Dexter@FIT Projects

Introduction

Welcome to the Dexter@FIT homepage! We are a team of researchers in the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, specializing in data processing and visualization for Smart Cities. We develop innovative web-based solutions aimed at enhancing urban living, improving data-driven decision-making, and advancing the integration of smart technologies into everyday life.

Research Areas

Smart Devices and IoT

Smart Devices and IoT

From small sensors to industrial grade devices, our goal is to make the large and diverse world of IoT more approachable for the end-users. We aim to achieve this by both providing a visual tool that would allow the user to describe the interaction process and creating an unified approach, that would allow the integration of custom devices via an user-defined device capability schema. Currently we specialize on devices that are parts of LoRaWAN or Zigbee networks. Other technologies we use include the MQTT protocol, RabbitMQ, ChirpStack, Docker, modern database systems including InfluxDB and CockroachDB.

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Transportation and GIS

Transportation and GIS

Modern transport systems cannot be managed without the collection and use of good quality data. On the other hand, we believe that it is important to make this data available to the general public who use these systems on a daily basis. We aim to achieve these goals by creating interactive tools that both enable advanced analysis of transportation systems and allow the public to use this data to move through these systems more quickly. A second important goal we are pursuing is the effort to expand and improve the information that the traveling public needs to obtain about such systems.

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Open Data and Open Government

Open Data and Open Government

Open data is also related to the standardization of data formats carrying similar information, evaluation of data accuracy and quality of datasets. A subset of these data includes government data. Many people make decisions about our lives, but there is a lack of tools to clearly track our representatives and their decisions. Data alone is not enough. It is necessary to exploit its potential, process it further and reap all the benefits from it. That's why we focus on building applications that process such datasets and cooperate with the producers of such data. In our projects we use predominantly web technologies, e.g. Flask, React, PrimeReact, Leaflet.

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General Data Processing and (Geo-)Visualization

General Data Processing and (Geo-)Visualization

In addition to the practical application of data processing and visualization, we focus on the underlying general principles. Data visualization plays a critical role in making complex datasets, such as those associated with big data, more understandable by representing them through visual formats like charts, and maps. This approach enables efficient extraction of meaningful insights from large volumes of data, revealing trends, patterns, and anomalies that might otherwise remain hidden. Our team explores various techniques for presenting information in a clear and user-friendly manner, as well as evaluating its usability. We specialize in dashboard design, geovisualization, and multidimensional data processing. Our technology stack primarily includes D3.js, Leaflet, well-known visualization libraries like Nivo and Chart.js, along with other web frameworks based on JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.

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Selected Products

Analysis and Visualization of the Government Data

Analysis and Visualization of the Government Data

Analyticity

Analyticity

Lissy

Lissy

LineShaper

LineShaper

Pocketix - Visual Programming Language for IoT Devices in Smart Cities

Pocketix - Visual Programming Language for IoT Devices in Smart Cities

Geovisto

Geovisto

Komu patřím

Komu patřím

Carpub

Carpub

Walk and Ride

Walk and Ride

Recent Publications

Štolfa, F., John, P., Hynek, J., & Hruška, T. (2025, May). Transferability of ML Time Series Prediction for Energy Forecasting in Smart Homes. In 2025 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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Eliáš, R., Lazúr, J., Hynek, J., & Hruška, T. (2025, May). A Spatial Algorithm for Dataset Integration Applied to Cycling Data. In 2025 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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Šulc, O., John, P., Hynek, J., Valný, M., & Hruška, T. (2025, May). Enhancing Bulk KPI Evaluation Efficiency in Smart Cities Using Parallel Computing. In 2025 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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Ondrušková, M., Hynek, J., & Burget, R. (2025, May). Towards Street-Level Traffic Analysis Using Waze Crowdsourced Data. In 2025 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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Zaklová, K., John, P., Janošík, A., Hynek, J., & Hruška, T. (2025, May). Transparency in Czech Regions: Evaluation of Open Data Availability for Public Awareness. In 2025 Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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Turytsia, O., Zaklová, K., Hynek, J., John, P., & Hruška, T. (2025, January). Enhancing Retail Location Decisions in City of Brno: An Application of Geospatial Analysis Tools. In Information Systems Engineering and Management (pp. 469-486). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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External Cooperation

Data.Brno
Most
Logimic

Cooperation with Students

Each year we supervise a number of bachelor and master theses. We emphasize the applicability of the results to practice and good final grades.

Václavík Jan: Multimodální dopravní plánovač Jihomoravského kraje. Master thesis. 2025. Supervisor: Ing. Jiří Hynek Ph.D.
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Carpub. Excel@FIT poster and paper. Research work in the field of Transportation and GIS
Štolfa Filip: Visual Programming Language Evaluation Simulator. Master thesis. 2025. Supervisor: Ing. Petr John.
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Research work in the field of IoT
Kvapil Jan: Trip Planner for South Moravian Region with Walking Integration. Bachelor thesis. 2025. Supervisor: Ing. Jiří Hynek Ph.D.
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Walk and ride. Excel@FIT poster and paper. Research work in the field of Transportation and GIS
Ondrušková Magdaléna: Analysis and Visualization of Brno Traffic Data. Master thesis. 2024. Supervisor: Ing. Jiří Hynek Ph.D.
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In collaboration with Data.Brno, Excel@FIT poster and paper - awarded by the expert panel and public
Ježek Lukáš: System for Automatic Heating Control in Holiday Homes. Bachelor thesis. 2024. Supervisor: Ing. Jiří Hynek Ph.D.
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Excel@FIT poster and paper - awarded by the expert panel and industry partner, recognized by the rector
Krejčí Ondřej: Municipal Management in the Voting System of City Councils. Master thesis. 2024. Supervisor: Ing. Kristýna Zaklová.
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The output of this thesis is an extension of the original system with a module for data management of individual municipalities
Fišer Tomáš: Dashboard for Smart Home Status Focused on Low Consumption Installations. Bachelor thesis. 2024. Supervisor: Ing. Petr John.
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In collaboration with the company Logimic

Team

Ondřej

Ondřej Šulc

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Position: Ph.D. Student

IoT, edge computing

Magdaléna

Magdaléna Ondrušková

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Position: Ph.D. Student

(road) transport analysis and planning

Kristýna

Kristýna Zaklová

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Position: Ph.D. Student

open data, open government

Juraj

Position: Ph.D. Student

geographic data, public transport systems, GIS

Petr

Position: Ph.D. Student

IoT, Smart City, CI/CD, cloud (AWS), Docker, web technologies

Jiří

Position: Assistant Professor

data processing, analysis and visualization, web technologies, mentoring of the team

Radek

Position: Associate professor

web document analysis, information extraction, data integration, semantic web, mentoring of the team

Tomáš

Tomáš Hruška

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Position: Professor

information technology, information systems, mentoring of the team

Contact

Dexter@FIT
Faculty of Information Technology
Brno University of Technology
Božetěchova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic

Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology