Sustainability

BlueSCities implements long-term sustainable water resources management strategies with the aim of creating sustainable solutions at the local level that have a global impact. This project is aware of the importance of water management by creating tools and offering recommendations for more efficient management. The programme is designed to establish synergies between researchers, citizens, and administrations in order to raise awareness on the importance of water management. To achieve this, the project will gather data through case studies in four European cities in order to obtain relevant data to create tools and make recommendations for more [...]

Optintegral promotes new industrial manufacturing of screens process to increase heir efficiency, reduce costs and limit the amount of greenhouse gas emissions up to half. Optintegral project develops a sustainable and versatile solution to manufacture TOLAE LED displays for advertising and marketing purposes with hybrid in-mould integration. The project innovation will make device integration easier and therefore responds to market demands. Optintegral incrustation technology will enable the production of thinner screens at up to 40% lower cost per square metre. Additionally, this new product will limit by half the amount of greenhouse gas emissions in its manufacturing [...]

Nobel Grid tries to provide innovative ICT tools and services to the different agents of the Smart Electricity Networks. Its objective is to obtain more competitive prices for energy producers and distributors, more stable and sustainable electricity networks and new renewable energy consumption models. The Nobel Grid solution will translate to cost reductions for energy producers and distributors and open the doors to new renewable energy consumption models. Nobel Grid is an integrated solution offering new energy consumption models with direct involvement from final consumers. The technology developed in the project will represent an improvement in quality of life [...]

Projects of energetic efficiency through an energy monitoring platform to reduce the energy costs, focus in operation phase and create a new energy management paradigm. The solution of Hit2Gap also includes an information platform with communication protocols as well as an energy model in buildings and different modules adapted to inform users, agents, and others involved on energy consumption. The project enables a reduction in energy costs in buildings, focusing on their operational phase, and will create a new energy management paradigm through an intelligent platform adaptable to different types of buildings. General details [...]

Development of a smart and energy efficient blind that reduces the energy expense of buildings and monitors their efficiency parameters through environmentally friendly processes and at an affordable cost of work. The BRESAER project, focused on the rehabilitation of sustainable buildings, promotes a new façades and roof system that satisfies the thermal, acoustic and lighting needs of the interior of the buildings. This new model of automatic blind is connected to an electronic management system that analyses the solar and wind incidence of the building and decides the optimal inclination of the metal sheets to guarantee [...]

The project aims to generate a flexible photovoltaic product in order to produce electricity through urban furniture in cities. This low-cost, clean energy should be able to meet the energy needs of citizens in the urban space. The project has a total budget of 1.3 M€ and is to last for 40 months. Enerciudad2020 will transform urban fixtures such as bus shelters, bus stops, streetlamps, benches, posters, awnings or canopies in power-generating smart objects. The project will also develop the manufacturing process for flexible solar panels so that this technology can be extrapolated to an industrial [...]

The PREVIEW project (PREdictive System to Recommend Injection Mould setup) aims to provide the mould injection industry with process control mechanisms that will reduce the time to set up a mould configuration, afford in energy consumption and waste material, and increase productivity due to the process flexibility. PREVIEW develops a universal acquisition system for moulding parameters; a robust network of communications to monitor in real time the processparameters, designed to work in today’s existing industrial environments; and an advanced prediction system centralised in the cloud developed by Eurecat, which provides machine configuration recommendations based on the statistical [...]