Galician Research and Development Center in Advanced Telecommunications - GRADIANT
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Gradiant is a private non-profit foundation that aims to improve the competitiveness of companies by transferring knowledge and technologies in the fields of connectivity, intelligence and security. With more than 100 professionals and 12 applied patents, Gradiant has developed 285 different R&D&i projects, becoming one of the main engines of innovation in Galicia. In 2018, Gradiant’s turnover reached 5 million euros, working with more than 230 companies in 25 countries. Gradiant‘s ICT research and innovation activity spreads over Digital Communications, Intelligent Systems, Services and Applications, especially in security, Cloud-based systems, Multimodal Information, and eHealth which result in the development of technologies applicable in a wide variety of market ;During the last years Gradiant has participated in 17 European projects (FP7 , ERA-NETS and H2020), two of them as project coordinator: LIFTGATE (GA 285901) and MAVEN (GA 606058), and 15 participations as partner: SIGNED (GA 262448), BATS (GA 317533), CAESARIS (GA 605093), PRIPARE (GA 610613), FIWARE (GA 285248), SEERS (GA 645114), WITDOM (GA 644371), AMIGO (GA 619231), PRACTICIES ( GA 740072), CREATE-IoT(GA 732929) , CPPLEAN (BeinCPPs Call 1 – GA 680633), ADOCKER (5GinFire Open Call), SMARTAGRIHUBS(GA 818182), POSEIDON(MarTERA-ERANETS) and iPLANNER(IoT4Industry Open Call)
Gradiant main research and innovation areas are:
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Artificial Intelligence
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Internet of Things (IoT) & Embedded Systems
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Security and Privacy
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Cloud
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Communication systems & Signal Processing
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Biometrics
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Video Analysis
Gradiant holds the chairmanship of the Working Group 6 "smart Agriculture and Food Security" of the European Alliance for Innovation in the Internet of Things (AIOTI). In addition, Gradiant is a member of the European Technology Platforms NETWORLD2020 (European Technology Platform for communications networks and services), NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative) NEM (Networked and Electronic Media Initiative), as well as of Spain’s AEI-Ciberseguridad (Innovative Business Association for Network Security and Information Systems) and chair of the board of RENIC (National Excellence Network for the Research on Cybersecurity). Furthermore, Gradiant is foundation Member of the recently created European Cyber Security Organisation ASBL (ECSO).