Telecooperation Office

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TECO
Category: research Institute

Karlsruher Institute for Technology

Facility location: Karlsruhe
Type of research: Applied research
Subjects: Computer science
Management: Michael Beigl
Employee: 5 post-doctoral students, 9 research assistants
Homepage: www.teco.edu/

The Telecooperation Office ( TECO ) is a research facility based in Karlsruhe , which is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It belongs to the Institute for Telematics and was merged in 2010 with the newly founded Chair for Pervasive Computing Systems (PCS), currently headed by Michael Beigl. The TECO / PCS currently employs five postdocs and nine research assistants .

history

The TECO was founded in 1993 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology by Gerhard Krüger and the Campus-based Engineering Center (CEC) of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and was then called The Telecooperation Office . The stated objective was to promote research and development in applied telematics in close cooperation with industry. At TECO, research was and is carried out in the areas of pervasive computing and ubiquitous computing , with a special focus on wireless communication , embedded systems , situational awareness and human-computer interaction .

In 1998, the Digital Equipment Corporation was taken over by Compaq , which means that the CEC Karlsruhe also went to SAP AG . The research cooperation between TECO and DEC was then continued with SAP AG as a partner. In the field of applied telematics, TECO has been working closely with the SAP Research Center Karlsruhe since then. Wilfried Juling took over the management of TECO.

In April 2010 the new chair for Pervasive Computing Systems (PCS) was founded at the Institute for Telematics . The resulting shared New Field Professorship of KIT and the SAP holds Michael Beigl. The TECO was assigned to the new PCS chair as a research laboratory and has since been called TECO: Technology for Pervasive Computing .

With the Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) founded in 2014, TECO offers big data researchers the opportunity to use a wide range of big data and in-memory technologies. Industry and science work closely together to find hidden values ​​in big data and to generate smart data from them. Projects focus on strategic research in the areas of Industry 4.0, energy, smart cities and personalized medicine.

Since 2017, the TECO has been home to the Smart Air Quality Network (SmartAQNet), whose main objective is the development of an overall system for recording, visualizing and predicting the spatial distribution of air pollutants in urban atmospheres that are relevant to the current stay of citizens.

research

The core area of ​​the work and competence of the TECO research group is ubiquitous, computer-aided information processing ( ubiquitous computing ). The current research focus is on the following areas:

The TECO research group belongs to the Institute for Telematics , but is characterized by its special proximity to industry. Both the founding model and participation in industrial projects led to a large number of partners in the software and hardware industry.

Notable contributions to research

  • The "MediaCup" coffee cup was developed as a research object in 1998 and represents an example of a ubiquitous computing application. The project showed early on how everyday objects can be equipped with computer and communication technology in order to capture and transmit context information about an environment to be able to.
  • At the conference mentioned in the previous point, the “Point & Click” paradigm was presented, which was developed at TECO in the area of human-computer interaction and which is now a common method for controlling ubiquitous end devices.

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  1. ^ SAP Research Center Karlsruhe. SAP AG , accessed on January 8, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Smart Data Innovation Lab. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
  3. ^ BMVI - Smart Air Quality Network - SmartAQnet. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ PocketWeb. TecO, accessed January 8, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Gessler, S., Kotulla, A .: PDAs as mobile WWW browsers. In: Proc. of 2nd International WWW Conference, Chicago, Oct. 1994. doi : 10.1016 / 0169-7552 (95) 00093-6
  6. ↑ Markus Lauff, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Multimedia client implementation on Personal Digital Assistants , Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services, 1997, doi : 10.1007 / BFb0000360
  7. ↑ Hans-Werner Gellersen, Michael Beigl, Holger Krull, The MediaCup: Awareness Technology embedded in an Everyday Object (PDF; 53 kB). 1st Int. Symp. On Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing 1999 (HUC99) 308-310.
  8. ↑ http://www.teco.edu/huc/ HUC / Ubicomp conference website
  9. ↑ Michael Beigl, Point & Click - Interaction in Smart Environments , 1st Int. Sym. on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing 1999 (HUC99) 311-313.
  10. ↑ Publications that reference “Point & Click”, according to Google Scholar

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