TECHNLOGICAL CAPABILITIES



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).
Security & Cybersecurity
- Real-time response and mitigation of the effects of cyberattacks across ICT supply chains, focused on the field of IoT.
- More functional and secure integrated circuits in fields such as IoT, cybersecurity, and supercomputing.
- Algorithms for the detection of physical and cyber attacks.
- Cybersecurity in the maritime industry.
- Monitoring of intelligent fire detection systems.
- High availability infrastructure.
- Intrusion detection and response mechanisms.
- Perception systems: vision to control and guide robots.
eHealth
- Surgical robots.
- Virtual reality and augmented reality for telerehabilitation.
- Low-cost devices for remote cardiovascular monitoring.
- Image processing for diagnosing injuries.
- Differential diagnosis in patients with Parkinson’s through biomechanical tests.
- Advanced non-intrusive remote health assessment.
- IoT medical devices.
- Biophotonics.
- Biosensors.
- WearableTech.
- Modeling of human body movement.
- Instrumentation. Biomedical signal processing.



Smart Farming
- Agriculture 4.0: systems for capturing and processing images and telecommunications systems based on data science.
- Application of Digital Twins for irrigated agriculture.
- Automation and mechanization of production processes in smart agriculture.
- Development of measurement systems in agriculture and communication of data with lower energy consumption.
- Remote sensing for outdoor crops using drones and satellites.
- Improvement of productivity with mobile robots.
- Design of agricultural machinery sensor-equipped.
- Livestock monitoring and disease detection using biometric sensors.
Robotic Process Automation
- Agriculture 4.0: systems for capturing and processing images and telecommunications systems based on data science.
- Application of Digital Twins for irrigated agriculture.
- Automation and mechanization of production processes in smart agriculture.
- Development of measurement systems in agriculture and communication of data with lower energy consumption.
- Remote sensing for outdoor crops using drones and satellites.
- Improvement of productivity with mobile robots.
- Design of agricultural machinery sensor-equipped.
- Livestock monitoring and disease detection using biometric sensors.
Edge and Cloud Computing
- 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 aimed at Internet management in cases such as privacy by design, IoT, network optimization, e-commerce security, and energy efficiency.
- Smart, modular, and scalable batteries using big data analysis, artificial intelligence, and IoT.
- Energy management in smart factories.
- Light energy harvesting for autonomous sensors.
Smart Building & BIM
- Advanced optimization for monitoring errors in smart infrastructures.
- IoT platform using deep learning algorithms to bring benefits to smart homes.
- Measurements from the IoT platform of the social and environmental impact produced by U-Space.
- Modular sensors for identifying bridge structures under quasi-static loads.
- 3D printing of insulating composites useful in construction.
- Energy information in digital administration.
- SmartHome
Digital Twins
- Digital twin platform to improve the construction industry, optimize and increase productivity, reduce costs, and ensure safe working conditions using IoT.
- Open-source software to produce Digital Twins that operate on the edge (edge computing).
- AI-based platforms for Digital Twins.
- Digital Twins in the Blue Economy
- MobilityDigitalTwin



Industry 4.0
- Advanced production through automated technologies such as adaptive models, ATP/AFP, 3D printing, curved pultrusion profiles, hot stamping, innovative composite connections.
- Integration of drones with 4G and 5G mobile technologies.
- Predictive management and maintenance of machines using IoT platforms.
- Industrial automation and communication.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Intelligent monitoring of industrial processes.
- Energy savings through intelligent monitoring.
- Sensor systems and data extraction.
- Techniques to control and monitor the quality of the process/product.
- Flexible manufacturing processes.
- Advanced decision-making tools for Zero Defects Manufacturing (ZDM).
- Digital control with microprocessors and DSP.
- Human-machine collaboration.
- Computer vision.
- Human-machine communication interfaces (dialogue systems).
- Advanced information models for knowledge generation and learning.
Big Data Analytics
- Data analysis techniques to improve the accuracy of data acquired through low-cost sensors.
- Internet of Things (IoT) or Internet of People (IoP) connected between machines, sensors, and people, as well as the ability to transform data into usable and reliable information.
- Management of large amounts of data on devices and network equipment, as well as efficient and adaptable management of network infrastructure.
- Managing the resulting complexity of systems with massive volumes of data made available by next-generation, instantaneous, and widespread communication networks.
- Communication protocols that ensure significant temporal limitations and offer limited latency along with high reliability and energy efficiency in fields such as IoT and Industry 4.0.
- IoT mesh networks with low-power radios.
- Alert management system that allows users to manage different input channels, track device input files, and send alert messages.
- Decentralized computing and network system infrastructures based on cooperative resource coordination models.
- Adaptable, resilient, and scalable software systems that exploit edge resources and networks for communications and computing infrastructures (cloud).
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PROJECTES RELACIONATS
- The SCAPE project has been developed with the participation of the Power Electronics Research Group (GREP) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC). The aim is to advance towards design standardisation, cost reduction and an improvement in the features of electronic power conversion systems for the future generation of electric vehicles.
- 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 flexibility of electrical systems is fundamental in the process of energy transition towards more sustainable energy generation models. The European Commission promotes the development of solutions that respond to the challenges of managing electricity distribution networks in the future energy system based on renewable sources. An increasingly large proportion of fluctuating electricity generators, such as wind and solar systems, makes it difficult to calculate the loads that are being supplied.
- The Motion Control and Industrial Applications (MCIA) centre, the Terrassa Industrial Electronics Group (TIEG) and the Environmental Engineering (ENMA) group of the UPC participate in RHODaS, a project to improve integrated motor propulsion systems for multiple drive architectures with more efficient materials, new semiconductors, better heat management and standardisation of manufacture of power convertors.




