Prosjektrapport

Sensorer Overalt har laget en prosjektrapport for perioden 2008 til 2011 med noen blikk inn i fremtiden.

Hele rapporten kan du finne her

 

personalised Health challenges

The pHealth 2012 International Conference – Invitation to Porto, Portugal, June 26 – 28, 2012

THE CONFERENCE

The 9th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health (pHealth) has emerged as the leading international meeting on wearable micro and nano technologies for personalized medicine. Starting in 2004, pHealth has attracted scientists for various technologies, medical doctors, and policy makers from the healthcare industry, hospital administration and allied professionals.

Collecting a dynamic professional community from Europe and all over the world pHealth has given visibility to the tremendous potential of micro and nano technologies not only for the future of medicine, but also for the improvement of healthcare processes today.

Microsystems, smart textiles, telemedicine, smart implants and sensor-controlled medical devices have become important enablers for monitoring and treatment in both inpatient and outpatient care.

This is, however, just the beginning of revolutionary changes and significant opportunities are given for patients, companies and the healthcare industry.

The multilateral benefits of pHealth technologies for all three stakeholders lead to a triple win situation with enormous potential, not only for medical quality improvement and industrial competitiveness, but also for managing healthcare cost. We welcome you to the city of Oporto for the pHealth conference to share experiences and results!

The Call for Contributions -

- WHAT TO SUBMIT

Submission to pHealth 2012 includes full papers and demonstrations abstracts. The organizers do not encourage the submission of posters as such. Papers that tend to be better presented as a poster will be recommended for becoming a poster presentation to the authors by the organizers.

- HOW TO SUBMIT

Submit your high-quality full papers and demonstrations abstracts to pHealth 2012.

The manuscript format instructions as well as further information are available. The length of the submitted manuscripts should not exceed 4 pages and should strictly follow the formatting rules of the provided IOS Press template.

If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact send an email 

 

Postdoc application

My name is Jiaying Song and I am currently pursuing my PhD in the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety at Beijing Jiaotong University under the guidance of Prof. Zhangdui Zhong and Prof. Xu Li, expecting to complete all requirements for the degree by July 2011. I am writing to inquire about the position of post-doctoral fellow in your group.

My research focuses on the radio resource management and distributed networking including performance analysis, cross-layer design, quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning and mobility management. The research combined ideas from distributed computing, graphic theory, optimization theory and game theory. So far, some interesting results are obtained on available capacity for TDMA-based wireless mesh networks, mobility management using cooperative transmission, QoS-aware distributed scheduling by performing joint routing and resource scheduling, QoS-aware bit and power allocation based on game theory, and wireless sensor network model for heavy haul transportation.

In addition, I am an expert member of Working Group on Sensor Networks (WGSN) of China National Information Technology Standardization (http://www.nits.org.cn/wgsn) and have proposed the network layer protocol part of the specification for WGSN. In the curriculum vitae attached to this email, I have listed some related works.

I am very interested in the research field of the distributed networking, wireless multihop networks and their implementation, and so attracted by your work.

I would very much like to join your group and research effort and would like to enquire whether you have a job opening and if you would give me the opportunity to prove myself.

Dr. Peter Pharow for contact info

 

FP7 Security

Topic SEC-2012.1.3-2 Home made explosives (HMEs) and recipes characterisation – Capability Project (published July 20)
Description of topic: The objective is to establish basic knowledge hitherto unknown about HMEs; their
composition and characterisation. The task is also to review freely available recipes (for
instance on Internet) and to evaluate their dangerousness.
During the study, several basic questions should be answered:
- How can HMEs be produced from ordinary commercially available chemicals and
materials?
- What type of chemicals are available freely today for the direct use in HMEs?
- How can freely available chemicals be easily chemically changed or concentrated so that they can be used for the production of HMEs?
- What are the concentration limits of precursors or HME formulations for them to be
usable by terrorists?
- What is the chemical stability of HME? (What time span does a terrorist have between the production of an HME and the execution of an attack?)
- What can be done to prevent or inhibit the production of HMEs?
The research of this project must be performed in close collaboration with manufacturers of precursors. This project also requires the participation from end users such as police or security forces. Extensive attention should be given to dual-use and ethical issues.
Funding schemes: Collaborative Project (small or medium-scale focused research project)
Expected impact: To increase the security of European citizens and polices forces through a better knowledge of HMEs; to reduce the possible occurrence of events using HME; to help the detection of bomb factories with a better knowledge of the chemicals involved.

