Technology for Pervasive Computing

The TECO research group was founded in 1993 at the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) for R&D in applied telematics in close collaboration with the industry.


About Us

Ubiquitous Computing is the cornerstone of our work and competence, with Wearable and Mobile Computing, HCI, Distributed Collaborative Systems (especially Internet of Things, IoT) and AI driven big data analytics of time series data (especially those from sensors) as current research foci. We lead Germany’s big data centre, the Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL), and co-leading KITs HealthTech-Center and Baden-Württemberg’s Smart Data Solution Centre (SDSC). TECO is associated with the Chair of Pervasive Computing Systems at the Institute of Telematics at KIT, which covers educational activities. TECO is characterised by its closeness to industry, both in terms of its funding model and its participation in “real-world projects” with a range of partners from the software and hardware industry and companies that apply pervasive computing technology (e.g. in the context of HealthTechnologies and Industry 4.0). Many of our project results, software and documentation are open source and can be found on GitHub. TECO is home of the OpenEarable sensor plattform and the EdgeML AI tool (Beta Version with NAS-ML).

PhD positions

We have various positions in the above research areas open.

Bachelor/Master theses and HiWi job postings

See here for open theses and here for open HiWi positions!

Bachelor and Master Theses
The chair for Pervasive Computing Systems is happy to welcome dedicated students with an interest in writing a bachelor or master thesis. We are looking for students who want to work with the latest technology on current research issues in an inspiring working environment. Please see our list of currently available theses and contacts.
HiWi Job Postings
You are a student and the chair for Pervasive Computing Systems and the TECO research group have piqued your interest?
We are looking for highly motivated students who strive to contribute with their own ideas. If you are passionate to work with internationally renowned scientists and the latest technology both on your own responsibility and in teams, you can visit our job postings for student assistants.

Projects

See here for our projects in industry and research!

edge-ml
Validaitor
EUHubs4Data
DroneCAS | EUHUBS4Data
TreuMoDa – Treuhandstelle für Mobilitätsdaten [Mobility Data Trust Center]
FreshIndex | EUHub4Data
ARCTUS – Monitoring refrigerator condensing units | EUHubs4Data
FF4EuroHPC: AI4CAD
OpenEarable
ML4Print
HEPTA (Helmholtz European Partnership for Technological Advancement) – Topic area 3: Smart Cities
Startup Radar | EUHub4Data
SoftNeuro
JuBot – Stay Young with Robots
AskUI
KD² School
Aura – Sleep Apnea
Software Campus: Fit2Ear Otoplastics
AI driven autocalibration of a heterogeneous sensor network
CC-KING
Digital Hub SBH
HIDSS4Health
IntEnseChoI: Intelligent Environment secures Choice of Interaction (Software Campus)
TECO Wearable Framework (TWS)
Coronazähler
HelioPas AI
Smart Air Purifier
Software Campus: Haptic User Interfaces for Complex Visualizations (VibrAid)
SmartAQnet
Software Campus: Augmented Reality for in-situ Process Visualization (ARVis)
RüttelFlug
Requirement analysis for energetic construction measures based on historical infrastructure data
Software Campus: KEESmartHome – Comfort-Efficiency-Equilibrium in a Smart Home
SDI-X: Smart Data Innovation processes, tools and operational concepts
Smart Data Solutions for SMEs in Baden-Württemberg
Lehre-HOCH-Forschung
ScaleIT: Scaling ICT for Increasing Productivity in mechtronics manufacturing
ProximityHat
Software Campus: AnKSeK – Anonymization techniques for automatic calibration of distributed sensor systems
Software Campus: FeinPhone
GPU + In-Memory Data Management for Big Data Analytics
SDIL – Smart Data Innovation Lab
Software Campus: InstaGuide – A Document Generation Prototype for Reconfigurable Software
Software Campus: AKTIFUNK
Software Campus: MARC² – Improving Activity Recognition on Mobile Devices Using Crowdsourcing and Cloud Information
Software Campus: PreTIGA
Software Campus: Data Driven Decision Recommendation for Administrative Bodies Based on Collective Intelligence
Prosperity4All
bParts
Science Bridge Asia
MobileDust
Towards a mobile hybrid cloud: An EIT ICT labs activity
AR Sensors
Software Campus: FRAGMENTS – A Development Framework for Human-Computer-Interactions in Intelligent Environments
TECO Envboard
TIMBUS: DIGITAL PRESERVATION FOR TIMELESS BUSINESS PROCESSES AND SERVICES
Software Campus: VDAR – An IT Project of Future Decentralized Power Markets
Software Campus: Hot Updates in Distributed Systems
Towards a Mobile Cloud: an EIT ICT LABS ACTIVITY
KOORDINATOR
aletheia
ParticleOS
MemCam
uParts
ContextAsAKey
PARTICLE
P2P4RFID
ParticleBasic
In/Out Board
SENSORAUM
Superimposing RF Transmission
LoCostix
MoSe (Modeling of Sensor Network)
P2P4Ubicomp
OSOITE
Polytos
Chosen
IT-Ecosystems subproject “LocCom”
Project Intelligenter Güterwagen (Intelligent waggon)
SenseCast: Context Prediction for Optimisation of Network Parameters in Wireless Sensor Networks
dinam
DFG SPP 1183: Organic computing – Emergent radio
Landmarke
RELATE
SmartSurroundings
COBIS
AwareOffice
MEDIACUP
Smart-Its
AwareCon
eSeal/DigiClip
SmartShelf
Location Aware Communication/RAUM
AmbientTelePresence
Ambient Human Computer Interaction, Wearable HCI, implicit Interaction
Point&Click: AIDE
UbicompBrowser / ElectronicManual
DiagnOptiMesh
PHAR: Practical Human Activity Recognition
TEA – Technology for Enabling Awareness