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Agrofood
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...
Cereals: whole, refined or… improved?
There is no doubt that cereal grain are the main source of the diet of consumers around the world. In fact, global cereal production in 2016 was 2,6 million tonnes (FAO data) and account for 30 to 70% of daily energy consumption (FAO data). Cereal intake should be 2-3...
Energy & Environment
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...
SmartEnCity, main character of the Europe Congress Palace
We have already spoken on numerous occasions about the impact of cities on energy consumption and emissions generated to the environment. And consequently, also of the important role that they have to play in the necessary transition towards climate neutrality, the...
Environment
Is there natural radioactivity in drinking water?
In our daily life, we are surrounded by radioactivity, from natural or artificial origin. Most of the radioactivity in the environment results from natural elements. In fact, there are radioactive elements in many foods and drinking water. But… How do these elements...
Creating more liveable cities using nature
More than a year ago, we invited you to think green and it has been almost two years since we presented the concept "re-naturing cities”. Time waits for no man and it is a great achievement for us to ascertain how these concepts, which we study theoretically, become...
Industry
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...
Digital Transformation, to the moon and back
It is July 20th, 1969, 20:18:04 UTC and after 102 hours, 45 minutes and 39.9 seconds of travel "the eagle has landed" and Neil is about to descend the ladder and touch an unknown surface for the first time: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for...
Health & Quality of life
How a normal hospital can turn into a smart hospital?
LIFE Smart Hospital project researchers explain us how a normal hospital can turn into a smart hospital, in Euranet radio (audio only available in Spanish).
It’s a robot and it has feelings (I)
Can a robot have feelings? According to the science fiction world, the answer would clearly be affirmative. Films like Blade Runner; 2001: A Space Odyssey; I, Robot or ex Machina, show machines able to experience human feelings such as fear, anger or love.Despite the...
Construction and Heritage
Geolocation systems are reaching indoors
With global positioning systems, a phenomenon similar to what happened with mobile phones has occurred: in a few years we have gone from non-existence to consider it essential. The truth is that, in fact, geolocation is one of those technologies that has led to the...
Sustainable public procurement and open data
The Sustainable Public Procurement Initiative (SPPI) is nowadays the key policy instrument to promote sustainable development and move towards a green economy that fosters the development of products and services maximizing social and environmental benefits. EU public...
Digitalization
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