cloudification of the testbeds resources. • End-user and societal value creation by analyzing the potential end-users and crowdsourcing participants to propose an optimized model for end-user adoption and societal value creation. • “Crowdsourcing-driven research” as a new model in which the research can be initiated, guided and assessed by the crowd. It will compare it to other models. • Economic dimension of crowdsourcing testbed, by analyzing the potential markets and business models able to monetize the provided resources with adequate incentives, in order to optimize the exploitation, costs, profitability and economic sustainability of such testbeds. • Performing multidisciplinary experiments, including end-user driven experiments through crowdsourcing, to assess the added value of such approach. www.iotlab.eu PROJECT PERIOD: October 2013- October 2016 CONTACT: Anna Ståhlbröst E-mail: anna.stahlbrost@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 62 40 186
iRoad Listen – Think – Talk. That is what the road of the future will be able to do. This means that the road will sense, process information, communicate and take action. The aim of the iRoad project is to create solutions for a technology platform which enables a selfsustained, autonomous and distributed system that can cooperate with intelligent infrastructure systems and intelligent vehicles of the future. The unit is fully self-contained on power via its solar cells, batteries and extremely low power consumption. 36
The iRoad product are now being installed for evaluation in real traffic solutions by GITS A/S. GITS A/S together with Eistec AB and iGW AB are developing these products based on the iRoad research project. For more information see www.gevekoits.dk. Technical coordinator for the project is Wolfgang Birk at LTU, SRT.
PROJECT PERIOD: January 2014 – December 2014
www.iroad.se
energy grids for smart cities.
PROJECT PERIOD: March 2008 - June 2013 CONTACT: Arne Gylling E-mail: arne.gylling@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 530 33 39
CONTACT: Marita Holst E:mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0) 70 646 54 14
Orpheus The project is set out to optimize hybrid The project elaborates a Hybrid Energy Network Control System for Smart Cities implementing novel cooperative local grid and inter-grid control strategies for the optimal interactions between multiple energy grids by enabling simultaneous
Mobile Shield 2014 Mobile Shield or Real-time security shield for mobile platforms, is a project with the objective to deliver and package new frauddetection and privacy services specifically tailored for mobile platforms. As part of the project, three different technologies will be developed and tested in real world pilots. Further business models will be created to introduce the technologies into the market. The first technology is a set of fraud-detection algorithms for mobile with new features such as being real-time, offering continuous monitoring and be based on anomaly behavior detection, developed by Trento University. The second technology developed by the University of Technology in Bern is a mobile virtualization technology to protect the fraud detector implementing the algorithms on the mobile itself against possible attacks from malware. Finally, a third technology is a security app from F-secure called Freedom. Freedom is an app for smartphone and tablet devices running Android and iOS. The app the targeted to protect users from the several privacy and security breaches. Issues such as integration, product engineering and usage scenario definition will be addressed as well as privacy, usability and acceptance of the service will be tested and validated by real users in at Botnia living lab. Finally, the economic feasibility of the solutions and elaborated effective business models around which it is possible to build a commercial offering of the new fraud-management services will be created. www.eitictlabs.eu/innovation-entrepreneurship/ privacy-security-trust/real-time-security-shield-formobile-platforms/
optimization for individual response requirements, energy efficiencies and energy savings as well as coupled operational, economic and social impacts. www.orpheus-project.eu PROJECT PERIOD: September 2013 - August 2016 CONTACT: Jan Pettersson E-mail: jan.pettersson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 242 68 04
SATIN-2 The SATIN-2 project aims at making it easier for everyone to create their own mobile application - “App” in everyday language. Until today, you basically have to be a programmer with relevant education and experience to make your own app. App’s are traditionally programmed in Java, and while many, especially young people (and mostly young male) have learned Java programming, it still is far from general knowledge. During the SATIN-2 project, user studies have been carried out in order to get feedback on the design and input for further development. Pilot areas are selected to guide the project regarding selection of components to develop, and to give the “early adopter-input”. www.satinproject.se PROJECT PERIOD: September 2009 - December 2014 CONTACT: Jan-Olov Johansson E-mail: jan-olov.johansson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 619 22 31
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SATIN Gender & Diversity The aim of the SATIN project is to enable people without prior programming skills to create their own apps and mobile services. In order to attract a broader group of people to develop apps the SATIN platform has been designed to support inclusion related to gender as well as diversity. Demonstrations of the toolbox and gender app have been the main activities of this year. Why the toolbox and gender app have gained attention both in Sweden and on the European level is according to us our working model which promotes tailored tools and more sustainable change based on gender theory. One of the main achievements of the project is the licentiate thesis of Lena Palmquist, Umeå University. She presented her thesis Exploring self-efficacy in end-user programming - a feminist approach in August 2014. The thesis is based on work done in the Satin project. Other results of the gender equality and diversity work in SATIN are increased gender-awareness of the project members, a group of gender and diversity ambassadors, a gender app and a toolbox for mainstreaming gender in ICT and innovation. The online toolbox is available in English and Swedish on www.gdtoolbox.eu. www.gdtoolbox.eu PROJECT PERIOD: September 2009 – December 2014 CONTACT: Paula Wennberg E-mail: paula.wennberg@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 247 54 21
