SC Robotics

Libre Space Foundation

Thu, 14 May 2026 12:39:57 +0200

Gas sensors to prevent food waste

Tue, 12 May 2026 12:14:33 +0200

An electronic nose to smell the environment and detect outliers.

Radio Galega [GAL]

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:59:00 +0200

Programa para facilitar a mozas e mozos menores de 30 anos en situación de desemprego unha primeira experiencia profesional mediante contratos formativos [TR353C]

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:32:22 +0200

Datasense Agro Datalogger

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 23:43:49 +0100

Autonomous datalogger designed to monitor crops remotely

astronomy

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:35:03 +0200

Proyectos a medida

Socios en proyectos de I+D

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:18:20 +0200

Trison

Thu, 14 May 2026 12:39:17 +0200

Faro de Vigo [ES]

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:42:00 +0200

“Tecnología 100% viguesa para medir la contaminación lumínica. SC Robotics tiene desplegados unos 200 sensores en Canarias y la Península”

Datasense Agro Water Monitor

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:45 +0100

Smart water meter for professional users

Proxecto da empresa Sparks, Circuits and Robotics SL

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:18:09 +0100

Interactive jog dial keypad for industrial machinery control

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:31:26 +0100

Versatile and user-friendly solution for operating cranes, winches, capstans, and more.

digital signage

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:34:38 +0200

Mejora el alcance de tus campañas

Fabricación en serie

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:17:59 +0200

Grupo Nogar

Thu, 14 May 2026 12:38:33 +0200

La Voz de Galicia [ES]

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0100

“Talento gallego mide el exceso de luz artificial del planeta”

Datasense Signage Controller

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:42:51 +0100

IoT monitor for digital billboards

Ntouch: a contactless HMI

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:25:28 +0100

Combining Machine Learning and low-cost microcontrollers to design new Human Machine Interfaces for the industry.

industry

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:13:37 +0200

Control de producción y resolución de problemas en tiempo real

Validación rápida de ideas

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:17:44 +0200

ig4 agronomía

Thu, 14 May 2026 12:37:27 +0200

Faro de Vigo [ES/GAL]

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:32:17 +0100

[…] tivemos a sorte de atopar a clientes que confían moito en nós. Temos proxectos coa ESA, o CSIC ou o Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), pero estamos moi agradecidos ás empresas daquí, como Naust Marine, Marine Instruments ou Delikia, que nos apoiaron desde o primeiro momento e coas que seguimos traballando hoxe en día

Remote management of digital signage displays

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:41:20 +0100

Optimizing business operations thanks to the remote management of their most important resources.

maritime

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:12:56 +0200

Control de flotas

Datasense Agro

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:11:06 +0200

Monitor quality, yield and sustainability of crops

Tecnovino.com [ES]

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:42:30 +0100

Visens: microsensores para monitorizar la fermentación y crianza del vino

Viña Costeira

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:03:03 +0100

Optimize water consumption in large cropped areas

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:19:02 +0200

Bringing Internet of Things technologies to the agriculture industry to help farmers fight water scarcity and climate change with digitalization.

agrotech

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:02:30 +0200

Calidad, rendimiento y sostenibilidad

Datasense Signage

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:16:53 +0200

Manage digital signage billboards

Kaleido

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:02:32 +0100

La Voz de Galicia [ES]

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:04:00 +0100

“Profesionales y aficionados a la observación astronómica de todo el planeta tendrán la oportunidad de medir la calidad del cielo nocturno, es decir la contaminación lumínica, con el innovador fotómetro desarrollado para la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA), a través de la Libre Space Foundation (LSF)”

Dark Sky: measuring night sky quality

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:03:35 +0200

Designing open tools for scientists and amateur users to raise consciousness about light pollution.

