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 project, led by the Centre for Advanced Technologies in Mechanics (CATMech) research group at UPC, aims to minimise the by-product waste in hemp cultivation through the development of a competitive industrial plant, reduce energy consumption, and increase comfort in buildings through research into innovative insulation panels in bioconstruction.
- RootBot aims to develop and demonstrate an autonomous robotic electromagnetic detection system equipped with ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and advanced navigation technologies to map the root systems of fruit trees and soil moisture. This project seeks to optimize agricultural resource management, particularly water, and contribute to more sustainable farming through the use of innovative technological tools.
- The Group of Environmental Engineering and Microbiology (GEMMA) at UPC is leading the PROALGAE project, aimed at producing new alternative proteins from biomass derived from microalgae and cyanobacteria cultivated using by-products from the agri-food industry. These alternative proteins aim to provide a sustainable ingredient to meet the growing global demand for protein, applicable in the development of food and feed.
- An international research team led by the UPC has created a hybrid device that combines, for the first time ever, molecular solar thermal energy storage with silicon-based photovoltaic energy. It achieves a record energy storage efficiency of 2.3% and up to 14.9% total solar energy utilisation.
