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Internet of

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Internet of Things in Catalonia: Technology Report

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October 2018| 3Internet of Things in Catalonia | Technology Report

Contents

1. Definition of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Its Importance to Industry 4

2. Global Leaders in IoT: Key Players 9

3. The Global Market for IoT. Current and Expected Data 13

4. Key Regions and Hubs 18

5. Top Global Investors 20

6. Key Trends in IoT 23

7. Recent and Future Applications by Demand Sector 25

8. IoT in Catalonia 30

9. TECNIO Centres that Work with IoT 34

10. Examples of IoT in Catalonia 38


1. Definition of the Internet of

Things (IOT)


Definition of the Internet of Things

How important is it?

• IoT is an essential driver of innovation. It is aimed at consumers, data-based business opportunities, the

transformation of industry, new applications and even new business models and revenue streams in all sectors of the

digital transformation economy.

What is IoT?

• The Internet of things (IoT) describes the digital connection of everyday objects

to the Internet in order to achieve total control over such objects.

What does it involve?

• It consists of equipping a range of devices with embedded computing

systems and connecting them using standard technologies. This allows different

devices to communicate and interact, both among themselves and with more

centralized controllers.

Source: IDC 2016 and authors’ own data

“The concept of IoT takes a number of names, depending on its field of application. If it applies to cities,

it is known as smart cities; if it applies to industry, it is known as industrial IoT; if it applies to vehicles,

it is known as connected vehicles.”

Source: Authors’ own data


Out of all Industry 4.0 technologies, IoT is considered to have the greatest transformative power and is inextricably linked to

other technologies, including:

Source: IDC 2016

FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT OF ORGANIZATIONS REGARD IOT AS A STRATEGIC BUSINESS THAT WILL ALLOW

THEM TO COMPETE MORE EFFICIENTLY.


New technologies generate huge volumes of data. IoT allows huge amounts of data to be

transferred and stored, and provides innovative new analysis methods for the interpretation of massdata within the context of the application’s purpose.

Within Industry 4.0, more and more organizations are beginning to use cloud-based software that

allows them to store and share data across organizational boundaries.

Big data

The cloud

Collaborative robotics

The field of collaborative robotics seeks to create interaction between humans and robots; the robot

does not substitute humans, but rather helps them. It also promotes communication betweenmachines within a process, so robots must have specific characteristics.

Sensors

Integrated chips and sensors enable objects to be equipped with a memory with respect to their

behaviour. This makes it possible to support the configuration of production resources (machines,robots, etc.), and to control, manage and optimize them.




THE IOT ECOSYSTEM ALLOWS USERS TO CONNECT AND CONTROL THEIR DEVICES REMOTELY.

A practical example of IoT

By using a remote control device (e.g. a smartphone or a tablet), users can send or request information through the network

to the IoT device.

Next, the device generates the order and sends the requested information through the network to be analysed and

represented on the remote control device (the smartphone or tablet).

Process of connecting an IoT washing machine

External interfaces

Analytics Additional tools

Data display

Processing and activation

Device management

Connectivity and normalization

Data

base

1

2

3

1. The IoT device

connects to the local

Wi-Fi.

2. The app for the IoT

device is dow nloaded.

3. The IoT device is

registered on the IoT

platform.

Features of an IoT washing machine

º

External interfaces

Analytics Additional tools

Data display

Processing and activation

Device management

Connectivity and normalization

Data

base

1

2 3 4

5

1. Lower-than-normal water

pressure is detected.

2. The washing machine system

indicates three actions to be

carried out:a) Switch of f the washing

machine.b) Notify the user.

c) Notify customer support.

3. The washing machine

switches off automatically.

4. The user is notified.

5. Customer support is notified.


The Importance of IoT to Industry

Cross-sectoral: It is a technology that applies to numerous sectors, including production (smart factories), mobility

(smart cities) and home automation (smart homes).

Support for decision-making: Having access to real-time data concerning business, process and product variables

facilitates more agile decision-making based on real knowledge.

Cost reduction: More efficient processes that are connected on two levels: device to device and device to person. This

can translate into lower costs, since it provides information on the use and operation of devices, supply chains and

facilities, and the connectivity between different devices.

Impact on innovation: IoT generates innovation opportunities for companies in different areas: products, processes and

business models.

