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
- A research team from the Sustainable Construction Engineering Group (ECS) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), together with the Catalan company La Farga, a manufacturer of copper products and semi-finished copper products and a leader in copper recycling, has taken part in the development of a solution to use slag from the copper refining process as new materials and to optimise the use of natural resources in industry. Through this project, La Farga aims to valorise this slag for high added-value industrial applications, such as conductive cements used to manufacture road pavements or industrial sensing products.
- The UPC’s Centre for Sensors, Instruments and Systems Development (CD6) in Terrassa, alongside IDOM Engineering, has finalised the design and construction of the optical system that will calibrate the Extremely Large Telescope’s (ELT) main mirror, with a 39-metre diameter. The ELT will be the world’s largest ground-based optical and near-infrared telescope. It is currently under construction at an altitude of over 3,000 metres on Cerro Armazones in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
- A joint UPC research team, integrated by the CommSensLab-UPC, and the ICM-CSIC, is participating in the EO4TIP project, which is developing new Earth observation methodologies to detect tipping points and sudden changes at local and regional scale on Earth using high-resolution satellite data.
- A team from the e-PLASCOM and eb-POLICOM research groups, alongside the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering (CCEM) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), is involved in the EcoPolyRub project in partnership with the Centre Català del Plàstic (CCP). The initiative aims to create innovative elastomeric materials based on recycled tyre rubber, enhanced recycled plastics, and natural rubber for high-performance mechanical and thermal applications.
