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Common projects

DiMo-NEXT – Next Level of Digital Motion in Sports, Fitness and Well-being

Next level of digital movement: Facilitating behaviour change and improving the experience of physical activity, sports performance and overall wellbeing through behavioural psychology, movement data analytics, sustainable materials and sensor technology.

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SleepBuddy – Respiratory activity monitoring for enhanced sleep quality

SleepBuddy optimizes sleep quality through AI-driven analysis and interventions based on breathing activity. Innovative technologies such as the N3mat mattress system and Somnox-Synergy breathing guidance are used to provide personalized solutions and valuable data for research.

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KoPaS – Cooperative parking in cities

KoPaS is developing and testing C-ITS services for urban parking for the first time in Austria. The aim is to support road users with intelligent, networked parking information, reduce traffic searching for parking spaces and implement environmentally sensitive parking guidance strategies in cities such as Graz, Klagenfurt and Salzburg.

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PASSAT – Digital Product Passport Austria and Beyond

PASSAT helps Austrian companies implement the Digital Product Passport, promoting sustainable growth through the circular economy and innovative production processes. The DPP provides reliable product data throughout the entire life cycle, enabling waste reduction, longer product use, and new business models.

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RENvolveIT – Regional Energy Networking: cross-sectional involvement through a modular interactive toolbox

The RENvolveIT project strengthens citizen participation in renewable energy communities (RECs) across Europe. The project is developing a modular platform to support households, municipalities, and SMEs in planning and operating RECs. The platform provides tools for networking, project consulting, participation management, and energy planning that address regional requirements. By combining social sciences, energy economics, computer science, and engineering, RENvolveIT promotes inclusivity and interoperability in various European contexts. The project aims to advance the energy transition through participatory approaches and support the European Green Deal’s vision.

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USEFLEDS – Unleashing Sector-coupling Flexibility by means of an Energy Data Space

Development of a data service ecosystem for the energy sector.

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cells4.energy – Regional energy cells as multi-energy real-world laboratories for rapid system transition

Development of a scalable and easily transferable energy cell concept that covers entire value chains – from generation and storage to transport and use of energy.

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Prehab2Rehab – Integrated and digitally supported care on patient pathways from prehabilitation to rehabilitation

Prehab2Rehab investigates how people can be best supported along the entire care pathway – before and after a planned surgery. The goal is to create an integrated, digitally supported, and individually tailored care that sustainably strengthens both patients and the healthcare system.

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LCM – Linz Center for Symbiotic Mechatronics

The K2_LCM project is a follow-up project to the current cooperation within the framework of “Gesture Aided Learning”. The follow-up project is designed as part of the strategic project within the K2 Center. In terms of content, the HMDP will be adapted and further developed.

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KIRAMET – AI-based recycling of metal composite waste

Efficient, sensor-based particle sorting with the help of artificial intelligence. An intelligent recycling platform is designed to connect existing data along the value chain.

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MUST – Multimodal traffic control through the combination of innovative information channels

The aim of the MUST project is to directly and indirectly influence mobility behavior in terms of climate and environmentally friendly traffic management through traffic avoidance, modal shift and traffic improvement. This is to be achieved by testing and evaluating the effectiveness of traffic information tailored to user groups via (new) information and communication channels using pilots in test corridors.

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MZSFreiland – Optimization of cycling infrastructure: Study on multi-purpose lanes with a narrow core lane on Austria’s open roads

Study on multi-purpose lanes with a narrow core lane on Austria’s open roads. Measurement of objective safety with Holoscene Bike.

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DiToMo – Digitalization of tourist mobility services for the last mile

Climate-friendly travel to leisure and tourism destinations by public transport is not always easy: The destination is often not accessible by public transport or is very difficult to reach, and existing shuttle services are little known. Salzburg Research and mobyome KG aim to close this gap between public transport and tourism destinations through digitalization.

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cityclimAIt – Study on AI applications to achieve and support climate-neutral cities

Recommendation catalogue and tool for AI technologies that support planning, monitoring and forecasting services of city administrations, transport and spatial planning as well as companies on the way to a climate-neutral city

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ESCADE – Energy-Efficient Large-Scale Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Data Centers

Improving the energy balance of data centers, AI applications, and distributed systems through optimal placement of services and applications in the edge-cloud continuum.

