Projects (566)

SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees Mar 1, 2020 - Jan 31, 2025
This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinary research—a shelter prototype called Makazi (winn... Read More about SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees.

CSIC - SNRG Phase 1 Mar 11, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
SNRG is a human centred PropTech company that believes affordability, sustainability and community are key to building a better quality of life. The objective of SNRG is to design, build and operate net zero carbon, subscription based communities us... Read More about CSIC - SNRG Phase 1.

21st Century Tapestry: an investigation of smart materials, technology interplay and heritage craftmanship Mar 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2024
A collaborative partnership between Dovecot Studios (Edinburgh), Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Napier University. Supervision has been discussed and agreed in principal as follows:

•Sarah Taylor, Senior Research Fellow, ADRC, Edinburgh N... Read More about 21st Century Tapestry: an investigation of smart materials, technology interplay and heritage craftmanship.

Distributed single sign-on-stack-on e-Governance Paradigm based on a distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) file exchange network for security, transparency, cost effectiveness and trust - GLASS Jan 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2023
The VISION of the GLASS is to develop a single-on distributed solution that is open source, efficient and inclusive, transparent, cross-border functional, user- friendly, end-to-end encrypted combining state of the art ICT methodologies towards an ad... Read More about Distributed single sign-on-stack-on e-Governance Paradigm based on a distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) file exchange network for security, transparency, cost effectiveness and trust - GLASS.

OPTIMSING U>P Security and Anonymised Data Cloud Analysis for Duty of Care and Business Continuity Sep 7, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
This project will build on the work that has already been done by U>P to develop the MVP (Minimum Viable Product), which delivers people analytics data through active data gathering, and the work done by Professor Bill Buchanan’s Centre for Distribut... Read More about OPTIMSING U>P Security and Anonymised Data Cloud Analysis for Duty of Care and Business Continuity.

Augmented Virtual Reality Enhanced Building Information Modelling Technology for Bamboo-Timber Grid-shells Jul 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2024
This project aims to develop the state-of-the-art building information modelling technology enhanced by augmented virtual reality function for design, manufacturing and building of the bamboo-timber grid-shell structures. The new technology will be d... Read More about Augmented Virtual Reality Enhanced Building Information Modelling Technology for Bamboo-Timber Grid-shells.

MemCrypt Apr 1, 2020 - Jul 31, 2020
At the core of the work is to addresses risks related to the leakage of encryption keys, and which can lead to data loss issues and trust breaches. Along with detecting keys in memory, the team has developed new techniques related to timing attacks w... Read More about MemCrypt.

Home Grown Demonstrator Apr 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
This project is to act as forerunner to the larger Edinburgh Home Demonstrator project to identify areas of innovation and supply chain integration aligned with the economic strategy for Scotland’s for Forest and Timber Technologies Sector to 2030 (... Read More about Home Grown Demonstrator.

Shinty Caman Jan 5, 2021 - Apr 28, 2021
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The ancient art of making shinty sticks – or camans – in Scotland is under threat of dying out.

Investigate the required properties and characterise the properties of Shinty sticks. review manufacturing methods to identify cos... Read More about Shinty Caman.

Towards carbonless engines: the fundamentals of hydrogen compression-ignition Jul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
The current project proposes a novel approach for the use of hydrogen in compression ignition (CI) engine mode, in alignment with UK’s plan for zero emissions by 2040. The use of hydrogen in CI engines (which are typically more efficient than spark i... Read More about Towards carbonless engines: the fundamentals of hydrogen compression-ignition.

Cyber Hunt May 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2025
Automated Cyberthreat Hunting and Cyber-relevant Incident Response for Critical Infrastructures. CyberHunt will develop highly innovative cybersecurity technologies that can sense, detect, analyse, disrupt and outmaneuver adversarial attacks in cybe... Read More about Cyber Hunt.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered dashboard for COVID-19 related public sentiment and opinion mining in social media platforms May 1, 2020 - Nov 17, 2020
: The project will aid in understanding and mitigating the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, by creating an AI-driven dashboard for policymakers, public health and clinical practitioners. This will enable continuous monitoring, pr... Read More about Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered dashboard for COVID-19 related public sentiment and opinion mining in social media platforms.

CSIC - Edinburgh Home Demonstrator Oct 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2024
The “Edinburgh Home Demonstrator” (EHD) Programme seeks to demonstrate the time, cost, quality, and carbon improvements in new affordable housing programme through the following projects:
1.Development and Delivery of a New Business Model based on C... Read More about CSIC - Edinburgh Home Demonstrator.

Hyperheuristics for infrastructure system optimisation Jun 1, 2020 - Dec 31, 2020
Continuum Industries novel software tech allows engineers to automate their work and evaluate millions of possible combinations of design parameters. Primary application lies in linear infrastructure design - roads, railways, pipelines, cables. Wher... Read More about Hyperheuristics for infrastructure system optimisation.

KTP Ace Aquatec Jun 1, 2021 - Nov 30, 2023
To develop, test and incorporate Innovative AI based approaches to improve accuracy of Individual fish identification and sea lice detection.

CAROUSEL+ Telepresent Dance Reducing Social Distancing Jan 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2024
CAROUSEL focuses on how Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies improve the quality of experience and social interaction in the frame of live virtual and hybrid events in the future. The Internet has developed until now i... Read More about CAROUSEL+ Telepresent Dance Reducing Social Distancing.

Early Years Buildings Net-zero energy comparison Sep 18, 2020 - Dec 18, 2020
The work performed in this project will help to clarify the route to net-zero carbon in non-domestic buildings by using building performance evaluation of two as-built examples of early years buildings. The implementation of methodologies for indoor... Read More about Early Years Buildings Net-zero energy comparison.

Digitisation of Home Grown Timber Products Jul 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
The aim of this project is to determine the potential for the symbiosis of renewable resource (forestry, woody bio-mass and naturally replenishable) and the high value manufacture of a resilient and sustainable built environment leveraging the potent... Read More about Digitisation of Home Grown Timber Products.

Bike Saddle Design Jul 30, 2020 - Feb 28, 2021
With an increased number of people taking to their bikes through the current Covid 19 pandemic and cycling being seen as part of the transport and delivery solutions in the future, particularly when aligned with helping to realise The European Green... Read More about Bike Saddle Design.

SIRT 2020-2021 (WP1&2) Sep 1, 2020 - Aug 31, 2021
Our research activities are focused on understanding the physical and mechanical properties of wood and how these affect its performance in different applications. Our main aim is to better understand how the management site, and climate, of forests... Read More about SIRT 2020-2021 (WP1&2).