MIRA TELECOM delivers construction of own research center, European project worth 2 mil. Euro

MIRA TELECOM has successfully delivered the first stage of its research center development, located in Joiţa (Giurgiu county). The construction of the center, dedicated to research in various fields – software, securitaty, electronics, biophysics, biochemestry or quantum physics – was delivered in August 2012, according to the initial delivery term. The project, worth about 2 mil. Euro benefits from non-reimbursable financial assistance through the Sectoral Operational Programme „Increasing Economic Competitivness” - co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and will be developed in two stages by 2013.

The delivered building stretches over 720 sqm and the land plot on which the building was raised covers 9,000 sqm and is private property. The next step in the project implementation is the acquisition of equipment in the fields of electronics, quantum physics, physics chemestry and informatics.

Within the research center the following 5 new research labs will be operational: applicative development software lab, electronics research lab, quantum physics research lab, plurydisciplinary research lab (electronics, biophysics, biochemestry), the complex trial lab (trials performed under various climate conditions, electromagnetic and mechanical environments) equipped with hi-tech devices and equipment.

“Through the new research structure, our team of researchers, inlcuding initially two permanent and 4-5 external collaborators, will turn into a real department within the company, with more than 22 permanent employees, 18 of which will be specialists with university degrees and experience in the field of research. Beyond the figures, we hope that our research center will also inspire other companies to develop similar projects. This is essential for the professional future of Romanian specialists!” said Stelian Ilie, the President of MIRA TELECOM.

COMSEC project – „ Development of MIRA TELECOM’s infrastructure and research capability in the field of integrated communications and security systems” will directly contribute to the increase of the research capacity and of the number of specialists in the research field, within a company with a profile and object of activity focused on a major issue at the moment.

This investment will bring the highest tech infrastructure to the company, organized in a space dedicated to research, having as main objective the growth of the inovation level by performing researches and providing technical solutions, functional and constructive for the development in the company’s production sector of competitive communication and security systems both at national and at international level.

The following 80 indicators are targeted after the project implementation: 80 installations, independent equipment and instruments for research, 63 IT and communication equipment items, 4 software licences, 3 scientific articles published in specialized communication and security publications, 3 independent research projects delivered by 2020, 2 research works presented within international congresses or conferences. The total value of the project amounts to 8,462,942 lei.

MIRA TELECOM – a company with 100% Romanian private capital, founded and lead by Stelian Ilie, Group President – started its activity with radiocommunication equipment distribution. The diversification of the services has represented a major principle in the company’s evolution MIRA 

TELECOM providing today complete security, IT and telecom solutions, backed by an effective and operative integrated service, which brings real added value to the customers’ operations. Mira Telecom has a 14 year experience on the Romanian and international market.

Winners of MIRA TELECOM “Student – Programming the future” scholarships for excellence, motivated to continue the research projects

The winners of Mira Telecom “Student – Programming the future” scholarships for excellence, were delighted with the results of the internship program that they attended and will continue to work over the summer holidays at the project "NanoProgramming - controlling a system for atomic and nanoscale manipulation", run under the coordination of the company’s specialists and of Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Marius Enăchescu, CSSNT General Manager. The students would like to maintain the team complete, to be able to implement the project together and are also planning to participate to the future challenges launched by MIRA TELECOM in this area. “At the beginning I was a little scared by one of the participants who was asking many questions, but in time I realized that the team work in this project was a very pleasant experience and a real challenge. I think people work best in couples and my collaboration with Andrei has confirmed it. The work in this very complex project was not stressful at all from my perspective, I did everything out of pleasure and was motivated by the result I knew we were going to reach.“ said Paul Urziceanu, student of the Polytechnic University. Another winner of the scholarships for excellence, Andrei Radu, thinks that the project’s success is also due to the way in which the team members managed to complete each other.”It was a team that included people who were very good in different areas, who managed to complete each other and this has significantly contributed to the project’s success.” “Although we did not know each other at the beginning I feel now that I know my team mates very well and the work within this project, but also the entertainment activities, such as the basketball game we played together, has helped us consolidate as a team. I liked the confidence granted by our teacher by offering us the lab key and allowing us unrestricted access to the resources, confidence that I felt all through the project and I also appreciated the visits of MIRA specialists involved in the project, as well as their coordination.” added Daniel Tomescu, one of the participants in the project, who, although is not among the scholarship winners is determined to stay in the team and continue the project with the other colleagues. Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Marius Enăchescu, CSSNT General Director was also pleasantly surprised with the way the participants worked in the internship program and he wishes the team remains complete after the project delivery, as well. “I am glad to see that they really are a team. Both MIRA and I will try to keep them as a team, even if the number of scholarships did not equal the number of participants. I want to see the system working perfectly, unitary and the team members to be able to unblock or debug the system if necessary. We hope that we will be able to continue doing some other things with MIRA TELECOM, because they have smart people there who really understand the richness of being with one foot in the business and the other foot in a university. This is a fantastic richness on both sides.” At the end of the internship program, organized in collaboration with Center for Surface Science and Nanotechnology of Bucharest Polytechnic University, MIRA TELECOM designated three winners of the scholarships for excellence worth 2,000 Euro each, for the university year 2012 – 2013. The winners were Paul Urziceanu, Andrei Radu and Monica Dragan, all students of the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, within Bucharest Polytechnic University. “Everything happened naturally all through the project. Only the interested people were selected and those really willing to perform and passionate with research remained. The students were given a deadline for the report delivery and want to work during summer to finish the project. Right now we are very satisfied with the development of the project.” said Silviu Ciobanu – R&D Manager MIRA TELECOM. The internship program was a pilot project launched by MIRA TELECOM this year, but considering the participants level of involvement, the program will continue with a new research project in 2013. MIRA TELECOM – a company with 100% Romanian private capital- with 14 years of experience on the Romanian and international market, started its activity in October 1998, with radio-communication equipment distribution. Service diversification has represented the basic principle in the company’s evolution. MIRA TELECOM provides today complete security, IT and telecom services, backed by an efficient and operative integrated service, which brings added value to the customers’ operations. Center for Surface Science and Nanotechnology (CSSNT) – is the research center of P.U.B. , developed very recently as a response to the most advanced challenges of contemporary science: surface science and nanotechnology. CSSNT has two major objectives: (A)to perform fundamental research with world leading performance, e.g., atomic resolution in air on various surfaces; (B) applied engineering research in the field of nanotechnologies, e.g., processing technologies for obtaining nanometric and atomic scale devices, with application in microelectronics, microbiology and chemical technology.

