Seven program group members from IJS, together with partners from SAVING and L-TEK, received the Puh Certificate of Recognition for significant achievements in the field of medical equipment, the highest state recognition for development achievements and the use of innovative scientific results in the economic practice. The group has produced a miniature device for the recording of electrocardiogram SAVVY EKG, which enables unobtrusive multi-day recording of heart rate during daily activities, and thus the detection and investigation of heart rhythm disturbances over long periods, which was not possible to date. An innovative ECG measurement device was offered as a medically certified product on the world market. Simple, safe handling and an affordable price also allow personal use at home, which is a novelty on a global scale. The introduction of the system into a wide range of medical applications will significantly contribute to more efficient and cheaper healthcare for users. Overall, the achievement is an exceptional example of a successful knowledge chain that has been realized in production and has proven that the field of biomedicine offers many opportunities for the implementation of advanced medical devices and services.
E.01 National awards
COBISS.SI-ID: 31188519From 2015, in cooperation with Elektroinštitut Milan Vidmar (EIMV) and Slovenian Environment Agency, we are involved in the development of a computational model for thermal rating of the power transmission lines. In the first step, we have developed a warning system for icing events that was supported with analysis of potential operational countermeasures. The prototype system was well received by the Slovenian transmission operator and with the help of the FP7 funding "Technology transfer and computing systems" elevated to TRL 8 and, in 2016, put into operation use. During the technology transfer, an initiative for an additional study came from the transmission operator, with the focus on the other extreme, the overheating of the line. The analysis of 10-year measurements revealed that the most unfavourable scenario, i.e. a warm sunny, windless day, occurs relatively often. In such regimes, the most important cooling mechanism becomes natural convection. To increase the confidence in the numerical thermal rating, the phenomenon has been numerically and experimentally analysed, by which we have provided an explicit answer how such a regime should be addressed. All simulations were carried out with our original parallel solution procedure. The budget of both studies and the technology transfer was € 280,000. Based on experiences from theoretical studies and technology transfer, we developed a software that enables forecasting of thermal rating of power lines from operational and weather conditions. The implemented software package has achieved high reliability and industrial level of use (TRL 9), thus representing a product that can be marketed on an international level. In 2018, the software was integrated in the DiTeR package, which was selected by ELES, ltd. for operational dynamic thermal rating of the Slovenian transmission system. Three years DiTeR licence for Slovenian power system accounts for 200 000 €.
F.06 Development of a new product
COBISS.SI-ID: 31728423We developed a system for visual tracking and motion analysis of players, which enables: (i) calibration of (up to four) cameras, (ii) visual almost automatic tracking, (iii) video rendering and virtualization of views, (iv) analysis of group activities. The system was developed in 2004-2005, in the framework of a research license agreement with InspireWorks Inc., USA, and in the following years improved by feedback from sports experts. In 2008, it was in France presented at the 10th European Conference on Computer vision, with the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnrd4YeGGhI In the period from 2005 to 2019, the system was used at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Ljubljana. It is used by both domestic and visiting scientists coming to process their video materials. The result of the system in the last 10 years are 23 scientific articles in journals, along with many conference contributions in collaboration between UL FEE and UL FS, as well as foreign researchers.
F.06 Development of a new product
In 2015, we sold the know-how for the "System for mobile monitoring of vital physiological parameters and environmental context" to the medical company SIMED for the amount of 300.000 EUR. We also signed a letter of intent for further cooperation in the development and marketing of body sensors and the underlying computer system. The technology transfer was awarded with the HiPEAC (European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) award for successful technology transfer. The core of the technology is a comprehensive computer system including both hardware and software for the acquisition, transmission, visualization and analysis of ECG. The contribution of the programme group members was in the design of simple low-energy hardware, the design of the communication between the system components, near real-time signal analysis, and, above all, the application of distributed computing on various architectures, from simple hardware on the sensor to Big Data analytics on computer servers. From the initial transfer of technology, the Savvy ECG product (www.savvy.si) has been developed. The certification of Savvy ECG as a medical device in 2016 was supported by the TETRACOM (Technology transfer in computing systems) project funded by the 7th EU Framework Program. The upgrade of the technological innovation, further cooperation with industry and the use of the Savvy ECG product for research purposes continue in the scope of national and European projects. In the Ekosmart project, (Smart Cities and Communities), financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union, a prototype integration of the system into a medical ICT infrastructure was carried out, which enabled the transmission of reports and raw ECG data to electronic medical records. In the European project SAAM (Supporting Active Ageing through Multimodal Coaching) from the H2020 program, an integration of the ECG sensor into a smart home system is performed for the needs of active monitoring of the elderly.
F.06 Development of a new product
COBISS.SI-ID: 29048359This book is an overview of practical parallel computing with basic principles and rules for designing efficient parallel programs on the state-of-the-art computing platforms, exposed in three parts: Foundations, which provides the motivation and techniques for usage in parallel computing, Programming, which discusses shared and distributed memory computing architectures, and Engineering, which illustrates parallel solutions of three selected problems: computing number Pi, solving heat equation and seam carving in video processing. The spectrum of book topics ranges from basic theory to implementations and efficient applications of parallel computers. The book covers shared memory many-core processors, shared memory multi-core processors, and interconnected distributed computers. The target audience comprises undergraduate and graduate students, engineers, programmers and industrial experts acting in companies that develop software with an intention to add parallel capabilities for increased performance, research institutions that develop and test computationally intensive software with parallel software codes, and universities and educational institutions that teach courses on parallel computing. The book is interesting and useful also for the wider public, in the part where basic principles and benefits of parallel approaches are presented, which could classify it as a monography.
D.10 Educational activities
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