R+D Lines

“Innovation is anything, but business as usual.”

R&D Strengths

Innovation, advance, lead

R&D plays an important role in our innovation process.

It results in the technology that brings new solutions and services to the market place or underpins better processes.

Consistent innovation results in high quality solutions, successful businesses, better goods and services.

R&D and other related investment at the right levels has placed us in a better position to achieve and maintain competitiveness.

The Projects

Safety at Work Projects

SiBiPaC

Project Type: Subproject Avanza Competitividad I + D + I. National Plan of Investigation Científica, Desarrollo and Innovación Tecnológica (2008-2011). Acción Estratégica de Telecomunicaciones and Sociedad de la Información
File Number: TSI-020100-2011-217
Project name: Biomonitoring system for accident prevention SiBiPaC
Project Type: Convocatoria 2010 de ayudas correspondientes al subprograma INNPACTO, dentro de la línea instrumental de Articulación and Internacionalización del Sistema, en el marco del Plan Nacional de Investigacion Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica, 2008-2011
Project name: Wireless Monitoring, Location and Alarm in High Situations Stress and Occupational Risk
S&C Role: Project Requester & Coordinator, Middleware Development & Integration, Dissemination & Exploitation

ENERGY & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROJECTS

SPEAR-Smart Prognosis of Energy with Allocation of Resources

SPEAR is a pan-European research project, which proudly bears the ITEA label. The consortium consists of 18 partners from four European countries. As the name dictates, SPEAR aims to spawn ground-breaking research results and prototypes for energy optimisation in industrial production processes. The main objective is to build a flexible and generic optimisation platform in order to gain effective and profitable energy optimisation of highly complex production processes (for further information see https://spear-project.eu/)

Project Type: Energy efficiency in Industry

File Number: EXP - 00102225 / INNO-20171045

S&C Role: (1) Data acquisition: Integration of new devices into the existing IoT platform and adaptation of the cloud platform to meet the industrial requirements, (2) Creation of new energy consumption models, (3) Forecasting algorithms, (4) Integration with simulation and optimisation frameworks, and (5) Validation in a real industrial environment

Project Funded by: CDTI under program INNOGLOBAL

SMART HYDRO
Project Type: Call Challenges-Collaboration. State Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Innovation (2013-2016, BOE of October 2).
File Number: RTC-2014-2367-5
Project name: Intelligent system to optimize the use of water in agriculture (Smart-Hydro)
S&C Role: Middleware Development & Integration, Dissemination and Exploitation ProjectFunded by: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

SMART4 ALL

PROJECT TYPE: H2020 - IA ACTION

ID: DT-ICT-01-2019WEBSITE: https://smart4all.esda-lab.gr

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The aim of this 4 years project is to build capacity (via Open Calls) amongst European stakeholders through the development of self-sustained, cross-border experiments that transfer knowledge and technology between academia and industry. The application domains targeted are digitized transportation, digitized agriculture, digitized environment and digitized anything.

S&C ROLE: S&C Participates actively in the project as leader of Digitized Environment Task Force, participating in the creation of a business plan for the platform and developing a pilot experiment.

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS :

Linkedin link https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12369183/

Twitter link: https://twitter.com/smart_4allFacebook link: https://www.facebook.com/SMART4ALL.Project/

PREMIA

Project Type: Call Challenges-Collaboration. State Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Innovation (2013-2016, BOE of October 2).
File Number:RTC-2015-3784-3
Project name: Platform for the reduction of Energy through incentives and automatic learning
S&C Role: Middleware Development & Integration, Dissemination and Exploitation Project Funded by: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

CIANO ALERT

The CIANOALERT project - INTELLIGENT ALERT AGAINST HARMFUL CyanOBACTERIA FLOWERS FOR THE WATER INDUSTRY.

File number: RTC-2016-5087-2, is funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness within the Challenges - Collaboration 2016 program. Role : IoT/Cloud/Middleware Development

ECOCASA

The ECOCASA project - Smart Spaces and Social Computing for Behavior Change in final consumer.

File number: RTC-2016-5250-6 financed by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to through the call CHALLENGES-COLLABORATION 2016.

For more information go to https://ecocasa.usal.es/es

Role : IoT & System Integration

CARE

Proyecto CARE: Development of an automatic control system for radon concentration in buildings.

