the Centre for Distance-spanning technology is a research, design and innovation joint venture between luleå university of technology and the It industry. CDt builds knowledge about distance-spanning technology. this includes creating more powerful way to sense, communicate, interact and execute activities that extends human capabilities over distance in space and time. our aim is to enable new innovations, business growth and improve quality-of-life.
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CEO
perspective
CDT brings many opportunities to work with fantastic people –people with knowledge and imagination to formulate and target important visions – people with drive and stamina to undertake time consuming and complex tasks towards the vision – people with bias for action that see temporary set-backs as inevitable, and who use the set-backs as sources for learning, widened thinking and creativity.
The dynamic CDT environment is a very challenging environment due to the complex nature of what we do. Our business model is complex, with many different funding schemes and multidirectional exchange of assets, including intellectual properties. Our projects are often complex with interviened and concurrent research, design and business activities that involves several parties from academy, industry, government, public authorities, financers and users.
Experienced people are needed to accomplish the complex tasks where research, design and innovation are integrated in new ways that bring knowledge and business beyond state-
with objectives to reduce overall energy consumption and to alter consumption patterns for better accommodation to renewable energy resources. Examples in this field are the new European project CASSANDRA which were approved and started during 2011 (more info on page 30).
of-the-art. Managing CDT projects is sometimes “mind-stretching” but above all its thrilling and great fun.
Due to growth and internationalization we need to strengthen our team of project managers. If you are interested - Welcome to contact us!
increasing efforts for global sustainability
Targeting key challenges of global sustainability, we increase our efforts going into IT for smart energy management and intelligent traffic systems.
In the energy field our focus is on how to change consumption of electrical energy in private and public buildings
Anne Engström, Maria Ek Styvén, Kåre Synnes, Evgeny Osipov, Jeaneth Johansson, Anna Ståhlbröst, Jens Eliasson, Wolfgang Birk, Malin Malmström, Josefin Lassinanti and Laurynas Riliskis. During the year we have also proudly presented an alfa-version of mobile service builder (project SATIN – more info on page 32). And last but not least we are thrilled to follow the business development of most recent spin-off companies iGW and Actegra.
During 2011, Facebook decided to establish a data-center in Luleå, based on our region´s virtually unique combination of high capacity reliable electrical energy from renewable resources (hydropower), the clean low air temp suitable for cooling, and well educated people. Fully built-out, the scale of the data-center is stunning. It will be the largest of its kind in Europe, with an area of 84,000 square meters which is equivalent to more than 11 soccer fields. Facebook’s current focus is naturally to build and bring the data-center into production according to plan, as swiftly as feasible. Nevertheless, we hope and foresee a gradually developed dialogue about opportunities for research-innovation collaboration in areas of mutual interest. Already, this investment made by one of the world’s most successful IT enterprises, has received an extraordinary global recognition. This has started to catalyze several additional IT investments
and increased IT activity level in the region, which will instrument many new opportunities for our partners and us.
Recently the European Commission (EC) announced Call 10 and Call 11 under Framework Programme (FP7) and the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) communicated positively about reinforcement of their financial basis. This implies strengthened funding opportunities for international and national research and innovation projects. This is particularly important since the current period for funding from the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) – In north Sweden called “Target 2” (Mål 2) - is coming to its end. Though there are positive indications about continuation of the ERDF-funding in our region, all related decisions, are not yet made.
One of our strategic objectives is a growth of total turnover at +10% annually. This objective is challenging, in perspective of the uncertainty regarding available national and regional funding. Related to this, key elements of the plan is increased involvement in European projects, extended long term partnerships and a refined business model to strengthen our base funding.
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 2011 – Thanks; CIP, Ericsson AB, EU Seventh Framework Programme, EU
Structural Fund Programme, Geveko, Interreg IVB Baltic Sea, Interreg 4A North, LKAB, Luleå University of Technology, NLL County Administrative Board of Norrbotten, 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) and Umeå University.
Thanks!
mikael börjeson, ceo luleå, february 2012
In the traffic & transportation field our focus is on supportive road-vehicle environments (using road and vehicle based sensor systems) with objective to improved security, improved transportation efficiency and reduced energy (fuel) consumption.
