The inLab FIB participate in the Brokerage Event MWC2014 explaining and showing technological capabilities and research companies and participating institutions. This is our presentation.

1. inLab FIB presentation
MWC2014
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu
@inLabFIB
Director
Professor Josep Casanovas
josepk@fib.upc.edu
Technical Director
Rosa Ma Martín
rosam@fib.upc.edu
www.cit.upc.edu

2. The Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya –UPC– is a public
institution of Higher Education
and Research, specialised in the
areas of Architecture, Science
and Engineering.

3. The UPC leadership
The UPC is the top Spanish university in
engineering and technology in the latest QS
World University Ranking, and the top
technical University in Southern Europe,
according to the SCIMAGO Ranking 2013.
Regarding international research
collaborative projects, the UPC is a major
player in the FP7 –the major research
program of the EC‐, being involved in 151
projects ( of which 35 are coordinated)

4. The UPC leadership
Strongly committed with research and
innovation with an active international
presence in networks and initiatives of
innovation. UPC is member of CLUSTER a
network of leading European Universities of
Technology Research, acts as co-location
center for KIC InnoEnergy (EIT) and was
awarded by the Spanish Ministry as
International Campus of Excellence.

5. R+D and Technology Transfer indicators
2.915
2.378
Corporations and
organisations have executed
collaboration agreements with UPC
110
Technical Scientific Awards
Received
Articles published in
scientific journals
2.867
Researchers and Teachers
247
Spin off companies created
1.183
Current research Contracts and
Projects
242 departments, institutes
86 Patents applications ‘11
479 Total Patents applications
and research groups
78,2 M€
of Revenue from R+D Projects ‘11

6. inLab FIB is an innovation and research lab of the Barcelona School of
Informatics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech (UPC). Members of
UPC Technology Center CIT UPC.
Missions:
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R+D multidisciplinary project development and transfer of knowledge to the
society
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A professional environment focused on training and developing the talent of our
students: Talent training program
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A learning lab specialized in informatics engineering
inLab FIB integrates academic staff from different UPC departments and its own
technical staff. Graduate and under-graduate students collaborate in R+D projects
through our Talent Program.
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7. R + D Areas of expertise
inLab FIB is an innovation and research lab of the Barcelona School of
Informatics of UPC specialized in applications and services based on the
latest information technologies.
Areas of expertise:

8. Modeling, simulation & optimization
• Event simulation applied to
transport, manufacturing, logisti
cs and other services
• Industrial & logistics processes
optimization
• Social simulation applied to
demography
• Emergency simulation
More information:
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/experteses/mod
elitzacio-simulacio-i-optimitzacio
Microscopic simulation of passengers
movements in the new terminal of the airport
of Barcelona. AENA-INDRA
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9. Smart Cities
• Smart mobility: traffic
forecasting, dynamic
ridesharing, public transport
routing, transport data
analytics, urban logistics, mobility
services, etc.
• Energy efficient transport
simulation and optimization
• Energy efficient building (EeB)
simulation
More information:
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/experteses/smar
t-cities
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10. Mobile Apps and GIS
• Leading OpenStreetMap in
Catalonia.
• Geoservices provider: Tracking,
Monitoring, Mapping, Specific
Routing, App development
• Own Tracking core (tooPath)
used in eHealth, Sports,
Transport and industrial
applications
• Contextual mobile applications
• Mobile multimedia &
Augmented Reality
• Mobile Apps Lab
More information: https://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/experteses/aplicacions-mobils-igis
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11. Data analysis and management
• Data analytics and information
analysis
• Data fusion
• Data mining
• Big data
• Dashboards , Business
Intelligence
• Open data
• Statistical methods for the
measurement of intangibles
(satisfaction, quality, etc.)
Queries and large data matrix analysis for the
Centre for Opinion Studies (CEO) of the
Government of Catalonia
More information:
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/experteses/
analisis-i-tractament-de-dades
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12. Security & ICT infrastructures
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First Spanish Response Team
Forensics
Penetration testing
Network monitoring
Application security
Malware detection
Security infrastructure
management
• Management of high availability
environments
• Virtualization technologies
More information:
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/experteses/segu
retat-i-infraestructures-tic
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13. Collaborative Internet
e-Catalunya (ecatalunya.gencat.net): Social
networks & web 2.0 collaborative tools
Catalonia Government
• Distributed web services and
technology
• Software as a Service and
interoperability technologies
• Social and collaborative intranets
• Multimedia information systems
• Security, authentication, single sign
on and identity management
• Federated Social Networks
• Accessibility
• Social networks usage and
integration into collaboration
environments
• SEO, SEM, SMO
More information:
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/experteses/inter
net-collaborativa
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14. IT learning environment & services
• Learning Analytics
• IT enabled learning spaces
• e-learning & virtual campus
environments
• Mobileapps learning lab
• Active learning technologies
• Information systems for the
management of studies and
other university processes
• Quality assurance systems and
analytics
More information:
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/experteses/entorns-i-serveis-tic-de-suportlaprenentatge-i-la-gestio-universitaria
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15. H2020 interests
Currently collaborating in proposals for the first 2014 calls of Smart, Green and
Intregrated Transport:
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MG.3.5-2014. Cooperative ITS for safe, congestion-free and sustainable
MG.5.2-2014. Reducing impacts and costs of freight and service trips in urban
MG.7.1-2014. Connectivity and information sharing for intelligent mobility
MG.7.2-2014. Towards seamless mobility addressing fragmentation in ITS deployment in
Europe
Potential interest in other topics
Leadership in Enabling & Industrial Technologies
• ICT-32-2014. Cybersecurity, Trustworthy ICT
• ICT-35b -2014. ICT Entrepreneurship Summer Academy
• ICT-20-2015. Technologies for better human learning and teaching
Potential interest in other topics
Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens –
disaster/emergency management topics
Secure, clean and efficient energy
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EE-11-2015. New ICT-based solutions for energy efficiency

