Projects

AIpALS

AIpALS aims to advance precision medicine and improve supportive care in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) by proposing advanced machine learning models using patient profiles and disease progression patterns for prognostic prediction in ALS.

 

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AUGMANITY

The project is expected to leverage its results in multiple sectors, through a coordinated strategy between industrial partners and research centres, with the generated knowledge being exploited by means of technology creation, dissemination, transfer utilization and incorporation activities based on three pillars: science and technological development; internalization of knowledge and technology by technology-takers; and utilization of knowledge and technology by potential end users.

 

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City Catalyst

The mobilizing project aims to investigate and develop new products, processes and services with high potential, contributing to an integrated urban management, efficient and innovation-catalyzing, based on specific contributions to the implementation and interoperability of urban platforms.

 

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HomeSenseALS

HomeSenseALS aims to build a framework for monitoring Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients in their home environment using wearable technologies, allowing a closer look at different disease progression patterns regarding mobility, respiratory measurements, and functional assessment. This will support both caregivers and clinicians in adjusting medication and appointments or creating better models for patient stratification, essential for clinical trials.

 

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ICANs

This project aims to construct a single flexible and intelligent analytics platform running on a cloud environment with real-time performance. This framework will encompass predictive and autonomous capabilities to support telco service quality and enhance user experience using data from the usage and service quality from NOS devices and internal infrastructure.

 

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IoTiP

IoTip (Internet of things in Package) is a development platform that stimulates the creation of new IoT solutions, to enable former low-tech industries, such as footwear or textile industries, to embed technology in their solutions yielding a differentiated product.

 

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LoRa4UProbes

The project Long Range Communication for Undergroung Sensing Probes (LoRa4UProbes) aims to contribute to a sustainable use of water by developing a new soil monitoring solution aligned with the Internet of Things (IoT) concept, and that can be easily integrated in different precision farming use cases. LoRa4UProbes stands out in the market of soil monitoring for agricultural areas and public spaces, by presenting itself as a solution with extended range communication capability, able to operate underground, and modular to support different sensing modules.

 

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NewGen TS-FAE

The NewGen TS-FAE project will develop the first test systems for automotive electronics with cognitive intelligence and the capability to adapt its own operation by automatically modifying, for example, type and number of tests, considering product characteristics and past results.

 

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OPERATOR

OPERATOR proposes a set of tools for risk exposure data analysis in the workplace, building on the concepts of Positive Ergonomics, Operator 4.0 and on the Job Quality Indices by the Eurofound. The project aims at developing a technology framework which combines ubiquitous human movement tracking with worker self-reported endpoints for a holistic Digital Twin representation of shop floors. The framework will collect and analyse data regarding workers’ activity and wellbeing on different levels. 

 

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PANDLETS

Pandlets are a novel architecture of embedded electronics for wireless devices that can be used to develop Wearable and IoT solutions. This architecture has been used in several internal and external projects that range from home appliance control, indoor farming to fall detection and activity monitoring, and it is designed for a seamless integration with mobile platforms, as a foundational design for new IoT devices.

 

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WGW4IoT

Wireless Gateway for the Internet of Things (WGW4IoT) is targeted for industrial environments, being a valuable asset to efficiently monitor, manage, and control industry processes, thus leading to high operational efficiency and reduced costs.

 

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DEM

The 'Deus ex Machina' project tackles societal challenges with two research lines: one will research and create building blocks in target domains, while the second will put these building blocks at the service of pressing societal needs.

 

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CTFhP

This project presents a set of actions in the field of dissemination and diffusion of new knowledge and technologies generated in R&D and further actions in the field of effective demonstration of this knowledge, intending to make a remarkable contribution to overcome circumstantial difficulties and to be able also to demonstrate a model of good practice in technology transfer to the other entities of the Portuguese system of R&I.

 

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LoRa4UProbes

The project Long Range Communication for Undergroung Sensing Probes (LoRa4UProbes) aims to contribute to a sustainable use of water by developing a new soil monitoring solution aligned with the Internet of Things (IoT) concept, and that can be easily integrated in different precision farming use cases. LoRa4UProbes stands out in the market of soil monitoring for agricultural areas and public spaces, by presenting itself as a solution with extended range communication capability, able to operate underground, and modular to support different sensing modules.

 

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SV4D

SV4D is a collection of hardware and software tailored to promote the digital inclusion and improve the quality of life of citizens in undeserved communities.

