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New wireless sensor for environmental friendly forest plant production

At Green Week in Brussels June 3-5, Acreo Swedish ICT will demonstrate a new wireless and low-cost multi-parameters sensor for water and ion monitoring in soil. The aim for the innovation is to enable zero-impact, cost-friendly forest plant production in Europe. The miniaturized sensor has been developed within the EU-project Zephyr with focus on environmental zero-impact and cost-friendly functional system for large scale production of pre-cultivated forest regeneration materials, adapted to transplanting. Acreo has also developed a compact, low cost optical system for following

Acreo creates new opportunities in cell research

EU invests five million SEK in the Swedish research institute Acreo and the project Charming. Acreo’s researchers will, together with European partners, develop a method using optical fibers to control the laser pulses employed in microscopy, with the aim to allow a more detailed cell research. “This is an acknowledgement of Sweden's leading position in Fiber Optics”, says Åsa Claesson, Director of the Fiber Optic business unit at Acreo. The use of laser beams in biomedical research is becoming more and more common, in particular for microscopy. Time-resolved analysis is frequently

Acreo speeds up Optical Communication together with KTH

Gunnar Jacobsen, CTO Broadband Technology at Acreo, has received a 3 year prolongation of his previous appointment Adjunct Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in the area of ICT and Optical Communication Systems. This new appointment is a proof of a successful partnership between Acreo and KTH. Acreo is focusing on network implementations at 100 Gb to 100 Tb, specializing in system performance evaluation; a perfect complement to the research at KTH in advanced system components. “This close partnership between Acreo and KTH strengthens the research community in Kista within

Acreo spins off the new company Ascatron for fabrication of silicon carbide semiconductors

Today the CEO of the Swedish research institute Acreo, Mårten Armgarth, announced the foundation of a new company, Ascatron. Based on the silicon carbide (SiC) technology developed at Acreo, Ascatron will specialise on the manufacturing of energy efficient SiC semiconductors. Target customers are suppliers of power devices and modules to the power electronic industry. ”Now is the right time to build up production capacity for SiC devices. The demand for our epi service has increased significantly and we have run our two R&D reactors at a maximum capacity over the last two years” says

Acreo has developed a technology for all-printed touchless keypads

Figure: Acreo has printed and monolithically integrated sensors, electrochemical transistors and electrochromic displays onto a flexible substrate, and the resulting all-printed organic electronic sensor system is suitable for human machine interface applications, for example touch less keypads. © Joanneum Research  Acreo has within the European project 3PLAST developed a technology that enables printing of a system including sensor elements, transistors and displays integrated into an all-printed human machine interface (HMI) sensor device. The sensor device is very sensitive to small

Acreo develops a secure communication platform for future smart homes and cities

Broadband networks are primary used for the commercial triple play services; Internet access, IP-telephony and IPTV. However, areas such as health care and safety, real estate services for energy saving and smart grid are all step by step turning into broadband based services connected to various terminals in the home. These services put new demands on the broadband network and communication. Most of these new requirements are linked to security in terms of robustness, availability, confidentiality and privacy, whereas the solutions shall function in an open multi-service and multi-operator

Gigabit Ethernet through a fishing line

As part of the Acreo-led EU ALPHA project, scientists at Luceat, Telsey and Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) in Italy have demonstrated a system transferring Gigabit Ethernet over a plastic optical fibre (POF), a media very much similar to a fishing line. Driven by various emerging broadband services, end-users’ demand for transmission bandwidth increases more than 70% per year and is thus pushing towards more powerful home networks; at this rate, soon Gigabit per second links will be required inside all apartments. One way to meet this increasing demand is the use of Plastic Optical

"Plug and play” 20 Gb/s modems using off-the-shelf components

As part of the Acreo-led EU ALPHA project, scientists at Bangor University have experimentally demonstrated a series of world-first end-to-end real-time OOFDM transceivers at record-high speeds, proving the feasibility of “plug and play” OOFDM modems exceeding 20Gb/s by utilising low-cost off-the-shelf components. Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OOFDM) is a front-runner technology for practical implementation in Fibre-To-The-Home/ Building (FTTH/ B) or for a capacity upgrade of fibre in-building networks. Driven by various emerging broadband services such as 3D-TV,

Acreo to map the broadband situation in Sweden.

