The “SAES Chair in Open Source and Critical real-time Applications”, started in 2009, is renews up to the 2017.
The «SAES Chair in Open Source and Critical real-time Applications» is an initiative of I + D + i developed by the UMU (University of Murcia) and funded by the company SAES (Sociedad Anónima de Electrónica Submarina). The collaboration started in 2006 and, after three years of intense work in which it became clear the benefits of technology transfer between university and industry, SAES and the UMU decided to provide it with a stable structure and thereby enhance the research and development carried out up to then. Thus, in 2009 the SAES Chair is created, being recently signed its fourth biennial renewal (for the period 2015-2017).
SAES is a Spanish company specializing in underwater acoustics and electronics that provides technology, systems and services in the fields of defense, security and environmental protection. The company, with over 25 years of experience, consists of researchers and highly qualified technical personnel in various fields such as electronics, acoustics, design and development software and hardware, methodologies, and operational requirements in the underwater environment.
In its commitment to technology transfer to and from the university, SAES has made possible the creation of a stable working group at the University of Murcia led by professors Diego Sevilla Ruiz and Gregorio Martínez Pérez of the School of Computing.
This working group has focused its efforts on improving software development processes and communications, allocating resources to investigate the development of human-machine interfaces industrial character, the implementation of communication scenario simulators, or the use of engineering software for model-driven automatic test generation as a fundamental part of the development process, among other issues. This collaboration allows that the technological capabilities and research results turn into competitive advantages such as increased business productivity and greater market orientation of scientific and technological knowledge developed at the university.
With this fourth renewal, the company SAES shows again its firm commitment to the University of Murcia, both in their efforts to transfer knowledge, as in the work of monitoring and research and technological innovation, and tasks that are performed within the company itself, being enhanced with the free software and critical applications in real time through the Chair SAES with the working group of the University of Murcia taking part in the same.