In 1996, the Telekom Research Center of Salzburg's University of Applied Sciences and the Institute for Information Economics and New Media merged into the Techno-Z Forschungs- und Entwicklungs GmbH. On January 19, 2000 the
State of Salzburg became the sole owner of the research organisation, turning it into the "Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft".
Research departments and projects
ANC - Advanced Networking Center: Reliable Internet and network technologies, data transmission security,
Internet technologies for
power grids, flexible communications solutions
IoT - Internet of Things: Conceptual designs, architectures and implementation of software systems for
IoT in industry "
Industrial Internet"
MOWI - Mobile and Web-based Information Technologies: Real-time localisation, interactive geo-web applications, location-based web and mobile services, spatio-temporal data analyses of motion data
iLab - Innovation Lab: Identification and assessment of customer needs, innovation signals in online communities, business model analysis, systematic idea generation and selection (early stages of innovation), network innovation, scenario building, benchmarking, policy evaluation.
In addition to the core competencies of the individual research groups, Salzburg Research works in the following interdisciplinary research topics:
e-Health,
e-Tourism, e-Energy, and Industrial Internet.
CONFIDENCE[1][2] develops a community-based mobility safeguarding assistance service for people with mild to moderate dementia. Confidence combines "assistive technologies" with "personal help". The project was awarded the international AAL Awards (jury and public award) in 2014.[3][4][5][6]
IDIRA[7] develops a system of technologies and guidelines for optimal resource planning and operations across national and organisational borders in case of disasters.[8][9]
IKS[18] develops an open source stack for knowledge management, broadens the reach of semantic CMS technology and serves as a collaboration and software development hub for the semantic
CMS community; The
open-source softwareApache Marmotta and
Apache Stanbol emerged from this research project.
iCardea[19] developed an intelligent platform to automate and personalise the follow-up of the cardiac patients with implantable devices.
Furthermore, Salzburg Research co-ordinated the Competence Centers Salzburg NewMediaLab (SNML)[20] (2000-2013) in the area of New Media, ANET (2006-2009) and e-motion[21] (2009-2011) in the field of e-Tourism and since November 2018 the COMET-Project Digital-Motion (DiMo)[22] in Sports, Fitness and Well-being (2018-2022).