Embedded Systems Innovation (ESI)
TNO-ESI is a research group that focuses on design and engineering of high-tech embedded systems. Its extensive research programme aims to advance high-tech industry in improving lead-time and effectiveness of their product innovation process, as well as the functionality and quality of their products. In addition, TNO-ESI provides specific programmes for innovation support and competence development of system architects.
The TNO-ESI strategic research programme focuses on the development of latest techniques for design and engineering of high-tech (embedded) systems in a rapidly changing technology environment. It focuses on four key lines of innovation: ‘system performance’, ‘system quality and reliability’, ‘future-proof systems’ and ‘systems-in-context’. The dedicated TNO-ESI competence development programme supports system architects and industrial engineers to advance their professional skills.
In the TNO-ESI research programme, multi-disciplinary teams of experts of renowned (multi)national high-tech enterprises, SMEs, and leading academic research groups work together on the latest technologies and innovations. This allows fundamental research results to be directly linked to industrial application. The TNO-ESI network represents a unique platform for open innovation that facilitates research cooperation and knowledge exchange across stakeholders.
Expertise groups
- Buildings, Infrastructure & Maritime
- Roadmaps
- Buildings & Infrastructure
- Infrastructure: asset management, safe and sustainable
- Monitoring and Asset Management
- Monitoring civil works
- Rail monitoring
- Road measurement and monitoring
- MEC-Bouwlab (Lab for Materials, Energy and Construction)
- Prob2B(TM) for the reliability of predictions
- Asset management
- Safety and risk assessment
- Damage investigation
- Water safety
- Tunnel safety
- Sustainable infrastructure
- Probabilistic method
- Noise and vibration
- Safe infrastructure at minimal cost
- Infrastructure: roads, rail, locks, bridges and tunnels
- Concrete
- Asphalt and road building
- Repairing and protecting asphalt
- Innovative asphalt mixtures
- Testing and assessing life-cycle performance
- Transition joints and transition structures
- Concrete and concrete structures
- Water safety
- Railways
- Bridges and viaducts
- Impact of traffic on civil works
- Extending service life civil structures
- Steel structures
- Creativity leads to biological asphalt
- Cathodic protection of concrete reinforcement
- Modelling moisture in concrete tunnels
- Locks and water safety
- Tunnels
- Energy Built Environment
- Greenhouse Horticulture
- CASTA: a computing miracle for greenhouse design
- Systems integration for international greenhouse horticulture
- Data driven integrated growing systems
- TNO can calculate incoming light in greenhouses
- New test protocol for greenhouse light transmittance
- Greenhouse structures
- GreenGrowing: smart energy management
- CO2 capture in greenhouses
- Tomato value chain in Rwanda: minimizing food losses
- Innovative solutions for sustainable cities and neighbourhoods
- Maritime & Offshore
- Expertise groups
- Innovation Centre Buildings
- Building Information Models - BIM
- Results-oriented building
- Results-oriented property maintenance: simple economical
- Shock, vibration and heavy-duty testing
- Natural stone
- Constructive safety of (existing) building structures
- Reliability of existing structures
- Building processes
- Building structures
- Coatings
- Noise and vibration comfort in lightweight buildings
- FIREFISH: Firesafety for Healthcare
- Collaboration on product innovations
- Cold baked brick
- COINS helps building systems to talk to each other
- Comprehensive technical assessment of existing homes
- Falling wall cladding
- Desalination of masonry
- Fungi and algae on building materials
- Modelling and online maps to support health sector real estate planning
- Smart building designs, deliveries and building management with BIM Bots
- Structural Reliability
- Structural Dynamics
- Circular Economy & Environment
- Roadmaps
- Environment & Sustainability
- Health and the city
- Air quality
- TNO's knowhow for healthier and climate-proof air quality
- Nanoparticle and particulate research
- International emission estimation
- Measuring air quality
- Air quality and climate
- National and regional emission monitoring
