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Winners II enerTIC Awards with "Smart Street Lighting System" project

Thu, 04/12/2014
Body: translated: December 4, 2014. The Smart Street Lighting System "LoWin" project (Light Only When is needed), was awarded in the category "Smart Cities" of the II Enetic Awards celebrated at the Hotel NH Ribera del Manzanares. These awards are born with the objetive to identify, recognize and publicize the...

The Smart Street Lighting System LoWin Light only when is needed project awarded by ener-TIC

Thu, 04/12/2014
Body: translated: The "Smart Street Lighting System: 'LoWin' (Light only when is needed)" project has got the first place in the Smart Cities section of the ener-TIC  association awards for energy efficiency in the ICT environments. The ener-TIC awards are preselected by an expert's panel by category and then voted...

CeDInt's Biometrics research group will be present on the V edtion of Actua UPM Investment forum.

Wed, 03/12/2014
Body: translated: The Group of Biometrics, Biosignals and Security (GB2S) of the Research Centre for Smart Buildings and Energy Efficiency (CeDInt) has participated in the V Investment Forum Actúa UPM for new Technological Companies, presenting the technology: “In-air Signature”. This technology is a biometric...

The 14th edition of Semana de la Ciencia (Science week) closes with a balance of 264 visitors to CeDInt

Fri, 14/11/2014
Body: translated: In this 14th edition of 2014, CeDInt has received the visit of a good number of schools and individual visitors. If you have been one of them find yourself in the photo gallery below. Our visitors could know firsthand our activities with special stress in the projects closed within the last months...

Participants in the Entrepreneurial universities international conference visited CeDInt

Thu, 30/10/2014
Body: translated: As a pre-conference activity a group of participants visited the campus of international excelence of Montegancedo, and the CeDInt premises. Visitors could know our research activities directly from our Director, Asunción Santamaría, and visited the Energy efficiency and smart cities lab as well as...

CeDInt researchers participate in the first International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (Urb-IoT 2014)

Thu, 30/10/2014
Body: translated: Jorge Martin Perandones and Jaime Cafarel CeDInt researchers participated in the  first International Conference on IoT in Urban Space last October 27th that took place in Rome. CeDInt participated with the poster titled " Energy-saving Smart Street Lighting System based on 6LoWPAN" For further...

Ciudad 2020 main project of the Fifth edition of the Green Cities and Sustainability trade show

Mon, 29/09/2014
Body: translated: Ciudad 2020, Project made with the collaboration of CeDInt, will be present again this year in the Green Cities and Sustainability trade show that will take place in the Palacio de Ferias y Congresos de Málaga. The Ciudad 2020 speech will be part of the opening session of the intelligent cities...

Top marks and special mention to Patricia Alcalde in her Final Engineering Porject.

Fri, 26/09/2014
Body: translated: Today friday September 26th Patricia Alcalde Sanz from the Biometrics, Biosignals and Security group made her diosertation on her final engineering project in the assembly hall of CeDInt. Her work titled: "Metrics definition and evaluation to quantfy image cuality in iris biometrics" has been...

Wairbut and CeDInt make advances in the integration of heterogeneous home automation systems in the cloud.

Wed, 16/07/2014
Body: translated: Wairbut and CeDInt have worked together in an effort to integrate their building and home automation platforms in the cloud. Thanks to this work devices of KNX and BATNET technology installed in the energy efficiency lab of CeDInt can be universally controlled by the Carriots platform. As a result...

Participants of the EURIELEC program of EESTEC visit CeDInt

Wed, 14/05/2014
Body: translated: As in previous years participants of the EURIELEC program of the Electrical Engineering Student European Association (EESTEC) visited CeDInt as part of their activity program in Spain. The visit permitted them to know about our research projects, meet our researchers and visit aur infrastructures.

Doctoral thesis dissertation by Marina Buljan

Tue, 01/04/2014
Body: translated: Today April 1st , 2014 Marina Buljan researcher of the Advanced Optical Engineering Group of CeDInt, has made her Phd dissertation in the auditory of CeDInt. His work titled: ""Free-form optical systems for nonimaging applications" has been directed by Professor Juan Carlos Miñano, and has been...

Cicle of Sessions : THE CITY OF THE FUTURE

Fri, 28/02/2014
Body: translated: Next March 6, 13 and 19 will take place the Conference circle THE CITY OF THE FUTURE a joint event of Instituto de la Ingeniería de España, Universidad Politécnica and Master in City Sciences. The conferences will take place in spanish with the program below:    

Fraunhofer-Burley Award of Optical Society of America to Professor Juan Carlos Miñano of CeDInt

Fri, 21/02/2014
Body: translated: This award recognizes a new design method that has had a high impact in the development of optical systems with better quality and image precision and at a lower cost. Juan Carlos Miñano, Professor of the Physics and Electronics Department of the Communication Engineering School of the Technical...

New advances in body scent as biometric identifier

Mon, 03/02/2014
Body: translated: Researchers of the group Biometrics Biosignals and Security (GB2S) in partnership with the company Ilía Sistemas, advance in the study of a new biometric technique that will identify individuals from their body scent. The El Biometrics Biosignals and Security Group of CeDInt-UPM in partnership with...

Dissertation of Doctoral thesis by Pablo Zamora

Fri, 31/01/2014
Body: translated: Today January 31st , 2014 Pablo Zamora researcher of the Advanced Optical Engineering Group of CeDInt, has made his dissertation in the auditory of CeDInt.   His work titled: "Advanced Fresnel Köhler Concentrators for Photovoltaic applications" has been directed by Professor Pablo Benitez, and has...