The objective of this project is to give a comprehensive response to the needs of control of the radon concentration in buildings. The project will help reduce the incidence of lung cancer by guaranteeing indoor radon gas concentration levels below the performance values established by organizations such as the World Health Organization.

The project is part of the Challenges-Collaboration of the State Program for Research, Development and Innovation Oriented to the Challenges of the Society, within the framework of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016.

File number: RTC-2016-5627-1

Role: IoT & System Integration

GENESIS

Project GENESIS: Integral management of energy demand through the smart home.

This project is the creation of tools to optimize energy consumption in the digital home through the current solution in Sensing & Control Control. These tools will connect consumers/households with energy suppliers and thus optimize the entire consumption chain.

Role S&C: Coordination, deployment of the solution and data management pilot, Hosting, dissemination and exploitation.

File number: RTC-2017-6236-5 and it is financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the RETOS-COLABORACIÓN 2017 call.

Security Projects

SUPER

Project Type: 7th Framework Programme
Project name: Social sensors for secUrity Assessments and Proactive EmeRgencies management
S&C Role: Sensors and social sensors integration; middleware platform development, including the visualization and decision support solutions for security officers.

REWARD

Project Type: 7th Framework Programme
Project name: Real-time Wide-Area Radiation Surveillance System
S&C Role: Project Coordinator, Platform Development & Integration, Dissemination and Exploitation

TLA

Project Type: Eurostars
Project name: Trace Locate Anywhere
S&C Role: Project Coordinator, Development & Integration of a new tracking system for persons and assets, Dissemination and Exploitation

ENERGY PROJECTS

iURBAN
Project Type: 7th Framework Programme
Project name: Intelligent URBAn eNergy tool
S&C Role: Project Coordinator, technical requirements leader M2M platform, Smart Energy Service
Project Type: 7th Framework Programme
Project name: myGrid; Energy Efficient and Interoperable Smart Energy Systems
for Local Communities
Project Type: 7th Framework Programme
Project name: SCAlable & modular system for eNERGY trading between prosumers
S&C Role: Project Coordinator, Dissemination and Exploitation,
Platform Development & IntegrationMEGaS
Project Type: Artemis
Project name: Smart Gas Meters & Middleware for Energy Efficient Embedded Services
S&C Role: Platform Development & Integratio

HEALTH & ELDERLY PROJECTS

ARMOR

Project Type: 7th Framework Programme
Project name: Advanced multi-paRametric Monitoring and analysis for diagnosis and
Optimal manage-ment of epilepsy and Related brain disorders
S&C Role: Project Coordinator, Middleware Development & Integration, Dissemination and Exploitation

HELIX

Project Type: 7th Framework Programme
Project name: The Human Early-LIfe eXposome - novel tools for integrating early-life environmental
exposures and child health across Europe
S&C Role: Mobile Sensor Acquisition

RADIO

Project Type: H2020
Project name: Robots In Assisted Living Environments: Unobtrusive, Efficient, Reliable And Modular Solutions For Independent Ageing
S&C Role: Smart home platform and sensors integration to assistant robot system in Assisted Living Environments, Dissemination and Exploitatio

SENIOR

Improve assistance and aging through a smart home with infrared sensors

The general objective of the project is to create a care home for the elderly that acts in a non-intrusive way. The Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence technologies will be applied to create an innovative product that offers new services capable of solving the most common needs of older people living alone and their caregivers, both in terms of safety, comfort, care and well-being . This product will be designed together with the end users, both elderly and caregivers, to ensure its acceptability, validate its functionality and measure its impact. As a result, a new product will be obtained for exploitation in the elderly market (silver market).

Rol de S&C: Coordination, definition of requirements of the care home, automatic recognition of activities, detection of anomalies, development of the alert system, integration of infrared sensors in the IoT solution, pilot in real environment, dissemination and exploitation.

This project is identified as RTC-2017-6618-1 and is funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the RETOS-COLLABORATION 2017 call.

ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS

CITY-SENSE

Project Type: 7th Framework Programme
Project name: Development of sensor-based Citizens' Observatory Community for improving quality of life in cities
S&C Role: Platform Development & Integration, Data Mining, Dissemination and Exploitation

IoT PROJECTS

symbIoTe

Project Type: H2020
Project name: Symbiosis of smart objects across IoT environments
S&C Role: Smart Home User Provider, IoT Platform Integration, Dissemination, Exploitation and Standardisation