- Air quality
- NO2 emissions from traffic reduced
- New method for assessing shipping emissions
- TNO contributes to new CAMS operational air quality system
- Noise
- Public safety
- SeReMo
- Industrial safety
- Incident and accident investigation
- Heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants
- EFFECTS Advanced easy to use Consequence Analysis
- The Coloured Books - Yellow, Green, Purple, Red
- RISKCURVES - Software for Quantitative Risk Assessment
- Chemical Safety Investigation
- Health risk assessment
- Integrated area development
- Monitoring community development programmes (India)
- Urbis
- Decisions based on studies of the future
- Interactive instruments
- Innovation in the public sector
- Learning History tool helps province by network approach
- Eurbanlab - Validating sustainable urban innovations
- Subsurface and spatial planning
- Innovation in building and construction
- TNO in the Zuidas project
- Learning History supports innovation projects
- ProVer® elucidates and links cooperation processes
- Eurbanlab and Construction21 join forces to accelerate sustainable urban innovation
- Cities and the climate
- A circular economy the basis for a sustainable society
- Water technology
- Expertise groups
- Defence, Safety & Security
- Roadmaps
- Operations & Human Factors
- Climate Chambers for Research into Human Performance
- Desdemona: the next generation in movement simulation
- LT Lab: the TNO learning technology laboratory
- Performance and health monitoring
- Motion sickness and performance
- The neurobiology of Stress
- Operational military performance in a virtual world
- SUPRA
- Simulation Live Virtual and Constructive
- Concept Development & Experimentation
- IAMD: Integrated Air & Missile Defence
- JROADS
- FACSIM
- Helicopter studies
- Replacement of the F-16
- MARVEL / Comprehensive Approach
- TNO ACE: Advanced CD&E Environment
- Integrated approach to Dutch Royal Navy patrol ships
- Operational analysis during military operations
- SketchaWorld: from sketch to virtual world
- Information & Sensor Systems
- LFAS - Low Frequency Active Sonar
- Tanker Remote Vision System
- Platform signatures
- TNO shapes the future of MMICs and RFICs
- CARPET: Computer-Aided Radar Performance Evaluation Tool
- Underwater Warfare and Security
- Wide Area Motion Imagery WAMI
- SAKAMATA: sonar and marine mammals
- PARANOID: rapid information processing
- Mine analysis and threat evaluation
- Ship acoustics and underwater acoustic signatures
- PERSEUS Wind Turbine Radar Interference Assessment tool
- Electromagnetic security
- National Security
- A new vision on modernizing the emergency reporting process
- Social media in the security sector
- Cyber Security Lab
- Automatic Video Compilation and Analysis System (AVACS)
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Concealed weapon detection
- European Cyber Security Perspectives
- FP7 Project IMPACT Europe
- Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) policies in Europe
- @MIGO: border control
- Smarter Surveillance, man, machine, synergy
- Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems
- Protection, Munitions & Weapons
- Weapon Effects & Protection Center
- Firepower
- Protection and survivability of vehicles
- Naval ship protection and survivability
- Protection and survivability of infrastructure
- World-class ballistics research
- Countering IEDs
- Materials for protection concepts
- Energetic Materials
- Ammunition Safety
- Ballistic Performance and Personal Protection
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Protection
- Expertise groups
- Intelligent Imaging
- Distributed Sensor Systems
- Acoustics and Sonar
- Weapon Systems
- Explosions, Ballistics and Protection
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Protection
- Energetic Materials
- Human Behaviour and Organisational Innovation
- Networked Organisations
- Training and Performance Innovations
- Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
- Military Operations
- Modelling, Simulation and Gaming
- Electronic Defence
- ECN part of TNO
- Roadmaps
- Towards ubiquitous Solar Energy
- Towards large-scale generation of wind energy
- Support structure just as important as the wind turbine itself
- Wind turbines, fully in motion
- Innovation towards 10-20 MW offshore wind turbines
- How to model 10MW+ turbines aerodynamically?
