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SICS Swedish ICT conducts research that creates value for our customers and partners. Our task is to future-proof Swedish industry and increase its competitiveness by turning new technology into smart innovations.

The two most common forms of collaboration with SICS are direct assignments from industry to solve di�cult problems, and joint projects funded by VINNOVA or the EU.

If you work with development in a technology-intensive company, large or small, and want to know what SICS can do for you, please contact us for an informal discussion. It may be one of your best decisions this year!

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SICSACTIVITIES 2014-2015

learningmachinesDESIGNING INTELLIGENT MACHINES FOR THE FUTURE

Games For Elderly HEALTH-ENHANCING GAME APP FOR THE ELDERLY HELPS TO EXERCISE THE MIND.

Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things DESIGNING AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION MECHANISMS FOR THE MOST CONSTRAINED DEVICES IN THE NET.

Full Speed Ahead Towards Driverless Vechicles INVESTIGATING THE USE OF REMOTE-CONTROLLED INDUSTRIAL VEHICLES.

SICS Celebrating 30 Years

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SICS SWEDISH ICT IS A RESEARCH ORGANIZATION IN THE MOST EXPANSIVE AREA OF INDUSTRY THIS CENTURY: THE TOTAL DIGITALIZATION OF PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND BUSINESSES.

Society is shifting towards an economy based on information as the resource, and SICS is in the midst of this revolution, boosting the competitive strength of Swedish industry and the quality and e�ciency of Sweden’s public sector.

SICS conducts research within the fastest growing and most relevant areas of information and communication technology at the moment:

• Computer science is more important than ever• �ere is huge interest in industry for Big Data

and Cloud Computing• Internet of �ings is exploding• Security is becoming increasingly important • Complexity is increasing • Automotive is fast developing as part of Internet

of �ings and Big Data analytics• Automation is developing as part of Internet of

�ings and Big Data analytics • eHealth is going to be the next big application area

SICS is non-pro�t and carries out advanced and focused research in strategic areas of computer science, in close collaboration with Swedish and international industry and academia. �e research creates cutting-edge technology, invigorating companies beyond their own R&D.

SICS Swedish ICT constantly seeks partnerships in which new technology can be turned into smart innovation, giving the customer a competitive edge. �e expertise found at SICS is built on a solid academic foundation that is tried and tested as it comes into contact with real life industrial problems. �e customer gets solutions tailored to their needs; the researchers get real problems that make their research relevant.

Call us and �nd out what we can do for you!

SICS Swedish ICT ABIsa�ordsgatan 22, KistaTel: +46 8 633 1500E-mail: [email protected]

WHAT’S SICS?AND WHAT CAN IT DO FOR ME?

INTRODUCTIONWhat’s SICS? And what can it do for me?Everything & Everyone are ConnectedSICS Research Collaboration in Europe SICS ICE

LEARNING MACHINESMachine IntelligenceData AnalyticsPredictions of Epilepsy SeizuresBig Data-Driven Tra�c Modeling and AnalyticsReal-Time Analytics for Cloud Network ManagementHadoop Open Platform-As-A-Service (HOPS)

TELECOMInto the Telecom FutureAutomatic Just-In-Time Compiler Speeds Up Erlang ProgramsPatent for Autonomous Load Balancing in Ericsson Networks

E-HEALTHeHealth at HomeThe Technology Has to be Meaningful to the UsersA New SICS Lab in NorrköpingGames to Keep your Brain YoungAn Industrial Take on Breast Cancer Treatment

AUTOMOTIVESFull Speed Ahead Towards Driverless Vechicles Software Ecosystems – A Game Changer for Embedded Systems

INTERNET OF THINGS SICS Gives Me the Opportunity to Work with the BestThe Self-Reporting BridgeThe Future of Home FurnishingSecure Apps for the Internet of ThingsUnconventional Ideas for Robust Indoor LocalizationBringing the Internet of Things Up to Speed in SwedenRobust Solutions for the Internet of Things

SECURITYHigh Assurance Security Products on COTS PlatformsSecurity and Privacy in the Internet of Things

START-UP ACCELERATORLevel-6 – Helping Startups Help Each Other Chasing the Hockey Stick

CONSTRAINTSAdvanced Math for Fair PlayMore Trains on the Malmbanan Line a Prerequisite for LKAB’s Expansion

PROJECT EFFICIENCY Prindit – A Revolution in Product DevelopmentNew Project Management for a Complex World

FACTS & FIGURESFacts & FiguresOrganization


SICS OFFERS EXPERTISE FOR THE ENTIRE CHAIN OF THE INFORMATION-DRIVEN SOCIETY

The digitalization of society is well underway in Sweden. All facets of our world are now connected; from production, transportation, entertainment and the public sector through to personal services, both in our work and private lives.

Progress in this area is now heading for the next level. When all the objects we use and the environments in which we move are equipped with sensors and actuators, incredibly large amounts of data will be generated, collected, and consequently transferred, stored, secured - and not least, analyzed.

To date, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg of the new generation of business opportunities that will arise from these analyses: early warning systems, recommendation systems, smart energy management, maintenance monitoring, life science - all services underpinned by the ability to make smart decisions based on the statistical conclusions of very large data sets.

For the last 10 years SICS has conducted world-leading research in the areas of cloud computing, security, Internet of �ings, big data analytics and user interaction. �e cumulative results have given a competitive edge to many important Swedish companies, contributing to their ability to stay at the forefront within their areas. �e key for both industry and the public sector is to use the latest �ndings in speci�c application domains to create

“The key for both industry and the public sector is to use the latest findings in specific application domains to create innovative services. SICS is the ideal partner to help achieve this.”

- Christer Norström, CEO, SICS Swedish ICT

EVERYTHING & EVERYONE ARE CONNECTED

innovative services. SICS is the ideal partner to help facilitate this. We have strengthened our ability to work closely with our partners and customers, to listen and challenge them with new ideas for their core businesses.

�e majority of the research at SICS is within the chain of the information-driven society: embedded systems; big data platforms; networks; modeling and analytics; visualization and interaction. �e research is then utilized in applications in industry and society, such as high-tech startups, advanced digitalization of traditional industry and eHealth. We have built up expertise in all these steps in order to help our customers take advantage of the opportunities o�ered by technology. SICS currently employs 94 PhD researchers who run over 200 industry-related research projects commissioned by industry and the public sector. Our job is to be relevant - and to always stay one step ahead.

CELEBRATING 30 YEARSSICS started in 1985 and can today be described as a �t 30-year old with a great deal of experience. In this short time we have, in close collaboration with our partners in industry, contributed to vital steps leading to the information society we live in today. �is development has gone from logic programming in the eighties, through all the steps of the Internet in the nineties, over Internet of �ings and Big Data Analytics into Machines Learning, which is where the research front stands today, and it has led to novel applications within many areas of society. Along the way we have spun o� several successful companies, and hundreds of former SICS researchers have proceeded to key positions in business and universities, in Sweden and internationally. We are proud to be creators of value for society on a daily basis!

Christer Norström


SICS. In 2014 SICS hosted thirteen post-docs though ERCIM’s fellowship program.

SICS has a history of strong commitment to international collaboration, even outside of Europe. As a researcher it is vital to meet and discuss your �ndings in an international context, to share knowledge and challenge one another’s ideas. In 2014 SICS researchers presented 109 papers at highly ranked international research conferences.

SICS considers sta� migration to be an important way of transferring knowledge. SICS has contact on a daily basis with many former SICS researchers, a number of them now at highly respected research organizations in the US, such as Google and Berkeley University of California.

�e other two focus on IT security, a growing concern for any business.

SICS was successful in the competition for European funding in Horizon 2020, the next framework program. �ree projects were funded in the 2014 calls: one large project in energy measurement, one large project in privacy and one project in eHealth.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions project MobileCloud within the FP7 Program, engages researchers at three European institutes, the BUPT, Tsinghua, Nanjing, and Fudan universities in China, and SICS.

Furthermore, SICS participates in the Eurostar program for small and mid-sized enterprises, with a project focusing on sensor networks.

SICS is a core partner in the European Institute of Technology ICT Labs (EIT ICT Labs). Together with KTH and Ericsson, SICS forms the core of the Stockholm node. About 10% of SICS’ turnover originates from this European partnership.

SICS is the Swedish partner of ERCIM (the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics). �e collaboration formed within ERCIM has provided valuable international exchange over the last two decades, including a considerable in¯ux of young talent to

SICS is currently active in eight projects in the European seventh framework program. �ey conduct research in areas such as telecom networks, security, cloud computing, and smart energy systems.

In the ECSEL Artemis program, SICS participates in three projects. One focuses on parallel computing, and comprises seventeen partners in Europe and Russia.

SICS RESEARCH COLLABORATION IN EUROPE

SICS Swedish ICT is an active and in¯uential player in the computer science research community of Europe. SICS conducts cutting edge research together with European universities, research institutes and industries within a number of areas, vital to our information-driven and all-connected future. In 2015 SICS’ budget for European funding is estimated at 22.5 MSEK, which is about 20% of the total turnover of SICS.


SICS ICE- THE FOUNDATION FOR A NEW RAPIDLY EXPANDING SWEDISH INDUSTRY SECTOR

A new industry sector – the datacenter sector – is emerging in Sweden and it’s up to us to take advantage of the opportunities it o�ers. Several datacenter operators are establishing in the country and many companies have already begun operations: Ericsson has its Cloud business area, ABB has a datacenter business area, Alfa-Laval and Swegon have products, as well as the construction companies NCC and Skanska – not to mention Facebook’s establishment in Luleå.