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 (page 9) reflect this mission. We are delighted about the graduations of Jerker Delsing,
in memory of östen mäkitalo m M
the father of mobile telephony and the president of the CDt Board of Directors; Östen Mäkitalo, passed away on June 16th, 2011. Östen Mäkitalo was co-founder of CDt (1994) and has been chair of CDt Board of Directors since start.
“In spite of the fact that I have worked on regular basis with Östen over more than fourteen years, continued to get new valuable elements of experiences and knowledge from Östen. these, will continue to use and share with others.” says Mikael, CDt´s Ceo
Some of Östen’s unique abilities was to focus on what will be possible and valuable in the future, and to get people around him to dare to take major initiatives and overcome obstacles in order to take advantage of future opportunities. adding to people´s warm appreciation of Östen, were also his very gentle manners and his collaborative skills – rooted in his upbringing in a small village in north Sweden - as well as his never ceasing will to inspire and help other people to bring forward and realize their own innovative ideas.
naturally, our condolences go to Östen’s family and relatives. at CDt we will miss him very much, and we will continue to work in Östen’s spirit, with strong focus on human needs and usage aspects, in our continued research, design and innovation efforts.
Highlights 2011
It-organisation of the Year
“CDT has since its inauguration, in the middle of the 90´s, created several spin-off companies and contributed to the development of new services and products. This has created new openings for jobs, by its focus on using new technology to new products and services and to reach a market based on research and innovation from LTU. The international networks, boundary crossing collaborations as well as participation from companies, end-users and the good reputation which CDT has in Europe has also added value to Luleå and Norrbotten as an innovative force within the ICT area to be reckoned with. Several companies have via CDT projects reached new customers and collaborative partners. The connection between business and research is an asset for many who cannot afford R&D of high class internally.”
the motivation for appointing cdt as winner of the “it organisation of the year” from the it society in norrbotten (dataföreningen i norrbotten)
Winner of
Best Idea on the future of Internet
Congratulations, Jan pettersson from the CDt research project Sense Smart City, that received first prize of 5,000 euro for “Best idea” at the european summit on the future of Internet in luxembourg in June 6, 2011.
Why do you think that Sense Smart City won the price?
Because the project fits exactly what the prize was about; to award innovative technologies that can shape the Future Internet in the areas of health, environment, energy, transport and content delivery.
So, what is a smart city?
Why is the city of Skellefteå the perfect place for a Smart City project?
CDT
Showroom officially launched – a powerful way to communicate our projects
On May 26:th 2011, CDT´s new showroom was officially launched. The showroom is located in our officespace in Luleå. Through investments from the EU Interreg IV Baltic Sea programme this room have been equipped with modern technology to serve as a link between various stakeholders such as business, international partners, and for the university itself. This will enable a simple and powerful communication of projects, ideas and demonstrations.
application awards 2011
CDT has cooperated with Ericsson Research in Ericsson Application Awards 2011, a competition for developers of mobile applications. More than 150 teams from over 50 countries have participated in the competition.
CDT have organized the evaluation of apps, submitting the semi-finalists to evaluation on-line by 1000 end-users in four countries, and hands-on evaluation by 50 beta-testers. The winning app within the student category was the Italian ”What’s in My Kitchen”, an app that uses RFID technology to help you keep track of the content in your refrigerator, give recipe suggestions, warn about expiration dates etc. In the company category, the UK “HipSnip” shoppin app for product advice won first place, while the Luleå-based “EmergencyDroid”, came as a close second. EmergencyDroid is develpoed by a team at CDT partner Neava, and is an app that sends an automatic alarm if you are in a car crash.
It is a connected city with sensors to measure, monitor, communicate and more efficiently allocate resources such as electricity, water, traffic and waste. It improves human infrastructure and provides better services for the citizens. also, the cities resources can be used more efficiently.
Finally, what is the next step for the Sense Smart City project?
We will continue with our pilots, try to find new ones and develop the smart city platform so that it becomes easier to integrate new sensors and access data for those who want to develop services.
a strong political will and one of the most connected cities in Sweden. no less than 85% of the households have internet connections faster than 50 Mbps.
During the event more than 50 visitors could explore some ongoing research in the area of Future Internet; Platform for Mobile-service creation by the Users, the Intelligent Road and Smart City services. The event also included research pitches by researchers at Luleå University of Technology and from one of our international partner Knowledge Lab in Denmark who was connected via high-quality video-conferencing to share their ongoing research.