- Design for Reliable Power Performance (D4REL)
- Reduce costs and improve output through optimised tip design wind blades
- VortexLoads: Vortex-wake models in wind turbine design
- Modelling improvement wind turbine blades
- Less production per wind turbine, still higher yield
- Logistics innovative strength at home and abroad
- Leader in wind turbine management and maintenance
- Wind farms in synergy with the environment
- Innovative methods for wind measurements
- Towards broad support for the energy transition
- Towards an energy-producing environment
- Towards CO2 neutral fuels and feedstock
- Biomass to fuels and feedstock
- AMBITION Advanced biofuel production from lignin rich residues
- BECOOL EU Brazilian cooperation on advanced biofuels
- Horti-BlueC - a new EU cooperation on reducing Bio-waste and CO2-footprint in horticulture
- UNRAVEL - valorization of lignocellulosic biomass
- MacroFuels advanced biofuels from seaweed
- BRISK2 Biofuel Research Infrastructure for Sharing Knowledge
- Electricity to fuels and feedstock
- Traditional fuels and raw materials
- Towards CO2 neutral industry
- Towards a reliable sustainable energy system
- Geological Survey of the Netherlands
- Geological Survey of the Netherlands
- 100 years of geological mapping
- GeoTOP
- Sand, gravel and clay extraction
- GIS and other tools for interactive planning
- DINO, Data and Information of the Dutch Subsurface
- BRO: the Dutch Key Register of the Subsurface
- Sustainable use and management Flemish-Dutch subsurface
- Petroleum Geological Atlas of the Southern Permian Basin
- 3D Subsurface mapping of the Dutch offshore
- Geological Survey of the Netherlands across borders
- Expertise
- Healthy Living
- Roadmaps
- Health Technology & Digital Health
- Biomedical Health
- Work
- Healthy, safe and productive working
- Healthy working with substances
- Safe working
- Sustainable employability vitality
- Future of work
- Ergonomic hand tools in farming (Ghana)
- Cleaner production for textile industry in Bangladesh
- EUWIN, The European Workplace Innovation Network
- Asbestos innovations and research
- Exposure assessment and management of asbestos fibres
- Innovation and detecting asbestos in air, soil and water
- Technological innovations for applications in the asbestos industry
- Innovative and inclusive regional development
- Youth
- Expertise groups
- Industry
- Roadmaps
- Flexible & Free-form Products
- Additive Manufacturing
- Integrating 3D printing and flexible post-processing
- Applied Research for Industrial Automation
- Glass powder printer
- PlanoColor® nanopigments
- High Viscous Material Inkjet Printer
- Line width roughness measurement
- Improved Micro-stereolithography
- Direct Metal Printing
- Rapid Manufacturing Demo Centre
- Continuous 3d printing: faster, cheaper and more flexible
- Large Area Electronics
- Development of new materials
- Van 't Hoff Program
- Next Generation Solar Production Equipment
- Space & Scientific Instrumentation
- Semiconductor Equipment
- Sustainable Chemical Industry
- Feedstock flexibility
- Shared Research Centre for Biobased Aromatics
- BIO HArT Biorizon Innovation and Upscaling of Renewable Aromatics Technology
- TNO at Green Chemistry Campus in Bergen op Zoom
- Biomass: chemical building blocks plastics and coatings
- BIO-TIC partnering platform for cooperation in bioeconomy
- CO2 Utilisation for Chemicals and Fuels
- Low cost, full biodegradable sanitary pads for Bangladesh
- Efficient processing
- Electrification of the chemical industry
- Provide!
- R&D approach and services
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Intensified separation technology
- Continuous Crystallisation
- Process Safety Solutions
- Scientifically developed LCA methodologies to improve your carbon footprint of chemicals and sustainability competitive edge
- Improved product functionality
- Expertise groups
- Information & Communication Technology
- Roadmaps
- Information Creation – from data to information
- Investing in privacy pays off
- TrustTester: Secure validation of personal data
- Interoperability and Open Standards
- Innovative techniques for monitoring infrastructures
- Big Data Value Center
- TNO Sport and Media technology
- Shared Value
- From license plate to chip
- ICT and energy
- Smart Appliances
- Multi-touch provides overall picture in complex situation
- KING: Kan Ik Nu Goed
- MIME: MemoryBanks Interactive Metadata Extraction
- Regulation in the media-internet-telecom value web
- Standardisation of semantics
- Vital ICT infrastructures
- Expertise groups
- Strategic Analysis & Policy
- Traffic & Transport
- Roadmaps
- Automotive research at TNO
- Fully automated, connected and cooperative driving
- Sustainable mobility in practice
- Innovative technologies for zero-emission vehicles
- CO2 reduction by high-efficiency Flex Fuel technology with extremely low emissions
- Actual energy consumption and emissions
- Hydrogen and the fuel cell
- Energy Efficient Electric Bus E3Bus
- eCoMove
- Automotive Battery Research
- Making transport more sustainable by means of electric vehicles
- Logistics
- Smart logistics
- Sustainable mobility
- Improving air quality by monitoring real-world emissions
- Emission factors for road traffic
- Measuring the emissions of powered two wheelers
- Emissions of particulate matter from diesel cars
- Random Cycle Generator
- EnViVer: model traffic flow and emissions
- Measuring real-world emissions with TNO’s Smart Emissions Measurement System (SEMS)
- Measuring the emissions of trucks and buses
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Commercial Road Transport
- Measuring the emissions of non-road mobile machinery
- The transition to CO2-neutral mobility in 2050
- Sustainable logistics
- Digitalisation
- Intact – Climate resilient critical infrastructure
- CITYkeys – Performance evaluation framework for smart cities and projects
- Knowledge mediator puts an end to bickering
- Expertise groups
Dr. Wouter Leibbrandt