TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES
EDGE COMPUTING & IOT
- Sensor processing
- Self-diagnosis
- Smart predictos and estimators
ADVANCED VIDEO ANALYTICS
- Biometry
- Facial recognition
- Object detection and human tracking
- Emotion recognition
- Gesture recognition
AI ENABLED USER INTERFACE
- Personal assistants
- Chatbots
DATA SCIENCE
- Data mining
- Data analytics
- Big data
MACHINE LEARNING
- Un/semi/supervised learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Neural networks
- Deep learning
- Long short-term memory
SOFTWARE AUTOMATION
- Software bots
- Robot process Automation
- Business process modelling
ADVANCED TEXT ANALYTICS
- Natural language processing and synthesis
- Text generation
- Text to speech / speech to text
- Sentiment analytics
COMPUTER VISION
- Pattern detection, recognition and tracking
- Image recognition, classification, and tagging
- Quality assessment automation
- Unattended vehicles and robots
- Digitizing paperwork
MODELLING
- Complex systems modelling
- State-transition modelling
- Automatic classification
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
APPLICATION AREAS
DECISION BOARD
- Decision support system
- Enhanced risk management
- Operational efficiency
- Business optimization
INDUSTRY 4.0
- Automated diagnosis
- Predictive maintenance
- Quality testing automation
- Unplanned downtime avoidance
- Prediction of yield detractors
RETAIL AND MARKETING
- Real-time personalized recommendations
- Improvement in engagement
- Pricing & merchandising optimization
- Context-aware marketing
- Social media analytics
FACILITIES
- Remote building management
- Energy expenditure reduction
- Automated regulatory assessment
- Smarter security solutions
LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN
- Smart inventory management
- Route planning optimization
- Unattended warehouse robots
- Demand prediction
SECURITY
- Intrusion detection
- Crowd counting
- Behavioral detection and modelling
- Network protection and surveillance
CUSTOMER CARE & SUPPORT
- Natural language processing & synthesis
- Sentiment analysis
- Processing claim documents
- Chatbots
HEALTH
- Smart patient health monitoring
- Medical imaging diagnosis
- Cognitive impairment assessment
- Assistive robotics for elderly people
MOBILITY
- In-car commands and communication
- Context awareness
- Pedestrian detection and obstacle avoidance
- Autonomous driving
FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE
- Real-time fraud prevention
- Decentralized consensus algorithms
- Smart risk/credit assessment
- Increasing regulatory compliance
RELATED PROJECTS
- The digitalisation of human senses has advanced significantly in areas such as vision, hearing and touch. However, smell and taste continue to present a technological challenge, as their analysis relies on the identification of volatile or dissolved chemical compounds. While there are various sensors on the market capable of detecting specific gases and substances, they often lack the versatility required for comprehensive recognition of complex odours, showing limitations in adapting to different combinations of compounds.
- The Center for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives (CITCEA) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) has designed a smart wireless application developed to optimize the electricity consumption of high-power devices.
- The Research Center for Supervision, Safety and Automatic Control (CS2AC-UPC) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) has coordinated the SaCoAV project, focused on researching new methods and tools to ensure the safe coordination of autonomous vehicles in urban environments.
- The Centre for Technological Risk Studies (CERTEC) at UPC is participating in the WUITIPS project (Wildland-Urban-Interface Fire Touristic Infrastructure Protection Solutions), which aims to develop a new wildfire management framework for the tourism sector. This project contributes to risk analysis and the design of specific strategies to mitigate such risks.
