HI research prioritises research and development of mobile applications and investigation of new business opportunities in this field. This also includes the development of innovative applications for the main mobile platforms in the market: Symbian, Android, Windows 7 and RIM.

As a company entrusted with part of the development of the Eurofighter simulator, HI has wide experience in mathematical models and simulation models. Currently, this expertise is being redirected to the ICT sphere in order to carry out simulations and validations of developments before testing in actual environments. To this end HI programs these simulators using basically Matlab, C++, and Java languages.

This HI research line currently focuses on data network security, with the creation of a work group specialised in security and network optimisation, involving synergies with our interest in mobile networks and embedded systems.

The European Union has identified e-Inclusion as one of the priorities within the framework of the i2010 strategy. Our objective is to enhance society's relationship with information technologies by using our wide experience in ICTs based on two main criteria: accessibility and usability.

According to Slywotzky, a company's business design is composed of four strategic elements: (1) customer selection, (2) value capture, (3) strategic control, and (4) scope.

Here at HI research we try to answer Danner and Charron's six key questions in relation to all our R&D programmes: What do you sell? Who will buy it? Why? Where are you positioned on the value chain/market? How do you organise, motivate and manage the team? How much money will you make? How long can you stay in a competitive market?

Amongst other projects, HI has developed a content streaming system for Orange mobile in Spain. The core of this content is based on the open source server Darwin and on the freeware version of the Helix project. One of our current lines of research consists in continuing development of our platform with the aim of supporting 3D content and in the final analysis of obtaining a commercial product.

HI has developed and taken part in numerous projects along these lines. Some of the most relevant are:

Invoicing System - FAST

Advance procurement system - Telefónica de España

Network Management - Ibercom Network Management and Control System, Telefónica de España

Exterior plant operations manager - Telefónica de España

Mobile operation manager - Telefónica Móviles

Thanks to this work, HI continues to research this area through algorithm / control system developments suitable for all logistic, system control and network control environments.

HI research has lately been giving special priority to research in the semantics and datamining area in conjunction with work for public authorities. This includes the definition of ontologies, implementation of semantic reasoners, and ontology-based semantic data processing (for both text and video) all based on open source library developments.

Other additional aspects are semantic notation, compliance with standards, computational requirements and semantic datamining or, in other words, semantics applied to databases.