C O n TACT
annika Sällström
General Business Manager
Centre for Distance-spanning technology annika.sallstrom@cdt.ltu.se
Together with the beta-testing of the apps in the Ericsson Application Awards 2011, the beta-testers participated in a competition to propose a theme for next years EAA. The winning theme: “Making Life easier” was submitted by Ida Jonsson, a student at LTU.
R EAD m ORE www.ericssonapplicationawards.com
the winner, Ida Jonsson.
The creator of the greatest invention in the history of modern industrialism. A product that is currently used by over half the world’s population.
in memory of
Östen mäkitalo
Said by Östen mäkitalo:
Intuition is the most advanced form of decision aid. It is a collection of knowledge, experience and talent. I can feel it in my entire body what is the right thing to do.
Technology should be adjusted to the human being, not the other way around.
Researchers must have a freedom, those who pay have to dare to risk a defeat. A free scientist may perform 300 percent above their initial expectations. A researcher that is controlled by bureaucrats may reach five percent of his or hers expectations. Or nothing at all.
It’s easier to get forgiveness than to get permission. When we tested stereo broadcasts on the radio, my boss told me not to ask him for permission first, “then I have to say no”.
Passion has been my main motivation. I’ve had fun.
All that we can imagine will be possible.
The “father of mobile telephony” and the president of the CDT Board of Directors Östen Mäkitalo is deceased, as of 16 June 2011. Östen Mäkitalo was co-founder of CDT and has been chair of CDT Board of Directors since start.
At the University and in the CDT partnership, we have shared, with other colleagues and friends, the fortunate opportunity to experience Östen´s unique capability to encompass future technological development and its relation to emerging human and societal needs and desires, and - maybe most importantly - Östen´s capacity to bring vision into reality. The most well known of Östen´s many achievements, is his groundbreaking contribution to mobile telephony. From his position in Televerket (now TeliaSonera), Östen was the driving innovator in realizing the vision of ”calling a person without knowing where he/she is”.
Results
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.
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.
During 2011 three researchers were appointed as Professors: Christer Åhlund in Mobile Systems, Computer Science, LTU thomas Gustafsson in Automatic Control, Computer Science, LTU
Jerker Delsing in Embedded Internet Systems, Computer Science, LTU
CDt in figures 2007-2011
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. Today, these companies have a total of 21 employees and a net sales of 13.5 MSEK.
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, phone/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
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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
anders larsson,
co-founder of iGW aB, a spin-off company from the CDt project iroad this year.
What is iGW?
iGW is a company focusing on developing infrastructure for collection, management and visualization of large amounts of data. our portal solution has an unique architecture enabling us to use either cloud based or on site servers depending on the customers demands.
How did it start?
We understood the need for a novel solution early on working around the very interesting road project. Imagining road sensors used all over europe collecting data, we quickly saw the need for a solution for remote operations and maintenance together with data visualization and deployment tools for these units.
How is it going so far?
So far we are involved in a number of projects and expect to be profitable by the end of the year. From april 2012 and onwards one of the founders will be working full time in the company.
Do you have any tips for turning an innovation into a company?
My personal belief is that the main focus should be on the business side of things and not on the technology behind your innovation. technology is fun but many engineers focus too much on getting the perfect technical solution instead of making money.
post-Graduate Degrees accumulated
Associate Professors
Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn
Maria ek Styvén
anne engström
Jeaneth Johansson
James p leBlanc
anita Mirijamdotter
evgeny osipov
peter parnes
Dick Schefström
Kåre Synnes
Mikael Wiberg
Christer Åhlund
Doctors Wolfgang Birk
ulf Bodin
Mikael Degermark
Mikael Drugge
Jens eliasson
Josef Hallberg
Marita Holst
Johan Karlsson
Johan Kristiansson
lars-Åke larzon
anders lindgren
John lindström
Malin Malmström
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
Licentiates
ulf Bodin
Mikael Drugge
Stefan elf
pierre Fransson
Mats Folke
Josef Hallberg
andreas Jonsson
Johan Karlsson
Johan Kristiansson
lars-Åke larzon
Josefin lassinanti
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
Business Partner Benefits of Sense Smart City 2011
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.
Awards
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 t 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
Best Paper
awarded Christer Åhlund, robert Brännström, Karl andersson, and Örjan tjernström for ”Multimedia Flow Mobility in Heterogeneous networks using Multihomed Mobile pv6” 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 tI2004 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 va.
