MORElab projects

A PRivacy-prOTecting Environment for Child Transplants health-related and genomic data integration in the European Reference Network

PROTECT-CHILD is a project that aims to improve the outcomes of rare pediatric transplant patients by integrating multiple sources of high-throughput data from registries, hospital-based and public repositories, complying with ongoing initiatives such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the European Health Data Space (EHDS). The project focuses on the co-design of a secure and privacy-preserving infrastructure, harmonization of data standards, and creation of a public/private infrastructure for assembling large datasets to improve clinical outcomes. The project involves top-level expertise from a consortium of technology specialists, data standardization experts, and High-Performance Computing (HPC) centers, as well as clinical experts, legal experts, patients’ representatives, and policy makers. The project is aligned with EHDS and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) principles and aims to empower secure and compliant processing, analysis, and sharing of sensitive personal data, including genomics, while preserving data privacy and security.

Computational Thinking in Primary Education

CTPrimED aims to increase the digital competencies of children between 6 and 12 years old and their teachers. To this end, a Roadmap has been developed that guides teachers to integrate computational thinking within the curriculum or primary education. Also, a toolkit with practical activities has been designed and workshops for children and training for teachers have been carried out in the three countries to test and improve the generated resources.

NEMO Science Museum is the project leader in this multi-year European project. NEMO collaborates with Tinkersjop from Curaçao and Universidad Deusto from Spain.

This project has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Ref: 2021-1-NL01-KA210-SCH-000031319

IDEA4RC: Intelligent Ecosystem to improve the governance, the sharing and the re-use of health Data for Rare Cancers

The main objective of this project is to establish a Data Space for rare cancers (RC) that will make possible the re-use of existing multisource health data (cancer registry data, national registries, data from biobanks etc.) across European healthcare systems leveraging emerging interoperability technologies and AI approaches. The realized ""Rare Cancer Data Ecosystem"" is expected to improve the quality and the organization of RC patients care, and to increase knowledge on rare cancers advancing health research, so that all patients have equal access to high quality specialist care. The project approach will be experienced in the framework of the European reference network for rare adult solid cancers (EURACAN).

Internet of People: Towards sustainable behaviour-change by fostering machine and human collaboration through Hybrid Intelligence and Sentient Things

Internet of People (IoP) is a new paradigm that represents the mapping of social individuals and their interactions with everyday devices and smart objects to the Internet. It focuses on data collection, modelling, analysis and ubiquitous intelligence. Our hypothesis is that Smarter Sustainable Environments are only possible if there is a better and smarter collaboration among augmented devices and people, bridging together machine intelligence and human intelligence, where key emerging technologies, namely, Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), are applied from a human-centric and driven standpoint, i.e. following the IoP paradigm. For us, better and smarter collaboration are synonyms of: a) personalised information & services and tailored bidirectional interaction, b) adaptation to the context and c) positive adoption of emerging technologies by including the final user in the decision evaluation (i.e. Human-in-the-loop). The application of this hybrid-intelligence approach in a real case scenario seeks to induce citizens to increase their awareness about sustainability, climate change and, therefore, aid on the abatement of their CO2 emissions through behaviour change interventions based on citizen science. In such a process, data gathering, content curation, computation model training and hypothesis validation are the main ingredients. In essence, the motto of this project is that people should not be treated as mere users of networked technologies and services designed for optimization purposes (e.g. automation for energy efficiency), but their behaviour should become one of the key levers for designing technologies turning them into real “Smart citizens” that participate in the digital sphere beyond being testers, data providers or consumers.

