Juan-Carlos Cano's Blog

This week started the Holy Week celebration. In Valencia we celebrate the Semana Santa Marinera, which is the name given to the celebration of Easter in the city of Valencia, in particular in the part of the city known as the maritime towns, comprising the districts of Grao, the Cabañal and Canamelar. March 28^th we attended to the Palm Sunday procession (Domingo de Ramos) in Santa María del Mar parish church.

More information about The Semana Santa Marinera: here

Semana Santa Marinera, Palm Sunday procession, March 28th, 2010

March 18^th, our Falleras Mayores  Andrea and Vanesa go with their comision fallera to the Ofrenda Floral in Valencia. The  Falla Arquitecto Alfaro – Francisco Cubells, offers flowers to the virgin in praise of Saint Joseph.

Andrea and Vanesa preparing the Ofrenda, March 18th, 2010.

In march 2010, the GRC group has visited Motorland Aragon, which is a motorsports complex located in the town of Alcaniz. Motorland brings together three international standard tracks, and a technology park known as TechnoPark MotorLand Aragón. The objective of this visit was to establish first contacts with the Managing Director of the technology park studying possible research collaboration areas between the GRC group and the park, in projects dealing with Intelligent Transport Systems.

Fotos de la visita aquí.

The GRC group visiting Motorland Aragón, March 17th, 2010.

In August 2008, the GRC in collaboration with the ONG Telecomunicaciones Solidarias (Teso), and under a project supported by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, successfully deployed their system called RuralNet in the city of Nacala in Mozambique. Victor García and Borja Roig traveled to Mozambique and stayed there for two months for instruction and technical support. The system connected several schools of the Misión Vicentina of Nacala, offering them with Internet access through wireless technology. The experience was a complete success and the system is still completely functional.

The general purpose of RuralNet is to strengthen Internet support in rural and developing environments through wireless technologies. The system also allows mobile users with the ability to access Internet applications on the move. Rather than creating a new wireless technology, the major challenge has been to demonstrate the practicality of designing and building a system that, by combing existing wireless networks paradigms, is able to reach distant areas at a low cost, while offering a wide range of telecommunication services and applications.

More information of RuralNet is available at: http://ruralnet.sourceforge.net/index.html

Deployment of RuralNet in the city of Nacala, Mozambique. August 2008.

Crash test at the Barcelona International Motor Show 2009. May 9th, 2009

In May 2009 at the Barcelona International Motor Show 2009 IDIADA made a crash test where the GRC demonstrated how information and communication technologies can be combined with transport systems to build up the concept of ITS.

More information:  http://www.grc.upv.es/localdocs/Barcelona.mpg

ITS vision from The European Telecommunications Standards Institute

Professor Juan-Carlos Cano has been appointed in January 2010 as the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) Europe news editor for IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Mobile Communication Networks.

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Trip to Javalambre (February, 2010)

Before March, we spent a fantastic day in Javalambre sky resort in Teruel. Andrea started her skiing classes and Vanesa enjoyed a lot with the sled.

Javalambre sky resort is located in the Sierra of Javalambre Mountains, just an hour and a half from Valencia. It is an ideal place to spend a day enjoying with your family and friends. The ski resort offer outstanding views over the Javalambre Mountain range both inside the tracks or just having a walk.

More information: http://www.javalambre.com

Andrea Cano has been the champion of the category up to 7 years for the Karate Cultural week DUATO Sports Club 2009, held in December 2009. Andrea received the prize on 26th of february after her karate class.

Andrea: our karate girl (February 2010)

DISCA at FINTI December 14th 2009, Vigo, Spain.

The DISCA Department attended to the first IEEE Conference on Using New Technologies for Fostering and Innovation in Engineering Education, (FINTDI 2009), which was held in Vigo Spain, December 2010. The main objective of the conference is to disseminate and put together experiences and innovations in engineering education, and to jointly assess the impact of new educational approaches, having in mind that innovation and quality should always go together. The work presented in the conference was part of the PhD work of Mr. Jose V. Benlloch Dualde. The event took place in Vigo University and it was broadcast live through Internet.

You can see some snaps of the event at Picasa:  http://picasaweb.google.es/

La Pobla de Vallbona, november 22nd, 2009.

November is the season for harvesting oranges in Valencia area. They are really sweet and with vitamin C. Orange juice in autumn is the best solution to avoid catching a cold!. Have a nice day