News & Events
INESC TEC co-organises international conference on optics and photonics
Between 23 and 26 July, the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP) hosted the RIAO/OPTILAS conference (8th Iberoamerican Conference on Optics and 11th Latin-American meeting on Optics, Lasers and Applications). The event was organised by the Portuguese Society for Photonics, together with the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, FCUP and INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic System Unit (UOSE).
INESC TEC researcher receives IEEE award
Jean Sumaili, researcher at INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), has received the 2010 award for best PhD dissertation on Power Systems presented at an Italian university. The IEEE PES Italian Chapter 2010 Best PhD Thesis in Power Engineering AWARD was awarded to the dissertation “Current Decomposition-Based Loss Partitioning and Loss Allocation in Distribution Systems”.
INESC TEC takes robots to Italy
From 15 to 19 June, members of INESC TEC’s Robotics and Intelligent Systems Unit (ROBIS) travelled to NATO’s Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), in La Spezia, Italy, to participate in a set of tests as part of project ICARUS (Integrated Components for Assisted Rescue and Unmanned Search operations).
Working on unmanned Search and Rescue devices to speed up the SAR process
From 15 to 19 July 2013 CMRE hosted one of the 2013 sea trials of ICARUS, EC project aiming to develop robotic tools which can assist "human" crisis intervention teams.
Newly inaugurated Clean Room will enhance INESC TEC’s research on optical fibres
On 12 June, the Micro and Nanofabrication Unit of the Centre of Materials, University of Porto (NMTEC/CEMUP), an infrastructure dedicated to research on materials, inaugurated a new Clean Room. INESC TEC has been a partner of CEMUP and will be one of clean room’s main users.
INESC TEC develops 1st Portuguese eco-efficiency software
ECOPLANNER SUGGESTS MORE SUSTAINABLE OPTIONS: INESC TEC developed, together with Ecoinside, FEUP and ISA, an IT management platform for eco-efficiency in industrial units that monitors consumptions of energy, water and other resources. Furthermore, in order to suggest more efficient solutions, the platform also measures gas emissions and wastes resulting from manufacturing. The Ecoplanner is now being tested at Sorgal, one of the largest animal feed producing companies in Portugal.
INESC TEC takes Internet to the waters of the Atlantic
Pioneer project confirms INESC TEC’s know-how in communications INESC TEC has joined the “Porto Digital” Association (APD) to provide free broadband Internet throughout the coast between the cities of Porto and Póvoa de Varzim. INESC TEC and the APD have signed a collaboration protocol as part of the 2013 Sea Fair and the aim is to provide the service in 2014. Mare-Fi is the name of the system created by INESC TEC and it is already installed at the Edifício Transparente in Porto. The system will be testing the wireless communication with the fishing boats in the port of Matosinhos. This is a pioneer project in the world that, at a later stage, will grant Internet access up to five nautical miles (about nine kilometres).
Researcher working in Portugal wins Best Student Paper Award
A paper by Michael Donauer on industrial manufacturing optimisation received a Best Paper Award at the international conference Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2013).
Evolution Towards Public Service Media - Workshop and Conference
Date: October 11, 2013 Time: 10:00 to 19:30 Venue: INESC Porto (new auditorium) and FEUP (central auditorium) Registrations until September, 13
INESC TEC Entrepreneurship: new Facebook page
INESC TEC Entrepreneurship is a Facebook page created by INESC TEC’s Innovation and Technology Transfer Unit (UITT) dedicated to the theme of entrepreneurship.
Limelight
Luís Seca (USE), Pedro Almeida (LIAAD) and Germano Veiga (ROBIS) are the latest nominees in BIP’s Limelight section (English version).
Multidisciplinary scientific innovation as a weapon against the economic crisis
We are now living exponential times. This statement is widely known in the context of globalisation based on Information and Communication Technologies, but it is also applied in scientific research.
INESC TEC paper with the highest number of downloads for the second year in a row
The paper “Operations research in healthcare: a survey” had the highest number of views in 2011 and in 2012 in the journal International Transactions in Operational Research.
INESC TEC researchers integrate restricted group of Portuguese authors in renowned journal
José Nuno Oliveira, a researcher at INESC TEC’s High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), published a paper in the prestigious journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering last March. The paper was co-written with Miguel Ferreira, a former Master’s Degree student at the University of Minho. This is the second group composed of exclusively Portuguese researchers to publish in this journal, even though this is an area –Software Engineering – in which practically all universities have active groups.
INESC TEC integrates European project on smart grids
INESC TEC has recently integrated the team of the European project ELECTRA – European Liaison on Electricity grid Committed Towards long-term Research Activities. This is an integrated research project (IRP) on smart grids where the main goal is to strengthen the EERA Joint Programme on Smart Grids. The project duration is 48 months.
INESC TEC creates an app that promotes intelligent refuse collection
How is it possible to make refuse collection more efficient and economical? Three researchers from INESC TEC’s Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG) are trying to provide an answer to that question with the CleanMyCity. This is an app to manage refuse collection, developed as part of APSAT, a European project that wants to demonstrate the efficiency of innovative satellite services, allowing communities to promote develop sustainably.
INESC TEC provides services to startup Grabmark
The lack of tools to support collaborative studies was the motivation to create Grabmark, a platform for students to share and exchange study material. After winning a place in IdeaMove, a competition of business ideas promoted by the TEC-Empreende project, the new start-up has received the support of the Innovation and Technology Transfer Unit (UITT) at INESC TEC to develop and implement the business project.
INESC TEC highlighted in the Balkans
Nuno Fidalgo, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Power Systems Unit (USE), has recently travelled to Sarajevo, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, to provide consulting services on Load Research, in cooperation with the Regulatory and Energy Assistance Project (REAP), an initiative sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
INESC TEC tests broadband radio solution for remote locations
INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) has recently tested a solution that provides two-way broadband access based on long-range point-to-point WiFi connections. The field tests were conducted within an R&D contract with Portuguese company Sinuta SA as part of project WISAT - Development of passive devices for both VSAT and MIMO PtP bridging applications.
INESC TEC integrates European project on smart grids
INESC TEC has recently integrated the team of the European project ELECTRA – European Liaison on Electricity grid Committed Towards long-term Research Activities. This is an integrated research project (IRP) on smart grids where the main goal is to strengthen the EERA Joint Programme on Smart Grids. The project duration is 48 months.
