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Mobile Heights is a member �nanced, non-pro�t organization where relevant companies, industry associations, aca-demic institutions and public organizations are invited join our mission to strengthen the region as a hotspot for mobile innovation.

Mobile Heights provide valuable trend analysis, tech partners, testbeds, innovation and commercialization methods as well as knowledge of innovation systems and projects requested by public bodies.Members of Mobile Heights also bene�t from their knowledge, their international network of research environments like Silicon Valley and Boston.

Mobile Heights also provides multi-disciplinary projects which creates possibilities for members to cooperate in creat-ing innovative and competitive solutions to the grand challenges of our future society – solutions leading to interna-tional competitiveness in business and research. One of these projects today are:

Minimum Viable Device (funded by Vinnova and its partners)In the project Minimum Viable Device (MVD) Mobile Heights is investigating the possibility of developing an open con-nectivity device, built as an open horizontal platform, key enabler to connect all industry verticals, preparing for 50 billion connected devices 2020.

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Skånetra�ken is the regional public transportation author-ity and operator in Skåne län, in the south of Sweden.

Skånetra�ken was founded in 1999 and its principal mis-sion is to plan for and market public transport in Skåne, as well as procure and organize the work of private transport companies who run the transport services for Skånetra�k-en.

One of Skånetra�ken’s goals is to make public transporta-tion attractive to all citizens. Skånetra�kenis involved in the future of transportation and supports new initiatives, ideas, new applications and services for making transpor-tation smarter, better for improving customer experience

E.ON is an international privately-owned energy supplier which faces fundamental change: through implementing its new strategy, E.ON will in future be focusing entirely on renewables, energy networks and customer solutions, which are the building blocks of the new energy world.

One of their main focus areas is Smart Home. Smart Homes are responsible for one quarter of Europe’s carbon emissions. For Europe to meet its climate-protection tar-gets, homes need to become more sustainable and smarter. More sustainable means using energy more e�-ciently and conserving resources. Smarter means being able to integrate micro generation units, electric vehicles, and active energy management and to function as part of a smart grid.Their main smart homes project in Sweden is in the West-ern Harbor, Malmö. Here, they partnered with other com-panies to construct Hållbarheten, an eight-unit apartment building that incorporates the latest energy-e�cient technologies to help residents live more sustainably but without compromising on comfort and convenience. Seven families moved into Hållbarheten in 2013. They’re going to study their experience with these new technolo-gies over a three-year period and use what they learn to �ne-tune their smart solutions for existing and new homes.

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Frog is a global product strategy and design �rm. Their work solves problems, anticipates the future, and advances the human experience. They are more than 600 strategists, researchers, designers, and technolo-gists who consult and partner with clients across industries. Headquar-tered in San Francisco, we have o�ces in Amsterdam, Austin, Boston, London, Milan, Munich, New York, Seattle, Shanghai, and Singapore.

IBM Bluemix & IoT Foundation When combined with the IBM Bluemix platform, IoT Foundation pro-vides simple, but powerful application access to IoT devices and data. You can rapidly compose analytics applications, visualisation dash-boards, and mobile IoT apps. Create IoT applications that feed insights to your backend enterprise applications.Use this new source of data to generate new opportunities and gain new insights into the physical world surrounding your business. These insights can then be translated into commands to drive action in the physical world in which your business operates.

Internet of Things and People (IOTAP) at Malmö University is a research center at Malmö University that studies how people can get the most out of the Internet of Things. The work involves computer scientists, interaction designers, professionals and users. Through applied research, IOTAP addresses a range of current challenges in society. The aim is to become an internationally recognized research environment known for its integrated approach to technical and human aspects.

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Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.

Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other physical outputs.

Broadcom Corporation, a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communica-tions. Broadcom products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multi-media connectivity in the home, o�ce and mobile environments. With one of the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art sys-tem-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by connecting everything. WICED Sense is an a�ordable entry point to the ever-expanding IoT ecosystem and a platform for engineers, tinkerers, DiY-ers and entrepreneurs.

Softhouse is a consultancy conpany that is really good at developing solu-tions with software and developing people and businesses. Softhouse is established since 1996 and today they are one of the leading companies in Scandinavia on Lean & Agile. They have a total of 200 employees on location in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Karlskrona and Växjö.

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SIGMA Connectivity is a world-class product developer in the area of connectivity. Sigma Connectivity has been working with the most advanced technologies in many areas for a long time. Being in the mobile device market, you need to understand and adopt the latest technologies in order to be competitive. But, making a technology choice is not only about understanding the cutting edge technology. It is also about supporting that technology choice with striking the right balance of product requirement, cost and time to market.

Modcam has taken a technology leap to create a platform for intelligent com-puter vision applications. Their platform is tailored for video content analytics through their in-depth knowledge about image processing and the interac-tion between software, hardware and camera sensor. Modcam gives you the ability to see, understand and react. They have created a smart piece of hard-ware that is equipped with the most cost e�cient components around. Deliv-ered in a compact, modular form. They build open software architecture based on Android and our APIs are created to breed new exciting applica-tions.

Vasakronan is one of Sweden's largest real estate companies. They own, manage and develop centrally located o�ces and retail properties in Stock-holm, Uppsala, Gothenburg, Malmö and Lund.

Mobile Heights Center is one of their properties in Lund that is more than just an ordinary workplace. It is a venue speci�cally designed for innovative activities. Mobile Heights Center is located in the area known locally as Brunnshög. Here interact industry, academia and municipality to create new smart business solutions.

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Punch are a small and agile group of developers in San Francisco and Minneapolis.

Over 90% of our designs have been iPhone accessories. This special-ization allows them to know the details of Apple's Made For iPod (MFi) program front and back. Their experience allows themto help guide clients through the somewhat complicated process in a quick and e�cient manner.

Ericsson is a world leader in the rapidly changing environment of communications technology – providing equipment, software and services to enable transformation through mobility.

Some 40 percent of global mobile tra�c runs through networks That Ericsson has supplied. More than 1 billion subscribers around the world rely every day on networks that Ericsson manage. With more than 37,000 granted patents, they have one of the industry’s strongest intellectual property rights portfolios.

MAPCI is a collaborative research institute between academia, indus-try and the Skåne region. The institute lays the foundation for a truly connected world through world-class research, disruptive innovation, and industry collaboration.

The main focus area of the institute is Mobile Cloud Computing and the mobile ecosystem building on the regional strength in systems design and control, software and hardware design in mobile and wire-less systems. The partners Sony Mobile Communication, Region Skåne, Lund University and Ericsson are �nancing the institute.