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Brazilian federal representative visits INESC TEC to get to know technology for the Sea
Edinho Bez, a Brazilian federal representative, has visited INESC TEC on 18 January. As a result he had the opportunity to get familisarised with the technologies INESC TEC has developed for the sea – namely for port management, following the visit to APDL (Port Authority of Leixões and Viana do Castelo). Together with the APDL and TRIEDE, INESC TEC has developed a solution of reference for ports.
INESC TEC celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science
In 2016, the UN established the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which is celebrated on 11 February. The goal is to give more visibility to women and to promote an equal access to science.
INESC TEC demonstrates Logistic Planner solution in London
Rui Dias, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE), has demonstrated the Logistic Planner solution at ICAPS 2016 - The 26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, which took place in London, UK, between 12 and 17 June.
Paper by INESC TEC is esteemed paper in international journal
The paper entitled "Optic disc segmentation using the sliding band filter”, written by Aurélio Campilho and Ana Maria Mendonça, researchers at INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), and Behdad Dashtbozorg, former student of the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), is an esteemed paper of the international journal Computers in Biology and Medicine Journal.
INESC TEC organises workshop in Bristol
INESC TEC’s Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE) organised a workshop on technology exploration, which took place on 27 March, in Bristol. This workshop was part of a COST Action in which INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia is involved (CTM).
INESC TEC supports Enterprise Europe Network Matchmaking initiatives
INESC TEC is member of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) consortium, which is organising four matchmaking events as part of the international Expo Milano 2015, starting on 1 May. INESC TEC, represented in this network by the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE), has been supporting the event’s dissemination through its network of contacts and communication channels.
INESC TEC with differentiating skills in the transportation and mobility sector
The transportation area is typically associated with civil engineering (namely in terms of planning and infrastructures), but over the past few years INESC TEC has managed to gain a relevant position in this area due to the Associate Laboratory’s multidisciplinary nature. Transportations, mobility and logistics are the foundation of TEC4MOBILITY, an initiative that is taking shape to combine and promote skills in this domain at INESC TEC, and to interface with companies.
INESC TEC makes communications in Space more efficient
In January 2015, INESC TEC started working on European project SCREEN (Space Cognitive Radio for Electromagnetic Environment maNagement), where the goal is to take cognitive radio to Space, thus exploring the benefits that this technology has already demonstrated on land. The project has a total budget of about one million euros.
INESC TEC creates game based on tags to facilitate access to large video archives
TAG4VD is the name of the game created by INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) and the Porto School of Engineering (ISEP) to facilitate the management of and access to large video archives. This collaborative annotation system, based on web and HTML5 technology, will be particularly useful to professionals who produce contents or work for TV stations, museums, and others, thus reducing the financial and human resources costs usually associated with archive management.
Papers by CTM researchers published in international journals
Researchers from INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) have published six more papers in international journals.
INESC TEC’s management model evaluated in TRL – Technology Readiness Level – considered ‘exceptional’ by the FCT
In order to evaluate the technology readiness of its scientific outputs, as part of the FCT’s evaluation, which took place in late 2014, INESC TEC has adopted the model of the European Space Agency. This model uses a scale of TRL – Technology Readiness Levels, which define the maturity of technology developed within each R&D project, always aiming to transfer technology to the market.
INESC TEC researcher highlighted for “exceptional contribution” in the revision of papers
The journal Optics Communications has acknowledged José Manuel Almeida, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP), for his “exceptional contribution” in the revision of papers, which has contributed to the “quality of the journal”.
German company purchases license of software developed by INESC TEC
The software IBT, INESC Porto Beat Tracking, developed by the research group led by Matthew Davies, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), has stirred up interest with Mamoworld, a German company. The company, which signed the license on 15 November, has combined the IBT with software of their own in order to commercially exploit it.
INESC TEC develops innovative algorithms for wind power forecasting in Spain
INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) has recently started an R&D consulting project for the Spanish company Meteobit. The goal with this project is to develop new wind forecasting models and to produce a manual of good practices to address this problem.
INESC TEC concludes project Senseiver with presentation of results in Serbia
After four years, project “Senseiver: Low-cost and energy-efficient LTCC sensor/IR-UWB transceiver solutions for sustainable healthy environment” was concluded in November 2015. The INESC TEC team working on this project was composed of members of the Centres for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) and Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CROB). The final conference of this project was the greatest event of the Senseiver, which took place in the first week of October, in Novi-Sad, Serbia, where the INESC TEC presented the results obtained throughout the project.
INESC TEC project REStable receives Franco-German innovation award
Project REStable (Improvement of Renewables-based System Services Through Better Interaction of European Control Zones), which features INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES), received the Franco-German Innovation Award, promoted by Dena (Germany’s Energy Agency), together with the Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie (ADEME, France) and the German-French Office for Renewable Energies (DFBEE).
INESC TEC develops app that knows the preferences of users
INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM) is developing an app for Android that makes it possible to understand the users’ musical preferences, and the most interesting news and films for them, in an automatic and non-invasive way. The app is called CAMR (Context-Aware Personalized Multimedia Recommendations for Mobile Users) and is being developed as part of the MAT – Media Arts and Technology research programme.
INESC TEC participates in workshop with US government
The President of INESC TEC, José Manuel Mendonça, was guest speaker at a workshop organised by the US Department of Commerce and the University of Algarve (UAlg). The advanced training workshop in the area of technology transfer, titled “Fostering an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem in Tunisia through the Effective Use of Technology Transfer Office”, took place between 1 and 5 June.
Portuguese ports are world pioneers in technological innovation
Two of the most technologically advanced ports in the world are Portuguese. The Ports of Leixões and Viana do Castelo, managed by the Port Authority of the Ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo (APDL), were the pilot in an innovation project led by INESC TEC and TRIEDE TTI.
INESC TEC paper highlighted in North-American professional publication
In August 2015, the paper “Knowledge sharing in project-based organizations: Overcoming the informational limbo”, written by Maria Almeida (former researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering, CESE) and António Lucas Soares, also from CESE, was highlighted in the newsletter of the Project Management Institute Houston, one of the most important international institutes in the area of project management.