This project aims to sensibly improve the safety and success rate for long-horizon tasks of autonomous robots leveraging GenAI “robotic brains” (e.g. LLMs, VLMs) in unstructured environments.

The project focuses on addressing the challenges of traditional credentialing systems, which are often outdated, prone to forgery, and lack portability. These limitations create significant barriers for students and professionals who need to demonstrate their qualifications in a globally connected…

Microcredentials confirm the successful demonstration of competences from smaller learning units in machine-readable form. The COMCAP project investigates the issuing and management of microcredentials in a secured container runtime environment and implements these techniques prototypically. COMCAP…

In this project, the issuance and delivery of micro-credentials at ZHAW on the basis of an open source solution will be investigated and piloted. It encompasses / the evaluation of MC formats and structures, / the automated issuance on the basis of demonstrated competences, / the secure…

In TaSSAreCt we investigate software architectures for systems of cyber-physical systems (CPS). As it has a major influence on the quality attributes and sustainability of long running software systems, we recognize software architecture as one of the key factors when developing new CPS and…

With the recent progresses in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and especially with Large Language Models (LLM), many use cases (e.g. chat interfaces on serverless, chaining models) motivates the need for bringing the existing libraries and tools over to WASM/WASI. Rebuilding all the…

Digital records of academic achievements, especially in the form of microcredentials, are becoming a strategic topic for universities and education-related government agencies. Moreover, private entities (employers, loan-granting banks) rely on trustworthy digital records with differentiated access…

Alptracker is the de-facto standard for tracking sheep and cow herds in the Swiss alps. This project advances communication and software support for wide-area herding. It contributes novel hub-spoke animal tracking, capturing movement and behaviour, deriving holistic herd models, and predicting…

The objectives of the ThingsAtScale project encompass various advances beyond the state of technology in software stacks for IoT/LoRaWAN, in particular the The Things Stack (TTS) Cloud. It is comprised of research and development tasks around TTS, in particular related to the two main topics audit…

Climate change is affecting most of the world population faster than the population can adopt. This issue is present in daily lives, agriculture, urban planning and distribution of goods and utilities. Decisions need to be taken in real time, supported by knowledge captured in various data…

Microcredentials are a growing activity in the space of higher education, continuous education, vocational training and corporate training. Customers who undergo education or training expect to get microcredentials that can be shared with their current and future employers. This project introduces…

This project explores the potential of using QR codes and solar-powered beacons to create learning spaces in educational settings. These spaces are meant to be informal, cyber-physical, decentralised and sustainable. QR codes are two-dimensional codes that can be scanned with a smartphone or other…

Public transport in Switzerland and in Latin America is organised differently and operated with different levels of reliability, innovation priorities, and acceptance of digital support solutions by passengers. The common element is that in both regions, operators struggle with optimising the…

Phones and notebooks do not require much power? Wrong, most usage patterns involve the heavy use of cloud services. In contrast to device consumption, the extent of this indirect consumption is unknown to users. This project delivers a tool to trace cloud use and convey a CO2 equivalent to the user.

CloudStars presents a joint research programme in the fields of Cloud computing and AI technologies. CloudStars pursues innovation in the Cloud infrastructures to support the next generation of low-latency, high-performance complex workloads. CloudStars also pursues high innovation in the Cloud,…

The profitability of cloud providers is often negatively affected by misconfiguration of application resource constraints. In this research study, we check the feasibility of integrating ML on usage-dependent configurations into a GitOps workflow. The result will be a novel advisor service that…

Using AI, computer vision, and robotics to predict tomato plants growth

The main vision for the NEPHELE project is to enable efficient, reliable and secure end-to-end orchestration of hyper-distributed applications over programmable infrastructure that is spanning across the compute continuum from Cloud-to-Edge-to-IoT. Together with other 17 great partners from…

Smart personalised shopping is enabled by a number of cyber-physicaltechnologies including electronic shelf labels (ESLs), beacons, sensors,connected point-of-sales (POS) and so forth. In this project, thealready known product location and quantity information associated withthe ESLs shall be…

In the ROBOT project, new scalable methods and technologies to map strongly distributed data models, with as few lossy intermediate representations as possible, are being investigated. A key concern in that is raising the abstraction levels and resource planning compared to conventional big data…

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The RACOON project explores novel methods to compose online applications across the engineering lifecycle. In particular, it extends beyond the state of technology in user-friendly cloud application design, implementation and deployment. Furthermore, it investigates application scenarios for turning…

LEDCity is a Zurich based cleantech start-up and develops an autonomous plug and play lighting system to reduce the energy consumption of lighting by 90% compared to conventional lights. LEDCity’s AI-based optimization of lighting systems (OLS) is a radical new approach to sensor controlled lighting…