There are now almost 25,000 electric plug-in vehicles registered in Spain. According to forecasts by the Ministry for Ecological Transition, the figure will rise to 5 million by 2030. Driving sustainable mobility has become one of the main objectives of Smart Cities. To this end, we must find a balance and adapt cities to allow citizens to quickly and easily move in and out of urban centers...
New technologies in healthcare
If there’s a sector that is at the fore of technology, it’s medicine, applying new techniques that allow us to improve our quality of life. In this blog post, I don’t want to focus on the latest technological advances, I want to focus on how new communications paradigms and new technologies, which are at our fingertips, can be used to improve healthcare. Communication technology; IoT and APPs...
Manufacturing Electronics in 21st Century
On June 30th 1948, The New York Times devoted a 4-inch article on page 46 to a new invention: “A device called a transistor, which has several applications in radio where a vacuum tube ordinarily is employed”. [1] The article unveiled what Bell Labs (the R&D Department of the American telephone operator AT&T) had been developing and patenting since 1947. This modest announcement of what...
Positioning systems and mobility management II
In my previous article on "Positioning systems and mobility management I" looked at the Wi-Fi infrastructure solution within a given area. The location of a client carrying a Wi-Fi-enabled device could be estimated based on the information received from several APs about a client's proximity. The client didn't even have to connect to the network, just having the interface turned on was enough....
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