Aditess ltd a Cyprus start up

The Case Of A Cypriot Startup Investing On Information Technology And Employee

Empowerment

www.aditess.com email: [email protected]

Who we are…

A scientific, consulting and research company

Purpose: • Conduct theoretical and applied research

• Produce studies, in strategic and tactical levels

Expertise: • Security policies

• Aftermath on crisis events

• Emergency management situations

• Critical infrastructure protection

• Transportation security and border management (monitoring and surveillance) state-of-the-art modeling solutions

• Monitoring equipment for border security

Our

JOURNEY

Team of company personnel and associates: • Researchers with professional and academic experience

• Consultants

• Ex-Military and ex-police forces with background in

IT security

Electronic Warfare (EW) and

Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) in large-scale National and NATO led operations

• Dedicated and experienced professionals who have outstanding professional and academic experience (proposal preparation, project management and R&D activities) and have been involved in

EU Research Programs in the field of Security, ICT, Aeronautics (UAVs), Communications, Transportation and Environment

National and international projects

How it all started…

•Ability to provide advisory and consulting services to various Government Organizations and to other Public and Private authorities

•Clients from a multitude of technological domains, such as Security, Defense, and Information and Communication Technologies

•Strategic alliance with Center for Risk, Safety and the Environment (CERISE), European University Cyprus

•Business Agreements for product / service representation of International Companies

•Start of 6 EU (Fp7) R&D projects that bring added value to Cyprus

• Implementation of International projects (Greece, Albania)

•Start of 3 EU (Horizon2020) R&D projects

•R&D activities and products in: IT Security, Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Cross Layer Design, Network Simulations, Multimedia and Video Streaming, Decision Support Tools.

2012

2013

2014

2015

Our

Team

Jan 2014

• Team: 2 members full time + 3 associates

DEC 2014

• Team: 4 full time members + 4 associates

MAR 2015

• Team: 5 full time members + 6 associates

Expansion milestones

May2015 - Team: 6 full time members + associates

Sep2015 - Team: 7 full time members + associates

DEC2015 - Team: 8 full time members + associates

Interdisciplinary Research

00 Despite the different areas of application the vast majority of systems bear similar core characteristics

• Reliability, accuracy, timeliness, robustness etc

01 Research areas are called to find applicability and make impact in ONE complex and multidimensional community

10 Areas are not independent/standalone • Our aspiration is therefore to assist the community by

combining research conclusions acquired through EU projects we are involved in.

P-React ZONeSec

SECURITY

IMPRESS EU-CIRCLE

PREPAREDNESS/ROBUSTNESS

EUSTO 3CE

UINFC2

STAKEHOLDER COOPERATION

ARCADIA

ICT

COMMUNITY

INCPE2T

Enabling Communication

“There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don’t”

R&D

Stakeholder Cooperation

UINFC2: Facilitate cooperation and coordination among all the major EU stakeholders through the provision of structured, analyzed, classified and correlated information, in real time

• Call: HOME/2013/ISEC • Duration: 24 months (09/14-08/16)

EUSTO: Promoting sustainable cooperation between stakeholders of surface transportation infrastructures, for the identification of emerging threat

• Call: HOME/2013/CIPS • Duration: 24 months (07/14-06/16)

3CE: Towards the provision of high quality training courses in the area of cybercrime to all involved actors

• Call: HOME/2013/ISEC • Duration: 24 months (07/14-06/16)

R&D

Security

P-REACT: For the development a low cost surveillance platform that will detect • Petty Crime incidents • Call: FP7-SEC-2013 • Duration: 24 months (04/14-03/16)

ZONeSEC: Towards a framework for the security of Widezones • Call: FP7-SEC-2014 • Duration: 48 months (12/14-11/18)

Linking Stakeholder Cooperation & Security INCPE2T: Inspiring citizens participation, enhancing community policing actions

• Call: H2020-FCT-14-2014 /RIA • Duration: 36 months (06/15-05/18)

R&D

Preparedness/ Robustness

IMPRESS: Towards improving preparedness and response of health services

in major crises • Call: FP7-SEC-2013-1

• Duration: 36 (05/14-04/17)

EU-CIRCLE: A paneuropean framework for strengthening Critical Infrastructure resilience to climate change

• Duration: 36 months (06/15-05/18)

• Call: H2020-DRS-09-2014 / RIA

R&D

Information Communication Technology

ARCADIA: Towards the development of a reconfigurable by design Highly Distributed Applications’ development paradigm over Programmable Infrastructure

• Duration: 36 months (01/15-12/17)

• Call: H2020-ICT-2014-1

When research… …is put into practice.

Product outcomes from EU ongoing research programs:

VMCMS-GE

• Designed having in mind a holistic strategy

• Fits the needs of a wide range of users through secure, yet, easy to deploy interfaces and a user-friendly graphical environment

• Authentication & Security Module • Implements authenticity levels for users

• Allows the definition of static metatags

• Maintains a log of all actions and events taking place

• Repository Module • Handles data access and configuration issues

• Processing Module • Supports several existing containers and formats

• Additional formats may be added as pluggable modules

• May be used for transcoding, compressing or manipulating stored content

The VMCMS-GE is a content management system for the efficient management, archiving, fast-indexing and processing of multimedia content through a modular architecture

Product outcomes from EU ongoing research programs:

Intelligent Audio Analytics

Audio covers a 360-degree area and adds as much to our understanding of events as the captured images

Implemented Solution:

• Based on well-established methods from the fields of audio coding, machine learning and speech recognition

• Allows efficient operation on low cost power limited devices (or embedded systems)

• Manages the detection abnormal events

• Implements speaker independent speech recognition module • For the detection of pre-specified key words through the decomposition of the audio scene;

• Critical for the seamless triggering of a surveillance system

UAVs & more...

• ADITESS is also specialized in the designation of unmanned vehicles ( both aerial and ground)

• Over the years we have designed a variety of UAV systems (Mini-UAV ) • The systems are designed with high efficiency and minimized development and operational cost

• Without compromising the general aviation standards

• The Mini-UAV systems can be utilized for: • Navigation in controlled civilian airspace

• Compliance to certification requirements that will become applicable to all UAS addressing homeland security operations

Remote Sensing

• Implementation of security systems for sea and landmark surveillance with the use of satellite images

• Through our research we have developed an automated motion detection algorithm

• allows the combination of pictorial information and geo-information

• The algorithm seamlessly deals with: • the identification of patterns

• Trajectory calculation for of moving objects

• extraction of geometric characteristics along with the speed of movement and direction

Aditess positioning

• Strategically bridging the fields of academia, industry and the government, providing benefits in the form of research and emerging products

• Enabled by sustainable collaborations and partnerships with a number of:

• universities

• non-profit research centers

• laboratories and

• companies in the private sector Academia

Industry

Government

Of high importance

The relationship with the Academic world:

• Important network - Academic institutions from all EU

• Partnership through R&D EU projects

• Business representative of • Innovative Patents • Innovative products

Future goal:

• The sponsorship of PhD Courses in Cyprus universities

• Internships

A win-win philosophy! Customized and very flexible ways of collaboration!

The Aditess Superpower..

OUR TEAM

CREATE WORKPLACE

SUPERHEROES

Job satisfaction..

Employee development: Benefits

OPEN POSITION

• Researcher - Software Engineer

More info and CV: [email protected] [email protected]

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed”

William Gibson

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