SICS Swedish ICT, in partnership with Luleå University of Technology, has consequently started preliminary planning for a large-scale testing and experimentation facility under the working name SICS ICE (Infrastructure and Cloud datacenter test

Environment). �rough the initiative, research expertise is being assembled in datacenters that supports existing research expertise in Big Data. If we appropriately exploit Sweden’s potential there are opportunities for both sector growth and jobs. Sweden’s environment and climate are perfect for datacenters, with ample access to cooling, energy and a stable geological structure, as well as a skilled work force, political stability and well-developed infrastructure.

“With a little black humor, you might say that Apple killed o� both Nokia (with the iPhone) and the paper industry (with the iPad),” says Tor Björn Minde, project manager for work with SICS ICE. “Activities such as news broadcasting and communications are

If every business that could benefit from this technology were to set up operations in Sweden,

many more technicians and engineers would be needed in the sector.

moving to the cloud, which is implemented with large datacenters, facilities with enormous computing power for calculations, for all applications and analysis of Big Data – this is where it’s all happening!”

Obviously, this creates jobs. If every business that could bene�t from this technology were to set up operations in Sweden, many more technicians and engineers would be needed in the sector. �e test facility is necessary for establishing research, and a large-scale server facility is needed for testing new technology. �e size of the required facility represents a challenge in itself: a datacenter of at least 2 megawatts is planned.

�is corresponds to at least 5,000 servers – or the annual production of electricity for all single-family dwellings in the Swedish community of Arjeplog with its 2,000 inhabitants. �is represents an investment of approximately SEK 200 million.

“If growth occurs at the rate we hope for and anticipate we will encounter several challenges regarding energy, automation and new technology,” says SICS CEO Christer Norström. “If we can satisfy the need, in combination with the good conditions we already have in place, we hold all the trump cards. But this requires an all-embracing strategy for the datacenter sector.”

Sweco Anna-Brita Krakenberger Arkitekt SAR, MSA

Tor Björn Minde

LEARNING MACHINES

SICS research center Learning Machines@SICS will focus on advanced research and applications

in Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning. �e research center will focus on high value, high impact applications of machine learning on massive data sets.

Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented shopping spree among the global Internet giants for machine learning expertise. World leading researchers such as Geo�rey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Andrew Ng have

been snapped up by Google, Facebook, and Baidu. In one famous example in 2014, Google acquired the ̄ edgeling UK machine learning company DeepMind for a whopping 5 billion SEK, Google’s largest European purchase, to secure the expertise of their around one dozen researchers.

So why is Machine Learning suddenly so important and valuable? �e recent events can be traced back to a technical breakthrough in 2006, when Geo�rey Hinton and others mastered learning for

MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

”deep neural networks”, which are able to capture the characteristics of complex data sets in multi-level hierarchies of concepts with millions and even billions of parameters. As one example of the impact, in 2012, a deep neural network dramatically outperformed the competition in the ImageNet visual recognition contest, beating decades worth of human e�orts on carefully hand-crafted machine vision algorithms. �ese methods are widely applicable in many domains, and are believed to herald a fundamental transformation of many engineering disciplines, where machine learning approaches will outperform and make irrelevant human designs.

Machine learning will necessarily replace human labor, as have other technologies before, and will similarly transform industry and society. With the greatly increased capabilities of intelligent machines, we have also seen a surge of warnings on the future existential risks

- FRIEND OR FOE? SICS, IN COLLABORATION WITH STRATEGIC PARTNERS, IS ESTABLISHING A NEW FIVE YEAR RESEARCH CENTER.

of Arti�cial Intelligence from Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and many others. We are deeply optimistic about the potential of this technology to transform industry and society for the better, and the risks can only be handled by mastering it. We believe that Sweden must lead and be among the �rst to bene�t from this transformation.

SICS has been driving Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and other methods for statistical modeling of complex data since the early 1990s. We are uniquely poised to leverage our expertise, the recent developments in the �eld, and the interests of our partners in creating new valuable applications for Swedish industry and society in the new Learning Machines@SICS center.

“We are deeply optimistic about the potential of this technology to transform industry and society for the better, and the risks can only be handled by mastering it.”

- Sverker Janson, Director of Computer Systems Laboratory

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Epilepsy, characterized by the occurrence of spontaneous seizures, a¶icts nearly 1% of the

world’s population. Even with medication, people with epilepsy experience persistent anxiety due to the possibility of a seizure occurring at any time. Seizure forecasting systems might ease the anxiety, potentially helping epilepsy su�erers to lead more normal lives.

In order for EEG-based seizure forecasting systems to work e�ectively, computational algorithms must reliably identify periods of increased probability of seizure occurrence. If these seizure-permissive brain states can be identi�ed, devices designed to warn patients of impeding seizures would be possible. �e primary challenge in seizure forecasting is di�erentiating between the preictal (prior to seizure) and interictal (between seizures, or baseline) states.

American Epilepsy Society Seizure Prediction Challenge was the name of a competition held in 2014 to demonstrate

the existence and accurate classi�cation of the preictal brain state in dogs and humans with naturally occurring epilepsy. �e SICS team ended up top 10%, in fierce competition with the leading medical research teams. �e team used a support vector classi�er and features based on a combination of signal frequency and channel correlation.

”Participating in a competition like this enables us to evaluate our machine learning algorithms on real data and at

PREDICTION OF EPILEPSY SEIZURES

- SEIZURE FORECASTING SYSTEMS HOLD PROMISE FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PATIENTS WITH EPILEPSY. THE LEARNING MACHINES

GROUP AT SICS HAS FOUND A SOLUTION.

the same time contribute to the solution of a very important problem”, says team leader John Ardelius.

Seizure forecasting systems might ease the anxiety, potentially helping epilepsy su«erers to lead more normal lives.

Apache Flink is the latest data analytics platform in the Big Data area. It is an open-source

project undergoing incubation in the Apache Software Foundation. Flink originated from the Stratosphere research project by TU Berlin and the EUROPA EIT ICT Labs project by TU Berlin and SICS. Compared to competing modern data processing platforms such as SPARK, it has comparable performance but excels in supporting native iterations, graph processing and real-time stream analytics, features that are necessary for large-scale machine learning.

SICS and KTH researchers are responsible for developing the real-time streaming components of the platform and are supported by the E2E-Clouds project, supported by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.

For more information about Flink platform, visit http://¯ink.incubator.apache.org.

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Next-generation telecom and internet services will execute on telecom clouds, which

will combine the ¯exibility of today’s computing clouds with the service quality of telecom systems. Given the vast amount of data anticipated to run through these systems, as well as the broad variety of applications to be executed on these platforms, real-time monitoring and service assurance will be critical. Many management decisions need to be made in-network based on extracted statistics and properties of automatically generated models of tra�c patterns.

Large volumes of IP traffic ¯ow through modern telecom networks. Identifying application

trends and predicting tra�c peaks is a challenging but important task for telecom operators. An inherent problem, however, in using historical, manually selected data as input to network design and operation testing is that problems often occur as a result of novel application behavior that arises quickly and is hard to foresee. �ere is, therefore, an increasing need to quickly generate accurate tra�c models and simulated tra�c ¯ows that capture important new critical trends.

In the REALM project, SICS together with Ericsson Research and KTH, are developing next generation tools for real-time, in-network analysis of streaming Big Data. Our approach is to use machine learning techniques to adaptively learn the temporal behavior of complex distributed telecom cloud systems. Our objective is to build a robust, dependable and scalable management platform for in-network data analytics.

In the Trafmod project, SICS and Ericsson are applying statistical machine learning to create data-driven, generative models for tra�c ¯ow patterns. �e models can be used as input in the design of network components as well as providing valuable insights in spotting upcoming tra�c trends. A long term of objective of the work is to discover novel ways to classify and represent large time-varying IP data streams on both user and application level.

BIG DATA-DRIVEN TRAFFIC MODELING AND ANALYTICS

REAL-TIME ANALYTICS FOR CLOUD NETWORK MANAGEMENT

LEARNING MACHINES

Hadoop Open Platform-as-a-Service (Hops) is a new open-source distribution of

Apache Hadoop with scalable, highly available, customizable metadata. Hops introduces a new scale-out architecture for metadata, where meta-data can be scaled to terabytes over tens of machines.

Currently, metadata in Hadoop must be managed on the heap of a single Java virtual machine running on a single node.

Hops’ architecture consists of stateless NameNodes and ResourceManagers backed by an open-source, in-memory, highly available database called NDB (the Network Database storage engine for MySQL Cluster). Every component can be scaled-out without any downtime as needed: NameNodes, ResourceManagers and database nodes can all be added online.

Hadoop metadata is customizable with Hops. Instead of metadata residing in heavily optimized data structures on the JVM of the NameNode or ResourceManager, metadata can now be easily queried, extended or exported using SQL. Using this feature, we have introduced erasure-coded replication to the Hadoop Filesystem (HDFS), reducing storage requirements by 44% compared to three-way replication found in current Hadoop distributions. Hops-

YARN also provides a highly available scheduler, where failover of the scheduler completes within seconds.

Hops is easy to install on AWS, Vagrant, Bare-Metal, and other cloud providers. We provide automated installation supporting using Karamel, an orchestration layer of Chef. As of early 2015, Hops is based on the recent 2.4 release of Hadoop.

