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QuantumCrip – Research on the Ambivalence of Quantum Computing for Solving Optimization Problems and Post-Quantum Encryption

Project Description: The QuantumCrip project encompasses two major lines of research and development. The first focuses on exploring quantum computing algorithms and applications, including their execution on both quantum computers and simulators. The second line...

AGROTECYL – Sustainable, autonomous, and intelligent fertigation system for crop irrigation.

Project Description: The AGROTECYL project focuses on the research and development of a sustainable and autonomous fertigation system for crops, based on artificial intelligence. This system will be capable of predicting the irrigation and fertilization needs of...

NAVANTWING – Research on technologies for digital twinning and exploitation in the naval sector.

Naval digital transformation utilizes digital twins and virtual models that enhance efficiency and competitiveness. Despite technological challenges, it is crucial to advance in their implementation to integrate information and overcome limitations.

Duration: April 2023 – June 2025

ALIMTECH – Research, development, and implementation of cross-cutting technological solutions for the agri-food sector

ALIMTECH seeks innovative solutions for global agri-food challenges, prioritizing sustainability and competitiveness through the collaboration of 16 companies.

Duration: 2023-2025

HosmartAI: AI-based Appointment Scheduling

AI-based appointment scheduling is transforming healthcare logistics by increasing patient and healthcare professional satisfaction. HosmartAI addresses hospital appointment management challenges, optimizing the scheduling process trhought advanced artificial...

HosmartAI: AI-based Appointment Scheduling

AI4HOPE – Artificial Intelligence based health, optimism, purpose and endurance in palliative care for dementia

AI4HOPE focuses on implementing an Advanced Care Planning System for dementia patients and caregivers, integrating emotion regulation and pain management with AI models to improve care while recognizing dementia as a life-limiting disease.

Duration: 2024-2027

Cuidados paliativos

Sudoe Hospital 4.0 – Intelligent Energy Management in Hospitals

Hospitals are buildings of continuous use, which have very specific air conditioning requirements in their different spaces and are conditioned to a climatological evolution characteristic of the Sudoe territory. Inefficient management or their inadequacy lead to incensive costs, avoidable emissions and inefficiency of public investment in their construction and maintenance.

Duration: October 2019 - March 2022

Hospital inteligente

RecExpert 4.0: Expert System for Injection Moulding Quality

RecExpert 4.0, the expert system for injection moulding ensures quality in recycled thermoplastics. The project levrages Industry 4.0 technologies to enhance sustainability and process control.The RecExpert 4.0 project aims to respond to the technological need to...

ITCL and Arcelik Global take steps in the AI4LABOUR by sharing knowledge and adding talent

During 2023, ITCL hosted two employees from the Turkish multinational Arçelik Global, who will work collaboratively for the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie AI4LABOUR project. A journey that for the two employees, originally from the Turkish country, they valued as “extremely positive” in terms of implementing common ideas and that also allowed them to “test the project survey” being the first company in the world to do it.

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School of Empathy, a game to combat bulling

ITCL has recently launched a video game that seeks to combat bullying. In this way, the aim is to answer questions such as what to do in a bullying situation or how we can correct this type of situation. A 'serious game' developed from Burgos with the aim of fighting against bullying and that allows the player to acquire responsible behavior to avoid bullying situations in the school environment.

School of Empathy screenshot

Sofía Vallecorsa CERN: “The role of the private sector in the field of quantum computing is very relevant with an ecosystem of companies that are already looking towards it”

Talking about quantum computing at the European level is talking about CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research. From her laboratories, Sofía Vallecorsa has been working for years on the analysis and potential of quantum computing. From the Franco-Swiss border, Vallecorsa leads the study of the Quantum Technology Initiative, dedicated to investigating the impact of quantum technologies (computing, detection and communication) in the field of High Energy Physics.

ESPADIN- Optimizing Data Spaces in Industry

Collaborative technological impulse dedicated to bringing the sharing and exploitation of the value of data to industrial practice under the paradigm of the denominated shared data spaces, working on the quality, availability and reliability of the data. Industrial research in these three areas will provide lines of work that promote trust and security, fundamental for the progress of the aforementioned paradigm, in terms of solving cross-cutting and strategic challenges of Spanish industry.

Duration: 2022-2024

SecBluRed- Cybersecurity for Industrial IoT Systems

SecBluRed - Holistic approach to cybersecurity in the Industrial IoT, proposes several lines of research within the development of cybersecurity capabilities focused on productive, operational and logistical activities in the industrial environment that offer the necessary protection to the connected industry.