AURORAL: Architecture for Unified Regional and Open digital ecosystems for Rural Areas Large scale application

AURORAL (Architecture for Unified Regional and Open digital ecosystems for Smart Communities and wider Rural Areas Large scale application) focuses on increasing connectivity and delivering a digital environment of smart objects interoperable services platforms able to trigger dynamic rural ecosystems of innovation chains, applications and services. Thus, AURORAL contributes to increase economic growth and create jobs in rural areas and to tackle significant societal challenges, contributes to overcoming digital divide between rural and urban areas and to develop the potential offered by increased connectivity and digitisation of rural areas. AURORAL digital environment is demonstrated by cost-efficient and flexible cross-domain applications through large-scale pilots in five European regions. It builds on an open, API-based, interoperable and federated Internet of Things (IoT) architecture and includes a reference implementation supporting flexible integration of heterogeneous services, bridging the interoperability gap of the smart object platforms and creating markets for services in rural areas.

SOCIO-BEE: Wearables and droneS fOr CIty Socio-Environmental Observations and BEhavioral ChangE

SOCIO-BEE proposes that community engagement and social innovation combined with Citizen Science (CS) through emerging technologies and playful interaction can bridge the gap between the capacity of communities to adopt more sustainable behaviours aligned with environmental policy objectives and between the citizen intentions and the real behaviour to act in favour of the environment (in this project, to reduce air pollution). Furthermore, community engagement can raise other citizens’ awareness of climate change and their own responses to it, through experimentation, better monitoring, and observation of the environment. This idea is emphasised in this project through the metaphor of bees’ behaviour (with queens, working and drone bees as main CS actors), interested stakeholders that aim at learning from results of CS evidence-based research (honey bears) and the Citizen Science hives as incubators of CS ideas and projects that will be tested in three different pilot sites (Ancona, Marousi and Ancona) and with different population: elderly people, everyday commuters and young adults, respectively. The SOCIO-BEE project ambitions the scalable activation of changes in citizens’ behaviour in support of pro-environment action groups, local sponsors, voluntary sector and policies in cities. This process will be carried out through low-cost technological innovations (CS enablers within the SOCIO BEE platform), together with the creation of proper instruments for institutions (Whitebook and toolkits with recommendations) that will contribute to the replication, upscaling, massive adoption and to the duration of the SOCIO-BEE project. The solution sustainability and maximum outreach will be ensured by proposing a set of public-private partnerships schemes and innovative targeted communication means to streamline exploitation and accessibility to the project impacts.

INTERLINK: Innovating goverNment and ciTizen co-dEliveRy for the digitaL sINgle marKet

Innovating goverNment and ciTizen co-dEliveRy for the digitaL sINgle marKet ambition is to develop a new collaborative governance model that promotes the reuse and sharing of existing public services leveraging on the partnership between citizens, private actors, and public administrations.

INTERLINK aims to overcome the barriers preventing administrations to reuse and share services with private partners (including citizens) by developing a novel collaborative governance model that merges the enthusiasm and flexibility of grassroot initiatives with the legitimacy and accountability granted by top-down e-government frameworks. We believe that a solution incorporating the strengths of these two approaches will be able to overcome their individual limitations, namely lack of involvement of private actors, transparency and trust for “top-down” and lack of sustainability, accountability, and legitimacy for “bottom-up” initiatives.

To enable this, INTERLINK will provide a set of digital building blocks, called “Interlinkers”, that implement the defined governance model and standardize the basic functionalities needed to enable private actors to co-operate in the delivery of a service (organization, communication, scheduling, monitoring, etc.). In this way, the new shared service will maintain the effectiveness of digital solutions adopted in grassroots initiatives to support self-organization and make collective decisions, and at the same time fulfill the technical and legal requirements necessary for adoption by Public Administrations (PAs).

The INTERLINK multidisciplinary consortium will deliver the new governance model and Interlinkers within a technological framework and operational platform based on an open software system leveraging on mobile communications, facilitating the co-production of services between PAs and private stakeholders. The solution will be customised, deployed and evaluated on three use-cases within the partner PAs: the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Latvian Ministry of Regional Development, and the City of Zaragoza. Lessons learned in the three usecases will be generalized to deliver a re-usable solution across Europe.