Libatio

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:10:34 +0200

Track wine production in real-time

Naust Marine

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:02:01 +0100

Televisión de Galicia [GAL]

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:18:00 +0200

“[Libatio emprega unha] tapa intelixente para depósitos, con sensores e cámaras, que recollen datos en tempo real sobre o estado do viño”

esa

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:01:30 +0100

Faro de Vigo [ES]

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:21:00 +0200

“El proyecto consiste en el desarrollo de una plataforma web completa que permite la monitorización en tiempo real de la etapa de maduración del vino mediante sensores para controlar el estado del vino almacenado en los depósitos de acero, así como dispositivos de sensorización ambiental para el control de la sala de envejecimiento.”

Alumisel

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:00:56 +0100

La Región [ES]

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:21:00 +0200

“La Cooperativa Viña Costeira, junto con las pymes gallegas SC Robotics, Nigal e Indominus AS, clausuraron ayer el proyecto Libatio (Sistema de monitorización en tempo real dos procesos de fermentación e maduración do viño), que permite digitalizar dos de las fases principales de la cadena de elaboración del vino, que apenas contaban con tecnología digital.”

CSIC

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:29:59 +0100

La Voz de Galicia [ES]

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:20:00 +0200

“Una aplicación basada en la inteligencia artificial permitirá ahorrar energía y tiempo en la elaboración del vino”

Delikia

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:29:16 +0100

Ondacero [GAL]

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:19:00 +0200

“A directora destacou a contribución deste proxecto á transformación dixital do sector vitivinícola mediante a integración de tecnoloxías avanzadas en dúas fases clave do proceso de elaboración do viño, como son a maduración e fermentación do viño”

Marine Instruments

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:25:33 +0100

La Voz de Galicia [ES]

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 18:22:00 +0200

“«Nuestra experiencia al servicio de tus ideas, desde la validación del prototipo hasta la fabricación», dice el lema de una empresa cuyo equipo trabaja en áreas de conocimiento muy diversas, y que, entre otros, contribuye a mejorar y convertir en óptimo el proceso de digitalización en la industria 4.0.”

La Voz de Galicia [ES]

Sun, 29 Jan 2023 18:23:00 +0100

“Uno de los proyectos más recientes de la empresa de Miranda es visible en algunos de los invernaderos de Huelva donde estos días crecen toneladas de fresa que llegarán a las fruterías gallegas en breve […]”

La Región [ES]

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:25:00 +0100

“Libatio permitirá digitalizar las fases de maduración del vino. Dichas etapas, a diferencia de lo que sucede durante la vendimia o el embotellado, apenas cuentan con tecnología digital […]”

Campo Galego [ES]

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:24:00 +0100

“LIBATIO persigue la introducción de un nuevo producto en el mercado que lleve la transformación digital al sector vitivinícola, […]”

Faro de Vigo [ES]

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:25:00 +0100

“Los ingenieros de SC Robotics desarrollan dispositivos de sensorización no invasivos para controlar el estado del vino almacenado”

La Región [ES]

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 18:26:00 +0100

“[…] una plataforma web completa que permitirá la monitorización en tiempo real de la etapa de maduración del vino mediante sensores para controlar su estado durante el almacenamiento en los depósitos de acero”

La Voz de Galicia [ES]

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:27:00 +0100

“Se trata de una iniciativa […] que persigue la introducción de un nuevo producto en el mercado que lleve a la transformación digital del sector vitivinícola.”

Televisión de Galicia [GL/EN]

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:27:00 +0200

“Artificial Intelligence enters the wine-making sector too. […] A consortium of three companies was granted by the EU with 120.000€ to monitor the wine aging process.”

Faro de Vigo [ES]

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:28:00 +0200

“SC Robotics, la bodega Viña Costeira y la empresa Nigal celebraron ayer el lanzamiento del proyecto Libatio, galardonado con 120.000€ por la UE, para controlar la evaporación del vino en las barricas mediante el uso de monitorización remota e inteligencia artificial.”

