Partners

CBT

CBT Communication & Multimedia, S.A. is a Communication Engineering company expert in technological solutions for marketing and communication.

CBT offers services oriented to give to its clients technologically competitive and differenced solutions, by means of integrating different platforms and information technologies, trying to get total inter-conectivity between platforms.

The principle areas to which CBT has oriented its R&D development in the past few years are: IP systems, e-commerce, 3D virtual modelling, multimedia, video services, metadata indexation, images and graphics design, diffusion activities, e-work, e-studies, dynamic systems and mobile networks.

In this sense, here are some of the services offered by CBT:

• Diffusion Strategy, to make a company’s products or events known, and make the company present in different projects (redest, tic-trad, proteleuses, proplus…)
• e-Marketing: to get the maximum benefit of the on-line marketing to design successful campaigns.
• Communication Consulting: availability of an own methodology (VENEFIT), approved by the Spanish Ministry of Science &Technology, used to improve business processes by processing user’s and clients feedback.
• Internet Solutions: that include up-to-date technologies and easy user self management of contents.
• Inmobile Solutions: Wireless technology and system integration for control systems, localization and relational marketing.

More info: www.cbt.es

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CEA LIST

The LIST is part of the French CEA (Commissariat a I'Energie Atomique) national research institute. Its vocation is to help companies to increase their competitiveness through technological innovation, by transferring its technical know-how to industry. To this end, its 450 researchers, engineers and technicians perform applied research on software-intensive technologies in partnership with the major industrial players in the nuclear, automotive, aeronautical, defense and medical fields. Three quarters of the LISTs resources are devoted to research with partners outside the CEA.

Within the LIST, the LSL laboratory has been conducting research and development on the Safety of Programmed Systems for over 10 years. The LSL specializes in tools for the verification and validation of software and hardware/software systems. To aid industry in the increasing automation of the verification and validation of its products, the LSL has built up, and continues to develop, an expertise in some of the most advanced techniques in the field: static analysis using Hoare logic, abstract interpretation, rewriting and proof techniques, software simulation and constraint logic programming.

These techniques are implemented and used to realise different validation and verification tasks, such as : the formal proof of program properties, prediction of potential run-time errors, automatic test-case generation based on the source code and/or the specifications and automatic test-case execution by simulation. One of the main features of the work carried out in the LSL is that innovative techniques are always associated with the development of industrial prototypes that can demonstrate not only the feasibility of the approach, but also its ability to be easily integrated into an industrial context, ensuring its acceptability to the final users.

More info: www-list.cea.fr/gb/index_gb.htm

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Continental Automotive France SAS

Continental Automotive France SAS is driven by automotive passion. Continental Automotive France SAS is a leading international supplier of automotive electronics and mechatronics.

Our enthusiasm for technology in all segments of modern automotive electronics and mechatronics enables us to offer to our customers solutions in many different areas:

• Chassis and Carbody
• Fleet Management
• Infotainment
• Marine Solutions
• Non-Automotive
• Powertrain
• Public Transport Solutions
• Replacement Parts
• Innovations fuel the engine of the automotive industry. And we ensure that the stream of ideas keeps flowing:
  • Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
  • Cockpit System Solutions
  • Commercial Vehicles
  • Propulsion Concepts

In 2004 Continental Automotive France SAS had 48 070 employees. Its turnover was 9 Billions Euros.

More info: www.vdo.com

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Datapixel

Datapixel S.L. nace en 1999 con el objeto de diseñar, desarrollar y fabricar sistemas y soluciones en el ámbito de la visión artificial en aplicaciones industriales y profesionales. Para ello la empresa ha reunido un equipo de trabajo de alta calificación técnica y con una dilatada experiencia en el ámbito de la visión por computador, especialmente en las tecnologías de digitalizado 3D de alta precisión. Este equipo se complementa con un destacado conjunto de colaboraciones con las principales empresas del sector a nivel internacional: SONY (Japón) en el campo de sensores; Matrox (Canada) en el captura y procesamiento de imagen; KUKA, Staubli, ABB y Fanuc en el campo de la robótica; Renishaw en el campo de la máquina herramienta y control; ZEISS en el campo de la metrología cartesiana; FARO y ROMER en sistemas de medición portátil, entre otros.