QUANTEK: Tecnologías Cuánticas

The QUANTEK project was born with the aim of developing a knowledge base around quantum technologies as a promoter of a quantum ecosystem in the Basque Country. The project is structured in 4 areas of action that constitute the main strengths of quantum technologies:

Computation and quantum simulation: within artificial intelligence and simulators, many of the current solutions and techniques work on the premise of optimizing a set of functions (cost reduction, energy maximization ...), which entails an important computational cost and sometimes intractable from the classical computing approach.
Quantum software engineering we must emphasize that the supremacy of quantum computers is not complete and therefore the use of quantum computers is conceived from hybrid solutions where traditional and quantum computers coexist. That is why software engineering will undergo substantial changes from conception to software development, providing hybrid solutions where quantum computers will be used to solve complex problems.
Security and quantum communications: another of the relevant aspects in the quantum computing environment is related to security and quantum communications since quantum computers can compromise current cryptographic systems
Quantum computing ecosystems: quantum computing requires the study and evolution of a given ecosystem. In this sense, a final research area is proposed in order to delimit the use cases and identify the types of computers / simulators that are most convenient for quantum computing.

HERCULES-ED: Servicio de I+D consistente en el desarrollo de soluciones innovadoras para la Universidad de Murcia en dos lotes, en relación con el enriquecimiento de datos y los métodos de análisis. Lote 1: Enriquecimiento de datos.

El proyecto de Enriquecimiento de Datos y Métodos de Análisis (EDMA) tiene como objetivo enriquecer, aprovechar y explotar los datos producidos por la Infraestructura Ontológica de la Información del SUE (IOI-SUE) y la Arquitectura Semántica de Datos del SUE (ASD-SUE). Tanto la IOI-SUE como la ASD-SUE facilitan el manejo y publicación de datos semánticos; ambos proyectos están profundamente relacionados.

Este subproyecto se enfoca en usar dichos datos y asegurar la sostenibilidad de la infraestructura de la manera siguiente:

El lote 1, Enriquecimiento de Datos, está destinado a facilitar su enriquecimiento mediante el uso de fuentes de información disponibles en Internet y que son de uso habitual por parte de la comunidad investigadora. Además, se espera que desarrollen mecanismos para que los investigadores participen activamente en la validación y actualización de su información. Gestionar la información enriquecida mediante el concepto de Research Object3 (RO), de forma que se facilite a los investigadores la gestión de sus RO, sin que esto signifique generar una infraestructura específica para cada tipo de RO.

El lote 2, Métodos de Análisis, tiene por objetivo permitir la explotación y la analítica de datos con propósitos de inclusión y participación a varios niveles de los agentes implicados. Por ejemplo, ciencia ciudadana, diseminación para no expertos, aplicaciones que faciliten la conformación de redes de expertos y proyectos, aplicaciones que permitan buscar e identificar expertos, aplicaciones que permitan a las universidades y a la sociedad en general conocer la capacidad investigadora en tópicos específicos, tanto a nivel de recursos humanos como de producción científico-técnica

Además, mediante las APIs de conexión que se desarrollarán, se generará comunicación entre los componentes de software relacionados con el Sistema de Gestión de la Investigación y demás funcionalidades pertenecientes al proyecto Hércules. Por lo tanto, serán una interfaz que permita comunicar las aplicaciones de Gestión de la Investigación de la Universidad con las bases de datos disponibles.

MUGI_ADI: Solución Birloki Energy Activator para fomentar la movilidad sostenible y el acceso a servicios de la ciudad desplegados en un ecosistema de mobiliario urbano interactivo, modular y de proximidad

