We have numerous state-of-the-art Laboratory or Technology Centres on campus. Amongst them:
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Centres in the School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology |
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Centres in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
If you are interested to visit any of the centres highlighted here, please approach our staff at the Information Counter.
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Centres in the School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology
  
The Game Development Centre provides facilities such as 44 high-end computers, sketch tablets and 22 Xbox 360 game consoles. Computers are equipped with high-end graphics cards, dual-core processors and increased memory for high quality game development for Windows, mobile and game console platforms.
Students get hands-on practice with cutting edge technologies such as popular game engines, digital content creation software and console game development with the Xbox 360. Play testing sessions in the Centre allow for profound reviews and analysis of commercial and academic game products.
The Infocomm Security Labs consist of a Final Year Project lab, a discussion room and two specially-configured computer labs. With its clustered layout, the discussion room provides a conducive environment for group discussions. Each cluster is equipped with data terminals for students to connect their laptops to the lab's network.
Each of the two specially-configured computer labs has 24 workstations running in a virtualised environment. Students can create a network of computers in their own virtual world. They can perform various investigative and penetration testing on these virtual machines without compromising the physical network infrastructure of the labs.
The virtual environment also allows the instructor to create different scenarios for different purposes easily. Students can access their virtual machines from anywhere within the School.
The lab is equipped with five sets of D-Link sponsored networking devices. Each set of networking devices can be configured to mimic real life industry scenarios. Students taking networking and network security modules will get hands-on experience in handling these enterprise-grade devices.
The Visual Effects Studio enables students to produce moving imagery in a controlled setting. This sound proof studio is ideal for chromakey, video production works and video streaming. The Visual Effects Studio comprises a blue screen cyclorama with a curtain rail that provides green and black backdrop options. It also includes a full length Chromatte backdrop by reflecmedia which is used by professional movie studios for chromakeying. The Ultimatte DV Live Keyer allows real time compositing which can be used for live recording of programmes with virtual sets.
The studio also comes with a daisy-chained lighting grid with a dimmer control panel, two professional JVC broadcast cameras equipped with a teleprompter and a green LiteRing. Directional microphones with boom poles are available for sound recording. A control room with soundproof glass panelling allows direction and live vision mixing to take place from a separate environment. The control room also includes a Snell & Wilcox Vision Mixer, an Avid Editing System for quick editing on the fly and a Niagara Viewcast System with Windows Media Streaming Server for real-time video and audio encoding and streaming.
The systems are tightly integrated to allow an efficient and dynamic workflow.
Centres in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
  
The Centre for Network Operations, a joint collaboration between the Singapore Polytechnic, IBM Singapore and Cisco Systems, is a fully operational data centre that links together all the other 11 laboratories in Teaching Block 9 via Cat 6 UTP and fibre cabling. It is modeled after an Internet Service Provider (ISP) network and is fully equipped with high-end servers, network equipment and management software found in typical ISP/Data Centre environments. The Network Management Laboratory is equipped with network management tools that are currently used in the industry. These two facilities are used to teach students the essentials of network management including network management functions, protocols and standards.
  
Welcome to the Technology Centre for Wireless Communications (TCWC). We aspire to be a centre of excellence for R&D work in the areas of wireless hardware and software design. Comprised of both staff and students, our work focus is on three main areas, namely, Hardware Applications, Software Applications and Games Factory.
One of the highlights in TCWC is the Games Factory. Students who join the Games Factory get to make video games both officially as final year projects during their third year of diploma studies, or unofficially as a hobby/personal interest, anytime. Working together in groups of about 3 to 5 people, project teams go through the whole process of making a complete video game from scratch, from idea generation, to paper design, to prototype implementation (programming and game assets creation), to finally polishing and refining of the game.
  
The Centre for Broadband Communication Technology is an incubator for new ideas in Broadband technologies and applications. SP staff and students collaborate with universities, industry partners, research institutes in various proof-of-concept and research projects. Some of the recent work includes Home Residential Gateway, setting up a Next-Generation Networks test bed, and development of applications on the converged IP networks. Some of the successful student projects include:
- Self-Service for Subscribers on NGN
- Handheld Device for Multimedia Communication
- Softswitch Enhanced Voice Services
- Voice Activated Home Entertainment Systems
Located mainly on the rooftop of Teaching Block 22, the main objectives of the Technology Centre for Clean Energy are to conduct teaching, training and research activities related to power system operation and control, renewable energy generation, energy storage (battery system and fuel cells) and energy management.
The Centre is equipped with a myriad of state-of-the-art facilities, including:
- Electrical Power System Simulator that simulates a complete and scaled down power system with advanced control. It consists of generation, transmission system, distribution system and different types of loads. The simulator can also be used to study the operation of a power system, power system control through SCADA, system load flow, system balance/unbalance faults and sophisticated protection schemes.
- Power system simulation software like ERACS and EDSA.
- Protective relay testing equipment.
- Power quality monitoring devices and power quality analyzer.
- Low Voltage Switching Board training set.
- Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Systems with a total installation of 31.236kWp PV modules.
- Data Acquisition System that consists of 56 input signal channels complying with industrial measurement standards and monitors various parameters, such as temperature, solar radiation, humidity, charging current, battery voltage, inverter output voltage & current.
- Mobile Wireless Weather Station.
  
The Centre For Fieldbus technology (CFT) strives to actively promote and advance fieldbus technologies through research, education and continuous improvement of our centre's resources and services.
The Centre was set up in November 1997. Housed in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the Centre provides a test-bed and resource foundation on fieldbus technology for industry. The mission of CFT is to promote R&D, technology transfer and training of technologists in specific areas of fieldbus technologies so as to enhance the competitive advantage of instrumentation and control industries in Singapore. CFT focuses on building up capabilities in the following carefully selected fieldbus technologies:
- FOUNDATIONTM Fieldbus
- Profibus DP, PA and FMS
- EIBus
- Device Net, Ethernet/IP
- ASi Bus
The Centre has been fully accredited as a PROFIBUS Competence Centre since August 9, 2001 by the board of PROFIBUS International. |
