Raúl García Hémonnet/Editor
The Rey Juan Carlos University has launched the Institutional Chair in Smart Buildings Smart E2, a new research and innovation instrument that- "combines digitization and energy efficiency for the design of smart facilities in order to create more sustainable, efficient, intelligent and connected campuses, within the 'Smart Campus' project" explains Juan Antonio Melero, professor of Chemical Engineering and 'director of Smart E2' together with the professor and director of the Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering, Gabriel Morales Sánchez.
On November 16, at the Fuenlabrada campus, his official launch, in a face-to-face event in which “we want the protagonists to be the companies that collaborate in the chair and that we can discuss possible joint actions. We will also take the opportunity to show some of the projects that we have carried out in the last year in the chair and in collaboration with some of the companies that collaborate in it and some future projects”, says Melero.
Interesting projects to know
During the conference, projects such as the 'Smart Campus' of Fuenlabrada, the CO2 concentration sensorization and detection work carried out in the classrooms of the Madrid campus for air quality control, the development of digital twins for the management of assets, specifically the digitization of some buildings on the Fuenlabrada and Móstoles campuses; the implementation of 'IOT' ('Internet Of Things') to quantify people in spaces by means of thermal imaging and the signaling project by means of IOT carried out in collaboration with '112'. This conference, explains the URJC professor, “will include the companies that already collaborate with the chair and is open to companies that wish to attend, several companies and institutions from different sectors have already confirmed that they will accompany us”.
'Smart E2' is an evolution of the Energy Efficiency Unit (UNEFE), whose function is to improve the energy performance of the university. UNEFE was created in 2015 to address the energy management of more than 50 properties on the five campuses of the Rey Juan Carlos University. The chair currently has the support of companies or organizations such as IBM, Schneider Electric, AENOR, Signify Iberia, Fulton integral services, ENERDEX group, GEN Europe Energy Solutions, Cadlan, SIGNIFY, Alai Secure and IMDEA Energy Institute.