Faro de Vigo [ES]

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:29:00 +0100

“La empresa viguesa Delikia ha instalado en el principal hospital vigués una tecnología innovadora desarrollada por la firma olívica SC Robotics junto con la madrileña Ubiquotechs que tiene por objetivo evitar el contacto entre el usuario y la máquina de vending, contribuyendo así a minimizar el posible riesgo de contagios.”

Connect-19 Magazine [ES]

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 18:29:00 +0100

“Hemos desarrollado NTouch, un dispositivo físico que permite a los usuarios interactuar con muchos tipos de máquinas sin necesidad de tocar las teclas o las pantallas.”

Código Cero [GL]

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:30:00 +0200

“A necesidade de dispoñer dun dispositivo que permitise interactuar con outras máquinas sen necesidade de contacto xurdiu durante o Estado de Alarma”

Radio Galega [GL]

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:31:00 +0200

“Sistema para manexar máquinas expendedoras que evita ter un contacto físico”

Televisión de Galicia [GL]

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:31:00 +0200

“Tecnoloxía para evitar contaxio do COVID-19 premiada pola Xunta de Galicia”

Faro de Vigo [ES]

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 18:32:00 +0200

“Una empresa viguesa, premiada por la Xunta, idea un sistema para que máquinas vending, pantallas informativas o ascensores reconozcan gestos del usuario evitando el contacto físico”

Código Cero [GL]

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 18:32:00 +0200

“Seleccionado no HACKatHOME […] un dispositivo para minimizar o contacto con superficies como pantallas informativas ou máquinas de vending”

SC Robotics raises public funding to expand datasense lineup

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:45:00 +0200

SC Robotics will receive funding to continue developing its datasense portolio of products for the agrotech sector. During the execution of this project, SENSE Pro, an innovative system designed for the remote collection and transmission of agricultural data, will be developed. This system will be part of our growing datasense portfolio and it will allow farmers to gain valuable information about their facilities, which can be used in applications to save water, optimise pesticide use and improve traceability.

LIBATIO Conecta Hubs 2021 project is about to finish

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:55:00 +0200

SC Robotics has been participating in the Conecta Hubs program for collaborative projects in the strategic areas of the DIHs aligned with the strategy for R&D in Galicia based on Intelligent Specialization (RIS3 Galicia). This program is also funded by FEDER (Fonds européen de développement régional) Galicia 2014-2020 (code IN852C).

Conecta Hubs is funded by the Galician Innovation Agency *(Axencia Galega de Innovación)*and is also supported by the Second Vice-Presidency (Vicepresidencia Segunda) and the Office of Economy, Business and Innovation (Consellería de Economía, Empresa e Innovación) of Xunta de Galicia.

NTOUCH 2.0: Bringing touchless control to industry 4.0

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:04:00 +0100

As a result of the ongoing digitalization process in the industry 4.0, the adoption of touch screens has increased but the technology still presents a few drawbacks:

Low precision operating in harsh ambient conditions (e.g., dirt, dust, liquids…).
Personal Protection Equipment, in particular gloves, can interfere with touch detection.

An operator using a touch screen

SC Robotics and Edge Impulse are leading a project to create a new device that can not only overcome these issues, but also bring new types of user interactions. To do so, SC Robotics provides its previous experience designing contactless keyboards to fight COVID-19 whereas Edge Impulse contributes with their platform and know-how to build ML algorithms that can run on the device itself.

LIBATIO granted Conecta Hubs 2021 program

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:17:00 +0100

A consortium formed by SC Robotics (hardware and IoT designers), Viña Costeira (well-known Galician winery), Nigal (data analytics and AI experts) and Indominus AS(computational engineering specialists) has been selected to develop a system to monitor wine ageing in real time as well as to study how to reduce the carbon footprint during the fermentation phase. The goal of this project, named LIBATIO, is to bring the digital transformation to the vine-growing sector, or, to be more precise, as part of the food transformation process.