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.
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
awarded Mikael Sundström at Itechpartner Forum in porto, portugal, in 2007.
1st Prize In Swedish Innovation Cup
1998: Brodnik/Carlsson/Degermark/pink – the luleå algorithm
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.
innovation and gender
excellence in innovation
through gender equality
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, age and ethnicity in all its actions.
CDT’s role 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 effective, the
development of information and communication technology, ICT and the ICT sector, needs to integrate diversity. This is not only a gender and diversity issue, but an economic necessity.
CO n TACT: paula Wennberg e-mail: paula.wennberg@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 247 54 21
Our Research, Design Innovation Programmes
– an optimal setting for boundary crossing collaboration
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 Programmes, acting as the basis for our priorities.
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.
Our RDI Programmes are defined together with our core partners and formed around specific research areas. These areas create an environment with an integration of research, design and Innovation conditions for new knowledge and business development. Our RDI programmes during 2011 are described to the right.
Traffic
Internet of Things and Big Data Distance-spanning technology for sustainable evolution towards billions of connected devices and big data storage and communication flows. CO n TACT Jan-olov Johansson e-mail: Jan-olov.Johansson@ltu.se. phone: +46 (0)70 619 22 31
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 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 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”.
• 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.
our service offer includes
• Idea-generation with end-users for new solutions
• User-interface testing
• Utility acceptance test of a solution
• Real-life end-user trials for service/technology improvement, independently and in situ! In addition we offer access to efficient methods and research expertise for planning and performing user-involvement activities. assets
• Research expertise in user evaluation and testing
• Methods qualified by research for end-user involvement
• Database of 6000 creative end-users (individuals) from 18 years of age and older in Sweden and access to end-users around the world via 3rd parties.
• Living Lab Work Package.
tools and methods for end-user evaluation and engagement
For the process of user involvement we have developed the Form-IT methodology.
This is an iterative and interactive process in several steps for user-engagement in all phases of the development of an ITbased service/product – from need finding to beta-trial and pre-market launch. Different methods and tools are used for professional support in user involvement. Often we combine qualitative and quantitative methods for the best results like web-based questionnaires to investigate specific areas among a bigger user-group and observations and interviews to go into depth around specific issues and to get answers on why and how. For user-involvement, it is very important to recruit the right users matching the purpose of your experiment. With the support of our expertise we select the right users for your purpose.
When running a user investigation we also trigger different motivators to get different users onboard and to stimulate their actions together with easy communication and clear descriptions on what they should do, when and how.
track-record
Since we started, we have been engaged in a significant number of end-user activities. Examples of technology areas for end-user experiments have included: Mobile services, Distributed applications, Sensor technologies, Delay-tolerant networking applications, Multimedia, Heterogeneous networking technologies, Ubiquitous computing etc.
Botnia is founder and member of the European Network of Living Labs. (www.openlivinglabs.eu)
Ståhlbröst, lecturer at luleå university of technology and researcher on the living labs methodology.
What is Living Labs?
It is an experimentation environment in which technology is given shape in real life contexts and in which end users are considered ‘co-producers’.
In practice, what could this look like?
to make the end users to co-producers could for example be, letting consumers, via a website, piece together their own customized mobile application modules so that they get exactly the information they need. Moreover, the companies get information, input and understanding of what the customers are really looking for. In a development phase with multiple of these living labs situations in different part of the r&D process, this could be illustrated as a spiral, leading to a higher and higher level of understanding. (See illustration on the opposite page)
What could be the advantages of Living Labs?
For me as a researcher, living labs gives access to multidisciplinary networks and opportunities to experiment in real life situations with for example, methods for user involvement or innovations systems. For companies, living labs can offer a more efficient development cycle with more innovative ideas, broad market understanding and increased use and implementation through the involvement of more stakeholders in the innovation process. It also gives companies a place where they have the opportunity to test, and develop, their ideas with users throughout the innovation process, from ideation to market launch.
We want to better understand the human aspect of technology. therefore, CDt is working with knowledge creation and understanding about user patterns and what is considered interesting applications and content. Behavioural scientists from luleå university of technology take an active
role in understanding the needs and interests of the user. a tool for that cooperation is an open live testbed for technology with real users testing. today over 6 000 users have been recruited to test various services.
the testbed is a unique meeting place where industry and academia within both technology and behavioural science can meet with the objective of creating innovative and useful solutions.
