inLab FIB presentation

1. inLab FIB
inlab.fib.upc.edu
November 2012
Smart City Expo &
World Congress
inLab FIB
+34 93 401 69 41
inlab@fib.upc.edu

2. inLab FIB
inLab FIB is an innovation and research lab of the Barcelona
School of Informatics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya -
Barcelona Tech (UPC)
Missions:
• R+D multidisciplinary project development and transfer
of knowledge to the society
• A professional environment focused on training and
developing the talent of our students: Talent training
program
• A learning lab specialized in informatics engineering
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3. inLab FIB
• Formerly called LCFIB, inLab FIB has more than three
decades of expertise in developing applications using the
latest ICT technologies, collaborating in different research
and innovation projects and creating customized solutions
for public administrations, industry, large companies and
SMEs.
• Nearly 70 people (academic and technical staff + students)
• Located in the International Campus of Excellence BKC
(Barcelona Knowledge Campus)
• Strong alliances and collaborations with other research
groups of UPC (as es-CERT, Technical Research Centre for
Dependency Care and Autonomous Living, etc.)
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4. R + D Areas of expertise
inLab FIB integrates academic staff from different UPC
departments and its own technical staff to provide solutions in
different areas of expertise.
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5. Modeling, simulation & optimization
• Event simulation applied to transport,
manufacturing, logistics and other
services
• Industrial & logistics processes
optimization
• Social simulation
• Emergency simulation
• Energy efficiency simulation
• Cloud distributed simulation systems
• 3D visualization
Microscopic simulation of passengers
movements in the new terminal of the airport
of Barcelona. AENA-INDRA
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6. Smart Cities
• Energy efficient building (EeB) simulation
• Energy efficient transport simulation
• Contextual health-care and sports applications
• Smart mobility: Dynamic ridesharing, public transport
routing, transport data fusion, etc.
• e-participation
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7. Mobile Apps and GIS
• Mobile multimedia
• Augmented Reality
• Geolocation & tracking
• Geographic Information System
• Open Street Map
• Contextual mobile applications
Leading the Open Street Map
initiative in the Catalonia
Spanish region
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8. Collaborative Internet
• e-participation
• Social Media
• Multimedia information systems
• Security, authentication, single sign on
and identity management
• Accessibility
• Social networks usage and integration
into collaboration environments
• SEO, SEM, SMO
• Collaboration tools for software
development e-Catalunya
• Web services and technology (ecatalunya.gencat.net):
Social networks & web 2.0
• P2P collaborative tools
Catalonia Government
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9. Data analysis and management
• Open data
• Data mining
• Dashboards and Business Intelligence
• Data and information analysis
• Data fusion
• Big data
• Statistical methods for the
measurement of intangibles
(satisfaction, quality, etc.)
Queries and large data matrix analysis for the
Centre for Opinion Studies (CEO) of the
Government of Catalonia
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10. IT learning environment & services
• Computer labs & IT enabled learning
spaces
• e-learning & virtual campus
environments
• Mobileapps learning lab
• Video life streaming,
videoconferencing and audiovisual
support
• Active learning technologies
• Information systems for the
management of studies and other
university processes
• IT Help desk
• Quality assurance systems
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11. IT infrastructure
• Management of servers, operating
systems, data bases, web servers,
application servers
• Local networks management
• High availability environments
• Security infrastructure management
• Email, storage, printing
• Servers and applications
virtualization
• Central management of desktops and
workstations
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12. Members of
Terrassa City
eHealth Cluster
Mobile apps, ICT & tourism groups
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13. Collaborative projects
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14. In4Mo. Advance Information System for the Mobility of
People and Vehicles
• Combine traditional traffic supervision technologies with the
latest available or soon to be available ICT.
• Data Filtering, Merging and Completion Module.
– Filtering of data, integration of new types of data that had not
traditionally been used in traffic information systems, especially
those that allow real-time treatment of information.
– Development of completion models for missing data coming from
the ICTs.
– Development of data merging models that combine large amounts
of data sources unprecedented in the field of traffic.