16. MOBILE APPS TECHNOLOGY
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17. uTalk
• Mobile app for social interaction (“Enterprise or
Campus whatsapp”)
• Integrated into UPCnet product catalog
• Federated social network technology: Activity
Stream
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/upcnet-utalk-eina-de-missatgeria-corporativa-ambfil-social
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/blog/utalk-corporate-social-networking
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18. tooPath: Tracking Core
• Industrial tracking core for embedded devices
• Also Available as a mobile app
• Reporting and analysis tool
More information: http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/toopath-free-mobile-device-tracking-system
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK-QGRv7kME

19. TrackingALERT & sportALERT
• TrackingALERT library is ready to
be integrated into contextual
applications for the sport .
– monitors the movement of athletes
through their mobile geolocation
– detects unplanned stoppages,
activating an alarm that, if it's not
canceled, it will send a message
with the location to a series of
previously specified recipients.
• sportALERT is an example of
using the library
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20. SkiTraces: Ski + GIS
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Real-time Skier tracking
Real-time Friend information with Geocoding
OpenStreetMap Mapping Technologies
SMS Alarms to friends
More information: http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/skitraces http://www.skitraces.com
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNj6gGpm8rQ

21. City Walking: eHealth
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People with heart diseases risk
Exercise supervised by medical
professionals
Explore a city, events & local
commerce
Share walked routes with
family or friends
OpenStreetMap technologies
Winner over 80 proposals
Partners: City of
Terrassa, Mutua de
Terrassa and Terrassa’s
Health Consortium
More
information:
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/citywalking

22. SportTraces: Running + GIS
• Realtime Runners & Race staff tracking
• Alarm system & call to Race staff
• Battery level control for long races
More information: http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/sporttraces

23. Probe Person Survey UPCnet
• Turning citizens into
an active agent in
the generation of
mobility
data using mobile
devices
• Probe Person Survey
methodology
• Analysis of mobility
and urban
behaviour
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/probe-person-survey-upcnet
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24. Racó Mobile
• iOS and Android apps allowing students to access information on
the FIB intranet (the Racó) and on the web: news, location of
buildings, occupation of classrooms, courses information, courses
notices, mail and personal timetable and calendar
• Web services layer using OAuth, allowing our students to develop
new services accessing FIB data
• Web Services, Java Objective-C, OAuth
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25. Dynamic ridesharing
• Point to point instant dynamic ridesharing
• A pilot test is going on in a city in the Barcelona
metropolitan area to share private vehicles to go
to the train station located in the closest city.
Users can demand the transport just a few
minutes in advance.
• It uses mobile technology and a tracking server.
The main challenges of this project are not
technological but related to social and security
issues.
More information: http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/dynamic-ridesharing

26. MobileApps Learning Lab
• Suite of services designed to facilitate and
enhance learning of technologies associated
with mobile applications.
• Oriented to a community of students highly
motivated towards mobile technologies and
with excellent development skills
• Public repository of mobile applications
developed by FIB students as either course
work or final projects.
• Loan of mobile phones, access to developer
programs
• Access to public open data and platforms
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27. TRANSPORT & SMART MOBILITY
EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
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28. Experience in applying optimization and
simulation models to transportation problems
• Public Transportation Planning
• Development of Real-Time Adaptive traffic Control
Systems
• Development and testing of Mathematical Models and
Optimisation Algorithms for Transportation Planning
• Development, implementation and testing of
Microscopic and Mesoscopic traffic simulators.
• Urban logistics
• Real-time fleet management

