September 25, 2025
During their stay in Madrid, a delegation of 25 Mexican university professors, coordinated by TrepCamp, visited the CeDInt on the morning of Monday 22nd. The aim of the visit was to gain first-hand knowledge of the city’s innovation ecosystem and explore possible academic and technological collaborations.
The visitors were able to tour the facilities, interact with the laboratory teams and learn about the projects and platforms managed by CeDInt. Initiatives related to urban data intelligence, municipal digital services and integration systems used in Madrid as a smart city were presented.
The host team explained how CeDInt functions as a strategic digital infrastructure hub for Madrid, facilitating interoperability between municipal services, the exploitation of urban data and collaboration between universities, businesses and local government.
This session is part of the Madrid, Digital Capital Strategy, which promotes the city’s innovative ecosystem and the creation of digital solutions to improve citizens’ quality of life.
More information about the Madrid, Digital Capital Strategy here.
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September 25, 2025
Last July, a working session took place where we shared Madrid’s open and interoperable city model and the collaborative framework of IoTMADLAB, which brings together the five axes of technological innovation: public sector, industry, academia/tech centers, entrepreneurs, and citizens.
We were honored to welcome representatives from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan, Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI), MinebeaMitsumi Inc. and from the Economic Section of the Embassy of Japan in Spain.
Participants included:
- Mr. Hiroo Kuniyoshi, MLIT
- Mr. Hideyuki Yakishima, MRI
- Mr. Masayuki Ogita, MRI
- Mr. Yutaka Tomiyori, MinebeaMitsumi
- Mr. Ashok Bajracharya, MinebeaMitsumi
- Mrs. Valentina Taddeo, Paradox Engineering
- Mrs. Mai Sasaki, Chief Economic Counselor, Embassy of Japan in Spain
Good technological practices were shared and exchanged, among which the Valdemingómez Technological Park stands out.
Jose Luis Cifuentes presented the park’s visitor centre and the Smart Urban Space that is being implemented in Los Cantiles: 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dUmEhbJP
Asunción Santamaría, Director of IoTMADLAB, presented the collaborative working methodology and the city interoperability framework, as well as participation in standardisation and normalisation entities such as Open Mobile Alliance, Smart Data Models and AIOTI, with which we collaborate to establish the framework for a city that adapts in real time to the needs of people and the environment. #RealTimeCity #City5.0.
The scope of university-city collaboration was explained in order to establish a scalable, replicable, neutral, open, and interoperable model to advance a hyperconnected and hyperautomated city, involving four permanent groups on:
– AI-IoT
– #CiberOT & #CiberCity (with Centro de Ciberseguridad del Ayuntamiento de Madrid)
– 5G-6G (including #5GMADnet deployment and 5G corridors)
– Data & AI
Participating on behalf of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid were Juan Manuel Munoz-Guijosa (Rector’s Delegate For Innovation, Entrepreneurship And Transfer) and Manuel Sierra Castañer, director of the ETS de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Demonstrators of MOBILITIES FOR EU Project were also showcased, including connected autonomous vehicles, #5GCorridors and #DataSpaces, currently being deployed at the #SmartUrbanSpace of Mercamadrid, S.A., with the collaboration of Gonzalo Reguera Díaz de Terán.
The Japanese delegation expressed interest in exploring collaboration opportunities between participating technology centres and #IoTMADLab to share knowledge and advance toward open and interoperable urban ecosystems.
#SmartCity #IoT #Interoperability #SmartData #5G hashtag#6G #AI #IoTMADLab #DigitalTransformation #JapanSpain #PublicPrivateInnovation #CityTech
More information about the Madrid, Digital Capital Strategy here.
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September 24, 2025
The meeting, which brought together international experts in artificial intelligence, IoT, edge computing and smart cities, focused on how technologies such as AI, digital twins and the continuum are transforming the urban model towards the so-called City 5.0.
The event was opened by Antonio García de la Paz (S.G. of the Date Strategy of the Digital Office of Madrid City Council), who stressed the importance of the Madrid, Digital Capital strategy as a driver for innovation and sustainability in the city, highlighting the role of IoTMADLab as a leading hub in this process.
In the first session, ‘Smarter IoT: Energy, Connectivity & Real-World Impact’, Asunción Santamaría (Director of IoTMADLab) shared the laboratory’s vision of how smart connectivity and IoT-based solutions enable progress towards more efficient, interoperable and people-centred urban models.
The day continued with the session ‘Cities 5.0: A Human Adaptive City – Forward to an open and interoperable cities’, in which Guillermo del Campo (Polytechnic University of Madrid) and Juan Jesús Muñoz Esteban (Madrid City Council) participated. Both highlighted the importance of cities as living spaces for innovation, where collaboration between universities, administrations and companies is key to building open, sustainable urban ecosystems capable of adapting to new technologies.
This session is part of the Madrid, Digital Capital Strategy, which promotes the city’s innovative ecosystem and the creation of digital solutions to improve citizens’ quality of life.
More information about AIOTI Days 2025 here.
More information about the Madrid, Digital Capital Strategy here.
More information about the Digital Office here.