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UVAR_Austria – Upgrading the Austrian ITS landscape to implement the EU requirements for Urban Vehicle Access Regulations

UVAR_Austria is developing solutions to provide digital and standardised access restrictions in line with the latest EU regulations. The consortium is drawing up practical recommendations for action and an implementation plan for Austria. Goal: High-quality data for effective traffic management – accessible to all road users, including automated vehicles.

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TeleCareHub – Platform for technology-supported care and support for people with dementia living at home

In the TeleCareHub, a platform is to be created through which various stakeholders, but above all family caregivers of dementia patients, can gain better access to support.

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Autarkity – Self-Sufficiency in Energy Communities: Expectations, Feasibility, and Obstacles

The project examines how innovative technologies can increase energy communities’ degree of self-sufficiency and whether users are actually willing to pay for it.

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zukunftswege.at – Ideas for the Mobility of Tomorrow

Mobility laboratory „zukunftswege.at“ assists research and innovation drivers in the development of their potential, and aims to initiate and help new projects.

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EASY – Energy-efficient analysis and control processes in the dynamic edge-cloud continuum for industrial manufacturing

EASY is researching the application of federated learning to industrial manufacturing processes. This allows for the cost- and energy-efficient use of distributed computing capacities in the edge-cloud continuum. To this end, we are developing a scalable, open-source runtime environment that allows for the dynamic distribution and execution of services described according to industry standards. Salzburg Research is contributing to the analysis and prediction of connection quality between edge and cloud nodes, as well as to the detection of anomalies in industrial communication networks. These contributions will enable the dynamic placement of services in the ideal location. These contributions are being integrated into the runtime environment, and their application is being demonstrated in a laboratory prototype.

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STARS – Black start algorithms through resilient satellite communication

Restoring the power grid after a blackout using modern satellite communication based on satellites close to the earth.

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WETSAFE – Effective detection of hazards and adapted behavior of (autonomous) vehicles in heavy rain events

The WETSAFE project aims to improve safety on freeways during heavy rainfall events by preventing and adapting the driving behavior of manually controlled and (partially) automated vehicles.

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5G-LIVELY – 5G-Ultra Low Latency Live Video Delivery

The development of this low-latency video application and specially optimized 5G mobile network has made it possible for the first time for viewers at events to follow the action in real time and seamlessly switch perspectives on their smartphones without annoying delays, thus enjoying a more direct experience.

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TAAM Austria – Toolbox for Agile urban Accessibility Management – Austrian project part

TAAM aims at a full digital lifecycle being supported by an integrated toolbox of existing web-based tools of consortium members which enables smart cities and regions to create, manage and publish their traffic management strategies or regulations for more sustainable mobility as well as analysing their impact.

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KoDRM-AT – Concept study for the implementation of a national mobility data space in Austria

The R&D service KoDRM.AT addresses the tender priority 3.1.1 National Mobility Data Space and develops legal, organizational and technical concepts and implementation steps on how mobility data can be shared in the future within the framework of a national mobility data space, taking into account European standards and national structures.

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ESTRAL – Ecological and safe transport systems through digitization of the law

ESTRAL develops recommendations for the creation of digital legislation in road transport based on representative use cases for the purpose of increasing the safety, efficiency and sustainability of the transport system as well as the presentation of the resulting benefits.

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SAM-AT – Strategy and implementation preparation for traffic information through integrated traffic management in the mobility system

In the SAM-AT study, the technical and organizational requirements as well as recommended measures for a cross-operator traffic information and traffic management system at national level are being developed.

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GReVity – Holistic, behavior-oriented solutions for rebound management in the field of virtual mobility

Rebound effects are an increasing challenge in the areas of environmental, energy and resource management. The GReVity project is developing measures to counteract the rebound effect in virtual mobility. Acceptance and relevance analyses are carried out in order to develop recommendations for action and thus counteract rebound effects in the best possible way.

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PowerTeams – Collaborative engineering of smart grid applications

Collaborative and partially automated engineering of Smart Grid applications along the entire life cycle.

