Tag Archives: mobile

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The SUPERHUB project (SUstainable and PERsuasive Human Users moBility in future cities )provides a user-centric, integrated approach to multi-modal smart metropolitan mobility systems. It will design and test an open platform able to combine in real time all mobility offers from the relevant stakeholders together with a set of enabling mobility services able […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The OPENi project aims to deliver a consumer-centric, open source mobile cloud applications solution that will be the catalyst for mobile application innovation advancement. The platform will incorporate an open framework that will be capable of interoperating with any cloud-based service, abstracting the integration challenges to a single open standard without losing any […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Evaporation ducts, the layer in which rapid decrease in the refractive index occurs, can be used as communication medium in maritime and coastal environments for beyond Line of Sight (b-LoS) communications. Since the propagating signals at microwave frequencies are trapped between the ducting layer and sea surface due to the rapid change in […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Technological advancements in localisation and ICT technologies enable almost ubiquitous tracking of individuals, be it pedestrians using a smart phone, GPS-enabled cars or GPS-tagged animals. In order to overcome the legacy of static cartography, the new domain of Geographical Information Science (GIScience) is challenged to develop novel tools which will allow scientists to […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY In recent years, MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork) systems have proliferated rapidly and are now used in variety of applications from the military to the environment. However, in many fields of application, the lack of fixed infrastructure, constraints on power consumption, shared communication channels and a hos to of other issues make MANET systems […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY COMMONSENS is a Spanish research consortium whose goal is to formulate solutions to new and existing problems and to enable fundamental insights into the performance bounds and limitations of large-scale networks within the domain of mobile and wireless communications. The project aims to develop the methods and technology needed to render large-scale, robust, […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY NFC City is an open innovation project which seeks to promote the development and use of services for information exchange, access, ticketing and payment through new applications of mobile and near field communication (NFC) technologies. The project will conduct studies of user, business, security and legal use cases – and develop solutions to […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The DiGiMo Cloud project seeks to place itself at the leading edge in the new, expanding field of cloud gaming. The project seeks to develop an application whereby high-end PC games will be ran on a Computing Cloud platform but can be played on mobile devices over WiFi/3G. The special innovation of this […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The DYNOST project focuses on the security of the Android software stack. The goal of the project is to develop dynamically adaptive security systems which modify their behaviour and structure according to an adaptation logic in response to changes in their surrounding environment. Currently, the project team is working on developing tools for […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Wireless Network Laboratory conducts research in the rapidly expanding field of wireless networks. This vast area of research covers many sub-domains such as mobile and wireless communication networks, broadband satellite networks, sensor networks, and integrated communication systems. The lab runs many research projects and collaborative initiatives concurrently. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Making it technically […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Wireless Network Models and Algorithms group at IIT focuses its research activities on modeling, analysis, and design of algorithms for wireless multi hop networks. The group sees its main research challenge as bridging the gap between investigations of foundational nature (through, e.g., theoretical investigations of fundamental wireless network properties, design of algorithms […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY This project aims to develop a generic software application for smartphones that enables real time user positioning and data survey collection. The application can be controlled from a remote web interface and will automatically finds precise location of user and tracks changes. The software will enable an understanding and real-time assessment of where […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Network Monitor project aims to develop an application which will enable regular and professional users to evaluate the quality of mobile data bandwidth and voice calls via different benchmarking tests. Additionally, the developed application will allow users to collect low level network information including advanced signal strength values and send these data […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Creative Selector supports the formation of new businesses that use advanced web, mobile and social networks. It allows individuals to share business ideas with other innovators to support the formation of the final business concept and in the promotion to build trust and community. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Supporting the formation of businesses that use […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Telecommunications and Networks Lab of ICS-FORTH is actively involved in the development of high performance wireless networking and mobile communications. In particular, the lab’s research and development activities involve resource control and traffic engineering in wired and wireless networks, performance evaluation of networks with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS), traffic measurement and […]

