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.
eHealth
⚕️ Serious games for remote rehabilitation
⚕️ Devices for low-cost, remote cardiovascular monitoring
⚕️ Image processing to diagnose anterior cruciate ligament injuries in the knee and to identify and characterise epigastric perforators
⚕️ Differential diagnosis in patients with Parkinsonʼs disease using biomechanical tests
RELATED PROJECTS
- 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.
- The research group Barcelona Fluids & Energy Lab (IFLUIDS) and the Centre for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives (CITCEA) of the UPC participate in the European project H-HOPE, which is focused on the development of solutions to produce clean energy based on water sources that have still not been exploited, such as pipes and water channels.
- The research group Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (CNDS) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is working on LoRaMesher. The main objective of this project is to design a data routing protocol that enables the interconnection of IoT devices on LoRa wireless communication technology. IoT devices connected by LoRa construct a mesh, so that they can communicate between each other through the nodes of the network, as occurs on the Internet.
- The aim of the Douglas project is to improve safety in the bathing area of the beaches of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, through the implementation of a coastal signalling system through IoT technology.