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CE-PASS (Circular Economy – Digital Product Passport)

CE-PASS is an Austrian industrial research project addressing the issue of sustainability-aware automotive design for the Circular Economy.

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RADBEST – Cycling guidance in confined road conditions

A transnational consortium led by Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft is investigating in objective safety and the subjective perception of safety and is developing evidence-based recommendations for the future planning of cycling infrastructure at bottlenecks.

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Relax: Learning Agent for individualised Stress Management

A learning agent for stress multi-level diagnostics, personalised stress profiles and interventions in the work context

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DyMoN – Dynamic Mobility Nudge: Shaping sustainable urban mobility behaviour with real-time, user-generated and public open data

The “DyMoN” project aims to enrich digital nudging methods with relevant data sources to motivate citizens for more sustainable mobility in cities.

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i-Twin – Semantic Integration Patterns for Data-driven Digital Twins in the Manufacturing Industry

i-Twin investigates interoperability concepts for data-driven digital twins in the manufacturing industry. The project propagates an open source middleware for the integration of operational management systems and connected assets based on semantic integration pat-terns. It aims at reducing the integration effort and allowing exchange of master data and operational data in manufacturing networks. The results are validated in a research laboratory set-up and in an industrial asset management scenario.

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SESPIN – Safe and Efficient S-Pedelec Infrastructure

Study to identify infrastructural or techno-social solutions for the efficient and safe integration of S-Pedelec riders into the general transportation system. Particular attention is paid to interaction with other road users in order to generate recommendations for action that are accepted not only by S-Pedelec riders, but also by all road users. This should lead to increased road safety for everyone and the long-term, sustainable integration of S-Pedelecs into the transportation infrastructure.

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HWS – Platform-based AI System for Human Motion Analysis to optimize Ergonomics of Hybrid Work Systems in Industry

HWS deals with the increasing levels of automation and the use of collaborative robots, making the shop floor a complex socio-technological system whose processes still need to be safe and secure for humans working in these environments. We take a human-centered view on the planning, analyzing and monitoring of industrial work processes.

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Bike2CAV – Avoidance of cyclist collisions thanks to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication

Development and validation of methods for the avoidance of cyclist collisions through vehicle-to-x communication.

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Digital Motion in Sports, Fitness & Well-being

DiMo focuses on human motion data analysis concentrating on assessing the quality of motion. The aim of the project is to measure and interpret motion and emotion through multi-sensor fusion – considering biomechanical, contextual and psychophysiological parameters. more

KOMOA – Concept Study for a Mobility Observatory Austria

Mobility data is playing an increasingly important role in the development of strategies and the planning of measures. In KOMOA, a concept study is being developed for the inclusion of different data bases for the comprehensive and timely provision of situation reports on mobility in Austria.

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ROBxTASK – Cloud platform for vendor-independent exchange of robot control tasks and processes

ROBxTASK enables the easy transfer and combination of tasks and capabilities of social and industrial robots.

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Aid2BeWell – AI-based Emotion Detection and Behaviour Change Robot Support System to Benefit Ageing Well

AID2BeWell is exploring the use of cutting-edge AI technology to develop a robot assistance system (ROSS) that recognises and responds to the mood of older people with Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) to support active and healthy ageing in their own homes.

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RoboGen: Gender-sensitive interaction with social robots

RoboGen develops a prototype with a learning agent, which makes gender-sensitive options accessible to all users via feedback from the users, thus enabling gender-sensitive human-robot interaction and a high degree of personalization. more

R2C2 – Reconfigurable Real-time Communication for Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems

Dynamically reconfigurable software-defined real-time networks with AI support more

SimpliCITY

The project aims to support cities (Salzburg, Uppsala, 5 Follower Cities) through technology-based participation and incentive methods, a toolkit, and a digital marketplace to make better use of innovative, regional, sustainable services, and thus ensure sustainable development of cities (smart city initiatives). more

Digibus® Austria

Exploring and testing methods, technologies and models for the reliable and safe operation of automated vehicles as carriers in a regional, intermodal mobility system. more

fit4AAL

Extendable/adaptable and affordable plug & play solution in order to make the technology-familiar baby boomer generation “fit(ter)” and “fit for the use” of assistive technologies. more

