The evolution towards digitalisation in the Industry 4.0, also known as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) generates a technological ecosystem aimed at embedding intelligence into its processes, products, and services. These are physically materialised by incorporating sensory and communication elements that provide accurate, precise and reliable information in a timely and continuous manner.
The flexibility of processes, the development of smart products, the transformation of production lines into digital information, and the servitisation of information are vital aspects that help the industrial ecosystem progress towards sustainability, improving its profitability.
Smart sensors, combined with different communication and self-powered solutions, Energy Harvesting, are the tools that make it happen, by harnessing the heterogeneity of the systems with their intelligence.
OBJECTIVE
- We will provide a global vision of the potential of the most innovative sensing solutions. By combining intelligence and heterogeneity of the systems we can address the challenges of digitalisation within the IoT framework.
- Solutions based on photonics, piezoelectricity, piezoresistivity, or those that can include IoT communications, will open the door to digitalisation of many companies: self-powering these systems by power reuse thanks to Energy Harvesting solutions.
- We will present practical examples to help understand the potential of these tools.
Aimed at:
- Manufacturing companies and equipment manufacturers interested in monitoring their processes, products or machinery to incorporate them into the digital world (updating and redesigning) for the generation of new business models with their customers and suppliers.
- Companies interested in developing innovative smart products with connectivity and/or self-power to link them to the digital world through IoT.
- Electronics and telecommunications companies interested in developing new self-powered solutions.
- Platform development companies in need to strengthen their hardware tools.
Programme
- Introduction to Heterogeneous Smart Sensors
- Scientific-technological knowledge
- Applications - Success stories
- Introduction to Energy Harvesting for self-powered systems
- Scientific-technological knowledge
- Applications - Success stories
Speaker
Dr. Nieves Murillo, TECNALIA. PhD in Material Physics by the UPV/EHU since 1997 and special Doctorate award.
She has developed her research career in two areas: The physical properties of matter and the Chemical properties of materials for their synthesis or manufacture. She has also focused on scientific knowledge through the design of materials and the manufacture of systems for the development of sensors, actuators, and Energy Harvesting solutions in industrial sectors; especially the aeronautic, aerospace, energy, security and protection, environment, and capital goods industries.
Her research and technological activity has been developed in national institutions, such as the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of the Basque Country, (UPV-EHU), the Higher Council for Scientific Research of Madrid - CSIC, private research institutions such as Cidetec and TECNALIA, and international institutions like the Max-Planck Institute (Stuttgart, Germany) and the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism IMEM-CNR (Parma, Italy).
She has authored nearly 50 publications, accumulating over 400 citations. She has participated in international congresses and has been an guest speaker at international forums in the field of smart materials, nanomaterials, Energy Harvesting and the development of sound and actuator systems. She is a member of the CoU Stakeholder Group and she has participated in the forums organised by the European Commission.
Within the Basque Country, her scope of action is framed in the generation of knowledge and its transfer to the transport, industrial, and energy sectors. She coordinates TECNALIA’s participation in Strategic Basque Platforms, such as Smart Systems or Microtechnologies.
* This event will be held online via the ZOOM video conference platform. Limited capacity.