Research Infrastructure (RI) Name: KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence - KIOS CoE (University of Cyprus)
Website: https://www.kios.ucy.ac.cy/
Mission: To conduct multidisciplinary research and innovation in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with emphasis on the Monitoring, Control, Security and Management of Critical Infrastructures, which include large-scale, complex systems such as power and energy systems, water systems, transportation systems, telecommunication networks and emergency management and response systems.
Research Services provided: The KIOS Innovation Hub, through its Industrial Membership Program aims to:
- Provide research and innovation services related to monitoring, control, management and security of Critical Infrastructures, based on Information and Communication Technologies.
- Stimulate information, technology and talent transfer to and from industry.
- Envisage and create innovate products and services jointly with industry.
The KIOS CoE consists of the following Laboratories:
(1) The Embedded and Application-Specific System on Chip Laboratory
Main Equipment:
- Hybrid Multi-FPGA/Multi-GPU Platform for large scale circuit and system emulation
- Multi-GPU supercomputers used for machine learning and computer vision applications
- State-of-the-art low-end and high-end FPGA boards for acceleration of compute intensive applications (computer vision, image processing, machine learning)
- Multi-SOC FPGA-Based BeeCube Platform for large-scale hardware emulation
- Embedded Computing Systems (Raspberry Pi, Gumstix Boards, Odroid Platforms)
- Bumblebee Stereoscopic Camera for stereo vision applications
- Smart Camera Nodes based on the Raspberry Pi Computers
- NVIDIA Jetson TK1 embedded GPU platform for accelerated edge computing
- Logic Analyzers/Oscilloscopes/Function Generators for circuit design
(2) The Sensors and Robotics Laboratory
Main Equipment:
- Developmental Matrice-100 drones
- Miscellaneous terrestrial robotic platforms
- Drone attachable thermal camera with radiometry (30Hz)
(3) The Powers Systems Laboratory
Main Equipment:
(a) The Power Systems Pilot Site:
- 225 kW wind turbine
- 5 kW photovoltaic system
- 20 kW - 6 kWh flywheel based kinetic battery
- 40 kW fuel cells, 80 kW electrolyzer
- Hydrogen storage
(b) The Power electronics equipment for renewable energy sources including:
- Several power electronics-based converters/inverters (from 0.6 kW to 20 kW)
- Advanced controllers (i.e., dSPACE controller boards, Texas Instrument micro-controller)
- High-voltage DC sources and programmable AC sources and loads
(4) Mobile Communications & Networking Laboratory
Main Equipment:
- NI USRP: Software Defined Radio Platform
- Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Wireless Sensors
- Commercial/Custom-made simulation software for optical/telecommunication networks
- IP routers/switches and network testing equipment
(5) The Electronic Design, Test and Reliability Laboratory
Main Equipment:
- High-end servers/workstations and logic analysers
- State-of the-art CAD tools (Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor Graphic) for development and simulation purposes
- Several FPGA-based prototyping systems
(6) The Biomedical Imaging and Applied Optics Laboratory
Main Equipment:
- Medical optics facility suited for optic and fibre-optic experiments with optical and electronics infrastructure and a variety of microscopy solutions
- Optical tables, laser sources, fibre-optic interferometers, high precision opto-mechanical components and testing and acquisition electronics
- OCT systems, Raman systems, as well as light and fluorescence microscopes.
| Research Category: | Information Science & Technology |
| RI Main Priorities: | Monitoring, Control, Security and Management of Critical Infrastructure Systems. |
| Hosting Legal Entity: |
| KIOS Research Center | | |
| University of Cyprus | | |
| P.O.Box 20537 | |  |
| CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus | | |
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| Equipment of RI | For more information regarding the RI and its Laboratories, including equipment, please click the attachment below. |
| RI Contact Person: | Name: Marios Polycarpou
Title: Professor/Director
Address: KIOS Research Center
University of Cyprus
P.O. Box 20537
CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
Telephone Number: +357 22893451
Fax Number: +357 22893455
Email Address: mpolycar@ucy.ac.cy |
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