Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)  

is the largest Spanish technological university as well as a renowned European institution. The dynamism of R&D&I activity at the UPM—together with the transfer of knowledge to society—is at the core of its strategy. These two commitments place it among the Spanish universities with the greatest research activity and first in the capture of external resources in a competitive regime. 

Life Supporting Technologies (LifeSTech) is an applied research, development and innovation group at UPM. Its activities are devoted to the design, development and evaluation of ICT-based services and applications. LifeSTech also aims at the creation, promotion and transference-to-market of new ideas, methods and technological solutions for people’s lives with a multi-domain perspective—at home and at work. 

LifeSTech has strong experience as coordinator, technical/quality manager and participant in more than 150 National and EU R&D funded projects (FP5, FP6, FP7 and H2020). The group is active in IoT, big data and machine learning in the domains of e-education, materials, manufacturing and transportation and is highly involved in the healthcare area. 

LifeSTech members regularly publish in peer reviewed journals and are invited to give keynotes or present papers at international conferences.