Avanza Competitividad R&D (2010-2012)
Program
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/in4mo-advance-information-system-mobility-people-and-
vehicles
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15. Dynamic ridesharing
• Point to point instant dynamic ridesharing
• A pilot test is going on in a city in the
Barcelona metropolitan area to share private
vehicles to go to the train station located in
the closest city. Users can demand the
transport just a few minutes in advance.
• It uses mobile technology and a tracking
server. The main challenges of this project
are not technological but related to social and
security issues.
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/dynamic-ridesharing
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16. tooPath: Free mobile device tracking system
• TooPath is the first free tracking system made of 100% free
and open source data and technologies.
• Real-time tracking of vehicles or persons using GPS
systems.
• Using free-access mapping data or user-owned mapping
information (OpenStreetMap).
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/toopath-free-mobile-device-tracking-system
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17. ALSTOM Project
• Web application that allows the user to locate the position of
all trains that are operating at a given moment.
• Remote collection of train incidences, that are displayed in
real time using a geographical map (OpenStreetMap) and a
web browser.
• It’s been used for early detection of incidences in AVE and
AVANT trains and maintenance planning improvement.
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/alstom-project
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18. Analysis of energy consumption of the tram
• Measure the energy consumption of a Barcelona tram
• Evaluate the total savings that would result in no traffic light
stops
• Using tooPath tracking tool
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/analysis-energy-consumption-tram
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19. Energy consumption optimization
• Improve energy efficiency in underground Manless Train
Operation
• Non linear optimization. Aprox. 7% energy saving
• L9 is the first metro line without driver in Spain, and one of
the largest and modern automatic line without driver of the
World
• C#, Visual Basic for Applications, CAD automation, Petri
nets
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/energy-consumption-optimization
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20. NZEB. Opti-Sim in Sustainability
• Co-operative simulator for evaluation, analysis and
optimization of sustainability (environmental, economic and
social) in order to identify the best solutions for building
design and construction of NZEB (Net Zero Energy
Buildings)
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/nzeb-opti-sim-sustainability
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21. APP Rehab
• Energy efficiency simulator (with web and Smartphone
applications) for building rehabilitation.
• It calculates demand and energy consumption of a building,
the cost of its rehabilitation and its environmental impact.
• A tool to detect the best building solutions for energy
efficiency in each case of study.
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/app-rehab
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22. e-Catalunya Project
• Group collaboration, e-participation and social
networking platform that enables the Catalonia
Autonomic Government to offer collaborative
portal services to different users and professional
groups.
• Combines powerful collaboration tools (wiki, blog)
with more traditional tools (discussion forum,
calendar, distribution list, file archive)
• Selected for the European eGovernment Awards
2009 in the eGovernment enabling administrative
efficiency and effectiveness category
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/e-catalunya-project
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23. City Walking: an app to improve Terrasa citizens health
• A solution to promote sports among the population of
Terrassa, to improve the health and avoid sedentary life of
its citizens.
• Walking routes are suggested to engage users depending
on several parameters such as the distance or time users
want to spend, their age, sex and other health parameters.
• Provides geographic information and POIs of the city,
as well as details of commerce and resources that can be
discovered along the way.
• Walked routes can be shared with family or friends and Winner of Living Labs
Global Awards 2012 for
may be available to health specialists so they can the city of Terrassa
suggest new customized plans according to patients health.
• A pilot will be done in the city of Terrassa in collaboration
with hHealth care providers.
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24. Data Fusion of the Catalan Health Survey
• Data fusion was applied to a
small examination-based sample.
The objective was to improve the
prediction of the Cardiovascular
Diseases and Diabetes.
• Colaboration with IDESCAT
(Catalan Institut for Statistics) for
the 2006 Catalan Health Survey
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25. BONE Network of Excellence
• Collaborative environment for the network of excellence
and integration of other collaboration and dissemination
tools. Co-leading WP3 - Electronic Communication Tools
• BONE aims to integrate and disseminate the research on
optical networks and communications that is being
performed in Europe, as well as to demonstrate the BONE is a Network of
Excellence funded by the
advantages in the use of optical technologies over European Commission
electronic ones in communications networks. through the 7th ICT-
Framework Program
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/bone-network-excellence
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26. SkiTrace & SportTraces
• Website and mobile apps for Android and iPhone able to
track and follow a sportsperson in real time and share
location with relatives and friends using OpenStreetMap and
toopath location tracking.
