The Department of Human Work Sciences, of LuleƄ University of Technology in Sweden will work with the Universidad PolitƩcnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain and Trinity College, Dublin, to jointly study the problem of making available broadband communication for areas that today lack coverage, having available neither ADSL, satellites nor 3G.
The N4C project is aimed at further development of Delayed Tolerant Network (DTN) for such areas through two test beds (to check developmental projects for replicability) to study possible techniques and usage.
One test bed will be located in northern Sweden, the other in the mountain area of Slovenia. Some of the aims of the DTN project are to test its use for tracking reindeer, for the use by hikers in the fells, and to gain meteorological and environmental data.
– The N4C project will be a really exciting experience. Expectations are very high both within the consortium and within the European Commission that we will develop a method that will contribute to lessening the electronic exclusion that those living in sparsely populated areas suffer today, says Dr. Maria UdĆ©n, of LuleĆ„ University of Technology.
– The thought is to create a technical infrastructure in the form of a test bed that can be used in the future, as its application is important for society and for it to be commercially viable. When N4C meets in the middle of May for the official kick-off, not only consortium members but also members of the press, local officials and businessmen will be invited.
The project will begin on 1 May and run for 36 months, with tests in the summer and winter in the varied terrain of Swedish Lapland (GƤllivare and Jokkmokk municipalities) and Slovenian mountains.
The N4C consortium consists not only of universities but also of research institutes and small and medium enterprises in eight countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden (see enclosed list). The N4C Technical Advisory Board is responsible for links to American internet research.
Dr. Maria UdƩn, LTU, telephone +46 920-493023 or +46 70-533 49 78. E-mail: maria.uden@ltu.se
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Ms. Barbro Fransson, Power Lake AB, telephone +46 8-6562775 or +46 70-6730790. E-mail: barbro.fransson@powerlake.se
LuleƄ University of Technology press information, Ms. Lena Edenbrink, telephone +46 920-491622 or +46 70-6791622. E-mail: lena.edenbrink@ltu.se
18 January, 2011 - LuleƄ tekniska universitet
Carbon nanotubes, which are extremely small fibers used in many new light and strong materials, may present health risks if inhaled, in the worst case leading to cancer, according to new research from LuleƄ University of Technology.
24 March, 2010 - LuleƄ tekniska universitet
A mini-laboratory that makes it possible, among other things, to study how brain cells in stroke patients are affected by lack of oxygen is being developed by a research team at LuleƄ University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden. Lab on a Chip is what the scientists are calling their mini-lab, which is expected to facilitate studies of all sorts of biological cells and how they are affected by different medicines, chemical substances, etc.
18 December, 2008 - LuleƄ tekniska universitet
Why does gold occur where it does in the bedrock? If we understood that we would be able to make new finds also in areas where we had not looked for it. In his research into the FƤboliden gold deposit along the so-called Gold Line in VƤsterbotten in northern Sweden, Glenn Bark has studied the geological features that are important to the formation of gold deposits. What’s more, the results are proving to be directly useful to the project’s industrial partner and its current gold prospecting.
14 September, 2007 - LuleƄ tekniska universitet
The process that opens up the earthās protective magnetic field to the solar wind is the subject of Lars-Gƶran Westerbergās research project at LuleĆ„ University of Technology in Sweden.
Expertsvar, The Swedish Research Council, Hantverkargatan 11B, Stockholm SWEDENPhone +46(0)8 546 44 000
P.O. Box 1035, SE-101 38 Stockholm, expertsvar@vr.se
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