CDT Annual Report 2012 by Marie Nolin

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Extending Human Capabilities with a Social Responsibility perspective

Our management of all our ICT gadgets and the steadily increasing flow of information take increasingly big chunks of our attention, effort and time – with questionable payoff. We check e-mails, update contact lists, manage files and with increased regularity we need to do (re)configurations and update our phones, pads, computers and other smart devices. Clearly, we need to reflect over the overall “cost vs benefit” of the emerging world of ICT. In my view we need to take action, in order to reassure that ICT truly will support our best, and still unique, human capabilities such as being creative, social, cooperative, proactive and merciful. We must reassure that ICT advancement does not drive us humans into the virtually subordinated role, as to put inappropriate effort to manually support computer systems with hardware- and software upgrades and more data – clear evidence of insufficient perspective on ICT usage as well as insufficient quality and maturity of the technology. Starting a few years back, CDT is committed to the objective that ICT should be de-

signed and exploited to “extend human capabilities” – Not the vice-verse (we humans increase and adapt our capability to support and cope with the new ICT world).

Since a few years back, global production and use of ICT generates a more severe carbon dioxid (CO2) footprint than the entire aviation industry. Most come from ICT’s energy demand. Another significant stress on the environment comes from the production and recycling of ICT hardware with constantly shortened life-cycles. Well grounded forecasts, data volumes will grow 50 times during the period 20102015. During the same period “More’s Law” will give us a 10-fold capacity increase of processors and memory… CDT takes these trends very seriously, and very much appreciates the related needs for better ICT solutions. During 2012, we took a principal decision to act with “Societal Responsibility”, and to start implementation of this firm policy during 2013, targeting all our projects and activities within a 3-year period.

Among IT professionals in Sweden, less than 20% are women – and it is decreasing! For good reasons, the Swedish IT industry must seek to understand and act on this unbalance. In Finland, the corresponding figure is almost 40% and it seems stable (or slowly increasing). As the CEO of CDT, I’m proud of our decisive work on gender and diversity, and of the fact that we ourselves currently have a very good (virtually 50%/50%) women/men balance. Our efforts in this area, is another very important dimension of our action towards “Social Responsibility”.

generation of sustainable assets

The very essence of CDT’s mission and mode of operation is to facilitate highly efficient and concurrent generation of new knowledge, new prototypes and new business opportunities.

Our CDT performance indicators (see page 17) reflects this mission. During the year we have also proudly presented an alfa-version of the mobile service builder (project SATIN – see page 7).

strategy based on needs, vision, knowledge and imagination

During 2012, we have increased our effort to generate new information and communication technology (ICT) that enables radical innovation in three key areas; 1) “Smarter” and more sustainable energy solutions, with focus on clean energy production and a long-term transition to 100% renewable energy sources. 2) Easy and rapid creation of mobile services based on graphical (drag-drop) assembly of intelligent service components and 3) The Creation of intelligent and helpful physical things and environments, based on next generation of Internet of Things technology, that targets a vision of powerful functionality based on advanced ICT, supplementing the traditional human interfaces.

thanks!

Finally I would like to forward, from me and all of my colleagues, to sponsors, core partners and supporting partners, a sincere thanks for your support during 2012

CDT is extending human capabilities by viable ICT innovation

CDT’s mission

our mission is to develop and utilize new knowledge for viable ICt innovation with responsible and sustainable impact. We connect academia, industry and society at large in research, design and innovation, as well as knowledge transfer processes.

o u R PART ne R s AR e:

• It users (companies, organisations, individuals)

• It developers (companies, It departments)

• Innovation and research supporting organisations

• policy and decision makers

• academia (Students, teachers, researchers)

CDT o P e RAT ions AR e Rese ARC h, Desi G n

A n D i nnovAT ion in T e GRAT ion:

• projects

• proposals

• experimentation

• Spin-off support

n e T wo R kin G A n D C oll A bo RAT ion

• external (e.g. enoll, neSSI, networks, earMa etc)

• ltu internal, partners (ex meeting with researchers, partner networking and events)

k nowle DG e in T e GRAT ion

A n D C ommuni CAT ion

• Workshops

• Handbooks

• Courses

• Conferences

Fu T u R e F un D in G in F luen C e

• Contribution to policies, roadmaps, lobbying, research agendas

• Future studies

luleå, january 2013, mikael börjeson, ceo

highlights 2012

new Data Center project “Detroit”

- We are Sweden’s hottest region for this new industry sector, we intend to strengthen the industry with top-of-the-line expertise to enable growth in the region, says project manager Michael nilsson at CDt.

the new CDt project Detroit - Data Centre research on It is a research initiative funded by the research Council of norrbotten and ltu the project aims at creating a research initiative that strengthens the selected areas for the data center industry, as well as courses for students and companies to provide the market with the required skills for the benefit of the region. the project is expected to initially strengthen existing courses in the areas of virtualization and Cloud services. CDt is hosting the project in collaboration with ltu and the Department of Computer Science, electrical and Space engineering and in cooperation with regional companies in the data center industry, namely ericsson, Vattenfall, Metria, atea-exait, luleå näringsliv aB and the node pole.

CDt hosts work with a national Iot agenda

the use of Internet of things (Iot) is rapidly increasing throughout the world. Swedish industry at large needs to understand and adopt these opportunities and increase its use of Iot to strengthen its international competitiveness.

this national Iot agenda outlines a strategy for how Sweden is to become a leading nation in a number of industries through joint advanced development and use of Iot this is suggested to be done through the renewal of the industry and the public sector and by increasing the collaboration between industries and focus innovation, research and development in the Iot area. the work is cross-border and aims to create a national cross-industry effort on Iot, by organizations that today has little interaction between each other. the agenda is hosted by Mikael Börjeson, Ceo at CDt and Östen Frånberg at IVa, the royal Swedish academy of engineering Sciences. the agenda is funded by VInnoVa

Winner of ericsson patentable Invention award & Best Student paper award 2012

Congratulations Juwel rana, ph D student at the Department of Computer Science at ltu and one of the co-Winners of ericsson patentable Invention award in 2012, Sweden and Best Student paper award for “Dynamic Media Distribution in ad-Hoc Social networks”, SCa 2012, in Changsha, China.

thank you! It was a group effort; the awards was also given to Johan Kristiansson and associate professor Kåre Synnes at ltu and Stefan Håkansson at ericsson was additionally one of the inventors.

You are now doing your Ph D studies at lTu, collaborating closely with ericsson. Tell us more about it.

We have been collaborating with ericsson research luleå through the GroupMedia phDproject since December 2008. the project has evolved on ranking and analysis of ego-centric social and communication data from social networks, phone-call logs, e-mail logs, and so on.

That has this collaboration looked like?

We have derived new method for forming ad-hoc social networks as well as trustworthy distribution of social media contents outreaching the first-degree contacts in multiple social graphs. We published a couple of articles in international conferences, contributed in eIt/ICt labs foresight reports and won best student paper award and received the patentable invention award from ericsson.

what has the collaboration with CDT and ericsson given you?

CDt’s long-term relationship with ericsson has been very beneficial when it comes to launching the project in the first place as well as defining emerging research areas for future collabora-

tion. I have got the opportunity to learn from the industrial experts by spending a large part of the phD research working at ericsson research, both in luleå and in San Jose, uSa. From ericsson, Mr. Stefan Håkansson and Dr. Johan Kristiansson have been vital in the direction and execution of this research. From ltu, associate professor Kåre Synnes has acted as principal supervisor.

That is the main goal of the research? to explore new services and applications for improving group communication. therefore, we span our research from mining information from communication and online social media services to automatic distribution of social media contents, forming ad-hoc social networks using the existing contacts and shared spaces implementation. to facilitate the whole research, we are building a social recommendation framework called “aggregated Social Graph” service.

That challenges have you faced so far? to involve actual users in the evaluation process. Most users consider their communication logs very sensitive and are therefore not interested in sharing interaction logs, even if it is though a completely controlled environment.

Finally, that is your plans for 2013? I will focus on user trials to evaluate different social strength measurements methods and contextual group formation tools. then it is time to defend my doctoral thesis.

Build your own Mobile app -without prior programming skills

The CDT project SATIN allows users to create their own mobile apps in an easy and accessible way. The project is the result of three years’ work from researchers at Luleå University of Technology and Umeå University together with Ericsson and the regional IT industry.

In December 2009 the project SATIN started with the aim to enable end users to create their own mobile services, without prior programming competence. In the project researchers from Luleå University of Technology and Umeå University join forces together with different industrial actors to solve the issues on technologies for mobile service-creation, user-driven service design and implementation and the future mobile service business ecosystem.

- You can, without prior programming skill, build your own mobile apps using a visual drag-and-drop interface. We believe that it should be as easy to create a mobile app as it is building with lego

blocks. Users want to personalize their cellphone by changing phone skins, ringtone and downloading apps, now we take it a step further and allow them to create their own apps, says JanOlov Johansson, project manager.