Real-time control and predictability: The state of assets can be monitored in real time and future behaviour

anticipated. In this way, it is possible to identify possible failures before they occur and therefore implement predictive

maintenance systems.


2. Global Leaders in IoT: Key

Players


Global Leaders in IoT

These are some of the main players in the world of IoT:

Source: IoT Analytics


Cisco has created a dynamic Connections Counter that

makes it possible to estimate the number of connected objects

from July 2013 to 2020.

Digital Life is the best-know n solution. Its w ebsite features a

w ide range of home automation measures that can be

controlled through a mobile phone application.

Bosch w ill build a plant in Dresden, Germany, to meet the demand

generated by the grow ing number of devices w ith IoT technology.

The new plant w ill focus on the manufacture of 12-inch w afer

chips.

GE has created a parallel organization called General Electric

Digital that focuses on predictive maintenance and other aspects

of IoT. Moreover, its Predix platform is des igned to make

development in the industrial IoT more straightforw ard.

British chip design company A RM has ventured into the w orld of

IoT. The company’s low -pow er designs have represented the

cornerstone of its consumer goods, and this has enabled it to

establish a place in the IoT ecosystem, w ith designs that can be

used in low -pow er connected sensors.

Fujitsu Global’s move into IoT covers the entire range of fields in

the Internet industry, including smart utilit ies and energy, smart

manufacturing, transport and logistics, and retail. It also sells

analytics services so that businesses can make sense of all the

data being generated by their sensors.

The acquisit ion of Nest, w hich markets smart thermostats and

f ire detectors that learn patterns and interact w ith their

ow ners, w as the company’s f irst foray into the field now know n

as smart homes.

Amazon Web Services is the most important provider of cloud

services. It has a var iety of platforms (e.g. Kinesis, S3,

Lambda, Machine Learning and DynamoDB) for building IoT

applications that allow users to create their ow n IoT

applications for controlling IoT sensor data remotely.

The Intel IoT platform is a scalable and interoperable

reference model that connects devices and delivers data to

the cloud. Intel’s IoT products can be found in buildings, smart

cities and connected cars.

Key Players in the IoT Market

IBM has a range of products in this area, including an M2M

messaging platform called MessageSight, MobileFirst, w hich offers

mobile products, and BlueMix, a development platform for

applications for managing the collection and analysis of IoT data.

Source: Computer World UK


Follow ing the acquisition of the Aruba Netw orks netw ork

provider in 2015 and Niara in 2017 to complement the

security of its netw ork portfolio, the company now offers IoT

packages through the Universal IoT Platform.

Source: Computer World UK

Key Players in the IoT Market

Microsoft plans to make IoT applicable to the company’s

daily activities. Examples include its Window s Embedded

operating systems, w hich are designed to compile and

analyse data, and products such as smart systems.

Oracle aims to provide IoT solutions in real t ime. In order

to achieve this, it offers a range of services that includes a

platform to enable Java in embedded sensor dev ices, a

middlew are platform to create applications for capturing

data and databases to store it.

It helped create AllJoyn, an open-source IoT framew ork for

connecting devices that is now managed by the Linux

Foundation.

Qualcomm has focused on the automotive industry,

w earables, healthcare and education.

SAP created S/4HANA, a cloud platform that provides

real-time information on the data obtained by connected

sensors.

Acquired by Samsung, SmartThings manufactures its ow n

IoT infrastructure equipment, such as IoT portals and low -

pow er technologies that use non- licensed spectrum, but it

also has an IoT consumer division that focuses on

products for the connected home.

Its Starter Kit includes connectors and motion sensors

that connect to a central hub and can be view ed through a

smartphone application.

Salesforce says that IoT is not just about connected

machines, but that it presents a new opportunity for

marketers to glean deeper insights into their prospects and

customers. It is about connected products and marketing

too.


3. The Global Market for IoT.

Current and Expected Data



The global IoT market is expected to be worth 14.4 trillion

dollars in 2022, with most of the investment focusing on

improving the user experience.

Size of the IoT market

Source: Business Insider

Aggregate investment in IoT is expected to be 4.8 trillion

dollars between 2016 and 2021.

Revenues from the IoT market will increase from 1,928 billion

dollars in 2013 to 7,065 billion dollars by 2020.