En los últimos años está centrando su estrategia en el desarrollo de soluciones adaptadas a las necesidades de las empresas, impulsadas por los nuevos requisitos y retos de la industria manufacturera en automoción, aeronáutica y electrónica. Tras haber desarrollado en sus primeros años de vida unos componentes y productos de primera calidad y de alta tecnología, que ofrecen las mejores prestaciones en el mercado, DataPixel avanza actualmente en la integración de estos componentes en máquinas y en líneas de producción.

Con ello aporta soluciones de ingeniería inversa,  metrología virtual, inspección automatizada, y guiado de robots. DataPixel aportará con su experiencia y capacidad tecnológica dichas soluciones así como varios software desarrollados por al propia empresa y los componentes necesarios para el desarrollo de la plataforma.

More info: www.datapixel.com

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ESPOTEL

Espotel is a privately owned company, founded in 1986. Espotel is growing fast and its staff currently comprises over 180 professionals in five different sites in Finland.

Espotel is the leading supplier of embedded systems research and development services in Finland. Espotel offers high-quality research and product development services and complete products based on state-of-the art technological innovations. Together with our partner network, we provide our customers a comprehensive, complete service package.

Our design services cover all aspects connected with embedded systems, i.e. software, electronics, mechanics, testers, approvals and maintenance. In addition, we have developed and are developing new solutions in order to speed up product development work. We are constantly working on demanding customer projects and have in-depth expertise in the planning of embedded systems. We can flexibly offer competitively priced product development services.

More info: www.espotel.fi

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INNOVALIA ASSOCIATION

Innovalia Association is a private R+D laboratory that manages its own highly qualified research personnel and equipment, with the aim of providing research and innovation services to associated companies and collaborators that finance the R+D activities of the Business Unit through financial contributions and technology development contracts.

The Innovalia Association was founded in 2002 by a group of Technology based innovative companies, with an international standing, and extremely conscious that innovation is an intrinsic and essential process in the maintenance of business competitiveness. The Innovalia Association serves as a vehicle to bring together the required investigative critical mass in order to successfully undertake the ambitions and strategic objectives, based on long term investigation, of the Innovalia Group and other companies that demand highly specialized and advanced technological capabilities, with a pronounced dimension of transnational cooperation.

The lines of specialization of the Innovalia Association may be broken down into:

Advanced 3D Dimensional Metrology in Industrial Processes

1. Manufacturing & Virtual Metrology
2. Fast Prototyping, rapid tooling and rapid manufacturing
3. Microtecnologies & Nanotecnologies

Software Quality

1. Emerging Development Environments
2. Software Quality in Service Oriented Architectures
3. Complex Embedded Systems in Distributed Environments

Services and Applications of Mobile Communications

1. Applications and Services for Monitoring and Control
2. Advanced Middleware in Mobile Broadband Communication Networks
3. Services Architectures for Advanced Applications - Environmental Intelligence

Telematics Security.

1. Integrated management of the Information Security
2. Identity Management and Confidence Models.
3. Integral, Independent and Cooperative Risk Management.

Knowledge Management

1. Strategic management of Technological Innovation
2. Design and Implantation of Management Systems for R+D+i
3. Strategic services related to Innovative Product Generation

More info: www.innovalia.org

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LogicaCMG

LogicaCMG is a major international force in IT and business services. It employs around 40,000 people across 41 countries. LogicaCMG’s focus is on enabling its customers to build and maintain leadership positions using LogicaCMG’s deep industry knowledge and its track record for successful delivery. The company provides business consulting, systems integration and IT and business process outsourcing across diverse markets including telecoms and media, financial services, energy and utilities, industry, distribution and transport and the public sector.

Headquartered in Europe, LogicaCMG is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE:LOG; Euronext:LOG) and traded on the Xternal List of the Nordic Exchange in Stockholm.

More information is available at www.logicacmg.com

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METSO

Our mission is to continuously create value by matching our inventories of process automation knowledge and experience to your business vision. We deliver results that make a positive contribution to the success of your operations.