The SATIN system offers a variety of ready-made service components such as location data, checklists, social media connections and others. Personalized apps can be built with internet access to connected devices like your garage door and heating system. The SATINsystem provides an open interface for component development and encourages developers to add their own solutions. The SATIN project is funded by

the European Structural Development Fund and co-funded by the County Administrative Board of Norrbotten, the County Council of Norrbotten, the Municipality of Luleå, as well as by Luleå University of Technology and Umeå University.

one example of an app that is developed with the sATin toolkit

the Genderapp is one of the examples how gender equality and diversity perspectives are integrated in the SatIn development work. the app is developed to ensure that project leaders and others involved in the launching of a new project, and throughout the whole project time, take into account the gender perspective.

the Genderapp is an example of a concrete tool that helps the It-businesses and organizations to be more

attractive workplaces for women. the app is developed by paula Wennberg, project manager at CDt take a look at the app, or test it yourself at: satin.cdt.ltu.se

You may also run this app from your desktop but to do so please use any of the web browsers Firefox or Chrome.

n D books

2012

Three

Living Lab methodology handbooks are now available online

Peoples voice

Involving users in the development of interactive systems increases the likelihood that those systems will be useful and usable. The handbook deals with questions such as: How do we mobilize users? What motivates people to take part in the development of an innovation in their spare time?

to read the handbook see: http://issuu.com/cdt-ltu/docs/guidelines_handbok_low?mode=window

Race To scale

FormIT is a methodology for user involvement, created and tested at CDT. In this guide, specialists in user-driven innovation share their knowledge.

http://issuu.com/cdt-ltu/docs/formit_handbok?mode=window

The living lab methodology handbook

This handbook is based on results from the project SmartIES and the process of using and evaluating the FormIT methodology in a Nordic cross-border pilot. The goal has been to make the Living Lab Key Principles and the application visible and easy to use.

http://issuu.com/cdt-ltu/docs/livinglabsmethodologybook_web?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

putting ears on the Internet

A new CDT project that started in October 2012 is the EAR-IT project.

EAR-IT will conduct research regarding intelligent acoustic solutions with the mission to experiment with acoustic sensing in indoor and out-door environments. The purpose is to use sensor technology to improve safety, energy, traffic and much more.

Examples of different usage of audio sensing can be to detect sirens or other specific events in an outdoor environment. These sounds are then used to control traffic and gain control of the emergency scene in order to help an ambulance or the police. Other experiments may be to detect a specific acoustic event , such as the word “Help”. The

event is then used to trigger an action in order to improve safety. The acoustic sensors may also be used to detect the presence in a building. If no presence is detected for a certain period of time, light, heat and air conditioning will be turned off to save energy.

Acoustic sensing is powerful because of the amount of information that it can extrapolate from the environment, but to put sensors to monitor peoples lives is always a challenge, not technologic but ethical. People are always reluctant to the adoption of this new kind of technologies, due to the fear of big brother effects. The EAR-IT project idea is to conduct a large-scale ‘real-life’ experimentation of intelligent acoustics

on two different testbeds: Santander and Hobnet, for supporting high social value applications fostering innovation and sustainability. The project will apply a user-centric approach by people participating throughout the design process to influence the technology being developed. Specific emphasis will be the investigation of national and international legislations of audio sensing in indoor and outdoor environments as well as user-perception of audio-monitoring in the view of privacy and ethics.

winner of It personality of the Year

Congratulations professor Christer Åhlund, working at the Department of Computer Science, electrical and Space engineering at ltu and active in CDt’s research project Sense Smart City, that became this year’s It personality at the Merit awards, a gala organized by Dataföreningen i norr.

what research area you at the moment focused on?

Currently there is a focus on optimization and adaptation in communication infrastructures, for access networks, to scale for a multitude of coexisting traffic patterns generated by us as people, sensors and different machines. this includes machine learning, optimization, decision-making and adaptation/re-configuration. architectures for smart city networks is also a current activity where access networks, security, data-storage and smart city services is addressed.

And in what way are you involved with CDT?

I work very closely with CDt at ltu’s Campus in the city of Skellefteå. at the moment I am the technical coordinator in the Sense Smart City project. I was also involved in starting up the project together with CDt’s Ceo Mikael Börjeson.

Tell us about the sense smart City neC pilot! what is it all about?

the neC pilot involves primarily to measure the energy consumption of various items of equipment in the home. they are looking for ways to effect the behavior to influence and control energy consumption for the long term.

what is the reasons for a Japanese multinational company to choose the small city of skellefteå as their pilot site?

Well, the city of Skellefteå is not only in the forefront of technologies and in ways to find new solutions for smart residential planning. this is

also combined with our research in pervasive and mobile computing systems at the Skellefteå ltu campus as well as the smart city platform. Finally, the municipality of Skellefteå has an nonbureacratic desicion making process, something that makes the cooperation fast and easy. Hence, being small can be a good thing!

how do they plan to use the results?

neC will utilize the technical and sociological experience of this attempt to promote its Smart City vision and to provide a variety of services and applications for a wide range of industries. the collected data on energy consumption and the impact of the web based application on home owners behavior will be analyzed for future cooperation as well as for business opportunities with Skellefteå Municipality and Skellefteå Kraft.

And what does lTu and your research group hope to get out of this collaboration?

First it is really great to have a big multinational company like neC interested in our work, and

it is our hope is that the experiments will prove that our research can be applied in this type of smart products and that it will be used in our future homes. We are also hoping that this pilot will be the beginning of many future collaboration projects, both with neC Japan as well as with neC in europe or other parts of the world. Infact, we are already looking at new possible partnerships for 2013.

Talking about 2013, what is the plans for the sense smart City project then?

We will continue to work with a number of pilots, neC’s being one of them. We are also in the pro-cess of extending the project by finding new collaboration possibilities both with and without neC, eu projects being one of the possible future forms.

picture: Dataföreningen norr

highlights 2012 Global It company neC has chosen Skellefteå and the Sense Smart City project as testbeds

The NEC Corporation, a global Japanese company in the IT and electronics sector, have begun experiments with a Home Energy Management System (HEMS) in collaboration with Skellefteå Kraft and as part of CDT’s “Sense Smart City Project “. The project aims to make Skellefteå a connected city with sensors that measure, monitor, communicate and allocates resources such as electricity, water, transport and waste to areas where it is needed. The tests will measure the total energy consumed by a number of individual households and

some of CDT’s activites during 2012

selected appliances until May 2013. NEC uses its intelligent home gateway product for the collection of information consumption, the user interface for visualization, and their Android tablet “Cloud Communicator LT-B.” Skellefteå Kraft is also an active part of the collaboration as one of Sweden’s fitfh larges energy producers.

Re AD T he ne C PR ess R ele A se he R e: www.nec.com/en/press/201212/global_20121220_02.html

How CDt operates

Our organisational fundament is a contractual partnership between Luleå University of Technology and IT companies. The University is host and legal body for our operations, a board of directors with industrial majority sets our strategic directions and a core management team is responsible for tactical planning and daily operations. Our integrated projects very much depend on collaboration between people from different organisations.

Our means of operation essentially comprises three ingredients:

• Partnership for new business

• Research integration

• Innovation management.

partnership for new business Advanced distance-spanning technology instruments continuous transformation of virtually all types of businesses. Based on regular forecasts, we select business segments, engage partners and jointly form what we call strategic partnership programmes or “Partnerships for New Business”. In context of the partnership programmes, we analyze and define driving scenarios. Based on driving scenarios, we initiate and conduct prototype-driven projects for research, development and test of new products, new services and new business models.

research integration

Are good business innovations driven by needs or emerging technology? Well, arguments are eternal. At CDT we are fine whatever comes first. For certain, it is important that they both are present and can match! The driving scenarios are complex, so our projects rely on our ability to define and integrate a suitable blend of different organisations and competences. We call this “Research Integration” and it includes integration of different research areas. It also includes integration between academic and commercial objectives and perspectives.

innovation management

Ability to generate innovations is one thing. Bringing innovation to new business is another, and CDT do both. Each groundbreaking innovation is unique by definition, and it is inherently difficult, also for the innovators, to fully grasp its nature and potential. Hence, efficient exploitation of each innovation represents a unique management challenge. Our Innovation Management processes rely heavily on our network of senior entrepreneurs.

business Concept Development

Gathering of iPR´s (negotiation)

The CDT process

In Europe there is a tremendous amount of excellent research that never reaches the market. What should we do about it? Well, one answer is to engage in EIT, a European partnership between companies, universities and research centers.

EIT ICT Labs

– A european collaboration to turn research into growth

EIT stands for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. EIT ICT Labs is a new initiative intended to turn Europe into the global leader in ICT innovation. It aims to fulfill this mission by establishing a new type of partnership between leading companies, research centers and universities in Europe. CDT is an affiliated partner to the Stockholm node in the EIT ICT Labs coordinated by KTH. Affiliate Partners are organizations participating in and contributing to the activities of EIT ICT Labs. The mission is to turn Europe into a global leader in ICT Innovation.

