University for Continuing Education Krems - Department for Integrated Sensor Systems

Research and development of innovative concepts for high performance sensors and sensor networks is at the heart of the department, providing solutions for a widespread range of applications, such as building management, industrial automation, medicine, traffic control, environmental monitoring, and multi-media and home appliances.

The diversified, interdisciplinary expertise of the department revolves around the core topics of the four research centres and includes sensor development and manufacturing in micro- and nanotechnology, microelectronics, function-, system-, and circuit integration, communication technology, and modelling/simulation. The department combines all scientific expertise necessary for the development of sensor systems from the transducer technology up to complex system-of-systems integration aspects in a single research team.

Current research activities focus on production monitoring, building automation, smart traffic and energy systems, biomolecular diagnostics, spintronics, thermal sensors, magnetic materials and sensors, sensors for electric fields, hybrid microsystems, physical biosensors, data management and coordination from sensor networks up to cooperative systems integration (digital transition), localisation and clock synchronisation, security in sensor networks. Key tools here are analytical and numerical modelling, the use of Artificial Intelligence, and the simulation and optimisation of materials and sensor systems.