Hops is the outcome of joint research at KTH and SICS. Its development has been funded by the EU-sponsored BiobankCloud project, SeRC (Swedish E-Science Research Council), and SSF (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research).

HADOOP OPEN PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE (HOPS)

John Ardelius


Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for processing and extracting insights from vast

amounts of network tra�c and system data in real time; Stochastic Modeling and Analysis for reasoning about capacity and managing risks of large complex technical systems under high and unpredictable loads; Virtualization for flexible matching of software to hardware; Cloud Computing for providing resources to services when and where they are needed; Constraint Programming for a range of operations scheduling and optimization problems; and clever compilers that bridge the gap between expressive High

Level Programming Languages and specialized high performance hardware.Peering into the telecom future, we envisage full integration of sophisticated data-driven management methods in telecom networks, providing real-time situational awareness of all tra�c and system activities, understanding the now, analyzing the past, and predicting the future, and automatic decision making mechanisms that continuously optimize network performance, handling tra�c surges, equipment failure, attacks, and novel tra�c patterns due to new apps, devices, and user habits. �e network will be entirely virtualized, enabling ¯exible

orchestration of services on resources, as well as powerful mechanisms for deployment, isolation, management, monitoring, and testing. This future operating system and development environment for telecom networks will be supported by higher-level and platform-neutral software development tools, o�ering great increases in productivity.

In October 2014, Ericsson and SICS entered a Collaboration Agreement for long-term strategic cooperation in selected areas. SICS is happy to be part of this journey.

INTO THE TELECOM FUTURE

TELECOM

SICS, together with Ericsson, is developing a just-in-time compiling runtime for Erlang

called BEAMJIT, which for some benchmarks reduces the execution time by up to 40%.

Erlang programs execute on a virtual machine. Very often a particular sequence of instructions are executed over and over again. By detecting frequently executing sequences and converting them to native code, programs can execute much faster. �is process is commonly called just-in-time compilation. Just-in-time compilation improves performance by removing the overhead for virtual instruction decoding and by allowing inter-instruction optimizations.

With this in mind, SICS is developing BEAMJIT for Ericsson. BEAMJIT is a tracing just-in-time ( JIT) compiling runtime for the Erlang programming language. �e core parts of BEAMJIT

are synthesized from the C source code of BEAM, the reference Erlang abstract machine.

BEAMJIT uses the LLVM toolkit for optimization and native code emission. By synthesizing the major parts of the just-in-time compiling runtime BEAMJIT automatically keeps up to date with the BEAM implementation. �e automated process is not hampered by the lack of a documented instruction set, and additionally preserves implementation quirks that applications may depend on.

In addition to the BEAM emulator, Erlang has an ahead-of-time compiler (HiPE) that operates on individual modules. A JIT compiler will provide new features including cross-module inlining and optimization, tracing and debugging in JIT mode instead of interpreted mode. It will simplify system deployment compared to HiPE which needs modules that are target speci�c

and are strongly coupled to a particular build of the runtime.

�e automatic extraction process greatly reduces the amount of manual work required to maintain a just-in-time compiler as it automatically tracks the base system.

”Instead of going through hundreds of instructions manually, deciding how to transform them to machine code – and most likely introducing some bugs – this conversion will take place automatically and correctly” says Frej Drejhammar, the architect of the system.

Evaluation shows that the core parts of a just-in-time compiling runtime can be extracted, analyzed and generated from the existing implementation of the virtual machine. �e resulting runtime shows promising performance. For some benchmarks, it reduces the runtime by up to 40%.

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TELECOM

- FOR EACH NEW TELECOM GENERATION, NEW ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES WORK THEIR WAY INTO TELECOM SYSTEMS AND BECOME HOT

TOPICS FOR COLLABORATION BETWEEN SICS AND ERICSSON.


Online analysis management of networked systems is becoming a core technology for network

service providers and equipment manufacturers. Analysis results can be used to reduce costs for providing a service, improve service quality and availability or even constitute a core part of the service itself, e.g. in tra�c congestion detection. Techniques employed typically include on-line statistical analysis, and distributed algorithms to aggregate and distribute intermediate results to suitable locations in the network.

A recent result of SICS’ research within this �eld is a method to balance load between radio nodes of di�erent sizes

and types (a HetNet). �e method is highly distributed and scalable, since each node only manages and exchanges load estimates with its immediate neighbors. Each node uses this information to construct a statistical model of the local load level as basis for autonomously regulating local parameters controlling the user equipment admission process. �e choice of statistical model allows the method to be tuned to adapt to both fast and slow changes in the measured radio bandwidth utilization, and still converge under stable conditions to a state that is optimal, given the regulatory mechanism used. �e current solution uses a parameter already present in LTE (4G), but solves the parameter

regulation problem using a inherently scalable distributed algorithm and robust statistical modeling in innovative ways.

�e project was funded by Ericsson DURA, and the innovation is currently patent pending.

PATENT FOR AUTONOMOUS LOAD BALANCING IN ERICSSON NETWORKS

- SICS RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND A NEW AND SCALABLE WAY OF BALANCING LOAD BETWEEN RADIO NODES IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS WHICH IMPROVES

THE EFFICIENCY OF RADIO BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION. THE INNOVATION IS NOW AWAITING PATENT APPROVAL.

TELECOM

Per Kreuger


Swedish ICT has devised an action plan for positioning Sweden at the forefront of development and

implementation of services and products to support home care for the elderly and chronically ill.

THE CARE OF ELDERLY AND CHRONICALLY ILL IS MOVING BACK INTO OUR HOMES.Caring for an aging population is one of the major challenges of the future. Several trends indicate that we are moving from institutional care to a growing focus on the individual caretaker at home. We tend to take more responsibility for our own health, stay healthy longer and postpone the need for care and medical attention. When health problems �nally catch up with us, we want to live our lives at home with good services and a good quality of life.

SWEDEN HAS A CHANCE TO TAKE THE LEAD IN E-HEALTHSweden has a strategic opportunity to pioneer solutions that may be required throughout the developed world, and a unique opportunity to build an industry for a much larger market than just Sweden.

�e area of eHealth is developing very rapidly and is becoming a driver of ICT development. Sweden’s position in the area is good, and we are in many respects a model for other countries.

CHALLENGES�ere are a number of challenges to address if Sweden is to strengthen its position in the area:

• Collaboration must be strengthened between different stakeholders, including: user groups, the public, industry and researchers.

• Education and training, especially in the public sector.

• Investments in certain technical areas.

• Standards for the widespread introduction of eHealth and to let in new innovative players.

• “Appstores”. Innovations must be presented in open marketplaces where the public is given opportunities for testing and deployment.

• Test beds and venues needed for the development of ideas and innovations.

WHEN SWEDEN SUCCEEDS IN E-HEALTH WE CAN ALL BE WINNERS

• �e individual caretaker can live a healthier life with improved quality of life.

• �e business community will see a new market, new innovations, opportunities for increased revenue, new jobs and export opportunities.

• �e community will see reduced costs through new solutions and more e�cient ways of working. At the same time, a healthier and more independent population bene�ts the national economy.

If we succeed with this, eHealth not only solves the future health and social care needs in Sweden, but also creates a new market that �ts the Swedish business pro�le very well.

E-HEALTH AT HOME- STRATEGIC AGENDA FOR E-HEALTH INNOVATION IN SWEDEN

The agenda eHealth at Home is worked out under the leadership of SICS, within the framework of the Strategic Innovation areas, a joint initiative between VINNOVA, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas. The purpose of the initiative is to create conditions for Swedish international competitiveness and sustainable solutions to global societal challenges.

DOWNLOAD THE E-HEALTH AGENDA IN SWEDISH AT www.sics.se/media/news/ehalsa-i-hemmet-en-innovationsagenda

E-HEALTH

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WHY DID YOU COME TO SICS?I came to SICS to write my bachelor’s thesis within computer science. Later, still working at SICS, I did my doctoral thesis in psychology within the area of elderly people and the use of technology.

WHAT IS YOUR AREA OF RESEARCH?Ever since I came to SICS I have worked in the area of usage and user needs. I have worked mostly with elderly people and their use of technology, for example within the area of social alarms. My most recent projects, though, are focusing on remote rehabilitation and the use of sensor technology for providing feed-back on movements.

One example of a project that I work with is interactive remote stroke rehabilitation. �e aim is to develop,

together with patients and caregivers, a tool for rehabilitation at home. �is has resulted in a prototype for home training. �e system enables individually designed motor training to be performed, and one important aspect is to increase the patient’s motivation to exercise. �is is done by adding game functionality to the exercises.

YOU ARE LEADING A LARGE NEW PROJECT WITH FUNDING FROM EIT ICT LABS?Yes, it is a project within the action line Health and Wellbeing, a collaboration between us and research organizations in Finland and Italy; and companies in the Netherlands and Italy. In this project we will develop a platform that gathers and analyzes data from di�erent movement and rehabilitation applications.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT YOUR JOB?It is stimulating to have the opportunity to address challenges from different perspectives in cooperation with partners from di�erent areas. Most important is that the technology we develop is perceived as meaningful by the users. I enjoy it when we have managed to improve somebody’s life by using technology wisely, and helped her being as active as possible. �ere is so much we can do in care and rehabilitation with technology, if we address the users’ needs and develop technology that actually will be used on a long-term basis.

