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Initiative Trust in Cloud
damit aber eine Hybrid-Cloud. Dabei bedienen wir uns stark den SaaS-Ansätzen, u.a. im Hinblick auf Time-to-Market.“ Mit Hilfe der Cloud wird Mitarbeitern die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, von überall auf alle [...] diesen Grund unterstützen wir Initiativen wie "Trust in Cloud."", so Helmut Leopold, Head of Digital Safety & Security Department.Weitere Informationen Trust in CloudVideo: OMV Group-CIO
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AIT Energy @ Austrians Photovoltaic Conference in Linz
us furthermore a strong position to provide our customers the know-how along the entire value chain – from the solar cell to PV Power Systems”, says Christoph Mayr, Head of Business Unit Photovoltaic Systems [...] most important committees to develop the future standards in the field of PV Modules testing requirements and construction of PV plants. “These activities give AIT the possibility to shape general frameworks [...] standards. The results of the working packages within the IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Program were shown to complete AIT’s contribution.Energy leads projects within the international PV Power Systems ProgramThe
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Österreichs Energie-Preis
Mobility, Electric Drive Technologies im November 2014 seine Masterarbeit über "Einfluss von Vehicle to Grid Applikationen auf die Alterung von Lithium-Ionen Batterien". Im Rahmen des Österreichs Energie [...] Elektrofahrzeugen und im Speziellen die zusätzlich auftretende Alterung durch die Anwendung von Vehicle-to-Grid und die dadurch entstehenden Selbstkosten pro entnommener Kilowattstunde beim Fahrzeughalter.
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Rescue of the Aral Sea
invited to actively participate in Working Session 1. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the situation in the Aral Sea Basin and mobilize the efforts of international community to carry out [...] In the early 1960s the Aral Sea used to play a main role in the development of region’s economy, having become ‘the heart’ of fishing industry. Today, the Aral Sea has become a desert area of 5.5 million [...] with a speech from The President of Uzbekistan Islom Karimov pointing out, that statistics is not able to picture the full extent of the humanitarian catastrophe in the Aral Sea region: shortage of water resources
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EU-funded graduate program holds second Training Module in Vienna, including Poster Award at Vienna City Hall.
modelling, district energy, electrical appliance modelling, and data management will be held, in addition to basic research skills training. The CI-NERGY Fellows, eleven Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and two [...] City of Vienna will host the event, leading with discussions about ‘Smart City Wien’ and challenges to energy management in the city. A Poster Session by the students of the Vienna International School
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ComForEn 2014 – AIT Industry Day
online monitoring of more and low voltage substations. In order to manage the growing number of distributed generators, new functionalities have to be integrated at secondary substation level. Furthermore, IT [...] scientific event that brings together energy and information technology experts from science and industry to discuss emerging topics in the context of current Austrian smart grids research projects. AIT Industry [...] SubstationsThe ComForEn Industry Day brings together equipment providers and grid operators. The event aims to exchange experience and information on latest developments in the context of secondary substation
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AIT 3D Innovation won entry at VISION 2014 Shortlist
HDR Depth Camera for Real-time 3D 360 ° Panoramic Vision of Autonomous Vehicles " won an entry to the VISION 2014 Shortlist as one of the best innovations. The AIT technology was nominated by Imaging
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AIT Keynote at Summer School in Dresden
Dresden was an exciting place from September 21 to 26, 2014, when the Interdisciplinary Summer School took place at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the TU in Dresden.Among some other high [...] Summer School had been focusing on the subject of “Inclusive Innovations in Health Care” and according to this, Peter Kastner was talking in his lecture about “The Internet of Things 4 pHealth”. The workshop [...] workshop on the following question: “Which kind of information sources and parameters should be included to improve the prediction of risk for worsening of heart failure and why?”The group picture only gives
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New EU-Project CARONTE (“Creating an Agenda for Research ON Transportation sEcurity”) started
terrorism, theft, cyber-attacks or vandalism – and how to assess them? More crucially, how to develop the capabilities and situational awareness needed to guard against these in the future, while ensuring [...] sEcurity”) is now exploring these issues. “Policymakers need guidance for such questions in order to shape the EU’s Security Research agenda in this critical sector but respecting the importance of efficient [...] Fraunhofer, Germany’s leading applied research institute and CARONTE’s coordinator. “We’re now working to a tight timetable, but the composition of our research group is a strong one, and we’re confident the
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AIT Vorträge auf dem International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC)
and are indication for further surface degradation right up to rail break. Due to security issues, defects have to be recognized early in order to take countermeasures in time. By means of differently colored [...] hypotheses in the EPI domain, which can directly be related to depth. The considered methods used in hypothesis assessment, which belong to a broader class of block-matching algorithms, are modified sum [...] by a shape-from-focus algorithm. A linear sharpness measure is shown to be computational advantageous as computational refocusing to a specific depth and sharpness assessment of each refocused image can
