
Digital Twins
- Digital twins with applications in construction, mobility, blue economy and agriculture, among other sectors, to optimize and increase productivity, reduce costs and provide safe working conditions.
- Open-source software to produce digital twins for edge computing.
- AI and machine learning-based platforms for generating digital twins.

Security and Cybersecurity
- Real-time response and mitigation of the effects of cyberattacks across ICT supply chains.
- Algorithms for detecting physical and cyberattacks, and response mechanisms.
- More functional and secure integrated circuits for cybersecurity and supercomputing.
- Monitoring of intelligent fire detection systems.
- Perception systems: vision for controlling and guiding robots.
Industry 4.0
- Advanced production using automated technologies such as adaptive models, ATP/AFP, 3D printing, profiling processes, hot stamping.
- Integration of drones with 4G and 5G mobile technologies.
- Smart management of industrial plants and infrastructures.
- Predictive maintenance of machines through IoT platforms.
- Industrial automation and communication.
- Energy saving through smart monitoring.
- Flexible manufacturing processes.
- Advanced decision-making tools for zero defect manufacturing (ZDM).
- Digital control with microprocessors and DSP.
- Computer vision.
- Human-machine communication interfaces (dialogue systems).

Big Data Analytics
- Data analysis techniques to obtain high-precision information with low-cost sensors.
- Capability to connect and transform data from the Internet of Things (IoT) or the Internet of People (IoP) into reliable and usable information.
- Efficient and adaptable management of large amounts of data on network devices and infrastructures.
- Communication protocols with limited latency, high reliability and energy efficiency.
- LoRa Mesher.
- Alert management system with different input channels.
- Decentralized computing and network system infrastructures, based on cooperative resource coordination models.
- Adaptable, resilient, scalable software systems that exploit edge resources and networks for communication and computing infrastructures (cloud).
Smart Farming
- Agricultura 4.0: sistemes de captació, processament d’imatges i sistemes de telecomunicacions basats en la ciència de dades.
- Aplicació de Digital Twins per a agricultura de regadiu.
- Automatització i mecanització de processos productius en l'agricultura intel·ligent.
- Desenvolupament de sistemes de mesura i comunicació de les dades amb menor consum energètic.
- Teledetecció per a cultius a l’aire lliure mitjançant drons i satèl·lits.
- Millora de la productivitat amb robots mòbils.
- Disseny de maquinària agrícola i equips sensoritzats.
- Monitoratge de bestiar i detecció de malalties mitjançant sensors biomètrics.

Robotic Process Automation
- Advanced robotic handling systems.
- Collaborative robots, human-machine interfaces (HMI).
- Automation of complex processes with artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve robot decision-making.
- Intelligent robotic exoskeletons.
- Voice recognition and response systems enabling interaction and verbal command of robots.

Mobility
- Autonomous delivery devices for last-mile operations.
- Drones for large-scale use.
- IoT platforms for autonomous cars.
- Multimodal image sensors for autonomous vehicles.
- Interconnected and secure mobility through remote sensing and optical communication systems, RADAR and LiDAR sensors.
- Autonomous underwater vehicles with sensors to detect and map the environment.
- Passenger demand prediction, social trends based on learning and decision-making systems.
- New mobility services for public transport.

eHealth
- Surgical robots.
- Virtual reality and augmented reality for telerehabilitation.
- Low-cost devices for remote cardiovascular monitoring.
- Image processing to diagnose injuries.
- Differential diagnosis in patients with Parkinson’s disease using biomechanical tests.
- Advanced non-intrusive remote health evaluation.
- IoT medical devices.
- Wearable tech.
- Modelling of human body movement.
- Biomedical signal processing.

Smart Building & BIM
- Advanced optimization to monitor errors in smart infrastructures.
- IoT platforms with deep learning applied to smart homes.
- Modular sensors to identify bridge structures subjected to quasi-static loads.
- 3D printing of insulating composites useful in construction.
- Energy information in digital administration.

Energy efficiency
- Internet architectures with open-source software and hardware protocols aimed at 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.

Edge & Cloud Computing
- Efficiency and optimization of artificial intelligence systems.
- Efficient artificial intelligence for cloud computing.
- Digital energy transition through the exchange of intelligence and data.
Related Projects
- The adoption of 6G applications will have a positive impact on a broad range of innovations set to transform our society in the future. These include autonomous vehicles that reduce accidents, more efficient emergency services, and connected drones that expedite the delivery of medical supplies between healthcare centres, to name a few examples. These and other emerging solutions continue to evolve, driven by the constant technological advancements in communications. The implementation of these new technologies requires a process that inevitably involves testing in environments as true to real-life conditions as possible.
- The European project LIFE Biogasnet, coordinated by the Biological Treatment of Gaseous Contaminants and Odours Group (BIOGAP) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), has validated a new biogas purification technology that improves the quality of this resource, produced in urban solid waste treatment plants and wastewater treatment facilities, while reducing the carbon footprint, thus promoting the concept of a circular economy. The new solution is based on efficient, low-cost biological technologies, combining a biotrickling filter with a nitrification bioreactor.
- As part of the USEFUL project, the Centre for Sensor, Instrumentation and Systems Development (CD6) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) has equipped a low-emission vehicle that will drive through the streets of Terrassa with optical sensors integrated into a complex system for data computing, visualisation, and storage. This car will collect and store thousands of anonymous driving data points, which will be used to develop more accurate algorithms for autonomous driving.
- The Remote Sensing Acquisition Systems Development Centre (SARTI UPC) has developed a new model of buoys to record ocean currents and temperatures as part of the European project Multi-Sensor Extra Light Oceanography Apparatus (MELOA). This is a DRIFTER, or a low-cost, low-power surface drifting buoy, which is easy to use, impact-resistant, multi-purpose, multi-sensorial, and very lightweight. It is designed to be used in all aquatic environments, from the deep sea to inland waters, including coastal areas, river plumes, and wave-breaking zones.






