Digital Spaces Living Lab (DSLL) is one of the leading living labs in Europe.
Digital Spaces Living Lab’s mission is to improve novel products, services and apps that will change the way we live, by testing them in real-life settings and tasks in Living Lab trials.
Mission
History
Digital spaces are digital, virtual or computer-generated worlds, but also the spaces we live in, where we use digital gadgets, digital communication devices, digital data and digital media.
In the last 14 years DSLL has conducted over 45 large-scale product and technology validation trials for clients in the fields of smart cities, location-based services (LBS), Earth Observation, smart agriculture, mobile apps, wearables, well-being and sports, museums and art galleries, games, digital media, etc.​
DSLL has won several European Living Lab competitions and has participated in many European research and innovation projects. For 10 years DSLL was of the special partners of the European Satellite Navigation Competition and the Galileo Incubation programme. DSLL has supported and incubated the winners and finalists of the annual Galileo Living Lab Prize and other winners, including PanDia (Germany), Polar Bearings (Germany), Epic Blue (Belgium), Sinebus (Italy), ArteMapp (Germany), Tocsen (Germany), Sawcer (Spain), cleanSpot (Spain), Mosa-X (Germany), Safety Truck (UK), PPP WizLite (France), GoWalk (UK), Tag Story (Norway), Loupe (the Netherlands), Ampido (Germany), SellNews (Germany), Vamos (Germany), Geo-Coupon (Taiwan), etc.
DSLL is one the founders of LLcloud Ltd (https://www.llcloud.eu/) - the multi-sensor cloud. LLcloud® is one of the few platforms in the world that allows multi-scale multi-sensor Earth Observation, enabling seamless integration and joint analysis of Earth Observation, IoT, and wearable sensor data. LLcloud® has been used by DSLL for various complex multi-sensor Living Lab trials in the last years.
DSLL is one the founders of Smart Fab Lab (https://smartfablab.org/en) – the main and oldest digital fabrication lab in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Team
Dr Stavri Nikolov
Digital Spaces Living Lab
Founding Director
Mrs Albena Topalova
Digital Spaces Living Lab Manager
Mr Nickolay Chompalov
Digital Spaces Living Lab
Co-founder & Legal Adviser
Digital Spaces Living Lab (DSLL), DSLL Technology Incubator, and KidsLab@DSLL, are co-ordinated and managed by Digital Spaces Living Lab Ltd.