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Solar Energy Batteries

Solar Energy Batteries

Solar Energy Batteries

Project period: 04/2013 - 03/2015

ProSol Invest GmbH’s market leading Sonnenbatterie product line used Eguana’s high efficiency Bidirex inverter platform to create a cost and performance optimized AC Battery including selfcomposition optimization and home energy management functionality. The  roduct was introduced in the growing German market for residential energy storage systems and expanded to other emerging markets including the United States and Canada.

Eguana Technologies
(Sustainable Energy Technologies Inc.)

Location: Calgary, Canada
Founded: 1999
Products: Energy storage systems

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Eguana Technologies designs and manufactures intelligent
power electronics for distributed smart grid and micro-grid
storage applications. The proprietary inverters integrate with
storage devices and renewable energy generators. Their
systems are efficient and reliable with long lifecycles at low
cost. The idea behind this technology is to increase the flow of
renewable energy sources into the grid. Distributed generation
and storage enables collection of energy from many sources
and as a result can lower environmental impacts, as well as
improve security of supply.

sonnen GmbH (Prosol Invest)

Location: Kempten, Germany
Founded: 2010
Products: Energy storage, smart grid applications

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The sonnen GmbH is a pioneer for intelligent lithium based
energy storage. Their Sonnenbatterie product line offers
solutions such as storage, active energy management, smart
metering and virtual power plant integration. The company
offers different system sizes, optimally customized to the
requirements of residential homes, agricultural farms and
commercial firms.
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Sound System Control Software

Sound System Control Software

Sound System Control Software

Project period: 05/2014 - 05/2016

This project aims to develop a control technology and interface for optimizing the remote adjustment of sound fields for professional loudspeaker arrays used in concerts, theatres, public address, and stadiums. PK Sound’s patent-pending hardware, in combination with the new software developed in this project, will allow the optimization of a sound field in venues of any shape or size. The system will advance the ability to control the dispersion of loudspeaker arrays and improve sound quality for customers.

PK Sound

Location: Calgary, Canada
Founded: 2005
Products: Concert-quality sound systems

More about PK Sound

PK Sound combines innovation and art to create high quality speakers, particularly for large concert performances. Their products pay attention to clear, full-bodied sound and a smooth bass. Their speakers are designed and manufactured in-house in Calgary. PK Sound is currently working on a new innovation to improve the sound technician’s ability to adjust their line array speaker format system physically and audibly, in order to produce even better sound. In addition to producing speakers, PK is also working with artists to create a custom multimedia show including creative stage design, lighting and video.

Software Design Ahnert GmbH/AFMG,
Ahnert Feistel Media Group

Location: Berlin, Germany
Products: Concert-quality sound systems and full concert
products

More about AFMG

AFMG is a worldwide leader in software for the pro-audio industry and has created the industry standards EASE and EASERA software for acoustic simulation and measurement, as well as their related products EASE Focus, SysTune, EASE Address and EASE SpeakerLab. AFMG works closely with leading university faculties, manufacturers and design clients to apply the latest development in acoustical research and computer technology.
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Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

Project period: 01/2015 - 04/2017

This project aims to develop a hybrid piezoelectric/electrostatic MEMS mirror and control technology for application in a miniaturized medical optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. The project is divided among the three partners according to specialty. Preciseley will design the MEMS devices, oversee the manufacture of electrostatic MEMS wafers, develop the packaging technology, and build a demonstrator. EDC will develop and manufacture the custom matched ASIC enabling piezoelectric actuation and positional feedback. ENAS will continue piezoelectric materials development, build a piezoelectric scanning demonstrator, and integrate piezoelectric materials with the hybrid OCT scanner.