Kåre Synnes, associate professor in pervasive and Mobile Computing at ltu and Michael nilsson, Business Manager at CDt, ltu

what is CDT’s role in the eiT iCT labs?

CDt is affiliated partner to the Stockholm node in Kista, Sweden and one of CDt and ltu’s roles in the partnership is to exploit our research. as one of the key-missions of CDt is to create sustainable and viable innovations, eIt ICt labs serves as a perfect platform. We can bring our power in existing projects and provide our expertise in fruitfull collaborations with other eIt partners to help make europe more competitive.

why is eiT iCT labs necessary?

In europe there is a tremendous amount of excellent research that never reaches the market. the mission of eIt ICt labs, and the european partnership collaboration it stands for, is to bring ICt innovations to life and to accelerate the market deployment of research results. europe needs to become stronger in research exploitation and to valorize on existing research investments to boost economic impact and to bring research values to people in europe as well as world-wide. Since eIt is very much about innovation and entrepreneurship, this is the tool to create more products, services and companies and overall growth in europe.

what can participating companies get out of this?

the main benefit for companies is the exchange of knowledge with european researchers to boost their business as well as getting access to top ICt students. eIt ICt labs can also serve as a platform for the creation of strategic partnership with other industrial actors to reach a european and worldwide market together.

what work has been done so fare by CDT within the eiT iCT labs?

Students, researchers and business developers are at the moment working together in three different areas, namely:

• Digital cities of the future –citizens involvement via ICt and solutions for improved safety and quality of life in cities

• networked technology for Future media –connectivity solutions for the big-data boom and the development of new Iot services.

• Internet enabled human activities – augmented interaction and information services

In these collaborations mainly our projects SatIn and Sense Smart City (see www.satinproject. eu and www.sensesmartcity.org ) were boosted by different joint activities such as piloting, workshops and foresight studies. one example can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Ylu3mVuCKaa

how long will this partnership affiliation last?

eIt ICt labs is an initiative of the european union as a long-term investment to drive european leadership in ICt Innovation. In europe there are two Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KIC´s) in Climate and energy. In next work programme “Horizon 2020” we foresaw these KIC´s to be key-pillars in the european innovation ecosystem. ltu is also involved as a leader in creating a KIC in raw Materials for the next KIC-wave based on the good experience of eIt ICt labs.

Finally, what different eiT activities have been done during 2012?

CDts activates have mainly been focused to three divers areas: HCI technologies for the digital cities, the Creation of future research roadmaps and Multimodal interfaces. In the HCI technologies for the digital cities the SatIn project was exploited in new business areas such as Wellbeing and Internet of things. In the Creation of future research roadmaps we concentrated on the areas of future of media and related network solutions. and finally in the Multimodal interfaces– the SatIn project was exploited and integrated with different additional components from other partners such as search engine functionality. the aim was to boost the co-production of new apI´s for mobile-service co-creation. In addition, the initial CDt membership in eIt ICt labs opened up for other research groups at ltu participating in different thematic areas as Intelligent mobility and transport system and Health and wellbeing, well in line with the ltu strategic agenda. In total the eIt investments in ltu´s project-portfolio 2012 reached 4 MSeK.

research areas

World class research at Luleå University of Technology is the core for our operation. Consequently, an important part of CDT´s mission is to support the strong university research environments.

Today, we collaborate actively with six different areas of research; Accounting and Control, Dependable Communication and Computation, Social Informatics, Signal Processing, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Gender and Technology and Industrial Work Environment.

accounting and control

The discipline Accounting and control is designed to meet tomorrow’s demands on the relationship between business and technology in both teaching and research.

Within the discipline, the strategic area of “Management of sustainable business and resources” aims at conducting both applied and theoretical international research relevant to multiple industries; which may include: Resource allocation/efficiency, Open innovation and Innovation management, Risk management, Investment, Financing, Management control, Capital efficiency, Corporate communication, Growth enhancement, Total shareholder return and Business model management. At Accounting and control a major part of the research aims to increase the understanding of the interaction and cooperation between the tactical, operational and strategic levels of the firm and its relations to performance in for instance terms of innovation and development of products/services, markets and processes and achieving sustainable growth and profitability. Accounting and control

work in many multidisciplinary research projects within different industries and organizations in the interception between business and technology.

C on TACT: Jeaneth Johansson, associate professor e-mail: Jeaneth.Johansson@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)920 49 23 64

dependable communication and computation

The research in Dependable Communication and Computation group focuses on an integrated development of network architectures, resource efficient algorithms, and programming paradigms for enabling an applicationtailored design of dependable communication and computation systems.

The research is conducted along three main lines: Dependable network architectures, resource efficient algorithms and dependable software engineering. In the area of Dependable network architectures the group’s research focuses on creating a systematic framework for engineering of dependable communication systems where the dependability processes are assessed already at the design stage.

In the area of Resource efficient algorithms the group’s research focuses on constructing fast and memory efficient algorithms and programs. Our current work concerns mainly how to organize and search large data sets and geometry objects. Finally the group’s research in the area of dependable software engineering is mainly concerned with development programming languages that allow convenient programming with defined event-driven components. This programming language should work on platforms that range from desktop clusters to tiny embedded devices.

C on TACT:

evgeny osipov, associate professor e-mail: evgeny.osipov@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)920 49 15 78

gender and technology

Gender & Technology is a research topic under the Department of Work Science at the Department of Economics, Technology and Society.

Our research and education focus on gender perspective of regional development, technological development, innovation, entrepreneurship and communications in rural areas. We use an interactive research approach in close collaboration between researchers and the community.

C on TACT: Maria udén, associate professor e-mail: maria.uden@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)920-49 30 23

industrial work enviroment

We have a number of projects that all share a gender research perspective, for example research around gender and work organisation, gender and technology and women’s work and their situation in the labour market and at companies.

Our research is for example running a number of projects in heavy process industries (paper and pulp, steel and mining) and the engineering industry. But we also have many research projects in health care and medical treatment, upper secondary school, and vocational education. Some projects have a theoretical foundation while others are more applied.

C on TACT:

Ylva Fältholm, professor

e-mail: ylva.faltholm@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)920-49 14 08

mobile and pervasive computing

Pervasive and mobile computing address distributed systems and mobile networks, which enable mobility, ubiquity and interactivity of computers, data, software and users.

Pervasive computing is based on that technology is moving beyond the personal computer to everyday devices with embedded technology and connectivity as computing devices become progressively smaller and more powerful. Pervasive computing goes beyond the realm of personal computers: it is the idea that almost any device, from

clothing to tools to appliances to cars to homes to the human body to your coffee mug, can be imbedded with chips to connect the device to an infinite network of other devices.

Mobile computing enables continuous Internet access of computing devices (laptops, smart phones sensors etc.) via a multitude of access networks with maintained service availability. Mobility is enabled by devices connecting to access technologies that scales for a service. Further, software may be moving to be executed on the most efficient device present, adapting to its environment.

Con TACT:

Christer Åhlund, professor

e-mail: chister.ahlund@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)910 585331

social informatics

Social Informatics is an interdisciplinary subject that studies the relation between information and communication technology (ICT), humans, organisations, and society. We focus on service development in relation to technical platforms and emphasise the importance of participation of different stakeholders. Central areas for the subject are design processes, use situations, open innovation, and Living Labs.

C on TACT:

Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, professor

e-mail: Birgitta.Bergvall-Kareborn@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)920 49 13 27

signal processing

Sweden’s first professor’s chair in Signal Processing was established at Luleå University of Technology in 1988.

Since then, ten Ph.D. degrees have been awarded. The present research group includes four senior researchers and several Ph.D. Students. The research theme at the division is the development of signal processing algorithms based on stochastic models. Today focus of research is on inverse problems in industrial measurement technology applications, radio communications in harsh environments, and industrial image analysis.

Con TACT:

Johan Carlson, professor

e-mail: johan.carlson@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)920 49 25 17

Research with background from Luleå University of Technology have frequently been the creator of first-class innovation in information and communication technology. Some of these innovations have become useful to large industries like Ericsson, ABB, LKAB and SSAB, and some constitute the base of an ever growing number of spin-off companies.

Results Accumulated

–The creation of society growth

CDT supports and finances the commercialization process of research innovations. A powerful way to do this is the generation of commercial spin-off companies. Since start, CDT has been involved in the forming of 12 spin-off companies based on academic research from Luleå University of Technology. The creation of these companies is beneficial to local economic development in the region.

