ISEL is one of the entities included in the Lx Analytics Hub project, led by the Lisbon City Council and based on artificial intelligence solutions at the service of the city for urban emergency situations. In addition to ISEL, which was responsible for the development of continuous data loading processes Read more…
FIT/ISEL carried out a study on Long-Range Low-Power (LoRaWAN) usage for Smart Cities verticals that led the City Council of Lisbon to launch a tender that will provide Lisbon with a LoRaWAN wireless network. LoRa allows long-range connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as urban waste bin occupancy Read more…
Prof. Nuno Cota wrote a technical article in OET Magazine ENGenharia “5G technology. What impact will it have on our lives?”. Much has been said and written about the 5G technology. So, what is this technological breakthrough for the citizen and for society? This text aims to present in a simple Read more…
ISEL/FIT TTN gateway located at Amoreiras Towers (Lisbon) received successfully a communication from a weather balloon launched by the folks at Servet Project, from Saragossa, Spain at a distance of 741km “(…) Finally, the record was established at 741 km when the probe contacted Lisboa.(…)”. The communication was made using Read more…
On 14 May, the European Cooperative Streets (C-Streets) project was officially launched. C-Streets is the follow-up of C-ROADS and ISEL/FIT is a member of the consortium leading the efforts on QoS/QoE determination. The purpose of the C-Streets is to test autonomous vehicles in urban scenarios, integrating Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems Read more…
Today, members of the Lisbon Urban Data Laboratory (LDUL) had their first meeting. ISEL/FIT and the Lisbon City Council (CML) as well as the other partners (FA-UL, FC-UL, NOVA FCT, NOVA IMS, NOVA SBE, IST-UL, ISCTE, LNEC, UCP) kicked off the creation of analytical solutions and data visualisation solutions to Read more…
ISEL signed with the Lisbon City Hall the cooperation protocol for the development of the Lisbon Urban Data Laboratory (LDUL). The members of the LDUL (FA-UL, FC-UL, NOVA FCT, NOVA IMS, NOVA SBE, ISEL, IST-UL, ISCTE, LNEC and UCP) attented the public ceremony, which took place in the Salão Nobre Read more…
Last May 22nd, ISEL/FIT hosted another edition of “Cisco Student Day”. The main goal of the event was to shorten the distance between students and the leading company in IT. Peter Kums and João Serrano made a brief presentation of Cisco, to acquire some knowledge about Machine Learning and “Cisco Read more…
The Lisbon Council City will install 41 new speed enforcement radars, through the acquisition of the 20 new devices, and replacing current ones. This acquisition aims to improve traffic safety in some spots in Lisbon and will allow the technological modernization of the equipment fleet and an increase in the Read more…
ISEL/FIT, supported by Lisbon Municipality and the Sapadores Regiment of Lisbon, installed another gateway of the open Internet of Things (IoT) The Things Network (TTN) in Tower 3 of Amoreiras, one of the highest points in Lisbon. This gateway is supported by a wireless connection from ISEL that allows a Read more…