building’s intelligent energy management system. Furthermore the eco-conscious educated user will be empowered with real time information and decision making guidance that will enable and motivate the interaction, leading to Energy Efficiency. SMART CAMPUS expects an impact of substantial Energy Savings up to 20% of total saving, being up to 15% the result of consumer behaviour transformation. www.greensmartcampus.org PROJECT PERIOD: August 2012- April 2015 CONTACT: Jan-Olov Johansson E-mail: jan-olov.johansson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 619 22 31
Sense Smart City Sense Smart City is a Swedish project with specific objective to make urban cities “smarter”. The project will generate new and better ICT solutions that instrument urban areas to gather and combine information, such as energy, traffic, weather, events, activities, needs and opinions. CDT will also initiate a strengthened regional ICT innovation system, for sustainably increased regional ICT research, design and business inno-vation capability. The project, has together with local ICT industry initiated a number of ideas that developed into prototypes and proof of concepts. www.sensesmartcity.org PROJECT PERIOD: September 2010 - May 2014 CONTACT: Jan Pettersson E-mail: jan.pettersson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 242 68 04
SMART CAMPUS SMART CAMPUS is an energy saving project that targets university campus areas. The project aims to develop services and applications supported by a data gathering platform that integrates real time information systems and intelligent energy management systems. This integration drives a bidirectional learning process such that both the user and the building learn how to interact with each other in a more energy efficient way. This project targets public buildings, located in universities, through the use of services enabled by ICT. In particular, by supporting the user behavior transformation through the interaction between the user and the 38
USEMP USEMP’s mission is to raise citizens´ awareness of their digital footprint in social media and give the users‘ the control of their personal data. USEMP stands for User Empowerment for Enhanced Online Presence Management. The USEMP initiative will take up the challenge of developing tools to empower users with regard to their volunteered (posted), their observed (behavioural) data and the inferred data, which basically drive most of the business models of OSNs. Of key importance for the project will be to empower users by enhancing the understanding and control over the data they distribute or interact with.
Two tools will be deployed that give users the control of their personal data: • USEMP Presence Control Tool –Who am I in social networks? • USEMP Economic Value Awareness Tool – What is the value of my personal data? The project will run for three years with partners from six countries applying a Living Lab approach involving users in the design, development and testing of the USEMP tools. www.usemp-project.eu PROJECT PERIOD: October 2013 – September 2016 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14
Wattalyst Wattalyst aims to reshape energy consumption patterns in office buildings and private homes, with respect to optimal energy production/supply – For greener, cheaper and more reliable energy systems. The project designs and experiments with methods and tools that can be used to modify energy consumption patterns, with objective to eliminate undesirable peak-loads, to reduce energy costs, to improve stability of energy supply and to better utilize renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. WATTALYST main outcome will be Design Recommendations for Demand-Response (DR) Systems and a related set of methods and tools. WATTALYST conducts experiments in office buildings and private homes. “DR signals” are sent to users, with request that they change their consumption. User’s responses are then analysed with respect to different signals, incentives, timing, contexts and other factors, in order to understand types consumption alternations feasible, and how to make them happen. WATTALYST tools include; DR system architectures, data models, data management utilities, a DR simulator, energy-economic incentive models, baseline calculation methods, a DR-signal generator, persuasive user-interfaces, comfort expression tools and an Energy DR dashboard. www.wattalyst.org PROJECT PERIOD: October 2011 – October 2014 CONTACT: Mikael Börjeson E-mail: mikael.borjeson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 529 91 20
CDT Management Team Name E-mail
Phone
Karl Andersson
Karl.Andersson@ltu.se
+46 (0)70 819 54 84
Johan Bengtsson
Johan.e.Bengtsson@ltu.se
+46 (0)70 173 10 00
Arne Gylling
Arne.Gylling@ltu.se
+46 (0)70 530 33 39
Marita Holst
Marita.Holst@ltu.se
+46 (0)70 646 54 14
Jan-Olov Johansson
Jan-Olov.Johansson@ltu.se
+46 (0)70 619 22 31
Michael Nilsson
Michael.Nilsson@ltu.se
+46 (0)70 288 45 20
Marie Nolin
Marie.Nolin@ltu.se
+46 (0)72 526 20 70
Jan Pettersson
Jan.Pettersson@ltu.se
+46 (0)70 242 68 04
Paula Wennberg
Paula.Wennberg@ltu.se
+46 (0)70 247 54 21
Board of Directors
The CDT board of directors have approved the CDT annual report 2014. Luleå, March 2014
Thomas Brännström
Tor Björn Minde
Jonas Ekman
Thomas Gustafsson
Mats Nordberg
Chair
Ericsson Research
Luleå University of Technology
Luleå University of Technology
Ericsson Research
The income statement and balance sheet 2014, have been reviewed by the auditors. Luleå, March 2015 Kai Lavonen Ernst & Young 39
Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå. Phone: +46 (0)920 49 12 00. E-mail: cdtinfo@ltu.se, www.ltu.se/cdt CDT is a research centre at Luleå University of Technology, www.ltu.se 40