Virtuegrid – Virtualisation for resilient and secure Smart Grid communication networks

Ongoing digitisation of power grids by large numbers of ICT-components for the purpose of extensive integration of renewable energy sources (REC) is demanding for novel system management strategies. The VirtueGrid project evaluates the potentials emerging from using virtualisation technolgies in the area of power grid control. more

MESSE – Model-based Engineering and Validation Support for Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

The massive deployment of distributed generators from renewable sources in recent years has led to a fundamental paradigm change in terms of planning and operation of the electric power system. MESSE develops of a concept for a model-based engineering and validation support system, covering the overall engineering process for smart grid applications – from use case design to validation and deployment. more

IoT4CPS – Trustworthy IoT for CPS

The main focus of IoT4CPS will be on developing, producing and operating, highly trustable components and applications for Connected and Automated Driving. more

EMBS – Energy Management Building Set

The EMBS project develops an innovative, integrated control and planning system for demand-response and optimization of multi-utility/-energy devices and installations. more

MMAssist II

Assistance systems in production in the context of human – machine cooperation more

Callia – smart grid management approach

Development and demonstation of a new smart grid management approach based on the know-how and experiences of multiple regional R&D and demonstration projects. more

ZentrAAL – AAL pilot region Salzburg

Ambient Assisted Living pilot region in Salzburg. more

OPOSSUM – Open Flow based system for multi Energy Domain

OPOSSUM provides a Software-defined Networking infrastructure for multiple domains in a heterogeneous telecom infrastructure. more

I40-Transform

Study to explore new, innovative business models for smart production, with a focus on manufacturing companies. more

Impetus – collaborative ICT based platform for late life depression

Late life depression often remains undiagnosed or gets diagnosed with significant delay. The depression is often a psychological reaction to a variety of aging phenomena. Impetus analyses the requirements for a collaborative platform for easing or preventing late life depression and specifies a model of interactions between the care actors and ICT-based services for depression. more

OpenheaRTEd

The objective of this project is to study the application of software-defined networking (SDN) approaches to real-time Ethernet (RTE) networks. more

ODAAL – Open Data AAL

Open and Big Data for AAL – A Study of the Potential for the Use of Open Data for AAL Topics. more

Maintenance 4.0

Surveys of the needs of manufacturers with respect to maintenance strategies. more

IPEN – IP Infrastructure for Energy Networks

Study of interdependencies between the communication and the electrical network, in particular, how impairments of the communication quality (e.g. large delays, packet loss) affect the quality of control in the electrical network. more

IoT4Industry – Secure, Privacy-preserving Agents for the Industrial Internet

In order to benefit from the emerging Industrial Internet, manufacturing companies will have to adapt their current automation infrastructure. more

CarSense

The CarSense project surveys, tests and assesses different existing and probably upcoming vehicle sensor technologies as potential data sources for road operators.

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CONFIDENCE – Mobility Safeguarding Assistance Service for People with Dementia

The CONFIDENCE project aims at providing mobility and safeguarding assistance services to people suffer from mild to moderate forms of dementia. It intends to develop a novel community-enabled mobility safeguarding assistance service that combines “assistive technologies” with “personal help”. more

AAL Methods

Study: The integration of end users as a critical success factor for the development of AAL products and services more

Innovation Signals – Development of a Social Web Innovation Signals Amplifier

Utilisation of social web and user generated content for innovation purposes for companies in the sports and leisure industry. more

UNDERSTANDER

Exploratory research project for industrial R&D in the field of Business Intelligence (BI) for small to medium enterprises. more

Wudoku

According to international studies 5 – 25 % of all patients with limited mobility (slow-goes and no-goes) are affected by bedsore (lat. decubitus). For prophylaxis and treatment of decubitus, a system will be developed, capable on the one hand to actively involve people with high decubitus risk in decubitus prophylaxis, and which on the other hand eases the encouragement of high risk patients by professional caregivers.  more

PIK – Patient transport management in a crisis

PIK supports emergency response organizations in crisis situations providing automated disposition support of operating resources and to automatize communication with hospitals. more