Our automation, information management, flow control products and solutions ensure your processes make the right quality product at high efficiencies and lowest possible cost - all the time. These objectives are embodied in our commitments to Results and Intelligent Reliability

Metso Automation operates world wide and has sales and customer support units in 34 countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia, and Africa. In 2006, Metso Automation's net sales were EUR 613 million. The number of employees totals approximately 3,400.

Metso in brief

Metso is a global engineering and technology corporation with 2006 net sales of approximately EUR 5 billion. Its 25, 500 employees in more than 50 countries serve customers in the pulp and paper industry, rock and minerals processing, the energy industry and selected other industries.

For more information about Metso Corporation, please visit www.metso.com

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NBG

NBG Industrial Automation develops hardware, embedded software and PC-software for industrial and medical applications.

Our main activities:

• Custom-made motion application
• Industrial product development
• Medical product development
• Process optimization
• Production automation
• Test tooling

Our technologies

• Electronics design
• Embedded software
• LabVIEW
• .NET software
• Motion
• Multidisciplinary project control

For more information about NBG, please visit www.nbg-industrial.nl

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NEOPOST

History

The rich history of Neopost Technologies dates back to 1924, when our founder Heert de Wit set up a company called HaDeWe. Established in Kornhorn in Groningen, HaDeWe was a traditional company that concentrated on constructing and maintaining machinery for the agricultural sector.

The invention of the stencil machine allowed the company to grow considerably and exports to the United States started as early as 1934. In time, the company moved to Drachten.

After a number of takeovers, the French investment group B.C. Partners became the major shareholder in the Neopost Group (which included the former HaDeWe) in 1997. In 1999, CEO Jean-Paul Villot successfully floated the Neopost Group on the stock market.

Our activities

Neopost Technologies is the world market leader in the development, production and distribution of trend-setting envelope filling machines. The successful combination of technological innovation and market knowledge has won us this unique market position. Our task is to keep improving our current products and processes while at the same time working on the development of new products and processes.

Because we have all the necessary disciplines in-house, some of the innovation process can be implemented in parallel (concurrent engineering), thus accelerating the process. This means that expertise from all the disciplines can be used early on in the project, so that elements such as feasibility, saleability, serviceability and convenience are ensured.

Our products

Our products are sold in more than 70 countries worldwide via our own sales organisations and selected permanent distributors. The Neopost Group is performing successfully and our growth will continue in future, in terms of both turnover and scale.

Without exception, Neopost products mean quality, performance and reliability. New demands are always being placed on our machines by the market, such as greater ease of use, more features, a new look, problem-free and quiet operation, plus linking machines to the net for site management purposes. All these developments mean new challenges for our development teams.

For more information about NBG, please visit www.neopost-technologies.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide.

The combined pro-forma revenues of about 17.1 billion Euro in the fiscal year 2006 make Nokia Siemens Networks one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies. Nokia Siemens Networks has operations in some 150 countries and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. It combines Nokia’s Networks Business Group and the carrier related businesses of Siemens Communications.

For more information about Nokia Siemens Network, please visit www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Océ Technologies

Océ is a leading provider of digital document management technology and services. The company's solutions are based on Océ's advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the Internet to printing devices and archives—locally and around the world. Supporting the workflow solutions are Océ digital printers and scanners, considered the most reliable and productive in the world. Océ also offers a wide range of display graphics, consulting and document services solutions.

Océ with a workforce of around 24,000, is active in approximately eighty countries, maintains research and manufacturing centers in the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Romania.

To find out more, connect to www.oce.com

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OTB Display

OTB Display B.V. is part of the OTB Group B.V. that is specialised in the development of innovative in-line production processes which are used to bring industrial production from a laboratory phase to a mature industrial phase. The focus of OTB is on the development of new concepts and in-line thin film production technologies for products with optical properties.

OTB Display is a leading supplier of in-line OLED production equipment enabling customers in the display industry to rapidly ramp-up to mass production volume against low costs.

The product portfolio include both Polymer and Small Molecule based OLED production equipment that has been built using the extensive in-line mass-production experience of OTB Group.