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YEAR - Annual Conference 2015
on key aspects of EU projects. For the 2015 edition, supported by EU FOSTER project, YEAR chooses to focus the conference on Open Science in Horizon 2020. This event provides young researchers with a [...] access requirements in H2020 projects and Open Data Pilots.Day 2:the young researchers are invited to come with a project idea relying on, or promoting open research data/open science aspects. YEAR Award:The [...] be awarded. The Award Consist of a European Project Management training course and 5000 euros each to further develop the project ideas. Date: 11th - 12th of May 2015, VTT - Technical Research Centre
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Presentation of AIT Senior Scientist in the Austrian Parliament on Democratic Innovations
financial market related, economic and social crises. In such a situation political systems are subject to debates about their legitimacy. Do we have a crisis of democracy, of which falling approval rates of [...] at elections are a proof? How can we make our democratic systems more resilient and more attractive to citizens? The answer lies in democratic innovations that are currently institutionalised in many political
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EU SPARKS Stakeholder Workshop 2015
major goal of the workshop was to highlight to stakeholders the serious nature of the cybersecurity threat to smart grid. In addition, the consortium presented their response to this threat. The workshop concluded [...] cascading effects. The aim of this activity is to identify security gaps in current and future smart grid deployments. Security technologies will be developed to address these gaps, which will be evaluated [...] concluded with presentations from projects that are related to SPARKS: the EU-funded HyRiM project, coordinated by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, is tasked with investigating novel risk metrics
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AIT at Boehringer Ingelheim
delegation of 15 life science companies to Boehringer Ingelheim, Biberach in Germany. During the two day exhibition, the companies presented their innovations and services to decision makers of the Boehringer
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AIT presented successful results of MetaPV project in Brussels
aimed to test and implement voltage control strategies based on reactive power from PV and battery storage. This is a big step in enabling the development and connection of more renewable power to achieve [...] The closing event of the MetaPV project was held in Brussels to present the project’s conclusions and recommendations for policy-makers, regulators, industry and technical experts. The MetaPV project [...] Flanders, Belgium, how PV can actively support grid management in hosting distributed generation and how to integrate an increasing share of variable renewables in the grid. Together with the project partners
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EU Horizon 2020 Project PRISMACLOUD Kick-Off
From February 24th to 25th the official kick-off of the EU Horizon 2020 project PRISMACLOUD (Privacy and Security Maintaining Services in the Cloud) took place in Vienna, Austria. The meeting was hosted
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iniGrid: smart components for active distribution networks
are monitored only to a limited extent. An Austrian consortium led by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology has initiated the iniGrid project to develop smart sensors and actuators to fill this information [...] is gaining importance to enable targeted grid management as well as fast fault detection and elimination. Real-time measurements of operating parameters are currently restricted to the large transmission [...] for the medium-voltage grid to allow comprehensive grid monitoring in real time. Finally, the smart components will be integrated into a secure automation infrastructure to ensure a seamless flow of i
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AIT Energy develops urban planning tool for urban governance
needed to actively analyse, plan and manage the urban environment. The project consortium under the lead of Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD created a tool to give answers to following [...] following questions: How to support citizen & stakeholder engagement in the planning decision making process? How to understand the socio-economic dynamic of cities and city regions? How to communicate the [...] decisions are the most convenient and understandable solution for presenting spatial planning alternatives to the public. Mobility Explorer In today’s world, wireless mobile communication devices establish and
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AIT Energy presents Smart Cities projects @ the Expo in Barcelona
Smart Cities Expo gave us an excellent occasion to present our services and projects in front of an very much interested audience, so Doris Österreicher, Head of Business Unit Sustainable Buildings and Cities [...] tunnel into a site-wide energy system that uses waste heat to warm office buildings. The expected impact is maximization of waste heat use to increase energy performance and reduce CO2 emissions of the [...] including research institutes, cities, energy utilities and a design studio. CityOpt`s mission is to optimize energy systems in Smart Cities. Applications and guidelines will support efficient planning
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Workshop on “SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES”
energy - preferably from renewable sources, but also with conventional sources like shale gas, seems to suffer from a narrow focus on technology. However, one might argue that the slow adoption rates of [...] the core issues of the current debate, discusses the potential of different methodological approaches to provide policy-relevant results, and aims at cross-fertilization of methods. Contributions are from [...] analysis using agent-based models, and are strongly directed towards conclusions for policy with regard to supporting, triggering and guiding transition processes. Date: Fri 5 Dec 2015, 10-13h Venue: