• Software development tools and
• Condition monitoring and diagnostics

The history of research in the field of software development tools goes far back from the establishing date of IB Krates. The founders of the company were all active researchers before creating the company to commercialize the results. We started our business with development of LIMITS case tool dedicated to modelling and analysing timing properties of safety/critical systems.
Over the last ten years we have developed or participated in development of several dedicated model/transformation tools (RJGE for generating user interfaces from data models, AFRA – a complete framework for database system user interfaces, utilities to standard case tools).
Starting 2006 IB Krates has been a member of the Gene-Auto consortium as coordinator of the software development and on of the two main developers of a code generator for embedded systems.

The research direction of condition monitoring and diagnostics supports our main field of activity in the local market – remote monitoring and supervisory control applications. Due to our expertise in the field of data acquisition we were invited to a MINICON consortium in 2001 to develop an intelligent monitoring and maintenance system for applications with very long continuous run-time (elevators, automatic doors, manufacturing machinery). The results of MINICON were taken further by the Dynamite project into a semantic-web based e-maintenance framework.
Currently ongoing project is Posseidon developing innovative sensors for online lubricant analysis