Month: June 2018

07
Jun
2018
Vienna Hofburg 3D digital model

Vienna Hofburg 3D digital model

In collaboration with the Department of Art History of the Institute of History of Art and Musicology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the Architecture Collection at the Albertina and the ÖAW‘s Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, the Simlab is developing an interactive 3D model of Vienna‘s Hofburg Palace from the mediaeval period to modern times as a dynamic visualization tool for use in humanities and technological research. The project is intended as a contribution to the development of the digital humanities, using state-of-the-art technologies to visualize research findings in the field of art history, process them for use in future research projects and make them available for the long term through open access publication.

Project duration 2017 - 2019
Funded by ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences) under the “go!digital” programme
Lead Partner IKM – Institute for History of Art and Musicology (ÖAW)
Project Website Link
Posted by Balázs Cserpes in Projects
07
Jun
2018
Cyber Blackout Scenario

Cyber Blackout Scenario

Military experts and IT specialists are pooling their know-how with academic researchers from Vienna University of Technology to improve preparedness for a blackout scenario. Under the auspices of TU Vienna‘s doctoral college URBEM (Urban Energy and Mobility System), ten PhD students collaboratively developed the prototype of a virtual city to address urban issues from an economic, technological, social and ecological perspective. This model is to be transferred to the situation centres of the Austrian Federal Armed Forces and optimized using input and expertise from the participants in the doctoral college. The resilience of IT systems will be surveyed, analysed and evaluated in order to safeguard the management capability in the situation centres of the Federal Ministry of Defence and the four major Armed Forces commands in the event of a blackout scenario.

The project is a cooperation between the following TU Wien partner institutes:

  • Faculty of Civil Engineering – Institute of Building Construction and Technology – Research Division of Building Physics and Sound Protection (E206-02) (project lead)
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology – Institute of Energy Systems and Electrical Drives (E370)
  • Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering – Institute of Energy Systems and Thermodynamics (E302)
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology – Telecommunications (E389)
  • Faculty of Architecture and Planning – Institute of Architectural Sciences (E259)
Project duration 2017 - 2019
Funded by Mission oriented research financed by the Austrian Armed Forces
Lead Partner TU Wien - Institute of Building Construction and Technology
Project Website Link
Posted by Balázs Cserpes in Projects