Research

Our research activities are organized in specialized competence centers. For more information, please visit the competence center websites.

Auto-ID Labs ETH/HSG

The Auto-ID Labs are the leading global network of academic research laboratories in the field of networked RFID. The labs comprise seven of the world's most renowned research universities located on four different continents. These institutions were chosen by the Auto-ID Center to architect the Internet of Things together with EPCglobal. 

Bits to Energy Lab

The Bits to Energy Lab (B2E) is a joint research initiative of the ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen. We combine information technology and behavioral sciences to stimulate energy conservation, efficiency, and sustainability. We develop, implement, and evaluate concepts of consumption feedback, customer engagement, and data analytics – with an emphasis on economically attractive deployment and the ambition to significantly contribute to international research.

I-Lab

The competence center I-Lab concentrates on R&D projects for technology-driven innovation in the insurance industry with a special focus on the Internet of Things. The I-Lab is a joint initiative of the Departement for Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, the Institute of Technology Management at University of St. Gallen (ITEM-HSG), and the Institute of Insurance Economics at University of St. Gallen (I.VW-HSG). Furthermore, the I-Lab is part of the M-Lab network and involved in research activities of the Auto-ID Labs. 

Smart Products

The Smart Products research group investigates new ways for interactions between various user types and products in all stages of a product lifecycle that might enable innovative business models. Hence, the vision of Smart Products raises research questions on the technical side, such as, which architectures are applicable, which kind of semantic representations and processing services are required, which services allow adaptation to consumer needs and which kind of telecommunication infrastructure will enable Smart Product communication in a secure and robust manner. 

Ubiquitous Banking

In the instruction phase is our new Ubiquitous Banking Lab. Since october 2010, it investigates under the lead of Dr. Alexander Ilic, selected problems at the interface of new information technologies and banking. It focusses in this starting phase mainly on new disruptive methods of payment and follows the goal to develope and test innovative solutions in cooperation with our project partners.