29. ICT & Transports Research interests
Agent based simulation, new generation traffic and travel
forecasting models, electronic data collection & activity
based demand modelling, real-time multimodal personal
journey planners, urban logistics, emergency and disasters
management.
Current working projects in the area of transport and smart mobility are related with
• Traffic Data Fusion
• Dynamic Traffic Assignment
• Real-Time OD Estimation
• Advanced Traffic Information Systems
• Active Traffic Management
• Micro and Meso Traffic Simulation
• Dynamic Ridesharing

30. Smart mobility – Traffic forecasting
It is not possible to install sensors in ALL streets.
It is necessary to look for different ways.
Example: Weather forecast
The model makes use of a small set of data and
provides us with detailed information
Meteorological
model
Even more: the model can predict the future
evolution of weather conditions
In the same way as weather, Traffic may be
calculated and predicted from a limited number
of sensors through the use of models

31. Smart mobility: Traffic and travel
forecasting
New generation forecasting models for high-quality traffic and
travel information, short-time real-time predictions
• Current available models and services are useful to provide
information for long-term traffic planning or they provide
information only based on past information.
• New generation forecasting models are required to provide highquality traffic and travel information, specially for short term
predictions used to plan a trip.
Example of applications/projects:
• Electric vehicle trip planning
• Real-time multimodal trip planning, combining different transport
modes

32. Electronic Data Collection for Activity Based
Demand Modeling
BCALs
Micro
Sensor data
No operation needed
Long-term monitoring
In-store data
Detailed actions observed
GPS mobile phones
Probe person survey
Meso
Dot data Creation of path data
Practicable for a long term
Operation of instrument needed
Only GPS data
Indoor data not observable
Paper questionnaire
Person trip survey
Inter-zone travel
Dependent on memory
Decrease in accuracy
Omission of recording of short trips
Large burden
Not practicable
Zone
for a long-term
Macro
Zone
Source: Electronic Instrument Design and User Interfaces for Activity Based Modeling (Hato & Timmermann - 2008)

33. Real-Time Advanced Journey Planner
Interactive, integrated, multimodal, real-time
decision support system (pre-trip, in-trip)
Data interoperability
P&R
P&R

34. Traffic Data Analytics
We are working on most of the services required for Smart
Mobility or for dealing with traffic from the perspective of
analytics, including data filtering, completion and fusion,
the interoperability of data and the processing of huge
amounts of data, or Big Data.
Statistical & traffic
flow based models to
identify and eliminate
the outlier
observations
Missing data
supply
Procedures of spacetime traffic state
reconstruction from
heterogeneous data
sources

35. Dynamic traffic flow models
The result of data fusion composed by flows, speeds and travel
times, with a traffic model, is a complete picture of all the network:
info for all streets, not just main avenues or streets with sensors.
This complete picture is obtained using dynamic traffic flow models

36. Rapid Prototyping for urban design
Rapid Prototyping: Tool/Method to support agile low cost urban design
decisions.
Used to optimize the location of elements such as traffic sensors, eVehicle charging
points, accessibility analysis or location of emergency services, etc.
It answers the questions:
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How many?
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Where to locate them?
Based on research on Location Problems.

37. Decision support systems: Traffic Management
Decision Support System based on the Macro Fundamental Diagram and, through the
proper processing of the data from all detectors, allows to identify on real time the
present traffic state of a urban area and its evolution. This information is the used, in
combination with traffic models, for the implementation of proactive traffic control
strategies.

38. OTHER R&D COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
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39. In4Mo. Advance Information System for the
Mobility of People and Vehicles
• Combine traditional traffic supervision technologies with the
latest available or soon to be available ICT.
• Data Filtering, Merging and Completion Module.
– Filtering of data, integration of new types of data that had not traditionally been
used in traffic information systems, especially those that allow real-time treatment
of information.
– Development of completion models for missing data coming from the ICTs.
– Development of data merging models that combine large amounts of data sources
unprecedented in the field of traffic.
Avanza Competitividad R&D (2010-2012)
Program
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/in4mo-advance-information-system-mobility-peopleand-vehicles

40. L9 Energy consumption optimization
• Improve energy efficiency in underground Manless Train
Operation.
• Reduce energy costs by improving the energy efficiency
obtained by regenerative brakes increasing the
synchronization between braking and starting acceleration at
the stations.
• A complex non linear optimization model was built to
optimize scheduling and circulation plans. Aprox. 5% energy
saving
• L9 is the first metro line without driver in Spain, and one of
the largest and modern automatic line without driver of the
World
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/energy-consumption-optimization
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41. Analysis of the energy consumption of the TRAM
• Analysis of energy consumption of a tram in Barcelona and of
the factors that increase energy consumption.
• Data collection and analytics.
• The study has measured the total rate savings that would
result the absence of traffic light stops
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42. ALSTOM Project
• Web based information system that allows the user to locate the
position of all trains that are operating at a given moment and
their potential incidences. It’s been used for early detection of
incidences in AVE and AVANT trains and maintenance planning
improvement.
• Remote collection of train incidences, that are displayed in real
time using a geographical map (OpenStreetMap) and a web
browser. Data collected is also prepared for its integration into
the ALSTOM global train maintenance system.
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/alstom-project

