Impact

Through the COSMOS project a technology for implementation of the RFID capabilities in our MEMS sensors has transferred to AMG Technology Ltd by the European Polytechnic University.

Thus, our products become contactlessly accessible, which opens new niches in the market of force-related monitoring equipment, such as: personalized weight measuring of humans and acceleration and stress monitoring of the commodities during the storage and transportation.

“The partnership with the University of Pisa led to the integration of a flexible IP for sensor conditioning. It has enhanced our Company’s portfolio with a core tool enabling the development of future sensor solutions.”

"cTuning Foundation has completed a technology transfer of its Collective Knowledge IP with ARM to share an extensible framework for systematic and collaborative R&D combined with predictive analytics. Using Collective Knowledge, ARM was able to obtain valuable insights into performance of its products in a fraction of the time required by conventional analysis.  Designing next generation, high performance, energy efficient computer systems requires a deep understanding of current and emerging real world workloads.

"The TETRACOM TTP gave us a good chance to improve our core product with new features enabling us to target new markets."

"The results of the GDO-NGS2 project enabled Bosch Sensortec to add gesture support to its new products which start shipping in 2016 and 2017. For the future, we expect that this novel technology will allow us to enable our customers to add their custom gestures to our sensor subsystems and, hence, build customized very low power solutions."

When we considered starting the sub 1GHz radio module project, our main goal was to find a new solution for developing a more convenient product for the market stakeholders. The better features of the new radio are low powers consumption, longer distance communication, longer life term and a lower price. Increasing the advantages and decreasing the prices is the ideal scenario for all parties involved: producers and consumers. Our purpose is to increase the number of ISA100 wireless modules from 10k per year to at least 20-30k per year, which means increasing 2 or 3 times the sales volume.

The TETRACOM project helped us to understand, evaluate and apply new techniques and optimisations for stream processing applications. These were integrated in our current product infrastructure, and will represent an intrinsic part of new products which will be key to addressing customer requirements

The TETRACOM TTP has enabled Delphi Electronics and Safety to advance its validation and failure analysis engineering roadmap into new areas not previously possible without this research. The reliability data collected has helped inform through lifetime behaviour of electronics products, driving development of better modelling and design practices.

dividiti's customers are interested in rigorous and objective evaluation of emerging computing platforms for compute-intensive and safety-critical applications, such as autonomous driving. Thanks to our TTP with Imperial College London, we have acquired unique technology and know-how for assessing robustness of platforms, complementing our core expertise of assessing and optimising performance. This has increased the value of provided services to the current customers, as well as the company's competitiveness.

"For our company, the TETRACOM project was a unique opportunity to experiment a cutting-edge technology in the field of structural health monitoring: this now has brought a tangible, high-added value in our company’s works. TETRACOM was a great opportunity to collaborate with a University and to establish a beneficial and fruitful exchange of ideas with talented Researchers."

The TETRACOM TTP was one of best cooperation with the research institutions I have experienced in my career. I see our partners as competent, focused and willing to provide right solution that meets our needs. The TETRACOM project was an opportunity to speed up implementation of the DTRi module and as such proved to be great opportunity for deep fruitful cooperation between the TSO and academia.

"The collaboration with our academic partner (University Ljubljana) was excellent, the technology transfer very efficient, the personal engagement outstanding! Thanks a lot! Now we are looking forward to applying the results in our projects."

"The TETRACOM TTP together with the High-Performance Real-Time Lab of the University of Modena allowed us to deepen our knowledge of parallel hw/sw solutions to accelerate our main products, paving the way to the adoption of modern GPU accelerators for business-critical applications."

"We have been working with RWTH Aachen and Silexica on power modeling analysis for some time now and are consistently happy with both the quality of the estimates produced by their tool and the professionalism of the team that is working with us. We hope to continue this partnership and make a significant impact on our SoC architecture exploration phase with this tool."

"The contact-less bioimpedance measurement device developed as a part of a PhD work at Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School offers an innovative way to respiratory cycle monitoring of a patient. The support provided by TETRACOM allowed Hyb to invest resources in assessing the functionalities of a new medical device. Developed demonstrator prototype and supported activities implemented in the frame of TTP supported by TETRACOM are subject of the feasibility study required by Hyb policy of introducing a new medical device in production.

Tightly controlled diet in combination with insulin therapy is the key to successful management of Type 1 diabetes. Supervising one’s own diet is, unfortunately, very time consuming and is not always possible without food diversity even taken in the account.  The OPEN Platform For Clinical Nutrition, developed by JSI, offers a viable approach to address diet management in a consumer friendly way and at same time allows for integration with the latest generation of IPD med insulin patch pump.

Work done with the support of TETRACOM has been instrumental to maturing a standard parallel programming environment on the Kalray MPPA manycore platform. Not only we significantly improved our products, but also we contributed back code to the open-source projects we leverage for our toolchain.

