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 IoT transforms the gaming universe Debate is open between those who think that the traditional game console is dying and those who think that it still has a lot of life to live. Could...
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 The Smart mining revolution The integration of IoT in smart mining manages to connect its employees with their work environment, providing different benefits that reduce the percentage of accidents. Since its inception, safety has...
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!
Javier Coronado Blazquez Big Data in basic research: from elementary particles to black holes The Big Data paradigm has profoundly penetrated all the layers of our society, changing the way in which we interact with each other and technological projects are carried out....
Víctor Vallejo Carballo AI of Things (V): Recommendation and optimisation of advertising content on smart displays Learn about the benefits of technologies such as smart displays and Big Data for the outdoor advertising industry.
Santiago Morante Cendrero AI in Science Fiction Films: A Recurring Pattern of Fascination and Horror In today’s post we are going to explore how Hollywood films have dealt with the subject of technological advances, especially robotics and Artificial Intelligence. You will be surprised to...
Andrés Escribano The Ultimate Evolution Towards the Digitisation of Industry Digital transformation brings us new opportunities, it is changing our lives both in the way we communicate and in the way we produce. Digitalisation of the industrial fabric in particular...
Paloma, Recuero de los Santos Green data centers: fighting climate pollution from Internet use Do you have any idea how the Internet affects the environment? According to World Bank data, 48.5% of the world’s population was already connected to the Internet in 2017...
José Luis Núñez Díaz Alastria 3.0: the spanish blockchain consortium On the June 1st, the Annual Assembly of Alastria, the Spanish Blockchain consortium, was held. Today we are already more than 500 members: companies of all sizes, profiles and...