In year 2011, you got a new project approved for three years to further study the advantages of Living Labs. What results do you hope to achieve?
Well, using the living labs methodology, we hope to find a deeper understanding of if and how living labs can increase the innovation capacity for small and medium sizes enterprises. I also strive to contribute to proof of concept of the living labs approach, to show that it is an efficient and effective way to innovate.
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one key actor and stakeholder of Botnia living lab are SMe´s both in the region and outside to strengthen their innovation power.
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@cdt.ltu.se
Botnia High-light:
User Toolkits for Citizen-centric mobile Service Innovation
Within the area of citizen involvement it is now possible to discern a trend moving from design for citizens towards starting to develop processes and tools for design by citizens where they are given toolkits to design their own desirable solutions. With this shift in perspective, it is becoming progressively easier for many citizens to get precisely what they want by designing for themselves. to stimulate and facilitate this co-production in the domain of mobile apps the Sat n II is developing a tool to allow for non-programmers to create applications using modern web-tools, which are to be consumed in a mobile setting. the SatIn II project provides a good example of a usercentric environment for building mobile applications using a visual interface.
A first beta-release is now available: satineditor.codemill.se
CO n TACT: Jan-olov Johansson e-mail: jan-olov. johansson@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 619 22 31
How to become a
CDt business partner
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.
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.
Botnia Living Lab
research areas
–the foundation of our activities
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 five different areas of research; Accounting and Control, Dependable Communication and Computation, Social Informatics, Signal Processing and Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
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.
CO n 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 communica-
tion 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.
CO n TACT: Dr. evgeny osipov e-mail: evgeny.osipov@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)920 49 15 78
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.
CO n TACT: Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn, professor e-mail: Birgitta.Bergvall-Kareborn@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)920 49 13 27
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.
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.
C O n TACT
Johan Carlson, professor e-mail: johan.carlson@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)920 49 25 17
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.
C O n TACT
Christer Åhlund, professor e-mail:
“When CDT started it was a completely new type of research, with many active organizations, businesses and pilot users. The goal of business was to expand the applied IT research on mobility and the Internet. Central to the activities of the center was to work with real users and put their needs in focus. In recent years CDT has developed into one of the best environments to experiment with new services.”
– östen mäkitalo
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
Digipolis Research, Finland
an agreement based joint research unit of Kemitornio university of applied Sciences, university of oulu and vtt technical research Centre of Finland. www.digipolis.fi
ESOCE nET, Italy
a non-profit organisation, focusing on Concurrent enterprising and user Driven open Innovation, living labs. www.esoce.net
Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology, IBBT, Belgium
Creates multidisciplinary research for innovative ICt services and applications within four research domains: Culture & Media, eHealth, Green ICt and Mobility & logistics. www.ibbt.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
Bremer Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work, BIBA, Germany
a scientific engineering research institute dealing with the issues of production and logistics systems. www.biba.uni-bremen.de CDt’s power essentially comes from our partners and the way we collaborate with our partners. partners can be divided into five main categories: Sponsors
Income Statement (SEK ´000)
– enabling our efforts
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.
CDT income 2007-2011 (SEK ´000)
CDt Income including the in-kind contribution of the partners and transfer of eu funds to the partners.
The annual fees from our core partners represent a minor part of the funding sources.Yet, it is a strategically important one and could be in kind such as certain types of equipment or efforts. Balance Sheet (SEK ´000)
Projects
–
Where ideas transfer into real
A project starts when an idea has been evaluated to have a significant business opportunity.
world applications
Our projects are organized in five main areas: Future Internet & testbeds
Intelligent online Communication & analysis networks new Business & technology transfer Smart Cities & energy efficiency Smart Service Innovations
The advances may be based on any combination or blend of new technology, identified needs, new business principles or emerging market opportunities. Here, scientific curiosity is paired with an intense collaboration between industry and society. CDT´s role is to initiate and to coordinate these long terms, research, design and innovation projects. During a project, key assets are created, such as architectures, new technology, methods and models as well as analysis of needs, market and usability aspects. If successful, the project’s final delivery is a product, service, prototype or a business concept. In 2011, the following projects have been coordinated by CDT:
Future Internet & testbeds
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.
Panlab II
Panlab II addresses the need for large-scale testing facilities in the communications area by implementing an infrastructure for federating testbeds.