To find out more, connect to www.otbdisplay.com

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Q-Star Test

Q-Star Test is the leading is the leading supplier of solutions combining test costs reduction and product quality improvement, of IDDX measurement equipment, of DFT consulting and of custom and creative engineering services.

Our products and services help you to implement a proper DFT strategy; improve productivity, during engineering, production as well as failure analysis; to reduce test time and costs; support 0ppm targets; and to deploy a supply current based test strategy for analog, digital and mixed-mode circuits. In addition they successfully enable the application of current tests to DeepSubmicron and NanoTechnologies, thereby offering improved defect detection, in combination with test cost and test escape risk reduction as well as improved defect localization and identification.

With Q-Star Test, you get more than just technology. Behind our solutions stands an experienced team who know your problems, needs and expectations!

To find out more, connect to www.QStar.be

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Scaleo Chip

SCALEO Chip was created ten years ago with the objective introducing new tools approach for the SoC (System on Chip) developments using ASIC & ASSP approaches. The company is mainly focusing in two market segments; Automotive and Multimedia. The company introduced new SoC chips developed for the Automotive application using the FCM3 Platform helping the co-development (hardware & software) in parallel. The success of the new methodology has placed SCALEO Chip as a key partner the Car manufacturers and automotive OEMs.

SCALEO Chip is currently developing new automotive architectures with an automotive manufacturer who wants to port the AUTOSAR software onto the FCM platform. In charge of the IPs library definition around innovative ARM core processors, SCALEO Chip has demonstrated the capability of the new methodology achieving first silicon run success.

Using the tool chain (EasySoC®) and the platform (FCM3®), SCALEO chip is able to manage the complete process of the ASIC development; Concept, Development, Validation, Production start, Serial JIT production delivery, Quality. Today products as Body controllers, Multifunction displays, Image processing, smart access control, are running into production with high Quality level ( automotive ppm = 50).

SCALEO Chip considers the advanced engineering effort as one of the future development for the company. With this approach they are in part of different strategic European projects, as TWINS, in order to prepare the next generation of tools which will allow SCALEO Chip to reduce the development cycle time with the best secured approach for the first run of silicon.

SCALEO Chip concentrates expertise for the custom ASIC development in the next fields;

• ARM core processors
• Automotive architecture using CAN protocol
• New architecture with FLEXRAY protocol
• Video decoder ( MPEG2, MPEG4, H264, WMV9,…)
• Video encoder ( MPEG2, MPEG4, H264, WMV9,…)
• Multimedia environment ( PMP, HDD video server,…)

To find out more, connect to www.scaleochip.com

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Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric in figures

• €13.7 billion revenue in 190 countries
• 105,000 employees*
• Local presence in 106 countries
• More than 200 factories
• 6,500 R&D people in 25 countries

Contributing to our customers’ performance

• Make electricity increasingly safe and easy to use
• Integrate more intelligence and communication capabilities
• Guarantee product compatibility
• Make installation easier
• Optimise installation upgrade
• Serve market needs more effectively
• Local presence -> share & understand customer needs
• Dedicated organisations to develop core competencies
• End-to-end solutions by type of application (elevators, packaging, textiles, etc.)
• Customer support throughout installations’ life cycles
• Offer worldwide availability
• Compliant with international and local standards (IEC - NEMA - UL - ANSI - BS - CCC - JS)

A unique offer in four markets

Energy & infrastructures

Electrical networks, water treatment, airports, tunnels, telecom, data centres

Industry

Food & beverage, automobile, electronic, packaging, pharmaceuticals

Buildings

Offices, stores, factories, hotels, hospitals, museums, schools, universities

Residential

Single-family homes, apartment buildings

Innovating for our customers

• Anticipate customers’ emerging needs
• Acquisition of advanced technologies: PMI, BEI Technologies
• Innovation platforms to recreate customers’ environment
• Strong presence in high-tech countries
• Deployment of resources in emerging markets

Leverage of technological partnerships

• Toshiba, IBM, Fuji, Tata
• Minalogic Pole, INP & CEA / LETI in Grenoble

To find out more, connect to www.schneider-electric.com

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Sioux Embedded Systems

Sioux Embedded Systems is an innovative company specialised in the development of software for technical applications, embedded software. Since 1996, we have grown into a dynamic company with more than 150 software engineers working from offices in the Netherlands and Belgium. Our specialists provide support to a wide range of companies and research institutes in the field of embedded software and software for technical/scientific systems. The focus on embedded software development allows us to give our clients that little bit extra and offer the highest possible added value.