“THE TECHNOLOGY HAS TO BE MEANINGFUL TO THE USERS”

- MARIE SJÖLINDER HOLDS A DOCTORAL DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY AND WORKS AS A SENIOR RESEARCHER IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION.

E-HEALTH

The aim is to develop, together with patients and caregivers, a tool for rehabilitation at home. This has resulted in a prototype for home training. The system enables individually designed motor training to be performed, and one important aspect is to increase the patient’s motivation to exericse.

Marie Sjölinder


“eHealth has the potential to become one of the big areas of the future, and we are well positioned to start rolling it out in the next few years ”, says Per-Olof Sjöberg.

Over the past decade, New Tools for Health has assisted in the start-up of 29 new companies

and the launch of 70 new products on the market. One example is VISIARC, a Linköping-based app and game developer. VISIARC had not considered producing apps for digital health until New Tools for Health presented the idea. �e two organizations collaborated on a pilot project: “Social apps for seniors”, linking games, digital health, social media and seniors into one project. �e idea was to create a game app speci�cally for the elderly, which could, however, be used by anyone (Inclusive Design). �e goal was for the game to be a commercial

success as well as ful�lling some of the requirements of seniors.

New Tools for Health contributed with both funding and project planning and guidance to the project.

”We are very grateful that New Tools for Health opened up a whole new world to us. Without their knowledge, contacts and access to their test environment for elderly, this game app would not have become reality”, says Peter Lindgren, CEO and founder of VISIARC.

�ere has been little research into how the elderly use modern ICT based on

interaction with touch user interfaces. Producing games and apps for seniors is far more involved than just enlarging the buttons on the application; it entails thinking about how an elderly person receives information, how the user’s memory works, perception and more. A key factor in successfully producing games and apps for the elderly is to test the product on the target market. New Tools for Health provided this opportunity at Testmiljö Norrköping, a living lab where senior users can try out products that have not yet reached the market.

VISIARC is now taking steps to produce other game apps for the elderly. One of the company’s goals is to make social games in which several generations can interact with one another. �ese games are not only fun, but o�er great exercise for the mind. Digital health is now �rmly on VISIARC’s agenda.

A NEW SICS LAB IN NORRKÖPING GAMES TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN YOUNG- A HEALTH-ENHANCING GAME APP FOR THE ELDERLY HELPS TO EXERCISE THE

MIND. THE APP HAS BEEN CREATED IN A PILOT PROJECT LINKING GAMES, DIGITAL HEALTH, SOCIAL MEDIA AND SENIORS INTO ONE PROJECT.

- FOR DIGITAL HEALTH

E-HEALTH

In early 2015, sics swedish ict, together with “new tools for health”, opened a new lab in

norrköping to lead sweden into the era of digital health.

Health care in the future will be increasingly home-based. This will necessitate advanced monitoring systems for our bodies, excellent communication with health professionals, big data analytics to extract crucial data, security and privacy within the health care system, and above all: cooperation. Unfortunately, many initiatives in this area have recently stagnated because they

are run by individual organizations, and thus lack the collaboration and access to resources that might be achieved with a more coordinated approach. “Digital Health Lab” will change this situation.“We are determined to cooperate with all the key stakeholders in the area to make things happen”, says Per-Olof Sjöberg, head of the new laboratory and manager of the business and innovation area, eHealth, at Swedish ICT.

�e Digital Health Lab will be based in Norrköping and Kista, but the lab will have an impact all over Sweden and Europe.

New Tools for Health is a regional initiative that has been running for the last 10 years, based in Östergötland in the east of Sweden. Its objective has been to create new products and services that lead to increased independence for the elderly and more e�cient health and social care based in the home.

Over this time, New Tools for Health has functioned as a network, linking caregivers, researchers and financing bodies in various projects. New Tools for Health has contributed to the development of more than 70 new products and services, and about 30 new companies have been started.

New Tools for Health is continuing as an initiative within SICS Swedish ICT and the new Digital Health Lab.

Lars Stjernkvist, Head of the Municipality of Norrköping and Christer Norström, CEO at SICS, at the inauguration of the Digital Health Lab.


When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer she is drawn into a network

of examinations, tests and treatments with interdependencies in several steps. Because the prognosis for recovery is tied to how quickly she gets help, it is important to minimise the time between the �rst doctor’s appointment and the commencement of treatment.

SICS has carried out a feasibility study for Östra Götalands Landsting to assess how planning can be used to coordinate resources to achieve an e�cient treatment process for breast cancer.

�e �rst part of the pilot study comprised an investigation stage in which the researchers learned about all aspects of the care process. �e researchers then built a computer simulation model to better understand the workings of the process and to investigate which parts of the process are suitable for more advanced

planning. �e model can handle many di�erent aspects and provide insights that are otherwise di�cult to gain. It can, for instance, detect that increasing resources in a particular process step might not result in time gains because the patient still has to wait for other parts of the process.

�e goal for the breast cancer team in Linköping is a lead time of less than 28 days from the �rst doctor’s appointment to the start of treatment. But the simulation showed that it is often impossible to live up to that goal with the current process and methods.

The simulation model was used to estimate how congested the di�erent process steps are and to evaluate possible process changes. Being able to explore the process, and predict in advance how changes a�ect the lead time and the load curve, aroused great interest among the hospital sta�.

Computer simulation gives a picture - planning gives a solution

The purpose of the simulation is to investigate whether there is potential for shorter lead times, and if so, where to invest in resources. Shorter lead times can be achieved by good planning. Naturally, sensitivity and ¯exibility are required in this context; for instance, a patient may need a few extra days to absorb the news that she has cancer before an operation can be scheduled. Nevertheless, SICS believes a more industrial approach to the planning process would bene�t everybody involved.

“Health care is a perfect candidate for our planning methods” says Sara Gestrelius, project leader at SICS. “I really wish that the health care system had better decision support tools. �at would enable a care that is more adapted and coordinated, both for the patient and for the health professionals.”

AN INDUSTRIAL TAKE ON BREAST CANCER TREATMENT

- A PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR THE LATEST PLANNING TOOLS

E-HEALTH

Sara Gestrelius

AUTOMOTIVES

Construction Equipment, is also engaged in the SARPA project.

“�e �eld is important both for the environment and productivity,” says Peter Wallin at Volvo Construction Equipment. “�is is one of the reasons why VCE is making broad research investments in the �eld.”

At SARPA, Joakim is addressing how a computer system for automated vehicles can function, and Volvo already has a demo of an autonomous dumper. �e goal is to avoid incorporating expensive

systems such as those for self-driving cars, whilst still complying with all safety requirements and receiving safety certi�cation. Mälardalen University is participating in the project, which is also �nanced by Vinnova.

�ese projects have major potential to result in commercially viable solutions within the not so distant future. Development in the area is empowered by opportunities related both to safety and productivity.

One of the project’s goals is to develop loaders and dumpers that autonomously integrate

with one another without operators.

“Autonomous vehicles” – i.e. driverless cars - are already being tested under actual conditions, and several manufacturers have launched concept solutions. This development, which spans a range of research �elds, will change our society. Wroom is a project in the strategic innovation program PiiA (Processindustrial IT and Automation). Another related project, SARPA (Safe And Robust Platform for Automated vehicles), is investigating the development of computer systems in automated industrial vehicles.

Joakim Fröberg at SICS Swedish ICT Västerås works in research and development in both projects. In

FULL SPEED AHEAD TOWARDS DRIVERLESS

VEHICLES

Wroomm the focus is on various system solutions for producing a remote-controlled wheel loader integrated with the automation system in a mine.

“�ere is considerable potential here, and this makes Wroomm a very exciting project,” says Joakim. “As an example, we see possibilities with remote-controlled machines working in tough environments with ¯ue gases and other hazards, but controlled from ground level.”Wroomm, which stands for Wireless and Remote Operation Of Mobile Machines, is �nanced by Vinnova and the project owner is the Luleå University of Technology. �e project deals in general terms with how operations at automated workplaces and areas will be conducted in the future with the focus on integration of connected and mobile devices. A key objective is to increase productivity. One of the project participants, Volvo

AUTOMOTIVES

Image: Volvo CE

- THIS PROJECT IS INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL TO USE REMOTE-CONTROLLED INDUSTRIAL VEHICLES.


SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEMS − A GAME CHANGER FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

- THE SOFTWARE BUSINESS IS CHANGING, WITH THE TRADITIONAL BUSINESS MODELS AND SUPPLY CHAINS IN THE DOMAIN OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS BEING

REPLACED BY SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEMS THAT ARE OPEN TO ALL ACTORS.

SECURITY

E� Papatheocharous

Software ecosystems represent an important shift in the way business is conducted in the world today,

where closed products are being replaced by technological platforms with which different actors can collaborate to develop software solutions or services. Software ecosystems a�ect every aspect of the processes, methods and tools for production, innovation, management and organization. �ey are de�ned by a set of businesses functioning as a unit and developing relations around a shared market for software and services.

�e trend of transforming businesses to ecosystems has already been observed in the domain of mobile phones and it is now emerging in other critical domains. With the goal of increasing the competitiveness of the Swedish embedded systems industry, SICS Swedish ICT is investigating the advantages of this shift to software ecosystems, from a business and technical perspective. �e advantages of this new approach include the post-production adaptation and ¯exibility of products through the use of Internet and wireless connectivity.

