Ayesa closed the previous year with a bang. The global provider of technology and engineering services, has concluded 2022 with a record balance of 29 active innovation projects throughout the year, which together mobilize an investment of 120 million euros.
Of these projects, ten have the support of the European Commission through funding from the Horizon 2020 and Horizon programme. They are the most important in volume, assuming 95.6 million of the total. The rest have incentives from other lines of Red.es, CDTO and the Basque Government, mainly.
All these initiatives are focused on the development of advanced solutions in terms of cybersecurity, health, sustainable mobility, new ways of obtaining renewable energy and decarbonization of territories. They also cover intelligent agricultural or construction management, assisted by disruptive technologies, blockchain, AIor in general, all those associated with data science.
“For Ayesa, innovation is a key part of the business, as we are guided by a functional vision, while contributing to the creation of a new production model that is more efficient, sustainable and focused on people’s well-being”, stands out Juan de Dios Hermosin, Director of Technology and Innovation at Ayesa. In addition, he points out, it is “The only way to bring our clients and the day-to-day of our corporation the best technological tools on the market or in the research phase”.
In its innovation strategy, the firm is committed to projects with a high level of technology maturity (TRL). Along with this, it seeks to advance in fields such as offshore wind energy, industry, health, hydrogen, smart energy and mobility networks, critical infrastructures (industrial cybersecurity); user experience or leading data tech.
One of the most relevant projects -which concluded in the third quarter after several investigations- is SDN-Microsense, endowed with more than ten million euros and aimed at improving the cybersecurity levels of critical infrastructures such as power plants.
Within this context, Ayesa created a platform for operations management in power plantswhich integrates cybersecurity into decision-making and manages attacks and network vulnerabilities in an integrated manner.
Leading the energy transition
For the group, one of the main lines of research is in everything related to the energy transition. In this sense, it has various initiatives such as scale up, whose investment also exceeds ten million euros and has united the cities of Madrid, Antwerp (Belgium) and Turku (Finland) by adopting smart, clean and inclusive mobility practices. Thus, Ayesa has designed and implemented the integration of AI in two-way electric vehicle charging stations and park-and-rides that integrate storage with renewable energy, with the aim of testing the flow of consumption between cars and local consumers.
also figure Super PVwith a budget of more than €11.5 million, which integrates AI in photovoltaic plants to reduce maintenance costs and achieve new systems for obtaining solar energy, based on state-of-the-art PV. As well as Custom-Art, which seeks to create curved photovoltaic panels made using kesterites, for use in buildings and street furniture.
Likewise, one of the most important challenges is represented by Islander, with an endowment of 8.3 million euros. A complete system will be designed to turn the German island of Borkum into a fully autonomous and decarbonised energy enclave in the year 2030. Ayesa develops an IT platform that manages energy from different sources using AI.
