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The steering group for NIIT gathered in Sundsvall – focus on the industrial IoT of the future
Fri 28 Nov 2025 15:42
On Friday 14 November, the steering group for the research profile NIIT - Next Generation Industrial IoT, gathered at Mid Sweden University. During the day, the companies were able to take part in ongoing projects in industrial digitalization and visit the newest partner GDM.
Guided tour of the research lab
Project manager Sebastian Bader welcomed the participants and began the day with a tour of the STC research centre. Several technological advances that are being developed in close collaboration with industry and several of the project's business partners were presented.
Dr. Mehdi Haghshenas presents his research
Indoor positioning in harsh environments
The day began with Professor Mikael Gidlund's research group, where Dr. Stefani Rydblom and Dr. Mehdi Haghshenas demonstrated a system for indoor positioning based on wireless communication via Bluetooth. The technology is being developed in close collaboration with the company Ublox and can solve major challenges in environments where GPS lacks coverage, such as factories and warehouses.
Energyharvesting sensors
In the Autonomous Sensor Systems Lab, Associate prof. Sebastian Bader showed how his research group develops connected sensors that can harvest energy from their surroundings and thereby energy themselves without the need for extensive battery replacements. The development is taking place in collaboration with, among others, Bosch, Rexroth and Valmet.
- Collaboration is the foundation of our research within NIIT. When we work together with industry, we gain access to real challenges and environments where our ideas can be tested and developed. This makes the research both more accurate and more useful, says project manager Sebastian Bader.
Sebastian Bader, project manager for NIIT, shows the energy-harvesting sensor in the lab.
Camera-based systems simplify container loading
In the Vision Lab, Professor Mattias O'Nils and Dr. Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad presented how camera-based positioning systems can increase the precision of loading and unloading containers on ships in ports. The technology is being developed together with partner company MacGregor and can contribute to safer and more automated port operations.
The participants got to see new measurement technology in the Vision Lab.
Visit to new partner – GDM
After the tour, the steering group continued to the new partner, GDM, in their new premises in central Sundsvall. The company's founder Tommy Gustavsson talked about the company's development and how they work to be the IT partner of the future. As part of that investment, Niklas Hagberg works as responsible for AI and innovation at GDM. Niklas told how the collaboration with Mid Sweden University started, what it has led to so far and presented the new joint industrial doctoral student Björn Norén. Björn was there and presented his research on AI-enhanced operational monitoring to be able to detect system errors early and thus prevent data crashes.
Niklas also talked about GDM's role in the new AI lab that Mid Sweden University is building.
About NIIT
NIIT – Next Generation Industrial IoT is a research program at Mid Sweden University's research center STC. The programme brings together cutting-edge expertise in industrial IoT, data communication, AI and automation and is conducted in close collaboration with industry. The initiative is financed with support from the Knowledge Foundation.
The steering committee includes representatives from Bosch Rexroth, Crosser Technologies, GDM, HIAB, Knightec, LumenRadio, MacGregor, Telia and Valmet.
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