Proyecto financiado por el programa de I+D+i HAZITEK del Gobierno Vasco en el que se ha desarrollado una solución denominada Birloki Energy Activator (BEA) para el mercado de la movilidad urbana en Smart Cities, concretamente para patinetes eléctricos. El nuevo producto BEA SmartCharge aporta la funcionalidad de recarga de patinetes eléctricos y se integra en el tótem digital Birloki, mobiliario urbano interactivo comercializado por la empresa NEREI. El sistema ofrece una aplicación móvil y el middleware necesario para interactuar con la solución BEA SmartCharge y el patinete a cargar, así como de ofrecer una interfaz adecuada al usuario para introducir y visualizar la información necesaria sobre la carga. Para poder dejar cargando un patinete eléctrico en alguno de los BEA SmartCharge, los usuarios deberán descargar la aplicación móvil BEApp SmartCharge y desbloquear alguno de los cargadores disponibles mediante el escaneo de un QR-code que se mostrará en la pantalla del BEA SmartCharge. Esto permitirá que la aplicación móvil BEAapp SmartCharge de un usuario y el brazo BEA SmartCharge del Birloki correspondiente se emparejen para el intercambio de datos, que a su vez se comunicará con el servidor central de la solución BEA para registrar toda la información. Una vez realizada la interacción, el usuario conectará el cargador a su patinete y se comenzará una tarificación por ciclos. El usuario podrá hacer un seguimiento del nivel de carga de su patinete y recibirá notificaciones una vez la carga se haya completado.

BlockchainFood: Trazabilidad total para seguridad alimentaria y sostenibilidad ambiental mediante tecnología blockchain

El objetivo de BlockchainFood consiste en desarrollar una solución que permita garantizar la trazabilidad total de productos vegetales de IV gama en relación con la seguridad alimentaria y la sostenibilidad ambiental, económica y social, a través de la tecnología blockchain integrada a todos niveles, desde el campo hasta la mesa.

Este objetivo se conseguirá mediante el desarrollo de una red Blockchain para el almacenamiento de manera segura y a prueba de manipulaciones de los parámetros requeridos a la hora de trazar el proceso productivo y otorgar los diferentes sellos de calidad y de sostenibilidad alimentaria. La solución en su conjunto permitirá, además de almacenar dichos datos, analizarlos a través de diferentes paneles de control que ofrecerán al usuario la posibilidad de extraer información para mejorar su proceso productivo.

La contribución de DeustoTech es la identificación de los parámetros clave para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria, así como el desarrollo de la red Blockchain utilizando la tecnología Hyperledger Fabric, y de los diferentes smart-contracts desplegados en ella. Desarrollo de un modelo para calcular la huella de carbono en función a los parámetros monitorizados. Además, DeustoTech se encargará del desarrollo de los diferentes paneles de control para visualizar la información.

WHY: Climbing the causality ladder to understand and project the energy demand of the residential sector

In order to mitigate climate change effects, urgent action is required in all sectors of the economy to significantly reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emission. Energy System Models (ESM) are tools that help energy analysts, planners and policy makers to rationally describe energy systems and systematically evaluate the impacts of long-term scenarios. On the supply side, ESMs have provided useful results, but however, on the demand side, they lack the degree of accuracy required for proper characterization of, among others, the use of energy in households. One of the intrinsic difficulties is that energy demand in the residential sector is influenced by a myriad of factors (like the high diversity of dwellings, socio-economic conditions of the social/family units, and behavioral-related consumption patterns) that cannot easily be accounted for in traditional ESMs. To overcome this challenge, the novel Causal Modeling will be used to quantitatively analyse human decision making in energy consumption and their reactions to interventions (e.g. policy changes). This will be combined with an innovative FFORMA approach which allows multiple different load profiles to be categorised by a set of vectors describing it. WHY will therefore create innovative methodologies for short and long term load forecasting. The WHY modeling will allow to directly assess the impact of a multitude of policies on the energy system as well as performing both ex-ante and ex-post assessment over policy measures. WHY will therefore contribute to a holistic understanding of household energy consumption and improved demand modelling. The WHY toolkit will be used to assess several scenarios simulating different policy measures. Integration with widely-used ESMs (PRIMES, TIMES) will be demonstrated and the results analyzed. All results will be open-sourced to maximize uptake, and be widely disseminated to diverse target audiences (i.e. DSOs, energy companies, policy makers, researchers).

