About Us
For more than 30 years, the Department of Informatics of Mendel University in Brno has been active in research, development, and innovation not only at the academic level, but also in the public sector. We have experience in national and international research and development projects, as well as contracted research with industrial partners. The results of our work also includes software applications developed for private companies, ministries, or local governments. We regularly publish in the fields of informatics, artificial intelligence, climate change, and migration. We are a department that supervises degree programs from the undergraduate to doctoral level.
We can bring expertise in the following areas to our collaboration:
- Software engineering activities
- application development (web, mobile, augmented reality, chatbots, …)
- user interface design, user experience testing
- data collection, management, and visualization
- research in machine learning, natural language processing, spatial data analysis, data warehousing, business intelligence, computer vision, also in specialized laboratories
- multidisciplinary collaboration in different areas such as economics, finance, marketing, smart agriculture, or migration based on the use of informatics as a means of solving complex problems
- education, training, and dissemination of research results – development of training programs and educational resources, promotion of project results, facilitation of knowledge transfer
Research Teams
Current Projects
GREENHOUSE 4.0
Control system of an energy-autonomous greenhouse operating on the basis of acoustic emission for growing crops in urban conditions.
Technical Agency of the Czech Republic, Trend 10 Greenhouse 4.0 The project is dealing with automation and management of sustainable cultivation within smart greenhouses. As part of the solution, technologies from the field of artificial intelligence (dataset creation, application of computer vision) are deployed in connection with the processing of signals from acoustic emission and hyperspectral cameras for determining events inside plants and identifying their condition (vegetation condition, identification of diseases). The focus is on greenhouse automation and sustainability.
Artificial intelligence, computer vision, automation, sustainability
WATERLINE Transforming
WATERLINE Transforming Advanced Water Skilling through the Creation of a Network of Extended-Reality Water Emulative Centres (Horizon Europe: European Excellence Initiative (EEI) , European Commission) & PoVE Water – Platform of Vocational Education (Erasmus+, 101055851) Our goal in these projects is to develop a metaverse-based solution for remote collaboration and education using spatial data. This enables experts around the world to work together and teach using AR and VR. We focus especially on long term sustainability of the applications and easy end-user maintenance.
AR & VR, Metaverse, Spatial data
Tools for the prevention of chronic non-infectious diseases:
Innovative procedures and products for the evaluation of children’s health and risks of obesity (PRECOR) (TAČR Sigma). The project proposal responds to current social and economic changes (covid-19, energy crisis, etc.), which indirectly affect the health and lifestyle of the population. The target population is families with children with an emphasis on the problem of obesity, and the application intention is to create effective prevention tools. Our task in this project is to create a mobile application that will support a healthy lifestyle, especially for children and youth, based on gamification elements.
Social and economic changes, Obesity, Effective prevention tools, Mobile apps
Artificial intelligence for geolocation projects - chatbot
The aim of the project is to significantly shorten the process of geolocation projects using artificial intelligence. The process will be reduced from several months to several weeks by giving the user the ability to enter geolocation tasks independently. It will also open up the possibility of using geolocation analysis for ordinary users who are solving such problems, as the new ChatBot will be able to independently suggest scenarios, metrics and ways of handling given geolocation problems that most ordinary users have no experience with. The goal will be achieved by creating a working software prototype (ChatBot using artificial intelligence) – using a user-friendly interface to facilitate and accelerate the creation of map visualizations and map layers from the results of queries.
Artificial intelligence, geolocation analysis, ChatBot
Analytical Platform 2.0. - a platform for automated portfolio management using learning systems
The output of the project will be software, a platform for automated portfolio management using learning systems. The primary customers of the product will be investment companies, product users portfolio managers, risk managers, data analysts, financial asset managers, traders. The secondary target group will be more experienced investors. The project is implemented by a consortium of two interconnected small businesses and two research organizations. The goal of the project is to create an expert system to support decision-making in the area of investments. The main output of the project will be Software as a Service, the digital platform www.analyticalplatform.com in version 2.0. The software will be built using machine learning, statistics, financial engineering and artificial intelligence. The project builds on previous long-term research and development and expands the functioning platform with innovative tools requested by clients. The supplied applications will contribute to the elimination of inequalities between capital market entities and facilitate access to financial management.
Learning systems, platform for automated management
If you are interested in cooperation, please contact:
doc. Ing. František Dařena, Ph.D.
Interesting Projects
Smart Migration in the Czech Republic
Technological Agency of the Czech Republic (TL01000468) in cooperation with Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, South Moravian Region and others. The project had two main goals. The first is to provide effective support to migrants in the Czech Republic who find themselves in difficult personal situations through the new mobile and web applications „Smart Migration“. The second objective of the project was to analyze three key socio-demographic issues, the results of which can be used in the development of public policies and strategic materials
Smart university application "My MENDELU"
University research and development funds Development of smart infrastructure and mobile applications for students and university staff. The solution includes indoor maps, reservation of consultations with study assistants, connection to the public transport system, emergency communication tools and other functionalities.
Collaborative decision making in the metaverse
Horizon Europe WATERLINE and Erasmus+ PoVE Water Augmented and virtual reality are great tools for visualizing spatial data, which is inherently multidimensional. However, common applications are silos where data is embedded in code. We are creating a solution that allows the data to be easily manipulated as in a traditional GIS and opens up the possibility of remote collaboration on this data. For education or disaster management.
Research and development of SW platform with artificial intelligence for digital office
EU, Ministry of Industry and Trade (CZ.01.1.02/0.0/0.0/20_321/0023606) in cooperation with Alvao company Alvao is an established provider of systems service management systems. In collaboration with the Natural Language Processing group, we have been developing methods for extracting knowledge from textual data to improve service management tasks.
System for managing recovery processes in crisis situations
Safety Research, Ministry of Interior (VI04000038) in cooperation with Clever Maps company Development and testing of a cloud platform that enables spatial analysis based on data combined from multiple data sources. The platform has been already used for commercial spatial analysis such as branch optimization etc. Customers primarily come from the retail and banking sectors.
Design and testing of a new generation of QI ERP information system
Series of EU, Ministry of Industry and Trade and direct contracted research projects with QI Group company The QI information system is one of the most important ERP’s in Central Europe, despite strong competition from companies such as SAP or Oracle (Netsuite) operating in this field. MENDELU redesigned the current version of the system and developed a new generation from the general vision to the design of specific components.
Migration, development and environ. changes
Various research and development funds One of the biggest challenges facing ‚Western societies‘ in the last decade has been massive migration. This challenge has many dimensions. We have chosen to focus on the causes of migration in the countries of origin and to analyze them using a variety of tools, including geographic information systems, dynamic maps and other advanced visualization approaches
Design and development of an optimization analytical tool for stock market portfolio
Series of EU, Ministry of Industry and Trade projects and direct contracted research with CCFR company In collaboration with the Natural Language Processing research group, we are working on the design and development of mobile clients for stock investing. We are designing indices describing different performance and risk factors, as well as designing the entire web and mobile clients.
Just-in-time production controlled by augmented reality
EU, Ministry of Industry and Trade (CZ.01.1.02/0.0/0.0/17_107/0012460) in cooperation with Media Effect company Research and development of Augmented Reality application based on web technologies that allows visualization of machine status, management of error conditions and efficient production control in general.