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VR2 Market Conference 2016

The VR2 Market team organized the 4th Annual Meeting of the Center of Competence for Future Cities on 20th December, 2016 at FEUP, UP. This conference general team was “Towards Future Smarter Cities” and was attended by several top keynote speakers from different expertise areas. https://futurecities.up.pt/site/4th-annual-meeting-of-the-ccfc/

VR2Market was present in Ciência 2017

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

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VR2Market in the Techdays event

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

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Firefighters were monitored during a live-fire drill (October, 2016).

Five firefighters were continuously monitored during at least 2 hours while performing a live-fire drill. Environmental data was also collected. They were subjected to high temperatures inside a house, leading to a big effort from the firefighters. The following picture shows the firefighters inside the house with an ambient temperature  of 60ºC degrees. This drill objective was

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Data collection during fire season in Portugal (July – September).

VR2 MARKET team had collected data from 14 FF in the fire season in Portugal (July-September, 2016) including physiological, psychological and ambiance information. At least 20 hours of medical quality ECG data was collected for each participant during shifts involving critical incidents. The same participants performed the experimental study and provided baseline data collected during

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