rmDATA can provide relevant skills for following areas:

• surveying and geodesy
• line information systems and net documentation systems (telecommunication, gas, oil, water, canal, district heating, and so on )
• administration of parcel related data
• communal information systems
• GIS viewing solutions for all data and platforms

Our skilled employees have excellent know-how in following areas:

• surveying and GIS
• Oracle, Oracle Spatial, Autodesk, Microsoft
• Java, OGC, XML
• software conception, design, modelling (iterative software process)
• net and line documentation
• data registration, editing and migration
• project management and quality management

Furthermore we have a network of external specialists for several areas.

• Optics: development of advanced components and sub-systems for optical fibre based networks. Main competencies include expertise in the design of next generation optical amplifiers, fibre Bragg grattings (FBGs), fibre laser sources (also for non-telecom applications), advanced systems for tree-like PONs optical monitoring and optical metrology.
• Speech synthesis and recognition
• Image analysis
• Data Fusion
• Network development

• Project/Program Management
• Audit of Project/Programmes
• Coaching of Project Managers and Steering Committees
• Experience: ICT and R&D European and Worldwide Programs

• International R&D Project Leader (Lucent)
• Lecturer in Digital techniques (Brussels)
• System Engineer (STS)
• Director R&D and Production (Bosch telecom)
• Commercial and Managing Director (BelcomLab - Telecom and EMC testing and consulting services)

Knowledge Management
Explicit knowledge is mostly documented in a free-text format. Tools that make use of this free-text information are, for example, document management systems, intranets and portals, communities of practice, etc. L&C delivers technology that makes it possible to process this free-text information in an intelligent way to optimize the search and retrieval capabilities (by improving recall and precision as a result of semantic indexing technology), extract information and structure it for further processing including text mining, improve help desk workflows, create and manage company-wide terminology systems, etc.

Terminology / Ontology Management
Different people use different terminology to mean the same thing. While it is easy for humans to understand, it isn’t for computers. However, when employees are searching for information, they want the system to return all related articles without returning irrelevant ones, no matter what terminology used.
With current search and retrieval technologies (e.g. keywords, statistical systems) this is impossible since these technologies cannot cope with different terminologies used for the same concept. The solution is either to introduce a corporate-wide standard terminology that everyone has to use or to develop a system that can understand human language, i.e. an ontology: a conceptual representation of a specific domain.
In both cases you need the tools to build the terminology or ontology. For this L&C has developed a state-of-the-art terminology/ontology management system called LinKFactory. With this tool it is possible to create computer-understandable domain representations that consist of domain concepts that are linked together to represent the relationships they have. These concepts can then be linked to all possible terms that exist to name the concepts. This way, it doesn’t matter what terminology is used in documents in order to retrieve them when employees are searching the knowledge base for information on that specific subject.

The Semantic Web
The Worldwide Web holds a massive amount of information but lacks the intelligence to locate and share information in an effective and efficient way. To solve this problem, development toward a Semantic Web has started.
The Semantic Web is perceived as a "smart" worldwide web that has the ability to understand data and the relationship between pieces of information in human language and to distribute information, regardless of the format or language it is stored in.
The Semantic Web holds the promise to make all this information available by creating an infrastructure that makes interoperability of data, computer systems and applications a reality.
The core technology required to develop the Semantic Web lies in ontologies. Ontologies are conceptual representations of the world that make it possible for computers to understand human language.
Since L&C’s core business is in Natural Language Processing technology, we have developed great expertise in this area. We have developed a state-of-the-art tool - the LinKFactory® - to develop the complex, large scale, multi-lingual and formal ontologies needed for successful development toward a Semantic Web, and our TeSSI® engine contains middleware components for semantic indexing, search and retrieval and information extraction that can be integrated into the Semantic Web infrastructure to provide accurate information management regardless of the language or format in which the data is stored.
Contact us to see how we can help you developing you project.

The Synchromedia infrastructure (Phase 2, recently funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, at the level of 3,7 M$, for the period 2004-2009). The research program we are developing includes: (a) the infrastructure of a multipurpose experimental lab; (b) a complete system for multi-sensorial data acquisition; (c) a system of storage, processing and visualization of the collected data; (d) a network infrastructure for the transport and the control of a reliable data communication (QoS), P2P distributed objects technology.

