UB and Worldsensing join forces to promote research and innovation in the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence
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(22/06/2023)
The University of Barcelona and the company Worldsensing, a pioneer in the Internet of Things, have presented the UB Worldsensing Chair of Industrial Internet of Things, in an event that took place in the Aula Magna of the Historical Building of the UB. The Chair aims to strengthen the collaboration between the university and businesses to promote research and innovation in areas such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and electronic design so that Catalonia becomes a model in these environments.
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Institutional
22/06/2023
The University of Barcelona and the company Worldsensing, a pioneer in the Internet of Things, have presented the UB Worldsensing Chair of Industrial Internet of Things, in an event that took place in the Aula Magna of the Historical Building of the UB. The Chair aims to strengthen the collaboration between the university and businesses to promote research and innovation in areas such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and electronic design so that Catalonia becomes a model in these environments.
The strategic lines of the Chair will be three. The first will consist of promoting lines of research and joint innovations to address the technological challenges presented by the Internet of Things. Secondly, there will be a positive impact on the training of UB students with content aligned with the current needs of the sector, through dual learning, to increase employability and competitiveness rates. Finally, the aim is to increase the presence of women in engineering degrees. To this end, academic and career guidance activities will be organized and career models for women will be provided.
The director of the chair, Manuel López Miguel, professor of the Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering of the Faculty of Physics of the UB, pointed out that one of the main objectives of the chair is "to strengthen knowledge in the Internet of Things in order to work on the development in this field in Catalonia, Spain and Europe". He also said that “there is a shortage of engineers, of talent: it is necessary to recruit and train for the immediate future and it is necessary that this new talent is trained at the university".
For his part, Ignasi Vilajosana, from Worldsensing, recalled that the company was born at the UB, in the Department of Geodynamics and Geophysics, fifteen years ago. "Our duty as a company is to continue investing in training and innovation, key elements that have brought us to where we are. And this cannot be done without taking people into account", he said. "This chair aims to help train all young people to help us continue to innovate; it must be a space for dialogue between the university and the company, for cross-cutting interaction, which is what industry and society are asking for."
Finally, the rector of the UB, Joan Guàrdia, expressed his satisfaction about the agreement: "In the last thirty years, if any of the specialties in the scientific field has shown how to recognize opportunities and possibilities, it has been physics. The Faculty of Physics at the UB has been extraordinarily intelligent in recognizing areas and technologies of enormous utility, for example, in the field of biomedicine." "Science begins with the identification of problems, and the chairs, in this sense, are a happy strategy", he concluded.
The chair was born from the need to improve the interaction between industry and university to propose joint solutions in the field of ICT. The Internet of Things is a further step in the digitalization of society, in which a multitude of networked physical objects exchange information with each other to direct and facilitate processes relevant to human beings. Electronic technology and telecommunications are the key to this new revolution.
The union of the UB with Worldsensing allows consolidating a field of collaborative innovation, joining efforts to develop more ambitious and competitive projects in the Internet of Things and organising the access to a differential technological knowledge.
Among the attendants in the presentation of the chair were the vice-rector for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transfer, Mercè Segarra; the dean of the Faculty of Physics, Eugeni Graugés; the former dean Atilà Herms, and the director of the Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering, Francesca Peiró.
The director of the chair, Manuel López Miguel, professor of the Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering of the Faculty of Physics of the UB, pointed out that one of the main objectives of the chair is "to strengthen knowledge in the Internet of Things in order to work on the development in this field in Catalonia, Spain and Europe". He also said that “there is a shortage of engineers, of talent: it is necessary to recruit and train for the immediate future and it is necessary that this new talent is trained at the university".
For his part, Ignasi Vilajosana, from Worldsensing, recalled that the company was born at the UB, in the Department of Geodynamics and Geophysics, fifteen years ago. "Our duty as a company is to continue investing in training and innovation, key elements that have brought us to where we are. And this cannot be done without taking people into account", he said. "This chair aims to help train all young people to help us continue to innovate; it must be a space for dialogue between the university and the company, for cross-cutting interaction, which is what industry and society are asking for."
Finally, the rector of the UB, Joan Guàrdia, expressed his satisfaction about the agreement: "In the last thirty years, if any of the specialties in the scientific field has shown how to recognize opportunities and possibilities, it has been physics. The Faculty of Physics at the UB has been extraordinarily intelligent in recognizing areas and technologies of enormous utility, for example, in the field of biomedicine." "Science begins with the identification of problems, and the chairs, in this sense, are a happy strategy", he concluded.
The chair was born from the need to improve the interaction between industry and university to propose joint solutions in the field of ICT. The Internet of Things is a further step in the digitalization of society, in which a multitude of networked physical objects exchange information with each other to direct and facilitate processes relevant to human beings. Electronic technology and telecommunications are the key to this new revolution.
The union of the UB with Worldsensing allows consolidating a field of collaborative innovation, joining efforts to develop more ambitious and competitive projects in the Internet of Things and organising the access to a differential technological knowledge.
Among the attendants in the presentation of the chair were the vice-rector for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transfer, Mercè Segarra; the dean of the Faculty of Physics, Eugeni Graugés; the former dean Atilà Herms, and the director of the Department of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering, Francesca Peiró.