GNSS-based planning system for high-precision agriculture logistics

Gas detection & protection on oil rigs

Fuel cells powering inner-city vehicles

The purpose of this project is to power inner-city delivery cars using pollution-free fuel cell technology (generating electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen), a technology already explored by ESA for satellites and robotic missions to Mars. Benefits of fuel cell vehicels include quiet, zero-emission vehicles for sensitive traffic areas, smaller vehicles that can navigate narrow and congested streets, while reducing noise and pollution and faster refuelling and lighter weight of fuel cell tanks.

Services to Improve Water Use Efficiency of Vineyards and Deciduous Fruit orchards in South Africa

Measuring air quality, emission, industrial chemical processes and detecting gas leaks with a sensor first used for analysing the martian atmosphere

In 2011 Proba-2’s resistojet fuel tank was repressurised with an influx of nitrogen that had not been stored in a tank under pressure but within a solid material kept at room temperature with no special storage requirements. This ‘cool gas storage’ technology first developed by TNO Defence, Security and Safety is also being transferred to a fire suppression device in information and communication technology (ICT) equipment, usually placed inside data centres, by the company Fire Suppression Inside.

A haptic belt as a navigation device for the visually impaired

FeelSpace GmbH was founded as a start up out of the University of Osnabrück. Based on 10 years research with tactile compass belts, a haptic belt was developed as a navigation device for the blind. Vibration motors show the direction where a target destination is located. The smartphone acts as an interface. Target groups: blind and visually impaired, bikers, tourists

Satellite derived soil and crop information system optimizing land use and increasing yield

Eye movement experiments in space contributing to modern laser eyesight surgery

Seeking anwsers about life in outer space through Exobiology