Actegra – a design, product development and manufacturing company of electronic equipment for wireless communications and positioning. the concept behind the company arose in year 2009. In 2011, the collaborations with the CDt project “Sense Smart City”, was one of the factors that

led to that the company expanded its activities and registered as a limited liability company. www.actegra.se

iGW is a company focusing on a developing infrastructure for collection, management and visualization of large amounts of data. www.igw.se

Oricane AB – the target customers of the company are vendors of software based network equipment, such as routers and firewalls, as well as vendors of custom hardware classification engines for high-end network equipment, 2006. www.oricane.se

Parnes Labs – realizes dreams in the realm of development for the Web, android, iphone/ipad and just about anything related to the Internet! www.parnes.com/labs

KYAB – KYaBs business idea is to assist house owners to reduce their energy consumption by combining measurement, visualisation and advise. www.kyab.se

Adela Innovation AB – a company developing products and services within area of enabling people to receive and listen to speech newspapers, 2008. www.adela.nu

Rubico AB – a company targeting the Swedish market for digital audio newspaper receivers/ recorders, 2004. www.rubico.se

Operax AB – operax develops key technology for data and telecommunication over Internet and Intranet within fixed and mobile systems, 2000. www.operax.com

Internet Bay – a commercial cluster that supports its members’ growth strategies in distancespanning and mobile applications, 1999. www.internetbay.se

Marratech AB – an Internet company developing products and services, which facilitate meetings between people on Internet, so called e-meetings, 1998. www.marratech.com

Effnet AB – a developer of Internet protocol (Ip) header compression technologies, 1997. www.effnet.com

IT Norrbotten AB – a regional development company with the objective to create economical growth and develop work and industry in norrbotten, 1996. www.itnorrbotten.se

Results

– The key performance indicators

Moreover, our research groups at Luleå University of Technology, is a key asset of our activities. To secure continuous world class innovations, academical achievements are of great importance to us. Consequently, we measure the number of publications, reports, MSc degrees, Doctoral degrees as well as how many Licentiate degrees that receives their hats each year.

post-Graduate Degrees accumulated

Associate Professors

Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn

Jeaneth Johansson

James p leBlanc

anita Mirijamdotter

peter parnes

Dick Schefström

Mikael Wiberg

Doctors

ulf Bodin

Mikael Degermark

Mikael Drugge

Josef Hallberg

Marita Holst

Johan Karlsson

Johan Kristiansson

lars-Åke larzon

anders lindgren

John lindström

peter parnes

roland parviainen

thomas pederson

Dick Schefström

olov Schelén

Jeremiah Scholl

Frank Sjöberg

anna Ståhlbröst

Mikael Sundström

Kåre Synnes

Jan-Jaap van de Beek per Ödling

Dan Johansson received his licentiate degree in Mobile Systems, in year 2012.

Our aim is not only to identify highly innovative and novel research findings with technical and commercial potential. We also need to export these ideas to society and companies by creating sustainable business innovation. As a result, we measure the number of concepts, prototypes, patents, products, services and spin-offs, our operations generate each year.

CDt in figures 2010-2012

Licentiates

ulf Bodin

Mikael Drugge

Stefan elf

pierre Fransson

Mats Folke

Josef Hallberg

Dan Johansson

andreas Jonsson

Johan Karlsson

Johan Kristiansson

lars-Åke larzon

anders lindgren

Marcus nilsson

tomas nilsson

richard nilsson

Johan nykvist

Helena oskarsson

roland parviainen

laurynas riliskis

Jeremiah Scholl

Martin Sehlstedt

Frank Sjöberg

anna Ståhlbröst

Kåre Synnes

Matthias Wahlqvist

ulrika Wiss

Daniel Granlund

robert Granlund

Awards business Partner benefits of sense smart City

explizit

the sense smart city project and Skellefteå Municipality has for a test group created an “e-health station” to examine the demands of a wider public regarding the opportunity to quickly and easily get their general health checked without being sick or having to make an appointment at a health center or hospital. Within this project the company explizit has products for the control of the health status that in a new way uses the internet connected measuring instruments.

Actegra

actegra have through the project Sense Smart City given access to a network of the public sector, universities and private companies that the innovation system in Skellefteå operate together with. new product ideas and collaborations have been created and actegra has also been involved in the development of prototypes that has led to a marketable product in the monitoring of sewage.

hello Future

Hello Future is together with the project Sense Smart City participating in the development of an experimental setup where Smart City information to citizens are being projected onto a display window in the city center in the hope that this both will benefit “the smart city” concept as well as it can in itself lead to a marketable communication concepts.

martinsons träbroar

the company Martinsons träbroar (Martin’s wooden bridges) had the opportunity through a collaboration between Wood technology and projects Sense Smart City to evaluate different data on a newly built and sensor equipped bridge in Skellefteå. the bridge itself is Sweden’s longest suspension bridge built of wood.

ericsson Patentable invention Award

award received by ph D student Juwel rana, ltu, associate professor Kåre Synnes, ltu and Stefan Håkansson and Johan Kristiansson at ericsson in 2012, Sweden.

iT Personality of the Year

Dataföreningen i norr, awarded professor Christer Åhlund “It personality of the year 2012”, in Skellefteå, Sweden.

best student Paper Award

the International Conference on Social Computing and its applications awarded Juwel rana, Kåre Synnes and Johan Kristiansson “Best Student paper award”, in november 2012, in Xiangtan, China.

best Paper

Best paper awarded laurynas riliskis and evgeny osipov for “analysis of the adaptive threshold vehicle detection algorithm applied to traffic vibrations” at Baltic Conference on Future Internet Communications, riga, in 2011.

best idea

awarded the research project Sense Smart City at the european summit on the future of Internet in luxembourg, 2011.

iT organization of the Year

awarded CDt in year 2011 from the It society in norrbotten, Sweden.

Chester Carlson Prize nomination

Finalist Mikael Sundström in 2009 by IVa for efficient compression, storage and retrieval of information.

best Paper nomination

awarded Bigitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, Marita Holst and anna Ståhlbröst for “Concept Design with a living lab approach at HICSS-42 at Big Island, Hawaii, in 2009.

sbAPA Award

received by Kimmo Yliniemi (KYaB) in 2008. mobile Technology of the Year 2008 guldmobilen awarded oricane in 2008.

The Competence Gala´s

Great honorary Prize

Shared by Östen Mäkitalo and anton abele in 2008.

european Grand ict Prize finalist awarded operax aB in year 2007 by the european Commission.

best Presentation Award

awarded Mikael Sundström at Itechpartner Forum in porto, portugal, in 2007.

best Paper

awarded Christer Åhlund, robert Brännström, Karl andersson, and Örjan tjernström for ”Multimedia Flow Mobility in Heterogeneous networks using Multihomed Mobile Ipv6” at the 4th International Conference on advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2006. best new-establishment in luleå rubico aB, a CDt-offspring, awarded for the best newestablishment in luleå in 2006.

Competetive Regions best Practice 3 VItal project selected for presentation in Magdeburg, Germany, 2005.

best student Paper

awarded anna Hedman, David Carr, Hans nässla in year 2004 for “Browsing thumbnails: a comparison of three techniques” by ItI2004 in Croatia.

ericsson inventor of the Year

awarded Krister Svanbro at ericsson in year 2001 for Headercompression by ericsson.

no 1 swedish Research Project

awarded rocco project in 2000 by magazine ny teknik.

no 1 swedish Researcher “Chester Carlson Prize”

awarded Mikael Degermark in year 2000 for “high performance routing” by IVa european Grand isT Prize finalist awarded Marratech aB in year 2000 in nice by the european Commission.

best Paper

awarded Mikael Degermark in year 2000 for “high performance routing” by aCM/SIGCoM.

european Grand isT Prize (1st) awarded effnet aB in year 1999 in Helsinki by the european Commission.

1st Prize in swedish innovation Cup 1998: Brodnik/Carlsson/Degermark/pink – the luleå algorithm

DESIGN

CDT´s objective is not to become the biggest research and innovation center, but rather to generate top performance outcome.

To achieve this, our interdisciplinary Research, Design and Innovation activities are organized in a number of Projects, acting as the basis for our priorities.

our Research, Design and innovation Projects

Research, Design and Innovation (RDI) is a notion of CDT’s empiric experience from our drive towards world class innovation efficiency. For us, RDI expresses fundamental pillars for innovation. R as in research and stands for our Programmes interdisciplinary research areas of growing importance. D means professional Design. This is about how to carefully shape concepts and prototypes, as preparation for exploitation. When looking at our competitors, we often observe that professional design still seems severely underestimated, as key factor for innovation efficiency. The letter I stand for Innovation management and this is about how to generate values from designed research results. Here, it is of profound importance to understand what attributes are uniquely characterizing a specific research target and result. Based on this, a potential exploitation value is estimated and initial market and customer goals are defined. Finally, the innovation process is tailored and facilitated towards target.

The three letters viewed together, means that research, design and innovation activities are closely integrated rather than sequential with in-between handovers. Full research, design and innovation management integration are very challenging to achieve, but when managed successfully, it minimizes knowledge transfer losses and generates faster, cheaper and more market valid innovation results. Here, one particular challenge is worth highlighting. This is that high potential innovations are inherently different. Different from what anyone have thought, seen or done before. A high potential innovation may even define its own new market. For exactly this reason, we rely more on our RDI management capability, than we rely on following pre-defined standardized processes. An innovation with high potential deserves to be treated in a smartly tailored and pragmatic RDI process.

