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The European HiPEAC network has awarded José María Cecilia, of the BIO-HPC Group of the UCAM, for the Big Data research to predict problems related to water, and to establish emergency protocols for the population of El Salvador

José María Cecilia has received one of the nine European prizes in the 4th edition of the HiPEAC Technolgy Transfer Adward for the work of technology transfer university-company, as a principal researcher, together with the Polytechnic University of Valencia, for the Valencian company VIELCA Engineers

Barely six months have been enough to develop a computer tool capable of analyzing the stored information of all hydrometeorological stations in El Salvador, as well as complementing this information with the opinions of people on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

The purpose of this Big Data project, proposed by the Salvadoran Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), is the early identification of problems related to water in the area of ​​this country in order to establish emergency protocols to assist the population.

In this same line of work, the group formed by researchers from the UCAM, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Technological Center of Technologies and Communications of the Region of Murcia (CENTIC) together with the companies VIELCA Ingenieros, SA and HIDROCONTA SA , has recently achieved one of the four Challenge-Collaboration projects awarded to the university and directed by doctors Luis Tejada (Food), José María Cecilia (Information Technology), Pablo Jorge Marcos (Sports) and Silvia Montoro (Medicine).

This new project, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, aims at the application of innovative technologies for the planning and management of water resources, opening new horizons in waste reduction, consumption optimization and improvement of water quality. water at the national level.

In this way, it could effectively act on areas as diverse as intelligent irrigation systems for the agricultural sector or parks and gardens, planning of drinking water supply for inhabited areas, detection of leaks for housing or industries, including quality control of water to improve agricultural and fisheries production.

Source: UCAM