Created in 2001, CITCEA-UPC its devoted to research, innovation and technological transfer to the industry. Currently, eight CITCEA-UPC members belong to the staff of professors of UPC and the rest of the team consists of engineers, PhD students and master students, more than eighty people. The group activity is focused on mechatronics and enertronics fields. Mechatronics combines the fundamentals of mechanical, electrical, power electronics and computer engineering. Enertonics is the synergistic combination of power system engineering, smart system engineering, computing and control systems. Beside the research and innovation activities of the center, some participants own a company called TeknoCEA that is in charge of transferring research results to the market. The partner UPC is taking the technical project coordination (Dr. Francisco Díaz-Gonzalez). In addition, the UPC is the leader of WP2 (Use Cases and System Architecture). As a consolidated research group in developing power electronics, the CITCEA-UPC is the main responsible for developing the power electronics cabinet building up the stationary storage solution based on second life EV batteries for flexibility of the EV fleet charge facility. The CITCEA-UPC is also in charge of developing optimisation algorithms for the Decision Support System module (as part of the IoT platform). The CITCEA-UPC actively collaborates in the field validation and performance evaluation of the whole solution (WP5).

The Sorigué company was founded in 1954 and has its origins in the production of aggregates and the handling of asphalt. During these decades Sorigué has undergone a constant expansion which, together with an increase in the volume of business, employees and capacities, has led to the diversification of its areas of activity. As part of that diversification, we find Corporación CLD, the group’s specialised waste management company. CLD was constituted in 1930 and is one of the first environmental operators in Catalonia with over 88 years of experience in urban services management. Currently CLD is executing urban services contracts in over 70 locations in Catalonia and Andorra. The company was acquired by the Sorigué Group in March of 2016, which maintains a leading role in developing more sustainable solutions, in constant evolution in order to create value, protect the environment and innovating pursuing excellence.

Within the project, Sorigué-CLD will lead WP5, with the goal of validating the proof of concept in field trials. This includes defining KPIs, deploying hardware and software, testing, LCA and technical-economic impact assessment for decarbonisation from the Decision Support System. The participation of 2 people with the role of development manager and coordinator of CLD’s electrical fleet will ensure the success of the project.

The Broadband Advanced Communications Center (CCABA) (http://www.ccaba.upc.edu) is a Specific Research Center (CER) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech (UPC). The CCABA has excellent technological capacity in the area of Smart Networks and Services Research and promoting knowledge and technology transfer that largely benefit the Spanish Industry and Society at large. The CCABA is nowadays capable of designing, integrating, and validating 5G-based platforms based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can provide end-to-end services, and it can provide experimental support to show the benefits for smart applications running on top of that infrastructure. The CCABA aims to create AI-powered technology for beyond 5G towards 6G, with enormous potential to generate a significant shift in the way telecom services are commercialised, which represent a great impact on society in terms of new markets and more opportunities for the national industry, including remarkable potential for start-ups creating specialised applications.

The CCABA includes and integrates laboratories and research facilities that support the distributed development of the technologies that citizens and companies will be using in the coming years. In the GENIUS project, the CCABA will be leading WP2. In particular, CCABA will be responsible for the design of the communication system based on 5G technology for the monitored data transport from the IoT gateways towards the distributed computing infrastructure (edge/cloud). The CCABA also participates in WP3 on the Decision Support System and in WP4 on the design of cloud-based architecture. CCABA-UPC will also contribute to WP5, especially in support of the field tests and performing lab tests of the 5G-based communications system.