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ELIKO Competence Centre. Indrek Ruiso CEO 08.10.2013. General: Background. ELIKO is a private R&D company founded in 2004, focusing on applied research. Activities are supported by Enterprise Estonia and EU programs; - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ELIKO Competence Centre
Indrek Ruiso
CEO
08.10.2013
General: Background • ELIKO is a private R&D company founded in 2004, focusing on applied
research.• Activities are supported by Enterprise Estonia and EU programs; • Main support from Estonian Competence Centers Program 2009-2015
(12MEUR, ca 3MEUR annually).• Today we have:
Around 40 scientists and engineers; around 150 publications and 10 patent applications since
2004; two successful EU Framework projects initiated, also
EUROSTARS, ITEA2 projects; altogether around 20 consortia members.
General: Main R/D directions
TOPIC I Signal processing and communication. Focus on:• Producing „specific“ electrical electrical signals for fast biomaterial
analysis;• Sensor signal conditioning and reasoning (sensor signal pattern
recognition;• Wireless communication, IP based LR-WPAN networks; • eHealth, and smart environment applications.
TOPIC II Personalised (smart space) services and embedded SW/HW testing. Focus on• Web data mining and (centralized) reasoning;• Model based testing of HW and SW;• Trusted information exchange (public data exchange system, X-road II)
Bottom up approach: technology driven
• ITEA2 project D-Mint (http://www.d-mint.org) for model based testing of complex systems. Tartu city lighting system
• EUROSTARS project MakinIT for semantic data harvesting for content personalization. MakinIT is being followed by an FP7 Marie Curie project entitled TEAM.
• FP7 Smartmuseum project which enabled RFID based exposition tagging in European Museums (with TKK/Aalto).
• SESS EUROSTARS project for measuring the condition of electricity windmills.
• FP6 Roboswarm• ELIKO is member of IPSO alliance of IP based networking of Smart
Objets.• ELIKO is subject of Innovation-share program of Enterprise Estonia• Consulting (RFID).
General: Other Projects
Impedance SpectroscopyMeasurement Technology
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Impedance Spectroscopy
General applications Non invasive methods for detection of atherosclerosis
Measurement setup and methodics, clinical trials on patients with diabetes, coronary diseases, kidney problems
Cardiac Transfer Function (TF)Reconstruction of the aortic Blood Pressure (BP) waveform from the radial Electrical Bio-Impedance (EBI) waveform
Separation of the Cardiac & Respiratory components of the total EBIExtraction of the Cardiac and Respiratory activity parameters from the EBI
Tissue monitoringNoninvasive monitoring of the tissue transplants postoperatively, including detection of reperfusion
Microfluidics and cell level measurementsIncluding drug impact monitoring
Impedance Spectroscopy, Available device
Wideband multifrequency impedance spectroscopy device QUADRATM
• using wideband mufti-frequency excitation signal
• measuring the response voltage across the impedance
• measuring the response current through the impedance
Excitation signal:• is customized binary sequence of pulses• contains 4 to 16 spectral components at selected frequencies• has required magnitudes according to the expected characteristics of the impedance
under investigation
Impedance SpectroscopyTechnology Applications
For positioning of medical syringe needles:The technology enables reliable real-time tissue identification (in vivo), real-time identification of various physiological condition of organs, use broad range of needles, including very thin hypodermic needles
For meat quality:Enables to measure different physical parameters simultaneously which results in carcass grading models with higher precision and prediction of additional quality traits, such as PSE, RSE, RFN, and DFD meat quality types, tenderness, drip loss, and water holding capacity
Smart Environment
Smart Street lighting soft- and hardware:
- Wireless connectivity, USSD, 2G, 3G
- Web based user interface- Easy to install and maintain- Used in South Estonia to
control over 10000 street lamps
- Soft- and hardware available for sales
UWB Positioning
Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radio based positioning. This is, in fact, the only simple infrastructure technology with sufficient accuracy (+-10..20cm) today available.
Development project for tractors and a wireless bacon positioning system
Project: NFC Simplified trial
Card issuer (bank)
Trusted service manager (TSM)
mWallet application
Card applet on secure element
Wallet app maintainer
Acquirer (bank1)
SEprovider
Card applet provider
Acquirer (bank2)
Project: Further mWallet
• Bank cards• Loyality cards• Tickets• mID• mHealth• Etc.
Default payment card
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Project: Telecare
Hospital patient selfassessmentMonitoring at home (risk pregnancy)Videoconversations
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Project: Interoperability(telecare) Main focus: (home) telecare – smooth integration of PHR and EHR data;RELATED TO further (personal) eHealth systems and new X-Road (v 2.0 development);
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Project: Human motion tracking(rehab, condition assessment)
Expessive video systems (10k€)Hi end (>5k€, Xsense) and activity monitors (250€, PALTech, Biosensics, ActiGraph) based on accelerometers
Source: Xsens, Netherlands
Medium cost motion tracking
devices for POC/home
use
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Project: Personalized servicesThe aim is to develop algorithms that are based on ontologies and that can take into account user's behavior and preferences.
Created knowledge is used in building the following solutions:•new solutions in geo-informatical databases,• the development of a tourism suggestion engine (sightsplanner.com), • Intelligent (learning) project management software development (toggl.com).