Might be highly relevant for those interesting into follow-up after Oslo bombing July 22.

 

Den nasjonale forskerskolen “Nanoteknologi for mikrosystem”

Den nasjonale forskerskolen “Nanoteknologi for mikrosystem” arrangerte 15.-17.6.11 en vellykket workshop med over 70 deltagere – PhD-studenter, forskere og lærekrefter fra UoH- og instituttsektor samt relevante personer fra næringslivet. 27 foredrag og 15 postere viste at forskerskolen med finansiering fra NANOMAT er kommet godt i gang og leverer viktige resultater i tillegg til gode PhD-kandidater.
Jeg fikk i oppdrag om å høre hva de hadde si om sensorer. Det var veldig stort fokus på grunnstoffer og oppbygging av sensorer, ikke mye bruk og bruksområder. De alle fleste var enige om at silikon virket best som substrat, for så å si alle brukte det.
Etter mange foredrag om grunnstoffer og oppbygging kom det opp en danske som skulle legge fram sitt foredrag om sensorer i vann. De sensorene kunne måle absolutt alt som varme, bølger osv. Det som var så genialt med de sensorene var at de kunne lade opp batteriene sine selv ved hjelp av sola og solceller, dermed trengte de ikke å bytte batterier på ca 5 år.
Det var også en annen som presenterteå en sensor som merket om du var dehydrert som også hørtes ut som et spennende prosjekt, men foredragsholderen hadde ikke kommet noe spesielt langt fram til å vise noe av dette.
Awards! This year’s award for best student poster was given to A. Mazid Munshi at Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunication at NTNU for the poster Positioned self‐catalyzed GaAs nanowire arrays on Si substrates grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The award for best student presentation was given to Kristin Elisabeth Haugstad at Dept. of Physics at NTNU for the talk on Force probes with picoNewton sensitivity applied to study carbohydrate – carbohydrate self interactions. CONGRATULATIONS!!

 

FP7 Nanovitenskap, nanoteknologi, Materialer og nye Produksjonsteknologier ( FP7 NMP )

Mål for programmet:

Å forbedre konkurranseevnen til europeisk industri og generere kunnskap som kan bidra til å forandre industrien fra ressursbasert til kunnskapsbasert.

Fokus er blant annet på muliggjørende teknologier som kan bidra til større endringer både for høyteknologisk og mer tradisjonell industri.

NMP har følgende hovedområder
1. Nanoteknologi (inkl. nanovitenskap)
2. Nye Materialer
3. Nye Produksjons- og prosessteknologier
4. Integrasjon (kombinasjoner av de tre områdene ovenfor inn mot enkeltsektorer)

Fra 2009 har NMP i tillegg støttet Kommisjonens satsing inn mot sektorene vareproduksjon, bygg og anlegg og bilindustrien, de såkalte Private-Public Partnerships (PPP). Dette finnes i delutlysningene Factories of the Future, Energy efficient Buildings og Green Cars initiative.

Alle utlysningene har tema som ligger innenfor alle hovedområdene og de tre PPP-områdene.

Generelt mottar programmet/aktiviteten søknad fra:

Programmet mottar søknader fra alle forskningsmiljøer samt brukere av resultatene fra forskningsprosjektene. Spesielt oppfordres SME-bedrifter til å søke, minimum 15% av støtten er allokert disse og i SME-dedikerte prosjekt må SMB-andelen være 35% av totalt støttebeløp.

Varighet:

2007-2013

Totalbudsjett:

Totalt mer enn 3,5 milliarder € for hele programperioden.

 

Norwegian PhD Network on Nanotechnology for Microsystems

The Norwegian PhD Network in Nanotechnology for Microsystems will arrange a 3-days workshop in Oslo, from 15th to 17th of June 2011. The workshop is open to all PhD candidates, thesis advisors, researchers and industrial partners from the nanotechnology/microsystmes field in Norway. There is no conference fee. Travel, food and hotel will be covered by the Nano-network for all PhD candidates and thesis advisores who are part of the network.

