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NRC Internet laboratory

The Internet laboratory addresses the challenge of enabling the full internet on more than three billion mobile devices. This requires an easier, cheaper, faster and more energy-efficient access to the internet in order to make Nokia's products the user's preferred way to experience the internet. The laboratory also seeks innovative internet services and to provide totally new internet experiences.

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Future Internet
Internet Consumer Services
Peer To Peer
Self-Provisioned Services
Service Software Platform
Trustworthy Communications and Identities
Director: Matthias Grossglauser | Helsinki

NRC Media laboratory

The Media laboratory focuses on innovative media and communications solutions, and on new human practices and societal trends. Human interaction is enriched with novel technologies and user interfaces in an environment where creativity and immersive experiences provide a bond between users and Nokia services. The laboratory is also a leading contributor of scalable audio, video and imaging technologies.

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Human Practices and Design
Immersive Communication
Interaction and User Interfaces
Media Content Representation
Media Systems and Transport
Mixed Reality Experiences
Personal Content and Media Services
Visual Content Processing
Voice and Language Based UI
Director: Jyri Huopaniemi | Helsinki, Tampere

NRC Pervasive Communication laboratory

NRC Pervasive Communication laboratory (PeC) is a cross-disciplinary research laboratory focusing on helping people benefit from a world where they are connected to each other, to the Internet and also to the information coming from the surrounding physical world. The access to the Internet of Things from a mobile device will allow people to collect information from their physical environment, filter it based on their location or preferences and share with their friends or communities.

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Director: Juha Laurila | Lausanne

NRC Smart Spaces laboratory

The increasing smart digital environment requires of new solutions and services to guarantee the interoperability of devices and the communication between devices, people and their context. The Smart Spaces laboratory researches on an array of themes and applications that include the remote management of our homes, the tracking of our wellness and the creation of new ways of working together utilizing smart environments.

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Application Environment for Smart Spaces
Energy Efficient Computing
Extended Home
Interaction and Collaboration
Interoperability in Smart Spaces
Pervasive Customization
User Experience in Smart Spaces
Wellness and Healthcare
Director: Kari Hjelt | Helsinki, Tampere

NRC Wireless Systems and Services laboratory

NRC Wireless Systems & Services laboratory performs strategic and long-term research and creates IPR on antennas and electromagnetics, cognitive radio, wireless access systems, wireless local connectivity, local positioning, software defined radio platforms, and wireless sensing.

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Antennas and Electromagnetics
Local Positioning
Software Defined Radio
Wireless Access Systems
Wireless Local Connectivity
Wireless Sensing
Director: Hannu Kauppinen | Helsinki, Tampere

NRC Beijing laboratory

NRC Beijing was established in 1998 and located in the capital city of China. With this location, we intend to take advantage of : China's fast growing economy, China's mobile market (the world's largest), China's dynamism, and of course, the region's top-level universities.

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Adaptive Terminals
Interaction Solutions for Asia
Research Incubation for Asia
Service Experiences for Asia
Visual Interaction Systems
Director: Seppo Pienimaa | Beijing

NRC Cambridge UK laboratory

Nanotechnology is the challenge for NRC Cambridge UK. Working in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, this research group is responsible of the design of the Morph concept for the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art to illustrate how such nanotechnological developments may impact future mobile device form, function and use.

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> Nano Devices
> Nano Systems
 
Director: Tapani Ryhänen | Cambridge, UK

NRC Cambridge US laboratory

The researchers at the NRC Cambridge US laboratory investigate all aspects of mobile phones, from computer and network architecture to user interfaces. The laboratory has a strong collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Director: Jamey Hicks | Cambridge, US

NRC Palo Alto laboratory

Taking advantage of its location in Silicon Valley, the NRC Palo Alto laboratory explores collaborative experiences and collective intelligence enabled by the emerging ubiquitous wireless internet.

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Context, Content and Community
Innovate, Design, Experience, Animate
Mobile Business Solutions
Mobile Internet Services Systems
Social Proximity Networks
Technology Incubations and Exploration
Visual Computing and User Interfaces
Director: John Shen | Palo Alto

Special Initiatives

> Nokia Africa Team
> Green Team
> Systems Research India

 


 

Below there are links to past projects

 

Data and Content Technologies

  • ComposeME: Intelligent Composition of Heterogeneous Services
    Integrating Web wervices and mobile devices (a NRC - Massachusetts Institute of Technology project).
  • ConnectingMe
    Relational data for managing relationships in the mobile ecosystem (a NRC - Massachusetts Institute of Technology project.
  • Contacts Browser Plugin
    a small but useful application that was built to show the exciting possibilities of combining the mobile and desktop web experiences.
  • Mobile Web Server
    Port of Apache httpd to S60.
  • MobileNews
    An application that allows you to browse and read your favorite NNTP newsgroups right on your mobile phone.
  • SensorPlanet
    A research platform on large-scale wireless sensor networks
  • Sumo
    Automatic rating and summarization of online product reviews.
  • SwapMe
    Semantic Web application platform for mobile ecosystems (a NRC - Massachusetts Institute of Technology project).
  • Wellness Diary
    Wellness Diary is a S60 Application for monitoring and tracking everyday wellness related parameters. (A NRC - VTT Technical Research Centre joint project.)
  • Device Architecture

  • ARMO
    Synthesizable modeling of mobile phones to facilitate architectural studies of performance and energy-efficiency (a NRC - Massachusetts Institute of Technology project).
  • Gramophone
    Graphics for Mobile Phones
  • High Dynamic Range Texture Compression
    research reflects a novel compression scheme for HDR textures targeted for hardware implementation.
  • Python for S60
    Python programming port to Symbian OS.
  • Digital Services

  • SharMe
    Ongoing multi-project research focusing on shared memory exploration.
  • Virtual Office
    Your Office available where and when you need it.
  • Human Interaction

  • Activity Monitor
    Monitors your movements, walking or running, and displays charts and statistics of your progress
  • Future User Interfaces and Interaction Solutions
  • Innovative User Interfaces and User Experience
    New research team being formed in Palo Alto!
  • MARA
    Mobile Augmented Reality Applications
  • MoGS - Mobile Game Server
    Portable server API for multi-player mobile games.
  • Nokia CV
    Nokia Computer Vision Library
  • Simone
    Spoken Interaction for Mobile Networked Ecosystems
  • Sports Tracker
    Nokia Sports Tracker (formerly Personal Best) is a GPS and sensor assisted sports monitoring application that runs on S60 smartphones.
  • Start Mobile
  • Virpi
    Virtual Personal Assistants
  • Physical Touch Digital Match

  • MyNet/UIA
    Secure, peer to peer, personal overlay networks
  • NanoSciences
    NanoSciences develops nanotechnologies for mobile communication and ambient intelligence.
  • Research Programs

  • Semantic Web
    Ongoing multi-project research.
  • Sustainability research
    Future sustainable innovations through its strategic and long-term research activities
  • UWB (Ultra-WideBand)
    Ongoing multi-project research into questions regarding ultra-wideband.
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