Yearly Archives: 2014

16 posts

EC-SAFEMOBIL – All lights are green in the third review meeting

Brüssel – The third EC-SAFEMOBIL review meeting concluded successfully for the EC-SAFEMOBIL consortium. After examining the progress in the areas of unmanned aerial vehicle landing and autonomous warehousing the reviewers of the European Commission deemed the likelihood that the project will archive the expected results and outlined objectives as high, […]

SmartKYE – Second Review Successful

The SmartKYE project (Smart Grid Key Neighborhood Indicator Cockpit) has shown good progress in the second project review conducted on site of one of the demonstration areas in Heraklion, Crete. SmartKYE’s strategic goal is to develop a system for the future smart grid neighbourhood that will enable better business decisions […]

Patent-registered Localisation services

Prof. Dr. Pedro José Marrón has published an article about patent-registered localisation Services titled "Wo bin ich" (engl. Where am I) in the Magazin UNIKATE, reports from research and lecture, released by the University Duisburg-Essen, Edition 46/2014. Find the whole article here.

SMART-ACTION: New insights from IoT360 workshops

On October 27th, SMART-ACTION organised the experts panel at the First International Conference on Cognitive Internet of Things Technologies (COIOTE). Discussions went around the potential cross fertilisation areas of IoT and cognitive sciences. A list of topics of interests has been proposed by SMART-ACTION and refined with the experts. Several […]

2nd version of the GAMBAS application prototype

The initial round of tests of the 2nd version of the GAMBAS application prototype in Madrid have been completed successfully. Among other changes that improve the overall responsiveness, usability and robustness of the prototype, the 2nd version features a complete new set of GAMBAS-powered backend services. These services provide customized […]

IRIS published as open source project on GitHub!

IRIS is an integrated and flexible solution for experiment management and data analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks. For an end user, IRIS provides routines for automated installation of TinyOS applications, options for collecting data from various sources and options for processing, visualization and logging such data. For a developer, it […]

PLANET Final Automated Airfield experiment at ATLAS in Sep, 2014

The last set of PLANET field experiments have been conducted at ATLAS (http://atlascenter.aero/en) to carry out the Automated Airfield application scenario. The experiments cover the aspects including peer-to-peer communication between UAVs for landing schedule, airfield perimeter surveillance using sensor networks and network recovery using a UGV. The films for the […]

New GAMBAS publication at First International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (Urb-IoT 2014), 27–28 October 2014 , Rome, Italy, ACM.

Stefan Foell, Gerd Kortuem, Reza Rawassizadeh, Marcus Handte, Umer Iqbal, Pedro Marron. Micro-navigation for urban bus passengers: using the Internet of Things to improve the public transport experience. First International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (Urb-IoT 2014), 27–28 October 2014 , Rome, Italy, ACM. Find more Information here on the News […]

New staff member of NES Group

On April 1st 2014 we could welcome the new colleague Matteo Ceriotti, as a Senior Researcher. He received his Phd Degree in Information and Communication Technology from the University Trento, Italy. The title of his Thesis was "Guaranteeing Communication Quality in Real World WSN Deployments" in April 2011. His research interests cover […]