Sustainable mobility: another challenge for Smart Cities

Sustainable mobility: another challenge for Smart Cities

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...

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New technologies in healthcare

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...

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Manufacturing Electronics in 21st Century

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...

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Positioning systems and mobility management II

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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