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VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Optimized Heterogeneous Multiuser MIMO Networks

This project investigates multiuser multi-input multi-output (MIMO) networks using heterogeneous wireless mobile access technologies. The aim is to develop several novel techniques by exploiting the high number of degrees of freedom offered by the network s (multiuser, space, time and frequency d...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Nordområdenes Nye Nervesystem Undervanns trådløst sensornettverk

Den raske utviklingen innen informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi gir nye muligheter for observasjon og overvåking av det marine økosystemet. Nye sensor og instrumenteringsteknologier kan revolusjonere mulighetene for å samle inn kvalitetsdata på et my e bredere spekter av plattformer enn bare...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Buskerud

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Ultrasound Simulator - Helping save lives

In heath care the use of simulators may both improve quality and efficiency of the treatment process as well as ensure safe and correct handling of patients in acute situations. Ultrasound technology has improved dramatically in recent years, both due to image quality as well as due to the size a...

Awarded: NOK 10.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Rogaland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Designing business models for customer value in heterogeneous networks

Technological research conducted to fulfil the vision of seamless services provided across heterogeneous networks has been intense. Business model research on heterogeneous networks is scarce and focuses seamless services across existing access network in frastructures, such as GPRS, UMTS and Wi-...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Vestland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Spoken Information Retrieval by Knowledge Utilization in Statistical speech processing

Current automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance is at its best one order of magnitude below human performance. A new statistical framework is needed that will incorporate knowledge sources in a combined knowledge-based and data-driven paradigm. The project is a part of a joint internation...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Communication and Information Sharing between Patients and Their Care Providers

Improving Shared Decision Making (SDM), patient-provider communication, and providing all citizens with equal access to health information has become a high priority health policy goal. In this interdisciplinary, international research collaboration we wi ll develop and test CONNECT (Care Online:...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Active Behavioral Interfaces for Seamless Network Integration

The project addresses basic challenges in seamless integration of software solutions for heterogeneous net, by proposing a meta-infrastructure for environment awareness based on a novel notion of Active Behavioral Interfaces. This notion of active behavi oral interfaces will enable software comp...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Technology for Scalable Commercial Video Streaming in the Internet

The primary goal of this project is to develop a robust infrastructure for real time video streaming over the Internet, making it possible for it to eventually replace broadcasting-based TV, and at the same time adding new features such as true video-on-d emand. Such a system cannot be implement...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Secure Heterogeneous Information Presentation (heterogeneous content on heterogeneous platforms)

The networked society is entirely dependent on the access to and use of information. A typical problem for a user is that the information he is seeking is available but not organised in the way matching his actual needs. E.g., it is in different format w hich does not conform to user's interface...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Vestland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Flexible Integration Processes in the Public Sector

This project will investigate processes where ICT is employed in the public sector to establish and sustain networked collaborative work practices. Achieving change and learning in complex socio-technical assemblages involve handling of complexity, for wh ich flexibility is a key strategy. Thus o...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Reservoir Monitoring and Dynamic Reservoir Characterization with Production, Seismic, and Electromagnetic Data

Reservoir characterization with only production data and prior information suffers from lack of information. 4-D seismic in addition to production data/prior information has the potential to increase the attainable quality of the property model significan tly. 4-D seismic has become a very useful...

Awarded: NOK 19.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Vestland

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

DolphiSkin - Utvikling av en håndholdt ultralydskanner med 3D-visualisering for dermatologisk diagnostisering.

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Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Innlandet

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Secure Wireless Positioning and Transactions

Aktiv RFID er et forholdsvis nytt fagområde som er spådd en rask vekst de neste 10 år. Markedet for aktive RFID systemer ligger innen transport, telekommunikasjon, logistikk, helse, maritim og militære anvendelser. SWiPT prosjektet ønsker å kombinerer en trådløs link med en krypterings prosessor...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Smidig Trådløs Infrastruktur for Framtidige Pakkebaserte Telenett

Prosjektet Smidig, Trådløs Infrastruktur skal finne ut og skaffe hva som kreves for å få mest mulig nytte av høykapasitets radio som del av framtidige telenett. Slike radioer vil overføre data mellom knutepunkt i det nettverket som formidler informasjon m ellom brukere. De vil være del av den skj...

Awarded: NOK 19.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Context-sensitive systems for mobile communication in hospitals

This project will focus on context-sensitive interfaces, middleware, and new interaction forms for mobile devices that support multi-modal communication in hospitals. Such devices will support media such as voice services, text-messaging and paging in an efficient and non-interruptive manner as...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Future Technology In Intraoperative Image Guidance - Better patient treatment

This project proposal is collaboration between MISON AS and the research group in Trondheim at SINTEF, NTNU and St Olavs University Hospital. Minimally invasive therapy is now increasing in the health sector due to improved patient treatment and faster re covery of the patient. By using ultrasoun...

