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HOPU with the proposal Lottery: Lot-size one manufacturing defects mitigation via agile quality control and digital-driven dynamic and adaptive metrology has been selected by Zero Defects Manufacturing Platform (ZDMP) for the Open Call 2 launch in January 2022 among the 17 winners.

ZDMP is a project from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research. They aim to provide an extendable platform for supporting factories with a high interoperability level to cope with the concept of connected factories to reach the zero defects goal. In this context, ZDMP will allow end-users to connect their systems (i.e. shop floor and ERP Systems) to benefit from the platform’s features. These benefits include products and production quality assurance, among others.

ZDMP Open Call 2.0

The Zero Defects Manufacturing Platform (ZDMP) project EC H2020 Funding split over two separate Open Calls aimed at European SME software developers, tech companies and manufacturers to create, test, validate and integrate innovative zero-defect solutions for Industry4.0 using the ZDMP components, services and platform. The experiment duration is nine months and starts in January 2022.
HOPU submitted the proposal Lottery: Lot-size one manufacturing defects mitigation via agile quality control and digital-driven dynamic and adaptive metrology to digitalise the manufacturing process and quality control and match with our goals for our production system.
HOPU manufactures IoT devices, specialising in developing solutions for measuring air quality in urban and industrial ecosystems. HOPU integrates high-quality sensors into its devices, assembled in its in-house workshop (i.e., all production facilities from HOPU are located at Murcia, Spain).
Specifically, we intend to make use of applications and components such as Digital Twin and Monitoring and Alerting that would allow us to automate the quality control process that consists of checking the values reported by the devices, and that is currently done manually to collect and store all the tests results, quality control results and calibration response, zMaterialID (for the use of this you will also need zRemoteQC) that would allow us to identify the systems and have better traceability and binding system with the CMMS – Computerized Maintenance Management System.
More information about the project can be found: https://www.zdmp.eu/call-2-winners

This project has received cascading funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825631

AI4Cities, an EU-funded Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) has selected 41 suppliers to continue to Phase 1 of the project. AI4Cities launched its Request for Tenders in December, inviting tenderers to submit innovative AI solutions in the fields of energy and mobility. On the 28.02.2021 deadline a total of 98 applications were submitted, 54 in the Mobility Lot and 44 in the Energy Lot. Following a thorough evaluation by the AI4Cities Buyers Group, 21 suppliers focusing on mobility and 20 focusing on energy were selected to participate in the Solution Design Phase. In the next three months, they will work on a full plan for the development of a prototype.

In this phase of the project, the 41 selected suppliers will receive funding – each contractor will receive a maximum of 40,000 euros – to further develop their AI-based solutions, in accordance with the input provided by The Buyers Group. They have three months to do so, following which the Buyers Group will evaluate which of these suppliers will continue to Phase 2, the prototyping phase of the PCP. 

The AI4Cities Buyers Group consists of lead procurer Forum Virium Helsinki (representing the city of Helsinki), Cap Digital (representing Paris Region), the city of Amsterdam, the city of Copenhagen, the city of Stavanger and the city of Tallinn. These six cities and regions have developed ambitious strategies and policy plans to become carbon neutral by – at latest – 2050. In AI4Cities they joined forces, supported by expert partner ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, to go through a PCP process, aiming to procure non-market ready solutions which can help them accelerate their transition to carbon neutrality by utilising artificial intelligence and related enabling technologies – such as big data applications, 5G, edge computing and IoT. Their choice to focus on energy and mobility-related challenges are informed by the fact that these two domains are responsible for 82% of GHG emissions in Europe’s cities. 

HOPU, leading a consortium formed by them together with Engineering, submitted a proposal under the category of Traffic Flow Optimisation. The proposed solution, ATMOSPHERE, offers a suite of dashboards with CO2 indicators related to mobility. These indicators are founded on predictive models based on real-time air quality measurements and AI to optimise traffic flows in cities and ports. Thus, it provides high-value green and innovative mobility services for citizens, companies, and public administrations and enhances the informed decision-making processes by simplifying the data.

AI4Cities believes there is a global need for such effective solutions that can drive the transition towards carbon neutrality.

More information about these suppliers and their solutions will be published on the AI4Cities website.

The SME HOPU as one of the companies of EDI, a European incubator to foster the use of Big Data in innovative products and services

European Data Incubator

EDI is a data incubator to support SMEs developing solutions based on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Thanks to the collaboration with relevant companies such as  EMASESA (Sevilla), EDP, RACC o Volkswagen Navarra, EDI supports Startups and SMEs in its mentoring programme to develop new products and services. 

In this programme, led by the University of Deusto, Zabala Innovation Consulting, FS6, Engineering and ETventure Startup Hub, the different SMEs interact with big data providers and thus expand their catalogue of services. The programme is in the pilot phase, working with 18 companies across Europe. Among them is the SME from the Region of Murcia HOPU and others of great European relevance such as Starkdata, Verchable o WearHealth.

HOPU, the SME from the Region of Murcia that is part of the European Data Incubator

Through this incubation programme, HOPU is working together with EMASESA, the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sanitation Company of Seville, to develop a platform that uses all its data and Artificial Intelligence to optimise its internal management processes. 

HOPU is a company located in Ceutí, dedicated to innovative technological development for Smart Cities. With a team of 30 people, this young company is already present in more than 6 countries, including Belgium, Sweden, France, Germany, Argentina and Spain.

“Thanks to EDI we have the opportunity to work with companies like EMASESA, listen to their needs first hand and adapt this development to the client in a more agile way” Javier Sanchez, Platform Developer at HOPU.

As future steps in HOPU’s line of work with EDI, we are working on developing a platform to examine the effects of heat islands in Seville on water consumption in single-family homes.