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Agrofood
Natural soils or tecnosoils?
Artificial soils, also called tecnosoils, technosols or technosoil are, as the name implies, artificial soils made from mixtures of different non-hazardous waste and by-products. These technosoils are usually complemented with other raw materials for their application...
What is an online NIR and what are its uses?
The quality control of the products we consume daily is carried out by means of reference methods that present great limitations as to the necessity of sampling (which may or may not be representative of the whole), which also entails the manipulation and even...
Energy & Environment
Quantum Computing is not science fiction
For many science fiction fans, quantum computers are those gadgets than can make everything and that they are installed as on-board computers in spacecrafts or they appear as laptops of reduced size and sophisticated aesthetics. For many of those that aren´t fans of...
Why Central Asia has become a hotspot for Europe?
In 2020, the European Commission launched a Research proposal (or "topic") with a budget of 10 million Euros that aimed at the development of innovative and sustainable mini-hydropower solutions in Central Asia. What makes this remote part of the world special for the...
Environment
Think green
We are opening this post providing a written record of we are not sponsored by a well-known beer brand. We dare to make you a direct request because we would like to urge you to do exactly what the title says: think green. At the end of last year, Pantone® company (an...
Tag me!
The Cambridge dictionary defines the noun “label” as "a piece of paper or other material that gives you information about the object it is attached to." An active social network user would explain us tags are one of the most famous ways people use to find content on...
Industry
Artificial vision in hot stamping
With this post, I would like to try to show a very clear example where, the intelligent use of a suitable artificial vision system can solve a major problem in a production line at a reasonable price. The body of our vehicle consists of a multitude of metallic pieces,...
Efficiency Wars (Episode VI) – The Return of Bohr
Low cost alternative innovations. The barometer and how to think outside the box I finished my previous post commenting how an ILM approach --to disaggregate energy consumption in a factory- can be an unbeatable challenge, financially, for those factories with highly...
Health & Quality of life
Millenary food: superfoods
Foods like quinoa (or quinua) and amaranth are consumed for centuries in the Andes regions. An example of this is that in tombs more than 4,000 years old remains of these products are found which consumption is demonstrated by cultures like the Mayans, Aztecs and...
ICT Accessibility: duty, gain and satisfaction
At a time when the technologies are present in all areas of people lives, ICT accessibility is essential to ensure equal opportunities for all people in the use and access to resources, products and services. In Spain, according to the report on Spanish Disability...
Construction and Heritage
When heritage buildings talk (I)
Let me remind you that Europe features the most diverse, rich and numerous cultural heritage around the world. 609 million tourists visited the "old continent" by 2015 (29 million in 2014) according to the World Tourism Organization, and, although it is somewhat...
3D digitalization of infrastructures: Guadarrama tunnels
What is the use of 3D digitalization of infraestructures? Inspecting coatings, detecting cracks, inventorying and sensorization of tunnels and other structures. In the following video, we explain you what we do in CARTIF: David Olmedo and José Llamas, researchers of...
Digitalization
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