The main objective of the THOFU project is to advance the state-of-the-art of several emerging technologies related to construction, sensing, information and communications and interaction, which have a great potential impact in the tourist sector, and, in particular, in the advance of new accommodation concepts for the tourist. Its final goal is to lay the technological foundations for the development of a new concept of hotel, which allows dealing with tourist seasonality and loyalty programs by making attractive and different offers. The technologies considered by THOFU present important research and engineering challenges and, in many cases, require an active collaboration between researchers of different fields.

The central element of THOFU is the hotel infrastructure; the technology assets that will result from the project, after the necessary industrialization phases (which are not the object of this project), will enable to build a new concept of hotel. The hotel of the future will be augmented, sensible and sustainable. It will put at the disposal of its guests a space able to adapt to the singularities and specific needs of each client (for example, physical status, cultural characteristics or needs related to the health status or mood). And it will combine new ideas and technologies to design spaces which are able to continuously increase the knowledge about the visitor in order to create advanced services offers and improve interaction.

My work was in the field of energy efficiency, in energy consumption control and water management, and in WSN, in new intelligent and accesible connected devices.