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.
the european Institute of Innovation and technology e t), Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) the eIt ICt labs KIC was designated as a Knowledge and Innovation Community by the e t’s Governing Board on the 16 December 2009 in Budapest. the priority area which this KIC addresses is future information and communication society. CDt is an affiliated partner to the Stockholm node in the eIt ICt labs coordinated by KtH, Stockholm, Sweden. affiliate partners are organizations participating in and contributing to the activities of e t 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 KIC association and a mandate with a specific node through which they supply competence and human resources to its Co-location Centre. vision: iCt innovation is our key enabler to enhance the quality of life for everyone.
the coordination process will be grounded in exchange, dialogue and learning between Smart Cities, who are considered as key demand-side drivers of Future Internet innovation. It also will be grounded in bringing together the Future Internet, living labs and Smart Cities constituencies. now that 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
CO n TACT
Michael nilsson
e-mail: michael.nilsson@cdt. ltu.se
phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20
Mission: turn europe into a global leader in iCt innovation.
www.eitictlabs.eu – e t ICt labs
PRO j ECT PERIOD : 1 april 2012 - ongoing CO n TACT
TEFIS will support Future Internet of Services Research by offering a single access point to different testing and experimental facilities for communities of software and business developers to test, experiment, and collaborate. teFIS (testbed for Future Internet Services) is a large-scale integrating 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. through the teFIS platform experimenters will be supported throughout the whole experi-
ment lifecycle by access to different testing tools covering most of the software development-cycle activities such as software build and packaging, compliance tests, system integration, Sla dimensioning, large-scale deployment, and user evaluation of run-time services. In november an important milestone was reached: the start-up of four experiments using the teFIS single-access point for their testing needs.
the pan-european laboratory Infrastructure Implementation project builds on a concept that is being introduced to enable the trial and evaluation of service concepts, technologies, system solutions and business models to the point where the risks associated with launching of these as commercial products will be minimized. the central objective is to create a testbed federation among regional innovation clusters in europe. CDt and ltu responsibility in pII is to perform a technosocio-economic study on the federated testbeds, creating an european market for testbed services.
IntellIgent OnlIne COmmunICatIOn & analysIs netwOrks
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.
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.
During 2011 we have received two “Best paper awards” based on the results from the project. We are now focusing on multi-node solutions and the integration of road-technology with the existing infrastructure such as internet, telecommunications systems, mobile applications etc. technical coordinator for the project is Wolfgang Birk at ltu Srt
www.iroad.se
PRO j ECT PERIOD March 2008 - ongoing
CO n TACT: arne Gylling e-mail: arne.gylling@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 530 33 39
new busIness & teChnOlOgy transFer
Bonita
The aim of the Bonita project is 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.
Currently 10 regions from 10 european countries are partners of the Bonita network. the goal is to form a common european organization for scientific transfer of technology. Within the project innovation transfer models throughout the Baltic Sea region will be evaluated in order to set up an enhanced transfer model. Main achievements during the third year has been the establishment and launch of the Bonita Showroom concept and the start up of the standardization project 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
PRO j ECT PERIOD : august 2009 - January 2012
CO n TACT
annika Sällström
e-mail: annika.sallstrom@cdt.ltu.se
phone: + 46 (0)70 373 33 10
mEmO
mEmO has developed a coaching tool for developing business models for mobile services to create future efficient businesses for mobile service providers. MeMo collected experiences made in some articles and white papers to be used as a guide in the development of successful business models at the participating companies. the project has generated data for several papers and articles in the year 2011 and further on. Innovation has traditionally been connected to technology development, but this is not enough for a product/ service to be commercialized and business opportunities to be captured. Sustainable business models are a key for success! the purpose with this project was to: identify business models for mobile services and to propose a metabusiness model which captures the business potential by collaboration between actors, i.e service
providers, service brookers and customers in a larger network – the value chain. expected result was a meta-business model for partner based businesses, which put together components from diverse perspectives. Starting from this overall model, different business models can be developed based on service content and context, actors in the value chain, customer needs and ability to pay, the service production and the business competition.
www.memo-project.se
PRO j ECT PERIOD : July 2008 - February 2011
CO n TACT
EPISIS
The main objective of the EPISIS project is to facilitate transnational cooperation between policy-makers and innovation agencies in the field of services innovation through parallel policy, strategic and operational level activities. the project shall offer an open platform for discussion on policy recommendations, test new policy approaches in support of services innovation and organise three policy-oriented international conferences.
