Applied AI & Connected Systems
Intelligence in Synergy
Applied AI and connected systems research for healthier lives, sustainable food, personal learning and safer mobility. Open to academic collaborations, funded projects and industry partners.
Research areas
Six areas, one connected vision
From hospitals and homes to farms, classrooms and roads, we design AI and connected technologies (IoT, IoV) that solve real problems.
AI for Health
SYNTERA Health
Disease prediction, Medical imaging, Remote monitoring…
Smart Health Home
SYNTERA Home
Elderly care, Fall detection, Ambient assisted living…
AI for Agriculture
SYNTERA Agri
Crop disease detection, Precision farming, Smart irrigation…
AI for Education
SYNTERA Edu
Personalized learning, Learning analytics, AI tutors…
Internet of Things
SYNTERA Connect
Edge AI, Sensor networks, IoT security…
Internet of Vehicles
SYNTERA Mobility
V2X communication, Traffic prediction, Driver safety…
Latest papers
Recent research output
- 2026 EGenAI-DBR: A design-based framework for responsible generative AI integration in higher educationEducation Innovations: Systems and Future Learning, 1(2)
- 2026 An extended community of inquiry framework for monitoring and predicting online peer learning participationJournal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 18(8), 113–141
- 2026 SELM-CTR: A stacking ensemble deep learning model with SHAP-based analysis for large-scale click-through rate predictionInternational Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, 19(3)
- 2026 Latent-space feature squeezing for adversarially robust intrusion detection on IoT edge devicesInternational Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, ahead of print, 1–37
- 2026 An IoT-aware certificateless signature scheme for protection against type-I and type-II super adversariesIoT, 7(2)
Our name
Syn · Te · Era
SYNTERA brings together Synergy, Intelligence and Era: a new era where AI works in synergy with health, agriculture, education, homes and mobility.
Members and collaborators across 10 countries.
About the group
Partner with us
Academic collaboration, funded projects and industry partnerships
Whether you want a research partner for a grant, a university team to take on a paid project, or an AI pilot in a real setting, we would like to hear from you.
Academic collaboration
Joint research and papers, shared methods and data, visiting researchers and co-supervision.
Funded and paid projects
Joint grant applications, industry-funded research and commissioned projects with agreed scope and deliverables.
Industry and community pilots
Proofs of concept and evaluations in health, care, agriculture, education, IoT and transport.