José M. Rodríguez Silva
Updated Sunday, February 25, 2024-17:08
Mobile World Congress Mobile joins the wave of artificial intelligence in an edition marked by the 'telecos' agenda
Algorithm The 'telecos' look to water to contain their income drought
Although it officially begins on Monday,
the Mobile World Congress
has begun to take its first steps this Sunday with the
first presentations of mobile phones
and the
alliance of Vodafone and Aqualia
to digitize the meters of the second in an announcement on a sensitive topic such as water in a Barcelona hit by drought.
The agreement between the water company and the operator to digitize one million meters and
thus limit water waste in the network
.
These types of alliances are increasingly in vogue, since the loss of water from large distribution networks is one of the main headaches for water supply managers, especially in times of drought, such as the one that hits the Barcelona.
The contract will have a duration of ten years and was created with the objective of digitizing one million IoT connections in water meters in the next five years.
The companies have already been collaborating on projects of this type since 2022 and to date have digitized more than 250,000 meters.
If the terms of the agreement are met, after these five years, practically half of the meters of Aqualia's three million users would have a Vodafone connection and remote reading service.
"The control and correct management of water use in Spain is a constant and vitally important challenge nowadays," says the director of IoT at Vodafone Spain,
Daniel Barallat
.
The initiative is also part of the projects launched in the
Program for the Digitalization of the Water Cycle
, which has mobilized 200 million euros in its second call and which seeks, above all, to increase the efficiency of the networks, which lose one of every four liters during operation without companies knowing at what point the leaks occur.
1 billion investment
During midday, the traditional lunch took place prior to the event organized by the public-private foundation
Mobile World Capital
, which brought together the Minister of Digitalization,
José Luis Escrivá
, and the President of the Generalitat,
Pere Aragonès
.
Aragonès has assured that his Executive will include in the budgets of the course
1,000 million euros destined for innovation and development
, the largest amount in the history of the budgets of the autonomy, while Escrivá's intervention has been about the limits that the artificial intelligence.
The Mobile World Congress expects to host 95,000 attendees in its Barcelona edition, 8% more than last year, but still far from the 110,000 they gathered at their peak before the pandemic.
MOBILE PHONES
Although the presentations of new terminals at the Mobile World Congress are becoming increasingly scarce,
Chinese brands
continue to be one of the great attractions of the event.
In this case, both Honor and Xiaomi have chosen the day before Mobile to bring their latest devices to Spain.
Xiaomi has teamed up with Leica to launch its
14 Ultra
model , the brand's new flagship phone that has four cameras
with the ability to record at 8K
and a fast charge that allows you to fill 100% of the phone's battery in just over half an hour with a starting price of 1,499 euros.
The phone, and its little brother, the Xiaomi 14, is accompanied by the new operating system designed by the company on Android:
Xiaomi HyperOS, which will also be accompanied by new generative AI functions
, in line with the integration of this technology in the phones inaugurated by Samsung and the S24.
Precisely, AI has also been the icing on the cake chosen by Honor for its presentation in Europe of its
MagicPro 6
model , its highest-end model, which also has its own AI photography system with professional technology as its focus.