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2016

Centre for Distance-spanning Technology Annual Report

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CDT celebrates 20 years

from CDT’s Facebook page during 2016

8 Datacenter

Citizens’ initiatives for smarter cities -making life easier

warms greenhouse cultivation

12 SME support

for the development of products and services in the field of data centers and clouds

16 Smartbuy,

a new project in the areas of eCommerce

11 15 28 Take part of CDT’s strong European network with companies, organisations and research centers

CDT in brief The Centre for Distance-spanning Technology’s mission is to accelerate ICT innovations for our partners, with desirable and sustainable impact based on high quality scientific research. WE CONNECT ACADEMIA, INDUSTRY AND SOCIETY AT LARGE IN RESEARCH, DESIGN AND INNOVATION, INCLUDING 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 World 2020, EARMA, FIRE, IoT Forum, Swedsoft, BDVA, AIOTI) • LTU internal, partners (e.g. meeting with researchers, partner networking and events) • Local: Luleå Business & Economic Development, IT Industry Association, RISE SICS North AB 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 Take Part in a Wide Partner Network

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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.

CDT has a long history of successful completion of European projects and also contributes to work programs and various policy decisions on various levels (Europe, Sweden, our local regions).

CDT is hosting Open Innovation experimentation environments to take research concepts to the reality, for example Botnia Living Lab and IoT Innovation Lab.

Key Areas We are looking for new collaborations in the following emerging ICT-areas with great challenges, change and impact. Internet of Things Computer systems today can be both cognitive and operational. They can replace human senses. This means that people sometimes are no longer necessary to interface system and reality. This allows systems to entirely take over the daily operation of some businesses.

Data centers CDT is working towards making data centers energy and resource efficient and has a number of data center and cloud projects through the entire data center value chain form ground to cloud.

Communications CDT is looking for collaboration in the areas of Communication architectures, Wireless access networks, Wireless sensor networks and Communication in sparsely populated areas.

The CEO Perspective 2016 was a year full of new events for CDT and also the year to leave the phase as a teenager and to turn 20! In November 2016 we celebrated our 20th anniversary marking another milestone in our – by now – quite long history as a collaborative IT research and innovation hub in North Sweden. The year started by launching yet another project within the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020, SMARTBUY. That project aims at developing tools bridging the gap between physical stores and online shopping. Also, our PrivacyFlag project that protects citizens’ privacy with user-friendly tools for interaction with websites, smartphone applications and the Internet of Things was in its early phase at that time. The launch of these projects was yet a good sign of CDT’s strategy to be relevant as a partner and to constantly extend our network around Europe indeed being successful. All in all, CDT is very active in Horizon 2020 and so far launched seven projects, despite the gradually increased competition and overall lower success rates among participants. During 2016 CDT won yet three other Horizon 2020 projects, namely NIMBLE, U4IoT and UNaLab. NIMBLE develops the infrastructure for a cloud-based, Industry 4.0, Internet-of-things-enabled B2B platform, while U4IoT is a so called coordination and support action coordinated by CDT giving us a very good chance to interact with the other projects in the very hot IoT area. UNaLab starts later during 2017 and focuses nature-based solutions for urban challenges.Yet another important project is Organicity, Europe’s flagship project focusing smart cities. During 2016, CDT’s main role has been to coordinate the open calls within Organicity and thus giving us a very good overview of the European research and innovation ecosystem around smart cities. On the national level VINNOVA and the Swedish Energy Agency remain as the most important funding agencies for CDT with many interesting research and innovation programs in place and funding instruments available. During 2016 CDT launched new national projects focusing Internet of Things and datacenters. One important win during 2016 was the decision by the Swedish Energy Agency to let CDT manage a feasibility study on establishing a national competency center around energy and resource efficient datacenters. Besides the European and national levels, CDT intends to be very active on the regional and local levels helping IT companies to develop their businesses and researchers to launch new projects. These activities are typically funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), regions, municipalities, companies, and, sometimes, our university itself. During the last years these activities have been intensified and during 2016 two new players joined us on this local IT research and innovation arena: RISE SICS North and CISS (Center for Critical Infrastructures and

Societal Security). In April 2016 we congratulated our friends at RISE SICS North that inaugurated their SICS ICE environment with a cake as CDT already works together with SICS in a number of datacenter related projects, often in collaboration with research groups within LTU. CDT was also present at the launch of CISS in Skellefteå during spring 2016 and works closely with them, specifically around site security for datacenters. CDT is warmly embracing this development and strongly believes there is now an even better chance to cover a complete and seamless chain of research, education, development, and innovation activities! At the same time, CDT itself is focusing our activities. During fall 2016, our board of directors took strategic decisions about our future focusing our efforts to the areas of Internet of Things, datacenters, and communication and also setting quite ambitious targets for the coming years. That being said, our main task linking researchers at LTU with the industry in collaborative research and innovation projects remains untouched as well as the target to stay as an attractive international partner on the European research and innovation arena. Along with the strategic decisions it was also decided to merge the datacenter activities performed within its own unit in parallel to CDT from January 1, 2017. This means that the regional process leadership for the datacenter strategy implementation alongside with the ERDF funded “FUI” project focusing on business acceleration for SMEs in the datacenter area through research, development, and innovation from now on are managed from CDT. At the end of 2016 another decision affected CDT, namely the appointment of our CEO Anders Lundkvist to the position of vice-mayor in his hometown Piteå. The board of directors decided to appoint Karl Andersson to be Acting Executive Director for CDT during 2017, a position he also held during spring 2015. For 2017, our priorities will be to implement our new strategy and to continue our fruitful and successful collaboration with our partners. Should you have any ideas around a new collaborative IT research and innovation project, don’t hesitate to contact us at CDT!

Luleå, April 2017 Karl Andersson Associate Professor and Acting Executive Director, CDT 7

Highlights 2016 Feeds from CDT’s Facebook page during 2016

January. CDT at Vinnova. Noora Eronen, Policy Officer at the European Commission, picks up gender dimension in the CDT project OPTi as a good example of responsible research.

February. Learning more about the data center industry at Fortlax data hall in Piteå.