SICS’s role in this project, supported by Vinnova, is to study the intersection of software business, technology, networks and societies formed when the traditional business models and supply chains in the domain of Embedded Systems are replaced by software ecosystems. Together with seven industrial partners and Linnaeus University, SICS identi�es in software ecosystems the opportunities that emerge and the challenges that need to be managed, to be successful in speci�c industrial environments.

�e study has identi�ed new actors and emerging characteristics of federated embedded systems. New relations and collaboration networks have been identi�ed, together with di�erentiated opportunities of revenue streams and services. �e new actors take advantage of opportunities such as the openness and dependability of the architecture, and establish new ways of working, creating value and dramatically reducing time to market. �e foundation for developing systems of systems is enabled, where systems have their own value and objective, but when combined, they can

present emergent behaviors and o�er product and innovation opportunities that were previously unfeasible.

The industrial partners see great potential in this approach. AB Volvo emphasizes an emerging interest in the di�erent modes of collaboration, enabling innovation, better information ¯ow, and dramatically changing their current products. On the application level, issues such as standardization and control of ownership (e.g., collective or open) are far from de�ned, and there is barely any limitation in the use cases. For another industry partner, Danfoss, setting these limitations and de�ning suitable platforms is of prime importance to attract resource competency and enrich their interfaces.


WHEN AND WHY DID YOU COME TO SICS SWEDISH ICT?I came to SICS in 2010 on an ERCIM* Postdoc fellowship. I wanted to come here because SICS is one of the best places in my �eld of research, the Internet of �ings. In 2011 I was employed as a senior researcher.

WHAT IS YOUR EXPERTISE WITHIN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)?The IoT is a vision where physical devices are able to communicate on the Internet, for applications such as smart energy and building automation. My focus is on IP-based connectivity for constrained devices. �e challenge is to

make them interoperable, reliable and energy-e�cient.

CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR NEW PROJECTS?We have just received funding from the Knowledge Foundation for a �ve-year project eCare@home. �is is an extremely important project to give the elderly assistance and monitoring in the home. I also recently got funding from the European Commission for a one year technical project – RICH - in cooperation with the company NXP and three European universities – to build highly robust mesh networks.

WHAT MOTIVATES YOU? WHAT IS THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR JOB?What I �nd truly ful�lling is to work on all steps in the research process: �nding resources, doing research and disseminating the results. And SICS gives me the opportunity to work with the best!

* (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics)

“SICS GIVES ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THE BEST”

- SIMON DUQUENNOY WAS BORN IN FRANCE AND GOT HIS MSC & PHD AT UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE.

INTERNET OF THINGS

Simon Duquennoy

INTERN

ET OF THINGS


A railway bridge that actively reports its status, straight to the national traffic agency

infrastructure monitoring center. �is could be reality with new monitoring equipment and software, that for a relatively low cost could be installed at existing railway bridges.

With an online system providing noti�cations about potential cracks or other wear which may need attention, problems could be detected and �xed both earlier, avoiding larger damage, and more economically, compared with scheduled manual inspections.

Around Sweden, and Europe, large parts of the ageing railway infrastructure will need to serve for many years to come. If the monitoring and maintenance is improved in a cost e�ective manner, the repair costs will decrease rapidly. When constructing a new bridge, advanced

monitoring equipment can be built in from the start, but to retro�t existing structures with cabled monitoring equipment requires costly intrusive installations. Instead, wireless sensor nodes using less expensive hardware could be installed, which requires fewer tra�c redirections and a shorter installation time.

”The solution is cost-effective for existing infrastrucure, and a small crack is cheaper to mend than a large one,”says project leader Peter Rosengren at CNet. ”Wireless sensor networks have a lot to o�er in surveillance and management of the physical infrastrucure.”

�is project is a collaboration between SICS Swedish ICT, KTH Division of Structural Engineering and Bridges, the Swedish software company CNet, and Decentlab, a Swiss monitoring solution provider.

In early 2015, the project will be running a �rst set of test nodes on the Årsta bridge (image) in Stockholm, which will generate data for a �rst evaluation iteration.

Some of the building blocks to create the system are already in place, but there are still several challenges. Improved hardware allows more accurate time synchronization that could provide input to more advanced damage detection algorithms, but this comes at the cost of increased energy usage. Particularly for battery powered sensor nodes, there is a tradeo� between battery life and improved functionality.

Another aspect concerns standards and organizational aspects, to ensure that the monitoring data can reach all the involved parties securely and e�ciently.

THE SELF-REPORTING BRIDGE

INTERNET OF THINGS

Årsta Bridge


SICS, Swedish ICT and Mobile Life, in cooperation with IKEA, examined digital technology as a

creative material for new innovations at the home furnishings company. �e focus was on developing prototypes which incorporated interactivity as an aesthetically pleasing element of their design.

SICS and IKEA have established a partnership in order to explore applications for digital technology in the home. For some time now, SICS has been engaged in developing a method for examining the aesthetic and experiential possibilities of digital technology. �e method involves playfully exploring

and deepening physical and aesthetic experiences. �e technique is used in combination with other approaches to address the question: What additional experiences can be brought into the design process using the opportunities a�orded by new material?

“Digital technology is a creative material,” says Kristina Höök, professor at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) and researcher at SICS. “In the same way that wood is used to build various objects, we can use digital technology to open new possibilities for making furniture more comfortable, interesting, interactive and informative - or simply more fun.”

In 2014, two SICS researchers and a designer from Boris Design Studio used these methods with IKEA’s product development team at IKEA of Sweden in Älmult, and developed concepts and scenarios for future products for the home.

�e next step is to examine what the Internet of �ings could mean for the home. What opportunities become available when communication technology is built into all of the objects and environments in a household?

THE FUTURE OF HOME FURNISHING- WITH A FOCUS ON THE BODY AND TECHNOLOGY

In Spring 2014, SICS and Mobile Life organized a workshop with IKEA at their FutureHome Lab in Malmö. Among the participants were researchers from SICS, product designers from IKEA and engineers from KTH. The question in focus was: what can be created when engineers, designers and product developers couple digital expertise with a design method based on our physical experiences?

INTERNET OF THINGS


To contribute to software security in Internet of �ings devices, SICS provides virtual machine

technology, high-level programming languages, and a secure runtime environment in Internet of Things operating systems.

Being able to trust devices is a prerequisite for large scale adoption of the Internet of �ings (IoT). As IoT goes commercial, it is necessary to ensure that the apps are secure. Faulty software can cause devices to crash, destroy connected hardware, drain their batteries, or report invalid sensor values. Because IoT devices typically use wireless communication, hackers will try to launch their attacks by injecting maliciously formed packets into the networks to exploit software security holes.

One way to do this is to provide a secure runtime environment for apps. A secure runtime environment reduces the risk that

security holes can be exploited because the software executes in a sandbox with a minimum set of privileges and in isolation from the operating system. To this end, SICS researchers are building a virtual machine. �e virtual machine also enables software developers to program IoT apps using high-level languages rather than C, which ensures that many low-level programming errors are eliminated. Each IoT app can have its own security policy, speci�ed by the device owner and enforced by the virtual machine. �is is similar to the system used with smartphone apps, but since IoT devices do not have the same availability of computing resources and energy as smartphones, the same virtual machine technology can’t be used. In IoT devices the virtual machine must be designed primarily to be resource-e�cient rather than to provide the most comprehensive feature set or the fastest software execution. �e virtual machine developed at SICS is written primarily for Contiki, which is an open-source

operating system for very small devices. Contiki also originated at SICS, and is now used by industry and academia around the world to build Internet of �ings systems.

“We think that the virtual machine can solve one of the really hard IoT problems: combining safety and openness in IoT devices, such as our smart power plugs and LED lamps, “ says Lars Ramfelt, Yanzi Networks.

SECURE APPS FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS

INTERNET OF THINGS

UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS FOR ROBUST INDOOR LOCALIZATION

- SICS TAKES AN UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH TO INDOOR LOCALIZATION BY USING RF INTERFERENCE AS AN ADVANTAGE.

Indoor localization is a key enabler for numerous applications that simplify everyday-tasks, such as

guiding customers in a supermarket, providing security to senior citizens, and helping �re�ghters navigate within a burning building. �e most commonly used indoor localization techniques are radio based.

SICS’ main focus, within the European project Evarilos, is on making indoor localization more robust to RF interference.

One approach is to use multimodal localization, i.e., to combine di�erent types of radio based localization techniques, such as di�erent types of range based and �ngerprinting techniques. Range based techniques estimate the distance to known landmarks or anchors. Fingerprinting techniques estimate the

location by comparing currently “visible” radio signals to previously recorded signals at di�erent locations. For multimodal localization SICS has developed Spray; a modular, particle �lter based platform that provides a set of basic independent building blocks, or components, that can be reused or tailored to di�erent types of localization modalities. �e use of a particle �lter means the components can be isolated from each other, and allows users to easily add or remove di�erent modalities depending on the current environment and scenario. Using Spray to combine a range-based technique with �ngerprinting improves the localization accuracy by almost 30% in scenarios with strong interference.

Another approach to improve interference robustness is to investigate the somewhat counterintuitive idea of using interference to improve localization performance.

