We are currently living in a time where Spain’s municipalities are receiving lots of aid through European Next Generation funds including, among others, the water and agri-food PERTEs (Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation). Projects relating to these funds are focused on the digitalization of the various sectors and verticals making up Smart Cities. Massive deployments of...
MTBF and hardware reliability
This year’s University Entrance Exam (EVAU) for physics in Madrid included a question on atomic decay..
The difficulty could lie not so much in physical concepts as in statistics, and with an equation as simple and seemingly innocent as the exponential: This equation
The importance of maintaining high air quality
The advent of COVID-19 has made us all keenly aware of the critical role of high air quality, with good ventilation to mitigate the risk of infection. Yet the need to avoid this risk was recognized well before the pandemic arose, and will remain just as important even after it eventually recedes. Continuous ventilation control will always be one of any building’s Facilities Management tasks. In...
Predictive maintenance in elevators via IoT
During 2021, the growth of the IoT market has stimulated the creation of new formulas for the application of this technology. Moreover, according to some analysts’ projections, the market could grow to as much as 11 trillion USD by the year 2025. To give you an idea, this figure is roughly equivalent to the combined GDP of Germany, Japan and France. For manufacturers, the constantly-evolving IoT...
Roboethics as a fundamental part in the development of autonomous vehicles
Environmental digitalization represented a major step forward for some industries like the automotive industry, telecommunications, agriculture and banking. And these are also the ones that are set to undergo the most changes in the coming years. One of the most eagerly awaited developments in the automotive industry is the autonomous car. And while development is slow right now – due to falling...
Trends in 2021: telecommunications will bring vast, social, economic & industrial changes
When clock struck twelve midnight on New Year’s Eve this year and we went into 2021, many of us thought… “that’s it, we have finally left behind us, the disastrous year of 2020 and we start the year 2021”, hoping that normality will return as soon as possible. However, over the last hundred years or so, what we have learnt is that disastrous years bring vast change and we leave behind us what...
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