Research Projects Archives - advanticsys | Industrial IoT | IoT Cloud Platform

Urban heat is one of today’s most pressing climate challenges. Lower rooftop surface temperatures not only improve comfort inside buildings but also help cool entire neighborhoods. In a recent collaboration with Airgilab by GRIC-UPC, Advanticsys provided IoT sensing infrastructure and its Concordia Industrial IoT (IIoT) cloud platform to power an innovative green roof experiment exploring how nature-based solutions can cool cities.

A natural solution backed by data

The Airgilab team set up a living laboratory, testing different roof configurations that mix Mediterranean plants and vegetables with hydroponic and lightweight substrates. Exposed to intense summer sunlight, these green roofs needed continuous monitoring to understand how each combination performs in terms of cooling and water retention.

A network of rugged sensors captured soil surface and roof temperatures along with substrate moisture levels, streaming all measurements in real time to the Concordia IIoT platform.

Green roof testbed — Monitoring and Green Roof Test Beds with Real-Time IoT Data

Concordia dashboards displaying real-time environmental data — Monitoring and Green Roof Test Beds with Real-Time IoT Data

The flexibility behind Concordia

The experiment showcases the adaptability and scalability of Concordia. Originally built for diverse industrial and environmental use cases, the platform seamlessly integrated a complex, outdoor experimental site with mixed vegetation, varying irrigation needs, and changing weather conditions.

Real-time visualization of multiple environmental signals from different sensor types.
Custom dashboards tailored to scientific users as well as operators.
Secure cloud storage and analytics for long-term research and data sharing.

This flexibility allowed the research team to focus on science and decision-making rather than infrastructure.

From research to real-world impact

High-quality, continuous data were essential for fine-tuning irrigation schedules and quantifying the cooling potential of each green roof design. Insights from this work can help architects, city planners, and building owners adopt greener, more climate-resilient roofing solutions. This collaboration illustrates our commitment to supporting sustainable urban innovations through flexible, data-driven IoT solutions.

“Concordia is built to adapt. From industrial energy management to urban ecology, the platform’s ability to integrate new sensors, visualize data in real time, and support complex analytics makes it ideal for diverse environmental and research applications.”

Enabling a greener future

By providing robust IoT sensing and an adaptable cloud platform, Advanticsys helps accelerate the adoption of nature-based, data-driven solutions. Whether in cities, industries, or remote environmental sites, Concordia ensures that new ideas can move from pilot experiments to scalable, real-world climate action.

We are pleased to share that Advanticsys has successfully completed its work in ENGINE, an EU‑funded Horizon Europe project. Throughout the project, our team co‑designed and implemented the ENGINE Exchange platform—an open, extensible data backbone that makes industrial information easier to ingest, harmonize, and leverage for analytics and AI.

What we built together

Over the past phases, we helped take ENGINE Exchange from concept to a validated final release. The platform enables:

End‑to‑end data ingestion and interoperability across shop‑floor sensors, power meters, and API‑based sources, with well‑defined data contracts.
A comprehensive manufacturing data model—from forging through operation—supporting traceability and analytics across production steps.
AI‑ready pipelines that streamline data preparation for forecasting, quality analysis, and decision support.
Secure storage and governance features designed for reliable, compliant exchange between partners.

ENGINE Exchange – view 2 — ENGINE Exchange platform – screenshots from the final demo at Wärtsilä (Vaasa, Finland).

Impact for industry

By turning fragmented datasets into a consistent, shareable resource, ENGINE Exchange reduces the time and cost of integrating new lines, pilots, or analytics projects. The final demonstration took place at Wärtsilä‘s facilities in Vaasa, Finland, where partners validated the platform with real industrial data flows. During validation, partners demonstrated faster onboarding of data sources, clearer lineage and traceability, and smoother hand‑offs from operations to data science teams. As Advanticsys’ CEO, José J. de las Heras, noted “ENGINE Exchange gives manufacturers a practical path from raw signals to decisions—a foundation we can build on as needs evolve.”

What’s next

With the project wrapped up, we are packaging ENGINE Exchange learnings into our Concordia cloud offering—so customers can stand up interoperable, AI‑ready data flows more quickly in real deployments.

ENGINE received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101058179.

We are excited to announce that ADVANTICSYS is proud to be a part of the DR-RISE project, an ambitious initiative aimed at enhancing energy resilience across Europe. The DR-RISE project focuses on developing and implementing innovative demand response solutions to strengthen the stability and sustainability of energy systems.

At ADVANTICSYS, we bring our expertise in advanced monitoring and control technologies to the project, working closely with our partners to integrate cutting-edge solutions that empower consumers to play an active role in energy management. Our goal is to help reshape the future of energy use by making systems more flexible, reducing energy costs, and contributing to a cleaner, more sustainable environment.

What is DR-RISE?

DR-RISE (Demand Response for Resilience, Stability, and Energy Efficiency) is a groundbreaking European initiative that seeks to enhance energy resilience by empowering consumers to adjust their energy consumption in response to supply conditions. The project’s aim is to address current energy challenges, improve grid stability, and promote energy savings by optimizing demand response strategies.

With participation from top industry players and research institutions, DR-RISE is at the forefront of technological innovation in the energy sector. ADVANTICSYS, as part of the project consortium, will contribute to developing integrated solutions that enable real-time energy monitoring, demand control, and data-driven decision-making.

Our Role

As a leader in the field of energy management systems, ADVANTICSYS will be contributing its technological expertise to ensure the seamless integration of demand response strategies. Our role in DR-RISE includes:

Developing advanced sensor and monitoring systems for real-time energy consumption tracking.
Providing smart energy control solutions to support flexibility in energy use.
Collaborating with project partners to design scalable and user-friendly platforms for energy management.
Implementing solutions that help consumers reduce energy costs while contributing to grid stability.

Looking Ahead

Through our participation in DR-RISE, we are committed to driving innovation in the energy sector and contributing to a resilient, sustainable energy future for all. We believe that demand response solutions will play a critical role in reducing energy consumption and stabilizing energy grids, helping to meet the challenges posed by the energy transition.

Stay tuned for updates on our journey as part of the DR-RISE project!

This project received funding by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme

On November 17, 2023, the FITDRIVE project was presented at the European Parliament, showcasing its goal of improving road safety through advanced real-time driver monitoring technologies. This project is aimed at developing advanced technologies to monitor and analyze drivers’ behavior in real-time, providing valuable insights to enhance both individual and public safety.

Advanticsys plays a crucial role in this initiative by enabling real-time data collection from vehicles, essential for driver behavior analysis. During tests campaigns, our technology monitored urban delivery vans, capturing driving patterns that feed directly into the project’s AI models. These insights are fundamental for refining safety features and preventing accidents.

FITDRIVE - Real-time vehicle telemetry collection — FITDRIVE – Real-time vehicle telemetry collection

The collaboration with EU institutions is a critical step toward improving standardization for vehicle data collection across Europe. By working together, FITDRIVE’s partners, including Advanticsys, are helping shape the future of European transportation by setting data collection standards that ensure compatibility, accuracy, and effectiveness across various vehicle types and driving environments. This standardization effort is key to creating a safer, smarter, and more efficient road system in Europe.

Stay tuned for more updates on our role in this exciting project and how Advanticsys continues to innovate in the field of real-time vehicle data solutions.

This project received funding by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

FitDrive is a European research project funded by the Horizon 2020 programme that aims to identify and prevent driving stress states for professional drivers (and consequently driving fitness) with artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.

The project is participated by 10 partners from 7 different countries and is coordinated by the “Instituto Tecnologico de Castilla y Leon” (Spain). advanticsys is one of the partners and has the specific tasks of collecting data from both the vehicle and the driver and provide cloud platform infrastructure to monitor and analyze those data in real time.

Currently, the pre-selection of volunteers (professional drivers) is under way, who will start with tests first with a driving simulator and then on the road, in order to collect data to be elaborated by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to define, after a certain driving time, his ‘ordinary’ behavioural profile (in the sense of his usual daily behaviour while driving).

Once the ‘ordinary’ profile of a specific driver has been defined, the AI system installed in the vehicle is able to detect abnormal behaviour (outside the ‘ordinary’ profile) and associate them with the most probable causes such as fatigue, excess alcohol or drugs, or other cognitive disorders: these abnormal variations can be associated with early situations of sickness that are not yet apparent to the subject but are about to manifest themselves.

The noticeable advantages of the application of this system, once tested and developed, are obvious: it provides continuous screening of the driver’s psychophysical capabilities, alerting him or her to potential malaise on the way, and at the same time allows roadside patrol officers to interrogate the vehicle wirelessly and thus be able to focus on those vehicles that have shown recent abnormal behaviour. It should be remembered that roadside inspections for commercial vehicles, and in particular heavy vehicles, involve an appropriate amount of space and a relatively long time, which can be considerably reduced thanks to the system that the FitDrive project is developing, making inspections more efficient (because vehicles with potential problems are detected immediately) and reducing the time that vehicles remain stationary (those without potential problems undergo a much faster inspection)

Thanks to the participation in this project, advanticsys continues its growth by creating new geolocation-based services such as fleet management, geofencing and many more under the framework of our Concordia® Industrial IoT Cloud Platform.