 

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DEM

The 'Deus ex Machina' project tackles societal challenges with two research lines: one will research and create building blocks in target domains, while the second will put these building blocks at the service of pressing societal needs.

 

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CTFhP

This project presents a set of actions in the field of dissemination and diffusion of new knowledge and technologies generated in R&D and further actions in the field of effective demonstration of this knowledge, intending to make a remarkable contribution to overcome circumstantial difficulties and to be able also to demonstrate a model of good practice in technology transfer to the other entities of the Portuguese system of R&I.

 

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SV4D

SV4D is a collection of hardware and software tailored to promote the digital inclusion and improve the quality of life of citizens in undeserved communities.

 

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Active@Home

The Active@Home Project intends to increase physical activity of older adults, while motivating them through captivating and challenging exergames tailored for fall prevention, based on typical exergames, dance and Tai Chi.

 

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AUGMANITY

The project is expected to leverage its results in multiple sectors, through a coordinated strategy between industrial partners and research centres, with the generated knowledge being exploited by means of technology creation, dissemination, transfer utilization and incorporation activities based on three pillars: science and technological development; internalization of knowledge and technology by technology-takers; and utilization of knowledge and technology by potential end users.

 

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FallSensing

FallSensing aims to create a new technological solution to enable screening and monitoring of the risk of falling and the implementation of falls prevention programmes in the elderly population. 

 

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FRADE

FRADE (Pervasive Platform for Fall Detection, Fall Risk Assessment and Prevention) consists of using wearable sensors that allow data collection and movement monitoring of seniors.

 

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GARMIO

GARMIO is directed towards researching and developing a web-based solution, destined to locate and characterize mobile devices users with high accuracy, both indoors and outdoors, without requiring GPS data.

 

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HomeSenseALS

HomeSenseALS aims to build a framework for monitoring Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients in their home environment using wearable technologies, allowing a closer look at different disease progression patterns regarding mobility, respiratory measurements, and functional assessment. This will support both caregivers and clinicians in adjusting medication and appointments or creating better models for patient stratification, essential for clinical trials.

 

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OPERATOR

OPERATOR proposes a set of tools for risk exposure data analysis in the workplace, building on the concepts of Positive Ergonomics, Operator 4.0 and on the Job Quality Indices by the Eurofound. The project aims at developing a technology framework which combines ubiquitous human movement tracking with worker self-reported endpoints for a holistic Digital Twin representation of shop floors. The framework will collect and analyse data regarding workers’ activity and wellbeing on different levels. 

 

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Physio@Home

Physio@Home is a solution to extend physiotherapy programs to people’s homes as a complement to the sessions performed at the clinics. The solution proposed is based on smartphones or tablets and wearables containing electromyography (EMG) and inertial sensors that will be used to track the execution of the movements and give biofeedback to the user.

 

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SAIFFER

Lone workers are, as a rule, more isolated and subject to a higher risk. FhP-AICOS and Neogivie, of the ICOM France group, have come together to develop a more advanced and intelligent technology which, by using artificial intelligence techniques, allows defining patterns and predicting risk situations. 

 

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SMART-HEALTH-4-ALL

The SmartHealth4All Project aims to boost, in Portugal, an ecosystem dedicated to research and development, production, commercialization and dissemination of Smart Health medical technologies, based on information, communication and electronic technologies and on future and emerging technologies.

 

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STVgoDigital

STVgoDIGITAL is a structuring project of the Textile Cluster: Technology and Fashion. It promotes a set of R&D initiatives with a strong collective character and a high inductive and demonstrative effect, with the involvement of companies from the Textile and Clothing sector and complementary sectors that enhance the adoption and transition to Industry 4.0. 

 

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TexBoost

The TexBoost - less Commodities more Specialties mobilizing project is a structuring project of the Textile Cluster: Technology and Fashion, which aims to include a set of R&D initiatives with a strong collective character and high inductor and demonstrator effect, with the central involvement of companies of the textile and clothing sector, but also of other complementary sectors of the economy.

 

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VITAAL

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VITAAL is proposed as a new concept of home-based exergaming targeting older people threatened to develop mobility-related problems. VITAAL will design interventions for immobility, instability, urinary incontinence and intellectual impairment, and will use gait speed as a simple geriatric assessment to identify the training needs of older adults.

