Projects

context The manufacturing industry is confronted with major challenges in several areas, such as flexible switching to meet customer demand, higher productivity, finding the right talent and making optimal use of production technology. For the answer to these challenges, one looks at the concepts of 'Industry 4.0': a far-reaching digitization of production in which (production) data is used to (autonomously) absorb variations, integrate process ...

The project will carry out translational research and disseminate the knowledge to a wide group of construction companies in the field of innovative methods and techniques that enable the control of groundwater abstraction in the context of construction projects. The basis for this is the "Trias Aquatica", namely (1) optimising/minimising the pumped groundwater flow (smart control, innovative techniques for the hydraulic isolation of ...

Over the past 3 years, we have been experiencing more and more extreme weather conditions during the growing season, such as prolonged droughts and heat waves. Drought clearly has an economic impact on outdoor horticulture companies, since the external quality of the ornamental plant product, which is highly dependent on the climate, automatically determines the commercial value of the plant or flower stem. In addition, the government is ...

Until recently, cooling systems were avoided as much as possible in sustainable construction in northwestern Europe, but here too guaranteeing summer comfort with purely passive measures is increasingly a challenge. As a result of global warming, heat waves are becoming less and less of an exception during the summer. After such a summer, we see more and more air conditioners appearing on roofs, which in turn heat up the environment in dense ...

The textile industry is not sustainable as massive amounts of non-renewable resources and water are consumed during the processing of the main raw materials polyester and cotton and a lot of waste that is often not being recycled is disposed off. In the context of increasing policy pressure and customers’ expectations, hemp fibers provide an excellent opportunity as a more sustainable and economically competitive alternative. Industrial hemp is ...

In the KlimOp project, techniques from artificial intelligence (AI) are used to give Flemish horticulturists a better insight into their greenhouse climate and thus improve climate control. For this, data from the climate computer is analyzed and combined with plant insights obtained via plant sensors. This project focuses on heated crops, including tomato, lettuce, pepper and strawberry, but the results will also be applied to other crops.
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The purpose of SAIRE isa faster implementation of smart devices and AI in rehabilitation and healthcare in general by 1) informing the healthcare sector and eliminating bottlenecks (such as limited knowledge, reliability and acceptance) and 2) translate, combine and validate existing knowledge that facilitates the technology sector to develop custom software, hardware and finished products with and for healthcare institutions.

By elaborating this method, the current Coock project aims to provide the missing link between the existing more general approach and its broad application in practice. Specifically, SWW 2.0 had the following objectives:- Elaborate a design and sizing method that differentiates according to the type of installation and its hydraulic components (height of the temperature probe, way of charging the boiler, etc.).- Development of a software tool ...

The overall goal is to make the Flemish SME aware of the potential and to offer a foundation of the combination of Internet-of-Things and indoor positioning services measurements (possibly with 5G communication) coupled with artificial intelligence-based methods for anomaly detection and reported via customer-friendly augmented reality interface(s) in storage measurements in the broadest sense. The end-to-end solutions are called 'iSTorage': ...