March. The data center project FUI had an information meeting for regional SMEs in Lycksele at the company Acon’s data center.

April. Norrbotten Chamber of Commerce visited CDT.

May. Strategy meeting with our partner LTU Business.

June. CDT networked at DataCloud Europe in Monaco.

July. How to integrate a gender and diversity perspective in innovation systems? At Earma AC 2016 Arne Gylling at CDT presented an example from the OPTi H2020 project and Paula Wennberg at CDT demonstrated a new Genovate gender toolkit to promote innovation.

August. Shake the phone and contribute to research. CDT searched for test pilots for one of our many research projects.

September. Sharing good practice and drawing attention to the successful equality work done in Norrbotten. That is one purpose with the Regional Equality Day, which was held in Luleå.

October. The project Privacy Flag attended the TIS2016 Conference. This is a conference for teachers, school leaders and other personnel who are involved in technology education in schools.

November. Marita Holst from CDT held a lecture about smart cities and civic engagement at Vetenskapens Hus in Luleå.

December. Josefin Lassinantti, researcher at LTU, blogged about CDT’s latest project regarding Open Public data. 9

Highlights 2016

What can Facebook

know about you?

Ali Padyab is a PhD student in Information Systems at Luleå University of Technology

Are you aware of what information Facebook can possibly extract from pictures and statuses that you post? Research from LTU suggests that if you are, you become more careful with what you publish. The online social network Facebook has more than a billion users worldwide. Users that post information, share information and interact with each other. According to Facebook’s terms of use, the company is allowed to use your data for commercial use, for example to improve and develop services and to customize ads for you. In the paper Facebook Users Attitudes towards Secondary Use of Personal Information, the PhD student in Information Systems Ali Padyab, presents a study about user attitudes towards privacy issues after exposing users to potential inferences from their own personal information on Facebook. Basically; if you know what Facebook indirectly can find out about you, by going through and mapping your actions on the social network, would that awareness change your attitude?

Disclose information To find out, the researchers did two studies. One group of Facebook users discussed privacy on a general level. They were also told about a 10

software tool called DataBait, a tool developed within the project USEMP. For example, the tool can analyze pictures you’ve published on Facebook and reveal what the picture’s content says about you – that is, what information can be extracted from the pictures. If you are holding a beer can in many of your pictures, the tool assumes that you are interested in beer. Another group got to actually use the DataBait tool. Afterwards, the two groups’ attitudes were compared. – Before introducing the tool to the participants, most attitudes were affective. After using the tool, attitudes shifted towards a more cognitive understanding, says Ali Padyab. – Group number one was less worried than group number two. It is obviously more intrusive when you know what can happen with your information. Why is it important to consider online privacy when it comes to social media? – The more data a company has on you, the more power it has. It is an uneven battle between

corporations to obtain knowledge of behavioral advertising algorithms for secondary purposes and end users, who are unaware of these practices. More education is required to empower users with more awareness and a balanced view of their information privacy. What can a Facebook user do to increase its privacy online? – There is no need to scare people, but be aware and think twice. Once you put something out there – it’s not yours anymore. Also, be aware of what technology can do. We, a small team of researchers, were able to create a tool for extracting information from Facebook data. Then, imagine what a large company with hundreds of computer engineers can do. The paper Facebook Users Attitudes towards Secondary Use of Personal Information has been accepted for the prestigious International Conference on Information Systems 2016 that will be held in Dublin in December. The conference is the most important conference on the topic Information Systems.

CDT celebrates 20 years Successful spin-offs, conferences and a secret IT course for the Prime Minister. It has been eventful years for CDT, since the start in 1996. The 20th anniversary was celebrated with a reception for current and former employees and invited guests in CDT’s newly refurbished premises on campus in Luleå. The participants received a detailed travel in CDT’s history, under the guidance of Anders Lundqvist, Arne Gylling and Mikael Börjesson. Two of the founders of CDT was “the father of mobile telephony,” Östen Mäkitalo, and Dick Schefström, both deceased. A number of companies have originated from CDT. Among the spin-offs are Marratech, which was later acquired by Google, IT Norrbotten and Effnet. The participants at the anniversary reception got to hear more about this, as well as how it was when the then Prime Minister Göran Persson in the late 1990s came to CDT for a “secret” 24-hour IT course.

Highlights 2016 Marita Holst, project manager at CDT. Photographer: Linda Alfredsson

Citizens’ initiatives for

smarter cities

Open Data

The majority of the European population lives and work in cities, and the urbanization is expected to continue in the future. The project OrganiCity will make cities smarter by using Internet technology solutions and thus become more inclusive for residents.

The aim of the project ”Open data in the north” was to design a course about open data.

– It’s all about mobile, smart services that make life easier, says Marita Holst, project manager at CDT. – And the solutions must be viable, not be done just for the sake of the project. The term smart city is about how various functions in society communicate and interact with each other with the help of IT. This can include everything from keeping track of air pollution and traffic flows to available parking spaces. The project includes three cities that have come a long way in the use of IT as a part of the urban infrastructure: Århus, London and Santander. The three towns and the data that is already available will be linked in an OrganiCity platform, a platform that also will be evaluated and validated within the project. The goal of OrganiCity, a three year project funded by Horizon 2020, is to develop and design technologies and services to cities that are more inclusive for both individuals and groups of citizens. Services and solutions that are built should be based on the platform’s data, and the initiatives will come from individual citizens. – A third of the project’s budget goes to open-calls that are for citizen-driven experiments, says Marita Holst. – The aim is to make open data available and allow citizens to come up with ideas about how it can be used to improve the cities. The project OrganiCity includs 15 different partners and CDT leads the work of the open calls for research proposals. 12