• It provides information to competition organizers or sport
facilities staff in order to improve security and organization.
• SkiTraces
• Sporttraces
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/sporttraces
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/skitraces
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27. Simulation of the flow of a snow avalanche
• Understand the dynamics of avalanches using dynamics
models analyzed by experts
• Simulation helps to minimize the risks
• Microsoft Visual Studio, C++, DirectX, SDLPS, SDL
specification, Visual Basic for applications
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/simulation-flow-snow-avalanche
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28. ACA Project
• Find out whether there was an increase or a decrease in
consumption based on data provided by the ACA (the
catalan water agency)
– Provides information on whether consumption from the supply
network for domestic use had decreased or increased in 26
municipalities in Catalonia
– Analyzes the reasons for the decrease or increase in water
consumption for domestic use
– Recommends ways of facilitating the processing of data
resulting from water rate invoices
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/aca-project
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29. CEO Project
• Web application to enable queries and data matrix analysis
for the Centre for Opinion Studies (CEO) of the
Government of Catalonia
• R statistical software integration to allow data
segmentation, weighting, selection…
• WebLogic Application Server, Oracle, Java, R, SPSS
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/ceo-project
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30. Search and evaluation of the presence of Catalan political
leaders in the network 2.0
• Study of the presence of 326 pre-selected Catalan leaders
in the network 2.0
• Data Statistical analysis and graphical representation
• Minitab
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31. Mapping Bolivia
• A pilot project in Totora (Cochabamba)
• Mapping rural areas with the support of local agents
• Training support at IGM (La Paz)
• OpenStreetMap technology
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32. Interconnection between the digital AMB’s street
guide and Open Street Map (OSM)
• Conversion project of the urban street guide of the
metropolitan area of Barcelona to OpenStreetMap from
static shapefiles to a multi user editable geospatial
database
• Custom rendering of map symbology and custom features
to meet actual printed map design to a web map
• OpenStreetMap, PostGis, Java, Python, C++
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33. Augmented reality in the Archeological Museum of
Catalonia
• Mobile augmented reality application to allow visitors of
Olèrdola Castle to discover in a free way around points of
interest that show the history of the emplacement
• Augmented reality, HTML5
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/augmented-reality-archeological-museum-catalonia
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34. RegControl: Planner of irrigation and validation
module
• RegControl® is a service that manages on-farm irrigation
on behalf of farmers
• Using advanced agricultural knowledge, state-specific
parameterization and daily meteorological and field data,
RegControl® optimizes the irrigation schedule, implements
it, verifies the field results and notifies any anomalies
• Metaheuristic local search algorithm, non linear
optimization, C#
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/regcontrol-planner-irrigation-and-validation-module
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35. Simulation of demographic evolution of a population
• Highly scalable simulator to study the
demographic evolution of a population and
to reproduce the internal interactions
among individuals.
• It’s a tool to help in analysis and decision
making processes for policy (for example
in migration policies).
• It uses agent-based modeling and
supercomputing and can be applied and
extended to other research areas such as
economics, archeology, psychology or
sociology.
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36. MobileApps Learning Lab
• Suite of services designed to facilitate and
enhance learning of technologies
associated with mobile applications.
• Oriented to a community of students highly
motivated towards mobile technologies and
with excellent development skills
• Public repository of mobile applications
developed by FIB students as either course
work or final projects.
• Loan of mobile phones, access to developer
programs
• Access to public open data and platforms
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37. Web and Intranet of the e-Photon ONe and e-Photon
ONe+ Network of Excellence
• Design, develop, setup and maintain the website and the
Intranet of the network of excellence
• e-Photon One: Network of Excellence (NoE) funded by the
European Union as part of the Sixth Framework
Programme focused on the “Broadband for All” strategic
objective
• Integrate and focus the research performed by universities
and telecommunications companies and operators on
optical communications networks
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/web-and-intranet-e-photon-one-and-e-photon-one-network-excellence
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38. Contact us
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu
inlab@fib.upc.edu
+34 93 401 69 41
c/ Jordi Girona 1-3
Campus Nord. Edifici B6
08034 Barcelona
Spain
Twitter: @inLabFIB
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