Using Edge Impulse on an ESP32

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 14:18:00 +0200

We’ve been hard at work for the last few months developing new members of our Sense /By SC Robotics product line. The main focus up till now of these devices has been to build a solid hardware solution that can operate in harsh environments with low power requirements, harvesting data uninterruptedly in remote locations exposed to weathering and on battery/solar power. Nonetheless, all our Sense devices are based on modern 32 bit microcontrollers, with sufficient processing power to allow for encryption on the fly and implementation of automated algorithms on the edge.

SC Robotics participates in S3FOOD

Thu, 20 May 2021 15:31:00 +0200

We are glad to announce that, Libatio, the project we presented to S3FOOD’s last call was successfully selected among the ones to receive the funding. For those of you unaware of this grant, S3FOOD is an European program to foster innovation in the agri-food industries. In particular, our project will be developed by a consortium made of three companies: Viña Costeira, Nigal and us, SC Robotics. Each of the companies will be in charge of their respective areas of expertise: wine production, cloud platform development and hardware devices respectively.

Chipageddon

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:05:00 +0100

OK, let’s upload our project BOM to buy all parts needed to assemble some prototypes…

[a few moments later]

Oh, no! Several parts are Out of Stock! That’s weird, I bought the same BOM a month ago.

Let’s dive in. Passives are easy to substitute, many alternatives are available. It’s a waste of time, but we can solve the problem. With active parts and ICs we can try some tricks like looking for the same part with different suffixes. For in-house prototyping purposes, we don’t mind buying them in tube, tray or cut-tape (even bulk). Let’s give it a try:

Booting Linux on an Olimex board. Part 3: The root file system

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:11:00 +0100

After Part 1 and Part 2, this is going to be the last post of the Booting Linux on an Olimex boardseries. In the last post we left it right after launching the Kernel, however, according to Bootlin training docs, for a Linux system to work, we need at least a few applications:

An init application, which is the first user space application started by the Kernel after mounting the root filesystem
A shell, to implement scripts, automate tasks, and allow a user to interact with the system
Basic UNIX executables, for use in system scripts or in interactive shells: mv, cp, mkdir, cat, modprobe, mount, ifconfig, etc.

In embedded systems, all these are usually provided by Busybox, which is already built into our filesystem by Buildroot. The entire launch process is depicted below:

Understanding PSM settings in NB-IoT

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:07:00 +0100

One of our lines of work is cellular connectivity. In particular we are interested in pre-5G (according to 3GPP) technologies like NB-IoT and LTE-M. Quite often the project’s requirements mean we end up using regular 2G, but we are continuously exploring the newest available features to understand the pros and cons and choose what best suits our (and our customers) needs.

Today we are going to focus on one of these new features: Power Saving Mode (PSM) in Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT). PSM has been introduced in both LTE-M and NB-IoT (along with eDRX which will not be covered today). There are a few things which you should know, but in short, the modem is put into a sort of sleep mode while staying registered to the cellular network. This last bit is key, because registering usually takes a large percentage of the time and energy of a duty cycle.

Booting Linux on an Olimex board. Part 2: The Kernel

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:18:00 +0100

I have to admit that Part 1 of this series was posted too long ago. In fact, I had to read it again myself. To bring you up to speed, let me remind you that in that first post, we built and launched an U-Boot bootloader. We left it just before configuring everything to launch a Linux Kernel using TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol), a simplified version of FTP. And that’s exactly what we are going to do next.

From prototype to manufacturing

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:54:00 +0100

Today we’d like to share with you a short post with a few pictures of one of our most exciting projects this year.

As you probably know if you follow us online, earlier this year our engineers together with a team of Ubiquo Technologies took part in HACKatHOME. This was a hackathon organized by Xunta de Galicia (local government) to find solutions to fight the first wave of the Coronavirus and we turned out to be the winners of our category (“Low Touch” Solutions). This was of course really exciting for us and it meant the project we’ve been working during the previous months (aka “The Lockdown”) made sense.

