The project entitled ‘Research and Development of a Cost-Effective Information and Security System Intended for Housing Construction and the Modernization of Older, in Particular Concrete Panel Residential Buildings’ by its very name makes it clear that the focus of the development is to ensure security for people and property.

Identifying a speaker, analysing their speech or working out their age, sex and/or emotional state are activities closely bound up with listening to a speaker directly and also carry a certain notion of reliability. However, such a method is extremely ineffective in terms of time and costs since records cannot be listened in any other, more rapid way.

Saving electric power and more generally reducing the costs of producing and distributing all kinds of energy is an important and often mentioned topic at present. The application of intelligence and a more economic approach to managing the regulation of the production and consumption of electricity in real time, on both the local and global scale, is the subject of so-called smart grids.

Plaster is one of the oldest binders, used by humans in their earliest attempts at construction. At present, two basic forms of plaster are manufactured industrially - so-called alpha plaster and beta plaster. These two modifications of plaster differ significantly in their final properties, in particular the alpha modification is considerably stronger.

The chemical nanosensor developed at the Brno University of Technology, Institute of Microelectronics, represents a unique sensor construction, formed by an organized field of appropriately linked nanosensors that combine to create a 3D system.

One of technological problems of applying refractory concretes as a lining in furnaces is the adverse effect of carbon deposited on ceramics on the chemical and thermal resistance of these materials. A scientific team at the Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, have also now successfully dealt with this issue.