Allied ICT Finland focuses on creating joint projects with companies and research institutions. With AIF’s value-adding research, smart specialization and high-technology assets, companies are able to produce competitive offerings to the intense global market. Below you can find some of active or recently finalized projects.
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EAKR rahoitteisessa hankkeessa luodaan tutkimus-, kehitys ja testausympäristö ympäristönsä kanssa vuorovaikutteiseen yhteistyöhön kykenevien älykkäiden ja automaattisesti liikkuvien järjestelmien tutkimusta varten.
This project realizes a new Shared R&D Environment that enables Big Data analytics services to be offered as a part of the emerging 5G test network (http://5gtn.fi/).
Big Data analytics is internationally recognized as a core part of contemporary digital business competence in various business areas. Tight integration to the upcoming 5G test network enables not only high transfer capacity and low latencies, but also different infrastructural models such as central clustering and edge analytics, to be provisioned.
University of Oulu / VTT / Anite / Elisa / Indalgo/ Kaltio Technologies / PehuTec
Novel and versatile communication module for poor network coverage Due to economic efficiency all the machines and the vehicles must be connected to the network all the time to ensure real-time data communication.
• Especially forest machines, mining machines and tractors work occasionally out of cell coverage.
• This product enables the position stamping based on location sensors, also in conditions where satellite positioning is not available
• Target customer markets are in vehicles needing real time fleet and maintenance data flow connections to backend services.
University of Oulu / Lewel Group / PehuTec / Verkotan
Diamond spearhead project to advance printed and stretchable technologies. There are two main themes in the project:
• Biochemical diagnostics focuses on development of roll-to-roll mass-manufacturing of disposable, low-cost diagnostic platform; test strip for blood CRP measurement will be demonstrated in the project.
• Measurement of biosignals develops materials and methods for roll-to-roll fabrication of stretchable electrodes. Demonstrator sensors are fabricated during the project.
Overall aim of this project is to develop cost-efficient manufacturing methods for future mass-produced articles.
Ginolis / Ultracom / Polar / OAMK / University of Oulu / VTT
6Aika -kaupunkialueilla on käynnissä voimakas positiivinen rakennemuutos. Alueittain on muodostunut kasvavia verkostomaisesti operoivia toimialoja, joihin on panostettu ja panostetaan myös jatkossa. Digitalisaatio vaikuttaa kaikkien näiden toimialojen kehitykseen. Kehityksen vauhdissa pysyminen sekä sen myötä syntyvien hyötyjen ja kilpailuedun kotiuttaminen vaativat laajamittaisia panostuksia kaikilla alueilla. Yksi keskeinen pullonkaula digitalisaationhyödyntämisessä on osaamisen ja osaajien vaje.
Hankkeen päätavoitteena on valmentaa nopeasti ammattitaitoista työvoimaa 6Aika –kaupunkien alueilla toimivienyritysten havaittuun digiosaajavajeeseen.
Koulutusten sisältö painottuu alueittain seuraavasti:
Oulu; painettava elektroniikka
Turku; terveysteknologia sekä metalli- ja meriteollisuus, interaktiiviset teknologiat
Tampere; digitaalinen tuotekehitys ja valmistus, 3D-tulostus sekä palvelurobotiikka
Oulun yliopisto (Hallinnoija) / Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu (Oamk) / Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu (TAMK) / Turun Yliopisto (UTU) / Turun ammattikorkeakoulu (TuAMK)
The project defines required information such as legislation and industry or environmental requirements for drone pilot training. Professional drone piloting requires not only awareness of the legal restrictions practicalities of the flight process itself,, but complex technological know-how. This includes 1) the UAV itself and controlling it from the distance: radio controlling systems, flight controllers and/or flight controls, location positioning devices, aerodynamical parts, engines and batteries, and 2) applicable mission control based on industry; varied cameras, sensors and systems used for measuring data real-time analysis, transfer and storage.
University of Oulu / Centria Ylivieska / OAMK
Enhance your fitness Avatar while training at HOME or on the GO. Earn virtual money when doing physical exercise or training in the game. Spend virtual money across different games an in the real world.
Gamification, sensor technologies and mobile games offer tools for enhancing more active and healthier lifestyle. FiVi -project is developing a new Fitness Village concept bringing together global business areas of mobile gaming and fitness in new and unique way.
The concept consists of a
• Mobile game
• Virtual currency
• Health clubs
• A webstore
Fitness Village / Spotsnutrition.fi / Fingersoft / University of Oulu / VTT
Flex-in-glass project creates solutions for design, integrated manufacturing value-chains and IoT based product life-time management for novel, intelligent laminated glass products and services.
The flex-in-glass solution is based on a transparent and flexible plastic foil substrate with assembled LEDs and sensor components as well as IoT connectivity, laminated as an integrated part of glass surface. The objective of the project is to develop transparent and environment-proof smart surface for public transportation and buildings.
Pilkington Automotive Finland / Teknoware / Lasiliiri / Flexbright / Kone / Elisa / Focalspec / VTT / University of Oulu / OAMK
The InnoCAPE project enhances the capacity of digital innovation hubs (DIHs) in the Baltic Sea region, which accelerate the implementation of digitalisation strategies and policies designed by public authorities. InnoCAPE brings together public authorities from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland and Norway. For more information, visit Innocape web site.
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Business Finlandin, yritysten ja tutkimuslaitosten rahoittama ekosysteemi digitalisoi Suomen valmistavaa teollisuutta ketterän yhdessä tekemisen, kokemusten jakamisen ja SME-yhteistyön kautta. Jokainen mukana oleva pilottitehdas pyrkii parantamaan tuotantonsa tehokkuutta. Kokemukset onnistumisista sekä haasteista jaetaan hankkeen toimijoiden kesken.
Nokia, Oulu ABB Protection and Connection unit, Vaasa Ponsse Plc, Vieremä GE Healthcare Finland, Helsinki KONGSBERG Maritime, Rauma Scanfil Oyj / Scanfil EMS, Sievi Sulzer, Karhula ABB Wiring Accessories unit, Porvoo / VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. & The University of Oulu / Åbo Akademi University (ÅAU) / Aalto University
Ruby is an enabling technology research project linked to spearhead project Diamond. In order to enable a major leap in connected wellness and diagnostic monitoring, Ruby addresses two main topics:
1) Transfer from indicative single analyte tests to quantitative multiplexed
Analysis
2) Low-cost integration of connectivity electronics into plastic platforms while
maintaining high performance.
Ruby aims to develop wearable diagnostics for sweat-related biomarkers and to improve RF properties in wearable devices via means of material selection and development of fabrication method. Ruby approach includes lot of computing by means of developing algorithms and simulation models. These methods are also tested in practice for example by fabricating demonstrators and carrying out measurements.
Ginolis / Ultracom / Polar / OAMK / University of Oulu / VTT
HILLA Soccer develops a platform for location based services for soccer games and training including:
• Indoor positioning:
• ±15 cm 2D accuracy at soccer field
• Online tracking of the players and balls
• Based on Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radio positioning (TDOA)
• UWB tag system building blocks
• Positioning and sensor tag for players and balls
• Positioning base stations
• Special ball structure to enable tag integration inside a ball
• Soccer Position Server
• Offers position information for any external services based on real time position information on the players and balls
• The base technology may be utilized in other application areas:
• Asset tracking: Indoor, construction field, mine field
• Mobile work machine tracking
• Person tracking: Security and safety applications
OAMK / University of Oulu / VTT
SP400-projektissa luodaan uudenlainen automaattinen automaattikonsepti, joka tuo palvelun lähemmäksi asiakasta ja parantaa asiakaspalvelua. Tavoitteena on myös että automaatti toimii sähköttömästi/ilman kiinteää sähköliittymää. Tarkoituksena on luoda tuotteistettu ratkaisu Postin palvelutoiminnoille ja tehdä tällä ratkaisulla uutta liiketoimintaa kansainvälisillä markkinoilla.