To this end, SICS is investigating how certain features of WiFi signals detected by IEEE 802.15.4 sensor nodes can be identi�ed and used for localization purposes. Since the content of the signals is not visible to the sensor nodes, the signal sources cannot be identified. SICS calls this anonymous localization, and the ultimate goal is to estimate the most likely locations of the sensor node based on a given a set of anonymous measurements and a set of WiFi access point locations. �is approach in isolation is generally inadequate to provide accurate localization, but it can be used to resolve situations when too few non-collinear anchors are available for localization, resulting in a non-unique location solution. In such scenarios, anonymous localization has been proven to select the correct solution in up to 90% of the cases.


INTERNET OF THINGS

Although the Internet of �ings has been talked about for many years, in practice it has not yet

taken o�. SICS is creating an easily accessible platform for innovation with the focus on utilization of the technology.

In line with making Sweden a world leader in the Internet of �ings, SICS is conducting a project for identifying, analyzing and making accessible existing test beds in the �eld.

A coordinated test bed network is essential to advance the development of the Internet of �ings (IoT) in Sweden. �e project will result in an overview of the existing test beds as well as suggested strategies to maximize their accessibility and usability for Sweden’s IoT stakeholders.

THE PROJECT COMPRISES THREE STEPS:• Study – of Sweden’s IoT test beds

and what they o�er with a survey of the values they contribute on the road to commercialization and technology utilization

• Analysis – of conclusions and results for further developing existing IoT test beds with common services for society and business

• Testing - of con�gurations with up to three cases of three to �ve months duration at existing IoT test beds in collaboration with businesses and users

A number of Swedish initiatives have open IoT test beds, including: “RISE Testbädd för Smarta Hem” and “Intel IoT Ignition Lab for Smart Sustainable Cities”. SICS Swedish ICT already supports these with management and

expert resources. �e main advantage conferred by the test beds is that they enable Swedish IoT projects to achieve more in a shorter timeframe under realistic conditions. �e preliminary study was conducted in collaboration with the Intel Corporation and �nancing from Vinnova. Johan Falk heads Intel’s IoT Ignition Lab in Kista, which was inaugurated in the spring of 2014.

“IoT can contribute to solutions to many of the major global challenges in the coming decades, such as sustainability and employment,” says Johan Falk. “Creating better capabilities for commercialization of IoT products and getting these to scale on a global market are very important for realizing these contributions. �e initiative for IoT test beds is an important aspect of this development.”

BRINGING THE INTERNET OF THINGS UP TO SPEED IN SWEDEN

ROBUST SOLUTIONS FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS

- THE SOLUTION, A NETWORK APPLICATION BASED ON THE CONTIKI OPERATING SYSTEM CREATED BY SICS, HAS BEEN TESTED IN TWO DEMO SYSTEMS IN SPAIN.

Since the end of 2012, SICS Swedish ICT has participated in the EU project RELYonIT with the goal

of developing stable, reliable and robust solutions for the Internet of �ings. �e project, which concluded at the end of January 2015, has (among other achievements) resulted in two demo systems based on software developed by SICS.

Existing radio communications solutions for the Internet of Things

are not su�ciently reliable owing to embedded systems and sensors not always managing their often tough operating environments. �e problems range from radio disturbances produced by other wireless equipment and electrical devices, to major variations in temperature and humidity, which affect both battery capacity and the electronics.

The goal of RELYonIT has been to produce a model for the external environment and its e�ects in the Internet of �ings and thereafter developing a reliable solution that can be adapted to di�cult conditions.

�e EU project has been addressing these problems, which have the potential to seriously hinder the rapid development of the Internet of �ings. �e project has been a collaboration between SICS, Graz University of Technology (Austria), Acciona Infraestructuras (Spain), the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), the University of Lancaster

(Great Britain) and Worldsensing (Spain).

�e solution, a network application based on the Contiki operating system created by SICS, has been tested in two demo systems in Spain under the supervision of Acciona and Worldsensing. �e solution involves monitoring of buildings and infrastructure in extreme climates with substantial temperature variations, in part with parking monitoring where wireless sensors in the asphalt provide information about available parking spaces via smartphones.

“RELYonIT is an important step towards robust and reliable systems,” says Professor �iemo Voigt, group manager for Networked Embedded Systems Group at SICS. “It is essential that the Internet of �ings can also embrace critical applications.”

In line with making Sweden a world leader in the Internet of Things, SICS is conducting a project for identifying, analyzing and making accessible existing test beds in the field.


SECURITY ESSENTIAL FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEM QUALITYAll types of computer and embedded systems are being targeted by increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. Most attacks are financially motivated and are launched by professional and highly organized groups. Thus all products on the Internet and in digital infrastructures should provide strong security defenses.

SICS has been working with security as an essential part of trustworthy systems and software for many years, and in 2013 SICS opened the Security Lab in Lund and Kista. This rapidly growing lab makes an important contribution to SICS’ relevance as a source of knowledge for future-proof systems.

SECURITY

The HASPOC project, supported by Vinnova, is developing an open source security solution

for embedded systems in critical digital services and infrastructures. �e goal is to create a trusted, cost and resource e�cient virtualized commercial-o�-the-shelf platform, with proven and Common Criteria certi�ed security properties. �e project is led by SICS and carried out in collaboration with Ericsson, Sectra Communications AB, Tutus AB, T2 Data AB, Atsec Information Security AB, and KTH.

Security levels are often classi�ed as Restricted, Secret or Top Secret. Sectra Communications AB develops crypto products for protection of Secret and Top Secret information.

“We see an ever increasing demand for new generations and increased

functionality in our High Assurance security products. We need to find tools to enable agile product revisions. By introducing trusted components in the development, we will decrease the lead time from user requirement to developed, evaluated and deployed solution.” says Robin von Post, CTO at Sectra Communications AB.

Tutus AB develops crypto products for protection of voice and data communication up to the level of Restricted.

“As the platforms used are COTS platforms we will be able to develop more e�cient products with proven security features”, says Per Holmer, CTO at Tutus AB.

From an Ericsson perspective, security certi�cation of products will become the

norm in the mobile system and phone industry, and formal verification of security properties will be desirable for critical components. �e results from this project will thus be directly applicable in their future product development. In addition to speci�c security products, such as crypto equipment, secure mobile phones and firewalls, the developed platform will be applicable in many other areas, for example: SCADA systems, mobile communication networks, vehicular, avionics and medical systems, cloud application platforms and in devices for the Internet of �ings. �e potential market is thus enormous.

HIGH ASSURANCE SECURITY PRODUCTS ON COTS PLATFORMS

- THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A TRUSTED, COST AND RESOURCE EFFICIENT VIRTUALIZED COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF PLATFORM, WITH PROVEN

COMMON CRITERIA CERTIFIED SECURITY PROPERTIES.

Mudassar Aslam and Marco Tiloca at the Security Lab

SECURITY


In many of the applications of Internet of �ings, sensors measure phenomena such as speed, pressure,

consumption, temperature or heart rates, and actuators control systems such as brakes, valves, lights, power circuits, or automated drug dispensers.

What makes these scenarios interesting from a security and privacy perspective is that they all a�ect the physical world: they may control critical infrastructure or gather very private information about individuals. �us, there is clearly a real need for security and privacy protection in the Internet of �ings.

At the same time, classical IT-security mechanisms are often inadequate to cope with the special requirements that arise due to the extremely limited resources in terms of memory, processing capacity, and battery power. Moreover, many such devices operate on wireless networks,

which only o�er low bandwidth and are prone to losing data-packets in transfer.

We therefore need adapted security and privacy mechanisms that allow us to reap the potential bene�ts of the Internet of �ings, without endangering critical infrastructure or the privacy needs of individuals.

Another problem is fragmentation, since security solutions are not standardized. �is is true for IT-security in general, but Internet of �ings is particularly affected, owing to the importance of interoperability between devices produced by di�erent vendors (otherwise we’d lose the ‘Internet’ from Internet of �ings) and the rapid development of new technologies in that sector.

Addressing these issues would go a long way towards increasing public acceptance of IoT end consumer products.

Currently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is working on various security topics related to the Internet of �ings. IETF is a large, international standardization organization, with a wide range of Internet related working groups. IETF has developed a number of protocols, such as 6LoWPan, CoAP, and DTLS, aimed at Internet of �ings applications. It currently has two working groups active in IoT security.

�e �rst of these, DICE, deals with adapting the DTLS protocol to constrained environments, whereas the second ACE, works on the topic of authentication and authorization in constrained environments. SICS is an active member in both working groups.

�e work on securing the Internet of �ings is underway, and the repercussions of the decisions that are made now will be a�ecting us for many years to come.

SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS

- THE INTERNET OF THINGS IS ESPECIALLY PRONE TO SECURITY AND PRIVACY PROBLEMS. SICS PARTICIPATES IN THE WORK OF THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE, DESIGNING AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION MECHANISMS FOR THE

MOST CONSTRAINED DEVICES IN THE NET.

SECURITY

We therefore need adapted security and privacy mechanisms that allow us to reap the potential benefits of the Internet of Things, without endangering critical infrastructure or the privacy needs of individuals.

Ludwig Seitz

START-UP ACCELERATOR

from Poland that has worked with SICS on several projects, and Elsip is a spin-o� from our neighbor KTH.

�e name Level-6 is primarily a reference to the TRL scale, where Technology Readiness Level 6 indicates that an innovation has reached the demonstration stage or higher. Early commercialization activities can – and should – have taken place before this stage, but at TRL6 the technology is usually mature enough to form the basis of a company. �e fact that Level-6 has its o�ce on the 6th ̄ oor, as well as the linguistic reference to SICS, adds to the elegance of the name.