ASIO-HERCULES: R&D service consisting of the development of innovative solutions for the University of Murcia in relation to the challenge of semantic architecture and ontological infrastructure

The objective of the ASIO Project is to acquire an R&D service consisting of the development of innovative solutions for the University of Murcia in relation to the challenge of Semantic Architecture and Ontological Infrastructure. Specifically, the aim is to develop and incorporate solutions that exceed those currently available on the market.

The solution proposed in ASIO must be capable of being used in the future on a regular basis both by the University of Murcia and by the other Universities that form part of the CRUE with similar needs and competences, since as a pre-commercial public procurement process, the objective is to be able to achieve an innovative solution directed specifically at the challenges and needs that affect the public sector and that seek to dynamize R&D&I.

The project Ontological Infrastructure of the Information of the Spanish University System consists of creating a network of ontologies that can be used to describe with fidelity and high granularity the data of the Research Management domain. The project will be implemented according to the guidelines defined in the section Technical Scope of Ontological Infrastructure.

The SUE Semantic Data Architecture project consists of developing an efficient platform to store, manage and publish the SGI data, based on the Ontological Infrastructure, with the ability to synchronize instances installed in different Universities. The project will be implemented according to the guidelines defined in the Technical Scope section of Semantic Data Architecture.

Given that the other projects that make up HÉRCULES depend on both the Ontological Infrastructure and the Semantic Data Architecture, it is within the scope of both to interact with the developers of the other projects: development of an Innovative Prototype of Research Management for Universities and Data Enrichment and Analysis Methods.

DEUSTO contributions towards de Network of Ontologies Hércules, i.e. Red de Ontologías Hércules (ROH) are available at: https://herculescrue.github.io/GnossDeustoOnto/

https://www.um.es/web/hercules/proyectos/asio

REACH: EuRopEAn incubator for trusted and secure data value Chains

Europe has an opportunity to have a leading position on Data Economy, particularly in B2B scenarios. Special focus must be placed on accessing, sharing and reuse of data in an environment of security and Trust, which are fundamental preconditions for the Data Economy. The support of pilot projects and innovation spaces for experimenting with cross-sector multi-stakeholder data innovation is therefore urgent. Efforts need to concentrate on the provision of trusted and secure privacy-aware analytics solutions allowing for the secure sharing of proprietary industrial data along with personal data.

REACH aims to launch a sustainable European-wide second-generation incubator for data-fuelled start-ups & SMEs aiming to develop innovative experiments within data value chains. REACH will launch 3 Open Calls expecting to attract +500 datadriven concept-applications and select 100 business ideas to undertake a 4-phases funnel Tech-Biz acceleration programme (EXPLORE - EXPERIMENT - EVOLVE - EXPOSE). REACH aims to support the generation of new data-fuelled products & services, drive the development of solid businesses, trigger revenue growth and foster the access to new funding rounds, byoffering a full service pack consisted of: tech-training and experts, datasets, technological bricks for secure and trusted data value chains, computing infrastructures, business development training & coaches and up to €120k equity-free funding.

REACH will demonstrate that Data Silos can be broken by enabling a multi-stakeholder cross-sectorial incubator to boostdata-fuelled sustainable solutions, leveraged by the capacities of the best data-driven DIHs in Europe. Besides a solid consortium to access world class startups/ SMEs and deliver high valuable technological & business services, REACH integrates 3 DIHs and 9 public/ private data-providers and 2 private investor brokers. We aim to generate 10M€ volume investment for SMES creating 15 data value-chains delivering fit-to-market products

FuturAAL-ego: Complex and scalable egocentric vision-based activity recognition for AAL