Posti Oyj / VTT / Oulun Yliopisto (CWC) / Capricode / elfGroup / iProtoXi / Haltian / Juha Punta Oy / Kaltiot / Solmutech / Symbio / Verkotan
The project at the Faculty of Information Technology in University of Jyväskylä will realize a preliminary information ecosystem for personalized sports and wellbeing analytics.
The technological basis is information resource management using cloud and IoT-technologies (Internet-of-Things) and the main application areas are to support coaching and development of services for active citizens utilizing exercise and well-being analytics to improve the quality of life.
Technological solutions and operational models will serve and boost the development of Jyväskylä as the center of Finnish sports and well-being. The project supports the Hippos development plan and the rapid increase in global RDI and business activities in sports and well-being analytics in Central Finland.
The abbreviation UTV comes from the Finnish project
name “Urheilun TietoVarannon hallinta ja ekosysteemi”.
University of Jyväskylä: Faculty of Information Technology and Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, The Finnish Olympic Committee and Business Jyväskylä.
Risto Talja
risto.a.talja@jyu.fi
Vähähiilisyyttä edistävät drooniratkaisut (VED) – hyödyntämismallit ja käyttöönoton toimenpidesuositukset
Hankkeessa rakennetaan Pohjois-Pohjanmaan yritysten ja toteuttajaorganisaatioiden käyttöön drooni-ratkaisujen pilotointi- ja testausympäristö. Hankkeessa kehitetään innovatiivisia drooni-ratkaisuja ja uusia ympäristöä vähemmän kuormittavia toimintatapoja
vähähiilisyyden edistämiseksi ja drooni-ratkaisujen käytön laajentamiseksi eri sovelluskohteisiin. Tavoitteena on pilottien avulla todentaa drooni-ratkaisujen ympäristövaikutus ja arvioida liiketoimintamahdollisuudet eri sovelluskohteissa.
OAMK / Oulun yliopisto / VTT
National Smart Campus RDI Network is an innovation engine proposed by Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences, which aims to give companies an easy access to RDI services offered by various campuses through a joint process, novel platform architecture and shared core services.
The RDI network, together with 6G Flagship program, will share trailblazing research visions, world-leading technology and education competences with companies while responding to their RDI and capacity building needs thus shorting the path from research to business and boosting human-centered digitalization.
The project will carry out a technical study of Smart Campus platform focusing on the RDI of a distributed secure open-source platform and it will define the essential aspects of the Smart Campus services to be developed and utilized in a timely and ethically sustainable manner. Project partners will pilot initial solutions in vertical industries together with company collaborators.
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Hankkeen tavoitteena on helpottaa vesilaitosten jätevesiverkoston hallintaa kehittämällä työkaluja ja menetelmiä jätevesiverkoston datan hallintaan ja käsittelyyn tietoturvallisella tavalla hyödyntäen pilvipalvelua.
02/2020 – 01/2023
Oulun Vesi, Kempeleen vesihuoltolaitos, Kuopion Vesi, HSY, Colloidtek, Dewaco, Digita, Flowplus, Fluidit, HYXO, Neuroflux, Pipelife, Planora, Ramboll, Trimble Solutions, Vesitieto ja Oulun yliopisto
• Development of GPS Air Performance Test method that moves field testing into the laboratory
• Verifies the full Over-the-Air GPS performance of the product taking into account the hand movement and body shadowing
• Target customer markets are GPS device manufacturers, especially sport watch manufacturers
Verkotan / Pulse Electronics / Polar / University of Oulu / VTT / Tekes
Connectivity requirements in the wearables with focus in
• Use cases and requirements for wearables.
• Co-existence management in wearable environment.
• Antenna and RF front-end implementation for wearable multi-standard devices.
• Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) channel modelling.
• Co-existence test environment design.
University of Oulu / VTT / Keysight Technologies / Polar / Pulse Electonics / Verkotan