If you want to create attractive and competitive IT innovations which both men and women are willing to use in their daily life, you need to involve both men and women, young and old, in the development work. CDT’s interest is to incorporate the vision of gender, equality and diversity in all its actions.

e xcellence in innovation through gender equality

One of CDT’s roles is to initiate and conduct projects where gender equality and diversity are an integrated part of the project activities in order to improve the development and innovation process of new services and products. The gender equality and diversity activities at

CDT are carried out in close collaboration with gender researchers at Luleå University of Technology. In our partnership driven environment users are our collaborators when creating new services together with researchers and business professionals. To be truly effec-

tive, the development of information and communication technology, and the ICT sector, need to integrate diversity. This is not only a gender and diversity issue, but an economic necessity.

Diversity increases &Creativity innovation

In order to increase equality and diversity in the IT sector we need to look at our own values and actions. The Gender and Diversity Toolbox, a result of the SATIN project, offers several tools and methods to address and critically reflect on gender and diversity issues.

This toolbox is designed to promote a more gender-aware IT sector but can also be used in organizational development in other contexts.

The toolbox, available on www.gdtoolbox.eu, gives you access to tools, methods and working models when assuring the quality of gender mainstreaming and diversity management of a project.

The toolbox is still under development and the development work started in the SATIN project www.satinproject. se together with project participants and gender scientists. Workshops and seminars to increase the gender-awareness of the participants were organized in collaboration with other gender equality projects at Luleå University of Technology and Umeå University.

Gender scientists and gender consultants as process leaders and the establishment of the Gender and Diversity Ambassadors’ group have been of great importance when trying to achieve sustainable results.

Genovate

If you miss half of the population as a recruitment base, it’s a problem

A new project was approved by the European Commission in August 2012 involving Luleå university of technology and six other European universities.

The aim of the project GENOVATE is to ensure equal opportunities for women and men by encouraging a more gender-aware management in research and scientific decision-making bodies.

GENOVATE is a four-year action-research project based on the promotion of a Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP) in each partner university.

- At LTU, we have worked a long time with gender issues in academia and now we focus on information technology (IT), says professor Ylva Fältholm. How do we work in recruitment and promotion processes, how do we assess applications? At LTU 17 percent of the professors are women. Ten years ago it was 4-5 percent. It has increased, but slowly, says Ylva Fältholm.

-The Swedish IT sector lacking women is crucial for the further development of IT. For CDT it is important to promote women’s presence in IT, both in academia and industry, as gender diversity is a key driver of innovation, says Paula Wennberg, the national project co-ordinator of GENOVATE.

For more information see www. genovate.eu or contact paula Wennberg e-mail: paula.wennberg@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70-247 54 21

Our Energy Projects

-helping europe to reduce energy consumption

The EU’s strategy for tackling climate change focuses on three targets for 2020: slashing greenhouse emissions by 20%, drawing 20% of energy from renewable sources and cutting energy use by 20%. The EU is on track for the emissions and renewables goals, but has fallen behind on reducing energy use. If nothing is done, the EU will only achieve half of the reductions. With six ongoing energy projects as well as being member of the Swedish Smartgrids council, CDT is doing its share to help achieve the EU goals!

siTe – smart iT for energy saving

The project focuses on raising energy awareness and savings at schools.

In a two year project CDt will work together with a local school (tunaskolan, luleå) to raise awareness about energy and about energy savings. the students will contribute on how to save energy by workshops and social media. through installed equipment (sensors and displays) they can in real-time see their energy consumption. through the workshops and practical tests they will raise their energy awareness. the project is financed by energimyndigheten (Swedish energy agency).

C on TACT:

arne Gylling

e-mail: arne.gylling@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)70 530 33 39

swedish smartgrid.se

CDT with project manager Arne Gylling is a member of the “swedishsmartGrid.se” group, hosted by the ministry of enterprise, energy and Communications in sweden (näringsdepartementet).

the goal is that through increased collaboration, dissemination of knowledge, and through an action plan, contribute to clear market rules in the area, enhanced customer influence, develop favorable conditions for smart grids in Sweden to enhance the possibilities of making the smart grid area a Swedish growth industry. www.swedishsmartgrid.se

C on TACT: arne Gylling

e-mail: arne.gylling@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 530 33 39

smart individual energy savers (smarties)

smarties is an energy saving project focusing on solutions in homes and transportations with the objective to innovate on technical energy solutions that are tested in real life settings.

CDt has a role as leader of the creation of a theoretical framework for living lab Cases and living lab operations. the SmartIeS co-partners include energy solutions companies, It companies, design companies and cities from all participating countries. the approach used for this project is the living lab methodology FormIt using a living lab methodology means that we are involving the end users in the whole process.

During 2012 end-users have participated in small cross-border pilot tests of energy saving It based solutions. an indicator framework for living lab operations showing proof of concept of the living lab approach has been developed and a handbook on living lab Methodology has been developed and published.

www.smarties.is

C on TACT: Marita Holst

e-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

smART CAmPus

smART CAmPus is an energy saving project that targets university campus areas. The project aims to develop services and applications supported by a data gathering platform that integrates real time information systems and intelligent energy management systems.

this integration drives a bidirectional learning process such that both the user and the building learn how to interact with each other in a more energy efficient way. this project targets public buildings, located in universities, through the use of services enabled by ICt. In particular, by supporting the user behavior transformation through the interaction between the user and the building’s intelligent energy management system. Furthermore the eco-conscious educated user will be empowered with real time information and decision making guidance that will enable and motivate the interaction, leading to energy efficiency. SMart CaMpuS expects an impact of substantial energy Savings up to 20% of total saving, being up to 15% the result of consumer behaviour transformation.

www.greensmartcampus.org

Jan-olov Johansson

e-mail: jan-olov.johansson@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)7 619 22 31

Apollon

Cross-border activity on methods for behavioural changes in energy consumption.

the overall purpose with this case is to establish an apollon methodology for user-behavioural changes measurement and an inventory of the best practices on behaviour change possibilities with respect to energy savings across different countries.

the experiment have exchanged best-practices from local and cross-border pilots on user-behavioural changes mechanisms and measurements. partners have documented and shared their experiences in measuring behavioural changes among end-users when experimenting with new ICt solutions from energy saving. the local experiments were used for expert knowledge exchange when sharing approach and methods.

www.apollon-pilot.eu

C on TACT: Marita Holst

e-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

Cassandra

The aim of the project is to develop an open source platform for modeling of energy consumption patterns and consumer response to targeted incentives as a support for decisions and planning of energy services.

three pilots will run to empower the Cassandra platform development. the project main outcomes will be the aggregation methodology and the framework of key performance indicators for scenario assessment, as well as an expandable software platform that provide different energy stakeholders with the ability to model the energy market, in order to assess scenarios for their own purposes.

www.cassandra-fp7.eu/

C on TACT: Marita Holst

e-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

wattalyst

wattalyst is short for wATT analyst and aims to understand in what context and how consumers could reduce and shift their demand in time.

this could for example be to identifying the loads (e.g. washing machines, electric vehicles) that can be shifted and those that cannot; and identifying the loads that are reduced (e.g. cooling, heating) and those that are not are all user/house-hold specific and varies based on the need of the hour. another goal of Wattalyst is to understand effective methods of conveying the Dr signals to the users. In particular, the research focus on interface design; communication means (in-house displays, SMS messages), message emphasis (environmental, economical) and customized messages based on gender, age and profile.

http://www.wattalyst.org

C on TACT: Mikael Börjeson

e-mail: mikael.borjeson@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)75 29 91 20

Experimenting with users the Botnia Living Lab way

Living Labs are experimentation environments in which technology is given shape in real life contexts and in which end-users are considered co-producers. As a foundation of Living Lab operations there are five key principles to follow:

Value/Influence/Sustainability/Openness/Realism

botnia living lab supporting the tefpol development – an example

Researchers in Poland have been developing a prototype for an augmented reality videoconferencing solution as a new approach to remote teaching. Botnia Living Lab supported them to capture the user response to the TEFPOL solution the Living Lab way. To do so, a lesson of biology was organised, where the teacher from Poznan in Poland connected with students located in the Norrskenet school in the Swedish town of Luleå using the TEFPOL prototype. After the lesson, employees of Botnia Living Lab interviewed both the students and the teacher using previously prepared questionnaires in order to collect data concerning Quality of Experience. This data was to answer questions related to the applicability of the TEFPOL system in a remote teaching scenario and the influence of different technical parameters on user

experience. The test resulted in useful insights for further improvements of the TEFPOL solution.

