Some activities during 2022

Thank you to everyone who participated during the Arctic Challenge Hackathon 2022!

Over three days, students, researchers and developers solved business problems in IoT, Edge computing, 5G and information security. Read more at: https://arcticchallenge.se/

Final seminar

Our national research centre for resource and energy efficient datacenters; Cloudberry Datacenters, mainly funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, have gathered for its final seminar. During almost 5 years, our PhD students together with their supervisors have made significant progress and delivered state-of-the-art results in a plethora of areas covering the whole datacenter value chain from construction, via energy recovery and electrical power installations, to blockchain solutions and modern control architectures.

Thanks to all presenters Cristina Ramos Caceres, Henrik Barestrand, Johannes Sjölund, Hampus Ljungkvist, Jil Sutaria, Kazi Main Uddin Ahmed (delivered by Jil Sutaria), Sarah Rönnberg (presenting on behalf of Manuel Alvarez), Johan Simonsson, Yulia Berezovskaya, Olov Schelén (presenting on behalf of Lara Lorna Jiménez) and Ahmed Afif Monrat for great summaries of your work! And special thanks to Isabelle Kemlin, CBRE, delivering a very interesting and forward-looking keynote.

Check out our project web site for all presentations and other updates: https://cloudberry-datacenters.com/

Data center industry development

In March 2022, industry professionals and business developers in the data center industry gathered to network digitally and listen to presentations for half a day. Topics raised during the meeting were 5G, IoT, Edge, AI and the lifecycle of data centers. The author and journalist Anders Steinvall also talked about his book Batterifabriken. His theme was the successful establishment work that has been done regarding Northvolt’s huge battery factory that is now being built in Skellefteå. Anders shared insight about what has been done right and what others can learn from this, including to build pride, a brand building for the city and to have high ambitions around the future strategy well rooted among the people.

Management from Telia Sweden and researchers from Ericsson visited CDT

Participants were Telia's Swedish sales director Tobias Larsson, Telia Sweden's business development and innovation director Magnus Leonhardt and Joel Bucht, Territory Executive at Telia. Ingemar Johansson, researcher at Ericsson, also participated with a demonstration of one of CDT's test cases with a 5G connected radio-controlled car. During the meeting, future possibilities were discussed.

Tobias Larsson writes this about the visit: "The type of research that takes place at LTU, CDT and RISE where they conduct top-level research and close collaboration with us in the business world can really create value for many. The research that takes place around 5G, Edge and AI are very important for Sweden to remain at the forefront of digitalization, and already today helps healthcare, industry and many others with innovative technical solutions. In many of the projects we have had the privilege of being a partner for many years, and we look forward to many more years of research, innovation and community development projects. "

New data center brochure

The fifth edition of the regional data center brochure is now available.

Welcome to read it here: https://issuu.com/meland6/docs/ datacenter_svensk_2022_final

AI-webinar with Polarbröd

Polarbröd's IT manager talked about their digitization work of the entire value chain and a short lecture on AI and decision-making was held in November. See the recording of the event at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2-aRafUjbQ

AI Factory – opportunities and challenges

In March, a webinar was held with information about the AI Factory – a concept now being developed for the use of new technologies on a digital platform used to facilitate fact-based, data-driven decisions. The goal is for the process to be automated for analysis and decision support and for operation and maintenance in order to achieve increased sustainability, reliability and capacity. The basic idea is that the universal part of the AI Factory can be specially adapted for several industries, based on their different needs in order to accelerate the digitization of various work processes by jointly sharing data and increasing the use of AI technology. Saab Aeronautics participated as an industrial example.

Distribution of community information

A webinar on digital information screens was held in May. During the meeting, we shared experiences and lessons learned from our pilot work around information screens we are testing in Norrbotten’s rural areas in the DigiBy project. The purpose of the screens is to be able to easily distribute community information from villages, municipalities, etc. During the meeting, examples of the content on the screens were shown and we talked about the importance of the democratization work around getting access to social information, especially towards groups that are not so digitized.

On May 10-11, 2022, the fourth Cloudberry Day seminar was held.

– It has been two inspiring days with presentations from our ongoing Cloudberry Datacenters research center projects. We have promising results, says Michael Nilsson, project manager at CDT.

Project meeting at the ZeroSun house

A project meeting was held in October with the Vinnova project Digital Urban Development - Campus Skellefteå where Luleå University of Technology collaborates with ABB, Skellefteå Kraft and Skellefteå municipality regarding the energy management system of the future. On the agenda was a visit to the Sara cultural center and a tour of the ZeroSun house in Skellefteå and discussions about requirements and design, research on AI and digital twins and the demonstrator environment.

Smart Bygd

CDT participated at Inlandsmässan /Smart Bygd, a two-day event where business, society and schools met in Dorotea, September 30-October 1, 2022. The theme was sustainable society with a focus on, among other things, energy production, fossil-free cars, transport, preparedness in civil defense and emergency services and smart solutions in healthcare.

Digital project will help the rural food store in Muodoslompolo to survive

The store in Muodoslompolo is a test pilot focusing on increasing accessibility for customers and broadening the store’s operations. In the project, the store has had boxes installed where customers can pick up packages and groceries even when the store is closed. There are plans to allow customers to shop in the store outside of opening hours with the help of a digital lock. Read more at www.digiby.se

Meeting with the Mayor

In November, CDT met the Mayor in Luleå municipality Carina Sammeli together with our board chairman Mats Nordberg, Ericsson Research. We discussed CDT’s activities and possibilities for an expanded collaboration around what is happening in the Luleå region right now.

100% connected Sweden - with new technology

The rapid technological development with the rollout of 5G, developments in the satellite area and new methods of energy storage can enable smarter, stronger and more sustainable networks. The technology has the potential to help everyone get access to fast broadband with fewer interruptions. This was something that Annika Svensson, project manager for the project Rural ICT Testbed – #fulltäckning talked about during Telia’s webinar “100% connected Sweden - with new technology”.

DIT4BEARs project meeting

A DIT4BEARs project meeting with Lapland University of Applied Sciences - Finland and The Arctic University of Norway was held in September. The work is focusing on use cases in the areas of smart roads, smart ID blockchain applications, waste management and the prevention of collisions with reindeers on roads. It is co-funded by the European Union. http://dit4bears.org