The multidisciplinary research team of LARINA covers diverse fields of expertise. LaRINA’ activities are seeking to explore, acquire and implement innovative technologies and techniques to optimize industrial processes, promote sustainable and fair management of energy and water services. Recent advances in numerical modeling of Internet of Things (IoT) have created new topics of interest for our team which include the following: digitization of the energy and water systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and numerical modeling for smart cities and adaptive algorithms for home automation.