Company Profile

Vision

DAEDALUS designs and develops technological innovation, towards a sustainable future.

DAEDALUS Informatics Ltd was established in 1991 by a group of specialists in informatics and engineering. The founding perspective endeavored, was to establish an innovative and flexible commercial scheme able to host and promote the results and experience of multiannual research in information, engineering and renewable energy technology. The Company's central offices are located at privately owned premises in Glyfada, Athens, Greece.

People

Currently occupied are 16 people, yet the number of associated specialists and part-time partners amounts to a multiple of that, enriching the company's enabling force and allowing the existence of a broad but fully diversified and flexible scheme. In addition, the company has direct connection and joined activities with a number of domestic Academic Institutions, Universities and research centers, on a national as well as on a European domain, as to be able to provide a broad spectrum of services in specialized education, research and design. The company joins a multitude of experience from a broad spectrum of science and technology levels, thus being able to provide an optimum blend of research, design & manufacturing.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/people.html)

Major Fields

The commercial activitiesof DAEDALUS are focused in three major fields of science:

Informatics, Renewable Energy Technologies and Coastal Engineering

A. In Informatics the purpose of the company is:

To develop and promote applicable R&D products,
know how transfer
services

B. In Renewable Energy Technologies, the company is actively engaged in worldwide key research on:

the exploitation of renewable resources derived from marine wave energy
development of small scale wind engineering, suitable for incorporation in buildings
development of domestic co-generation cycle solutions of hybrid (solar-wind) systems
integral software monitoring and total energy-information management cycle

C. DAEDALUS also holds key research and innovative industrial solution in the field of Coastal Engineering, beach restoration, nourishment and safeguarding.

Daedalus Branches in Cyprus

The company's activities have expanded to the Cypriot market, whereat a commercial joint venture with the affiliated branch "AKTOMIHANIKI Ltd", was established in 1995.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/AktomihanikiCompanyProfile.html)
In 2005, a technology spin-off company, "ATLANTIS Information Systems Technologies", was subsidized as a venture by the Cypriot Ministry of Industry & Commerce and DAEDALUS Informatics.
more info: (http://www.atlantis-ist.com)

Informatics Sector

Products (Hardware-Software) - Solutions - Projects

The company develops and promotes turn-key Software products under a long term strategic market investigation, or custom products based on specific order or, products and know how arranged under the realm of joint venture agreements. Relative projects are briefed as follows:

Design of a state-of-art S/W standard for the Multimedia Information Management, Classification, Repositioning, Intelligent Retrieval, Packaging and Routing. The product, codenamed "ADAMITE" (Advanced Document Architecture for Multimedia Information Transfer and Exchange), is actually aimed at providing an integral methodology for assessing multimedia information and massive context management solutions over the Internet and IP based networks.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/adamite.html)
"B.A.I.I.M. (Building Automation Infrastructure Integration Manager)": a thoroughly integrated modular and expandable application for the management of the real-time activities of a domestic co-generation utility installation, along with a number of complementary services, such as security control and, energy consumption optimization, home automation, etc. Real time monitoring and parsing of incoming signals, auto browsing of customer and corrective actions list, activities logger, report generator, monitoring of time-domain specific energy storage rates, reports on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, etc. Highly innovative and concise application with emphasis on ergonomy and speed of critical on-line information transactions. Supports alarm monitoring loggers from several manufacturers and may be customized for any OEM-specific device. The application is aimed at bridging the upcoming revolution in Home Power cogeneration from renewable resources, with the demanding side of controlling distributed power tariffs and scheduling from the Utilities side. The Cypriot Ministry of Commerce and Industry has subsidized in 2004 our BAIIM project proposal and the formation of Atlantis IST Ltd.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/baiim.html)
Research and development of a media independent, expandable, simple to manufacture and assemble, low-cost line of Jukebox systems, codenamed "PERSEUS". The device is modular in concept and structure and may be user expandable according to demand. It occupies very limited space as it is made by precasted elements (media containers) mountable along any sizable wall area. Robotic wagons maintain a wireless communication network with one or more transaction request servers (PC computers) and schedule an optimal routing of cartridge collection and availability of free drive(s) allocation. The system may be expanded independently in media containers, service wagons, network servers and media drives. Selection of media and fully feedback oriented operational control is achieved by usage of barcodes. Among several innovative features are: the device may be freely updated with new cartridges by the users while in operation, servicing and replacement is similarly simple, size expandability is of a non discrete nature since the geometry of the media elements may be adapted to the geometry of the available wall landscape, etc. The product is aimed at the coming era of massive multimedia information (Documents, graphics, sound, video) archiving, classification and management systems, as particularly expressed by the universal carrier - the CDROM and DVDROM. As it is inherently able to handle thousands of Cartridges, the product attempts to meet the growing market demand for management of very large quantities of multi format information systems for Corporate Organizations, Public Services, or future Content Provider Enterprises. PERSEUS is particularly designed as to exploit the concept of non-linear requests and batch oriented transaction queries. It extends further into being the ideal supplement (as the information management repository) into the upcoming evolution of asymmetric networks, where the information request and information forwarding cycles, may be performed at non pre-determined time intervals and routing path by means of network topology and capacity. PERSEUS, presents the rational infrastructure required as an entry to the Knowledge Management era.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/perseus.html)
Among DAEDALUS most distinct and recent R&D areas, the sector of "Coordinate Logic Transformations" (CLTs) holds a potentially amazing perspective of growth and modern industrial implementations, in a variety of possible formats, such as in firmware, VLSI or ASIC designs. CLTs, present a radically new algorithmic and methodological approach in assessing DSP (Digital Signal Processing) operations, as they offer an immense acceleration of processing steps -and subsequent time/energy derivatives- due to their innate capacity for massive and inherent parallelism, with no limit to the size of the filter window. Such a technology, could progressively influence the infrastructure of VLSI production schemes used today, in major fields -such as video processing, computer graphics, mobile communications, medical data processing, to name but the very obvious.
Next generation on-line authoring and publication system.

