Telefónica I+D sets itself the challenges of leading the IoE, predicting human behavior and privacy

As part of its TEFcon developer event, Telefónica I+D has announced its strategic lines for the coming years based on innovation: Internet of Things (IoE) industrial, prediction models of human behavior and identity and privacy.

The Spanish operator Telefónica R&D (TIME) has revealed what will be its three strategic lines for the coming years: Internet of Things (IoE) industrial, prediction models of human behavior and identity and privacy. Some ambitious challenges presented during TEFcon, an event celebrated 4 al 5 November that brings together in Spain the developers that the company has around the world to share their developments and their ways of working.

As David del Val has highlighted, CEO of TID, “in addition to being the company that invests the most in R&D in Spain, Telefónica has a great tradition in product and service innovation, and she has gotten to where she is because of her work as a pioneer. To remain as a reference company and continue being the 'factory' of the company's best products, we have clear objectives: create and invent new products in new lines of business, and develop with excellence everything that we are capable of creating internally”.

Telefónica I+D is advancing in both objectives with work in three areas of innovation in which results have already been obtained. The first is the Industrial area of ​​the Internet of Things, with the recent Thinking Things development, stackable Lego-like modules that allow objects to be connected (read the news in detail at Digital AV Magazine).

Another area of ​​development is the prediction of human behavior, whose best example is the recent study carried out by TID on tourism, which highlights the opportunities that big data methodologies offer to this industry. A third line of action focuses on identity and privacy in which, among other projects, highlights community effort to reveal the flow and use of personal information online.

During this third edition of TEFcon, an event whose objective is to disseminate the best practices used by engineers, in addition to learning and sharing new technologies, all this through hackatones, dojo, networking, etc; The use of startup methodologies in a large company has been highlighted, since TID is a global pioneer in the world by applying the so-called 'lean startup' to several projects of a large corporation.

To develop this entire strategy and continue innovating in products and services, Telefónica will continue investing in R&D in Spain in line with recent years. According to the latest official data, the company allocated 6.100 million euros to R&D&i projects in 2013, and 6% more compared to the previous year. This amount represents the 10% of the investment that is made in Spain in this chapter and places the operator in second place for investment in R&D&i worldwide.

Besides, according to the Global Innovation world ranking 1000, prepared by Strategy&, consultant PwC, Telefónica is the operator that has invested the most in R&D in Spain in 2014, with a total of 1.110 million euros, and 1% more than last year.