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Alimentaria 2018
For those of us who work in R&D&I in food, the international reference events in the food sector, such as Alimentaria and Hostelco are very interesting. With 4.500 exhibitors from 70 countries and nearly of 150.000 registered experts, Spain has once again...
Spanish Food Industry: forced to improve the food composition
Food is a trending topic. It is known that a good diet is that which nutrients and food are properly combined, which allows a good state of health. However, disorders in the diet are currently a real challenge for public health. The growing figures of obesity and...
Energy & Environment
Heating: alternatives to gas that are easy on the wallet
Figure 1. Tracing Valladolid heat networks. Source: SOMACYL The COVID-19 hangover has left us with a supply crisis with long queues (not only at the supermarket) that has increased the prices of equipment and all kinds of components. In addition, the armed conflict...
Maps, a window to knowledge
Interrelationship between maps and data When we talk about the word map, the image of a drawing representing countries and oceans comes to mind. For the most veteran of us, maps can bring back memories of the times when we used to have those folded maps in our cars...
Environment
Mimicking natural water depuration: constructed wetlands
One of the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) included in the United Nations Agenda 2030 is ‘ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’. It has been estimated that 25% of global population will inhabit countries affected with...
About recycling, celebrations and children
Last June 15 was a double celebration day in CARTIF. On the one hand, we celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the LIFE Programme, the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. It has passed 12 years for us since the first time we applied our first...
Industry
New applications of Deep Learning
A little more than a year ago, in another post of this blog, our colleague Sergio Saludes already commented what is deep learning and detailed several of its applications (such as the victory of a machine based on these networks over the world champion of Go,...
The dynamic electricity prices and the washing machines with initiative
The day all of us enjoy electricity dynamic prices thanks to the smart grid, we will see how the washing machine and other home appliances come into life. And they will do it to allow us to pay less for the energy they need to do their duties. This will be one of the...
Health & Quality of life
Virtual avatar for the treatment of schizophrenia
We are used to see how new technologies help people with physical disabilities: automatic wheel chairs, revolutionary prosthesis and even image or voice sensors directly connected to the brain through electrodes. But what about people with a mental disability? Let’s...
eHealth: Can videogames improve our health?
VideoGames, social networks and wearables have been installed in our lives since a few years. They occupy much of our free time, allowing new methods of interacting with families and friends. They are part of the so called Information and Communication Technologies...
Construction and Heritage
Curie vs Tesla? Autonomous sensors embedded in the pavement
To a large extent, when driving on the road, our safety depends on the state of the pavement. Real-time information provided by embedded sensors can help us to take action before deterioration (risk) occurs. What can we do to power these autonomous sensors?...
Roads that broke the ice
With this post I would like to take up the theme of under road heating, in order to delve a bit more into the benefit that can have heating the most critical points of the road. As I already indicated, the current solution to avoid and eliminate icing on the roads is...
Digitalization
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