This Living Lab supported activity included all five key-principles listed above: Value – new insights achieved for researchers, users achieved new knowledge Influence – the users (teachers) were influencing the trial set-up to fulfill values for them, their insights were influencing further improvements of the TEFPOL solution

Sustainability – The TEFPOL solution is created to be used in reality Openness – results from the evaluation has been communicated and is available to the public

Realism – the test was a real biology lesson in the reality of a school environment

v i D eo: tv.pionier.net.pl/Default.aspx?id=1831

Contact; annika Sällström e-mail: annika.sallstrom@ltu.se phone: + 46 (0)70 373 33 10

– in practice

added value for partners offered by botnia living lab

• to speed up the innovation process from idea to market launch by end-user involvement

• to co-create, tap into and improve innovative ideas and concepts

• to investigate and create new business opportunities. By involving end-users in the early phases of the service development lifecycle our research has shown that the time for development from idea to beta-trial can be shortened by at least 50%.

available services

Botnia living lab offers the evaluation and testing of future internet-based ideas, concepts, and prototypes with end-users. By end-users is meant individuals using It-based services in different ways and situations in their daily lives.

end-users Boosting Future Internet Development

Botnia living lab is an environment hosted by CDt for human-centric research, and the development and innovation of new ICt-based services.

Botnia started in 2000 and has matured from a test-bed to a real-life laboratory, powered by more than 6000 co-creative pilot users. today Botnia is a world-leading environment for user-centric research, design and innovation (rDI), instrumented

such as: mobile marketing, traffic information, energy saving, sports and culture, e-democracy and security. the Botnia living lab is constantly being developed further in close cooperation with end-users and stakeholders as well as researchers at luleå university of technology. one good example of Botnia’s assets, which has resulted from this collaboration, is the ”Form-It methodology”. real user understanding m M

by methods, tools and experts and a web-portal (www. testplats.com), for interaction with user groups. With its focus on advanced It services and products, Botnia’s strategy is to be independent from (geographically) fixed assets and essentially, service experimentation relying on readily available hardware and communication infrastructure. Botnia’s track record includes application areas

botnia living lab

one key actor and stakeholder of Botnia living lab are SMe´s both in the region and outside to strengthen their innovation power.

botnia living lab benefitting SMe´s

services offered for sme´s are:

• support for the SMe´s innovation process by end-user engagement and research expertise in user evaluation and testing

• partnership with relevant stakeholders for the innovation process

Achived results by the sme´s are among others:

• better products

• increased knowledge about the user involvement in innovation processes

• strengthened development capacity by access to other types of competence in the innovation process than they have “in-house”

• definition of customer target groups

sme´s that have been engaged in botnia living lab activities since our start are among others: neava, KYaB, norran, Mobizoft, unimob, Intime, Mobilaris, IsMobile, Behaviosec, Skygd, luleå energi, Homeautomation europe, ISa, regisoft, Gordion, SQS and Bamboo Mediacasting.

Are you an sme and want to know more about what botnia living lab have to offer: Welcome to contact annika Sällström, Manager Botnia living lab. e-mail: annika.sallstrom@ltu.se

Collaboration & networks

– Complementary skills drive innovation

One of the most important factors in creating sustainable business innovation is a successful blend of needs, thoughts, views, competences and cultures. By forming teams, consisting of a variety of skills and knowledge, the process to transfer an innovation towards a thriving business is facilitated.

Our partners come from different organizations and working cultures, located at different geographical sites. An extensive development and usage of advanced systems for electronic meetings and distributed teamwork, enables the CDT people to collaborate closely together in spite of this. Our goal is to continuously improve CDT as a preferred R&D meeting place. Therefore, we have for several years invested in building long-term alliances

with selected national and international scientific communities as well as business partners. Today, we consider our network one of our strongest assets, including more than 70 companies, organisations and research centres.

CDT offers an integrated environment for efficient cross-border collaboration between university, commercial companies, government and end users.

Partnerships

Center for knowledge and innovation Research, CkiR, Finland

Conducts interdisciplinary research on organization, management, and social sciences, as well as on individual and contextual perception, cognition and emotion. ckir.alto.fi

esoCe neT, italy

a non-profit organisation, focusing on Concurrent enterprising and user Driven open Innovation, living labs. www.esoce.net

iminds, belgium

an independent research institute founded by the Flemish government to stimulate ICt innovation by offering companies and organizations active support in research and development. http://www.iminds.be

Alfamicro, Portugal

a research, engineering and consultancy firm extracting knowledge from large amounts of distributed data to create tools with the objective of supporting the decision making processes of companies. www.alfamicro.pt

ericsson

a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and services to mobile and fixed network operators. www.ericsson.com/

Center for Computing and Communication Technologies, TZi, Germany a research center dealing with innovative information- and communication technologies and their transfer into products and services. www.tzi.de/

kYAb sweDen Ab, sweden

a SMe that helps property owners to reduce their energy consumption by combining measurement, visualization and counseling with the user in focus.

We have for years collaborated with CDT in different types of projects as both a partner and a subcontractor. They are skilled and professional experts in their specific fields. I heartily recom mend companies that have development needs and would like to collaborate with the University to contact CDT.

– kimmo yliniemi, ceo, kyab

Core Partners

business Partners

Public sector partners

non-profit organisations institutes sponsors

Behaviourmetrics aB

alteC Software aB

a9 consulting tecnalia research and Innovation

Management in Motion aB

easy Global Market Mageve Metria

Skellefteå Kraft

Sap CodeMill aB

telia Sonera Hello Future

Data Ductus eistec

lKtF KYaB

lisboa e-nova

luleå energy

Geveko

IsMobile

aspling Konsult aB

WuXI SMart SenSInG StarS archeometria

i T R ese ARC h, D esi G n A n D innovAT ion PART ne R s

luleå university of technology

CiP • County Administrative board in norrbotten (länsstyrelsen) • ericsson Ab eu seventh Framework Programme • eu structural Fund Programme • Geveko • interreg 4A nord • interreg ivb baltic sea lkAb • nll norrbotten County Council • norrbottens forskningsråd • Region västerbotten • skellefteå municipality swedish Agency for economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket) • swedish energy Agency (energimyndigheten) swedish Governmental Agency for innovation system (vinnovA) • The swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) • umeå university umeå university pan european laboratory Infrastructure Implementation (pII)

luleå university of Technology, ericsson

the nordic transport Workers’ Federation (ntF)

Mandat International nordic innovation center

athens university of economics and Business,

ecole polytechnique Federale De lausanne

Instituto Superior técnico lisboa

rWtH aachen university

Sunrise Valley Science and technology park

oulu university

unInoVa Institute

Wireless trondheim living lab, norway

Iceland living lab, Iceland Innovation Centre Iceland

Sociedade portuguesa de Inovação the node pole

engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.a lIKta

oulu City

Metropolia test Site Sweden

teknikens Hus plan Sju

Skellefteå Municipality

universidad de Cantabria

InrIa

InrIa erasmus resaerch Institute of Management tZI universität Bremen riga technical university IBBt up8 Vilnius university tampere university of technology university of Geneva Visoriai Information technology park, lithuania

norwegian university of Science and technology

ritaharju Community Center (City of oulu) the Ministry of economics and ports

Municipality of technical Management

Megeve tourisme

South Denmark european office

aurorum Business Incubator, luleå

Fraunhofer

FoKuS Hanze university of applied Sciences, IBS universitat politecnica de Catalunya technische universitaet Braunschweig

Fundação

Knowledge lab - university of Southern Denmark adam Mickiewicz university Foundation poznan Supercomputing and networking Center aalto university

Finances

CDT’s objective is not to be profitable. Nonetheless, a strong financial position helps us achieve our goals by being able to better support the projects we are involved in.

CDT is mainly financed by institutional sources, both nationally and internationally. This is for example EU framework programs and structural funds, along with national and regional governments.

The final contribution from our core partner represent a minor part of the funding sources.

CDT income 2012 (sek ´000)

CDt Income including the in-kind contribution of the partners and transfer of eu funds to the partners.

Finances

At CDT, we do not only work with the future, but rather “in” it. We have the skill to help you to analyze and detect emerging fields of new business opportunities or to understand which technologies to invest in. Our role is to support our partners and customers in embracing new opportunities, encounter risks and fully understand their own transformation potential.

how to become a CDT

business partner

Companies perception of the future is constantly moving in complex and shifting patterns, and they face many challenges and hurdles when trying to get and maintain a good enough position in it.

what we can offer

CDT offers an integrated environment of people, infrastructure, tools, processes and services for research, development and test. Our role is to support our partners and customers in embracing new opportunities, encounter risks and fully understand their own transformation potential. One of our specialities is to generate and exploit groundbreaking innovations with and for our partners. Innovations may be in shape

of new processes, new solutions, new products and new business. Occasionally we create new offspring companies for exploitation of innovations of perceived high market potential.

how to start

Becoming a CDT partner is easy: We meet, walk through our programmes and define some initial objectives. Furthermore, we run some initial collaborative activities. After a typical period of 3-6 months we have a new meeting where we exchange our analysis of experiences from the collaboration. Provided experiences are mutually positive, we make a principal agreement that targets a sustainable continuation of our collaboration – and off we go!

agreements and ipr

The core partner joint venture is based on a General Agreement defining the overall terms and policies of collaboration such as confidentiality and intellectual property rights. Collaboration between project partners in a specific project is based on a Project Agreement, defining terms such as project objectives, background information, budget and financial commitments.

