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Intelligente Stromnetze für die Energiewende - internationale Fachkonferenz in Wien
der intelligenten Stromnetze diskutieren. Getreu dem Motto der EDST 2015 "From pilot projects to roll out of smart grid solutions" beschäftigt sich die Veranstaltung nicht nur mit dem
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Summer University Green.Building.Solutions.
passive house standards, the aim was to share this first-hand ecological knowledge, engineering expertise and best practice examples. As a consequence from July 25 to August 16, 33 students from 15 different [...] Energy Experts of AIT presented results from national and international research projects on the nexus to the research topics smart cities, smart grids, photovoltaics and thermal energy systems. On a
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Successful PhD thesis defence on Rapid Control Prototyping for Smart Grids
validation methodologies and advanced simulation tools for smart grid systems. Especially with regard to the AIT SmartEST Lab his research provides a good basis for future cooperation both with industrial [...] development and evaluation. The PhD thesis is freely accessible from the TU Wien library web page.Link to OFFIS: http://www.offis.de/Universitätsbibliothek TU Wien: http://catalogplus.tuwien.ac.at/
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Team Austria wins Solar Decathlon 2013 with LISI!
hosted by the US Department of Energy to promote the application of solar technologies in buildings. In January 2012, the DOE selected twenty university teams to compete in the Solar Decathlon 2013, which [...] homes designed and built by student teams were open to the public and evaluated by a jury. Team Austria was one of only two European teams invited to SD 2013 (the other being from the Czech Republic). The [...] of the Supervisory Board Hannes Androsch, Managing Director Wolfgang Knoll, Head of Energy Department Brigitte Bach and Head of Corporate Communication Michael Hlava amongst them - thanks for keeping finger´s
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And the winner is…
system took into consideration also the public who was allowed to do was by casting their option in a voting box. This award was intended to recognize the most promising project of the AAL Joint Programme [...] An existing outdoor walker is extended with an efficient, powerful e-drive, to be combined with ICT technology in order to offer seamless outdoor and indoor navigation and activity-oriented assistive [...] equip an offroad-walker with a tablet and an e-drive system enabling people with mobility limitations to walk and hike in the nature. The contest was held on 26 September during a plenary session of the AAL
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Giving seniors access to smart technologies
Commissioner for Digital Agenda2. Karina Marcus, Director at AAL3. Peter WINTLEV- JENSEN, Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission, DG CNECT4. MEP Lambert Van Nistelorooij The talks focussed
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IECON 2013: AIT organises the world’s largest conference on industrial electronics
An Industry Forum gave representatives from industry and research the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences and to forge networks across scientific disciplines and industrial sectors. “Looking back [...] Austria Center Vienna for the 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society from 11 to 14 November. IECON 2013, the world’s largest conference on industrial electronics was organised by [...] Technology. “We are proud that we have succeeded in bringing this prestigious large-scale conference to Austria for the first time”, said Peter Palensky, AIT Principal Scientist and conference organiser
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From attack trees to attack navigators
in information risk at the Delft University of Techology (TU Delft), in the Netherlands. In addition to this position, he is the project manager of the EU-funded TRESPASS project at University of Twente [...] challenges of carrying out cybersecurity risk assessment for today’s complex systems, which are subjected to increasingly sophisticated attacker behaviour. In the lecture, the attack navigator concept was introduced [...] brochure. The slides from Prof Pieters’ presentation are available on request; please send an email to cybersecurity-lectures(at)ait.ac.at for a copy.The Cybersecurity Lecture Series is a joint initiative
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Young European Associated Researchers (YEAR)
this last one is still to be decided, so don’t hesitate to send your inputs until 15 November to Caroline Lemeire, YEAR Chair at caroline.lemeire@vito.be.Looking further ahead to next year: In May 2014 [...] the next YEAR Workshop "from project idea to successful project proposal" will take place in Vienna. Once again, a YEAR Award will be given to the most promising participant. In September, in [...] successful YEAR workshop in Trondheim and a well-deserved Summer holiday, the YEAR Board is back on track to prepare the coming events. In November, there will be a seminar with the European Commission on Resource
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New Cybersecurity Tool
detection) is a detection technique which keeps track of system events, their dependencies and occurrences, to learn the “normal” system behavior over time and reports all actions that differ from a dynamically
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Magnesium-Akkus sollen Elektroautos Beine machen