Last year’s workshop was held in Tønsberg from 31st May to 2nd June 2010. There were 30 oral presenations, 22 posters and 95 participants.

 

Tunnels and ITS Symposium 2011

In Bergen, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and ITS Norway, organize the first international symposium on the development and deployment of intelligent transport systems for high and low traffic density tunnels. The ITS and Tunnels Symposium will be held 15^th and 16^th of June 2011.

Tunnels and ITS – efficiency and safety
The past 15 to 20 years have shown ITS – Intelligent Transport Systems and Services – to be in the forefront when efficient and safe traffic solutions are designed. These solutions have considerable returns in a national economic perspective, making it possible to gain a higher throughput of traffic on the existing road network.

Tunnels are currently the main user of ITS equipment, due to the potential for catastrophic accidents. As maintenance of this equipment is expensive, life cycle cost is crucial. The need for efficient and safe solutions in tunnels is growing in pace with the increase in traffic density. Accordingly, planning for traffic breakdown situations in tunnels is gaining in importance. The possibility of an increase in the frequency of complete standstills in vital urban tunnel networks makes ITS solutions critical.

Symposium goal and focus
The organising committee is well aware of the more established tunnel conferences in Graz and Hamburg. The symposium “Tunnels and ITS” seeks to complement these conferences by focusing particularly on traffic conditions, ITS solutions for traffic, safety from the driver’s perspective, and operational efficiency. The main goal of the symposium, is improvements in the design and lifetime span of tunnel equipment. The focus should be on expected lifetime and maintenance, as well as on new technology (50/50).

For registrations click here

In Bergen, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and ITS Norway, organize the first international symposium on the development and deployment of intelligent transport systems for high and low traffic density tunnels. The ITS and Tunnels Symposium will be held 15^th and 16^th of June 2011.

 

European developments on ITS

This report focuses on the ITS developments and implementations in Europe that have specific relevance to Policy Frameworkin the European Union (EU.

There are a number of related ITS policy strands that are progressing:

Proposed Directive – 2010/40/EU adopted by European Parliament and European Council (August). Lays out six priority areas for initial ITS deployment across European Member States.

 EU-wide multi-modal travel information services

 EU-wide real-time traffic information services

 Road safety-related minimum universal traffic information

 Interoperable EU-wide eCall

 Information services for safe & secure parking places for trucks & commercial vehicles

 Reservation services for safe & secure parking places for trucks & commercial vehicles

There are some 9 secondary areas for development including co-operative systems and architecture. European Commission (EC) has six months to produce a workplan for deployment. This Directive will be transposed into Member States’ national law within 18 months. There is a strong relationship between the Directive and the ITS Action Plan.

The Directive does not demand mandatory deployment, but with a cost effectiveness test, does demand that new deployments conform to the yet-to-be-published ‘Specifications’. Clearly existing standards have an important role in the shaping of these Specifications.

ITS Action Plan – was published by EC in December 2008. This is a policy instrument to “… to create the momentum necessary to speed up market penetration of rather mature ITS application and services in Europe”.

Urban ITS Action Plan – The EC is preparing an urban ITS action plan for proposed publication in 2011. An expert consultative panel has been established; this includes representatives from the UK’s UTMC community and equivalent OTS community in German.

Mandate M/453 – Standardisation of Co-operative Systems. Oct. ’09 EC issues invitation to the European Standardisation Bodies (CEN, CENELEC, ETSI) to provide a minimum set of standards for the deployment of co-operative systems. CEN and ETSI have positively responded to this invitation and have provided a joint response laying out some 68 standards areas that need development towards ENs (European Standards). The work programme is challenging at 30 months duration.

US-EU co-operation – joint agreement on research of co-operative systems, established in November 2009.

EC ICT Standardisation Work Programme 2010-13, which reiterates many of the same themes as mentioned in the items above.

 

Maritim kalender 2011

Maritim kalender for 2011 utgitt av NCE Maritime, Ålesund er tilgjengelig her