If you want to know more about Level-6, please contact: Adam Edström, [email protected]

This initiative, which started last year, has attracted much interest both within and outside SICS.

Most startups face similar challenges. How to develop a business case? Who should be on the Board? How to pitch for investors? And arguably most important of all – how to attract customers?

To help spin-off companies more promptly answer these questions, SICS last year founded Level-6, a co-working space where spin-o�s from SICS and other institutes within Swedish ICT can exchange experiences, knowledge, information and network. Situated on the premises of SICS in Kista, the spin-o�

companies can maintain close social and professional access to the researchers at the institute and simultaneously walk step by step into the commercial world. Select startups founded outside of Swedish ICT are also welcome, provided that they have a natural connection to SICS, Acreo or the Interactive Institute.

Level-6 can be seen as an extension of SICS Startup Accelerator, a limited initiative taken a few years ago. Current members of Level-6 include Wememove, Telcred, Biosync Technologies, Locusense, Antmicro and Elsip, where the �rst four are spun out of SICS and �e Interactive Institute. Antmicro is an embedded systems company originally

LEVEL-6 - HELPING STARTUPS

HELP EACH OTHER


Johanna Mercurio

- AT LEVEL-6, A CO-WORKING SPACE ON SICS PREMISES, YOUNG COMPANIES HELP EACH OTHER

ALONG BY SHARING EXPERIENCES AND NETWORKING.


The hockey stick is a common metaphor for the kind of growth many startups aim for.

For Wememove it’s more tangible – the ability to measure how a hockey player moves his stick was vital in getting the �rst paying customer on board. Last fall, the company XLNC Sports launched an app based on Wememove’s algorithms, after signing a license contract in early 2014 – a vital step for this young SICS spino�, founded in 2013.

�e app is already used by several hundred hockey players in Sweden, Finland and the United States to measure and improve their skating, puck control, stickhandling and dribbles – with feedback given in real time. �e app can even measure how high the hockey players can jump, to evaluate their leg strength.

Wememove’s underlying motion analysis engine is extremely versatile – it can be used for measuring almost any kind of athletic performance. Hockey was not where the company started looking

for customers – a year ago the primary target group was cross-country skiers, for whom an early demo was developed. With a lot of work and lateral thinking, the company successfully rede�ned both the application and the business model last year.

�e development of the app for cross-country skiing has been going on in parallel, however. A far more mature version of this system is up and running, with a complete motion analysis engine, APIs for Android and Iphone, feedback in real time and a cloud function for data storage. �e missing piece in the puzzle – the customized motion sensor – will be delivered soon, for a pilot market introduction later this year.

The business model for the ski app, branded ”mySKILAB”, is quite di�erent from the hockey case. Wememove intends to sell the sensor and the accompanying app package directly to customers.

”We hope to scale this business during

2015. By then we also believe that we will have external investors”, says CEO Magnus Jonsson.

And after that? As mentioned, the motion analysis engine is generic enough for most sports, including running, gym workout and golf. With the right sensors it could even be adapted to horses and other animals. Internet of sports is indeed a market with a huge number of niches.

More information can be found at www.wememove.com and www.myskilab.com

CHASING THE HOCKEY STICK


Wememove’s underlying motion analysis engine is extremely versatile – it can be used for measuring almost any kind of athletic performance. Hockey was not where the company started looking for customers – a year ago the primary target group was cross-country skiers, for whom an early demo was developed. With a lot of work and lateral thinking, the company successfully redefined both the application and the business model in 2014.

- WEMEMOVE IS A SPINOFF FROM SICS THAT CONDUCTS RESEARCH ON THE ANALYSIS OF BODY MOVEMENTS. IN 2014, WEMEMOVE ACQUIRED ITS FIRST PAYING CUSTOMER: AN ORGANIZATION THAT IS USING THE TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE

PERFORMANCE OF HOCKEY PLAYERS.

CONSTR

AINTS

Visually, it can be pictured as a matrix with 280 cells, each �lled with a number between 1 and 27. �ere are more than 10400 ways to do the task, or commonly expressed 1 followed by 400 zeroes. As a comparison, there are only about 1080 atoms in the universe. Out of the vanishingly small amount of correctly �lled matrices, there is only one ultimate solution. �e challenge is to �nd it.Traditionally, the timetabling has been carried out manually by the Swedish Handball Federation. �e problem is too di�cult for a human to solve to optimality, so the Federation has always

had to compromise and break some rules in order to come up with an acceptable timetable.

�is timetabling problem is a typical combinatorial problem. KTH researchers conducted a �rst formal study of the problem, and discovered some important structural properties. SICS continued the study, formally modeled the problem using Constraint Programming, and was thereby able to solve it to optimality in about �ve CPU seconds without breaking any rules.

Creating a fair timetable for the men’s handball league, Elitserien, is a far more complex task than

one would imagine. �ere are many more ways to perform this task than there are atoms in the universe, and only one of them is perfect. �e challenge is to �nd it!

�e top Swedish men’s handball league, Elitserien, consists of two divisions of seven teams each. Every season, a timetable for 33 periods needs to be constructed. In the �rst seven periods, two parallel tournaments are played with every team meeting every other team from the same division. In the next 13 periods, one league-level tournament is played with every team meeting every other team. In the last 13 periods, the league-level tournament is played again, in reverse order.

THE TIMETABLE MUST SATISFY A NUMBER OF OTHER RULES, INCLUDING:

• If team A plays team B at home, then team B must play team A at home the next time they meet.

• Teams can play at home at most twice in a row and away at most twice in a row, and such cases should be minimized.

• Both divisions must have three pairs of complementary schedules.

• Specific high-profile matches between given teams should be scheduled in speci�c periods.

• Some teams can’t play at home during speci�c periods, because the venue is unavailable.

ADVANCED MATH FOR FAIR PLAY

CONSTRAINTS

There are more than 10 ways to do the task, or commonly expressed 1 followed by 400 zeroes.

- THERE ARE MANY MORE WAYS TO PERFORM THIS TASK THAN THERE ARE ATOMS IN THE UNIVERSE,

AND ONLY ONE OF THEM IS PERFECT. THE CHALLENGE IS TO FIND IT! 400


CONSTRAINTS

The Malmbanan Line is the backbone of LKAB’s logistics system. �e ability to transport

more along this line, which is currently believed to be operating at full capacity, is a crucial element of the company’s planned expansion. SICS Swedish ICT identi�ed opportunities for optimizing timetables, enabling more trains to run on the route.

Malmbanan is one of Sweden’s busiest railway lines. It stretches from Boden to Riksgränsen, and then onward to Narvik in Norway. Malmbanan is heavily congested and many argue that it is at its service limit. But LKAB asked: Is it possible to schedule additional trains? And, if so, what would the consequences be?

A signi�cant share of current timetable planning is done manually, based

on established knowledge and long experience. �e challenge our team faced was to see if an advanced optimization system could provide a more e�cient timetable. �ey used the existing timetable as a starting point and implemented Marackasen, a timetable optimization tool that SICS and Tra�kverket (�e Swedish Transport Administration) have developed together. �e team tested possibilities for increasing the number of trains on the route, and project manager Martin Joborn was pleased with the results.

“We have shown that it is possible to increase ore-transport tra�c to and from Narvik to 16 trains paths per day, while actually decreasing running time for other tra�c. We also saw that certain basic principles used in planning tra�c on the Malmbanan line limit its capacity, and by compromising on these principles, more

trains can be �tted into the schedule. �at was a very important lesson,” said Martin Joborn.

�is insight has been an valuable piece of the puzzle in LKAB’s planning. An advanced optimization tool, like Marackasen, could be an important aid for manual timetable planning. Martin Joborn anticipates that SICS will work with Travikverket and LKAB when they begin the timetable scheduling process for 2016.

MORE TRAINS ON THE MALMBANAN LINE A PREREQUISITE FOR

LKAB’S EXPANSION

Martin Joborn is a researcher with SICS and one of Sweden’s leading experts in train service optimization. He leads the major industry program KAJT (Capacity in the Railway Tra�c System), which includes the participation of Trafikverket (The Swedish Transport Administration), researchers and industry leaders.

Martin Joborn

PROJECT EFFICIENCY

How can lean principles and analytics be utilized when measuring performance

in product development projects? �e Prindit tool, developed by SICS Swedish ICT in Västerås, is a solution that has already engaged ABB and 20 other companies.

The idea behind Prindit and its methodology is to use success factors for e�cient product development as indicators of performance. �is makes it possible to both “check the pulse” of product development projects and enables proactive work through Prindit. Traditionally a project’s success is assessed through measurement of the results, not what has enabled the results. Time and cost – meaning resource expenditures – have been the obvious choices. Stefan Cedergren at SICS in Västerås is the project manager behind Prindit.

“When you ask a project group about what is important for success, there are other factors that are emphasized as important,” says Stefan. “�e factors mentioned as most important pertain to

clear goals, management support, and motivation.”