Investment and return

Source: BI Intell igence Estimates

3.7 trillion

dollars Improvements in

the user experience

3 trillion

dollars Time-to-market

reduction

2.7 trillion

dollars Supply chain and

logistics

2.5 trillion

dollars Cost reduction

2.5 trillion

dollars Increase in labour

productivity

14.4 trillion dollarsEstimated value of the global

IoT market by 2022

Source: Cisco and Business Insider

Estimated investment in IoT by sector



Source: “Advancing the Internet of Things in Europe” (European

Commission, 2016)

Source: Cisco IBSG

Number of connected devices

Forecasts indicate that there will be between 20 and 30 billion IoT devices

by 2020. This translates to around four devices for every human on Earth.

The number of connections within the European Union is estimated to

increase from approximately 1.8 million in 2013 to almost 6 billion in 2020.

This means that the EU IoT market would be worth more than one trillion

euros by 2020.

Source: “Business Insider Global IoT Executive Survey” (2016)

It is worth noting that there is some inconsistency between the estimates of the main IoT market indicators for 2020:

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Current and Expected DataTHE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) IS TRANSFORMING COMPANIES, GOVERNMENTS AND

CONSUMERS AND CHANGING THE WAY THEY INTERACT WITH THE WORLD.

The three main groups in the IoT ecosystem and their respective forecasts are as follows:

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7,7

2,14,7

11,2

3

7,7

Negocis Consumidors Governs

No. devices (billion units)

ROI ($ bn)Investment ($ bn)

Source: Authors’ own data based on different sources


The impact of IoT on industry is expected to grow

exponentially in the coming years and to result in an

increase in the GDP of the world’s major economies of 10.6

trillion dollars in the next 15 years.

National absorptive capacity (NAC) measures the extent to

which countries have woven the industrial IoT into their

economic fabric, and takes social, economic and political

factors into account.

China:$1.8 trillion

United Kingdom: $531 billion

Germany: $700 billion

United States: $7.1 trillion

IoT market for the year 2030 (US $)

Source: Accenture’s report “Winning with the Industrial Internet of Things” (2015)

64 63,9 63,2 62,4 61,859 58,8

55 54,4 54,3 54,152,2 50,9

47,1 45,7

33 32,4 31,3 29,9

21,3

Ranking of countries according to their national absorptive capacity (NAC)

The Global Market for IoT

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4. Key Regions and Hubs


Key IoT Development Hubs

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96

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0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350

Berlin

Denver

Hong Kong/Shenzhen

Tokyo

Toronto

Bangalore

Seattle

San Diego

Chicago

Paris

Los Angeles

Boston

New York

London

San Francico

Number of IoT company headquarters

Ranking of the top 15 IoT cities

The United States tops the ranking of IoT companies, while Europe takes second place, with more than 2,000 start-ups in the

sector.

Source: IoT Analytics Database of 2000+ IoT Companies

San Francisco

New York

Boston

Los Angeles

Chicago

San Diego

Seattle

Denver


5. Top Global Investors


Top Global InvestorsFIVE OF THE TOP 12 IOT INVESTORS ARE CORPORATE VENTURE ARMS.

Ranking of top IoT investors (2012-2016)

Source: CB Insights


Main Global InvestorsINTEL CAPITAL AND QUALCOMM VENTURES ARE THE TOP INVESTORS IN IOT START-UPS.

Both companies have been active investors in wearables and sensor start-ups. Since Intel and Qualcomm are involved in

designing and/or manufacturing ever-smaller chips to power mobile devices, this area likely offers them strategic value.

Intel Capital has invested in BodyLabs, a manufacturer of 3D body-scanning sensors, and Sano Intelligence, a biometric sensordeveloper. Intel Capital has also invested in wearables companies and betted on IoT infrastructure start-ups such as Stratoscale,Bocom Intelligent Network Technologies and SigFox.

Qualcomm Ventures recently invested in the drone company 3D Robotics and inWhistle Labs, a company that manufactures adog wearable. It also invested in sensor networks developed by Panoramic Power, Placemeter and Streetline, which measureenergy usage and traffic in public places.

The third most active investors were Foundry Group and Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers. Foundry Group has made multiplebets on IoT-related hardware investments: Fitbit, LittleBits and MakerBot.

Source: CB Insights

KPCB has been active across IoT categories, including wearables (Jawbone and Motiv), home automation (Enlighted andNest) and automotive (Inrix and Waze).