Agreement terms are deliberately shaped to promote joint result exploitation and swift commercialisation process.

Mikael Börjeson e-mail: Mikael.Borjeson@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 529 91 20

sponsors & partners m M

CDt’s power essentially comes from our partners and the way we collaborate with our partners. partners can be divided into four main categories:

Projects

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where ideas transfer into real world applications

One of CDT´s main roles is to initiate and to coordinate long term research, design and innovation projects. Here, scientific curiosity is paired with an intense collaboration between industry and society. During a projects, key assets are created, such as architectures, new technologies, methods and models as well as analysis of needs, market and usability aspects. The advances may be based on any combination or blend of new technology, identified needs, new business principles or emerging market opportunities.

In most of our projects, research from LTU is combined with real world applications. If the project turns out to be very successful, the results can lead to innovations in forms such as products, services, prototypes or even business concepts.

Apollon

Apollon conducts cross-border living labs pilots aimed in particular on how to harmonise methodologies and tools for cross-border living lab projects and to create sustainable crossborder domain-specific living lab networks.

the project consists of cross-border living lab experiments in the Homecare and Independent living, energy efficiency, eManufacturing and eparticipation domains. the cross-border test and experiments with products and services from SMes across europe have been supported by large industrial companies, academic centres and other living lab stakeholders. CDt contribute in the energy efficiency pilot as well as in the development of KpIs and methods for cross-border collaboration and networking. a local pilot test has been conducted in 20 households and the results show that an average energy saving on 9% was reached.

www.apollon-pilot.eu

PR o J e CT P e R io D : november 2009 - May 2012

C on TACT:

Marita Holst

e-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

bonita

The aim of the bonita project was to form a strong european cluster for transfer of scientific knowledge within the baltic sea Region to develop mechanisms for turning research into sustainable regional values.

the project included 14 partner from 10 regions in 10 european countries with the goal to form a common european organization for scientific transfer of technology. Within the project innovation transfer models throughout the Baltic Sea region was evaluated in order to set up an enhanced transfer model. Main achievements by the project was the establishment and launch of the Bonita Showroom concept and the standardization of an enhanced Innovation and technology transfer model within the SpICe user Group who is a leadership forum for users of ISo/IeC 15504 and study visits among partners for upgrading capacities of staff in charge of implementing the enhanced transfer model

www.bonita-project.eu

PR o J e CT P e R io D : august 2009 - January 2012

C on TACT: annika Sällström

e-mail: annika.sallstrom@ltu.se phone: + 46 (0)70 373 33 10

Cassandra

www.cassandra-fp7.eu/

P R o J e CT P e R io D : november 2011 - april 2014

C on TACT: Marita Holst

e-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

Cobs – Conveyor belt supervision

The Cobs project will develop and launch a supervision system which will increase the availability and performance of conveyor belt transports in primary industry.

the base in the system is the “Intelligent conveyor belt roller”; a composite based roller that will hold embedded electronics and sensors allowing measurement of critical performance parameters such as bearing temperature, vibrations, rpm etc. the data will be transmitted wirelessly to plant monitoring, and will allow preventive maintenance

as well as immediate recognition of roller failures. this will reduce downtime in the plant due to unexpected failures, thus increasing availability, plant throughput, and reducing the cost for maintenance.

Similar solutions are today not available on the market. Based on this, and on a patent giving the rights to the two involved SMes, it is additionally a clear objective that the project shall result in a growth in not only these companies, but that it will also result in growth in other related industry such as electronics manufacturing, system level design, and preventive maintenance.

The project is coordinated by Process IT

PR o J e CT P e R io D : november 2010 - June 2014

C on TACT:

arne Gylling

e-mail: arne.gylling@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)70 530 33 39

DARPA – Active Authentication

All computer users have a unique pattern of movement on the keyboard. luleå based security company behaviometrics Ab, has created a digital watchdog that keeps track and makes sure that it is you who is working on the computer. in 2012 they tested their solution in a large scale test at lTu, and CDT led the test.

the unique security solution is invisible and works in the background to identify the user’s unique flow and pace on the keyboard as well as with the mouse when you’re working at the computer. the pattern forms a “fingerprint” that the system can recognize, so that no one else has access to your computer if the pattern changes.

Behaviometrics product can be compared with a watchdog that recognizes if an unauthorized person comes through the door, even if the person has keys to the door. the product is the

first product in the world that checks user identity continuously while working at his computer, even after login. the purpose of the test led by CDt was to evaluate the product in a larger scale test and verify whether it is possible to learn the program’s behavior when performing everyday tasks. More than 80 employees at ltu chose to participate in the test which took place during ten weeks in 2012.

Marita Holst

e-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

eAR-iT

– putting ears on the internet

The project is about research in intelligent acoustic solutions.

acoustic sensing is powerful because of the amount of information that it can extrapolate from the environment, but to put sensors to monitor peoples life is always a challenge, not technologic but ethical. people are always reluctant to the adoption of this new kind of technologies, due to the fear of big brother effects. the ear-It project idea is to conduct a large-scale ‘real-life’ experimentation of intelligent acoustics on two different testbeds: Santander and Hobnet, for supporting high social value applications fostering innovation and sustainability. the project will apply a user-centric approach by people participating throughout the design process to influence the technology being developed. of specific emphasis will be the investigation of national and international legislations of audio sensing in indoor and outdoor environments as well as user-perception of audio-monitoring in the view of privacy and ethics.

http://www.ear-it.eu/

PR o J e CT P e R io D : october 2012 – September 2014

C on TACT: :

annika Sällström e-mail: annika.sallstrom@ltu.se phone: + 46 (0)70 373 33 10

eiT iCT labs

eiT iCT labs mission is to turn europe into the global leader in iCT innovation by establishing a new type of partnership between leading companies, research centers and universities in europe.

eIt stands for the european Institute of Innovation and technology. CDt is an affiliated partner to the Stockholm node in the eIt ICt labs coordinated by KtH, in Stockholm, Sweden. affiliate partners are organizations participating in and contributing to the activities of eIt ICt labs. they are usually active on node level and are typically universities, SMes or venture capital funds and companies. they have a contract with the eIt ICt labs Knowledge and Innovation Community association and a mandate with a specific node through which they supply competence and human resources to its Co-location Centre.

www.eitictlabs.eu – eIt ICt labs

PR o J e CT P e R io D : 1 april 2012 - ongoing C on TACT: Michael nilsson

e-mail: michael.nilsson@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20

eIt ICt labs is one of three ongoing Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KIC´s).

Fireball

FiRebAll establishes a coordination mechanism through which a network of smart Cities across europe engages in long term collaboration for adopting user Driven open innovation to explore the opportunities of the Future internet.

the coordination process was grounded in exchange, dialogue and learning between Smart Cities, who are considered as key demand-side drivers of Future Internet innovation. It was also

grounded in bringing together the Future Internet, living labs and Smart Cities constituencies. Future Internet driven network infrastructures and applications are in the pipeline, and which potentially might bring economic and social benefits not only to research communities but also to Cities.

www.fireball4smartcities.eu

PR o J e CT P e R io D : May 2010 - May 2012 C on TACT: Michael nilsson e-mail: michael.nilsson@cdt. ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20

eQuality (mätaJämt 2)

increased Growth with equality and Diversity as Tools

The project aims to develop a method and tool to measure the effects of gender equality and diversity activities in iCT and educational environments.

this Interreg IVa north project is a collaboration between CDt, ltu’s gender researchers and oulu university. the supporting partners in luleå are the It companies: agio and arctic Group and in oulu: ritaharju Community Center (rCC). the project development work is carried out in two pilots.

In 2012 the description of the pilots’ change processes started in order to give an overaching picture and frame of the progress of the pilots’

activities. the measurement model under developtment is based on the work by Joan acker on doing gender in organisations (1999). the model opens up for measuring quantitative as well as qualitative changes.

the mapping of women ICt workers in Finland and Sweden resulted in 44% women in Finland and 23% in Sweden. this interesting difference between the countries will be analysed in an It survey during the spring 2013. the other project

iRoad

listen – Think – Talk. That is what the road of the future will be able to do.

this means that the road will sense, process information, communicate and take action. the aim of the iroad project is to create solutions for a technology platform which enables a selfsustained, autonomous and distributed system that can cooperate with intelligent infrastructure systems and intelligent vehicles of the future. the unit is fully self-contained on power via its solar cells, batteries and extremely low power consumption.

the iroad product are now being installed for evaluation in real traffic solutions by GItS a/S. GItS a/S together with eistec aB and iGW aB are developing these products based on the iroad research project. For more information see www. gevekoits.dk. technical coordinator for the project is Wolfgang Birk at ltu, Srt www.iroad.se

PR o J e CT P e R io D : March 2008 - ongoing

C on TACT: arne Gylling e-mail: arne.gylling@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 530 33 39

results are the launch of the Finnish network for equality actors, agio’s equal sponsorship program and a new gender mainstreaming project, GenoVate, which was approved by the european Commission for start in January 2013. www.cdt.ltu.se/~matajamt

PR o J e CT P e R io D : october 2010 - March 2013

C on TACT: paula Wennberg

e-mail: paula.wennberg@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 24 75 21

sATin-2

The sATin-2 project aims at making it easier for everyone to create their own mobile application - “App” in everyday language. until today, you basically have to be a programmer with relevant education and experience to make your own app. app’s are traditionally programmed in Java, and while many, especially young people (and mostly young male) have learned Java programming, it still is far from general knowledge.

