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Framie startup app available on the market
The Framie application, developed by the startup with the same name, was officially launched on the App Store.
NEXT-NET is the new European project in the area of supply chains
NEXT-NET, a new European project with the collaboration of INESC TEC, began on the 12th of October, in Brussels.
NEXT-NET is the new European project in the area of supply chains
NEXT-NET, a new European project with the collaboration of INESC TEC, began on the 12th of October, in Brussels.
INESC TEC helps create "Shop of the Future"
What if you could try on clothes without having to undress? What if you had a virtual assistant that would give you information on different outfits according to your profile? This is now possible thanks to the Smart Fitting Room.
INESC TEC in European Consortium on communications
Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers (iBROW) is the name of the new project in which INESC TEC is involved. The goal with the project is to develop new, low-cost and energy efficient wireless transceivers capable of dealing with the increasing data transmission requirements. The project kicked off in January 2015 and brings together a group of 11 partners.
INESC TEC researcher publishes book
Ricardo Queirós, researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), has published and edited, in January 2015, a book about innovative teaching strategies and new learning paradigms in the Area of Computer Science. Published by IGI Global, the book is available on Amazon.
FotoInMotion project wants to create immersive stories from photographs and videos
FotoInMotion is the new research and development project of INESC TEC in the area of digital media and creative industries. This project aims to develop tools capable of creating immersive and contextualised multimedia stories from a photograph through the incorporation of virtual reality and 3D elements.
INESC TEC is part of Raw Materials Consortium of European Institute of Innovation and Technology
INESC TEC was recently selected by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to join the Raw Materials consortium. INESC TEC is the sole Portuguese research centre to be part of this team. Three years after creating the Knowledge Innovation Communities (KICs) for the areas of climate change, renewable energy and ICT, Raw Materials are the new challenge of EIT, in which Portugal is represented by INESC TEC.
Paper by INESC TEC researchers is mandatory reading at MIT
João Claro, researcher at the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE) and member of the Board of INESC TEC, and Abílio Pacheco, also researcher at CITE, are co-authors of the paper “Forest fire management to avoid unintended consequences: A case study of Portugal using system Dynamics”, which is, since 2013, mandatory reading in the subject “Introduction to System Dynamics”, at Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
INESC TEC cooperates with Siemens to develop microgrids
One of the best ways of obtaining larger rates of renewable energy integration in the power grid is investing in microgrids and energy storage. Microgrids can autonomously supply energy to remote regions, whether they are connected to the main grid or not.
INESC TEC project develops services based on context for mobile devices
On 1 June, INESC TEC started a new project called “CONTEXTWA: Middleware and Context Inference Techniques from Data-Streams for the Development of Context-Aware Services using Mobile Devices”, where the goal is to apply middleware and inference techniques from data flows in order to develop services based on context for mobile devices. INESC TEC is the tenderer.
INESC TEC helps Kyaia install prototype that manufactures shoes pair by pair
Did you know that you can now order a customised pair of shoes online and have it on your doorstep in 24 hours? Thanks to a partnership between technology-based companies and R&D institutions, including INESC TEC, the technology makes it possible to produce footwear units, and is now installed at Kyaia, in Guimarães. The new solution to produce customised footwear in 24 hours was developed as part of the HighSpeedShoeFactory (Model to Produce Customised Footwear) project, and changes the way the footwear industry operates.
INESC TEC develops unique solar power forecasting system
In March, INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) concluded project PREVSol (PREVisão da Produção de Energia Elétrica de Base SOLar), where the goal was to create a solar power forecasting system.
INESC TEC monitors health of first responders
“VR2Market: Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Monitoring Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions” is the name of the Entrepreneurial Research Initiative (ERI) led by João Paulo Cunha, coordinator of INESC TEC’s Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), together with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). INESC TEC’s Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering (CESE) and the Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE)* are also involved in the project, as well as other institutions and companies.
INESC TEC and Enterprise Europe Network organise workshop on project management practices
INESC TEC, partner of the Enterprise Europe Network, has hosted a workshop on the principles of agile methodologies, which took place on 28 January.
Project that helps women choose the best course of treatment for breast cancer comes to an end
Project PICTURE (Patient Information Combined for the Assessment of Specific Surgical Outcomes in Breast Cancer), developed by INESC TEC’s Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), was concluded in January 2016.
Startup supported by INESC TEC among the best in the world
Framie, a startup created within the scope of the master’s degree in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship of the faculties of Engineering and Economics of the University of Porto with the support of the 1st edition of the Startup Porto Accelerator, reached the final of the University Startup World Cup, a world competition for university startups.
Work developed in INESC TEC wins Best Master’s Thesis Award 2017
The work “Deep Learning Applied to PMU Data in Power Systems”, developed by student Pedro Cardoso as a collaborator of the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES) of INESC TEC, received the “Best Master’s Thesis Award 2017” from the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP).
INESC TEC and KYAIA in project that assures “agile and flexible” management of sewing lines
The name is SmartSL 4.0 and it’s the most recent project in partnership between INESC TEC and Kyaia.
Project for efficient forest fire management comes to an end
The project FIRE-ENGINE, developed by INESC TEC’s Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE), has come to an end with a public presentation of results at the Biblioteca Municipal de Valongo, on 6 May. The event was attended by the INESC TEC researchers who participated in project FIRE-ENGINE, João Claro and Abílio Pereira Pacheco.
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