In the versatile, exciting and, most of all, challenging field of embedded software, we target the following sectors:

• Consumer electronics
• Office and production systems
• Medical equipment
• Telecommunication
• Applied research
• Traffic & transport

Over the course of the software development procedures, we support our customers in their permanent quest for improvement. This translates into a high level of assistance, support and involvement, but, above all, a search for the best end result. And lest we forget this, it has been included in our mission: “We make our customers winners in exploiting IT to the limit”

The focus on embedded software development allows us to give our clients that little bit extra and offer the highest possible added value. In the versatile, exciting and, most of all, challenging field of embedded software, we have implemented projects, outsourced software engineers or provided consulting services.

• Projects. At your request, Sioux Projects is prepared to accept full responsibility for the project cost, functionality, turnaround time and quality. Manageability is vital in this process, which is why we developed our own working procedures with Sioux Consulting. These procedures have been laid down in the Sioux Quality System. Projects can be implemented on site or at one of the Sioux offices.
• Software engineering. In addition to providing embedded software specialists (ranging from software engineers to software architects and QA officers to project managers), Sioux also meets your need for capacity and know-how for the realisation of software development pathways.
• Consulting. Sioux Consulting provides a wide range of innovative and high-quality consulting services. Our areas of expertise include Software Performance Improvement (SPI), Software Architecture and Test Performance Improvement (TPI).
• Component technology. Ruse is all-important in the Component Technology Platform concept. A combination of reusable components and a framework that co-ordinates the use of components to develop cheaper applications in less time in a series of related fields. One of the key points are Remote Solutions in which Sioux has developed their own platform, called Machine2World®.
• Specialities. Sioux prefers to specialise in a number of areas of expertise such as Testing, Architecture, Java, Process and Real Time Embedded software. Our Knowledge Management Expertise Groups also have extensive know-how of the latest technologies such as .NET.

Our employees have a technical ICT background on higher professional education level (BSc) or university level (MSc). We also continue to invest in technical and personal skills developments. All our specialists have the necessary know-how of and experience with development methods, programming languages, tooling and (real-time) operating systems. Our main areas of expertise include embedded and real-time software, Microsoft, .NET, architecture, Java, testing and technology platforms. By combining these fields of expertise, we are able to provide innovative solutions. Quality, proactively, flexibility and collaboration rule in all these procedures! But above all tailor-made work, because every situation is unique... including yours!

To find out more, connect to www.sioux.eu

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SIRRIS

SIRRIS is the knowledge centre for the technology industry in Belgium. Its mission is to support the members to increase their competitive position on the international market through technological innovation. SIRRIS carries out applied research and development in close cooperation with industry. SIRRIS also has a growing number of international clients.

A few SIRRIS key numbers:

• 2500 industrial members, 95% are SMEs.
• 140 employees, of which about 80 involved mainly in applied research activities, but also in change management, innovation strategy, and technology transfer
• More than 5000 projects with individual companies on an annual basis
• Yearly turnover of 15 Million €.
• Locations in Brussels, Ghent, Louvain, Hasselt and Liege, close to the main research centres in these towns.
• More than 20 international cooperation projects at the same time: EC Framework Programmes, Eureka, ERA-NET, and also with industrial partners all over Europe.

• We offer companies a 'gateway to innovation' by delivering services.
• We manage several areas of technological expertises.
• * SIRRIS has a number of strategic partnerships with organizations in Europe.

More Information www.sirris.be

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SQS

Software Quality Systems, S.A. is an independent testing house expert in the design and implementation of verification and validation processes.

