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AIDICO, Construction Technology Research Institute, is formally a non-profit-making association with over 100 employees active in many construction related activities, working very close to the industry, providing services to its over 400 associated construction related companies. Among other activities and services, AIDICO carries out research and development projects in a wide range of areas: sustainable building materials and processes, nanotechnologies, information and communication technologies, energy saving, etc. Furthermore, AIDICO works in the field of certification of building products and materials and therefore has a modern and well equipped infrastructure based on specialised accredited laboratories. At European level AIDICO has managed and participated in different FP4 and FP5 and FP6 projects (Growth, Craft, IST, Ten Telecom, etc.). AIDICO is active member of the European and Spanish Construction Technology Platforms in different Focus Areas. At national level, AIDICO is the promoter of the IST Focus Area within the Spanish Platform with more than 40 members and Core member of the IST Focus Area in the ECTP.
The New Methods of Work team belonging to AIDICO´s R&D Department, actively works in national and European IST projects aiming to support construction companies and government in the integration of interoperable solutions and applications, in the scope of the construction sector. Through these projects the team has acquired specific experience in product & process modelling, requirements analysis, interoperability architectures, software developement and technology transfer to industry, through national and European projects. Furthermore, AIDICO has also relevant experience in coordination and dissemination activities.
Alcatel Lucent designs, develops, and builds innovative and competitive communications networks, enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of content, such as voice, data and multimedia, to any type of consumer, anywhere in the world. The research activities of Alcatel Lucent are organised within one single operating organisation: Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs. The objective of Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs is to contribute to the future success of Alcatel Lucent's customers in helping them maintain their competitive advantage addressing the challenging and rapidly evolving markets, by preparing the products and services that they will require in the future. Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs works on technologies that address the short and medium term, as well as long term or broader perspective research. Research work is dedicated to four mail research fields (Optics, Mobile, Networking, Management and Control). This work is predominantly carried out in five locations, including Nozay near Paris in France.
The LIST, the laboratory of systems and Technologies integration, is operated by the Direction of the Technology Research (DRT) at CEA (the French Atomic Energy Commission). Its vocation is to help companies increase their competitiveness through technological innovation and transfer of its technical know-how to the industry. LIST has also an active policy of start-up creation. CEA/DRT is currently employing some 2000 persons. Overall, last year, DRT has been working with more than 200 industrial partners within the framework of about 600 contracts. To-date, its patent portfolio consists in more than 600 French patents, many of which were extended to Europe, the USA or Japan. Its application sectors include Micro-electronics, Defence, Nuclear Power & Energy, Health Care & Biology, Telecommunications, Aerospace, Information Technology (hardware & software), Professional Electronics, Computer Peripherals. The Image and Embedded Computer Laboratory LCEI of the DRT/LIST, composed of 22 members, develops embedded architectures dedicated to data processing and image processing tools.
CEA LIST has a strong expertise in image processing techniques for augmented reality applications. It has developed marker-based solutions for real-time 3D virtual object registration with the real world. CEA researches address now markerless solutions. CEA also has a very good experience in 3D video-systems calibration which is clearly mandatory in this project. The laboratory has already participated in several European projects. Two start-ups were created inside the laboratory, concerning image processing applications (image and video indexing and videogrammetry).
University of Jyvaskyla (Cognitive science unit) is specialized to human machine interaction analysis from user-psychological point of view since 2001. This means basic and applied investigations in interaction processes by means of psychological methods and concepts. The main goals have been in developing procedures in interaction analysis, testing and use scenario design. All questions have specifically been in the area of understanding human dimensions of technology.
This knowledge have been applied in several projects in forest industry, mobile technology, medical tools, service development and e-learning. The group publishes open access scientific journal Human technology (www.humantechnology.jyu.fi).
EADS Secure Networks delivers mission critical radio communications solutions for public safety and other professional users. EADS Secure Networks is a global market leader, having delivered 130 digital radio networks to 56 countries. The unit is part of EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space company), a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services.
Within EADS, the PMR Line of Business is present in France through the company EADS Secure Networks SAS (ESN-Fr). ESN-Fr is committed to ensuring that professional organizations, from police departments to utility companies, have the highest level of confidence in their secure communications by providing a comprehensive and unrivalled package of network, terminals, integration and services.
EADS Secure Networks Finland has offices in Helsinki and Jyväskylä and the units concentrate on providing networks and terminals for Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) customers.
IDEAN Research provides user experience & usability research and consulting services to achieve end-user satisfaction locally and globally. We create and utilize cutting edge tools and methods, that reflect and measure the end-user's experiences, to evaluate and develop products. Our research focus covers both consumer and enterprise products. Based on our high quality research data, we also design user interfaces for applications and terminals.
IDEAN has offices in Espoo, Jyväskylä, Tampere, Shanghai, Singapore and London.We have about 50 UE, UI and usability experts in our company. To serve our global customers even better, we have built an extensive partner network covering 30 countries and well over 300 usability professionals.
We have also created a productized service catalogue of UI and UE research and design services among the first companies in the world.
Martec is a French South Paris-based SME and its expertise is applied to the measurement, acquisition, transmission and monitoring of all types of data in severe environments. The complete control of the processing and supervision chain forms the common technological background requisite to the product design and the integration of systems for the Defence, Aerospace, Naval, Environmental, Industrial and Transportation sectors.
The Martec Group proposes in the real time systems domain turnkey solutions for on-board reliable applications exposed to severe environments and offers solutions for each stage of customer's project from early design up to systems deployment, maintenance and In-Life-Support. In the railways area, Martec has introduced high rate digital radio devices as solution to allow the running of longer and heavier freight trains by using the distributed power. Also in the railways area, Passenger information system, deployed in Ile de France, processes sensors data to provide displayed and sound messages.
In the on-board video-surveillance in public transportation environment, Martec offers its SCENE range of state-of-the-art fully digital recording systems which includes the following three key functions: video surveillance, rear viewing and door surveillance. Having already installed 15 000 cameras in over 4000 vehicles, the Martec Group has been selected to supply security video systems by vehicle manufacturers such as Lohr Industrie, Irisbus Heuliez Bus, Van Hool and Scania.
APIF MOVIQUITY SA (commercially named MOVIQUITY) is a mobile applications developer and IP solutions engineering company operating since 1997 located in Spain (Madrid). MOVIQUITY was created with the objective of providing high added value technological and engineering services in the area of advanced information and communications technologies, with particular enphasis in mobile and wireless technologies and its applications.
One core activity of the company is the development of applications (m-e-commerce, e-work, marketing, contents applications, e-learning, etc.). MOVIQUITY develops both server applications and embedded SW applications for terminals.
Another core activity of MOVIQUITY deals with wireless engineering and network solutions, including from IP network analisys and design (LAN, WAN), wireless connectivity solutions (LMDS, ADSL, bluetooth) network inventory, provisioning and services management solutions, WLAN deployment, routing, etc., being also partners from mainstream players such as CISCO, 3COM, NETCRACKER, PAGE, etc.
The PHILIPS Innovation Lab (iLab) is the international Know-how Centre of Philips Consumer Electronics. The iLab drives and provides new concepts and features creating innovations that have substantial positive business impact for Philips Lifestyle.
Philips Consumer Electronics is world player in a wide range of products:
The characteristics of products (incl. services) of Philips support the brand-promise "Sense & Simplicity" by being designed around the customer and by being easy to experience. The iLab is partner in various European Projects and involved in a number of new IST and ITEA proposals related to HDTV, DVB, wireless and more.
Robotiker Tecnalia is a Technology Centre specialised in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) and Product Development. Its mission is to contribute actively to sustainable development in Society through Research and Technology Transfer.
It is a member of the TECNALIA Technology Corporation, and is set up as a private, not-for-profit Foundation at the forefront of Research, Technological Development and Innovation (R&D&i). It is wholly committed to Quality, efficient customer service and continual development and training of its specialist Staff of more than 180 people.
Founded in 1985, ROBOTIKER-TECNALIA obtained ISO 9001 certification in 1997, carried out its first EFQM self-assessment in 1998 and was awarded the Silver Q in October 2002. It was the first Technology Centre to be awarded this recognition for Excellence in Management.
Specialist technological fields are Ambient Intelligence, Wireless technology, Distributed generation & renewable energy sources, Manufacturing the Future (micro & nano robotics, smart processes, virtual manufacturing), Technology & Society.
Robotiker has a 15 years experience in machine vision processing. Some of the issues in which our experts team is working relate to eye-tracking, gesture based interfaces and face-based biometric identification and authentication mechanisms. Other group are dealing with implementation and integration of voice-driven interfaces in different kind of applications. Finally, we have vaste experience in the design of new architectures for distributed information systems.