6. Key Trends in IoT


Key IoT Trends

BUSINESS

TECHNOLOGY

FIELD

IoT platforms

Smart cities Smart mobility

Smart homes

Industry 4.0

Business process optimization

Connected ecosystem

Embedded chips

Blockchain and cyber security

Data hubIoT analytics

Big data Cloud

From product-based business

models to customer-based

business models

Local RFID and Wi-Fi systems

M2M communication


7. Recent and Future Applications

by Demand Sector


IoT is currently being applied to sectors in which there is strong potential for connection:

In the next 10 years, the IoT revolution will profoundly alter manufacturing, energy, agriculture, transport and other industrial sectors that together account for nearly two thirds of world GDP.

Source: Authors’ own data based on information from the documents “Advancing the Internet of Things in Europe” (European Comm ission, 2016) and “OECD Digital

Economy Outlook 2015” (OECD, 2015)

Smart homes

Personal well-being and

wearables Advanced manufacturing Smart energy

Smart cities

Automated driving / smart

mobility Smart agriculture Circular economy

Recent Applications by Demand Sector



FORECASTS INDICATE THAT, BY 2018, 40% OF THE TOP 100 MANUFACTURERS WILL RELY ON

CONNECTED PRODUCTS TO PROVIDE PRODUCT AS A SERVICE.

Recent Applications by Demand Sector

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Previsió pessimista Previsió optimista

Settings Main applications

Healthcare Monitoring and management of illnesses to improve patient w ell-being.

Home Energy management, safety and security, chore automation, usage-based design of appliances.

RetailAutomated checkout, layout optimization, smart CRM, in-store personalized promotions, inventory shrinkage prevention.

Offices Organizational redesign and w orker monitoring, augmented reality for training, energy monitoring, building security.

Factories Operations optimization, predictive maintenance, inventory optimization, health and safety.

Worksites Operations optimization, equipment maintenance, health and safety, IoT-enabled R&D.

Vehicles Condition-based maintenance, reduced insurance.

Cities Public safety and health, traffic control, resource management.

Outside Logistics routing, autonomous cars and trucks, navigation.

Source: McKinsey Global Institute Analysis

Economic impact of IoT by sector


Smart homes

Personal

well-being and

wearables

Recent and Future Applications

Sports performance Smart watch

Parental control

Smart glasses

Healthcare

Location of personal belongings

Monitoring of a patient’s condition

Caries prevention

Maintenance of plants

State of household appliances

Efficient heat management

Smart lighting

Balanced diet

Habit reminders

Current applications

Future applications


Retail

Smart cities

Smart

mobility

Car park optimization

Air-quality measurement

Smart lightingPeople counting

Optimized waste collection

Availability of a network of services

Autonomous cars

Personalized changing rooms

Automation of purchasing

Recent and Future Applications

Food expiry

Fitness tracking

Parking space management

Current applications

Future applications


8. IoT in Catalonia


IoT in Catalonia: Main Mapping Conclusions

103 companies offering IoT

solutions have been detected

215M€ turnover related to IoT

92% are SMEs

41% of companies have a

turnover higher than a €1M1,695 employees work

in IoT

Highly internationalized sector:

13,6% of companies have

subsidiaries abroad

41,7% of companies are

exporters

IoT

in Catalonia

This ecosystem is composed either

by start-ups and consolidated

companies:

52,4% of companies are less than 10

years old

Classification of companies

considered:

- Solution providers

- Software developers

- Hardware manufacturers

- Integrators and consultancies

Source: authors' ow n follow ing Orbis, ACCIÓ and Catalonia Start-up Hub Directories. For company

turnover and employee data, estimates w ere made based on company business lines.


Ecosystem and map of IoT agents in Catalonia

FairsClusters and associations

TECNIO centers

Source: Authors' ow n based on IoT Catalan Alliance

Sectors of application

Automotive and Motorcycle

Machinery and Equipment

Metal and Metallurgy

Health and Medical

Equipment

Pharmaceutics

Construction

Food and Gourmet

Products

Circular Economy

Fashion and Textile

Habitat and Furniture

Public administration

Universities

Note: The use of these brands is merely for information purposes. The brands mentioned in this report belong to their respective owners and under no circumstances are they the property of ACCIÓ. This

is a partial representation for the purpose of i l lustrating the main companies that belong to the photonics ecosystem in Cata lonia, but other companies may exist that have not been included in the study.

