About a meter and a half robot. No come to humanoid but it has a head, arms and stands upright, although its lower extremity is more shaped like a skirt than a leg. “Welcome, Paula Clemente. Have a good time at the fair& rdquor ;, wishes this machine after reading the accreditation. He will later tell the same thing to two other congress attendees, who record themselves living the experience that a robot interact and address them by name. Ari, as the automaton is called, is the star attraction of Internet of Things Solutions World Congressa room dedicated to this technology that allows anything to connect to the internet and celebrated since last year within the Integrated Systems Europe (ise), the congress of the audiovisual sector that takes place this week in Barcelona.
The machine is pure hook, one so useful that even stopped to say hello. King Felipe VIthe highest authority in charge of opening of the fair this past Tuesday. But in reality, the invention that the Catalan company tries to promote Pal Roboticsowner of the robot, is an industrial arm capable of picking up and moving objects of different dimensions, textures and hardness.
Because the big issue, when talking about the internet of things, is the industry. “Under the motto ‘Disruptive technologies for the transformation of the industry’, the IOTSWC will bring together 330 exhibitors and more than 250 experts who will highlight the importance of bet on digitization to have a more efficient and sustainable industry & rdquor ;, introduced a few weeks ago Barcelona Fair, co-organizer of the event. So, in this pavilion, Amazon Web Services it exhibits various examples of how its ‘software’ can simplify life and the control of machinery in factories; the taiwanese TXOne shows its industrial cybersecurity solutions; and the swiss ABByour system for machines to last longer and perform more and more efficiently.
utility almost everywhere
However, beyond all this, the congress is also a convincing proof that this technology makes sense almost everywhere. In the center of the pavilion, a machine from the company cartobol packs liquids in a bag; the ‘hub’ for research on mobility CARNET features an autonomous vehicle that could deliver packages or food in a city; and Spanish companies Integra Y equal They expose a Hidrotec truck in charge of unclogging and cleaning downspouts -among many other things- as a successful application of the Internet of Things to obtain real-time information on the state of the vehicle.
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Not far away, the mobile world capital foundation has brought six companies, including Nixi for Childrenwhich exemplifies how the virtual reality it can help ease a child’s anxiety or nerves before a medical test. And right next to it, among the 18 companies or technological centers that the Catalan area concentrates, eurecat presents a project for kitchens to have functions typical of machines such as weighing food or managing the extractor integrated into their furniture.
“We are evolving towards increasingly intelligent environments, where technologically we can make almost any surface interactive,” contextualizes the market manager for innovation services applied to products from this technology center, Jose Antonio Gago. “In this scenario, streamlining proof of concept becomes a fundamental element for companies,” he completed, in a claim that will also make the Deloitte Risk Surveillance Partner and Head of Industrial Cybersecurity and IOT, Andreu Bravo, on the stage: “Test environments are needed in which to reproduce real complex infrastructures,” he concludes. As complex as the medical environment or as a robot delivering your dinner between bikes, motorcycles, cars Y pedestrians.