Partners

Mobile Devices Laboratory, Frederick Research Center

Frederick Research Center (FRC) is a leading research non-profit organization in Cyprus. It was established in 1997 in order to create a solid foundation for the development of scientific research activities of Cypriot and foreign scientists. FRC’s main goals are:

to promote scientific research and science in general and to undertake and conduct research of basic and applied nature in various domains,

- to encourage participation and development of R&D proposals, as well as the sound implementation of externally funded R&D projects,

- to establish collaborations with other national and international research Centers and Universities, as well as SMEs for the execution of research work,

- to offer R&D consulting services to individuals, business, organizations and the government

FRC engages highly qualified academic/research staff with long experience in implementing independent and high caliber research and with rich publications record in peer-reviewed scientific journals. FRC encourages the “Bottom-up” approach for development of ideas and therefore the projects implemented under FRC cover a broad range of research interests. Numerous R&D projects (~ 80 externally funded national and EU projects) have been carried out through FRC and part of their results has been presented in international scientific conferences, contributing to their dissemination and technology transfer. The Center has been involved in R&D projects relevant to Applied Sciences and Engineering, Environment, Education, Management & Economics and Social Sciences. To facilitate this, FRC has contemporary facilities and access to Frederick University’s infrastructure, equipment and software tools through a special collaboration agreement. Furthermore, FRC staff has developed closed collaboration with several public authorities, enterprises, non-profit organizations and universities in Cyprus and abroad.

For this project the FRC researchers will have access to the Mobile Devices Laboratory (MDL): MDL undertakes R&D in Web-based and Mobile Computing and Data Management systems using Cloud as the enabling technology, as well as Artificial Intelligence. MDL consists of modern equipment and deals with a wide range of cutting-edge technologies related to the cloud, web, smart devices, social media, gaming and natural interaction devices. MDL has established collaborations with several software companies securing various industrial grants, such as the Microsoft Open Government Data Initiative Grant. MDL published more than 20 multi-platform applications, some of which won the local Microsoft Hackathon Competitions in 2012, 2015, the National Microsoft Imagine cup competitions in 2015, 2016, and were ranked in the top-33 in World Online Semi-final and participated in the World Final (Seattle, USA – 2016).

MDL has modern technological equipment that includes a mobile cloud of 40+ Smartphones and Tablets, cabinet/rack-mounted CISCO routers and switches, a structured internal computer network for pilot test-beds, a number of test-bed computer workstations, electronic and computing devices as well as web and virtual platforms. Finally, MDL participated in the development of various systems/frameworks such as the Augmented Reality Smartphone First Person Shooter Game with Human-Like Agents using Crowd-sourced Data over a big-data cloud infrastructure, the SmartP2P system – a MOO P2P Smartphone system for intelligent mobile crowd-sourcing and a TVM framework for privacy-preserving indoor localization on smartphones.