 

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CordonGris

The project will create a system to gather and manage all the data that is relevant for the recommendation of a healthy diet, coming from different sources: sensors for activity monitoring, user reported data, country-specific food databases, retailers’ information, producers’ information, service providers’ information. By making sense of all the data, the central intelligent system can generate recommendations that range from meals to physical activity or other healthy behaviours and prompt people to adopt a healthier lifestyle against malnutrition.

 

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Future Yämmi

This project aims to research and develop new advanced technological solutions to be applied in kitchen robots, in order to direct their evolution to connected innovative equipment that are the main hub of the kitchen.

 

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HfPT

The HfPT agenda aims to position Portugal as a world reference hub in designing, developing and producing advanced solutions for the health markets based on innovation and technology.

 

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LIFANA

Through the LIFANA project we aim to create a software to support healthy nutrition through all phases of ageing, from active seniors to elderly users in need of care, thus guaranteeing longer living at home by tackling malnutrition.

 

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Anathema

Anathema is an European project which intends to build the first smartphone-based sexual health promotion programme for older adults, stroke survivors and people with colorectal cancer, available in four languages, which will seek to increase access of these user groups to sexual health support and increase adherence to programs through engaging user experiences.

 

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AUGMANITY

The project is expected to leverage its results in multiple sectors, through a coordinated strategy between industrial partners and research centres, with the generated knowledge being exploited by means of technology creation, dissemination, transfer utilization and incorporation activities based on three pillars: science and technological development; internalization of knowledge and technology by technology-takers; and utilization of knowledge and technology by potential end users.

 

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CardioFollow.AI

CardioFollow.AI joints the multi-domain expertise of researchers from VOH.CoLAB, FhP-AICOS, NMS-UNL and HSM-CHULC. It tackles current limitations by introducing a telemonitoring service in Cardiothoracic Surgery Service of HSM-CHULC, to support clinicians in the follow-up of cardiothoracic surgery patients after hospital discharge. 

 

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City Catalyst

The mobilizing project aims to investigate and develop new products, processes and services with high potential, contributing to an integrated urban management, efficient and innovation-catalyzing, based on specific contributions to the implementation and interoperability of urban platforms.

 

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Clockwork

The Clockwork project target shift workers, such as healthcare professionals, who are greatly affected by chronodisruption, which can thus lead to health issues, long absences or early retirement. The solution aims then to create a healthy and comfortable work environment by supporting middle-aged to older adults in the improvement of their circadian rhythms.

 

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CogniPlay

CogniPlay is a tablet-based gaming platform that provides cognitive stimulation through games targeting several different areas of the cognitive domain, with its primary audience being the senior population.

 

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COTIDIANA

Development of a cost-effective mobile solution to efficiently acquire PROMs and sensor data to support clinical care and drug trials of older adults, collecting patient data in a more holistic and efficient approach.

 

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Craft

Project Craft is investigating spontaneous design in industrial shopfloors through a mixed-methods approach, by engaging in qualitative fieldwork and co-design.

 

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HfPT

The HfPT agenda aims to position Portugal as a world reference hub in designing, developing and producing advanced solutions for the health markets based on innovation and technology.

 

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ICANs

This project aims to construct a single flexible and intelligent analytics platform running on a cloud environment with real-time performance. This framework will encompass predictive and autonomous capabilities to support telco service quality and enhance user experience using data from the usage and service quality from NOS devices and internal infrastructure.

 

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MASPARK

Among the symptoms that mostly impact quality of life for people affected by Parkinson Disease (PD) are the problems associated with walking: rate loss, slowing down, shuffling, and freezing. In the MASPARK project we are using the REMPARK system, a wearable inertial sensor for real-time detection of abnormal gait, to study freezing.

 

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myAHA

The main aim of My-AHA is to reduce frailty risk by improving physical activity and cognitive function, psychological state, social resources, nutrition, sleep and overall well-being. 

The proposed platform will provide numerous incentives to engage diverse stakeholders, constituting a sustainable ecosystem with empowered end users and reliable standardised interfaces for solutions providers, which will be ready for larger scale deployment at project end. 

 

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OPERATOR

OPERATOR proposes a set of tools for risk exposure data analysis in the workplace, building on the concepts of Positive Ergonomics, Operator 4.0 and on the Job Quality Indices by the Eurofound. The project aims at developing a technology framework which combines ubiquitous human movement tracking with worker self-reported endpoints for a holistic Digital Twin representation of shop floors. The framework will collect and analyse data regarding workers’ activity and wellbeing on different levels. 