Duration: 2022-2025

iMERMAID will improve the quality of Mediterranean waters from Burgos

Burgos hosted the first meeting of the European project Imermaid, in which ITCL Technology Center participates, and which seeks to incorporate advanced technological solutions that contribute to improving the environmental situation of the Mediterranean. An important project promoted by the Horizon Europe program of the European Union with a duration of 36 months and about 9 million euros that was born to address the problem of chemical pollution in the Mediterranean from profitable and sustainable solutions.

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FitDrive to be presented on 3 May at the European Parliament

The European Project FitDrive, in which ITCL participates, will be presented on 3 May at the European Parliament at a working day in which the partners of an important project that seeks to minimise driving risks in professional drivers. The meeting will take place in Brussels, promoted by the European Federation of Driving Schools (EFA).

HosmartAI – Intelligent Hospital Development

The HosmartAI project will create a common open integration platform, with the necessary tools to facilitate and measure the benefits of integrating digital technologies (robotics and AI) into the healthcare system.

Several large-scale pilot projects will make it possible to evaluate the various improvements in several hospital environments:
Medical diagnosis, surgical interventions, disease prevention and treatment, rehabilitation support and long-term care.

Duration: 2021 - 2024

iPROHAB – AI-Driven Supply Procedd Optimiz

Research into the use of RPA systems for reading and downloading information, as well as the use of Blockchain technology, to provide the information obtained with veracity and immutability. Through the use of artificial intelligence, companies in the value chain will be redirected to the optimal profile.

Duration: 8 months (2022-2023)

iPROHAB

KAIROS – Intelligent Manufacturing for Naval Composites

Research in cutting-edge composite manufacturing technologies, Industry 4.0 and Digital Twin aimed at developing a solution for the efficient manufacturing of large composite parts for the shipbuilding sector, with a high degree of automation, as well as quality and cost optimisation.

Duration: October 2021-September 2025

Testing of the European Mindtooth project has started in Burgos

This May, the Polytechnic School of the University of Burgos is hosting the tests of the European Mindtooth project, which aims to measure the psychophysiological state of users at the wheel by achieving a truly "intelligent" and "cooperative" interaction between human actors (car drivers, aeroplane pilots, factory workers) and the devices around them through the use of brain signals.

CEL.IA advances AI transfer with the development of a Toolkit

CEL.IA, the national network created to facilitate the transfer and application of Artificial Intelligence in which five Spanish technology centres participate, advances in its objective of transferring and applying Artificial Intelligence, with the development of a Toolkit that will serve as the technological base of the network

CEL.IA toolkit

TWINRAIL – Railway Maintenance 4.0 Based on the Virtual Connection of Mobile Sensors

This project aims to develop an algorithm capable of determining the degree of ballast deterioration during the tamping process, facilitating the identification of areas where ballast should be replaced without additional costs beyond routine maintenance.

Duration: 2021-2023

Brain EN – Energy Efficient Microgrid Technologies

Brain EN Consortium is committed to 21st century energy aimed at distributed generation, integrated in microgrids with own generation and self-consumption, with inherent characteristics of sustainability, security, flexibility, cleanliness and efficiency, which must be managed and coordinated with the general grid by means of new intelligent algorithms.

Duration: 2020 - 2023

Microrredes Energéticamente Eficientes

IBERUS – Biomedical Tech for NMS Degeneratice Pathologies

IBERUS is the name of the Network of Excellence of the 4 Technology Centers (CCTT) that have defined a Strategic Program with the aim of stimulating the Cervera 15 Priority Technology, framed among the technologies for health, both in the research and development activities of the centers themselves and in the business and clinical context

Duration: 2021 - 2023

Tecnológica de Ingeniería Biomédica

Cama UP – Tech fot Enhanced Personal Mobility

Cama UP aims to improve personal autonomy in basic activities of daily living for certain people with functional mobility. The innovative CAMA-UP technological system aims to help certain people in this group to be self-sufficient in these actions, avoiding the help of the main caregiver or third parties for this purpose and promoting their autonomy and personal independence.

Duration: 2020-2022

CEL.IA – Advanced AI Solutions for Human-Machine Interfaces

CEL.IA is a strategic research project in cooperation between several technological centers that aims to join efforts to develop a "Toolkit" or complete offer of solutions based on virtual and augmented reality, artificial vision and natural language processing, to facilitate the effective incorporation of Artificial Intelligence in human-machine interfaces.

Duration: 2021 - 2023

PROSUMES – Intelligent Optimization of Energy Networks

Development of an integrated and intelligent energy management system, covering everything from measurement to efficient energy management and transactions, which can be implemented locally in neighborhoods, industrial areas, groups, or collectives of buildings, etc., that have renewable energy sources and are interested in engaging in shared self-consumption of this renewable energy generation.