A course about

– We had for a long time been in contact with various government agencies and municipalities in Norrbotten and knew that they needed to work more in the area of open data. We have also been following the ongoing development of open data in Sweden, therefore we are very well aware of the need for more knowledge and inspiration in this field, says researcher Josefin Lassinantti. By informing, inspire and teach management, IT professionals and archive managers about how to work with open data, the course aimed to increase awareness and knowledge about how organizations can open up data sources and publish collections via the Swedish portal www.oppnadata.se and possibly also in other portals. The course was offered free of charge to all the county’s municipalities and authorities and others who create and manage public data. Josefin Lassinantti has researched the benefits of re-use of open data in varying degrees since 2012. She has looked at various strategies to support and encourage the use of open data, and what it leads to. – I have in my research shown differences for large and small municipalities regarding the possibility of opening up data. It is not a matter of will, but of pure resources in terms of time and knowledge, she says. Of the 18 agencies and municipalities in Norrbotten who were invited to the course, 11 of them participated. Five workshops were held in Kalix, Piteå, Gällivare, Luleå as well as online. The workshops focused on what open data is, how it affects the public authorities, how to get started and what results open data can have. Afterwards, the participants got “homework” to discuss a number of key issues in their respective organizations. One of many results that the course led to was that the university library at Luleå University decided to start promoting open data to researchers. The article is a revised version of an article written by Anders Frick at iiS Öppna data.

Ylva Fältholm, Professor of Human Work Science and Åsa Wikberg Nilsson, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design. Photo: Melina Granberg

Toolkit for gender equality in academia Recent studies show that Swedish universities still lack many women in higher positions. Now LTU researchers have developed a toolkit that will help create a more gender equal academy. The project involves integration of gender perspective in processes, working methods and decision-making in academia. Our guide can be used in any contexts, in innovation systems and in groups at different levels, says Ylva Fältholm, Professor of Human Work Science at Luleå University of Technology. – Traditionally, universities have tried to support women to better survive in academia, for example through mentoring programs. But we can no longer make the women responsible. If they have to engage in gender equality initiatives in parallel with their regular jobs, while men keep on improving their academic careers without having to get involved – it makes women fall behind even more. If we are to achieve sustainable change, all need to be involved. Therefore, we need to take a step further and let the gender perspective permeate the entire organisation, says Ylva Fältholm.

Value-creating methods The toolkit is based on a number of established methods that researchers have compiled, given a gender dimension and tested on stakeholders. The researchers have also used many of the tools in their previous projects. – One example is an evaluation exercise where participants choose to stand in different corners of a room, depending on the claim that they identify most with. In this way it can provide a better understanding of what people in a workgroup think, while prejudices can be raised and discussed. But it can also be tough when things come to the surface. Therefore, it is good to have an experienced facilitator with gender expertise, who can handle common critique and the situation, says Åsa Wikberg Nilsson, Senior Lecturer of Industrial Design at Luleå University of Technology.

Attitude change starts in the discussions The researchers point out the discussions as important, since the goal is changed attitudes. By creating gender awareness in people with any form of leadership and decision-making responsibilities, sustainable change within academia can be achieved. This can include recruitment and management groups, department heads, faculty boards or how salaries and conflicts are handled. – The toolkit has an academic focus, but the methods can also be applied to other organizations, innovation systems, products or services, concludes Wikberg Åsa Nilsson.

Highlights 2016 Maria Udén, far left, Professor of Gender and Technology, Paula Wennberg, Project Manager at CDT, and Lena Abrahamsson, Professor of Gender and Technology, are all involved in the project Gender Contact Point Photographer: Linda Alfredsson

Gender research

will increase competitiveness A more inclusive IT sector can increase the competitiveness of IT companies. Therefore, the project Gender Contact Point will make its research on gender equality and diversity available to companies. – The companies that are not actively working with equality and diversity risk higher costs and worse product and service development than its competitors, says project manager Paula Wennberg. – The goal is to make our research useful outside the academy and be relevant for others than us. And why is that important? – We are convinced that it will increase the companies’ creativity when they create new products and services, that it will improve their level of innovation. Companies naturally want products and services that are more relevant to customers.

Advantage for the university Lena Abrahamsson, Professor of Gender and Technology, also highlights the university’s benefit from the project. To get companies and organiza14

tions to use research results is an obvious target, and she is convinced that good research communication also results in good research. – In many of our projects, the use of research results is a part of the research itself. The more we can work together with companies and organizations, the better research we will get, says Lena Abrahamsson. To find out exactly how the research will be made available is part of the project’s purpose. The idea is to find customized tools based on the companies’ own needs. To identify the needs, workshops and counsels will be arranged in cooperation with the companies. – The companies will be involved in the creation of a common collaboration platform. This may involve, for example, producing apps, complete manuals or developing checklists and processing descriptions, says Paula Wennberg.

One door to gender research The ultimate goal, one door into the university’s research on gender equality and diversity, can hopefully contribute to greater visibility even within the university. Today, gender research is dispersed in various research subjects; gender theories are applied in several contexts, combined with different theories, depending on the research questions and theoretical ethical approach. – To succeed requires a concentrated effort and a positive side effect is that gender research gets a higher visibility even within the university, says Lena Abrahamsson. The project Gender Contact Point, which is a collaboration between CDT, Gender and Technology and local IT companies, will continue until February 2018 and is financed by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and the Country Administrative Board in Norrbotten.

Michael Nilsson, left, project manager at CDT, and Marcus Sandberg, researcher of Construction Engineering and Management and project manager for Green Power. Photographer: Linda Alfredsson

Datacenter

warms greenhouse cultivation Mushrooms grown in greenhouses heated by using waste heat from data centers. That can become a reality when researchers at Luleå University of Technology take on the project Green Power. – From a sustainability perspective, it is not really acceptable to do nothing about waste heat, says Michael Nilsson, project manager at CDT. Data centers is a growing industry that is really expanding in northern Sweden. Here, there are good conditions; it’s cold and there is green and safe electricity close to the power source resulting in less energy loss. The project is about taking advantage of the heat that data centers emit with cooling air. Since the waste heat keeps a relatively low temperature, usually between 30-50 degrees Celsius, it has been difficult to find use for it in a cold climate without adding extra energy.