43. FireFIGHT: Fire Fighting by
Optimization of Ground Logistics
• Development of a decision
support tool for fire management
decision makers, focusing mainly
on the efficient management of
ground resources involved in
extinguishing wildfire.
• GIS platform will provide real
time information about the
location of fire fighters, ground
resources and air resources.
• Multicriteria optimization
algorithm to minimize the nonefficient movements of
material, and people and to
optimize resources.
• Visualization of the front fire line
evolution
• National Research project funded
by
More information: https://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/fire-fightingoptimization-ground-logistics-firefight

44. THIS: Transport Hub Intelligent Video System
• Automatic behavioral analysis through video processing,
focused on crowded scenarios, for transportation hubs,
such as harbors, airports or train stations.
• Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management
of Terrorism and other Security-related Risks (CIPS)
programms
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/transport-hub-intelligent-video-system
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45. RAFFI: Online Banking AntiFraud Detection System
• Pioneering research that seeks to
optimize the prevention and
real-time detection of financial
fraud attempts against different
channels of electronic banking
(web, mobile phones and digital
television).
• Modelling based on users’
behaviour
• Detection of mules and man in
the browser attacks
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/raffi-investigacion-de-herramientas-antifraudefinanciero-por-internet
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46. BONE Network of Excellence
• Collaborative environment for the network of excellence and
integration of other collaboration and dissemination tools. Coleading WP3 - Electronic Communication Tools
• BONE aims to integrate and disseminate the research on optical
networks and communications that is being performed in
BONE is a Network of
funded by
Europe, as well as to demonstrate the advantages in the use of ExcellenceCommissionthe
European
optical technologies over electronic ones in communications through the 7th ICTFramework Program
networks.
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/bone-network-excellence

47. Learning analytics
• A research and open
innovation project
to exploit
educational data
mining and other
techniques
• Using moodle digital
traces
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48. uTalent
• uTalent is a joint
project of UPCnet and
inLab FIB is to develop
a prototype portal to
manage Talent, skills
and competencies in
enterprises.
• It will also be able to
show the correlation
of Talent values, the
company values, and its
employees
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49. SomUPC
• Social intranet
• Interconnection with the information
systems of the UPC via SOA
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50. Recent partners
• Strong partnership with cities (setting up a shared innovation
center with the city of Barcelona)
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Members of:
• See full list at http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/col-laboradors

51. Talent Program
A professional environment focused on training and developing the
talent of our students
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52. inLab Talent Program
Granting and Training system: inLab TALENT Program
Direct access to students:
the future mobile developers,
IT professionals and entrepreneurs
Currently sponsored by:

53. inLab Talent mission
The main objective of the program is that students
taking part assimilate values​​, skills and abilities
additional and complementary to those obtained in
their studies, boosting their employability as future
professionals, encouraging their entrepreneurial,
creativity and innovation abilities, and responding to
the commitment of the economic transformation
based on the knowledge society.
The project especially emphasizes the following values​​,
skills and abilities:
And other skills depending on the specific training
program.
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54. inLab Talent Programme
• 6 specific Talent Training programs
using learning-by-doing and skillsoriented methodology.
• Mobile applications and Mobile
Business
• Data analysis and processing &
business intelligence
• Collaborative
web
based
environments
• Geo-services and smart cities
• Simulation and optimization
• ICT infrastructure management
• Last semester: in-company & international
activities
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/talent-training-program

55. inLab Talent students
• We incorporate UPC graduate and under-graduate
students offering them the opportunity to
collaborate in real R+D projects.
• This practical experience may lead to a student
completing their Final Project, Masters Thesis or
PhD.
• Local or International students from the currently
degrees offered by the Barcelona School of
Informatics are welcomed:
– Erasmus Mundus Masters: DMKM, Data Mining and Knowledge
Management; IT4BI, Information Technologies for Business Intelligence;
EMDC, Distributed Computing.
– International Master in Innovation and Research in Informatics
– Master of Informatics Engineering
– Master in Artificial Intelligence
– Bachelor in Informatics Engineering
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56. Contact us
http://inlab.fib.upc.edu
inlab@fib.upc.edu
+34 93 401 69 41
c/ Jordi Girona 1-3
Campus Nord. Edifici B6
08034 Barcelona
Spain
Twitter: @inLabFIB