TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES
DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
BIG DATA AND DATA ANALYSIS
- Management and processing of large quantities of data in real time
- Parallel distributed processing
- NoSQL database
MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES
- 5G/6G
- Antenna Systems
- New processors
- Cognitive networks
- Satellite communications
- Mobile IoT
- Geolocation and location-based services
- LoRa Mesh
- Satellite remote sensing (terrestrial, oceanic)
CYBERSECURITY
- Privacy and data protection
- Security of infrastructure, networks and communications
- Development of digital identity systems
- Biometry and encryption
COLLABORATIVE INTERNET
- Integration of social networks
- P2P distribution systems
- Multimedia information systems
AUTOMATION
MANUFACTURING
- Smart monitoring and optimisation of industrial and logistics processes
- Improvement in industrial communications
- Quality control through computer vision and sensors
- Water management systems
- Additive manufacturing
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Edge computing
- Machine learning
- Modelling
- Neural networks
- Computer vision
ROBOTICS
- Speech synthesis and automatic language processing
- Vision perception and control systems and guide robots
- Automated customer services
- Smart, cowork and assistance robots
e-AGRICULTURE
- Precision agriculture (smart farming)
- Agriculture 4.0
USER ORIENTATION
IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES/USER EXPERIENCE
- Virtual reality
- Augmented reality
- Metaverse
DIGITAL HEALTH / eHEALTH
- Mobile devices / wearables
- Apps for monitoring of biomedical signals and “remote care” services
SMART CITIES
- Simulation and optimisation of energy efficiency
- Traffic management and smart resources
- Waste reduction
APPLICATION SECTORS
AERONAUTICS
AUTOMOTION
INFRASTRUCTURES
HEALTH
MANUFACTURING
TEXTILES
RELATED PROJECTS
- As smart cities are developed and, as a result, platforms enabled for the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence expand, new and complex threats to their security increase exponentially. The new IRIS platform will increase the security and privacy of these ICT-based systems and will respond to attacks through a collaborative approach.
- The Architectures and Compilers (ARCO) research group is working on the CoCoUnit project to design new architectures for computing systems that are energy efficient, particularly for applications that make intensive use of cognitive functionalities, such as voice recognition, automatic translation, speech synthesis, image classification or object recognition.
- The Multimedia Applications Laboratory (LAM UPC) has developed an application that measures the anteroposterior movement of the tibia with respect to the femur to help in the diagnosis of anterior cruciate ligament knee injuries.
- A UPC team, CARNET, and its industrial partners, coordinated by the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI), has designed and manufactured a prototype of an Autonomous Delivery Device (ADD), to automate last-mile logistics. The vehicle will be tested this year in various pilot tests in Esplugues de Llobregat, Hamburg (Germany) and Debrecen (Hungary).