Partial illustrational table

Companies

Start-ups


Catalan companies at the 2017 IoT Solutions World Congress

Catalan government’s stand

- Telecommunications Technology

Centre of Catalonia (CTTC)- UPC Technology Centre (CIT UPC)

- EURECAT

- i2CAT Foundation

- LEITAT

- ACKSTORM

- Agrifood Alternative Technologies- Ateknea Solutions

- Beabloo

- Bismart Business Intelligence Specialist

Services - Datawatt - Seinon Solutions

- Effitronix Systems

- Hemav

- IN2 Ingeniería de la

Información- Industrial Shields

- PickData

- Sensing & Control

- SIRT- Smilics

- TAI Smart Factory

- Tecsidel

Companies TECNIO technology agents

Barcelona City Council’s stand

- AEInnova

- Atlantis- BIT Physical Retail

- Datalong

- Emser

- im3- inLab FIB UPC

- iquadrat

- Mycelium Network

- Nice People at Work

- Opentrends- Rokubun

- Sparsity

- Tandem

- Thingtia- Vintegris

- Zolertia

Companies with their own stand at the 2017 IoT Solutions World Congress

- NEXIONA CONNECTOCRATS

- Accent Systems - Automatitzacio De Processos i

Mediambient (PROMAUT Group)

- Barcelona City Council

- Enginyeria de Software- Harting Iberia

- Farnell Components

- ACCIÓ

- Austrian Trade Office- Itoplas Engineering

- Oasys Outsourcing Automation

Systems

- STP Group- Test Motors

- S-CONNECT

- ACKSTORM

- Agrifood Alternative Technologies- Ateknea Solutions

- Beabloo

- Bismart Business Intelligence Specialist

Services - Datawatt - Seinon Solutions

- Effitronix Systems

- Hemav

Note: This list includes general companies that w ork in IoT and not just IoT applied to Industry 4.0


9. TECNIO Centres specializing

in IoT


TECNIO Centres Specializing in IoT

Technological innovation centre that operates in the

field of optical engineering. Its activities focus on the

development of real applications for l ight, especially in

the fields of health sciences, optical sensors (real -time

data acquisition, vision in remote areas of the visible

spectrum), l ighting, displays and energy, the

incorporation of optical devices for the control and

measurement of production processes and the

manufacture of optical systems and components.

Research on new principles and properties of

materials for microsystems, new manufacturing and

assembly methods, new algorithms for integrating

information processing, new applications of

microsystems in microinstrumentation and process

control. Applications in: bioelectronics, medicine, the

environment, agriculture and food, the automotive

industry, robotics, instrumentation and

pharmaceuticals.

Centre specializing in the construction of functional

prototypes that can be industrialized and

commercialized.Experts in applications for the

control of energy and/or movement. Technologies

developed: electricity, control electronics, power

electronics, industrial communications and digital

control with processors. Applications for these

technologies: from the automation of processors and

machines to renewable energies and the electrical

grid, among many others.

The centre is based in Castelldefels and carries out

basic and applied research that focuses on the

following lines: communication systems, networks

and technologies and geomatics. With respect to

Industry 4.0, it has developed virtualized and

software-defined networks, simulation, RFID, wireless

power collection and transfer, machine-to-machine

communications, IoT platforms, among many other

technologies.

Cutting-edge research on medical image analysis;

visual object recognition; document analysis;

interpretation of images, colour and texture;

embedded vision; visual perception; industrial vision;

indexing and multimedia recovery; interpretation of

video surveillance images; interactive 3D viewing; and

augmented reality. Highly specialized technical

consulting and technology transfer through custom

development for companies.

The centre specializes in information technology and

the development of software for the management and

analysis of large volumes of data for companies and

the government. Its technology portfolio includes a

system for managing large volumes of information in

the form of a high-performance network or graph and

a smart cities management platform for interacting with

mobile applications and defining the best route

according to personalized and customizable criteria in

real time.



Centre Easy conducts basic research in the f ield of

artif icial intelligence and carries out technology

transfer in a number of applied research projects.

It specializes in artif icial intelligence and

MachCrow d, smart digital technologies and their

transfer to industry.

Eurecat w as created w hen several technology centres

came together, and it therefore benefits from more

than 600 professionals w ith a w ide range of expertise

in both industry and the digital w orld. With respect to

Industry 4.0, its f ields of research include new

manufacturing processes, autonomous robotics,

simulation, 3D printing, big data and IT security.

