Today I had the opportunity to participate in the first Forum ‘Intelligent Buildings in Municipalities and Councils’, organized by the Junta de Castilla y León in the framework of the project “Smart Digital Rural Community”, within the Cross Border Cooperation Program Interreg V-A Spain-Portugal.

The event took place online and I was able to share my vision on smart buildings in a talk entitled “Smart Buildings: an opportunity for infrastructure, communication and quality of life”. Experts from different fields participated in the event, discussing sustainability, technology, intelligent systems, virtual reality as well as monitoring and prediction in the management of smart buildings. The meeting was an opportunity to exchange views on the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) for the management of municipal buildings, facilities and installations.

During the talk I showcased the importance of constructing buildings with intelligence, beyond the fact that they are smart. Also, tools that improve the management of facilities through the application of AI algorithms, as is the case of Deep Intelligence, helps us to transform data and analyse them, in order to make the best decisions.

Here is a video in which you can see part of my participation in the event.

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.