Duration: 2021 - 2022

PROSUMES- Optimización Inteligente del Autoconsumo Energético

TEEPP – Research in Innovative Technologies for the Optimization of Energy Efficiency in Production Processes

To achieve the optimization of energy efficiency in companies with high consumption in their production processes through industrial research using innovative technologies to study the energy process of the processes, detect and correct anomalies and replan the production process and its products.

Duration: 2021 - 2022

ALMATIC – Definition and development of algorithms for data analysis platform for MAnTenTenTing, Predictive Quality and health problems.

Research of a data analysis platform on which a Smart Data system will be deployed to process general purpose industry information and on which algorithms based on advanced AI techniques will be studied to identify potential problems in the studied sectors of interest.

Duration: September 2021 - September 2022

Simusafe introduces new behavioral models for road users

The international Simusafe project, which is a pioneer in measuring response times and actions that can be altered by fatigue, stress or consumption of certain substances, presented today at its final conference the new behavioral models for road users: car, motor, bicycle, pedestrians. He also unveiled the main lines of an innovative multi-user simulator system that aims to reduce accidents on the world's roads.

Simusafe conference

NeuroCPS4 Maintenance – Neuromorphic Anomaly Detector

NeuroCPS4Maintenance is a project that aims to develop and demonstrate a neuromorphic edge anomaly detector that is robust against conceptual drift, alerts to faults early and provides fast, real-time response for predictive maintenance applications in high-demand industrial scenarios (industrial press). This anomaly detector will be based on deep learning algorithms (LSTM) and implemented on system on chips (SoC).

Duration: March 2021 - 2022

FitDrive – Control Device for Drivers

FitDrive is a project whose purpose is to minimize the risk of accidents through the use of a monitoring device for drivers. The goal of determining fitness to drive is to strike a balance between minimizing driving-related road safety risks to the individual, the community, maintaining the driver's lifestyle and their employment-related mobility independence.

Duration: 2021 - 2024

European Alliance for Clean Hydrogen

ITCL joins the European Alliance for Clean Hydrogen to promote the energy transition This Alliance is the main tool of the European Union to achieve clean energy by 2050 in compliance with the Green Pact The Technological Institute of Castilla y León (ITCL) has...

INUNDATIO – Flood Risk Modeling with AI and BigData.

INUNDATIO ofrece un modelo de sistema de gestión de avenidas súbitas (flash floods) en cabeceras de cuenca basado en su caracterización hidromorfológica, la toma contínua de datos hidrometeorológicos (lluvia + caudal), la comparación con datos históricos, la simulación de escenarios de riesgo y el análisis de la vulnerabilidad para las vidas humanas y los elementos materiales.

Duración: Octubre 2019 - Abril 2022

CAMASMART – Adaptive device to improve the autonomy of people in and out of bed

The CAMASMART project: "Adaptable device for improving the autonomy of people in bed entry and exit" is a cooperative project that aims to develop the methodology that generates the technical specifications of a pre-prototype solution that fits the need detected in the field of dependence, in the access/exit of an ordinary bed, through adaptable devices.

Duration: 6 months

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InRoad 4.0 – Intelligent Roads for Vision Zero

The project will facilitate the adoption of technological solutions to provide useful information to road users (for safer driving), road concession companies (for better road maintenance and greater resource efficiency), public agencies (for proper decision making in road planning) and emergency bodies (to intervene quickly and safely).

Duration: 2018 - 2022

Inroad 4.0

AIMARS – AI Event Security System

AIMARS aims to demonstrate Europe's First Integrated Security and Surveillance Technology Solution for large gatherings: to provide useful and real-time information to Public and Private Security Forces and Corps, to prevent attacks, crowds, riots and other incidents.

Duration: 2018 - 2022

Fandango – Digital Twin in Automotive Manufacturing

Fandango is aimed at improving operational efficiency in the automotive components sector by acting on the visibility of information in the supply chain, maximizing product quality and optimizing maintenance processes. It will employ the use of digital twins to detect the occurrence of problems earlier and predict outcomes more accurately than pure simulation models.

Project duration: 2018 - 2022

Productio – Boosting Industrial Efficiency with Industry 4.0

Research on various technologies, techniques, tools, methodologies and knowledge aimed at increasing the operational capacity of industrial processes (Overall Equipment Efficiency - OEE) within the framework of the connected industry. The project has enabled the adoption of productive and maintenance solutions in the connected industry by implementing digital security.

Duration: 2016-2020

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