Projects
Smart canine unit: simultaneous localisation and mapping for real-time map creation
A police dog is invaluable to law enforcement. These dogs are trained to detect firearms, drugs and explosives. They can also assist in the search for missing persons or suspects. Police dogs are also useful for surveillance and protection, as well as for special...
Improving traceability for the textile sector
The Icare and Management Informatics institutes of the HES-SO Valais carried out the CTI FairTrace project with the company Importexa, which developed a real time information system allowing to follow a product at each step of the production and transformation, from...
Automatic generation of audio description and L2V
The sub-project 4 (SP4) of the IICT Flagship concerns the automatic generation of audiodescriptions and synthesizers. Audio description is a technique used to make a television program more accessible to people with visual impairments. This is a voice-over that...
Assisted text simplification
Subproject 1 (SP1) of the IICT Flagship concerns the simplification of texts. To achieve this goal, a set of computer techniques are used to reduce the complexity and length of a text while maintaining its meaning and relevance. They are used to improve the...
Optical decoding framework based on artificial intelligence
Computer vision algorithms (CVA) are digital assistants that automatically recognize and evaluate certain information through a camera. Icare has developed solutions adapted to the identification and automatic decoding of vehicle license plates. The partner company...
Real-time visualization of the activity of an electrical installation
For Studer Innotec customers, remote monitoring of photovoltaic installations is essential today. It allows you to understand what is happening in your installation in order to optimize its operation and finally to perpetuate the investments. It is also a valuable...
Writing aid software for dysorthographic children
Phonowriter is a writing aid for "dys" children, more particularly dysorthographics, dyslexics and/or dysgraphics. It combines simple word prediction features with complex, innovative and novel algorithms based on artificial intelligence to facilitate text writing....
Prediction of remotely-read photovoltaic production
The Icare Research Institute has developed algorithms and tools that automatically predict network load and thus reduce adjustment penalties. These tools, which also include visualization solutions between forecasts and actual data, are used daily by some members of...
Distributed intelligent micro storage
This project proposes flexible load-steering models by DSOs (to avoid network investments) and the development of associated business models (to increase revenue) whose aggregation enables a self-consumption community. The aim is, on the one hand, to make the...
Accessible, low-cost, highly resilient IP services for video professionals
IPCAST aims to provide accessible, low-cost and highly resilient IP network services to video professionals: broadcasters, service providers, sports rights agency producers, sports federations, mobile operators. The objective of this project is to implement the main...
Digital tools for tourism during a pandemic
From the point of view of demand, tourism is a global phenomenon: in Switzerland, it represents nearly 3% of GDP and 4.4% of total employment. The pandemic hit the sector very hard with a drop of almost 60% in international arrivals. The pandemic has acted as a gas...
Information exchange interface & digital tourism
The actors of the Valais tourism industry, be it restaurants, destinations or startups, need to continuously exchange various information about events, points of interest, specific offers, etc. At present, there is no standardized and automatable system to perform...