Mushrooms out of waste heat The researchers will now investigate whether it is possible to use a data centers waste heat to power a greenhouse and in this case, examine whether it is possible to grow mushrooms in it. The project is interdisciplinary; four research

subjects at the university are involved: Fluid Mechanics, Energy Engineering, Control Engineering and Construction Engineering and Management. – We will, among other things, measure the temperature of the waste heat over a whole year and see how warm it really is, says Marcus Sandberg, project manager for Green Power and Associate Senior Lecturer of Construction Engineering and Management. – Researchers will create computer models of the heat transfer solution and the greenhouse to find out which design that best serves our purposes. It will be interesting to see if the heat really is enough. If we reach bearing on our theories, we hope that the project can eventually grow and that the theories will actually turn into practice.

computer models that can be used to design and evaluate the transfer of heat from data centers to greenhouses, can work. The implementation consists of four main activities: measurement, modeling, assessment of the possibility to cultivate and disruption analysis. – This will give existing data centers an opportunity to reduce their carbon dioxide footprint at the same time as we reduce the need of transporting vegetables, which also means less carbon dioxide emissions, says Michael Nilsson. Besides Luleå University of Technology, SLU Umeå, Vattenfall, Ericsson, Bodens energy, Bodens kommun, Hydro 66, Boden Business Agency, SICS North Swedish ICT, Enaco and Hushållningssällskapet, participate in the project. The project is partly financed by the Swedish Energy Agency.

Reduced carbon footprint The goal is to develop a methodology to measure heat and air flows from data centers and to create 15

Highlights 2016

Next Generation

Green and Resource efficient Data Centers and Cloud Products from SMEs The project ”Data centers: Advancing business with research, development and innovation”, called the FUI-project, invites regional SMEs to joint the project and its processes for product advancement. The project can provide financial support to define, develop, test and demonstrate new and better products and services, as well as for external work and services for research, development, innovation and business development. Moreover, the project can support SME’s in the area of fees and expenses for equipment and test environments.

BENEFITS FOR COMPANIES The project support small and medium-sized enterprises in Norrbotten and Västerbotten in the following areas: • Information, advice and guidance in the field of data centers and cloud • Market analysis • Business support, identifying sales channels and potential clients • Support for research and development and finding partners for research collaboration • Support with process management and finding 16

the right expert to increase your company’s competitiveness • Consulting and auditing in connection with commercialization • Use of the test environment for developing, testing and demonstrating new and improved products and services The project can also tailor support to each company’s needs.

Access to test environment The project also provides access to an advanced test environment. This is an experimental environment for research, innovation and demonstration of infrastructure and IT products for data center facilities.

Qualifying SMEs will gradually get access, at more and more favourable terms, to FUI-project services, including guidance and access to international expertize, conferences, exhibitions and state-of-the art lab-facilities for product development, test and demonstration.

Want to participate? Contact: Jan-Olov Johansson jan-olov.johansson@ltu.se +46 70 619 22 31

Changes in consumer behavior and challenges for retailers The technological advancements have made a strong impact on customer behaviour and especially how and where we buy: 89 percent of Swedish consumers shop online and 51 percent use their mobile phones to do shopping (DIBS, 2016)*. During 2016, online trading grew by 16 percent compared to 2015, yet online shopping constituted only 7.7 percent of the total trade in Sweden (Postnord, 2017)**. A team of researchers from Industrial Marketing at Luleå University of Technology and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have studied e-commerce and changing consumer behavior online and offline, in a study co-funded by the Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council. According to the researchers Åsa Wallström and Maria Ek-Styvén, there has been a paradigm shift in consumer behavior: “Consumers today are knowledgeable about the products they are buying, and they are moving between the physical and digital channels during the different phases in the shopping process. Many of the consumers are online, looking for more information about the product they are about to purchase, while they are in a physical store”. The researchers suggest that companies should try to integrate the different communication channels in order to offer the customers a

seamless shopping experience. They highly recommend the retailers work on their online presence, even if they do not actually sell products online, as consumers are using online channels to find information and inspiration. Also small local retailers in Luleå and Stockholm were interviewed about the challenges they are facing. Many of them have a smaller web shop, but they experience stress to keep it updated and user-friendly. They are also struggling to find the proper marketing channels, so that they can convince the customers to visit the physical stores.

Helping small and medium sized companies with their online presence “We have talked to many smaller retailers, and many of them would like to be online, but they

* DIBS. (2016). Svensk e-handel 2016. Stockholm: DIBS Payment Services. ** Postnord. (2017). E-barometern 2016 Årsrapport. Stockholm: Postnord, HUI Research och Svensk Digital Handel

lack the resources to offer web shops. They also want to actually meet their customers face-toface and build lasting customer relationships. That is why we are working on a project “SMARTBUY” that intends to provide the technological infrastructure to these small and medium sized retailers”, explains Karl Andersson, associate professor and acting executive director of CDT.

Synergies and collaborations The SMARTBUY project utilizes infrastructures provided by the ORGANICITY project and IoT Innovation Lab. The consortium consists of four partners from the EU, and the team in Luleå is an interdisciplinary cooperation with people from computer sciences and industrial marketing. “I feel that the combined expertise we offer is really cutting edge” Karl Andersson states. 17

The Research Data Center ICE

- RISE SICS North

The research datacenter ICE is an open research and testing environment, making it possible for research projects, universities and companies to verify their solutions in a full-scale datacenter environment.

The ICE mission is to contribute to Sweden being at the absolute forefront regarding competence in sustainable and efficient datacenter solutions, cloud applications and data analysis. This will be accomplished by increasing innovation capability, helping product and service companies excel, as well as attracting more researchers and companies to Sweden to make the business branch even stronger nationally. ICE consists of two datacenter pods, where one has an optimized and stable physical environment optimized for IT/ cloud-related applications, and one is a flexible construction optimized for facility/utility testing. The ICE facility is operated and owned by RISE SICS North, and will soon be expanded with a third pod.