SISTEPLANT is an industrial engineering company founded in 1984, that provides solutions relating to several industrial aspects: new industrial plants lay outs, handling and warehouses, process improvement and automation, industrial software for plant data acquisition and maintenance management, manufacturing strategies and organization as lean and agile manufacturing, TPM, 6SIGMA. This activity is carried out through three divisions: Plant Management, Industrial Engineering, and Logistics. The strategical sectors for SISTEPLANT are automotive, aeronautic and service sectors.
Since its foundation SISTEPLANT has always been concerned with R&D, resulting in leader software solutions, as PRISMA II for Maintenance Management (CAMS) and CAPTOR for Plant Data Acquisition and Plant Management (MES). SISTEPLANT takes also part in R+D+i projects with partners as Toyota, Bosch, IPK Fraunhofer, in different areas of advanced manufacturing, SCM, virtual reality and other innovative technologies.
Telefónica is the leading telecommunications operator in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, and one of the largest telecoms sector companies in the world. The companies in the Telefónica group provide a complete range of communications services which includes fixed telephony, mobile telephony, data transmission and added-value services, business services, internet access, directories, CRM services and audiovisual media content production and broadcasting
Research and development is essential to identifying those factors which are going to shape the future development of Telefónica's businesses. For this reason, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (Telefónica I+D or TID) was created in 1988 to lead the group's activities in this field. TID's mission is to help improve Telefónica's competitiveness through technological innovation, broadening the range and quality of services on offer and making it possible to reduce operating costs. Its natural clients, therefore, are all group companies.
Nowadays Telefónica I+D is the most important private company in Spain devoted to R&D and very active in the following major areas: Services creation, related to the broadband, ADSL, intelligent network, data communications, narrowband ISDN, mobile communications, speech technology, multimedia services, and public use telecommunications. Network and services management, both fixed and mobile, using solutions based on the latest standards. The creation of intelligence systems and other activities focused on optimising the effectiveness and quality of business processes, especially those dedicated to customer relations services and management; the optimisation of the management of Telefónica's businesses. Long-term activities in a specially designed programme, set up to identify, develop and apply aspects, opportunities or IST technologies which could impact on Telefónica's future business growth.
Currently TI+D has four premises, in Madrid, Valladolid, Barcelona and Huesca, with two subsidiaries working in Brazil and Mexico. It employs over 1200 people; 92% of them hold a University degree. All the activities in Telefónica I+D are carried out conforming to an in house methodology, supported with tools, which has been awarded an ISO 9001 Certification in 1994 and ISO 14001 since 1998 and a large amount of prices to innovation and excellence. Telefónica I+D has participated in numerous European projects: RACE I, RACE II, ESPRIT II, ESPRIT III, TEN-IBS, TEN-ISDN, CTS, COST, BRITE, ACTS, IST , IV FP, V FP, Ten-Telecom and eContent, and currently is involved in more than 80 FP6 projects spanning STREPs, Integrated Projects, NoEs and SSAs; in some of them it acts as Project Coordinator.
VECSYS was founded in 1980. With 25 years' experience, VECSYS designs, develops and markets systems and products belonging to two complementary sectors: Automatic Speech Processing and Industrial Teleprocessing. VECSYS also designs speech recognition boards and systems. The competence of the VECSYS Automatic Speech Processing Department covers the full range of speech technologies, with the primary emphasis on speech recognition and speech processing. The main applications designed by VECSYS include the following:
VECSYS was involved in the ESPRIT POLYGLOT project as sub-contractor to the Bull company and as partner in the ESPRIT SAM and SAM-A projects, concerned with assessment of speech recognizers. VECSYS was also a partner in the TIDE HEPHAISTOS project, the LE-3 ARISE project, TIDE HOME-AOM to provide vocal command of electronics devices for the elderly and disabled and LE4 OLIVE for automatic disclosure of video information.. Current EC projects include IST ALERT, an Alert system for selective dissemination of multimedia information and IST AMITIES Automated Multilingual Interaction with Information and Services. Among the recent projects conducted by VECSYS is the MGPt project designed for the SNCF, where a vocal interface was developed to handle requests to carry out maintenance and repair work on the TGV and Eurostar tracks. VECSYS develops innovative man-machine interfaces. The Automatic Vocal Server proposed by VECSYS integrates natural language processing and understanding, providing clients/callers with easy and immediate access to information.
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