Innovation projects at Software Labs

CELTIC - Strategic Knowledge Leaded by Technologies for the Competitive Intelligence

The main goal of the CELTIC project is the development of new capacitive technologies to make easier for the business environment taking strategic decisions in nearly real time, since the acquired knowledge either from the cientific-technological environment or nowadays and future economic impacts. Or what´s the same, the development of capacitive technologies for the Competitive Intelligence in the organizations.

NEMO&CODED - NEtwork MOnitoring & COntrol, Diagnostic for Electrical Distribution

The goal of Nemo&Coded proyect is develop the Indra future platform of energy telemanagement (PHASE I). The energy market is working in Nemo&Coded to obtain a marketable product.

Enerficiency - User Led Energy Efficiency Management

The ENERFICIENCY project is an initiative to design, implement and test an open software platform for energy efficiency monitoring and management from the customer (consumers/prosumers) side capable to interact with the power network and to provide services for an efficient use of energy.

DiCoMa - Disaster Control Management

Effective disaster management requires taking into account people, and the way they react to emergencies. This results in an intense usage of User Centered Design, involving many application partners (as potential users), as well as studying behavior patterns in emergencies and taking these patterns into account, in the design and implementation of DiCoMa.
Intends to focus on the ability of agencies to cooperate, sharing information and resources, regardless of internal procedures and regardless of language. Furthermore DiCoMa will aim at defining a standardized Process Framework, which will allow the different parties in a disaster scenario to work collaboratively together, but still comply with their own country specific set of processes, rule and regulation.
The feasibility of the developed concepts und prototypes by executing a validation phase, allowing actual users to work with the system, managing simulated multi-national disaster scenarios.

Price-RED - Intelligent Network

Price-RED designs a core architecture that manages the communications system of SmartGrid. This project will try to break down technological walls about standardization, security and interoperability system management. The main challenge is develop ICT technologies that integrate the physical components of Smart Meters solutions efficiently and adaptable to new elements.

Price-GDI - Management distributed generation

Price-GDI has the intent to develop a management model of distributed generation (with all features for each generation technologies) and creates a network architecture for integrate distributed generation efficiently.

SAGAZ - Open GIS based system for early warning of natural disaster

The main goal of the SAGAZ Project is the creation of an integrated platform based on a Geographic Information System that allows the simulation and early detection of various types of natural disasters (forest fires, severe thunderstorms, flooding, dense fog banks, etc..), combining technologies and application of a different nature, and making it possible to react with the speed and effectiveness necessary in order to mobilize resources to prevent the generation of natural disaster or, in alternatively, to minimize the effects of the disaster.

IMAN - Innovation MANager

The aim of the IMAN Project is the development of a global solution for the management of the innovation in the organizations. It will facilitate the management of the innovation activities in line with all areas in the organization, using the existing organizational knowledge (and the technological and economic environment) and improving it with the knowledge generated by the innovation activities. IMAN will be compliant with the main international innovation regulations.

CloudMU - Cloud Me Up

The CloudMU project aims to create a deployable cloud used by enterprises, federated with existing clouds. This cloud will combine both virtualization and Grid Computing at infraestructure level, and will support application development platforms, facilitating the migration of existing applications. It will also provide service quality guarantees (in terms of level of compliance with SLAs and fault tolerance) and safety in line with company standards in all service levels. Despite the cloud will have a market-oriented approach of the companies forming the consortium, will consider the choice to be used in other organizations with similar structural features, although the business model or the scope of applications could be of entirely different nature.

PROMETEO - Technologies for the integral fight against forest fires and the preserving our forest stand

The goal of the PROMETEO project is to watch over the preservation of our forest stand, optimizing the resources which the public administration disposes for this purpose, through the development of new technologies that makes it possible to minimize the risk in case of forest fire. Also, the result of this project will introduce new technologies that will drive us to a notable reduction of great forest fires’ generation and it will maximize the security in the extinction devices, both in our country and in the Mediterranean countries which suffer the same environmental problematic.

ORIGIN – Global, Intelligent and Innovatives Organizations

The aim of the ORIGIN project is to increase the productivity of software development activities in global scenarios, improving the quality of the developed products, and in this way increasing the competitiveness of this kind of enterprises. To achieve this goal, a set of conceptual tools, methodologies and systems to optimize the production of software in such scenarios will be developed. Problems related to communication and knowledge management will also be addressed. The technologies developed will also facilitate the use of organizational knowledge in development activities, improving decision-making in the organizational activities, and increasing its competitiveness by focusing on innovation and excellence as differentiating factors.

ACSI - Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation

The over-arching objective of the ACSI project research is to reduce dramatically the effort and lead-time of designing, deploying, maintaining, and joining into environments that support service collaborations. The project will develop a rich framework based on two novel notions: interoperation hubs and dynamic artifacts. Interoperation hubs enable flexible, scalable support for service collaborations in an open network. Dynamic artifacts provide an approach to modeling business processes to simplify the management of data and interaction between different services and organizations. The ACSI research will substantially extend current verification and synthesis techniques to incorporate data along with process, and will develop the next generation of process mining research by generalizing it to handle data along with process.