The information available today about the broadband situation in Sweden is rather poor, not only when it comes to what the deployment situation is, but also on what is actually meant by “broadband”. Much of that information is either provided by interested parties or too vague. In order to give an accurate description of the current broadband situation in Sweden, Acreo has decided to conduct an independent analysis. The survey will be carried out in spring 2011 and it will focus on the deployment and availability of new broadband networks, mainly fibre-based, how these are developed in

Acreo performed successful 100G DWDM field trial using 16-QAM with advanced modulation and detection techniques

Swedish Research company Acreo and leading telecom vendor Ericsson have completed a field trial, running 112 Gbit/s on a single wavelength over an 824 km installed fiber route, provided by Skanova, between Kista and Hudiksvall in Sweden.  The trial demonstrated a novel solution based on electronic sub-carrier multiplexing combined with 16-QAM modulation and coherent detection, developed by Ericsson and Acreo in joint research projects directed towards increasing capacity of optical networks. A 100G upgrade scenario was tested by connecting the dual-polarization 112 Gbit/s wavelength to

Acreo granted funding in new Celtic project for better control and management of IP networks

Acreo has received VINNOVA funding for participation in the new Celtic project IPNQSIS. The project will continue the development from the Celtic gold award winning TRAMMS project. In the project, traffic monitoring systems will be developed in order to increase the control of IP networks and to ensure a high quality of experience. In the IPNQSIS (pronounced IPNOSIS) project, Acreo will collaborate with researchers from 21 partner organizations from Sweden, Finland, Spain and France. The driving force behind the project is to increase the quality of experience (QoE) of the services

Paradigm shift in broadband technology demands for new business models

Acreo organizes a workshop “Next generation optical access networks: new value chains and emerging business models”, in cooperation with Deutsche Telekom, at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 2010 19th of September in Turin, Italy. The workshop will address the evolution of the business of optical access in the coming years. The migration from copper and coax to fiber will see an acceleration in the near future, and a paradigm shift will take place from service-dedicated networks to open, multilayer networks where all services will be delivered over one access

Acreo presents breakthrough technique for 100GbE transmission at ECOC 2010

Acreo will present the breakthrough technique for 100GbE transmission at the upcoming European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 2010 the 22nd of September. For the first time a successful field transmission demonstration at 112 Gb/s for a complete electrically multiplexed system without any optical equalization has been achieved. The demonstration was carried out by Acreo in Acreo’s national broadband testbed in Kista. The standard for 100GbE will be adopted in 2010, defining transmission via 4 × 25 Gbit/s. A solution employing 1 x 100 Gbit/s would be cheaper - if the

Acreo Launches Fibertronix AB a Specialty Optical Fiber Company

Hudiksvall, 2009-01-01 Fibertronix AB develops and manufactures specialty optical fibers and fiber based solutions, targeting advanced and customized applications primarily in the oil and gas, military and avionics industries. Fibertronix is a spin-off from Acreo and with headquarter and manufacturing facilities based in Hudiksvall, Sweden. Acreo has a long history of innovative research, product development and fiber production. Fibertronix employs its proprietary manufacturing processes to develop state of the art standard and non-standard fiber products based on the research done

Europe joins R&D forces to develop Low-cost Infrared Night Vision System for the Automotive reducing the number of accidents on the road.

Image source: BWM AG Brussels, Belgium - Six of Europe's leading companies and research establishments have joined forces in the strategic research project "Infrared Imaging Components for Use in Automotive Safety Applications ICU". ICU aims at prototyping a low-cost infrared night vision system that can resolve a pedestrian or animal on the road. The infrared imaging system will be developed to provide high contrast images of warm (living) objects completely independent of ambient light conditions and is expected to considerably increase safety on the roads. In particular if we get such

Acreo spins-off IRnova

Acreo AB is spinning off its successful infrared detector activity to a separate company, IRnova AB. IRnova is based on Acreo's deep experience in development and production of QWIP (Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors) and is the obvious conclusion to a growing business refined from several years of research and development. The new company signifies Acreo's strong long term commitment to provide competitive IR solutions to the market. IRNova will be owned by Acreo and the employees with Acreo as the major shareholder. Acreo’s QWIP activity has historically had a limited customer base,

Proximion and Acreo Demonstrate Full C-band fiber Bragg grating based DCMs in Long-Haul Optical Transport at 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps.

Successful demonstration of continuous C-band dispersion compensation by fiber Bragg gratings in an 820 km field trial at 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps line rates. 8 March 2006: Proximion, the technology leader within design and manufacturing of fiber-Bragg gratings enabling low loss dispersion compensation, and Acreo, a leading Swedish research and development institute operating the Swedish National Broadband Test-bed, announced the successful demonstration of continuous C-band dispersion compensation by fiber Bragg gratings in 10/40Gbps optical transmission through 820 km of installed standard

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