The customers of SQS are relevant players within the telecoms, aeronautics, pharma, railway, electronics and banking sectors. SQS expertise comprises high technical background in designing, implementing and managing complex testing environments. SQS is in the position to offer the experience, knowledge, methods and tools that are currently implemented in SQS Test Lab, as a primary basis for the creation of new Test Platforms. Test Platforms that are currently created to manage and validate both functional and non-functional (interoperability, usability, load, stress,…) requirements.

Some services offered by SQS are:

• Design and implementation of product certification programmes.
• Design and implementation of verification and validation processes for safety critical systems, fulfilling sectorial standards (CENELEC, FDA)
• Design, follow-up and implementation of software development processes
• Design and implementation of benchmark process.

More info: www.sqs.es

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TU / e

The TU/e intends to be a research-driven, design-oriented university of technology, with the primary objective of providing young people with an academic education within the engineering science and technology domain.

The primary task is the training of engineers (at Master of Science level) possessing a sound scientific basis and depth of knowledge, as well as the necessary competences that will enable them to develop successful careers in a wide range of fields and functions within the community. The bachelor’s programs (BSc) are intended to serve as a basis for further education at Master’s level. The TU/e also trains teachers (at Master of Science level), designers (at the Professional Doctorate in Engineering level) and researchers (at Doctor of Philosophy level). In addition, it provides postacademic programs and courses.

In the research field the TU/e prefers to focus, within the engineering science and technology domain, on the specific areas in which it takes or can take a significant role in the international scientific world, and in which it can make meaningful contributions to the knowledge-intensive industries and other sectors of the community with a high, or rapidly developing, technology intensity. The TU/e strives to ensure that its research results are translated into successful innovations and serve as a basis for the creation of new enterprises. It actively encourages students and staff to opt for entrepreneurship.

The quality of teaching and research must meet high international standards. The TU/e offers its students and staff an international and academic, in other words intellectually stimulating, study and working environment that will inspire them to broadly based personal development, to social and cultural engagement and to an entrepreneurial attitude.

More info: http://w3.tue.nl/en/

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VTT

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is an impartial multidisciplinary expert organisation. VTT’s special strength is its ability to create new, globally competitive technologies and innovations by combining knowledge and expertise in different fields. With its know how VTT produces research, development, testing and information services to public sector and companies as well as international organisations.

With its staff of 2750 VTT experts VTT provides high-end technology solutions and innovation services. From its wide knowledge base, VTT can combine different technologies, create new innovations and a substantial range of world class technologies and applied research services. Through its international scientific and technology network, VTT can produce information, upgrade technology knowledge, create business intelligence and value added to its stakeholders. VTT´s technological focus areas are applied materials, bio and chemistry processes, energy, information and communication technologies, industrial systems management, microtechnologies and electronics, and technology in the community.

More Information www.vtt.fi

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ZIV P+C

We are commited to the design, manufacturing and marketing of a complete range of digital protection, control, metering and communication equipment/systems for Medium and High Voltage electrical power systems.

With an active experience in R&D projects, we are willing to participate in any project which fits into the specialisation fields of our research and engineering teams, which come as a result of a continuous work around R&D and innovation during the last 15 years. These fields are:

Smart distribution grids

• Micronetworks Controllers.
• Smart meters. Demand management devices.
• Control and automation of distribution networks with extensive deployment of DER.
• Enhanced protection functions.
• Advanced automation protocols: IEC61850
• Synchronization solutions: NTP, IRIG-B GPS clocks

Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) technology

• More efficient gathering of real time local data.
• Communications, interoperability.
• Application software:
  • Improvement of electrical network state estimations
  • Real time assesment for network operation and service restoration
  • New wide-area protection functions

Communications

• Low voltage Power Line Communications (PLC): Modulation technologies, interoperability, protocols
• High /Medium Voltage PLC.
• Networking solutions and devices:

  - FastEthernet & Gigabit Ethernet switching

  - Special substation WiFi solutions

• Network management functions.
• Connectivity solutions: - Routers and modems based on the latest wireless technologies - MTS, HSDPA…

Intelligent assessment of complex data

Applied as a supporting element to the electrical network operations and service restoration, intelligent analysis of incidents, improved maintenance of primary and secondary equipment.

More Information www.zivpmasc.com/

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