QCDI – Quantum Cognitive Digital Industry

The main aim for Repsol is to research solutions that can be incorporated into Repsol's Big Data, AI, and IoT platforms.

The novelty of the project lies in exploiting some quantum physics advantages, which executed on classical hardware can potentially give a higher speed than traditional approaches.

In Repsol's case, cleaning and quality assurance problems of the data generated in large volumes and at high speed (streaming) from diverse and disperse origins, in massive M2M (Machine to Machine) communications, and regarding missing, erroneous, and abnormal or out-of-pattern data will be addressed. The solutions developed in the project may be incorporated in the future both into Repsol's IoT platform and our Big Data and Artificial Intelligence platform, ARiA, with a special focus of interest on eXtreme Data Mining - XDM and the processing of data close to its origin, Edge Computing.

The overall purpose of the Quantum Cognitive Digital Industry project is to promote and modernize the industrial environment through a cognitive-quantum digital twin, which provides the different sectors with a hyper-automated, efficient, flexible, and sustainable model where all the company's assets (machinery and personnel) interact securely in real time. The development and deployment of these services will enable decisions to be made to improve the industrial processes, improve their use and suitability, alongside the reduction of energy consumption and resources in several areas of action. Moreover, these services will be enablers and will help the productive efficiency of industry in general.

The different elements that make up the project are closely related to each other, as is shown in the following diagram:

Moreover, the project covers the following fields of research and development:

• Quantum edge (qEdge)
• Extreme data mining (XDM)
• Quantum computing
• Quantum-inspired computing
• Post-quantum cryptography
• Quantum data governance

This project, QCDI, is being funded by the CDTI Innovation - Spanish Center for Technological Development and Innovation, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; Spanish Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan; and the European Union, through the #NextGenerationEU funds.