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CertiCon is a Czech company. The company specializes in design, development, and testing of software, as well as in IC design, development and simulation. Since 1996, CertiCon has closely cooperated with the Department of Cybernetics at Czech Technical University and with the Vienna University of Technology.

Mission
CertiCon provides software solutions designed and built for a variety of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, government and telecommunications and participates at research and development of intelligent systems.

Chairman of the Board
Prof. Ing. Vladimír Mařík, DrSc. acts as the Chairman of the Board of CertiCon since October 2008. He was one of the original founders of the company.

Solutions
CertiCon provides various technology solutions and products particularly in following areas:
 * Prediction systems
 * Expert systems
 * Computer vision and pattern recognition
 * Telecommunication systems

Research and Development
CertiCon, staffed by 200+ researchers and engineers, is strongly involved in university-industry technology transfer. In 2010 CertiCon became a member of the Austrian Christian Doppler Lab in Vienna participating in the SCADA systems development.

CertiCon participates at international research projects, often based on close cooperation with universities, like Czech Technical University in Prague, Christian Doppler Laboratory „Software Engineering Integration for Flexible Automation Systems“ (CDL Flex) Vienna, and the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Research cooperation includes participation at EU Integrated Project ARUM aimed at multi-agent production scheduling for AIRBUS Industries (12 mil. EUR).

CertiCon is a founding member of the Center for Applied Cybernetics - center created to deepen the cooperation between the different entities of research and development (Academy of Sciences, universities, departmental research organizations and companies). The center focuses research potential in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine perception, automatic control and automation.

CertiCon was chosen as the national champion representing the Czech Republic in the prestigious European Business Awards 2015/2016, in the category Award for Innovation. CertiCon now awaits the next European-wide round of the competition, after which the top 10 companies will receive the title "Ruban d'Honneur". The winners will be officially announced in June 2016.

Selected Research Projects
International projects
 * ER4STEM (Educational Robotics for STEM) - EU Horizon 2020
 * ARUM (Adaptive Production Management) - 7th Framework Programme EU
 * ECOLEAD (European Collaborative Networked Organisations Leadership Initiative) - 6th Framework Programme EU
 * PELOTE (Building Presence through Localization for Hybrid Telematic Systems) - 5th Framework Programme EU
 * MPA (Modular Plant Architecture) - 5th Framework Programme EU
 * ExtraPlanT (Extra-enterprise production planning system) - 5th Framework Programme EU
 * ExPlanTech (Multi-Agent Production Planning System) - 5th Framework Programme EU
 * GOAL (Geographical Information On-line Analysis) - 5th Framework Programme EU

National projects
 * Multicom (Research and development of a new communication system with multi-channel approach and multi-layer co-operation for industrial applications)
 * CAK I-III (Centre for Applied Cybernetics)
 * PaLIS - Information system for patient and hospital bed management
 * 4mulcom (Development of adaptable and data processing systems for high-speed, secure and reliable communication in extreme conditions)
 * Cloud	(Applied research of a metod of an efficient management of network security of data centers, servers and cloud services verified by practical measurements)