During the SatIn-2 project, user studies have been carried out in order to get feedback on the design and input for further development. pilot areas are selected to guide the project regarding selection of components to develop, and to give the “early adopter-input”. the proposed paper

“user toolkits for Citizen-centric Mobile Service Innovation” has been preliminarily accepted for the 2012 e-Challenges european conference. through seminars and workshops”, awareness about gender and diversity issues have also been raised within the project. research on user adaptation of “new” technology suggests the need to design for “self-efficacy”, i.e. design so that the user of the technology is able to learn to use it without too much help.

www.satinproject.se

PR o J e CT P e R io D : September 2009 - March 2013

C on TACT:

Jan-olov Johansson

e-mail: jan-olov.johansson@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 619 22 31

sATin Gender & Diversity

in order to attract a more diverse group of people to develop apps and mobile services the sATin project established a gender and diversity team to support the work. the gender and diversity team which has been the driving force in the development of working procedures and processes from this perspective has now been extended to a gender and diversity network of twenty ambassadors to promote a more sustainable gender mainstreaming in It sector (both academia and industry).

In 2012 the work with design for self-efficacy and how to design for inclusion continued successfully. this is a good example of how gender equality perpspective is integrated in project activities. this and other good examples, tools and methods are now available in the SatIn gender and diversity toolbox (www.gdtoolbox.eu) which was develop together with the project members and launched in november. the Genderapp with a checklist for gender mainstreaming in practice is another result of the project. Both the toolbox and the app have been frequently demonstrated for feedback and dissemination purposes. the toolbox is now also available in the Swedish database Jämställ.nu. www.gdtoolbox.eu

PR o J e CT P e R io D : September 2009 - March 2013

C on TACT: paula Wennberg e-mail: paula.wennberg@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 24 75 21

sense smart City

sense smart City is a swedish project with specific objective to make urban cities “smarter”.

the project will generate new and better ICt solutions that instrument urban areas to gather and combine information, such as energy, traffic, weather, events, activities, needs and opinions.

CDt will also initiate a strengthened regional ICt innovation system, for sustainably increased regional ICt research, design and business innovation capability. the project, has together with local ICt industry initiated a number of ideas that developed into prototypes and proof of concepts.

www.sensesmartcity.org

P R o J e CT P e R io D : September 2010 - august 2013

C on TACT : Jan pettersson

e-mail: jan.pettersson@ltu.se

phone: +46 70 242 68 04

siTe – smart iT for energy saving

The project focuses on raising energy awareness and savings at schools.

In a two year project we will work together with a local school (tunaskolan, luleå) to raise awareness about energy and about energy savings. the students will contribute on how to save energy by workshops and social media. through installed equipment (sensors and displays) they can in real-time see their energy consumption. through the workshops and practical tests they will raise their energy awareness. the project is financed by energimyndigheten (Swedish energy agency).

P R o J e CT P e R io D : March 2010 - aug 2012

C on TACT:

arne Gylling

e-mail: arne.gylling@ltu.se

phone: +46 (0)70 530 33 39

smART CAmPus

smart individual energy savers (smarties) smarties is an energy saving project focusing on solutions in homes and transportations with the objective to innovate on technical energy solutions that are tested in real life settings.

through the interaction between the user and the building’s intelligent energy management system. Furthermore the eco-conscious educated user will be empowered with real time information and decision making guidance that will enable and motivate the interaction, leading to energy efficiency. SMart CaMpuS expects an impact of substantial energy Savings up to 20% of total saving, being up to 15% the result of consumer behaviour transformation.

www.greensmartcampus.org

P R o J e CT P e R io D : august 2012- February 2015

C on TACT: Jan-olov Johansson

e-mail: jan-olov.johansson@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)7 619 22 31

During 2012 end-users have participated in small cross-border pilot tests of energy saving It based solutions. an an indicator framework for living lab operations showing proof of concept of the living lab approach has been developed and a handbook on living lab Methodology has been developed and published.

www.smarties.is

PR o J e CT P e R io D : october 2010 - December 2012

C on TACT: Marita Holst e-mail: marita.holst@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 646 54 14

smarties?

TeFis

TeFis (Testbed for Future internet services) is a large-scale integrated project that will develop an open platform to access heterogeneous and complementary experimental facilities addressing the full development lifecycle of innovative services with the appropriate tools and testing methodologies.

the teFIS e-service gives experimenters easy access to fore-front testbed infrastructures. the portal includes features to plan for and run Future Internet experiments by using services provided by the teFIS connected testbeds including living lab support – all available via one single access-point – individually or in a combination.

teFIS connected testbeds and their services are:

• planetlab – evaluation of network protocols and networked services over Internet

• paCa Grid – computing resources

• etICS – improving the quality and reliability of distributed systems

• Botnia living lab – end-users involvement in products and services development

• IMS testbed – validate and test applications over IMS (Ip Multimedia Subsystem)

• Kyatera – network performance evaluation

During 2012 six different experiments in the fields of Mobile media, e-Health, network performance

wattalyst

wattalyst is short for wATT analyst and aims to understand in what context and how consumers could reduce and shift their demand in time.

user/house-hold specific and varies based on the need of the hour. another goal of Wattalyst is to understand effective methods of conveying the Dr signals to the users. In particular, the research focus on interface design; communication means (in-house displays, SMS messages), message emphasis (environmental, economical) and customized messages based on gender, age and profile.

measurements, e-learning, Collaborative content distribution in mobile networks and SDn have been using teFIS for their experimentation and testing. In January 2013 the portal was released to the public.

www.tefisproject.eu

PR o J e CT P e R io D : 1 June 2010 - February 2013 C on TACT: annika Sällström e-mail: annika.sallstrom@ltu.se phone: + 46 (0)70 373 33 10

v i D eos: vimeo.com/55102856 tv.pionier.net.pl/Default.aspx?id=1831

http://www.wattalyst.org

P R o J e CT P e R io D : october 2011 – october 2014 C on TACT: Mikael Börjeson e-mail: mikael.borjeson@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)75 29 91 20

Scientific advisory Committee

During fall 2008 CDT implemented a Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) with objective to further strengthen CDT’s capacity as catalyser of, and environment for, scientific research of high international quality.

The mission of the committee is to give advice and make proposals to CDT CEO and management team, on strategic matters related to scientific capacity and quality.

Dr. Cassandra Marshall, Vinnova, Sweden

Dr. evgeny a osipov, luleå university of technology, Sweden professor Frank reichert, university of agder, norway professor arkady Zaslavsky, luleå university of technology, Sweden professor Debra ann Howcroft, the university of Manchester, Manchester Business School

Board of Directors

the CDt board of directors have approved the CDt annual report 2012. luleå, May 2013

the income statement and balance sheet 2012, have been reviewed by the auditors. luleå, May 2013

Kai lavonen ernst & Young

mikael börjeson CDt

Thomas brännström Chair

Tor björn minde ericsson research

Jonas ekman luleå university of technology

Thomas Gustafsson luleå university of technology

mats nordberg ericsson research

CDt Management team

Mikael Börjeson, Ceo Mikael.Borjeson@ltu.se

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(0)70 529 91 20

arne Gylling arne.Gylling@ltu.se +46 (0)70 530 33 39

Marita Holst

Jan-olov Johansson

Marita.Holst@ltu.se +46 (0)70 646 54 14

Jan-olov.Johansson@ltu.se +46 (0)70 619 22 31

Michael nilsson Michael.nilsson@ltu.se +46 (0)70 288 45 20

Marie nolin Marie.nolin@ltu.se +46 (0)72 526 20 70

Jan pettersson Jan.pettersson@ltu.se +46 (0)70 242 68 04

annika Sällström annika.Sallstrom@ltu.se +46 (0)70 373 33 10

paula Wennberg paula.Wennberg@ltu.se +46 (0)70 247 54 21

luleå university of technology, Se-971 87 luleå. phone: +46 (0)920 49 12 00. e-mail: info@cdt.ltu.se, www.ltu.se/centres/cdt CDt is a research centre at luleå university of technology, www.ltu.se