The international journal Automation in Construction has just published the paper ‘Environmental monitoring system based on an Open Source Platform and the Internet of Things for a building energy retrofit’. The paper reports on the study carried out by the ENEDI research group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country on the use of tools based on…
Laser Hardening, An Increasingly Flexible Technology For Hardening Steel
Hardening is a surface heat treatment applied to steel parts and which increases their hardness considerably. The UPV/EHU’s High Performance Manufacturing group has conducted the study and tuning of an innovative technology to carry out this process. It involves using laser, but unlike the traditional system, it uses scanning optics, which gives the thickness of…
A Sustainable Alternative for Food Packaging
Food items are covered with plastic films to make them last longer and protect them from microbes. The environment, however, is seriously affected by the use of this material. The plastic bottles and films present everywhere in our civilization take between 100 and 400 years to degrade. So the quest for alternative materials to plastics…