CIT UPC - Internet of Things

Digital twins

👥 Digital twin platform to improve the construction industry by optimizing and increasing productivity, reducing costs and ensuring safe work conditions using IoT and image technologies.

👥 Open-source software tool (builder) to produce digital twins that run on edge computing systems.

Security

🔐 Respond to and mitigate the effects of cyberattacks in real time throughout the ICT supply chain, with a focus on the internet of things domain.

🔐 Integrated circuits that are more functional, more reliable, safer and more secure in fields like IoT, cybersecurity and supercomputing.

🔐 Algorithms to detect cyber and physical attacks.

Industry 4.0

🏭️ Advanced production through automated technologies (adaptive models, ATP/AFP, 3D printing, curved pultrusion profiles, hot stamping, innovative composite connections).

🏭️ Integration of drones with mobile technology 4G and 5G.

Big data

📈 Data analysis techniques for improving the accuracy of data acquired by low-cost sensors.

📈 Internet of things (IoT) or internet of people (IoP) connections between machines, sensors and people, and the capability to transform data into usable, reliable information.

📈 Management of an enormous amount of data in devices and network equipment, and effective, adaptable network infrastructure management.

📈 Management of the resulting complexity of systems with massive volumes of data made available by next-generation communication networks, and increasingly fast, reliable, instantaneous and pervasive connectivity.

Connectivity

📶 Communication protocols that guarantee considerable time constraints and offer a bounded latency along with high reliability and energy efficiency in fields such as IoT and industry 4.0.

📶 IoT mesh networks with low-power radios.

📶 IoT alert management system that enables users to handle different input channels, keep track of input device files, and send out alert messages.

📶 Decentralized computing and networking systems infrastructures based on cooperative resource coordination models.

📶 Adaptable, resilient, scalable software systems that exploit edge resources and networks for communications and computing infrastructures (cloud).

Energy efficiency

💡 Internet architecture with new protocols, open software and hardware intended for internet management in a wide range of cases such as privacy-by-design, IoT, network perfection, e-commerce security and energy efficiency.

💡 Smart, modular and scalable battery pack using Big Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence and IoT.