SeniorChannel - An Interactive Digital Television Channel for Promoting Entertainment and Social Interaction amongst

SeniorChannel is an AAL Project that brings together 11 partners and subcontractors from five different European countries Spain, France, Italy, England and Sweden. The goal of the project SeniorChannel is the development of an Interactive IPTV Channel that will not only provide elderly people with a method of interacting but also with a unique means of access to the range of diverse activities in their community including the opportunity to share knowledge and experience, the ability to participate in topical debates, entertainment services, work-shops and discussion groups regardless of their geographical location. Also it will be developed and implemented a low cost, easy-to-use, integrated TV studio and production centre that will enable community driven broadcasting.

i-Smart Software Factory. Collaborative environments for Distributed Software Developments

The i-Smart Software Factory project sets the basis for the creation of a worldwide software factory, in which new methodologies and software development processes will be experimented with. Companies as well as universities take part in this project at a global level. Indra Software Labs leads the iniciative of the companies, in close colaboration with the Polytechnic University of Madrid. The University of Helsinki, Nokia Siemens Network and ABB highlight in the international domain.

Imponet. Intelligent Monitoring of POwer NETworks

The aim of the Imponet project is the development of the Indra’s future power remote-management platform, so the ultimate goal is to put a product in the market. Another objective is to identify the requirements that will be demanded by the energy market by incorporating new concepts: smart grid, smart metering, demand management and real time network monitoring.

Energos. Technologies for automated and intelligent management of the future power distribution networks

The Energos project is focused in the research of the basic elements that make it possible to develop an intelligent network that is able of real-time managing of all multidirectional flows originated in the new grid model. It will massively incorporate renewable energy at different levels of the network, a greater involvement of end customers in the management, greater efficiency and bidirectional flows created by the introduction of electric vehicles.

Vesta - Domotic technologies centered in the user

The Vesta goal is the creation of domotics environments centered in the user. The research focuses on all kinds of advance technologies to offer new possibilities of computation and representation. So Vesta combine technologies as ambient intelligence, natural user interfaces, energy control, mobile technology, virtual reality, virtual assistant and so on. Furthermore, Vesta is differentiated by using low cost hardware so everyone can access these technologies.

Luminica - Projection system for audiovisual big format environments

The main goal of Luminica project is research in the development of a last generation visualization system in order to perform 3D projection in big format environments, using existing projection infrastructure (Full Dome systems). These configurations, introduced in most of the existing IMAX and planetaries around the world, use to be underused and restricted to contents specifically made for them with exorbitant costs and very limited choices. The development of this project is oriented to the projection of 3D content in these large infrastructures at low cost, allowing better use of facilities and a better repayment through a wider and variety choice.

MobiAR - Contextual augmented reality in tourism applications for mobile users

The goal of MobiAR project will be the development of a tourism information services platform based on augmented reality technology, so this services are offered to users via their mobile devices, avoiding any type of additional hardware or device. The users of the service, through this platform, will use the display of the mobile device to visualize enriched information about they are watching, superposing virtual information above the real elements.

SITIO - Semantic Business Processes based on Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing

The main objective of SITIO Project is the application of several emerging paradigms (Software-as-a-Service, Semantic technologies, Business Process Management, Cloud Computing) to build a new Software-as-a-Service platform that will include Semantic technologies, oriented to the interoperability and to reduction of costs, with the resulting profit to the software industry.

SONAR 2 - Recommendation and support system for financial decisions based on semantic technologies

The goal of SONAR2 project is the development of a support system for decision in order to help traders and financial analysts work. This environment uses the latest technologies and approaches in the field of technical analysis and fundamental analysis. Additionally, in this project is developed a colaborative system based on Web 2.0 technologies that let users to create, modify and delete information about investments interactibilly, easy and quick way.

HESPERIA - HomeLand Security technologies for integral security in public spaces and infrastructures

The main goal of the Project Hesperia is the development of technologies for the creation and integration of advanced security systems and operations control systems in infrastructures and public spaces.

TELURIA - Advanced and modular GIS based platform

The goal of the Teluria project is to obtain a highly innovative software proyect focused in the network and assets management of the Utilities, Defense, Infrastructures, Telecomunications and Environment companies and their geographical surroundings.

HUMANDEV - Human Led Development

The main goal of HUMANDEV is the definition of a methodology and implementing it from the construction of the necessary tools to enable various types of "Development led by the person". The main technologies involved in the project are: BPM and SOA, Java Swing, SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit), Google Android and Usability Engineering.

SONAR - Corporate financial search engine based on semantic technologies

The goal of SONAR project is focused on the development of a corporate financial search engine based on knowledge technologies and using semantic web elements. Basically, system collects data from both sources of information: public (Internet) and private (Intranet) corporate information, merges these data into a semantically annotated data repository and lets the access to these data in an intelligent way, through an inference engine, that uses the semantic content and a natural language processor that helps users to do the searchings as easy as possible.

SIBMATI - Multimodal biometric system applied to information technologies

The main goal of the SIBMATI project is the development of a multimodal biometric identification system applied to information systems environment. The system's purpose is twofold: allows the user to protect the access of intruders in his own environment (local information , resources, etc.) or avoids someone steal his identity as a user, for example in a given network or a service via Internet.

e-TIOBE - Intelligent e-therapy system for obesity treatment

The goal of e-TIOBE project is the use of innovative TIC tools, using them directly in the resolution of an important social and health problem, like is obesity.