inefficient batteries. Click here to find out more about magnesium batteries and read the entire interview, published on April 7th 2014 on futurezone.at. Dr. Christian Chimani, Head of Mobility Department des [...] Dr. Christian Chimani, Head of Mobility Department of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, spoke in an interview with futurezone.at about the bright future of electro mobility, but also
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Best Paper Award at "SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference“ in San Francisco
result, we show that the adversary’s information can be reduced to an amount of I_AE~ 0.20752 when using a single basis transformation and to an amount of I_AE~ 0.0548 when combining two different basis [...] this year´s IS&T/SPIE International Conference on Electronic Imaging, which took place from 2nd to 6th of February in San Francisco.Paper abstractIn this article, we discuss the optimality of basis [...] tions as a security measure for quantum key distribution protocols based on entanglement swapping. To estimate the security, we focus on the information an adversary obtains on the raw key bits from a
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Cybersecurity Lecture Series 2014
largely due to the fact that regulatory constraints have been overlooked in these works, and summarised the main paradigms and preconditions from European regulation, referring in particular to the conditions [...] talk by sharing advice that any well-founded approach to smart grid information security and privacy should consider these constraints in order to be actually applicable. The first Cybersecurity Lecture [...] largely due to the fact that regulatory constraints have been overlooked in these works, and summarised the main paradigms and preconditions from European regulation, referring in particular to the conditions
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AIT technologies at Singapore Airshow
From 11th to 16th of February 2014 latest airborne systems, equipment and technologies from more than 1,000 companies from 47 countries were presented in the Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore. The [...] the Austrian Economic Chamber. The AIT 3D vision expert Christoph Sulzbachner and Helmut Leopold, Head of AIT Safety & Security Department presented among the other Austrian companies Schiebel, Airborne
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AIT ICT Security Panel in Washington DC
knowledge of cyber-security, resilience and future energy systems. They reflected on existing efforts to secure smart grids and discussed about areas where they sense future research and standardization of [...] secure and, most importantly, safe manner.The panel was a great success and resulted in an invitation to organize another panel at next year's conference.The ISGT conferenceThe Innovative Smart Grid Technologies [...] (ISGT) Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), is a forum for participants to discuss state-of-the-art innovations in smart grid technologies and features plenary sessions, mul
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1st Short-term Visual Object Tracking Challenge in Sydney successfully accomplished
tracking methods. To address this issue, AIT co-organized the Visual Object Tracking (VOT) workshop in conjunction with ICCV2013. Researchers from academia as well as industry were invited to participate in [...] recent surge in the number of publications on tracking-related problems have made it almost impossible to follow the developments in the field. One of the reasons is that there is a lack of commonly accepted
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AIT Keynote at GameDays 2014
and thus help to improve the effectiveness of the intervention. TV-based games are often oriented along traditional video games. External sensors like video cameras can be incorporated to provide direct [...] also be utilized to reassess the status of the user and monitor his/her training progress. Mobile devices and the large range of available body worn sensors offer the opportunity to design games around [...] daily and outdoor activities. By adding a social level to the games, competition and group efforts can be initiated, giving further motivation to reach a certain goal. Further information: http:
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Software innovation: boosting high-tech employment and industry
Components), funded by the EU. About SafeCerSafeCer is targeting increased efficiency and reduced time-to-market by composable safety certification of safety-relevant embedded systems. The industrial domains [...] the capital of Sweden – Stockholm – the sixth edition of the annual Co-summit took place from 4th to 5th December in the Scandic Infra Business Center. More than 700 participants from industry, academia
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E-ARK gets £6M to save digital data
The European Commission has awarded £6M to archiving and digital preservation specialists to create E-ARK, a revolutionary method of archiving data that is set to become the gold standard across Europe [...] business opportunities for the access to and re-use of archival data by supporting Open Access to archival records and data mining of these records in order to find valuable trends and correlations [...] including ‘big data,’ are future-proofed. (Big data is data sets of such a size that it is difficult to manage with traditional software and databases.)Digital preservation specialists at the University
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Open Security for public institutions
project develops security solutions to prevent loss and (un)intentional misuse of sensitive, citizen-related data held by public bodies. The aim of our research is to achieve a higher level of data security