The main focus of the R&D activities in CSE is to enhance the capabilities and competitiveness of the company to both niche and mass markets by keeping-up with new technologies, processes and tools, while gaining valuable experiences through the co-operation with its partners.
CSE has been successfully involved in EU (H2020) funded projects (SLICENET, SELFNET, DORA) and the following NSRF funded projects:
IKAROS (ΙΚΑΡΟΣ)
Project scope: The IKAROS project aims at the creation of drone swarms and the development of appropriate technologies (automation, artificial intelligence, communications, interconnection, etc.) that will allow the improvement of road network safety. IKAROS aspires to provide the following services in the operation of road networks: 1) integrated and continuous monitoring of the state of road networks, 2) real-time traffic management; and 3) disaster management, by assisting emergency services and sending real-time data and information related to the assessment of the general condition of the road network after an accident.
Project scope: Promotion of electromobility, collection and production of electricity on national highways. In particular, the quantitative and spatial distribution of electric vehicle charging infrastructure is a very important factor that can hinder the rapid and widespread acceptance of electromobility at national level. Focus on the national road network between Athens and Lamia (PATHE 172.5Km) as well as Antirio and Ioannina (Ionian Road, 196Km), due to the importance of the two motorways in terms of network width and volume of transport work. On a second level, the innovative technologies/actions that will be developed are expected to be an important tool for NEA ODOS S.A. (commercial exploitation of the project’s results), but also an example of feasible green mobility for the rest of the national roads and the regional road network (dissemination of the project’s results), thus contributing substantially to the promotion of electromobility, the reduction of pollutants and the increase of the share of RES in gross final energy consumption, targets that are urgently set in the National Energy Planning and the National Energy and Climate Plan for the period up to the year 2030.
RECOMAR
The RECOMAR project aims to develop an innovative system (laboratory prototype) for the recovery of static energy from exhaust gases in small passenger ships (e.g. Ferry Boats), through the adoption of modern technologies for the production of thermoelectric energy and power electronics, in an energy sustainable way. In particular, the energy recovery system to be developed will be based on a static thermoelectric generator, which will partially exploit the thermal energy of the exhaust gases coming from the ship’s generators, converting it into electricity.