A new field of activities for DAEDALUS, is the commissioning of high fidelity multimedia publications on CD-ROM. In cooperation with the Cypriot Company "ALPHA-OMEGA", the original theme of the monumental edition of the "History of Cyprus" (a 4-volume work conducted by the world authority historian, master A. Pavlides) was converted into an electronic edition. The conversion and multimedia rendering of the encyclopedia was completed mid 1997, whilst a limited version was publicly offered on the Internet, sponsored by the National Communications Carrier subsidiary, OTENET for the period between 2000-2005.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/prdinformatics/HOC/default.html).

The great editions a) "The Cretan Painter Theophanis" of the Holy Monastery of Stavronikita, b)"ICONS" of the Holy Monastery of Pantokrator and c) "ICONS" of the Holy Monastery of Aghiou Pavlou of Mount Athos were converted in an electronic format. The company's future policy will steadily assume a favorable profile for provision and integration of multimedia tools and services, to Publishers and Content Providers.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/mountathos.html)
Optimized Video Indexing and Retrieval Engine to assess the rising market in knowledge management, in the rich format required by digital video.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/prdinfo1.html).
DAERS - Document Administration Extranet Repository System is currently developing an "Document Administration Extranet Repository System v2.1", which is essentially an IP-based electronic document management system, optimized for use via Internet as a Service. The anticipated use for this Repository is to offer a document and general info databank for the entire material exchanged among colleagues such as the employees of an enterprise or the members of a research group, as well as among them and the various external partners and affiliates. The purpose of DAERS is, in effect, to provide ubiquitous access to all data required by partners of any sort so as to conduct their research, presentations and demos without the constraints of the information implementation infrastructure required for such an endeavour. It is, therefore, a general purpose collaborative environment based on the architecture of a sound and ever useful repository enhanced with many novel features.
more info: (http://www.euedos.org).

