Emphasis is given to hardware solutions of systems, issues of communication and control protocols, securing transmitted information and related network technologies. Attention is paid to techniques that will enable the faithful and high-resolution presentation of transmitted information to users. The interactivity of the human-machine interface is gaining importance by the day.

The SIX Center is divided into five programmes as follows:
1. Microwave technologies
2. Wireless technologies
3. Converged systems
4. Multimedia systems
5. Sensor systems

We offer the following:

• A programme of microwave technologies
• Numerical modelling of microwave aerials, circuits and components of wireless communication chains using commercial applications (ANSOFT, COMSOL, CST) and our own applications (integral equations method, terminal elements method)
• Optimization of aerials, filters, and circuits using conventional methods and our own procedures of multi-criterial global optimization
• Development of planar, wire and semi-conductor aerials
• Development of aerials for vehicles, radio-identification systems (RFID) and special communication services
• Measuring circuits and aerials up to a frequency of 110 GHz
• Pre-certification EMC measurements
• Methods of non-phasic measurement in near field antenna structures

Wireless Technologies Programme:

• Testing the qualitative parameters of connections and recommending installations in the sphere of optical or hybrid wireless communication
• Evaluating the statistical parameters of the atmosphere for a selected location and determining the availability of a connection positioned in the location
• Measuring the quality of a mobile network of various operators
• Analysis of network problem points
• Measuring the interference between the mobile network and the DVB-T network
• Mobile and satellite digital television DVB-H/SH
• Availability and quality of image, sound and services of DVB/DAB/DMB
• Measuring signal coverage and interference in DVB/DAB/DMB broadcasting networks
•  Solutions to microwave radio-relay connections for high-speed data communication
• Development and implementation of modems for remote communication with sensors in the HART protocol with the BELL 202 standard
• Development and implementation of radio-modems for telemetry transmission with the DMB protocol
• Design concepts for equipment, wiring diagrams, printed circuit boards, ensuring production (PCB, fitting), design and realization of mechanical structures, testing (functionality, parameters and EMC)
• Feeding sources; designing sources (diagram, PCB), activation and testing of sources

Converged Systems Programme:

• Verifying the behaviour of new algorithms and protocols for data networks of the OPNET Modeler simulation environment. Monitoring and analysis of operation in data networks
• Design and realization of the hardware and software for subscriber terminals (telephone apparatuses etc.)
• We offer bespoke the development of network multimedia applications for various target platforms
• Resolving cryptographic security for communication and information systems, data networks and data protection, securing electronic archives, access systems
• Design and implementation of AAA systems (Authentication Authorization and Accounting), analysis and design of cryptographic protocols, designing anonymous authentication systems
• Development of unique electronic measuring instruments
• Development of devices for health care, the transfer and processing of data from medical devices
• Designing, modelling, constructing and measuring analogue electronic circuits with emphasis on high frequencies, low noise and low consumption
• Designing numerical-controlled systems (communication with converters, regulation of numerical-controlled signal sensors, control of step motors)

Multimedia Systems Programme:

• Designing algorithms for the transmission and processing of acoustic and visual signals and developing their single parts
• Designing algorithms for the compression of acoustic and visual signals according to MPEG and JPEG standards, determining the quality of compressed signals according to recommendations of ITU-T P.862, P.563 etc.
• Designing algorithms for the recognition of the sex and age of a speaker based on parameters of a speech signal
• Designing algorithms for the automatic analysis of a person’s emotional state based on audiovisual data
• Designing algorithms for automatic diagnostics of neurological disorders, e.g. Parkinson’s disease based on the parameters of a speech signal
• Designing algorithms for the automatic detection of logopaedic defects based on the parameters of a speech signal, and help in practices to remedy such defects
• Measuring the acoustic properties of space and objective properties for evaluating their quality using a simulator of the head and torso
• Measuring the noise of equipment and environmental noise, contactless measuring using a laser, post-processing and analysis of measured data
• Designing and constructing analogue and digital acoustic interfaces for systems processing acoustic signals
• Measuring the characteristics of electro-acoustic converters, loudspeaker sets, systems of sound distribution in an anechoic chamber
• Development, construction and experimental verification of bespoke systems for the multichannel processing of acoustic signals in real time
• Development of software for remote control of systems using the Internet

Sensory Systems Programme:

• Development of microsensors based on semi-conductive metal oxides for gas detection
• Development of micro-mechanical systems for sensors
• Development of nanoelectrode systems for various applications
• Development of nanostructured surfaces with enhanced properties such as regular structure, increase in area, hydrophobic surfaces, nanofibres
• Development and transfer of a discrete solution in the form of a customer integrated circuit
• Focus on sensory applications and digitizing signals
• Modelling and simulating systems at the transistor level in the CADENCE environment
• Localization of sensors in wireless sensor networks without using GPS
• Localization of stations in IP networks without using GPS
• Local optoelectronic characterization of materials, components or components with nanostructures, with transverse resolution better than 250 nm