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Combining skills is the path for excellence – the institution now integrates 12 R&D units and over 600 employees, including 200 PhD holders – has originated major challenges in terms of the efficient combination of expertise in the Associate Laboratory: could we use this diversity of skills to develop national and European multidisciplinary and added-value projects?
02nd July 2012
"Innovation at the Service of Companies" – this was the motto for the Open Day organised jointly by the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) and the Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG), which took place on 21 June at INESC TEC. This event targeted companies in the sector of Information, Communication and Electronics Technologies operating in the global market.
29th June 2012
By the end of June INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) will be concluding the project Living Usability Lab (LUL) – Living Laboratory for the Use of Innovative Technologies in Next Generation Networks, a collaborative R&D project between academia and industry in Portugal. The project aimed to develop technologies that allow senior citizens to become more healthy and active.
29th June 2012
The Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) at INESC TEC was invited by Vodafone Portugal to participate in an event, the Wi-Fi Day@VFPT, which took place in 5 and 6 June in Lisbon.
29th June 2012
Tourists visiting the city of Porto can now know its history, monuments and historical characters in a leisurely way through an INESC TEC project, the TravelPlot Porto, developed by Soraia Ferreira, a collaborator at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM).
29th June 2012
Augustin Olivier, manager at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) and advisor to the Board, and António Gaspar, manager at the Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG) participated, on May 4, in another meeting of the A2B sessions promoted by the University of Porto (U. Porto). The purpose of this meeting was to find solutions to winemaking practices that will make the Douro region more productive and sustainable.
29th June 2012
Qi Luo, a collaborator at INESC TEC’s Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) presented his PhD thesis on 14 June entitled "Design and Synthesis of miniaturization and Multiband Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna for Future Wireless Applications".
28th June 2012
Fernando Pereira, a researcher at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), is currently working on a project at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), as part of his PhD. The project will last two years.
30th May 2012
Imagine that you have an electric vehicle (EV) and that you want to go on a long trip. Because uncertainty is higher due to the lower autonomy of the car batteries, it is useful for the users to know when and where they can charge their batteries.
30th May 2012
Luís Pessoa, a researcher at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), participated in a workshop with the Brazilian oil company PETROBRAS, organised by INESC TEC. The meeting was held at CENPES (a Research Center at PETROBRAS) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 24 and 25 April.
23rd May 2012
José Machado da Silva, a researcher at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM), was on a sabbatical at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) between February and May this year. While at the CMU, the researcher had the opportunity to collaborate with Jeyanandh Paramesh teaching the subject “RF IC Design and Implementation”.
23rd May 2012
In April INESC TEC began a project with IT-Aveiro that aims to provide personalised communications to groups of users according to their needs, using Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN). The project is called Multiple Context-based Wireless Mesh Networks (MC-WMNs) and has a budget of around 120 thousand Euros.
30th April 2012