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Green!Tea – Prospective life cycle assessment of agrivoltaics in the tea sector
Agrivoltaics (APV) is a promising approach to produce renewable electricity and agricultural goods on the same piece of land. It therefore contributes to defusing land-use conflicts. Besides electricity production, APV creates favorable microclimates with a reduced dependency on irrigation and mineral fertilizers. ...
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Low Power Actuator
Technologies for a low power actuator are specified, researched, developed and tested. The results are the basis for a new generation of low power access control devices.
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Machine Subtitling of Videos
We investigate if and how the quality of video subtitles generated by AI-based technology (i.e. transcription and machine translation of spoken language) can be scored automatically.
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MixMyRide – Mixing public transport, carpooling and active mobility to reduce solo car use
MixMyRide develops a multimodal Mobility as a Service platform, which has public transport as its backbone, and exploits carpooling and active mobility as opportunities to extend public transport networks. The platform is tested in three one-year long, large-scale real-world trials, run in the regions of ...
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Pathways and supportive policies for accelerating vehicle to grid (V2G) technology
A key issue in the ongoing transition to net zero transport is sector-coupling: an efficient mobilisation of complementary innovations in adjacent sectors such as electricity or ICT. A key concept at the intersection of all three sectors is V2G technology. In this project, we will identify viable socio-technical ...
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Safety-relevant competences and aptitude for driving (partially) automated vehicles
Developments in automated driving have the potential to fundamentally change road traffic and can reduce the risk of accidents. It can be assumed that in the future, traffic will become increasingly complex, traffic space will become denser, vehicle control will become more automated and ...
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Sustainable Lending
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Sustainable Multimodal Mobility in Toggenburg
Project SUSMOBTOGG focuses on identifying sustainable mobility concepts for rural areas in Switzerland, with the example of Toggenburg as a case study. The overall aim is the reduction of private car usage and to foster multimodal, sustainable mobility, thereby increasing efficiency and decarbonising the system. ...
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Swiss Smart City Survey
The Swiss Smart City Survey aims to regularly survey the current status of smart city developments, trends and corresponding implementation activities in Swiss cities and municipalities. In addition to the planned and implemented solutions, the current framework conditions within politics and administrations ...
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TAILOR – Trustworthy and sample efficient vision transformers
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Flexible Learning Research
In 2014, the School of Management and Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) launched FLEX, a blended learning format that offers students more flexibility in when and where they want to learn. FLEX reduces classroom learning time by about half and provides a digital learning environment ...
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Development of a waterbased coating for a recycable anti-slip cardboard
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Serious game for participative land use planning in São Tomé and Principe
The project addresses land use planning of an island nation in the context of climate change, economic use of natural resources, and ecosystem conservation and protection. This project will develop and test a serious game for participatory landscape planning in São Tomé and Príncipe. The goal is to: (I) ...
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Accessible Teaching in Higher Education
The project aims to improve the accessibility of teaching at Swiss universities and to guarantee it in the long term. One of the main problems is the lack of awareness among responsible faculty and staff of the diversity needs of their students, which is why the development of an online training and short films to ...
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Sleep Coach
Quality of sleep has an impact on mental and physical health and thus on general well-being. several factors that influence sleep quality exert their effect in the hours before falling asleep. Activities that promote or hinder sleep quality during this time are commonly subsumed under the term "sleep hygiene". ...
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Evaluation of cell separation using the GEA kytero® Single Use Pharma Separator with disk stack technology
Recently, GEA Westfalia Separator Group GmbH presented a single-use disc separator for microbial as well as mammalian cell culture processes. By using centrifugal force instead of filter-based harvesting methods, the GEA kytero® Single Use Pharma Separator is intended to achieve high-quality and ...
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Accessible digital map and navigation for pedestrians with disabilities
The aim of this research is to develop concepts for accessible urban trip-planning and navigation for pedestrians with visual and mobility impairments, and to implement two proof-of-concept mobile application for accessible trip-planning and map exploration.
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Automatic Data Selection for Machine Learning based Anomaly Detection
We develop and test a novel method for a fully unsupervised selection of appropriate training data for anomaly detection using machine learning methods.
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Dark Rates in Crime
Logobject is interested in addressing the question: for every illegal incident detected, how many illegal incidents are left undetected? The research partners at ZHAW develop a novel statistical method to estimate the dark rate of illegal activity. Logobject will use this method to provide their customers ...
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DC4HC – Digital Competence for Healthcare
The Innosuisse project, Digital Competence for Healthcare (DC4HC), aims to develop a digital platform that will support Swiss healthcare institutions in their digital transformation efforts. In particular, the focus of DC4HC is on the non-medical support services. A state-of-the-art digital maturity model framework ...