On the 26th of June, a closing seminar was organized to join all the project partners and share with the community the main achievements of the VR2Market project: Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Monitoring Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions. This event took place at INESC TEC facilities and had the presence
VR2Market system was tested during some experimental tests with air traffic controllers in Portugal (Rodrigues et al., 2018). This November VR2Market will make a complete deploy of the system during one week in real-life scenario at the control center of the Portuguese air space at NAV facilities. This deploy is going to be the last
During the summer of 2018, the VR2Market team has deployed the project technology on the field for some trials. The system was deployed within the “Associação Florestal de Entre o Douro e Tâmega” collecting more than 50 hours of data. The system was composed by the new environmental unit, named AmbiUnit (E.Spilmont et al., 2018)
For the third consecutive year, VR2Market project was present at the biggest scientific event in Portugal – “Encontro Ciência 2018”. This event has the aim to discuss scientific advances in Portugal and had more than 4000 participants, including the presence of the European Commissioner of Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, the President of Portugal,
The Project VR2Market was distinguished by “Exame Informática” with an award in the innovation category. This honorable mention was a Portuguese prize on a event named “Os Melhores do Portugal Tecnológico 2018” (The Best of the Technological Portugal). This price was received in a ceremony in Lisbon by Duarte Dias and Joana Paiva, both members of the
The VR2Market project has shown part of its results in the Portuguese meeting of the science and technology community. The Meeting with Science and Technology in Portugal, in July 2017 allowed researchers from the country to discuss and present their work to their peers and the public. Eduardo Soares presented the VR2Market work on ad-hoc
The Techdays event is the largest technology forum in Portugal. It gathers the military, technology firms, research institutes and the University of Aveiro in a 3-day event with demonstration stands, workshops and conferences. The VR2Market team was present in the Instituto de Telecomunicações stand, with the demo for the ad-hoc network communication in smartphones and