Our spin-off company CheckHealth has been contracted by a European consortium to assist in roll out of a the HSmartBPM platform for monitoring of patients suffering from hypertension. HSmartBPM improves effectiveness of the treatment of hypertensive, or undiagnosed high-risk patients by collecting much more data from different sources and by maximizing the benefits of collected data by sharing of data between related actors such as healthcare experts, patients, nurses and informal caregiver under control of patients, in compliance with GDPR requirements. In Sweden HSmartBPM will be used by Region Jämtland.
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CheckWatts EMS Currently deployed in Swedens largest battery park in Malmö
Peter Rosengren 7th June 2022CNets spin-off company CheckWatt delivers the EMS – Energy Management System to Sweden’s largest charging and battery park and which is now built in Malmö. The EMS provides control, operational monitoring and visualization for energy-related data also providing smart control for hybrid inverters of photovoltaic systems to charge batteries and perform frequency regulation to enable connection to the electrical network. Additionally to charging stations for cars and trucks, a solar power installation on 1.5 hectares of nearby land is included. In order for the plant to reach its full economic potential, the flexibility of all the different resources is integrated within Checkwatt’s virtual power plant Currently.
CheckWatt implements direct frequency control to integrate wind power in energy storage systems
Peter Rosengren 10th May 2022Technology development provides new opportunities to drive the innovation and the the design of wind farms. CNets spin-off company CheckWatt implements direct frequency regulation for wind power and to enable the integration with battery storage and the option capacity to produce hydrogen.
The SVEF (Sveriges Vindkraftkooperativ Ekonomisk Förening – Swedish Windpower Cooperative Economic Association) has designed an installation to be build north of Ulricehamn.
In the first step three wind turbines from Enercon will be connected to the grid frequency through the new support service FCR-D down, which Svenska Kraftnät introduced on 1st January 2022. This service enables the plants to reduce production within a few seconds if the frequency exceeds the Nordic synchronous range of 50.1 Hz. For owners of wind power this option can generate significant revenue as well as it enables the electrical system to directly utilize a more versatile production environment which enables a more stable operation in general.
CheckWatt enables a 100% renewable energy system through measurement, analysis, visualization and control. CheckWatt’s services offer the following components:
- Currently – a virtual power plant built from aggregated resources with CheckWatts EMS that supports the frequency of the electricity network and relieves bottlenecks in local networks.
- IMD – an individual measurement and charging for electricity, water and electric car charging with unique integration to solar power plants and energy storage.
- EnergyInBalance – a Platform with operational monitoring and visualization for resources with CheckWatt EMS and IMD systems. Also integrated in products of cooperation partners.
Bridge professor’s favorite constructions
Peter Rosengren 21st March 2022Samhällsbyggarna, an association focusing on the development, building and management of Swedens future society, ran a feature about Raid Karoumi, the Research Director of CNets subsidiary IoTBridge and professor at KTHs department of bridge and steel construction written by Fredrik Hielscher.
An excursion into the fascinating world of bridge constructions and the opportunities new technologies create. Sweden has about 35.000 bridges, a population of constructions that is getting older, some structures over 100 years old, mostly railway bridges. The Swedish Transport Administration’s annual cost for the operation and maintenance of the bridges is around SEK 1.3 billion – a cost that risks increasing rapidly. But new advanced measurement and analysis methods can increase the life of bridges and result in fewer inspections and bridge reinforcements.Sensor-based condition assessment exists already and is used in many of todays products. In modern cars, you get a notifications about changes in the tire pressure, when it’s time to change oil or service the car, issues with system components. It’s the similar with bridges, the technology exists and is ready to be applied to bigger constructions to optimize maintenance and use.
Support of BRIS
Peter Rosengren 18th March 2022
CNet proudly supports BRIS, short for “Barnens rätt i samhället” – childrens rights in society. BRIS is an organization to advocate the rights and living conditions of children and young people in accordance with the UN Convention.
BRIS has daily contact with children and young people via chat, email and telephone. Chat and email can be reached via Bris.se, there is also a forum where children and young people can write and support each other.
The telephone number for BRIS in Sweden is 116111. It costs nothing to call, calls are not visible on the telephone bill and all who contact the organization are completely anonymous.