The problems derived from the ageing of population in developed countries are a serious threat to the sustainability of the welfare state. As ageing related health expenses are continuously growing, it is mandatory to explore new ways towards active and independent ageing. One of the ways to achieve those objectives is to apply information and communication technologies (ICT) to develop automatic assistive systems (the Ambient Assisted Living or AAL paradigm). Such automatic assistive systems are designed to help people performing the so called Activities of Daily Living (ADL), as a person who can accomplish ADLs is said to be independent. In consequence, assistive systems should work on any environment where elderlies perform their daily activities, i.e. in urban environments. However, current systems are usually limited to more controlled environments as homes. The base of an assistive system is to properly understand the situation of an elder, in order to provide the needed assistance. We argue that current systems cannot work in urban or non-structured environments because their situational awareness approach is not suitable for such environments. Thus, this project proposes novel research on situational awareness systems for AAL. First of all, we propose to use wearable cameras for elderlies to avoid any dependency with the environment. Using wearable devices we avoid external infrastructures and we can capture very rich information about the environment, objects and people. Second, we will divide situational awareness into two main modules: the context recognition module (SP1 FuturAAL-context) and the activity recognition module (SP2 FuturAAL-ego). That division responds to the idea that, to plan proper assistive strategies, the activities that a person is performing have to be understood, but also the context in which those activities are being performed. Hence, we need to coordinate two different subprojects with their own partial objectives in order to achieve a situational awareness module for future AAL systems which aim to work in non-structured environments.

BD4QoL: Big Data Models and Intelligent tools for Quality of Life monitoring and participatory empowerment of head and neck cancer survivors

Head and neck cancer can take away a patient’s “right to feel human,” and its impact on physical appearance, physical functioning, psychological status and general quality of life (QoL) can be devastating. Over the past several decades, the number of patients who survive head and neck cancer (HNC) has increased; this makes lifelong surveillance critical. HNC imposes an extremely high socioeconomic burden on patients during and after cancer compared to other tumors, including costs from treatment-induced morbidities, loss of workforce participation and short-term disability. Current survivorship care plans mostly focus on functional and health conditions of treated patients, whereas socioeconomic determinants of quality of life are often neglected due to difficult data collection.

The widespread technologies for social communication and unobtrusive personal monitoring embedded in smartphones and object we commonly use and in our living environments have the potential to unobtrusively collect wealth of indicators of individual QoL. BD4QoL objective is to improve HNC survivor’s Quality of Life through person-centred monitoring and follow-up plan by contribution of artificial intelligence and big data unobtrusively collected from commonly used mobile devices, in combination with multi-source clinical, -omic, socioeconomic data and patients reported outcomes, to profile HNC survivors for pBD4QoL objective is to improve HNC survivor’s Quality of Life through person-centred monitoring and followup plan by contribution of artificial intelligence and big data unobtrusively collected from commonly used mobile devices, in combination with multi-source clinical, -omic, socioeconomic data and patients reported outcomes, to profile HNC survivors for personalized monitoring and support. The analysis of QoL indicators collected over time will allow to early detect risks, prevent long-term effects of treatment and inform patients and caregivers for personalized interventions.

EU-SHAFE: Europe Enabling Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments

The EU-SHAFE project will improve policies and practices in 7 European regions by developing a comprehensive approach to Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE). Through a 'learning by sharing' methodology, this robust multi-disciplinary and intersectoral consortium will build a four-helix European community to exchange experiences and practices to improve multilevel policy instruments.The project will create a cooperative, inclusive ecosystem between public authorities, European networks and user’s associations, embedding their experience and skills with research & design knowledge from academia and SMEs for the growth of community-based services and “ageing at home” around Europe.

PARITY: Pro-sumer AwaRe, Transactive Markets for Valorization of Distributed flexibilITY enabled by Smart Energy

PARITY addresses the “structural inertia” of existing distribution grids by delivering a transactive grid & market framework that will increase the durability and efficiency of the electrical grid and facilitate the penetration of RES beyond 50% of the generation mix in the distribution network. PARITY will go beyond the traditional “top-down” grid management practices by delivering a unique local flexibility market platform through the seamless integration of IoT and blockchain technologies. By delivering a market for automated flexibility exchange based on smart contracts & blockchain, PARITY will facilitate efficient and transparent local flexibility transactions and reward flexibility in a cost reflective and symmetric manner, through price signals of higher spatio-temporal granularity based on real-time grid operational constraints and available DER flexibility.