Hence, involved researchers, at both levels European and Canadian, will serve as principal investigators in this cutting-edge research program, including the following themes: (i) Intelligent cooperative systems, (ii) Systems for reading on-line and off-line handwritten materials from various devices and HMI, (iii) Visualization interfaces and 3D interaction (Haptic), (iv) Telelaboratories and virtual labs, (v) Evaluation of usage of collaborative tools, and (v) P2P distributed collaborative objects; and (v) Networking.

We are interested in:

• Access network renewal, searching for cost-effective solution supporting broadband services
• Fibre to the home applications
• Most suitable solution for greenfield areas (industrial, residential)
• Broadband solutions for rural, low densely populated areas
• Internet/Wi-Fi for the education (schools, dormitories)
• Homeworking solution decreasing unemployment level

• DAS, NAS, SAN (equipment, interfaces, architecture, protocols, tools of administration and supervision, Virtualisation, safety, …
• Interconnection of SANs (architecture, protocols, equipments, interfaces, securisation, interoperability …)
• Integration of the services on the SAN/NAS (VSAN resources sharing, backup, virtualisation, safeguard, replication, filing)
• End-to-end interconnection through LAN/MAN/WAN (Gigabit Eth Network and IP Network )
• Tools of measurement, methodology of testing and an end to end testing platform.

We are interested in research on cost-effective ways of providing Data Storage Networking (Ethernet based protocols, new data transport protocols, new features of resources sharing…) or in any project where we can provide our expertise and skills stated above.

Main interest :

• Nomadic multimedia access (with QoS and mobility care-outs)

Main skills:

• Channel coding (block and convolutional codes, turbo codes ...)
• Modulation (PSK, FSK, QAM, TCM, MLC ...)M
• Multiple access techniques (OFDM, MIMO)

Development field :

• DVB-H, DVB-T, Wifi, Wimax, Edge, UMTS, DVB-S/S.2 …

• Audit, Measurement and Investigation of the QoS in mobiles communication networks
• Engineering and deployment de mobile communication sites
• Engineering and deployment of the core networks
• Engineering and deployment of services
• GPRS/GSM and UMTS terminal design and implementation
• Wireless hospital network development
• Wireless sensor systems
• Advanced radio technologies based on MIMO, BF and UWB

• Applications for Crisis Management (Pre Crisis, Crisis, Post Crisis)
• Security applications for critical/public infrastructures
• Service Oriented Architectures driven for crisis management situations
• Satellite-based communication applications (providers, in crisis management, sea transports)
• EO data gathering and processing
• Modular software components (engines) to embed GIS logic applications

• Planning, optimisation, integration and maintenance of 3G Network
• Planning, integration and maintenance of 2G Network
• Network Management Services and support for TETRA system
• Planning, implementation and maintenance of data networks
• Software development, with particular interest in value-added services of mobile networks, m-commerce and Applications for Mobile services
• Installation and support of various platforms (POC, IMS)
• Security and standardisation

The expertise of the company personnel includes:

• software solutions (design and development of internet-based data bases using SQL Server - design, development and maintenance of interactive web-pages and e-journals, web-portals development, multimedia tools design, document and workflow management tools, e-business applications);
• technological solutions for e- distance- and life-long training, customization of training procedures to serve elderly and disabled people;
• evaluation studies and techniques by working with special target groups and focus groups including statistical process and results extraction;
• market analyses and application/implementation studies for new products and services
• provision of integrated solutions: from product/service concept to search for funding opportunities, product design, development and testing.

The company's solution combines the power of continuous, natural language speech processing with the flexibility of working in different environments. This solution has been engineered to minimize user requirements, maximize flexibility and optimize performance.

The DSP based boards provides a high-density, low power consumption and low cost solution to implement ASR (automatic speech recognition) technology.

The system is unique in its ability to pack several tens of simultaneous speech recognition channels into a single board. Each channel operates independently. The voice driven system can serve thousands of users simultaneously.

SpMo's business model is centered on several applications that lend themselves by the Company using sophisticated and unique applications for this technology based on a complete dictionary in several languages.