News & Events
Portugal participates in European project to improve surveillance of maritime borders
INESC TEC and the Naval Research Centre of the Portuguese Navy are two of 18 partners of a European project where the goal is to improve the efficiency of maritime border surveillance.
INESC TEC highlights Telecommunications area in Open Day
On 7 May, INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM)* organised an Open Day for companies. Project demonstrations, presentations of success cases and doctoral studies completed the programme of the event that gathered the entire CTM community. The goal was to showcase the quality of the scientific production and innovation capacity at CMT. About 20 companies attended the event that will hopefully lead to new ideas and future partnerships.
MSc dissertation by INESC TEC researcher awarded in Brazil
Carolina Marcelino, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES)*, won the award “Vale-Capes de Ciência e Sustentabilidade 2013” (award for science and sustainability), in the category of “Efficient processes to reduce water and energy consumption.” The researcher received the award for her master’s dissertation titled Otimização de um Sistema de Controle Conjunto de Geração de Energia Hidrelétrica com o emprego de Inteligência Computacional (Optimising a hydroelectric energy system using artificial intelligence), supervised by Paulo Almeida and Elizabeth Wanner.
Would you like to work with NATO?
The Directorate-General for Armament and Defence Infrastructures (Portuguese Ministry of Defence) is organising a seminar to publicise work opportunities with the NATO Support Agency (NSPA). The target-audience of the morning session is the national industry, and the afternoon session is for Portuguese individual candidates. This Seminar will take place as part of the 2014 edition of the Sea Forum (Fórum do Mar), on 28 May, starting at 10 am. Participation is free, but online registration is required until 20 May.
SUNNY Project to Help Improve Effectiveness of EU Border Security
A new European Research Project, co-funded by the European Commission has been launched to enhance the effectiveness of border surveillance activities at the external borders. The Smart UNattended airborne sensor Network for detection of vessels used for cross border crime and irregular entrY (SUNNY) project will run for 42 months contributing towards achieving the objectives of the European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR). The SUNNY project will develop affordable and interoperable technical capabilities, in particular for detecting and tracking small vessels used by migrants and drug smugglers.
PRODUTECH partnership demonstrates customised manufacturing technology at ADIRA
The Production Technologies Cluster (PRODUTECH) is presenting for the first time the ADIRA PRODUCTION SYSTEM, a new assembly line for ADIRA’s factory, located in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, designed and implemented with innovative manufacturing technology made in Portugal, including manufacturing optimisation and autonomous vehicles that supply every work station with the materials required to assemble customised orders. Making production faster and more flexible will allow this national company to reduce in over 50% the delivery times of completely customised machines.
HASLab/INESC TEC’s Green Software Lab receives international award
HASLab/INESC TEC has received a merit award from the North-American company National Instruments (NI). The company awarded HASLab’s for its credible research line and innovative ideas developed in the area of green software computing, which can be applied to NI’s LabView software.
Maritime Safety with Unmanned Vehicles highlighted at the Sea Fair
INESC TEC, the European Defence Agency and the Portuguese Ministry of Defence have joined to organise, for the first time in Portugal, the Workshop on European Unmanned Maritime Systems. Focusing on the theme of Maritime Safety, this is the third edition of the workshop where the goal is to present technology and other research results, with civillian and military applications, developed as part of the programme of the European Defence Agency for Unmanned Maritime Systems and other European initiatives.
INESC R&D Brazil marks two years of activity
This month, INESC R&D Brazil marks two years of activity. At the Annual General Meeting, which took place on 14 April in São Paulo, the representatives presented and discussed the annual report for the year 2013, the strategic plan and activities for 2014 and the budget for 2015.
INESC TEC coordinates unique project to manage and plan Public Health
Which pairs can be selected in order to perform the largest number of kidney transplants possible with paired kidney exchange with living donors? This is the research question that motivated the work KEP – New models for enhancing the kidney transplantation process, led by INESC TEC.
A chair that thinks
Researchers from the University of Porto have developed a wheelchair that adapts to each user. It can be controlled by a joystick, by voice controls or with the blink on an eye.
Kinematix working with English rugby champions
The Portuguese start-up Kinematix is working with the Leicester Tigers, current champions of the English rugby championship, in order to monitor the muscular activity and repetitive actions of the players. The goal is to prevent injuries. With a branch office Boston, the company wants to take its technology to American football teams.
CISTER/INESC TEC participates in project to validate critical systems
INESC TEC’s Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems (CISTER) is one of the partners in project V-SIS (“Validation of Critical Systems”), where the goal is to address the challenge of validating critical systems by creating a centre of competence that will deal with the changes and the evolution of critical systems caused by normative evolutions.
INESC TEC researchers help create company specialising in information and advertising
As lecturers of the Master in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship (MIETE) of the Faculties of Engineering and Economics of the University of Porto, Alexandra Xavier, Manuel Oliveira and João José Pinto Ferreira, researchers at INESC TEC’s Innovation and Technology Transfer Unit (UITT), have supported the creation of the company Publiport-Marketing e Publicidade, Lda.
INESC TEC starts project on energy storage
On 20 March, INESC TEC hosted the kick-off meeting of a technical consulting and service provision project in the area of energy storage technology. This project is relevant to the energy sector, not only from a centralised but also from a decentralised point of view. This contract was recently signed with EDP Produção and EDP Distribuição.
INESC TEC participates in European project on automotive industry
INESC TEC’s Robotics and Intelligent Systems Unit (ROBIS) is the only Portuguese partner in the European project “Sustainable and Reliable Robotics for Part Handling in Manufacturing Automation” (STAMINA), a project related to automating the process of assembly in the automotive industry.
INESC TEC participates in project that will change the consumption of audio-visual services in Portugal
Based on the concept of “immersive media,” the project ImTV - OnDemand Immersive-TV for Communities of Media Producers and Consumers – has collected information on the consumption of audio-visual services in Portugal, and created a number of tools with potential to give viewers a more active role. Moreover, the project has generated debates on public service media.
INESC TEC develops platform that records, annotates and processes videos
A platform to record, annotate and process videos – this is the final result of project ASSIST, developed by INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) for the company InovRetail Lda. The tools created as part of the project are now being tested and validated and they will be applied in the commercial sector.
INESC TEC researcher co-edits scientific book
Aurélio Campilho, manager of the Centre for Research in Biomedical Engineering (C-BER), is co-editor of the book Image Analysis and Modeling in Ophthalmology, published by CRC Press in February 2014.
City of Porto welcomes second edition of the Visum Summer School
The second edition of the VISion Understanding and Machine Intelligence (Visum) Summer School will take place in the city of Porto, between 3 and 10 July. Registration is open until 14 March.