Secondly, by deploying State-of-the-Art IoT technologies PARITY will offer distributed intelligence (DER profiling) and self-learning/self-organization capabilities (automated real-time distributed control), orchestrated by the cost-reflective flexibility market signals generated by the blockchain market platform. Within PARITY, DERs will form dynamic clusters that essentially comprise self organized networks of active DER nodes that will efficiently distribute and balance global and local intelligence, enabling real-time aggregated & P2P transactions through enhanced forecasting, optimization and control of DER flexibility. Finally, the PARITY solution includes novel tools for Active Network Management, including an innovative STATCOM and PQ monitoring device, that will enable the DSO to enhance its management capabilities, grid observability and RES hosting capacity. The PARITY solution will be demonstrated in 4 pilot sites around the EU (ES, CH, SE & ES) to validate its effectiveness across climatic, cultural and techno-regulatory conditions.

BIODIGI - Plataforma de captura y gestión de datos

Plataforma de captura y gestión de datos

AUDABLOK: Plataforma para la auditoría de datos abiertos sobre blockchain

AUDABLOK aims to track the provenance of Open Datasets through the usage of Blockchain technologies.

GAIZUBI: Combinando la toma de decisiones basada en hechos y la co-creación para una mejor integración de emigrantes en base a sus capacidades

The objective of the project is to study the innovation opportunities around Data Science applied to the migration domain.

SMARTAKTIVA - Diseño y desarrollo de sistema electrónico para monitorización de posturas incorrectas adaptable al modelo de silla de cliente Smart Aktiva

HateSen: Hate speech analysis in social networks

FOODBAR2: Cognitive and social intelligence for competitiveness of miniatura food sector

Foodbar propone diseñar y desarrollar un nuevo marco de evaluación y reconocimiento de la cocina en miniatura (gastrobares, bares de tapas y pintxos…), una tendencia global de la alta cocina orientada hacia la ‘casualización’. Para ello, en foodbar se combinan técnicas de inteligencia colectiva y de inteligencia cognitiva computacional, además de tecnología móvil para la interacción con usuarios. El entorno objetivo de foodbar es Euskadi, dada la excelente reputación de la cocina vasca.

Birloki: The urban space activation

Birloki System is the first really modular interactive urban furniture. We create a network of interactive spots that evolve with the city offering a resilient response to the needs of citizens.
It is fully customizable and any new feature can be implemented in the system at any moment, let it be a mobile charging unit, a top up station, a tactile information screen or a environmental sensors unit.
Birloki offers information and wayfinding among other type of data and help, enabling a seamless outdoor proximity marketing web that helps city, retailers, citizens and other stakeholders to communicate

EDI: European Data Incubator

Only 2 out of the top 20 companies changing lives and making money out of Big Data are European. Europe is not playing the role it should in the global market. European Data Incubator project aims to revert this situation. Every company is born as a startup, and Big Data has already proven to be a disruptive technology that can provide substantial changes in traditional and innovative domains. Many SMEs are facing a number of problems when attempting to develop a sort of comprehensive data strategy. The tools required to make successful data management an achievable prospect often require an up-front capital investment. The data remains in silos and its availability or cross-domain value is still unperceived.

EDI will help them jump this hurdle providing (1) a free infrastructure with open source tools (2) training on the most known off-the-self solutions (3) support and business services to develop their business idea and (4) equity-free funding. The main objective of the project will be to leverage the technology and knowledge on Big Data across countries and sectors thanks to the incubation of start-ups/SMEs who use Big Data open source tools oriented to sort out major challenges in different business which facilitate their data assets. An experienced consortium will be behind EDI. It is comprised by experts on Big Data technologies, the managers of several acceleration initiatives within the FIWARE Accelerate programme, existing incubators like Deusto Entrepreneurship Centre and etventure Seed Lab and the largest online network for start-ups (F6S). Moreover, 16 data providers, from Finance, Transport, Industry 4.0, Retail, Media&Content, Energy, etc. will provide data to the incubation process. We expect to incubate around 120 companies under a 3-phase incubation programme (funnel approach) launching 3 call for proposals and disbursing up to €5M equity-free and commiting to raise additional financing resources up to €15M for them from private investors mainly.

