International. Indra and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) have joined forces to improve the management of smart cities with the creation of a cyber-physical systems laboratory. The initiative is the result of the European R&D program Smart Cyber Physical Systems Engineering (CPSE) Labs, which has aimed to launch a collaborative network of innovation hubs in five different countries to promote the development of cyberphysical systems in areas such as smart cities, robotics, aeronautics and maritime transport.
The new hub of Indra and the UPM is part of the European R&D program Smart Cyber Physical Systems Engineering (CPSE) Labs that is developing a network of innovation centers in smart cities.
The new hub of Indra and the UPM is part of the European R&D program Smart Cyber Physical Systems Engineering (CPSE) Labs that is developing a network of innovation centers in smart cities.
The Spanish hub, led by Indra and UPM and located in the facilities of the South Campus of this university, has achieved its first quantifiable results with the iWESLA project, an intelligent water management pilot that has managed to achieve savings of up to 40% in consumption. To this end, Indra's Minsait IoT Sofia2 has been used as an integration platform between the intelligent water sensors developed by A-Cing and the consumption disaggregator 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.
Standardized management model of smart cities
Finally, Smart Urbana, another of the projects developed in the 'hub', has allowed to test a smart city management model according to the international standard of smart cities defined by ISO37120 (Sustainable development of cities – Indicators of services and quality of life). Asidees (Association for Sustainable Innovative Development in Economics) has provided its Smart Monitor tool, which defines a complete dashboard of indicators of the city and is powered thanks to Indra's technology, which facilitates the connection with the different devices and sensors of the city. Also participating are the Municipality of Faro (Portugal), Alba Iulia Municipality (Romania), City Hall Nasporeni (Moldova), Municipality of Volvi (Greece) and the City Council of Calviá (Spain).
These three proposals were selected among the 31 received by 46 organizations from 10 different countries, within the Spanish hub, after an open selection process in which independent international experts evaluated and selected the best experiments that would be funded within the CPSE Labs project.
A hub open to innovation and training
Access to the Hub is aimed at both students and researchers as well as companies. It has the participation of professors and researchers from the UPM and is equipped with the hardware and software infrastructure necessary for the development of projects that improve the management of smart cities. In addition, Indra contributes its competences in the intelligent technology of the Minsait IoT Sofia2 ecosystem to support and collaborate with the researchers and entities that carry out the experiments.
Additionally, within the framework of the Master's Degree in Distributed and Embedded Systems Software of the UPM, training on the Minsait IoT Sofia2 Platform has been given to the participants of the ecosystem, which has been tested with the celebration of a Hackathon for developers. Indra professionals supported the experiments in this event and evaluated and rewarded the best solutions.
The recently completed CPSE Labs project is part of the Horizon 2020 European Framework Programme for funding research, development and innovation. Led by Fortiss, as coordinator of the consortium, it has the collaboration of nine companies, including Indra, and five member countries, which host expert centers: Germany, France, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Spain.