EU PROJECTS
DAEDALUS is the industrial partner of a Network of Excellence (NOE) codenamed BIOPATTERN. Daedalus is a member of a Network of Excellence (BIOPATTERN EU Contract N. 508803) for the successful (2004-2008) project called "Computational Intelligence for Biopattern Analysis in Support of eHealthcare" within the framework of the specific research and technological development programme "Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area (2002-2006)".
DAEDALUS has developed the BIOPIM (BIOPATTERN Information Model) for managing knowledge extraction from Bioprofile Depositories. more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/prdinfo5.html).
DAEDALUS is a node of ERUDIT - the European Network of Excellence for Uncertainty Modeling and Fuzzy Control, since 1996. In May 16 - 19, 1996 ERUDIT - European Network of Excellence in co-operation with the Hellenic Operational Research Society organised jointly a Workshop on Fuzzy Modelling and Control in Hotel Divani Palace Akropolis, Athens, Greece where our company has presented a paper entitled: "U.S.I.R.A.: Universal Semantic Information Retrieval Agent".
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/PUBLICTN/usiraprn.doc).
Daedalus, the University Transilvania of Brasov and other partners have successfully concluded the 1st phase of an EU proposal within the framework of Erasmus Thematic Network entitled "EUI-Net - European University-Industry Network" (2004-2007) and they are entering the 2nd (recently accepted by the EU) phase entitled "EUE-Net European University-Enterprise Network" which has been successfully accepted, in 2008, by the European Commission. The project aims to create a European network of universities and industrial partners in the field of education, research and services.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2004.html).
Daedalus has produced the EUEDOS - European University Education-Enterprise-Employability Databases Organization System. It is an integral 3-layer roadmap for implementing an effective and pragmatic delivery, of a technological model able to interleave and render an individual's employment and academic profile, as inter-nested to his/her life-through education. More information may be accessed via the official site for this initiative.
more info: (http://www.euedos.org).
Daedalus is one of the partners of Energy Warden (EW). ENERGY WARDEN financially supported by the EU DG INFSO under the 7th Framework Programme. EW is a project proposal accepted for financial support by the European Commission DG INFSO under the 7th Framework Programme. The project is aiming at the development of tools for the management and control of renewable technology, deployed in the building domain. The project started Jan. 2010 will run till end of 2012

Renewable Energy Technology Sector

Maritime, RET - R&D, Manufacturing, Services

The company possesses an international joint patent shareholding (910100323/ FO3B 13/24-8 Sept. 1992) of original research in Renewable Energy scheme entitled: "Floating Cement Structures with attached Wave Energy Air Compressor Devices", The patent is concerned with a number of methods devices and constructions used for the extraction of the useful total energy content carried by sea waves, and further convert it into compressed air for subsequent use in the production of electricity. Our current activities, are focused in developing a pilot wave energy platform for industrial demonstration and promotion. The design characteristics are: 30 m length, 250 KW max - 100 KW RMS power. The device will demonstrate a wide variety of potential applications, ranging from electric power production to pumped storage applications. Although several minor applications may present a specific advantage at particular projects (i.e. sea water oxygenation-regeneration suitable to fish farming and cultivation), the final target is to demonstrate the optimal suitability of Wave Energy for Hydrogen production, storage and transportation, in the form of Hydrides. The project is currently running in cooperation with our overseas partner, and is open to international, or national, venture capital participation.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/prdre1.html)
WECON PDP10 (Wind Energy)
This scheme entails the industrial pilot implementation and subsequent commercial promotion operations for an innovative small scale wind energy system. Anticipated power delivery is in the order of 10 KW out of a high-solidity 6m diameter span rotor (higher capacities are easily attainable). A 50 KW model is currently planned. The design offers significant advantages not only in comparative cost/performance and simplicity of construction and maintenance, but mainly in the capacity to readily serve in a multitude of applications such as:
more info:(http://www.daedalus.gr/jsauxilpublic/HybrdRET.pdf)
more info:(http://www.daedalus.gr/windenergyservices.html)
The company has developed and manufactured (patent pending) a new type of modular reciprocating engine suitable for a multitude of purposes in industrial as well as renewable energy installations. The device, codenamed "ANEMIRA" is composed out of low cost standard commercial components, available in pneumatic power industrial appliances. The thermodynamic medium driving the engine is compressed air. The engine is fully controlled by an embedded microcomputer and its cycle is automatically corrected by continuous feedback control. By mere selection of the running program to control the timing of the electropneumatic valves used, the thermodynamic cycle may be converted as to enable the engine to be operated as either a power engine, as an air compressor, or as a high vacuum pump. Indicated capacities start at about 10 KW and may span to 50 KW. Due to its geometry and general concept of operation, several engine modules may be coupled along the same axis as to deliver a multiple indicated power. Evidently, the same microcomputer may be used to drive the new total of valves. As a power engine, it may operate under almost any harsh environment and optimally balance real life conditions where both supply pressure and load (i.e. when driving an electric generator) are constantly varying. As an air compressor, it may serve well for low capacity energy converter for intermediate application where electricity may not be the primary energy source. Most significant application is the tandem operation with small wind turbines, providing a new ground for energy exploitation in small energy farms, where cost/performance of small scale application of wind energy has been previously non-commercially justifiable. DAEDALUS is working on alternative energy sites operating under the described principle, where the intermediate energy stored in compressed air, is further used to compress Nitrogen into very high pressures (up to 200 bars), providing a low cost, high capacity energy storage solution. As a vacuum pump, the engine may serve in a number of applications, most apparent perhaps being that of accelerated sea water evaporation cycles used in desalination. Another rapidly advancing application is utilization of a compressed air cycle for sea water Pumped Storage, offering a multitude of potential applications. Promotional plans for ANEMIRA have not as yet been conclusive, but it will initially serve as an integral component into composite renewable energy projects. The product is primarily targeted to the OEM market.
COGENVAD (COMBINATORIAL CONTROL ENVIRONMENT FOR DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION ADMINISTRATION)
This proposal promotes the long term strategic design and know how produced by DAEDALUS and is based on the rapid convergence of the technologies of informatics, automatic remote control of home or industrial installations and, the Power Distribution Utilities (PDU). DAEDALUS is developing a composite operational and software model, which enables the PDU to install, control and exploit the energy-power derived from small wind and solar (WECON PDP & Solar) home devices/installations. The consumer may be offered additional services, such as Home Automation (Domotics) Security Monitoring, permanent internet connection via PDU cable infrastructure, etc. Apparently, the proposal introduces a highly advantageous and extensive commercial scheme. The domestic Distributed Power Generation market may be considered as a rapidly emerging, with private capital initiative in the fields of renewables and informatics.