SUMMARY The virtualisation of services, the emergence of mobile internet access and the reduction of barriers to investment in service infrastructure and access terminals have all brought new opportunities to the ICT services sector. Finland is now in a position where it can define the direction of mobile services development in the future. The TIVIT […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY This project seeks to adress challenges arising in the mobile web services domain where resource constrained mobile phones are used as both clients and providers (“Mobile Hosts”). The project team is developing several mobile host applications in healthcare systems, collaborative m-learning, social networks and multimedia services domains. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Providing an efficient and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The mobile computing project aims at discovering innovative solutions in a multiplicity of different areas such as mobile data management and pervasive computing. Current sub projects are: Pervasive mobile applications Asynchronous Notification Services for Mobiles (ANSM) Sensor Data and Image Processing _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS Enhancing accelerometer technology in smart devices through real-time user-device interaction, […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The goal of the MobileCloud project is to investigate how to most efficiently use cloud resources within the the domain of mobile device applications. Mobile cloud computing (MCC)focuses on the offloading benefits that can be achieved when a mobile task such as data storage or processing is delegated to the cloud. The resulting […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction group aims to create new concepts and technologies within the areas of ubiquitous computing and interaction. The group has a primary focus on future interactive spaces and their infrastructures including sensors and positioning technologies. The application domains of research projects ranges from homes, over offices, schools, agriculture, and […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The SmartOSN project will investigate and solve arising challenges for social network applications on mobile network infrastructures. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS The project will develop solutions in several areas such as: Information dissemination Privacy Resource allocation Emerging collaborative applications. _____________________________________________________________________ LINK: http://itu.dk/en/Forskning/Forskningsprojekter/SmartOSN _____________________________________________________________________ Back to Denmark

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY A major challenge facing mobile application providers is to provide highly targeted, context-rich communications that do not harm the confidence and trust of the users, while allowing a diverse range of stakeholders to fully harness the generated data. The SoloMIDEM project seeks to develop solutions to meet this challenge. The project’s goal is […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The Next-Generation Video Browsing project aims to translate results from previous research on video browsing and 3D search interfaces to the expanding domain of modern mobile devices and answer several new research questions. The project focuses on video browsing with modern tablet computers which provide high computing power, new interaction features, and communication […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The concept of “telecooperation” refers to the fusion of computer science, telecommunications and multimedia. The Department of Telecooperation at Johannes Kepler University focuses on the development and evaluation of applications and services that enable us to bridge the gap in time and space in our working and living environments. _____________________________________________________________________ SOLUTIONS The Department […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The G-Lab project aims at the development of future Internet technologies which overcome the challenges posed by new Internet applications with high demands on the Internet infrastructure. For that purpose it relies on both experimentation and theoretical research work in a complementary manner. The G-Lab consists of a Germany-wide research and experimental facility […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Catalunya Connecta is a project of the government of Catalonia. The project aims to execute a deployment plan for the development of the government’s electronic communication services. The plan has already enabled universal access to new telecommunications services to citizens, administrations and the Catalan business, providing coverage of digital terrestrial television services, mobile […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY HeerlenLive seeks to put the citizen in the centre of the city media landscape. The project has developed a free wifi network,urban screen network, walk-in studio, content distribution platform and other services for Heerlen citizens based on a broadband network. The aim is to stimulate creative engagement with the media amongst the city’s […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY I2Web is a research project that aims to enable an accessible Future Internet for people with special needs. From a socio-economic standpoint, accessibility and usability issues are becoming critical issues due to the worldwide trend of demographic change. For instance, according to the UN 2006 Revision of World Population Prospects, a third of […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Access to the Future Internet will be dominated by wireless devices. Resultant increases in traffic will challenge the sustainability of mobile networks. The EARTH project brings together a consortium of partners from industry and academia to address this challenge. The overall goal of the project is to derive solutions that, when combined in […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The SratAG project seeks to solve problems arising from the development of mobile information systems in the Future Internet of Things. These new technologies require management and access to massive, real-time heterogeneous datasets which must be analysed with location and orientation aware smart applications and services. The project team has designed a mobile […]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The project aims to develop a content delivery platform for mobile devices optimized for live and recorded video content, including live user generated content (UGC) from mobile devices. fullXS is an open platform, which enables anyone with basic online experience to create a mobile content service and deploy it to various mobile platforms. […]