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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.
Summer school on artificial intelligence
After the success of the first edition of the Summer School that gathered almost three dozen students from 13 countries in 2013, INESC TEC is once again organising the VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence (Visum) Summer School, in collaboration with the University of Porto and the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP). The Summer School will take place between 3 and 10 July.
INESC TEC provides services to pharmaceutical company
INESC TEC’s Industrial Engineering and Management Unit (UGEI) is currently developing a project to configure the logistics chain of a pharmaceutical wholesaler.
INESC TEC demonstrates medical technology in the United States
On 18 February, the manager of the recently created Centre for Research in Biomedical Engineering (C-BER) at INESC TEC, Aurélio Campilho, presented the RetinaCAD in a workshop that took place in California, in the United States. The RetinaCAD is a computer assisted medical diagnosis tool based on the analysis of images of the retina.
Chilean delegation visits INESC TEC
On 26 February, INESC TEC welcomed a Chilean delegation, from the region of Los Lagos, which is interested in the technology for the sea and aquaculture areas developed at INESC TEC.
INESC TEC welcomes representative of the National Institute of Informatics in Japan
On 13 February, INESC TEC welcomed the director for international relations of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Henri Angelino. The goal was to establish possible cooperation agreements with the Japanese institute.
Platform developed by INESC TEC enables personalised drug administration during anaesthesia
GALENO is the name of the new tool that enables a strict and personalised administration of drugs and it was developed by a consortium that includes INESC TEC’s Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD).
INESC TEC supervises devices that measure the quality of DTT signal
INESC TEC and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) are responsible for technically supervising a network of probes that are continuously monitoring the quality of the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT). This work is part of project ICP-ANACOM. ANACOM is the Portuguese communication regulator.
Portuguese Project Aims To Deliver Underwater Energy Efficient Demonstrator in 2015
A Portuguese civil-military research project supported by the European Defence Agency (EDA) is testing reduced-energy technologies for underwater robotics, said an EDA official.
INESC TEC starts developing point-to-multipoint system
In January, INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia (UTM) started working on the project “HiperWireless: Point-to-Multipoint Microwave Communications using the 17GHz License-free Band”, where the goal is to develop a point-to-multipoint communication system using the 17 GHz band. The system is composed of a base station and a set of client stations, similar to what is found in a 3G/4G network or a Wi-Fi network, for example.
These shoes are customised and they can be on your doorstep in 24 hours
In a world where internet sales are not the future, but the present, responding quickly to orders is key. The footwear industry went beyond that and developed the Highspeed ShoeFactory, a new solution to produce customised footwear in 24 hours that is already installed and being tested at Kyaia, a factory in Guimarães, Portugal.
Young Portuguese researcher receives international award
A young researcher at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto won the 2013 ABB Award with his master’s thesis titled "Carregador Bidirecional para Veículos Elétricos Baseado em Andar de Conversão Matricial" (Matrix Converter-based Bidirectional Charger for Electric Vehicles).
