The European Commission ranks six Eurecat technologies among the most innovative projects

  • The Innovation Radar initiative has highlighted Eurecat technologies in areas such as e-health, robotics and audiovisuals.

  • The Innovation Radar hub, which selects the best technology projects financed by European funding, is to be unveiled tomorrow in Brussels.

  • An independent committee of experts has assessed projects from across the continent and described the Catalan technology centre as a “key player for innovation”.

Barcelona, 9 April 2018. The European Commission has highlighted six technologies from the Eurecat technology centre (a member of Tecnio) in areas such as e-health, robotics and audiovisuals, describing them as “highly innovative”. The accolades were given within the context of Innovation Radar, a new technology hub that brings together the most disruptive technological proposals, and those with the most market potential, developed in different European countries.

The Innovation Radar platform has been unveiled this April in Brussels at the second edition of the Digital Day conference, which is organised by a number of European institutions. Within the context of this initiative, an independent team of experts has described the Eurecat technology centre as “a key player for innovation” within the European ecosystem. According to Joan Guasch, the Director of Public Programmes at the Tecnio centre, this recognition “confirms Eurecat’s leading role as a developer of innovative technologies for Catalan industries through cooperation with other European actors”.

The Commission’s experts have also highlighted the MULTISENSOR program, which interprets, interrelates and summarises financial information and news items in different languages in order to unify data that originates from heterogeneous sources. It uses technologies such as voice recognition, semantic representation and analysis of social network interactions.

Continuing with the communication theme, this time in relation to the audiovisual sector, Innovation Radar has also singled out Autopost, a flexible post-production tool that simplifies the generation of special effects, thereby improving the competitiveness of smaller producers.

Nowadays, one of the key areas of innovation at the European level is e-health, and in this respect Innovation Radar gave special mention to the Eurecat-led CONNECARE system. This exciting initiative improves quality of life for patients with chronic diseases through an integrated and personalised management system that guarantees more efficient and economical monitoring.

In the industrial sphere, the Commission highlighted the Advanced Predictive System (APS) and Indoor Positioning System (IPS) of the PREVIEW project. PREVIEW is an Industry 4.0 technology designed to improve the injection moulding process for plastics through the provision of process-control mechanisms that can achieve reductions of up to 50% in production line setup time, savings of 20% in energy consumption and waste generation, and an increase of 30% in productivity.

In the robotics sector the European experts have given the thumbs-up to Bots2Rec, an autonomous robot that has been designed to dismantle structures made from asbestos. The robot not only reduces the cost of dismantling these structures by 50%, but also increases worker safety.