What is Time-of-Flight Technology?

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:03:00 +0100

This summer we were one of the few companies selected to participate in the Connect 19 program to boost sales of our Ntouch line of products that have been designed to fight the spread of COVID-19. The program has helped us in many different aspects and we’d like to share part of it with our readers.

This is an engineering blog and we know our readers are here to read about tech and engineering but let me first tell you that thanks to Connect-19 and to ATDP agency, we have a new product logo and name (previously SC Touchless):

Embedding Sleek C++

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 19:16:00 +0200

One of the things you quickly come to appreciate of using a language like Python is how easy it is to make code that is elegant, descriptive and concise. The “pythonic” way of designing encourages this idea of abstracting and simplifying code, making it visually easy to quickly grasp the actual functionality being implemented, This obviously comes at a cost, as the code is generally neither as efficient nor as compact as a C/C++ version, without mentioning the other characteristics of being an interpreted language, lack of strong variable typing and depending on the garbage collector for memory control.

HACKatHOME winners!

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 19:29:00 +0200

Yesterday we achieved an important milestone. After 4 days of intense work -and two more months of hard work far from the spotlight-, we won the HACKatHOME hackathon. The goal was to find solutions to fight COVID19 and it has been a great opportunity for us to explore and understand the wide range of opportunities created by our most recent project, the SC Touchless.

But as you can imagine, hardware is only a small part of the product. On the software side of the project we’ve been collaborating with our friends of Ubiquo Techs, who have developed a platform called Ubox to create virtual experiences that can be easily controlled with the SC Touchless.

Booting Linux on an Olimex board. Part 1: The Bootloaders

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:33:00 +0200

In this series of posts I’m going to explore in detail how to boot Linux in an Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 board. The family of devices based on ARM Allwinner SoCs are usually known as sunxi, in particular, our A20 SoC belongs to the sun7i family.

This process can be done manually by compiling a toolchain, the bootloader, the kernel and creating the root file system manually, however I’m going to taken a shortcut by using Buildroot to generate the images, though I will flash them one by one and modify them slightly. If you want to know how to do it without relying on a build system, Bootlin has some great material from their trainings.

Using TF Lite for microcontrollers to monitor battery status

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:53:00 +0200

I am not going to be the first (or last) person to discuss the benefits associated with the current trend moving intelligence away from high power server farms in the cloud towards sensors embedded On The Edge™. Some of our latest projects have involved hardware like the Google Coral Edge TPU or Nvidia Jetson Nano, allowing us to extract meaningful information from sensors embedded directly on the factory floor or perform image classification. All this drawing much less power and consuming less bandwidth than traditional methods.

Debugging a Cortex-M microcontroller

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:54:00 +0100

When I started working with ARM microcontroles, I found myself lost among large amounts of information about how to program them, debug them and even about different ways to show logs. Information is not a problem when there’s a huge community base, the issue is to organize all this data, and this is specially difficult for newcomers. In this post I’m going to try to explain what I’ve learned about ARM debugging (in particular Cortex-M) without going deep into the details.

AI-based Pilgrim counter

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 19:59:00 +0100

Before going into the details of our latest project, let me put you into context. SC Robotics is based in a northwest region of Spain called Galicia. Many of you may have heard of Santiago de Compostela, the capital of Galicia. Compostela’s cathedral is among the most important pilgrimage destinations in Europe. Every year, thousands of people arrive here following the Camiño de Santiago (the Way of Saint James).

GPS Tracker with balenaOS

Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:02:00 +0100

At SC Robotics we’ve recently started using the Balena suite in some of our projects. Balena provides many tools to manage fleets of IoT Linux-based devices. Many of them are Open Source, the Community is fairly active and the documentation is not bad (I guess that’s the best thing you can say about docs). We’ve found their tools really useful so we decided to write a blog entry to explain why and how we use them.

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