GPDS-UPM is a Research Group Unit of the Technical University of Madrid, hosted by the School of Telecommunications Engineering. It is composed by 6 professors, 20 researchers or Ph. D. candidates and a variable number of master students, doing research in different areas, including prominently Air Traffic Control and Management, Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing and Advanced Mobile Applications.

Starting in 1982, the Research Unit has a long story of successful projects with industry. Among its corporate partners, there are companies such as Telefonica I+D, Indra, Siemens, Aena, Boeing, Orange, Eurocontrol, Telvent, CRIDA, Thales, ATOS, Treelogic, Fractalia, Deimos-Space, Inerza, Sensing&Control,etc.

Expertise

Current research activity of the Data Processing and Simulation Group includes:

• Air traffic control and management.
• Radar data processing.
• Simulation.
• Operations research and optimization.
• Image interpretation.
• Architectures for context-aware frameworks.
• Data fusion techniques for reasoning and decision support.
• Context modelling using semantic technologies.
• Indoor positioning algorithms.
• Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks: positioning and energy efficient routing.
• Technologies for the Internet of Things: light mobile architectures and multimodal interfaces.
• Design and implementation of context-aware services for healthcare and support to independent living.
• Design and implementation of context-aware services for tourism.
• Security and privacy in context-aware systems.
• Forecasting and technology watch in mobile services and technologies.