ServicePLAN+ – dynamic vehicle disposition in the service-industry

In the project ServicePLAN+ a pilot system will be developed and evaluated to calculate inter-modal tours that support dynamic vehicle disposition in the service-industry. more

SafeMotion – integrated mobility safeguarding assistance system for patients suffering from dementia

The project “SafeMotion” will develop and evaluate a new, integrated mobility safeguarding assistance system for patients suffering from dementia with “medium severity”. The goal is to adapt the system for the needs of the patients as well as their immediate surrounding by using an adaptive rule based system so that the best possible support is provided in everyday situations. The cornerstones of this concept are: complete integration of system components into everyday objects, a minimal configuration overhead, and highest reliability of alarms in a distress situations. more

Interfaces for energy management in Smart Grids

Study to identify relevant protocols and interfaces for energy management in Smart Grid infrastructures. more

STEP – online measurements for dispatching of waste disposal vehicles

In STEP, a prototype of a planning system will be developed and that uses online measurements from waste containers for the dispatching of waste disposal vehicles. Waste container measurements such as fill-level and temperature will be integrated into a mathematical planning-procedure to calculate and visualize optimal routes for daily, demand-driven waste disposal using large containers. more

ROFCO – Robust Facility Communication

ICT Infrastructures for in-house communications more

ways2navigate – navigation for pedestrians

The aim of ways2navigate is to close effectively information deficit of pedestrians with novel navigation technologies. The project studies with the help of iterative user experiments which conditions and which target groups are suitable for digital map, language and Augmented Reality technology in order to support pedestrians in an urban environment. more

sTC-net – Subsidiary Traffic Control Network

Traffic Control using Example-based Modelling more

(e-)Accessibility Watch

With the BarrierefreiheitsChecks accessibility test, tourism providers can find out in a mere five minutes whether their facility is handicapped accessible and what further opportunities and potentials accessible tourism offers for them. In addition, we developed a certification system for the accessibility of accommodation providers. more

(e-)Access Lab

Lead users and workshops helped identify the individual problems and needs of people with disabilities in the field of skiing. For innovation reports from the workshops and compact case studies please visit the platform www.active4all.eu. more

ICT-enhanced Equipment Prototyping and Testing

The sporting goods industry often doesn’t gather client and user feedback in a systematic way. Through structuring and electronic processing of the gathered data, this project tries to bridge that gap. The results obtained from this process can be used for future strategic decisions in the field of product development. more

Open Innovation & Community Tools

In what ways can users join the innovation process in the tourism, sports and leisure industry? To answer this question, we identified and assessed different concepts, methods and applications. In addition, we are monitoring and assessing online communities to identify trends and product ideas in the sports industry. more

FEMroute – Consideration of gender-specific requirements for mobile services

So far the producers of mobility supporting systems have often used little more than fancy packaging and design to reach out to female customers. The underlying software solutions, however, usually have been remained unchanged. Female-specific factors in spatial perception and navigation were either not considered sufficiently, or not at all. This ignores studies that have shown gender-specific differences concerning orientation and strategies of path-finding. more

sAssist – mobile assistive systems for the elderly

Study to evaluate the potential and acceptance of mobile assistive systems for the elderly

i-busuu – Language learning on a online social community platform

Innovative solutions for language learning in an online social community more

Smart Move – tripwolf iPhone travel guide

The mobile iPhone application “tripwolf iPhone travel guide“ offers travelers quick (online and offline) access to topical, professional information on different countries, regions and cities. With the help of Augmented Reality, information is automatically displayed right in live view on their iPhone camera. more

FLOW – Dynamical Fleet Scheduling

Design and evaluate a service architecture to utilize real-time traffic information for dynamical fleet scheduling. more

TPA – Route Scheduling for Field Staff

The software prototype enables a significant efficiency increase in route scheduling. It is tailored to meet the requirements of field staff, especially for small and medium-sized companies. more

InterEVENT – Study and pilot demonstration for traffic management at major events

InterEVENT is a pilot study with the goal of supporting traffic management for major events with clearly defined event sites and time frames. more

Quality Based Multimedia Framework

Internet Protocols for efficient Transmission with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) more

 
 
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