Within the proiect 'Computer Vision Station Prototype for Biscuit Tiles Quality Control' there has been made a prototype of a computer vision station for detecting errors on raw ceramic tiles. Computer vision station prototype was made in collaboration with the partner Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology from Osijek. Visual detecting errors station is installed in Keramika Modus Ltd, factory at the end of the varnishing line, in front of the machine that fills the wagons for transport towards the oven where the ignition is performed.

“The TTP allowed us to explore future directions for our L4Re operating system and enables us to converge research results into commercial deployments."

"Our work with Peter Yakimov and his team at DAEDALUS project reduced the time of the research processes and produced business qualified information. Also we came up with innovative vision for the Smart Street Lighting System. That was beyond our expectations in terms of cost, time saving, and the speed with which we accomplished our goal."

We participated in a TETRACOM project with University of Lübeck to build a software capability for continuous monitoring and analysis of battery systems in the field. We are very pleased with the results of the project. The technology transfer helped us expand into the market of stationary energy storage systems (several thousand installations planned next year), and progress our portfolio from electronic hardware towards innovative cloud and data services. The academic cooperation created new profitable business opportunities that our small company could probably not have seized alone.

"The traceability of food from producers to consumers is crucial for all players of the supply chain. In this context, the adoption of the RFID technology guarantees wide margins of success.

Our cooperation with FER, a premier Croatian research and applied technology research institution, enabled through TETRACOM, allowed us to develop a potentially life-changing technology and integrate it seamlessly into everyday life of the patients.We are extremely optimistic about the market potential of the project in particular and the usefulness of TETRACOM in general, as we've experienced it ourselves.

"There is often an awkward fit between university research results and company product development, sometimes even blocking transfer. TETRACOM has been the perfect enabler for us to absorb important university research results into our product line-up. Without it significant results that really improve our product and by extension society would have been left on the shelf."

The TTP allowed us to obtain valuable insights into the real-world potential of native code obfuscation technologies to be deployed on core software components of many of our consumer products.

"For a start-up company like Silexica, TETRACOM has acted as a perfect platform to experiment with high-risk tasks with talented university researchers, while transferring the results quickly into business opportunities. With the joint collaboration with RWTH Aachen, we were able to roll out our roadmap on power-aware multicore mapping much faster than expected. Our customers enjoy the cutting-edge research achievements within a commercial software tool environment."

"The TETRACOM TTP has enabled Sonoscan to investigate novel 3D image processing to help find details in acoustic micro-imaging scans. This post-processing of the captured highfrequency acoustic echoes assists users by selectively imaging internal features of samples so as to highlight their presence.

"Tetracom has been a great help to put the very good research done by DAMA-UPC into a product that will help Sparsity to open new markets in a very promising area, that of Knowledge Base exploitation. Without Tetracom we would not have had the chance to productize that important bit of research."

Internet of Things is the new frontier and the future of the global communication. In that context, making buildings more and more “smart” is an important task for a semiconductor industry like ST and its related business. The cooperation with Electromagnetic lab of University of Salento under the roof of TETRACOM Project has been very important for the feasibility study and the development of new innovative RFID-based solutions in that framework.

"There is often an awkward fit between university research results and company product development, sometimes even blocking transfer. TETRACOM has been the perfect enabler for us to absorb important university research results into our product line-up. Without it significant results that really improve our product and by extension society would have been left on the shelf."

The TETRACOM TTP has given us the opportunity to enhance the features that our Decision Support System for agriculture (BLULEAF, www.bluleaf.it ) offers. The new distributed sensor to measure soil water content will help to improve and ensure optimal management of water resources and irrigation processes. The collaboration with the Department of Engineering for Innovation at Università del Salento was a pleasure and a new and substantial chance of growth.

"Through the TTP we have developed a great collaboration experience with an excellent academic partner and we have acquired an unexpected knowledge essential in our future as a company into the bioinformatics area."

The cooperation with DTU within the framework of the TETRACOM has yielded significant results in moving forward with a particular technology within the company. It would have been hard for us to obtain similar results considering industrialization of academic research results without the close cooperation that we have established with DTU. The TTP has provided us valuable benefits in a very close but well regulated environment.

The collaboration with TU Dresden was an excellent opportunity to add additional features to our tools that will further improve our customer journey by latest technology and hands on problem solving methodologies. 

For us this TTP is highly interesting and beneficial, since we were involved in latest research topics that could be transferred directly into a real application. We are now able to benefit from the flexibility of Intel  i7-Core platforms in conjunction with a specialized but still flexible FPGA solution for high throughputs of products, that have to be scanned for various parameters and defects in a few milliseconds.

Xsensio and the Nanolab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology successfully collaborated on a TETRACOM project to transfer an academic nanofluidics proof-of-concept into a reproducible and manufacturable solution that will become a key part of Xsensio's "Lab-on-SkinTM" wearable solution. Thanks to TETRACOM, the transfer of knowledge was simple, fast and highly efficient.