CDt was contracted to assist v nnova as the head of the task in epISIS, named new forms of support for open and user-driven innovation management. CDt´s part of the work consist of empirical tests (survey, interviews) of one of the three chosen policy tools, in our case the living labs. the tests evaluated the +25 SMe companies’ willingness to access and use the chosen policy tool with the suggested improvements based on the peer review of the policy tool and how the modified policy tool can improve the up-take of new forms of open and user-driven innovation management. the result of the study is documented in a report “epISIS living lab report”. this report serves as an input to the development of the policy tool living labs. www.proinno-europe.eu/episis CO n TACT
Michael nilsson e-mail: michael.nilsson@cdt.ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20
Michael nilsson e-mail: michael.nilsson@cdt.ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 288 45 20 CDT TOOL HELPS mOBILE C O m PA n IES WITH THEIR B USI n ESS mODELS a new tool for business model management has now being developed. apart from business model development help, it also facilitiets the identification of critical business model factors and strategies. Formed in close collaboration with entrepreneurs in the mobile service sector and with real user testing, it provide business model coaching such as management of complexity, risk and resources. It can be used on already existing business models as well as to create competely new ones.
F OR m ORE n FOR m ATIO n & COACHI n G I n THIS TOOL , CO n TACT the business model team at etS, ltu and CDt and the testbed suppliers in the FIre community, represented by: Michael nilsson, Michael.nilsson@cdt.ltu.se, + 46 (0)70 288 45 20
smart CItIes & energy eFFICIenCy
Apollon
Apollon has the aim to conduct 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 cross-border 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.
During 2011 Domain-specific cross-border living lab networks were initiated in e.g. the energy efficiency domain. Cross-border test and experiments with products and services from SMes across europe started, 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
Cross-border activity on methods for behavioural changes in energy consumption.
The overall purpose with this case is to establish an Apollon methodology for userbehavioural 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.
collaboration and networking. CDt has during 2011 worked extensively with the development of methods for stimulating behavioural changes in energy consumption. a local pilot test has been conducted in 20 households and the results show that an average energy saving on 9% was reached.
The aim of the project is to develop an Open source energy saving platform for modelling of energy consumption patterns and consumer response to targeted incentives as a support for decisions and planning of novel products and services among energy providers and energy consumers.
three pilots will be 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 providing different energy stakeholders with the ability to model the energy market, in order to assess scenarios for their own purposes.
The project aims to transform the energy consumption behaviour of public building users. by applying existing ICT-based solutions, specifically real-time information from building management systems and serious games, in an innovative user-driven perspective. the project brought together 16 partners - including public authorities, public agencies, universities, research institutes, SMes and corporations – to implement five large-scale pilots in five different countries to test, benchmark, validate and stimulate new strategies and actions to the wider uptake of energy-efficient behaviours.
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
The pilots are committed to implement energy efficiency policies and to cooperate for the evaluation of innovative ICT-based solutions covering a varied range of building envelopes, usage patterns, functional programmes and available technologies.
From office spaces to public schools, the building management systems of the chosen spaces make available information about heating, air conditioning, ventilation, lighting, and other equipment or devices to be either distributed in real time or fed into serious game. the real time information technologies used in the pilots also allow some level of controlling based on preferences, past knowledge or energy saving targets. While important savings are expected from enhanced building management systems and improved awareness of consumptions patterns and simulations, it is the direct transformation of behaviours related with energy efficient that is likely to bring the most results.
An impressive 10-30% energy saving and a return of investments within one year is the final result for the Luleå pilot. All 100% based on a user behaviour change!
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).
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, t 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 2011 end-users have participated in and contributed to needfinding and idea generation, to formatting the ideas with the developers in workshops, to testing the solution and give feedback for further development. the developers are able to develop an energy saving solution based on the user needs, test the solution in different markets and bring the solution to market faster than normal with solid references from actual end users. Finally, the project aims to create a nordic citizen innovator user-pole for smart city evolution.
www.smarties.is
SmartIES?
smart servICe InnOvatIOn
Increased Growth with Equality and Diversity as Tools – eQuality (mätajämt 2)
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 is made in order to expand women’s influence on ICt development and on the long-run create new jobs for both men and women in northern Finland and northern Sweden. the big challenge for the project is together with researchers, companies and users to develop and implement a method to measure the effects in real environment with real needs.
the project funded by Interreg va north, County administrative Board of norrbotten, is collaboration between luleå university of technology: CDt (lead partner) and Gender&technology and university of oulu, Finland: Centre for Internet excellence and Women´s studies. the supporting partners are agio, arctic Group and ritaharju Community Center.