 

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PROMESSA

The PROMESSA project aims to investigate and develop a system capable of integrating different technological project management tools with the ability of analyzing all the available information, of predicting risks and consequences, and of creating automatic recommendations with the goal of helping project managers in their tasks and to make better decisions. 

 

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SmartBEAT

The SmartBEAT project aims to address the needs of senior Heart Failure patients and their formal and informal caregivers by offering an integrated solution to leverage patient self-care through autonomous condition monitoring and real-time feedback to their caregivers.

 

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Smart Companion

The Smart Companion is an award winning set of applications for smartphones that were specially designed to meet older adults‘ needs.

 

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SMART-HEALTH-4-ALL

The SmartHealth4All Project aims to boost, in Portugal, an ecosystem dedicated to research and development, production, commercialization and dissemination of Smart Health medical technologies, based on information, communication and electronic technologies and on future and emerging technologies.

 

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ClinicalWoundSupport

The ClinicalWoundSupport project has as main objective the investigation, development and validation of a management support and support to clinical decision / action solution for wound monitoring and treatment.

 

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Derm.AI

This project aims to improve the existing Teledermatology processes between Primary Care Units and Dermatology Services in the National Health Service for skin lesions diagnosis through the usage of Artificial Intelligence.

 

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HfPT

The HfPT agenda aims to position Portugal as a world reference hub in designing, developing and producing advanced solutions for the health markets based on innovation and technology.

 

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MDevNet

This initiative, by the name of MDevNet, will provide users with better and faster access to innovations, by delivering a knowledge and technology transfer platform. To achieve this, the initiative contemplates the creation of a national network of partners, including public authorities, consumer advocacy groups, R&D organizations, and companies involved in the commercialization and distribution within the industry of technology-based medical devices.

 

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MpDs

The aim of the MpDS project is to build a mobile solution that addresses the various needs of collecting and processing medical images in order to support diagnostic in several clinical contexts.

 

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SAL

The Service Assisted Living project (SAL) is an Applied Engineering project that will study the application of Service Engineering and the adoption of Ambient Assisted Living technologies in the construction and operationalization of Complex Integrated Systems, namely the new Information and Communication Technologies in Health.

 

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SMARTSKINS

This project aims to design and effectively develop and implement a framework of risk triage of skin cancer, which uses a new generation of mobile devices in its architecture to capture the images.

 

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DEMEyeFundusScope

The EyeFundusScope concept comprises a smartphone, a low-cost ophthalmoscope mounted on the smartphone built-in camera, image processing algorithms for detection of microaneurysms (first sign) and decision-support to provide an indication of the presence of Diabetic Retinopathy.

 

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EyeFundusScopeNEO

This project is developing a system to remotely diagnose diabetic retinopathy, based on images acquired in medical appointments of family doctors and endocrinologists. The system uses a mobile eye fundus camera, EyeFundusScope, and a leading screening information system.

 

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MDevNet

This initiative, by the name of MDevNet, will provide users with better and faster access to innovations, by delivering a knowledge and technology transfer platform. To achieve this, the initiative contemplates the creation of a national network of partners, including public authorities, consumer advocacy groups, R&D organizations, and companies involved in the commercialization and distribution within the industry of technology-based medical devices.

 

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MobileDRS

MobileDRS is a mobile solution for the risk assessment of diabetic retinopathy by image processing.

 

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TAMI

The TAMI project will build high-performing XAI systems for application in medicine, whose workings and outputs can be understood and cross-examined by human users, so that human-friendly explanations of the automated results are also provided. 

 

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CLARE

This project aims to create a novel framework that can be used as a Decision Support System (DSS) for the screening of Cervical Cancer, by coupling Colposcopy and LBC diagnosis methods with computer vision and machine-learning approaches.

 

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DEMalariaScope

MalariaScope is a project that aims to create a mobile-based solution that can provide an effective pre-diagnosis of Malaria to be used in medically underserved areas.

 

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MDevNet

This initiative, by the name of MDevNet, will provide users with better and faster access to innovations, by delivering a knowledge and technology transfer platform. To achieve this, the initiative contemplates the creation of a national network of partners, including public authorities, consumer advocacy groups, R&D organizations, and companies involved in the commercialization and distribution within the industry of technology-based medical devices.

 

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MpDs

The aim of the MpDS project is to build a mobile solution that addresses the various needs of collecting and processing medical images in order to support diagnostic in several clinical contexts.

