Company Description:
Iquadrat is a technology company founded in 1997, with a focus on delivering System-Level evaluation tools for wireless networks. The company is involved in projects with large corporate clients, mobile operators and public authorities and is currently active in three different domains: Software development, consultancy primarily in planning wireless networks, and R&D in simulation methodologies for radio access technologies, including IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4, 4G LTE RAN and beyond. The R&D department has extensive expertise in radio access technologies, wireless planning, cognitive radio, SDN, and it is also active in the fast-growing IoT paradigm preparing a close-to-realistic IoT platform at the SLS.
Iquadrat has been involved in many EU-funded research projects related to wireless communications and is currently active in 1 ICT-FP7, 4 ENIAC, 1 ARTEMIS and 6 Marie Curie projects. System Level Simulators, that play a central role in the company's consulting services, have been contributed -and extended with new capabilities- in all abovementioned projects for evaluating novel technologies and scenarios. New SLS modules implemented include energy management, cooperative techniques for video transmission, and advanced Physical-Layer Network Coding schemes. The company has already implemented an SLS for energy management and demand response in smart grids. Iquadrat is also experienced in Wireless multi-Sensor Networks, and designs efficient techniques for information transfer in future IoT platforms.
Role and main tasks within the project:
IQU will contribute to the design and development of the cooperative energy management algorithms for the optimal utilization generated by renewable energy sources and/or energy storage devices and corresponding optimization procedures for the optimal utilization of generated/stored energy, which will applied to the self-organised microgrids. IQU will also utilize its IoT platform in the corresponding use-case scenarios, by modifying it in order to incorporate the new features of the developed microgrid.