EU PROJECTS
The company, in coordination with the University of Patras, Greece, has successfully concluded the EU project "JOU2-CT94-0315" entitled: "Electricity Generation by Pilot Realization of a Patented Wave Energy Converter". In general, the company may participate as a technology partner or subcontractor, to any wave energy related project or research activity. Expertise is available in simulation, dynamic and kinematic analysis, computational design, rendering & visualization, CAD, animation, etc.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/prdrenewables/Akrokeramos/index.html)
Daedalus is a member of COST Action 542 Management Committee entitled: "High Performance Energy Storages for Mobile and Stationary Applications"- HPSMT. The main objective of the COST Action 542: High Performance Energy Storages for Mobile and Stationary Applications is the development of high performance energy storage systems and their implementation in mobile and stationary applications in transportation and energy technologies. The backbone of these systems will be the high voltage super-capacitor modules based on stacked super-capacitor cells.
In this framework a Memorandum Of Understanding was signed between: ROSSETER Holdings PLC, (RHL), a company based in Cyprus specializing in the development of processes and technologies related to the mass-production of carbon nanotubes and similar materials, DAEDALUS Informatics Ltd, a company situated in Greece specializing in applicable research in the field of Informatics and Renewable Energies, ECOND Ltd situated in Russia specializing in research and manufacturing of super capacitors. The three parties have agreed to engage into formal cooperation towards developing a new prototype ultracapacitor module(s), based on anodes composed from the proprietary MWNTs of ROSSETER, and manufacturing/integration technology owned by ECOND.

Coastal Engineering Technology Sector

CORAL
It constitutes the technological framework of a concerted portfolio of actions, as to assess the information model requirements of the CORAL project (Operational Framework of an Advanced Telematics Virtual Institution, for the promotion of services on sustainable development in ICZM), endorsed by the BSEC Committee of Senior Officials (Istanbul, 26-26 February 2007).
The Company shares a joint patent to face, prevent and reverse the beach erosion resulting from the expansion of the sea water over the coasts, by an efficient method of combining engineered and natural intervention on the beach. Operations in this field, are maintained by the subsidiary venture branch company "AKTOMIHANIKI LTD", established in Cyprus. The company offers consultation, feasibility, detailed studies, R&D, as well as any related construction works, in the following areas:

Conferences

Daedalus has participated in the "ENERGY and the ENVIRONMENT 2003 Conference", Halkidiki, Greece (14 - 16 May 2003), organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology (UK) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). The title of the presented paper was: "Business models and technical architectures for an advanced energy management combined with IT services at the residential level. The COGENVAD initiative".
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/jsauxilpublic/ChalkidikiMay2003/The_COGENVAD_initiative.PDF)
Daedalus has participated in the "Sustainable Planning and Development 2003 Conference" Skiathos Island in Greece, 1 - 3 October 2003 organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology, UK and the University of Thessaly, (Greece). The title of the presented paper was: "Flexible floating structures providing for both coastal protection and wave energy production and their integration in coastal management systems".
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2003.html)
Daedalus has participated in the "The First Focused Event on Renewable Ocean Energy" in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, on 28-29 June 2004. The title of the presented paper was: "Flexible Hybrid Floating Structures Providing for Both Coastal Protection and Wave/Wind Energy Production".
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2004.html)
more info: (http://www.energyocean.com/agenda/abstracts.html)
Participation of Daedalus in the "5th International Workshop on Embedded Systems" held on September 7th-8th 2006, at the T.E.I. of Crete. Our presentation was entitled: "COORDINATE LOGIC FILTERS TRANSFORMS IMPLEMENTATIONS IN FPGA CONTROLLERS FOR EMBEDDED MEDICAL IMAGING".
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2006.html)
Daedalus participated in the Cairo 10th International Conference on Energy and Environment (11-15 March 2007). The paper presented was entitled: "An Integral Methodology for Sustainable Coastal Zone Management & Development, Via Exploitation of Multipurpose Wave/Wind Energy Capture & Conversion Platforms" in session 3C "Wind & Solar Energy -2".
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2007.html)
Daedalus participated in 10th anniversary of SCM conference (Soft Computing and Measurements) - "Innovations and investment in high technologies of business management and territorial development" held on 25-27 June 2007 at St. Petersburg, where Mr. Mylonas presented a paper entitled "The development of a new generation of distributed repositories for hosting the activities of the CORAL Institute, towards promotion of an advanced telematics environment for sustainable coastal development activities".
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2007.html)
Daedalus participated in CIMED 2007 Scientific Conference held on 25-27 July 2007 at Plymouth, with themes Biomedical informatics and computational intelligence in Brain Diseases, Biomedical informatics and computational intelligence - techniques and applications in cancer Bioprofiling, Personalised Care, Demonstrations and ICT in Health. Daedalus papers presented were entitled a) "BIOPIM (BIOPATTERN Information Model) - The development of an advanced Inference Engine for identification of biopatterns in biomarkers and biosignal data, based on CLT (Coordinate Logic Transforms) filters" and b) "BIOPIM (BIOPATTERN Information Model) - The development of a new generation of medical repositories and database engine for building biopattern related EHR (Electronic Health Records) and complex bioprofile data structures".
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2007.html)
Daedalus participated in the 5th International Conference - NHIBE 2007 [New Horizons in Industry, Business and Education] held on 30-31 August 2007 at Rhodes Island, where Mr. Mylonas presented EUEDOS.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2007.html)
Daedalus participated in IEEE Conference - Meeting the Growing Demand for Engineers and their Educators 2010-2020 held on 9-11 November 2007 at Munich, where Mr. Mylonas presented a paper entitled "An integral model for interleaving 21st century Education with Career and Life Long Learning. Introduction to historical scope and design rational".
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2007.html)
Daedalus participated in BSEC - USA Environmental Protection for Economic Growth Symposium 2007 held on 12-13 September 2007 at Istanbul, where Mr. Mylonas was officially delegated from Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Mylonas presented a paper entitled "CORAL Institute: Initiative for integrated services on sustainable research and management of energy and water resources.
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2007.html)
Daedalus participated in European University-Business Forum held on 28-29 February 2008 at Brussels, organized by European Commission
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2008.html)
Daedalus participated in the 2nd European University-Business Thematic Forum on "Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning" held on 30 June 2008 at Brussels, organized by European Commission
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2008.html)
Daedalus participated in the National Conference on University-Industry Cooperation 2008 held on 26-27 June 2008 in Adana, Turkey at the Cukurova University, organized by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2008.html)
Daedalus participated in UMTIK 2008 Conference, the 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION held on 3-5 September 2008, in Istanbul, Turkey, organized by organized by members of MATIMAREN and the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department of METU (Middle East Technical University), Ankara, Turkey
more info: (http://www.daedalus.gr/news2008.html)

DAEDALUS Company Profile