RISE SICS North RISE SICS North is a subsidiary of the non-profit organization RISE SICS, which carries out advanced and focused research in strategic areas of computer science, in close collaboration with Swedish and international industry and academia. The research creates cutting-edge technology, invigorating companies beyond their own R&D. 18

The ICE offer The test facility will offer access to a unique environment for testing, demos and experiments. The ICE offer covers all parts of the stack; • Big data and machine learning – Computing capacity, platforms and tools for handling big data and machine learning • IT and cloud – testing and experiment environments for software development, scaling and infrastructure optimization • Facility and IT HW – possibilities for testing disruptive innovations concerning the facility and hardware of a datacenter • Utility – measurements and research securing a sustainable society with efficient datacenters as a part of the energy system

Read more about our ongoing research projects at https://www.sics.se/groups/rise-sics-north#projects

For questions contact: Tor-Björn Minde, Tor.bjorn.Minde@ri.se, +46 (0) 70 624 29 59

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. CONTACT: Thomas Olofsson, Professor E-mail: Thomas.Olofsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 493662

Control Engineering Control Engineering is  “the science of automated systems”. Simply put, automatic control theory  is about to control systems so that they behave as desired.

focus on business development based on innovative products and services, production solutions or ways to lead and organize activities. CONTACT: Joakim Wincent, Professor E-mail: joakim.wincent@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920-492161

Gender and Technology Our research and education focus on gender perspective of regional development, technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and communications in rural areas. CONTACT: Maria Udén, Professor E-mail: Maria.Uden@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920-493023

CONTACT:

Fluid Mechanics

Thomas Gustafsson, Professor E-mail: Thomas.Gustafsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 491323

Focus is on flow through porous media, multiphase flow, flow with free surfaces and in-stationary flow. 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 filter technology.

Dependable Communication and Computation Systems The research subject focus on cyber physical systems and Internet of Things, simulation of complex distributed systems, agent-based architectures and bio inspired control in complex industrial infrastructures, among other things. CONTACT: Valeriy Vyatkin, Professor E-mail: valeriy.vyatkin@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 492505

Entrepreneurship and Innovation The subject deals with development of firms and organizations with a specific

CONTACT: Staffan Lundström, Professor E-mail: Staffan.Lundstrom@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)920 492392

Information Systems Information Systems covers design and use of information technology in relation to people, organizations and societies. Several research projects have recently focused on such areas as Digital

Service Innovation, Information Security, and Sustainable Data and Information Management. 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. 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. CONTACT: Lena Abrahamsson, Professor E-mail: lena.abrahamsson@ltu.se Phone: +46(0)920-492107

Enabling ICT 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. 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. 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 21

Results 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. 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 Daniel Granlund Dick Schefström Frank Sjöberg Jan-Jaap van de Beek Jeremiah Scholl Johan Karlsson 22

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 Ali Padyab 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

Results marked with a grey background is 2016 years results.

CDT in figures 2013-2016 Results and Achievements

2016 2015 2014 2013

Associate professors

Doctoral degrees

Licentiate degrees

MSc degrees

Publications

18 18 14 17

Reports

9 14 3 2

Spin-off 1 Patents

Products

1 1 1

Prototypes

3 5 5 7

Applications

3 1 4 5

Demonstrations

17 24 15 14

Trials

18 7 3 9

User studies

Awards

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. 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 led to that the company expanded its activities and registered as a limited liability company. www.actegra.se

Rubico AB – A company targeting the Swedish market for digital audio newspaper receivers/recorders, 2004. www.rubico.se

iGW is a company focusing on a developing infrastructure for collection, management and visualization of large amounts of data. www.igw.se

Internet Bay – A commercial cluster that supports its members’ growth strategies in distance-spanning and mobile applications, 1999. www.internetbay.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

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

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

Effnet AB – A developer of Internet Protocol (IP) header compression technologies, 1997. www.effnet.com

KYAB – KYABs business idea is to assist house owners to reduce their energy consumption by combining measurement, visualisation and advise.www.kyab.se

IT Norrbotten AB – A regional development company with the objective to create economic growth and develop work and industry in Norrbotten, 1996. www.itnorrbotten.se

Adela Innovation AB – A company developing products and services within area of enabling people to receive and listen to speech news-papers, 2008. www.adela.nu

Bollen Labs – A company that experiment with new ways to interact with computers, and new types of data visualization. www.bollenlabs.com

Operax AB – Operax develops key technology for data and telecommunication over Internet and Intranet within fixed and mobile systems, 2000.www.operax.com

Awards Ericsson Patentable Invention Award

SBAPA Award

No 1 Swedish Research Project

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.

Received by Kimmo Yliniemi (KYAB) in 2008.

Awarded Rocco project in 2000 by magazine Ny Teknik.

IT Personality of the Year Dataföreningen i Norr, awarded Professor Christer Åhlund “IT personality of the year 2012”, in Skellefteå, Sweden.

GULDMOBILEN

Awarded Oricane in 2008.

The Competence Gala´s Great Honorary Prize

No 1 Swedish Researcher “Chester Carlson Prize” Awarded Mikael Degermark in year 2000 for “high performance routing” by IVA.

Shared by Östen Mäkitalo and Anton Abele in 2008.

European Grand IST Prize

Best Student Paper Award

European Grand Ict Prize FINALIST

Awarded Marratech AB in year 2000 in Nice by the European Commission.

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.

Awarded Operax AB in year 2007 by the European Commission.

Best Paper

Best Presentation Award

Awarded Mikael Degermark in year 2000 for “high performance routing” by ACM/SIGCOM.

Awarded Mikael Sundström at ItechPartner Forum in Porto, Portugal, in 2007.

European Grand IST Prize (1st)

Best Paper

Awarded Effnet AB in year 1999 in Helsinki by the European Commission.

Best Paper 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.

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

FINALIST

1st Prize In Swedish Innovation Cup 1998: Brodnik/Carlsson/Degermark/Pink – The Luleå Algorithm

Spin-off of the year The CDT spin-off company KYAB receive the award “Spin-off of the year 2013” from the Luleå University of Technology.

IT Organization of the Year

Rubico AB, a CDT-offspring, awarded for the best newestablishment in Luleå in 2006.

Awarded CDT in year 2011 from the IT society in Norrbotten, Sweden.

Competetive Regions Best Practice 3

Chester Carlson Prize NOMINATION

VITAL Project selected for presentation in Magdeburg, Germany, 2005.

