The IBV presents its technological capabilities to Valencia City Council to help build a safer, more liveable and more innovative Valencia

On Tuesday 3 February, Paula Llobet, Councillor for Tourism, Innovation and Investment Attraction at Valencia City Council, visited the Instituto de Biomecánica (IBV), accompanied by Gonzalo Belenguer, Managing Director of REDIT. The delegation was welcomed by Javier Sánchez, Managing Director of IBV, together with Erika Martino, Deputy Director of IBV; José Solaz, Director of Innovation in Mobility and Smart Cities and coordinator of activities in the field of Security and Defence; and Inés Pereira, Director of Governance and Impact at IBV. They presented the centre’s technological capabilities in areas such as health, mobility and smart cities, and security and defence, among others, always applied to improving people’s quality of life. During the meeting, examples were shown of how IBV can contribute to designing and building healthier, more efficient, more sustainable and more people-centred urban environments.

Llobet was therefore able to learn how the analysis of people’s thermal response is a determining factor in the design of urban environments and workwear, including equipment for the security forces and law enforcement agencies, helping to reduce heat stress and the associated risk; how digital human models in motion can support the training of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to make them safer, more efficient and more sustainable; and how technologies such as VITALWISE enable the non-invasive measurement and monitoring of key vital signs in emergency situations, among other applications.

The visit included a tour of some of the centre’s most advanced infrastructures, such as the Human Analysis Lab (HAL), an advanced environment for studying and deepening understanding of human interactions. There, it was shown how MOVE4D, IBV’s dynamic body scanning technology, is used to generate digital human models in motion, as well as how VITALWISE operates in emergency contexts. The delegation also visited the Thermal Response Laboratory and the Human Autonomous Vehicle (HAV).

This visit strengthens institutional collaboration to advance solutions that will make Valencia a more innovative, safer and more liveable city, placing technology and knowledge at the service of people’s quality of life.