The Spanish Hub, led by Indra and UPM and located at the university's South Campus, has achieved its first quantifiable results with the iWESLA project, a smart water management pilot that has achieved savings of up to 40% in consumption. This was accomplished using Indra's Minsait IoT Sofia2 platform as an integration tool between the smart water sensors developed by A-Cing and the consumption disaggregation algorithm developed by Novelty. The experiment has demonstrated how the use of IoT and Big Data technologies can optimize water consumption by detecting anomalies and acting in real time.
Meanwhile, “Drones, ecall and Cyber Physical Systems for Public Safety Answering Points 112”, developed by Answare Technologies together with CENTIC (Technological Center of Information and Communication Technologies of the Region of Murcia), has used Minsait IoT Sofia 2 to test its use in the new European emergency call system, eCall, which has been mandatory since April 2018.
This system will standardize the use of Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP 112) in Spain and will include drones as a new source of information to contextualize emergencies. Indra's platform integrates eCall data, drone imagery, and meteorological and social media information to create business rules that expedite the response. This project has been selected by the European Commission as the best of the 23 funded under the program, due to its significant societal impact.
Finally, Smart Urbana, another project developed at the Hub, has allowed for testing a smart city management model in accordance with the international Smart Cities standard defined by ISO 37120 (Sustainable development of cities – Indicators of services and quality of life). ASIDEES (Association for Sustainable Innovative Development in Economics) has contributed its Smart Monitor tool, which defines a comprehensive dashboard of city indicators and is powered by Indra technology, facilitating connection with the city's various devices and sensors. Other participants include the Municipality of Faro (Portugal), the Municipality of Alba Iulia (Romania), the City Hall of Nasporeni (Moldova), the Municipality of Volvi (Greece), and the City Council of Calvià (Spain).
These three proposals were selected from among the 31 received from 46 organizations in 10 different countries, within the Spanish Hub, after an open selection process (open calls) in which independent international experts assessed and selected the best experiments that would be funded within the CPSE Labs project.
An Open Hub for Innovation and Training.
Access to the Hub is open to students, researchers, and companies alike. It features the participation of professors and researchers from the UPM (Technical University of Madrid) and is equipped with the necessary hardware and software infrastructure for developing projects that improve the management of smart cities. Furthermore, Indra contributes its expertise in the smart technology of the Minsait IoT Sofia2 ecosystem to support and collaborate with the researchers and organizations conducting the experiments.
Additionally, within the framework of the UPM Master's Degree in Software for Distributed and Embedded Systems, training on the Minsait IoT Sofia2 Platform was provided to ecosystem participants, who then tested it through a Hackathon for developers. Indra professionals provided support for the experiments at this event and evaluated and awarded prizes to the best solutions.
The recently completed CPSE Labs project falls under the European Union's Horizon 2020 framework program for research, development, and innovation funding, specifically grant agreement No. 644400. Its objective is to facilitate the experimentation of products and services and accelerate technology transfer to European industry to boost its competitiveness. Led by Fortiss, the consortium coordinator, the project involves nine companies, including Indra, and five member countries hosting expert centers: Germany, France, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