The GTI focuses on the human aspects of technology

and explores new uses and new technologies, w ith

research components relating to human-computer

interaction, technology-supported learning and 3D

graphics.

In terms of Industry 4.0, the centre has developed and

implemented robots and telematic applications. It also

has a specialization area focusing on serious gaming.

Starlab’s areas of w ork are space technology and

neuroscience, tw o f ields w ith a common feature: the

increasing availability of information.

With respect to Industry 4.0, it engages in lines of

w ork related to the cloud and IoT.

The centre, w hich is part of the Spanish National

Research Council (CSIC) and is located on the UAB

campus, is dedicated to research in the f ield of

artif icial intelligence. It also carries out technology

transfer to companies to improve processes through

the use of artif icial intelligence.

In addition, it develops decision-making support

systems.

A leading technology centre in the f ield of smart cities

and the healthcare industry that promotes the use of

ICTs. Its main Industry 4.0-related lines of research

are communications, decision-making support

systems, human-computer interaction and security. It

carries out research in these areas and transfers the

technology to companies.

The centre boasts state-of-the-art facilities w here its

projects are carried out.



The centre has six research and development

divisions: Advanced Materials, Environmental

Technology and Biotechnology, Device Design and

Engineering, Biomedicine, Safety and Sustainability,

and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods.

In the field of Industry 4.0, it develops the following

advanced manufacturing lines: collaborative robotics,

printed electronics, roll-to-roll processing, rapid

manufacturing, 3D printing and offline programming.

The MCIA works in the fields of energy efficiency,

electromobility and industrial systems.

With regard to Industry 4.0, it develops technologies for

the collection, processing, transmission and storage of

information in digital format, and for the creation of

solutions for controll ing, monitoring and supporting the

decision-making process. It also develops technologies

that are involved in the maintenance and control of

production plants, industrial processes and machinery,

and integrated smart management systems.

The centre carries out research and innovation in

advanced Internet architectures, applications and services.

It focuses on research lines relating to fixed and mobile

network architectures, wireless sensor networks and

content-based multimedia technologies, with the aim of

developing new products, services and applications in the

fields of eHealth, smart cities and smart regions, advanced

manufacturing and culture/creativity. It manages Anella

Industrial.

CEPHIS aims to become a leading centre in the field of

flexible electronics.

The centre researches technologies, methods and

applications for generating physically and functionally

flexible electronic systems.

Flexible electronics can be used to improve the

adaptation, in terms of comfort and cost, of new

environments for the application of electronic systems

(people, cars, homes, cities, Industry 4.0, etc.). The

physical flexibility makes it possible to mechanically and

functionally adapt the associated computing.


10. Examples of IoT in Catalonia


Smart parking system

Urbiotica has developed a

smart parking system in the tourist town of L’Escala,

which is strongly affected by

seasonality. This system aims to reduce

traffic congestion caused by vehicles looking for parking

spaces.

Patient telemonitoring system

This system monitors the vital signs of patients with complex chronic illnesses and patients who require such

care following acute episodes or before and after surgery.

Reduction of water

consumption for the

cultivation of apples

The fruit cooperatives of

Girona have implemented the

Giroreg system, an IoT-based

system for plot-level irrigation

on the basis of the high-

frequency measurement of

the soil’s water content.

Examples of IoT in Catalonia


System for the elimination of public transport barriers

for people with visual impairments

The objective of the project is to eliminate the barriers

faced by people with visual and cognitive impairments

when using public transport. The system helps users by guiding them through metro stations and indicating the

buses they should board.

This involves a sensor that is directly connected

to the mobile phones of tourist apartment owners

and alerts them when noise thresholds are

exceeded.

The device is activated through pattern

recognition that calculates when an unacceptable

noise level is reached.

The aim of the solution was to implement

dynamic traffic light selection systems on two

of the city’s main thoroughfares: Gran Via de

les Corts Catalanes and Ronda del General

Mitre.

The implementation of seven traffic monitoring sections on

Gran Via and six on Ronda del General Mitre made it

possible to monitor traffic between 16 intersections on

Ronda del General Mitre and 14 on Gran Via.



Predictive maintenance system

MICO24 is a predictive system developed by Effitronix in 2009

with the aim of obtaining complete control of machines to increase

productivity, prevent unplanned downtime and reduce the costs

associated with corrective maintenance.

