Olivia Brookhouse What is IoT: Solutions and future applications Are you interested in finding out what is the Internet of Things (IoT)? It is an ever-growing technology which opens doors to new opportunities in multiple sectors ranging from...
Fernando García Gómez Waste collection vehicles join the RevolutIOTn What’s the impact of technology in our lives? Undoubtely, it makes our daily life easier both in the personal and profesional field, allowing us to obtain more benefits with less...
Beatriz Sanz Baños The 6 key conclusions of the user experience of Internet of Things in Spain According to the study Things Matter 2019 the connected car is one of the engines of the IoT 87% of those who use IoT declare that they wouldn’t give up...
Beatriz Sanz Baños Efficient and responsible milk production We have a new example of how technology can help us form a better society in which the production and consumption of milk is carried out in a sustainable...
The benefits of energy efficiency: Much more than savingsBeatriz Sanz Baños 27 April, 2018 Energy efficiency has become the ‘first fuel’ of the 30 countries that belong to the International Energy Agency (IEA), including Spain. This means that the energy saved by the members of this organization was higher in 2010 than the energy demand met by any source of energy, including oil, gas, coal, electricity or any other fuel. Energy efficiency is a key lever in achieving the sustainability objectives which require lowering kT emissions of CO2 equivalent. Thus, the IEA modelled that 40% of the reduction in emissions needed to limit the increase in the global temperature to 2 degrees by 2050 could be achieved thanks to energy efficiency. These figures endorse the additional benefits of energy efficiency, which are joined by other obvious advantages like savings for companies and industries. They are all part of the concept known as the ‘multiple benefits’ of efficient energy management, which was addressed by the IEA itself in a workshop held in Paris last March, where it updated and reflected on its progress. This concept, which is still little-known, was presented in a 2014 report entitled ‘Capturing the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency’, which described how investment in energy efficiency benefits the different stakeholders, identifying 12 key areas with a positive impact due to energy efficiency, including energy savings. This list of advantages also includes environmental sustainability, active values, macroeconomic development, industrial productivity, energy security, access to energy, the cost of energy, public budgets, the available income, air pollution, and health and overall wellbeing. Different kinds of solutions Tools of this nature can be grouped into two kinds: remote metrics and remote control. The former primarily consists of implementing IoT sensors in the client’s facility which generate information on consumption and the variables on which it depends (outside temperature, inside temperature, humidity, etc.), which are then transmitted via mobile or stationary networks to a cloud platform which stores and processes it and provides a visualization environment. The latter add the deployment of actuators, which are managed remotely from the platform to allow for dynamic configuration and therefore achieve better optimization of consumption. Smart Energy IoT by Telefónica is an example of a specific solution to manage energy efficiency through the application of the IoT. In short, by focusing on energy efficiency we get a threefold benefit, since it guarantees savings, sustainability and digitalization or “IoTization”, so it is a solution worth bearing in mind for companies and industries in all sectors. An introduction to Machine Learning: “What are Insights?”Are you Ready for a Wild World? Don’t miss out on Big Data for Social Good 2018!
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Nacho Palou What is AI-winter and how to avoid it Are we on the verge of the next AI winter? What factors could contribute to it? Fear, restrictive legislation, or lack of progress can impact AI's future.
Nacho Palou The power of sustainable digitalization in the fight against climate change Climate change is considered the greatest challenge of our time. Its effects range from desertification and droughts to floods and rising sea levels. Some of its most visible consequences...
Roberto García Esteban ChatGPT and Cloud Computing: A happy marriage ChatGPT (you may not know that it stands for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) has become the talk of the town for its impressive ability to generate text that looks...
Olivia Brookhouse Can Artificial Intelligence understand emotions? When John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky founded Artificial Intelligence in 1956, they were amazed how a machine could perform incredibly difficult puzzles quicker than humans. However, it turns out...
Telefónica Tech Automation, Connectivity and Augmented Intelligence at the service of a competitive, disruptive and sustainable reindustrialization Por Javier Martínez Borrguero I am back for the second consecutive year to participate in the Advanced Factories (AF 2023), the largest exhibition and professional congress dedicated to Industry 4.0...