Prindit is based on weekly data collection from the project participants that takes less than 60 seconds to perform and provides direct feedback about how work is progressing as well as suggestions for possible improvements. �e underlying premise of the methodology is simplicity; it cannot be either complicated or time consuming. �e goal is to increase the probability of executing successful projects - a form of Lean Performance. In order to achieve this, critical success factors are measured and analyzed within the work environment, goal clarity, engagement in the team, delivery capability, and more.“Successful product development projects are a key to our competitiveness,” says Sta�an Elfving at Robotics. “�e results of the product development we carry out today are what create tomorrow’s sales. Prindit enables proactive measures while projects are underway and then gives us prompt feedback on the improvements we make.”

www.prindit.com

PRINDIT - A REVOLUTION IN

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

PROJECT EFFICIENCY

Stefan Cedergren


SICS, together with IFL Executive Education, has identi�ed how the more complex projects of the future

should be conducted, and also determined the most important factors for success when it comes to leadership.

Scienti�c and technical results were previously clear-cut goals behind public research �nancing. In the future, projects will more closely resemble those conducted in programs such as Vinnova’s program Challenge-driven Innovation – in other words they will include changes in production, organization and society at large. Consequently, there will be entirely new demands on project management.

“�is is also a growing challenge in business, with many work groups working in increasingly larger, complex organizational environments,” says Jaana Ny�ord at SICS. “�eir capacity for high performance is largely dependent on their leaders’ ability to handle various contexts of complexity within and between di�erent groups. An important success factor is the leaders’ ability to shift

leadership style to e�ectively manage the group and organization as a whole.”

�e assignment from Vinnova consisted of preparing a description of this new project form where participants from several mutually disparate organizations are often involved. Compared to traditional research and development projects, there were shown to be major and crucial di�erences from a project management perspective, such as with regard to engagement, goal descriptions and results, as well as di�erent ways of working with processes and methods.

Together with IFL Executive Education, SICS identi�ed a complex project context and determined the most important leadership factors for successfully conducting such projects. Among other things, a number of workshops were held with personnel from Vinnova and project managers from various large national projects and a guide was produced that is available for download from Vinnova’s web site.

�ey identi�ed �ve primary leadership characteristics for a project’s success:1. Listen carefully – attention to what

people say is a clear success factor in successful projects

2. Establish dialog – within and across boundaries, and between di�erent stakeholders

3. Develop multiple-language capabilities – understand and speak with all participants in an adapted manner

4. Stand fast and draw boundaries – stop plays for power between participants

5. Create oneness – embrace goal breadth and sub-goals by �nding the right rhetoric

“An interesting point for reflection from the assignment is that several of the most successful project managers were young women at the beginning of their careers,” Markus Bylund at SICS notes. “It’s di�cult to explain with such a limited sample size, but several of them had strong abilities in all �ve categories.”

NEW PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR A COMPLEX WORLD

PROJECT EFFICIENCY

FACTS & FIGURES

Audience at Smart Sustainable Cities Day in SICS Software Week 2014.

EMPLOYEES FULL TIME EQUIVALENT

NET INCOME

INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION

SICS is a non-pro�t organization whose mission is to support industry in Sweden by taking their technology one step further. SICS’ core funding comes from a group of large industrial corporations (below) and the Swedish government through Rise AB (Research Institutes of Sweden). �e main sources of competitive project funding are currently the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen), the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), and the European Commission.

INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS 2014ABBBombardierEricssonGreen CargoSaab ABTeliaSonera

Other notable customers over the year include IKEA, LKAB, the Swedish Transport Administration (Tra�kverket), the Swedish Coast Guard, Scania, Volvo, and a number of Swedish SMEs including Yanzi Networks, Tomologic and Recorded Future.

EXCELLENCE CENTERSIn 2014 SICS was active in Mobile Life Excellence Centre funded by VINNOVA and led by Stockholm University.

ACADEMIC COOPERATIONSICS’ success continues to depend on a strong position in the scienti�c community. Working closely with leading academic partners is a crucial strategy for maintaining SICS’ scienti�c standing and for supplying cutting edge technologies and solutions to our industrial partners.

SEVENTEEN PROFESSORS PART TIME AT SICS8 KTH 4 Linköping University2 Uppsala University2 Mälardalen University1 Luleå Technical University

SICS has a particularly close relationship with KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Eight KTH professors have part-time appointments at SICS and lead research groups that span both organizations. �ree groups are co-located at SICS, forming a thriving and vibrant joint research environment. SICS hosts many KTH Ph.D. and Master’s students who also receive supervision from SICS researchers. Both organizations bene�t greatly from the resulting critical mass of expertise, and from collaborating closely in both academic and industrial projects.

ACADEMIC WORK AT SICS IN 2014Ninety-four of the researchers at SICS hold a PhD. �e PhD graduates of 2014 include:

Fatemeh Rahimian�esis: “Gossip-Based Algorithms for Information Dissemination And Graph Clustering”.

Rebecca Steinert�esis: “Probabilistic Fault Management in Networked Systems”.

Mudassar Aslam�esis: “Bringing Visibility in the Clouds Using Security, Transparency and Assurance Services”.

In addition, Markus Bohlin and Andres Holst were appointed Adjunct Professors at KTH in Transport Science and Computer Science respectively.

SICS had 40 PhD students. �irty students completed their master’s thesis work at SICS.

One hundred nine scienti�c publications were published by SICS researchers.

FACTS & FIGURES


- INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS AND INCOME FROM PUBLIC SECTOR (TOP)- RESEARCH GRANTS (BOTTOM)

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONSICS participated in 26 European projects in 2014.

SICS is a core partner in EIT ICT Labs, an initiative aiming at turning Europe into the global leader in ICT innovation. In 2014, SICS’ funding from EIT ICT Labs was 11.0 MSEK.

SICS is the Swedish member of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) and hosts the Swedish O�ce of the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C.

Reed more about European collaboration on page 6.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYCSR e�orts are carried out in coordination with the entire group of institutes within Swedish ICT and a�ect the community and environment primarily through the results delivered by the research projects. ICT is an important enabler to meet global challenges and make our society more sustainable. Sustainability is thus a key element of the research.

In 2014, two surveys were carried out at SICS, for employee and for customer satisfaction. 84% of employees would recommend SICS as an employer. In the beginning of 2015, the internal communications were improved by monthly internal updates. �e customer satisfaction survey was also very encouraging and made it clear that SICS’ ongoing ambition to exceed expectations of quality and delivery dependability has paid o�.

PUBLIC DEBATEIn addition to publishing its research in scienti�c journals and conferences, SICS acknowledges a responsibility to take part in public debate, as experts in identifying possibilities and threats with new ICT. SICS researchers participate in courses, seminars and committees, and are often invited to speak to companies and at public events. EVENTS & SEMINARSSICS organizes a number of annual events:

• SICS Software Week (which in 2014 included Cloud Day, Multicore Day and Smart Cities Day)

• SICS Open House• SICS Industrial E�ciency Day• SICS Security Seminar• Mobile Life VIP Open House

�ese events typically attract hundreds of people. If you would like to attend any of SICS’ open events, please send an email to [email protected] and you will be invited to the next event.

SWEDISH ICT ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

SICS Swedish ICT is jointly owned by Swedish industry and the Swedish government through Swedish ICT Research AB. SICS has two subsidiaries, SICS East Swedish ICT AB in Linköping and SICS Swedish ICT Västerås AB. In 2014, New Tools for Health in Norrköping was incorporated in SICS Swedish ICT.

In all, SICS Swedish ICT has o�ces in Kista, Linköping, Lund, Norrköping, Uppsala and Västerås.

SICS LABORATORIESComputer Systems Laboratory (CSL)Lab manager: Sverker Janson

Decisions, Networks and Analytics Laboratory (DNA)Manager: Daniel Gillblad

Digital Health Lab (DHL)Manager: Per-Olof Sjöberg

People Technologies (PPL)Manager: Markus Bylund

Security Laboratory (SEC)Manager: Christian Gehrmann

Software and Systems Engineering Laboratory (SSE)Manager: Jakob Axelsson

DIRECTORS OF THE BOARDHans Hentzell, Swedish ICT (Chairman)Anders Caspár, Ericsson Sverker Hannervall, TeliaSoneraAgneta Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson International Kjell Svenson, Saab ABViesturs VucinsMonica Ericsson, KFS FöretagsserviceJonas Söderberg, employee representativeTomas Olsson, employee representative

MANAGEMENTCEO: Christer NorströmChief Scienti�c Advisor: Seif HaridiBusiness Manager: Björn LevinFinancial Manager: Charlotta JörsäterMarket Communications: Kersti Hedman

FACTS & FIGURESCONTINUED

ORGANIZATION


SICS ACTIVITIES | 2014-2015

Photos by Jann Lipka at pages 4, 12, 14, 23, 27, 30, 33, 38 & 59Photos by Joel Höglund at pages 18, 35, 43, 57 & 62Production: Kersti Hedman, SICS Swedish ICTGraphic Design: Boris Design Studio

The main office at Electrum, Kista.

WELCOME TO SICS

SICS Swedish ICT conducts research that creates value for our customers and partners. Our task is to future-proof Swedish industry and increase its competitiveness by turning new technology into smart innovations.

The two most common forms of collaboration with SICS are direct assignments from industry to solve di�cult problems, and joint projects funded by VINNOVA or the EU.

If you work with development in a technology-intensive company, large or small, and want to know what SICS can do for you, please contact us for an informal discussion. It may be one of your best decisions this year!

Tel +468 633 15 00 - www.sics.se - [email protected]

SICSACTIVITIES 2014-2015

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Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things DESIGNING AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION MECHANISMS FOR THE MOST CONSTRAINED DEVICES IN THE NET.

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