The aim of this project is to provide know-how and to raise awareness of digital accessibility issues among software developers and other stakeholders at the ZKB. To that end, a combination of training, consulting and accessibility testing is offered.

An IoT system consists of hundreds of thousands of sensors, connectivity media, cloud analytics, and users. Building such a large and complex IoT system such as smart-city requires careful planning, selection of the right set of hardware and software technology and development of scalable computing infrastructure ...

ScorePad’s sheet music scanning service works for high quality input; to scale up business, it should work as well for smartphone pictures, used sheets etc. Project RealScore enhances the successful predecessor project by making deep learning adapt to unseen data through unsupervised learning.  ...

Highly information-sensitive domains such as banking, healthcare and government services have been reluctant to adopt cloud and distributed computing technologies since their wide-spread commercial inception over the past 12 years. In contrast, many other sectors such as telecommunications and shops have embraced ...

A novel approach for a fully automated food waste management solution for commercial kitchens is investigated. Food waste is automatically detected using a new camera device, preprocessed in real-time and classified using machine learning algorithms.

There is a huge amount of valuable information hidden in a company's database which is not easily accessible to business people. To query these databases, end users need to know the technical query language SQL as well as the database structure. However, typical end users do not have enough SQL skills to formulate ...

In this project, a virtual reality environment will be created to bring concepts around smart mobility closer to a broad audience. These concepts include smart sharing offers (and thus a change of mentality from owning to using), automated driving (which could reduce the number of vehicles in cities to one tenth ...

Development and teaching of a course on various aspects of secure software development and hacking methods.

Muscle loss is a concomitant of various diseases (cachexia) and the usual aging process (sarcopenia). Limiting this reduction and, ideally, even reversing it makes medical and economic sense. In medicine, the metabolic function (in addition to the pure movement) of the muscles is increasingly understood and ...

scanmeter® is a service of a Swiss company that has already been launched on the market (scanmeter.io). scanmeter allows automated security analyses of IT systems. This significantly increases the efficiency of security analyses compared to manual methods. The automated security analyses can be used on their own or ...

This project involves the playful communication of Smart City themes in a high-end virtual reality environment. The VR game "Virtual Energy Hero", already developed by the ZHAW, is to be expanded into the "Virtual Smart Winti Hero". The further developed game for young and old will take up current and future Smart ...

The project implements an online service for companies to monitor suppliers for violations of environmental, social, or governance norms. To do so, a vast variety of sources, such as news outlets, is monitored using machine learning and natural language processing with near human-level accuracy.  ...

Tamedia would like to develop a software system that automatically generates news articles from hockey game data. ZHAW will explore the different state-of-the-art technologies to evaluate the feasibility of developing a natural language system that generates rich contextual ice hockey game report and, if so, how ...

Research on security requirements and innovation opportunities for a product for data capture and management in the domain of pharmaceutical product development.

This research project will investigate how a communication strategy for the marketing and communication of the diverse cultural activities and sites in the Lake Constance region could be shaped. For a sustainable strategy development the digitization of the communication, by which also the cultural sector has ...

The industrial project partner offers online brokering of loans, mortgages and insurances. The brokering process involves several phone calls of a call agent with a potential client. This is time-consuming and highly repetitive. For this reason, we want to develop a dialogue system which can take over part of the ...

VSHN PaaS product APPUiO is transforming the DevOps culture in Switzerland. APPUiO currently lacks usage-based accounting. This project will enable a robust usage-based billing for APPUiO, and develop capabilities such as price simulators, cost forecasts and sand-boxing to test new billing models.  ...

Entry, discharge, radiology and pathology reports and other clinical documents are a valuable resource to be harvested for precision medicine. They are typically stored in a free text format, only little structure is imposed and terminology is heterogeneous. We will apply natural language processing (NLP), machine ...