Awarded Associate Senior Lecturer Damiano Varagnolo, Luleå University of Technology in 2015 from Norrbottens Forskningsråd.

Finalist Mikael Sundström in 2009 by IVA for efficient compression, storage and retrieval of information.

Best Student Paper

Best Exhibitor

Best Paper NOMINATION 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. 24

Mobile Technology of the Year 2008

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 Awarded Krister Svanbro at Ericsson in year 2001 for Headercompression by Ericsson.

Young Researcher Prize

Awarded the CDT project USEMP during the ICT Days 2015 in Lisbon.

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 2016

Balance Sheet (SEK ´000) Liquid assets Receivables Fixed assets Total Assets

2016 8 774 7 075 142 15 991

2015 -38 6 405 158 6 525

2014 608 8 692 0 9 300

2013 10 439 7 583 0 18 022

2012 -1 407 9 332 0 7 925

Accounts payable Advance payments Personnel liabilities Other current liabilities Loan Total Liabilities

256 8 572 0 0 8 431 17 258

212 4 692 0 0 106 5 010

1 603 4 979 0 0 6 6 588

962 8 031 0 0 8 498 17 491

1 317 2 941 0 0 2 480 6 738

Profit or loss brought forward Profit or loss for the financial year Total Capital

1 515 -2 783 -1 268

2 712 -1 197 1 515

531 2 181 2 712

1 187 -656 531

1 442 -255 1 187

Total Liabilities and Capital

15 991

6 525

9 300

18 022

7 925

Income Statement (SEK ´000) Governmental companies Governmental authorities and foundations County administration Other governmental funding Municipalities Private companies Private foundations Foreign funding Others Income Personnel costs External services Premises Equipment Travel Depreciation Indirect costs Other costs Costs Income for the Year

Total In Kind contribution of the partners 2 982 Company Funds 821 Other Funds 1 137 Financial turnover (Net) 22 057

International Public Funds 4 794 Regional Public Funds National 101 Public Fund 1 205

Total Transfer of Funds 11 017

2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 19 0 0 0 0 2 966 233 6 715 7 467 9 408 -105 2 150 1 482 773 647 -13 973 980 386 321 219 1 686 1 474 -42 1 260 756 1 059 1 004 2 053 1 930 172 765 1 321 0 0 4 044 4 274 6 582 5 809 5 021 0 0 0 0 0 8 058 11 140 19 558 16 446 18 587 5 030 4 806 5 563 5 311 5 410 1 630 3 405 7 301 7 286 8 927 694 458 429 462 326 677 433 469 796 540 645 985 1 162 928 1 170 17 8 0 0 0 1 996 1 878 2 168 2 076 2 116 152 364 285 243 353 10 841 12 337 17 377 17 102 18 842 - 2 783 - 1 197 2 181 -656 -255

CDT income 2012-2016 (SEK ´000) EU structural Funds Research Foundations European Commission Companies County Administration Luleå University of Technology Other Income In-kind contribution of the partners Transfer of EU funds to the external partners Transfer of EU funds to the internal partners (LTU) Total

2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 643 1 055 2 495 3 401 5 001 1 431 2 224 5 161 2 489 4 495 4 044 2 810 6 567 5 708 3 951 928 1 586 1 004 2 053 1 930 -105 2 150 2 021 927 1 188 1 117 1 315 2 310 1 868 2 022 0 0 0 0 0 8 058 11 140 19 558 16 446 18 587 2 982 4 822 6 195 13 999

3 161 15 666 14 487 33 314

6 389 9 412 13 995 49 354

3 704 9 134 8 330 37 614

5 715 4 906 6 166 35 374 27

Our Network

-One of our strongest assets CDT offers an integrated environment for efficient cross-border collaboration between universities, commercial companies, governments and end users. Our partners come from different organizations and working cultures, located at different geographical sites. CDTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal is to be a preferred R&D meeting place.We have for several years invested in building 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 many companies, organisations and research centres.

Partners Core Partners

LNAB

Luleå University of Technology

Logica

Public Sector partners

Luleå Energy

Aarhus Municipality

Lumiplan

Aurorum Business Incubator, Luleå

Ericsson

Mageve

Business Partners Actegra ActiveEon Agio ALTEC Software AB Archeometria Archimède Solutions Arctic Group ArctosLabs Atea ATEA-Exait BNearIT AB Business Sweden CityPassenger CodeMill AB CombiTech DesignTech Draxis Enviromental S.A. DunavNET Easy Global Market

Management in Motion AB Martel, Switzerland Martinsons Träbroar Metria Micropolis Mirror Partner Narvik Composite Neava AB NEC Nokia Optimation AB Oricane Planet Media

Boden municipality Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives

Metropolia

University of Surrey

BREMEN University

NFP Narvik forskningspark

UP8

CEA

Pan European

Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

Politecnico Di Milano

Austrian Institute of Technology

Computer Technology Institute and Press Diophantus in Greece

Non-profit Organisations Catapult CTI - Computer Technology Institute and Press

Coventry University

CIP (EU Competitive Innovation Programme)

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt

Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação

Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

SWU Netze GmbH

County Administrative Board in Norrbotten (Länsstyrelsen)

EARMA

SAP

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Skellefteå Kraft

Fab Lab Barcelona

Sogeti

Future Cities Catapult

Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS

SQS

International association of IT lawyers

Elastisys

Telia Sonera

Mandat International

ENORO

THALES

Nordic innovation center

Explizit

The Node Pole

Public and Science

F-secure

Tieto

Salzburgresearch

Hello Future

Tromb

Sogeti

Home Automation Europe

TST Sistemas

Santander Cluster

HW Communications Limited

Unimob Vattenfall

The Nordic Transport Workers’ Federation (NTF)

Velti

iGW

Westbic Wirtschafts und Infrastruktur Gmbh & Co Planungs KG

Intel

Whirlpool Europe

inVivio

WUXI SMART SENSING STARS

Aalto University

IsMobile Liander

Xarepo

Alexandra Institute

Universities and Research Aarhus University

Örebro University

RWTH Aachen University

Telefonica

Vilnius University

Sponsors

ProcessVision

Eistec

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

Uppsala University

Public & Science (Vetenskap & Allmänhet)

