The knowledge accumulated within a construction company is often scattered across people’s memories, emails and project folders. Kristin Kivimäe, Innovation and Technology Manager at Mapri Ehitus, believes artificial intelligence could help bring this knowledge together and make it accessible, so that lessons from earlier projects can inform decisions on the next ones.
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Estonia’s tap water is high quality and its sewerage systems generally work reliably, but the infrastructure will need major investment in the coming years. Through the VeeFunk study, TalTech researchers will investigate when smaller water systems should be connected and when local solutions should be retained. These choices will affect future water prices, service reliability and crisis preparedness.
“Now I am going to say something many people may disagree with, but Estonia’s economy has done very well,” former Minister of Energy and the Environment Andres Sutt said at TalTech’s Entrepreneurship Day.
Technology in Estonia’s road construction sector has advanced rapidly over the past decade, but TalTech road and traffic expert Ain Kendra says unstable funding, rigid procurement and limited research and development funding are holding the sector back.
Estonia’s e-health system is an international model, but its next leap forward requires higher-quality health data, greater involvement of doctors and evidence of the real benefits of digital solutions, say three European health informatics experts.
Just as we scan our own shopping and book flights and hotels ourselves, healthcare is increasingly moving towards self-service. TalTech Professor Peeter Ross believes people could collect and manage more of their own health data and receive advice before illness develops. Estonia is already taking its first steps in that direction.
After a heart attack or stroke, patients are prescribed medication and sent home. What happens next depends largely on how well they follow their treatment plan and attend check-ups on time. TalTech researchers are now testing an AI-based digital doctor to monitor patients continuously at home, remind them to take medication and flag when a doctor or nurse is needed.
Pakistani researcher Kaleem Arshid has studied and worked in China, Italy and Spain. For the past few months, he has worked at TalTech’s Virumaa College, researching how people and intelligent machines can act as partners — with robots working alongside people rather than replacing them.
Smartwatches collect ever more data about our health, but not every reading can yet be trusted. TalTech researchers are investigating how to make information collected on the wrist usable in healthcare.
Narfe World, a company founded by TalTech alumnus Abdul Salam Mohammed and his team, aims to transform how people plan their travels. The platform, currently being developed in the Tehnopol AI Accelerator, uses artificial intelligence to turn travel content produced by online creators into personalised itineraries.