The UPC participates in the new spin-off Smart Tower, a service for monitoring transmission towers remotely and autonomously
The UPC’s new spin-off Smart Tower, led by the researcher Lluís Gil, provides remote and autonomous monitoring of transmission towers. The technology-based startup has received the support of The Collider, the Mobile World Capital Barcelona innovation programme that connects scientific and entrepreneurial talent to create technology-based startups.
Jun 22, 2020
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) joins Smart Tower, a technology-based startup led by Lluís Gil, a researcher at the Laboratory for Technological Innovation in Structures and Materials (LITEM) and linked to the UPC’s Department of Strength of Materials and Structural Engineering. The new spin-off aims to offer companies with structural assets, specifically transmission towers, an integrated solution for remotely and autonomously monitor the state of structures in real time and provide a predictive analysis of their condition. It provides a competitive advantage, since it helps companies to make decisions to prevent damage that could interrupt services and therefore avoid the cost of compensations.
Smart Tower provides a modal diagnosis that shows the condition of the tower compared to its optimal condition and detects any changes that may suggest deterioration. The system integrates artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for structure behaviour, which will give more specific diagnoses over time. The startup has received the support of The Collider, the Mobile World Capital Barcelona programme for backing technology-based spin-offs.