Erasmus Research Institute of Management

Luleå ICT Business Council

University of Naples Federico II University of Southampton

CERTH

Teknikens Hus

Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (PII) Linköping University

Santander Municipality

Effnet

ICIS

Athens University of Economics and Business

Luleå municipality

Tecnalia Research and Innovation

IBM

Ankara University

Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation

Tampere University of Technology Technical University of Berlin Technische Universitaet Braunschweig Technische Universität Wien

Horizon2020 EU seventh framework programme European Regional Development Funds Geveko Interreg 4A North

Test Site Sweden

Interreg IVB Baltic Sea

Fundação de Apoio à Universidade de São Paulo

The Complutense University of Madrid

LKAB

Gothenburg Universities Hochschule Aachen

TWT GMBH Science & Innovation

Hochschule Ulm

UMINova

Imperial College London

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Region Västerbotten

Université du Luxembourg

Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket)

INRIA Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Instituto Italiano per la Privacy

Trnava University

University College of Cork University of Bradford

Instituto Superior Técnico Lisboa

University of Cantabria in Spain

Interinnov

University of Geneva

IT Innovation - University of Southampton

University of Melbourne

University of Lübeck

Norrbotten County Council (Region Norrbotten) Norrbottens forskningsråd Skellefteå Municipality

Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten) Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation System (VINNOVA) The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) 29

OUR PROJECTS Connecting research, industry and society in cross-disciplinary teams One of CDTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main roles is to initiate and to coordinate long-term innovation projects. CDT are experts in innovation process management and performance of large-scale pilots in real life setting. This is mainly done by running research, design and innovation projects, where we connect research, industry and society in cross-disciplinary teams. Here, scientific curiosity is paired with an intense collaboration between industry and society. During a project, 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 LuleĂĽ University of Technology 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.

PROJECTSPR PROJECTS 2016 Cloudberry Datacenters

FUI Datacenters

Gender Contact Point

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.

The aim of the project is to develop and

The project Gender Contact Point will contribute to deeper interaction between academia, industry and other community actors by creating an innovative collaborative environment for practical gender mainstreaming.

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 catalyse 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

ing and developing products and services for SMEs in north Sweden. There is a strong and growing global demand for data centers and solutions that enable large-scale greener, more efficient and safer data management. The is also a strong need and a growing market for companies that can offer new and better solutions in the area of data centers and cloud services. Due to this, the project will financially support to define, develop, test and demonstrate new and better products and services as well as to help with expenses for equipment and

A permanent structure with one door to LTUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gender research will be established. The platform will enable the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s businesses and other stakeholders to benefit from the results of research, learning and knowledge in gender, diversity and innovation. Gender-mainstreaming tools based on gender research will be designed in collaboration with local IT companies.

datacenter test environments.

www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Gender-Contact-Point

www.cloudberry-datacenters.com

www.fui.dc4c.se

PROJECT PERIOD: January 2016 - April 2018

PROJECT PERIOD: July 2013 - ongoing

PROJECT PERIOD: September 2015 - December 2018

CONTACT: Karl Andersson E-mail: karl.andersson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 819 54 84

renew the datacenter industry by innovat-

CONTACT: Jan-Olov Johansson, E-mail: jan-olov.johansson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 619 22 31

CONTACT: Paula Wennberg Email: paula.wennberg@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 247 54 21

ROJECTSPROJ Genovate

IDS 2020

IoT ActEU

The aim of the GENOVATE project is to ensure equal opportunities for men and women in research, innovation and scientific decisionmaking bodies.

The goal of the work is to affect conditions for Swedish players to participate in the Horizon 2020, in the areas Big Data Analytics, Infrastructure and Data Centers.

This is a network of Swedish companies, universities, institutes and authorities that have formulated a joint Strategic Innovation Programme in the area of Internet of Things (IoT).

IDS 2020 is an advocacy EU platform for information-driven Society (IDS). The goal of the work is IDS2020 affect conditions for Swedish players to participate in the Horizon 2020 focus areas Big Data Analytics, Infrastructure and Data Centers.

The network will strengthen the Swedish position and influence on international EU research and innovation in IoT. Therefore, IoT Sweden has decided to create an organisation and develop processes and network to influence internationally and with focus on the European Commission Horizon 2020. The Swedish IoT-partnership ”IoT Sweden” has assigned LTU and CDT to lead this work. The strategies focus primarily on the mining, forestry (process industry) and health industry and SME companies i.e. the innovation carriers bringing new products and services to the big industry and users of IoT.

Luleå University of Technology (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 a 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. Moreover, the Swedish IT sector is lacking women and this 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 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). www.genovate.eu PROJECT PERIOD: January 2013 - December 2016

PROJECT PERIOD: January 2015 - December 2016 CONTACT: Michael Nilsson E-mail: michael.nilsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20

www.iotsverige.se PROJECT PERIOD: March 2015 - October 2017 CONTACT: Michael Nilsson E-mail: michael.nilsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20

CONTACT: Paula Wennberg E-mail: paula.wennberg@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 247 54 21 33

IoT Lab

NIMBLE

OPTi

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

NIMBLE stands for Collaborative Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe.

The OPTi project aspires to create a long-lasting impact by rethinking the way District Heating and Cooling (DHC) Systems are architected and controlled.

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. 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

The ultimate goal of NIMBLE is to develop a federated, multi-sided and cloud services-based business ecosystem that supports B2B collaboration for industry, manufacturers, business and logistics, ICT-based innovation of products and evolution of traditional business models and federated, competitive yet interoperable instances of the platform. In contrast to many other platform initiatives, NIMBLE is multi-sided by bringing together vendor and buyer communities, and it is also federated. This means we enable competition between platform provider and yet, we ensure their interoperation via the interoperability services that remain the same for all. NIMBLE is funded by the European Commission’s H2020 technology research programme for Factories of the Future.