In luleå the development of the tools and methods is carried out in the pilot project SatIn “System for user-driven service innovation” (Sat n2) together with its partners, ericsson and local ICt companies. the overall mission of Sat n is to empower end-users to create mobile-services, and to share services with other end-users.
In oulu the development work in the educational environment takes place in ritaharju community center which is new operational model for communal services such as: comprehensive school with grades 0-9 (Microsoft School), communal day care center, regional public library, communal youth work, school food services, school health care services and communal maintanance services. Special interest is focused on ICt and phenomenon connected with occupational segregation by gender.
In 2011 the status of gender awareness of the pilots and the starting point for measuring changes were established. Integration of the gender equality and diversity perspectives in the pilots’ activities has been in focus during this year. nearly 230 participants (men and women) from universities, companies and organisations have participated in gender equality and diversity workshops and seminars. as regards gender equality research work slightly different but comparative theoretical focuses and types of methods are used in luleå and oulu. understanding and merging together the two partners’ working models and approaches has been an important part of the work in 2011.
www.cdt.ltu.se/~matajamt
PRO j ECT PERIOD october 2010 - March 2013 CO n 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. the strategy chosen in the Sat n-2 project is to develop a visual programming tool, where the end-user can “drag-and-drop” components together using a graphical editor to create the app. examples of components include position, temperature data, maps, etc. In a project where researchers from ltu and umeå university co-operate with industry representatives from ericsson, Bnearit, CodeMill, Internit and neava, an architecture for user-defined service creation is designed, which allows for parallel development of the app builder interface – and the backbone with the component-based programming compiler and database with the components. a prototype version of the editor is now being tested among users in selected areas. an “agent-
based” approach is designed where the building blocks or “components” are represented as circular icons with an indication of its functionality, and are configurable with regard to the data it uses and produces.
Components are selected in the left menu, and “drag-and-dropped” onto the “canvas”. the app is then made available on the mobile phone.
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.
In order to attract a more diverse group of people to develop apps and mobile services the SATIn project has established a Gender & Diversity team to support the work. the Gender & Diversity team is the driving force in the development of work procedures and processes from gender equality and diversity perspectives. regarding diversity, the focus of Sat n project is on age, gender and ethnicity.
In 2011 the main focus was to integrate the gender equality and diversity perspectives in the design group’s work. the thorough anchoring process gave fruit and the research team at umeå university started to work with design for self-efficacy and how to design for inclusion regarding diversity.
In order to attract a group of users without prior programming knowledge to develop apps, the goal is that the Sat n platform supports selfefficacy and reflection in end-user programming. a seminar on how to strengthen self-efficacy and reflection was carried out in umeå and will also be offered in luleå in the beginning of next year. this is a good example of how gender equality perpspective is integrated in project activities. Good examples, tools and methods will be building blocks of SatIn Gender & Diversity toolbox which is one the deliverables of the project. the first version of Gender & Diversity toolbox was finalised in 2011. the key words in the development of Gender & Diversity toolbox are inclusion, ICt relevance, easy to access and sustainability. the gender mainstreaming work in SatIn has also inspired to create new project proposals and new contacts with gender and diversity researchers and practitioners. In the end of the year a new application to the eu Framework programme 7 took shape. CDt’s interest on a joint proposal is to attract more women to higher academic positions in ICt sector both in academia and industry. www.satinproject.se/gender-diversity
CO n TACT
paula Wennberg e-mail: paula.wennberg@ltu.se phone: +46 (0)70 24 75 21
the pictures shows Sat n-2 project members in a user study workshop, where part of the project members acted as “users” while the others observed their using the app tool.
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 2011. luleå, May 2012
the income statement and balance sheet 2011, have been reviewed by the auditors. luleå, May 2012
CDt Management team
name E-mail Phone
Mikael Börjeson, Ceo Mikael.Borjeson@ltu.se +46 (0)70 529 91 20