MIRA TELECOM contributes to the preservation and restoration of patrimony objects at international level

 

MIRA TELECOM has started a new international research and development project with public funding and co-financing provided by partners. The project aims to improve the damage degree assessment and the restoration of the historical and patrimony objects. The company is main partner with leader role and co-financer within the project “Eureka 5837 ADAS (Automatic Damage Assessment System)”, which targets the design of an automated damage assessment system for cultural heritage leather and parchments. Romania and Spain are the two European countries partners in this project.
The total value of the project is 780,000 Euro, of which 32.75% represents the share of the partners’ co-financing. MIRA TELECOM is the only Romanian partner which will provide financial contribution to the project implementation. The project will be implemented over 36 months and will end in March 2015.
The collagen structure of parchments or leathers is degraded under the influence of environmental factors: temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pollutants, light, and storage conditions. European museums, religious places of worship and State Archives preserve a large number of documents, books and objects partially made by leather and parchment dated from the 4th to the 20th century.
The project aims to create an innovative software, which will allow the development of new non- destructive or micro- destructive techniques for the damage assessment of different historical collagen- based materials. These materials are extremely in-homogeneous, which triggers an even more challenging research process. Noninvasive investigation usually describes damage, but does not explain the type of deterioration. Micro-invasive methods ensure both the qualitative and quantitative characterization and thus ranking of damage needed to decide how an object should be preserved and restored.
The result of the project will consist in the development of techniques which will contribute to a faster and more accurate assessment of the patrimony objects and will allow their optimum restoration. The new software will improve and accelerate the shrinking temperature estimation.
“Cultural heritage transmitted through books and objects with historical value is very important for each people. As valuable as these objects are, as difficult it is to preserve them in good shape, considering that there is no assessment system at the moment, able to determine accurately the damage level of the cultural heritage leather and parchments.  MIRA TELECOM decided to get involved in the project “Eureka 5837 ADAS” to ensure the necessary support to the institutions facing this problem, by generating an innovative and efficient solution.” said Stelian Ilie, MIRA TELECOM president.
The determination of main parameters, which damage parchment and leather objects in Romania and Spain, the design of the automated system for shrinking temperature evaluation and the validation of the new assisted method for the automated damage assessment system are among the most important objectives of the project.
MIRA TELECOM is collaborating with another three local scientific partners in this project: The Leather and Footwear Institute (ICPI) - Branch of Research Leather Footwear Institute, Bucharest; Polytechnic University of Bucharest / Applied Informatics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIA) and the National Museum of Romanian History. As main partner MIRA TELECOM is coordinating the research and technical activity of all the partners.
About Eureka:
Eureka is a networking platform for research-development projects that gathers entrepreneurs both in Europe and beyond.  The network was set up in 1985 and in 27 years has managed to attract 40 member states and generate around 3,000 research and innovation projects.
About MIRA TELECOM:
MIRA TELECOM – a company with 100% Romanian private capital, founded and lead by Stelian Ilie, Group President – started its activity with radiocommunication equipment distribution. The diversification of the services has represented a major principle in the company’s evolution  MIRA TELECOM providing today complete security, IT and telecom solutions, backed by an effective and operative integrated service, which brings real added value to the customers’ operations. Mira Telecom has a 14 year experience on the Romanian and international market.