DevLab is initiated by 12 technological SMEs. (Small and Medium Enterprises). The objective is to stimulate the flow of knowledge between universities, technical colleges and the SME members in order to create mid and long term business opportunities. The DevLab initiative originates from the DevClub (Development Club), one of the clusters of the Industrial Electronics branch association of the Federation of Technology Branches FHI.

Agenda

Monthly DevLab Cafés
Presentations and demonstrations from 15:00 untill 17:00, followed by an informal gathering with drinks and bytes. Here you will meet a variety of people who are more or less related to, or interested in DevLab. Admission is free of charge.

Next DevLab Café: Januari 29, 2010

See the detailed agenda for an overview of the dates and the program.

News

New DevLab member
We are proud to welcome Luminis Live as a new member of the Cooperation DevLab. Fred Verstraaten, director of Luminis Live, has decided to join DevLab as of March 1st, 2010. and will start immediately to participate in the MetaVerse1 project. For an introduction of Luminis Live, see their website. In one of our next DevLab Café's (February or March) Luminis Live will present itself.

DevLab in the media
"Technisch weekblad" published an article about the successful 1000 nodes experiment. Click here to read it (in Dutch).

DevLab was subject of an article in the "Eindhovens Dagblad" of January 7th, 2010. Click here to read it (in Dutch).

Successful 1000 nodes experiment
On January 11th, DevLab started the year of 2010 with a successful 1000 nodes experiment. For the first time in history the MyriaNed mesh network platform, running the gossip protocol for communication, was scaled up to a 1000 nodes. Although it is too early to inform about the results of this experiment, we can already say that the network has been able to scale up. After an introductory presentation at Chess, more than 50 people witnessed the experiment across the street in "de Lichtfabriek" in Haarlem. In order to show that the network was really in operation, a number of different light applications were demonstrated (see photo). Also some unexpected behaviour was experienced, so the researchers now have a lot to analyse: 15 GB of data has been logged in the network.
During our upcoming DevLab Cafés we will inform you in more detail about the results of the experiment.

Projects

At DevLab we are currently working on 6 projects:

●	Atalanta: autonomous electromechanical butterfly
●	Alwen: Ambient Living with Embedded Networks
●	Storm: Sensor Technology On Radio Modules
●	Innovatie Alliantie: research on business models related to open innovation
●	Independent Living: MyriaNed technology as an aid for elderly people
●	Metaverse1: Connecting the real world to virtual worlds, building the MPEG-V standard

Look at our detailed project overview for more information.

Students

Related to our projects, we have defined a large number of graduation assignements on different levels, university and/or colleges/universities of applied sciences (Dutch=HBO). Are you a student looking for a challenging assignement in the field of electronics, informatics, embedded systems or electromechanical engineering? Take a look at our state-of-the-art assignments and get in contact with DevLab.