The overarching goal is to create business benefits for the industry as well as to ensure optimal end-consumer satisfaction. OPTi will deliver methodologies and tools that will enable accurate modelling, analysis and control of current and envisioned DHC systems. The methodology will be deployed both on a complete system level, and on the level of a building. OPTi will treat the DHC system as a system subject to dynamic control, and will treat thermal energy as a resource to be controlled for DHC systems towards saving energy and reducing peak loads. This will lead to the most environmentally-friendly way of utilizing energy sources, thus reducing the reliance on additional boilers running on oil and/or electricity and overall providing a socio-economically sustainable environment.

www.nimble-project.org

PROJECT PERIOD: October 2016 - October 2019

www.opti2020.eu

CONTACT: Michael Nilsson E-mail: michael.nilsson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20

CONTACT: Wolfgang Birk E-mail: Wolfgang.Birk@ltu.se Phone: +46( 0)920 491 965

PROJECT PERIOD: March 2014 - October 2017

OrganiCity

Privacy Flag

SMARTBUY

OrganiCity is a project that puts people at the center of the development of future

The project Privacy Flag aims to protect citizens’ privacy with user-friendly tools for interaction with websites, smartphone applications and the Internet of Things.

This EU Horizon2020 project relates to the topic “Integrating experiments and facilities” in Fire+, and it aims to enhance the buying experience in smart cities.

cities. This EU project brings together three leading smart cities and a total of 15 consortium members with great diversity in skills and experience. The core objective is to put people at the center of the development of future cities. OrganiCity consists of a close collaboration between Århus, London and Santander, three cities which all have extensive experience using so-called smart city technologies. These technologies include ways to improve cities’ services for citizens while at the same time reducing resource consumption. http://organicity.eu PROJECT PERIOD: January 2015 - June 2018 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

It is a European Research project that combines technological and legal expertise and that is building a global knowledge database of identified privacy risks, together with online services to support companies and other stakeholders in becoming privacy-friendly. Privacy Flag is developing highly scalable privacy monitoring and protection solutions. This will include crowdsourcing mechanisms to identify, monitor and assess privacy-related risks, privacy monitoring agents to identify suspicious activities and applications, universal privacy risk area assessment tool and methodology tailored on European norms on personal data protection as well as personal data valuation mechanism. Moreover, it will contain privacy enablers against traffic monitoring and finger printings and user friendly interface informing on the privacy risks when using an application or website. www.privacyflag.eu PROJECT PERIOD: May 2015 - April 2018 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

SMARTBUY intends to provide the technological infrastructure for small and medium sized retailers to become THE PLACE to buy for people that want to keep the advantages of in-store purchasing, and at the same time experiment with the advantages of eCommerce; comparison of prices, choice of providers, reviews and specification awareness, etc. Smart Buying converts Smart Cities’ physical stores in a Smart geographically distributed mall by providing the logical consistency needed for conducting centralized searches in heterogeneous and geographically distributed physical stores. LTU works with the communication and dissemination activities. www.smartbuy.tech PROJECT PERIOD: January 2016 – June 2018 CONTACT: Karl Andersson E-mail: karl.andersson@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 819 54 84

Steinkjer Living Lab

USEMP

VinterCykla!

Steinkjer Living Lab is a knowledge transfer project where Botnia Living Lab offers its knowledge and experience and Living Lab operations and methods to Comparative AS in Steinkjer, Norway.

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.

VinterCykla! is a pre-study project with the objective to identify what needs to be addressed in order to increase the number of people taking the bike and leaving their car at home.

In Steinkjer, Norway, there is a broad consensus among different stakeholders such as businesses, municipality, university and non-profit associations that the city and region would benefit from implementing Living Lab approaches in their development processes. The establishment of Steinkjer Innovation Centre in Trøndelag is used as a case study where the new knowledge is implemented. The project is designed in three phases following the FormIT methodology where each phase includes learning sessions, practical sessions and reflections. The expected results are to set up a Living Lab in Steinkjer as part of the Innovation Centre where methods to support innovation and especially open innovation are to be used. Comparative AS will be the Living Lab provider inside the Innovation Centre. PROJECT PERIOD: February 2015 - March 2016 CONTACT: Marita Holst E-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se Phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

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 Online Social Networks. 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. 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

This would contribute to better health, reduce inner city traffic and provide significant savings to society in the form of reduced emissions and lower costs for accidents. This will be achieved by, in close dialogue with bicyclists, tackle the most significant obstacles and developing a ´WAZE´-like service that will help to choose the bicycle over the car. Increasing cycling by 20% saves 2 billions for society every year! PROJECT PERIOD: June 2015 - Ongoing CONTACT: Arne Gylling E-mail: arne.gylling@ltu.se, Phone: +46 (0) 70 530 33 39

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Becoming a CDT partner is easy, we meet, walk through our offers 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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and off we go!

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Mikael Börjesson

Arne Gylling

Marita Holst

CEO (currently on leave) anders.lundkvist@ltu.se +46 (0)70 674 58 58

Acting CEO Karl.Andersson@ltu.se +46 (0)70 819 54 84

mikael.borjesson@ltu.se +46 920 491 200

Arne.Gylling@ltu.se +46 (0)70 530 33 39

Marita.Holst@ltu.se +46 (0)70 646 54 14

Jan-Olov Johansson

Michael Nilsson

Marie Nolin

Paula Wennberg

Marie.Nolin@ltu.se +46 (0)72 526 20 70

Paula.Wennberg@ltu.se +46 (0)70 247 54 21

Jan-Olov.Johansson@ltu.se Michael.Nilsson@ltu.se +46 (0)70 619 22 31 +46 (0)70 288 45 20

Board of Directors The CDT board of directors have approved the CDT annual report 2016. Luleå, May 2017

Thomas Brännström

Tor Björn Minde

Jonas Ekman

Thomas Gustafsson

Mats Nordberg

Chair

Ericsson Research

Luleå University of Technology

Ericsson Research

ACCELERATING ICT INNOVATION

Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå. Phone: +46 (0)920 49 10 00. E-mail: cdtinfo@ltu.se, www.ltu.se/cdt CDT is a research centre at Luleå University of Technology, www.ltu.se