NES

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Welcome to the NES Group at Unversity Duisburg-Essen

Hughues Smeets has been working as an assistant at the Universitè de Liège and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium since 2001. He has also worked as a Software Engineer in a spin-off company of the VUB. His research interests include Embedded Systems and routing techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks. He […]

WEBDA

The goal of WEBDA is to enable elderly people suffering from dementia to stay at home independently for a longer period of time. To achieve this, the WEBDA project is developing novel services to train their cognitive abilities and to reduce the cognitive load of the elderly, to better structure […]

EU Project AWARE receives EUROP/EURON Tech Transfer Award

More than 250 roboticists from industry and academia accompanied by members of the European Commission gathered for the first joint EURON/EUROP meeting. Starting from the product vision and technologies described in the EUROP Strategic Research Agenda, the main focus was on closing the gap between industrial needs and academic research. […]

CONET PhD Award 2010 to Dr. Olga Saukh

The CONET Consortium is pleased to announce the winner of the this year’s PhD Thesis Award in the area of Cooperating Objects, Dr. Olga Saukh, for her thesis titled “Efficient Algorithms for Structuring Wireless Sensor Networks”.   Carlo Boano, Matthias Wilhelm, Pedro José Marrón, Olga Saukh, Antidio Viguria  The prize is donated by […]

NOBEL

Europe and the rest of the world share common goals towards energy efficiency and sustainability. Improving energy efficiency addresses the key energy challenges of climate change, energy security and competitiveness. Distributed generation of energy coming from various vendors, even private homes, is a big challenge and, at the same time, […]