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

DeStore - Decentralized Storage of Multimodal User Data

Websentriske tjenester blir stadig mer populære, mye grunnet muligheten til å leie en komplett tjeneste med en minimal administrativ innsats for kunden. Webbaserte tjenester har likevel flere svakheter i forhold til lokalt driftede løsninger. I de webtje nestene hvor brukeren selv produseres sto...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

INVENTIO - Theory and Practice of Designing Digital Genres for Learning and Leisure.

Despite the promise of technology, there are lags in the textual realisation of rich multimodal communication. We see three levels of digital media: hardware, software and genre as meaningware. We focus on genre in making meaning via digital media from a humanistic point of view. In research and ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

CAIM - Context Aware Image Management

Caim (Context-Aware Image Management) prosjektet benytter kontekstinformasjon til bilder (slik som dato og sted et bildet ble tatt) for automatisk å finne mer informasjon om det man ser i bildet (for eksempel i form av Wikipedia artikler og web-sider) og tilby nye typer bildesøk. Vi tilbyr for e...

Awarded: NOK 10.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

Bayesian Lithology-Fluid Inversion based on Well and Seismic Data

Information about petroleum reservoirs are collected in wells or seismic surveys. Well observations are precise but spatially sparse. Seismic data is indirect and fairly unprecise, but has good spatial coverage. Physical models for these data acquisition procedures are well established. Reservoi...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

GPlates - A Novel Exploration Tool

Plate reconstructions have been an integral part of petroleum-related research since the advent of the plate tectonic paradigm. The GPlates consortium grew from the need to create a new plate motion model that can be linked to commonly used geological dat abases and to geodynamic models. GPlates ...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

EVITA-eVitenskap

Parallel Algorithms for Combinatorial Scientific Computing

Advanced applications in scientific computing make use of a number of combinatorial methods. If these combinatorial parts are not given special attention they might become bottlenecks. This is specially true in applications that run on parallel computers. It is the intention of the ParComb proj...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Feasible power electronics for demanding subsea applications

Equipment for subsea processing of oil and gas needs power electronic converters as part of the equipment. Today the availability of feasible high power converters for subsea applications is strictly limited, or does not exist at all. E.g. the today's con verters aimed for subsea operation are ba...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

New Information Theoretic methods for Intelligent Data Analysis

The goal of the three year IT-IDA postdoctoral project is to develop new machine learning algorithms for intelligent data analysis, such as robust non-linear clustering and classification techniques, based on recently developed concepts in information the ory, Mercer kernel theory and graph spect...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

XRT Scanner - X-ray elemental analysis for waste recycling

Titech Visionsort is leading in high capacity waste sorting machines, which sort out plastics and paper fractions based on optical spectroscopy. This method can not be extended to sorting of black plastics, identification of flame retardant additives, and sorting of metals and Aluminium alloys, ...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Wireless electromagnetic data communication for downhole use

Flexible smart well solutions for oil wells are limited due to a lack of available systems for wireless data communication. To obtain fully autonomous control and monitoring units downhole, power will have to be generated on the spot and power efficient w ireless communication is critical. A sub...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRITEK-Teknologi

Input and state constraint handling in nonlinear and adaptive backstepping control design

It is applied to the Research Council of Norway for a Ph.D. project with the title ?Input and state constraint handling in nonlinear and adaptive backstepping control design?. The main objective is to develop a theoretically well-founded design approach for constrained nonlinear and adaptive c...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

Wireless biomedical sensors

FoU prosjektet vil utvikle neste generasjons biomedisinske sensorplattform basert på mikro/nano teknologi kombinert med en miniatyrisert, biokompatibel sensorløsning. Sensorplattformen skal utvikles for ulike biomedisinske anvendelser, og åpne opp for ava nserte medisinske anvendelser ifbm operas...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestfold

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

E-centre laboratories for automated drilling processes

The introduction of large amounts of real time data communicated to onshore e-centers can improve decision making processes and cost efficiency both in the planning phase and during the operational stage. The new e-center working philosophy will lead to l arge changes. New roles, responsibilities...

Awarded: NOK 29.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Rogaland

FRITEK-Teknologi

Enhanced Model Predictive Control

The objective of the project is to incorporate new capabilities into MPC controllers: a) Improving economic performance without sacrificing traditional control performance. b) Improved transitions between operating regions, simultaneously minimising off-s pec production and maximising learning de...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage