A UVEG former student of the Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering, Pablo Puñal Pereira, who is currently developing his doctoral thesis at the Embedded Internet System Laboratory (EISLAB) from the University of Lulea (Switzerland), has been awarded- along with his research group and the Eistec AB enterprise, the first prize of the IPSO Challenge organised by IPSO Alliance with the aim of recognising the use of the IP Protocol and of open standards in the development of the ‘Internet of the Thing’ for innovative, marketable and easy-to-use applications.
The awarded development consists of a smart screw with IoT technology which is capable of sensitizing several parameters and of communicating them wirelessly in order to be used for the mine industry. Currently, over 100 million smart screws are installed in mines all over the world in order to fix and secure the rocks while the mine is being perforated. Due to seismic movements and rock tensions, these screws may lose their fixing capacity. The use of the developed smart screws can help increase security in mines.
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