SENTIENTTHINGS: Towards augmented everyday objects that self-adapt and co-educate users to underpin their pro-environmental behaviour through persuasive technologies

The hypothesis of this project is that it is possible to influence positively in the behaviour of people when they face some of the main societal challenges through the interaction with everyday objects augmented and connected to Internet. The premise is that through a positive user experience in such interaction, users obtain a learning, confidence and reciprocity feeling in the relation among devices and people. The project tackles three critical aspects which are paramount to enable the progressive adoption of such devices in our daily life and, thus, help us improving certain daily activities which effect social and environmental aspects. Such aspects are: a) Learning -- SentientThings must help us and learn from our habits and needs at each moment, whilst people have to learn from the information, impulses and stimuli that they provide us; b) Confidence -- such learning has to emerge from a relationship of confidence and acceptance of devices, preserving, among other aspects, the sense of privacy and continuous control perception over those devices. Thus, humans will perceive their utility and will maintain their use across time; c) Reciprocity -- given that it has been demonstrated that putting aside users from task management when seeking efficiency usually generates an adverse effect; it is necessary to encounter a balance between some tasks automation and the collaboration and implication of the final users. SentientThings can be applied to cover diverse areas where process improvement is needed by society and will generate a positive impact. The use case considered in this proposal is embossed within environmental sustainability, bearing in mind the impact that human factors play in energy efficiency and how augmented objects and people can collaborate to face them.

Smartoki: Ecosistema de mobiliario urbano interactivo, modular y de proximidad para espacios públicos

Smartoki:Ecosystem of interactive, modular and urban furniture for public spaces aims to revitalize the city by creating an interaction space for citizens in which urban areas are improved according to the needs. Smartoki arises from the growing concept of Smart Cities and the increasing use of shared spaces as an information exchanging and processing point. This project is based on a concept of intelligent modular furniture product called Birloki, designed by Nerei Emotional Intelligent, which has won the prestigious design competition B Awards (Bilbao, 2010), being also finalist at Smart City Expo World Congress (2012) and Media Architecture Biennale (Denmark, 2014), among others. This central element consists on a personalized and intelligent digital totem formed by a series of components that make use of hardware platforms for sensing different conditions (for example atmospheric variables or people counting), processing this and other data related to the interaction and, finally, managing the communications among users and cloud servers. Besides, as a part of this citizen-city interaction system, contextualized information is offered to users through a series of integrated services and visualization elements such as panels or touch screens. These contents are managed remotely through a specific manager that allows to control and configure the Birloki system. Therefore, the system itself is not presented as a closed purpose-specific solution, but is conceived with the idea of being a platform that can accommodate and solve the needs of every kind of user that populates urban shared-use spaces.

DEUSTEK4: Grupo de investigación reconocido del sistema universitario vasco

Grupo de investigación reconocido del sistema universitario vasco

SmiWork: An Interactive Smart Mirror Platform for Workplace Health Promotion

This project aims to incorporate the concept of wellness promotion as a part of a smart work environment by encouraging workers to healthier lifestyle through a smart mirror platform.

This goal involves: On the one side, measuring workers' physical activity through wearable devices (e.g. smart wrist-based gadgets) and workplace's ambient conditions through different sensors deployed in the environment. On the other side, displaying health information to end-users through a smart mirror installed in the workplace premises. Furthermore, an interactive voice-controlled interface leveraged on the surface of the mirror is used for communicating with the conversational smart mirror agent.

The interactive mirror allows workers to access to useful general information and personal self-monitoring data, warning them about insufficient physical activity or giving motivational to them advices and triggering persuasive cues in order to foster a healthier, happier and more productive work environment.