STC Tech Tour February 27, 2025

Program

Welcome to STC

Prof. Mattias O’Nils welcomes you to STC and STC Tech Tour.

Presenter: Prof. Mattias O'Nils 

Location: First floor, S-building

Energy Harvesting - Extract Energy in New Ways

Sebastian presents how embedded systems can utilise their own environment to support themselves with electrical energy. He will show some examples of techniques that convert mechanical motion into electrical energy to avoid batteries with limited capacity.

Location: Wireless sensor lab, S-building

Power Electronics

Kent and Peng will talk about the research that his research group conducts in the field of power electronics. The goal of some of their research is to develop control technology that can handle the fluctuations that occur in the electricity grids of renewable energy. But the research team is also working on developing the low voltage engine of the future that can revolutionise the automotive industry.

Presenter: Dr. Peng Cheng

Location: Power Electronics lab, S-building

Smart cameras in the vision lab

Optical measurement technology for chemometric measurements in the field.

Presenter: Dr. Benny Thörnberg

Irida will present her work with smart cameras, where the camera node has a vision sensor together with processing and communication capabilities. The aim is to optimize the energy efficiency of the smart camera by analyzing which part of the data processing should be implemented in the smart camera node and which part should be processed in the cloud.

Presenter: Dr. Irida Shallari

Location: Vision lab, S-building

Technology for the Smart City

Rikard works as a research engineer and develops prototypes for many of the university’s research projects. Here he will show various examples of how to connect urban environments with the help of sensors, smart cameras, and AI.

Presenter: Rikard Hamrin, Research engineer

Location: L-building

IoT communication

Stefan will talk about how IoT devices communicate and will show the possibilities that can be created when many small devices work together to solve problems over the Internet. This research therefore includes everything from wireless sensor networks to fully distributed blockchain systems.

Presenter: Associate professor Stefan Forsström 

Location: Communication Systems and Networks lab, L-building

Multidimensional camera systems to help merge virtual and real reality

Roger works in the research group Realistic3D where multidimensional camera systems are used instead of traditional cameras. With more cameras and different types of sensors, not only images can be captured but the entire three-dimensional space with the positions of all objects relative to each other. The increased amount of data it generates enables a variety of applications that are not realizable with traditional camera technology. But how do you ensure that the increased amount of data should not set up all bandwidth or fill all storage space? These research questions are addressed by Roger in his presentation.

Presenter: Dr. Roger Olsson

Location: 3D lab, L-building

About STC Research Centre

At the research center STC - Sensible Things that Communicate, research is conducted in IoT (Internet of Things), AI (Artificial Intelligence) and sensor systems. The research is conducted in the field of electronics and computer science with a focus on smart industries, environmental measurement, and functional surfaces. The research is often done in close collaboration with companies from all over Sweden and with other universities - around the world.

STC was founded in 2005 and today over 70 researchers work at the research center that Professor Mattias O'Nils leads. The activities are located at Mid Sweden University's campus in Sundsvall and the research environment is at the forefront with a number of well-equipped labs for, among other things, optics, X-rays, and 3D.

STC started in collaboration with Telia, Norrland's first 5G site at Mid Sweden University in the spring of 2019. In 2020, two test beds for IoT started with a focus on smart societies and smart industry.

Read more at www.miun.se/STC