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 study by the Centre for Land Valuation Policy (CPSV) at the UPC analyses the average increase in temperature and heat waves in the main cities of Spain. The average increase in temperature was 3.54°C between 1971 and 2022. Over these last 50 years, summer days have increased from 90 to 145, which represents a two-month increase in hot days. Tropical nights have gone up by 18 from an average of 45 to 63.
- Currently, concerns about sustainability are increasing in the construction sector, due to its contribution to climate change. Approximately a third of carbon dioxide emissions are produced by this sector in the construction phase and in the functioning of buildings.
- The UPC Department of Computer Architecture coordinates the European project Vitamin-V, in which a complete set of hardware-software is developed for cloud services, based on the latest open-source technologies for RISC-V processors.
- Researchers from the Plasmas for BioMedical Applications Laboratory (PlasmaMED Lab) of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), are working to develop a new treatment for bone cancer, which avoids the secondary effects of conventional treatments – such as chemotherapy – and enables bone regeneration when the tumour has been surgically resected.
