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Every month, this section will honour a collaborator for an exceptional contribution in his/her area of activity. BIP’s Editors will have the final choice. However, the cooperation of every Unit Coordinator is precious since they will be the ones suggesting which collaborator should be distinguished.
31st May 2013
On 31 May, INESC TEC will be concluding the CONVERGENCE, a project that gathered 12 partners from six European countries.
30th May 2013
INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) was invited to join project AAL4ALL (Ambient Assisted Living for All). The invitation came from the project consortium and increases the participation of INESC TEC in this work as the team already included INESC TEC’s Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG).
30th May 2013
On 9 May, INESC TEC welcomed Fernando Santiago and Ricardo Ferreira, engineers at PT Inovação, following an invitation addressed to the company to get to know INESC Porto’s Laboratory of Microgeneration and Electric Vehicles, and the work conducted at the Institute in the Smart Grids area.
30th May 2013
The Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) of INESC TEC has recently kicked-off project SIVIC - Portable Integrated System for Cardiovascular Monitoring, which aims to develop a wearable device for monitoring coronary and heart conditions. More specifically, this device will monitor electrocardiograms (ECG) and the state of stent-grafts (endografts) after EVAR (endovascular aneurysm repair) procedures.
30th May 2013
On 24 April, INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) organised the second edition of the "UTM Open Day". The aim with this event is to promote the Unit’s activity internally and externally and to disseminate preliminary research results.
29th April 2013
INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) has concluded in March the project MIReS - Music Information ReSearch. The aim with this project was to create a roadmap for research on Music Information Retrieval (MIR).
26th March 2013
The European project DAPHNE, in the area of optical fibre communication systems for civil aircraft, which involved INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), has reached a conclusion in February.
26th March 2013
João Canas Ferreira and Nuno Paulino, researchers at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), have recently published a paper on reconfigurable processing unit. João Cardoso, also a researcher at INESC TEC, and João Bispo from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), also co-wrote the paper.
25th March 2013
INESC TEC has recently started working on project SARA – System to Manage Assets in Road Networks, a joint research initiative that benefits from the expertise of two INESC TEC Units – the Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG) and the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM). The aim is to create an innovative solution to efficiently manage road network assets.
25th March 2013
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.
25th March 2013
On 28 February, INESC TEC organised the workshop “New Paradigms and Challenges for Information Security”. The goal was to disseminate the results obtained by the Associate Laboratory in terms of research on information security, a theme that involves over 80 researchers from several Units. The aim with this session was also to promote partnerships with companies interested in developing projects in this area.
25th March 2013