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POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF MADRID.
MICROWAVES AND RADAR GROUP AND

RADICOMMUNICATIONS GROUP

ENTITY PROFILE
The Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) is one of six public universities located in
the Community of Madrid. It was established under Spanish Law by Royal Decree(RD)
494/1971 of 11 March. It currently has 20 centers where students are assigned degrees
level qualifi cations in all branches of engineering. In its research structure, the UPM has
225 recognized research groups, two of which, the Microwave and Radar Group (GMR),
Department of Signals, Systems and Radiocommunications (E.T.S. Telecommunications
Engineering) and the Radiocommunications Group (GRC), Department of Audiovisual
Engineering and Communications (E.U. Telecommunications Engineering) have worked
together for more than 10 years in the developing of projects related to planning and
deployment of signaling and radio systems in railway environments. UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTRES

AREAS OF ACTIVITY
• Theoretical and experimental • Planning radio communications systems:
characterization of radio channel in TETRA, GSM-R and LTE.
railway enviroments. • Design of subsystems for automatic control
and railway signaling: ERTMS and CBTC.

R&D: PROJECTS AND PRODUCTS
Project Product National International
TECRAIL. LTE communications technologies for automatic driving and
railway control. [Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness]. Ongoing.
Technical consulting on the implementation and interoperability in TETRA
networks. [Metro de Madrid].
Technical consulting on the deployment of PMR in railway environments. [Datum
Consultores S.L.].
Emulator propagation GSM-R. Application to the integration test of the ECTS.
[Metro de Madrid]
Evaluation and testing of a mobile communication system for the automatic control
of railways. [DimetroniC/Invensys].
Measurements GSM-R coverage. Measurements of coverage in several sections of
the railway line Madrid-Lleida. [ADIF].
Development of signaling elements: System via modem Eurolazo. [InfoGLOBAL,
Invensys, ADIF].
Development of a simulator for propagation and radio channel modeling for railway
environments. [Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness]. Ongoing.

ADDRESS CONTACT PERSON
ETSI TELECOMUNICACIONES José-Ignacio Alonso Montes
Av. Complutense, 30, 28040 Madrid. Head of department
Tel.: +34 914533537 / +34 655763428 Tel.: +34 914533537 / +34 655763428
www.upm.es/observatorio/vi/index.jsp ignacio@gmr.ssr.upm.es