A new environment that improves the flexibility of the 5G service
March 3, 2020
Simulation of a rail terminal for goods transport
May 10, 2020The Data Management Group (DAMA-UPC) of the UPC and the spin-off Sparsity have developed the app ‘SafeWalkNearby’ to help to monitor the distance and time of walks with children under 14 in the public space during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The app ‘SafeWalkNearby’ indicates the one-kilometre area around a person’s home in which walks with children under fourteen are permitted. At all times, it monitors the distance of the user from their home on an interactive map. In addition, the application can be used to record the duration of walks, and to send notifications to indicate that the maximum time or distance has been exceeded, and to indicate when the user should start to walk back to their house.
Unlike other similar apps that are available on the market, this app, which is free and available on Google Play, guarantees the privacy of data, as it only works on a personal mobile phone and is not connected to any servers.
The spin-off Sparsity Technologies, which was founded in 2010 by the Data Management Group (DAMA-UPC), is a company created in the heart of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) to provide an urgent response to complex consultations in vast databases.
Related Projects
- The Image and Video Processing Group (GPI), part of the IDEAI-UPC research group, and the Digital Culture and Creative Technologies Research Group (DiCode) from the Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Center (CITM) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), have co-organised the AI and Music Festival (S+T+ARTS) together with Sónar+D and Betevé, to explore the creative use of artificial intelligence in music.
- The Visualisation, Virtual Reality and Graphic Interaction Research Group (ViRVIG) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) has participated in the XR4ED project, an initiative that connects the educational technology (EdTech) and Extended Reality (XR) sectors, with the aim of transforming learning and training across Europe.
- The inLab FIB at the UPC has collaborated with Lizcore® for the development of a proof of concept based on artificial intelligence to improve safety in climbing with autobelay devices. The system allows the automatic and accurate detection of risk situations before starting a route.
- Researchers from the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology of the UPC (CITM) and from the DiCode research group (Digital Culture and Creative Technologies Research Group) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) have worked on the project The Eyes of History, an initiative of the Catalan Agency for Cultural Heritage that offers an immersive view of Catalan cultural heritage. It is especially aimed at the first and second cycles of secondary education and was created to bring heritage into the classroom. Its goal is to bring the history and monuments of Catalonia closer in a vivid and innovative way, using tools such as virtual reality and new museographic narratives.