Since then, it has been implemented in a number of companies,

including La Farga Group, a family-owned company and world leader

in copper recycling technology. In 2010, MICO24 was implemented

at La Farga Rod in some critical elements of its production process.

The system analyses the data from sensors installed at key points in

the elements to be controlled, processes the data and sends

information to the company concerning the incident and the

corrective measure to be applied. The success of the first

implementation led to a new MICO24 being installed at La Farga Tub

at the end of 2011. It has since been extended and is now used for

quality control and production tasks.

Benefits obtained

• 100% reduction in unplanned downtime

• 10% increase in production

• 30% reduction in maintenance costs

• 15% reduction in energy consumption

• Reduction in occupational hazards



Control of machine operations

Industrias Puigjaner, S.A. (DENN) is a family business founded in 1885 in

Barcelona. It is dedicated to the manufacture of machines for metal

forming by spinning. The company’s biggest assets are its expertise and

its capacity for development that allows it to offer an extensive product

range within the niche market of metal forming by spinning.

Along with the Tecnalia technology centre, it has developed a web portal

called Denn Data for controlling the online production of its

machines, process parameters, energy consumption and alarms from

any device.

As part of the project, an integrated data capture and management

system and a cloud data management and analysis tool have been

developed. This project has been developed for the NTR (Network

Technology Revolution) series of spinning lathes.

In a second phase, the analysis of this data and the use of machine

learning algorithms (advanced analytics) will allow DENN to predict

customer problems, anticipate production downtime and carry out

both preventive and predictive maintenance.



Standardization of manufacturing processes

Gestamp has developed a project for the digitization of hot

stamping lines to collect more than 1,800 useful indicators to gain

information about the operation of the machinery.

The information collected provides information about the cycle time

and different operating parameters that reveal the efficiency of the

machinery and the quality of the finished parts.

The ultimate goal of this project is to standardize, as far as

possible, the manufacturing processes across Gestamp’s

different manufacturing plants.

To implement this digitization and data processing process, Gestamp

has designed a series of algorithms and entrusted the safekeeping

of the data and some aspects of cyber security to Microsoft through

a collaboration agreement.



Feed Planner is an innovative solution for

predicting and managing feed orders.

Company specializing in the computerization of processes in the agri-food

industry, especially in animal feed and animal production, with a view to

controlling optimal production and supporting its expansion with the best IT

solutions and service delivery based on customer needs.

It allows users to predict and plan future feed orders, in an easy and intuitive

way, based on the current and future needs of the animals on the farms

served by the company.

This technological solution is easily configurable and generates predictive feed orders automatically, which are then sent to

the farmer for validation and to the feed factory for manufacture and distribution. By working in a predictive manner,

according to the animals’ needs, it is possible to plan the manufacture of feed in the long term and achieve comprehensive

control of feed and animal inventories.



In2 is a technology company created in 1994 and specializing in the

development and implementation of solutions based on open-source

technologies. It provides digital solutions to meet customers’ business

goals and increase their profits.

It offers its customers experience in the development and implementation of solutions aimed at guaranteeing security,

interoperability and efficiency in the field of healthcare, and in the use of the Internet and mobility to increase sales and

create customer loyalty in the tourism industry.

Integrated and secure messaging system

IN2tant is an integrated and secure instant messaging system for communication

between people, corporate systems and IoT devices.

It is based on securing and monitoring communications, controlling authentication and providing integration

(interoperability) with systems or devices.

It offers the following advantages:

• It provides a confidential environment for communications.

• It allows information generated by processes carried out in companies or initiated by devices to be shared and

communicated within a secure network.

• It provides access to information in a comprehensive and secure way.

• All interactions within the tool can be audited to check that the information and systems are being used properly.



Industrial solution for the monitoring and control of installations based on the measurement of

electrical and environmental parameters, the analysis of this data on the EvoCloud platform and

the remote or automated control of these installations.

Bridge LR: Industrial solution for monitoring and control of wireless installations

Company dedicated to the development of industrial software and electronics solutions

and specializing in data capture and communications. PickData offers industrial

solutions for the remote management and monitoring of a large number of machines,

sensors and installations. These range from standard solutions to customized software

and electronics solutions.

Bridge LR is a new device that

provides LoRaTM radio

communications to any Modbus RS-

485 device, thereby turning it into a

long-range wireless sensor and

resulting in cheaper, faster

installations.


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