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Paper published at Sensors (MDPI)

From Perception to Navigation in Environments with Persons: An Indoor Evaluation of the State of the Art https://doi.org/10.3390/s22031191 Abstract: Research in the field of social robotics is allowing service robots to operate in environments with people. In the aim of realizing the vision of humans and robots coexisting in the […]

TALAKO Integration Started

On January 19th, members of the Networked Embedded Systems group at the Universität Duisburg-Essen and employees of INTIS, the developer of the inductive charging system used in the TALAKO project, started the integration tests for the upcoming deployment of an inductive charging system for taxis in Cologne. As part of […]

InnaMoRuhr Apps Available

At the beginning of January, the members of the Networked Embedded Systems group have published the mobile app for InnaMoRuhr that they have developed over the last months. The app is freely available for mobile phones running the Android or iOS operating system via Google Play and the Apple App […]

Papers published at 16th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2021

Two papers were published at 16th International Symposium on Visual Computing: Evaluating User Interfaces for a Driver Guidance System to Support Stationary Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90439-5_15 Abstract: Stationary wireless charging could be a convenient alternative to wired charging of electric vehicles. The prerequisite for efficient wireless charging is […]

Talako on Television

N-TV has produced a short summary of the Talako project. The video features the protoype deployment at Taxi Stephany in Mülheim. Appart from describing the inductive charging technology developed by INTIS, the video also features the positioning system and mobile driver guidance application developed by NES. The video is currently […]

FAIR Experiments at EISZEIT Karlsruhe

As part of the FAIR project, NES is developing software to capture environmental measurements such as temperature and air pressure using mobile phones. In close cooperation with the FAIR project partner KME, NES has deployed a number of sensors in the city center of Karlsruhe that will be used to […]

FAIR Experiments at Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe

As part of the FAIR project, NES is developing software to capture environmental measurements such as temperature and air pressure using mobile phones. In close cooperation with the FAIR project partner KME, NES has deployed a number of sensors in the city center of Karlsruhe that will be used to […]

MoWeSta app receives major update

As part of the FAIR project, NES is developing software to capture environmental measurements such as temperature and air pressure using mobile phones. This includes a mobile application for Android as well as a web application. Both applications are freely available and the mobile application can be downloaded from Google […]

Best Video Presentation (Posters & Demos Track) at EWSN’21

The video presenting the demo “SOCRAETES: SOlar Cells Recorded And EmulaTed EaSily” was awarded the best video presentation for the posters and demos track at the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN’21). The video can be found in our videos and the demo abstract can be found here.

New Project – MoIn

Although reachability is one of the most important location factors for citizens and companies, there is currently no source in Germany that evaluates it comprehensively and nationwide. In general, reachability consists of a broad spectrum of quality features. In addition to cost, they also include time, frequency and capacity of […]