All requests receive an answer from a trained and experienced curator.
BRIS is member of CHI, (Children Helpline international) which, together with 183 other guides in 142 countries, receives over 14 million calls each year. In addition, the organization is part of Insafe, a European network that works for a safer everyday life for children and young people online.
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Join the EFPF challenges
Peter Rosengren 1st February 2022CNet as member of the European Connected Factory Platform for Agile Manufacturing invites students, researcher as well as SMEs focused on innovation, research and development to test, validate, and develop the EFPF platform including its tools, services and infrastructure (e.g. Data Spine elements) in a hands-on community event of the EFPF Ecosystem Catalyzer Event from:
23rd of February to 7th April 2022
The event provides practical hands-on experience with the federated digital platform, industrial IoT, and industry 4.0 topics and offers:
- Interaction and networking opportunities with international companies
- Chances to demonstrate technical skills
- Support to publish results in a peer-reviewed scientific journal or renowned conference
- Awards: CERTH organizes in collaboration with EFPF research partners a hybrid award event (online & in Greece) on April 7th 2022 .
- The participants will present their results and the four best projects will receive one of these prizes:
- 1st Prize: Smartphone valued at 600€
- 2nd Prize: Smart Home Kit valued at 300€
- 3rd Prize: IoT Starter Kit valued at 200€
- 4th Prize: IoT starter kit valued at 100€
- All participants will receive a voucher for an Audible subscription
Potentially, scientific proceedings of the workshops results could be published to the scientific community. For more details and registration visit the EFPF Open Call:
iBridge presented at Stålbyggnadsdagen 2021
Peter Rosengren 22nd November 2021John Leander, from CNets subsidiary IoTBridge, presented the project iBridge on this year’s highlight for the steel construction industry, Stålbyggnadsdagen 2021, which was held 28th October in Stockholm.
iBridge aims to develop and demonstrate a full-scale digital instrumentation of bridges. The purpose is to complement manual inspections and to accelerate the industrialization of digital measurement and inspection services. The overall goal is to automate and make available existing knowledge that can reduce the costs for bridge management while guaranteeing safety.
Sweden municipalities alone manage more than 29,000 bridges, in addition to privately owned bridges and bridges owned by Swedish business and industry.
Launch of Grain Balance
Peter Rosengren 17th November 2021CNet is proud to present a new product that was created in cooperation with our partner Skandia Elevator, who delivers efficient products and services for grain farmers worldwide.
Grain Balance is an exciting new product for grain handling, combining innovations in mechanics, IoT devices and cloud computing and we are proud to be part of that journey.
Checkwatt provides energy management system for grid battery
Peter Rosengren 23rd September 2021CNets subsidiary Checkwatt provides the energy management system (EMS) for a 1MWh battery storage in Varberg. The system handles communication and control of the battery storage on site. This Container sized unit is the first step of a larger battery warehouse that is planned to be operational by 2023. CheckWatt’s cooperation partner Solkompaniet delivers and installs the main battery. A platform from Ntricity handles trades with Svenska Kraftnät.
Varberg Energi wants to develop and offer new services to customers. The battery warehouse is an investment to complement the existing energy system to strengthen the power balance and grid stability in general and to make the energy system more flexible and sustainable.
CNet joins smart city lighthouse project
Peter Rosengren 23rd August 2021CNet has joined the European project RESPONSE which aims to establish a strategic vision for Smart Cities Energy Transition: Climate-neutral cities by 2050.
The project aims to make energy sustainability reality by solving the energy trilemma (security, equity/affordability, environmental sustainability) at building, block and district levels in smart cities. The project builds upon intelligent integrated and interconnected energy systems coupled with demand-oriented city infrastructures, governance models and services that foster energy sustainability.
RESPONSE supports the lighthouse cities of Dijon (FR) and Turku (FI) and their Fellow cities Brussels (BE), Zaragoza (ES), Botosani (RO), Ptolemaida (GR), Gabrovo (BU) and Severodonetsk (UA). RESPONSE is led by the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) Germany, technically supported by Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, CERTH, Greece, and comprises of 53 partners in total.
CNet has been invited join for implementing our Bike As a Sensor platform in the city of Dijon.
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