 

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TAMI

The TAMI project will build high-performing XAI systems for application in medicine, whose workings and outputs can be understood and cross-examined by human users, so that human-friendly explanations of the automated results are also provided. 

 

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Agenda Microeletrónica

The Agenda Microeletronica aims to strengthen Portuguese's microelectronics sector by addressing challenges related to accessing components and systems. It seeks to increase national autonomy in this sector, which is crucial for the digital transition. The Agenda takes an integrated approach, aligning with European initiatives and focusing on investments to enhance productivity, innovation, skills, and information generation within the national semiconductor industry.

 

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CounterFighting

Counterfeiting is a problem that has become increasingly prominent for many global brands. In order to address the counterfeits issue, Fraunhofer AICOS proposes a solution based on a mobile application, running on the user’s smartphone that communicates with a back-end server for validating the authenticity of the equipment being analysed.

 

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EyesOnTraps+

The EyesOnTraps+ project will improve plagues monitoring in Douro Wine Region, by creating a mobile solution for automated insect detection in traps, local temperature registration, and treatment recommendation of detected plagues.

 

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NextGenAI

Responsible AI technologies and principles are the key to bring all the benefits of AI to humanity while ensuring sustainability and no harm. To accomplish this mission, the Center for Responsible AI is formed by an ecosystem of startups and research institutions. In the Center for Responsible AI we believe in Fair, Explainable and Sustainable AI, aiming at building AI products that help us build a more equal society; making AI more explainable and trustworthy; developing AI algorithms that need less computing power, and are more sustainable. From customer service to medical applications, the Center’s commitment to Responsible AI is developing products that impact people’s lives — for the better.
 

 

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ShopView

The ShopView project will automate the task of controlling the implementation of planograms in retail spaces, by creating a system which uses state of the art image processing technology to recognize misplaced products.

 

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ShopView2Market

FhP-AICOS will address issues identified in ShopView, and complete the validation of the solution throughout a long-term pilot, with demonstrators all over the world, through the ShopView2Market project.

 

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SINATRA

This project will allow the consortium to combine the knowledge between the different technical and scientific valences in order to develop an innovative, robust and versatile solution, able to streamline and facilitate industrial preventive and corrective processes.

 

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SmartColor4Ceramics

The SmartColor4Ceramics project will build an integrated software solution powered by machine learning to optimize the process of color (re)creation in glazes for the ceramic industry.

 

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VAICeramics

VAICeramics project (Visual and Acoustics Inspection of Ceramics) proposes to research and develop new technologies for automatic visual and acoustics inspection of tableware in the production process.

 

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AINANOTEC

AINANOTEC is a Global Innovation Programme designed to promote disruptive start-ups in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, and ICT.

 

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Eyes On The Horizon

The project Eyes On The Horizon will allow for the development of internationalization activities of the Associação Fraunhofer Portugal Research. 

 

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HighSkillHR

Com a operação “Contratação de Recursos Altamente Qualificados”, o FhP-AICOS reforça o seu quadro de colaboradores com Recursos Altamente Qualificados, para apoiar a concretização da sua agenda estratégica de investigação científica de excelência, inovação, valorização e transferência de tecnologia e conhecimento.

 

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i4.0 - Lead the Digital Transformation

i.4.0 project - Lead the Digital Transformation - aims to encourage the adoption of Industry 4.0 methodologies in Portuguese SMEs, leading to their empowerment through cooperation between technology enablers and companies in traditional and technological sectors.

 

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OSCAR

The project vOice Screening of CoronA virus (OSCAR) aims to develop a service for the identification of suspected cases of COVID-19 based on NOS voice technology already on the market. In addition to this service, the provision of a platform for epidemiological studies for researchers, so that they can have access to voice data, as well as improve and develop new algorithms for the investigation of respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or chronic cough.

 

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PTHUBICT

PTHUBICT aims to promote the international visibility of Portuguese companies of the Information, Communication and Electronic Technologies. It will create the proper conditions for the enhancement of training, innovation, cooperation between various agents and dynamization of promotional activities in foreign markets that allow to respond to the insufficient and inadequate external visibility of the national ICT sector.

 

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Smart Health Network

The Smart Health Network project aims to implement training and collaboration actions between entities with relevant activity in medical technologies and digital health sector to strengthen its national and international competitiveness.

 

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