Preciseley Microtechnology Corporation

Location: Edmonton, Canada
Founded: 2006
Products: Key components for augmented reality devices

More about Preciseley

Preciseley Microtechnology produces key components for augmented reality devices. Augmented reality gives a virtual layer of digital information over the physical, real world environment. For example, a device might give information on temperature, location, directions and names of people in the field of view. The most active medical uses of OCT have been to examine the retinal substructure of the eye, and under skin and nails. Precisely Microtechnology designs and manufactures tiny mirror components that projects the virtual data onto the retinal of the eye to make it visible. Their device makes OCT ultra thin, so it can quickly get to new places inside the body to imagine internal organs and even teeth. The company’s microcomponent is also used by cell phone manufacturers to project a bigger image of the display onto a surface, allowing users to see and interact with a virtual keyboard or make a presentation from a cell phone directly onto a wall.

Electronic Design Chemnitz GmbH (EDC)

Location: Chemnitz, Germany
Founded: 2008
Products: electronic systems/chip manufacturing

More about EDC

Electronic Design Chemnitz GmbH acts as a design provider in the fields of discrete circuit design, electronic measurement, sensor applications, ASIC-Design and integrated microsystems. The company was founded in January 2008 as a spin-off from the Chair of Electronic Components for Micro- and Nanotechnology at the Chemnitz University of Technology and is now part of the “Smart Systems Campus” near the Chemnitz University of Technology, a center for microelectronics, microsystems technology and system integration in Saxony.

Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems (ENAS)

Location: Chemnitz, Germany

More about ENAS

Fraunhofer ENAS specializes in smart integrated systems for different applications. The institute develops single components, technologies for their manufacturing, as well as system concepts and system integration technologies and transfers these into production. The institute’s product and service portfolio covers high-precision sensors for industrial applications, sensor and actuator systems with control units and evaluation electronics, printed functionalities like antennas and batteries and batteries as well as material and reliability research for microeletronics and microsystem technology.
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Wear Protection with Laser Cladding Technology

Wear Protection with Laser Cladding Technology

Wear Protection with Laser Cladding Technology

Project period: 10/2015 - 10/2017

The goal of this project is to develop a new method of laser metal deposition (cladding) to increase the life span of high wear components. A new powder delivery method will be developed, which is based on pastes and tapes unlike the powder deposition, which is currently used by industry. In comparison with the current methods of powder application, powder loss will be reduced, deposition rate increased and a higher flexibility regarding complex part shapes will be achieved. This application method will greatly increase the competitiveness of laser cladding and greatly increase the market share of cladding done in Alberta.

Group Six Technologies Inc.

Location: Edmonton, Canada
Founded: 2013
Products: Laser cladding

More about Group Six Technologies

Specializing in internal and external laser cladding, laser heat
treating, and CNC grinding, Group Six provides enhancement
and repair services to keep industrial parts in service far past
their normal lifespan, reducing your overall repair expense
and inventory. Their combination of in-house equipment and
metallurgical expertise helps their customers to maximize
investments, and minimize replacement.

Canadian Centre for Welding and Joining (CCWJ)

Location: Edmonton, Canada

More about CCWJ

The Canadian Centre for Welding and Joining is the research center of the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Alberta. The research done in the CCWJ focuses on productivity, weldability, automation, and performance. Introducing new processes, procedures, materials, and technologies, researching difficult-to-weld materials such as aged and embrittled alloys, and examining non-destructive testing, corrosion, and fracture issues are some of the areas that are addressed within the centre.

DURUM Verschleiss-Schutz GmbH

Location: Willich, Germany
Founded: 2008
Products/ Services: Creating solutions for wear problems caused by abrasion, friction, corrosion and thermal stress

More about DURUM Verschleiss-Schutz

DURUM products are used in most industrial areas such
as: Deep Drilling, Steel Industry, Foundries, Glass Industry,
Mining, Brick-and Clay, Agriculture, Textile Industry, Chemical,
Aluminum, Excavation, Pump Industry. The company aims at
solving nearly all kind of wear problems caused by abrasion,
friction, corrosion and thermal stress.

Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK

Location: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 1978

More about Fraunhofer IPK

Fraunhofer IPK offers application-oriented system solutions covering the whole spectrum of industrial usage – from product development, production processes, maintenance of investment goods, and product recycling to design and management of manufacturing companies. They also transfer production technology solutions to areas of application outside of industry such as medicine, transport and security.
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