We have been fostering a culture of innovation and creativity by delivering the solutions that you need to succeed.
Our team of more than 30 introverts, extroverts, right brains, and left brains works hard to make products that bridge the gaps in your business.
With the misson “to improve people’s lives by developing usable technologies”, we seek to be an international reference in Smart Cities and Future Internet.
3. WHO ARE WE?
MISSION
Research & Innovation and user-centered solutions have
been the hallmark of our growth, reflecting our culture of
technology and shared ideas. Since 2007, we have fostered
a culture of innovation and creativity by delivering the
solutions that you need to succeed.
To improve people’s lives by
developing usable technologies.
VISION
To be an international reference in
Smart Cities and Future Internet.
OBJECTIVES
Research and develop bleeding
edge technologies, design
state-of-the-art solutions and
create valuable intellectual
property.
4. Research and
Innovation
The successful exploitation of
i n n o v a t i v e i d e a s co m e s f r o m
our ability to imagine and
develop new tools for dynamic and
challenging environments.
In addition to investing our own
resources in researching effective
solutions for our clients, we work
with other industry-leading
companies and universities in order
to m a ke t h e m o s t o u t of o u r
capabilities and expertise. Our R&I
process and expertise cover idea
generation, planning, designing,
developing and testing, so that we
are perfectly equipped to embrace
any challenge.
SAID
FP7 European Project
The need for providing high quality water to
citizens and to reduce damages produced by
floods and droughts has motivated our
company to embrace a new challenging
project focused on development of
software-based decision support system
(DSS). The objective of SAID project is
to involve the final users and the SMEs in
order to improve the production and
deployment of smarter water management
system in Europe.
SportE2, ENERsip
and SaveEnergy
FP7 & CIP European Projects
We have closely collaborated with leading
energy efficiency organizations in order to
make available the value-added solutions.
SportE2, ENERsip and SaveEnergy are the
examples of our commitment and expertise
in development of intelligent, scalable and
adaptive energy management systems.
Coollab
National Project
Real-time collaboration framework. Provides
an Application Programming Interface (API)
allowing in-house and 3rd par ty
products/services development. Real-time
collaboration can be integrated with
numerous ver tical markets, such as
education, music and gaming.
5. Idea to
Product
We drive business results by running
creative ideas through an innovation
process.
Our experience in different business
areas gathered from past projects
provides the necessary impetus to
embrace ambitious and challenging
ideas and turning them into products.
Some of these projects are started
within the company but others have
come from external partners seeking
a skilled technological team that is
able to create a product from scratch.
Our team delivers projects on time,
on budget and according to your
specifications.
Playnify
Social network for sports professionals and
fans. This product is aimed at sports people
of any skill level, provides tools that make
the scheduling of matches easy and fast, and
helps you find players and spor ts
venues anywhere in the world, through a
deep integration with most popular
social networks.
Smart Parking
Smart Parking solution. This solution brings
together all aspects of parking management
technology in one integrated system — from
sensor vehicle detection to base station and
car tags, it really is a suite of real-time
parking management applications, key
performance indicators and insights for
better parking policy and management.
bikeemotion
4th generation bike sharing system. A
disruptive and innovative project, that goes
beyond existing systems. The locking and
unlocking mechanisms are no longer on
docking stations but embedded in the
bicycle itself. Any city will be able to have a
cheap, green, environmentally friendly and
fun bicycle network, improving its
attractiveness, public image and urban
quality of life.
6. User-centered
Solutions
We believe that technological
applications should adapt to users
and their problems.
Audience research, competition
analysis and usability testing are
some of the steps we take to ensure
that we keep providing solutions
that people really need and enjoy.
Through the fulfillment of our users’
needs, we continuously suit
the future.
Accommodation of the Future
Project developed for AHRESP (Portuguese
Association for Hotels and Restaurants) in
cooperation with Idtour. The project
encompasses the modernization of
the diversity of communication tools and
initiatives as well as the development of
smartphone applications, virtual tourist
card, and web platform for tourism
products promotion, among others
innovative solutions.
ANACOM Case Study
ANACOM, the Portuguese communication
regulator, felt the need to monitor and
validate the Quality of Services (QoS)
provided by Internet operators as well as to
implement an effective mechanism for real
measurement of DTT (Digital Terrestrial
Television) coverage integrity. Taking into
account all projects specific requirements
we developed the Internet QoS
Measurement System and DVB-T Signal
Monitoring Platform.
IP-Centrex Platform
Development of IP-Centrex Corporate
Solution user interface for the major
telecom operator in Portugal. The project
resulted in a global solution for businesses
by offering a range of advanced call
management functions for mobile and fixed
phones as well as acting as a private
automatic branch exchange/ IP Centrex.
7. Competences
Smart Cities and Communities
Cities worldwide are facing diverse
challenges to demonstrate its
commitments to environmental and
social demands. The growing concern
to find the right balance between
urban development needs and global
environmental changes challenges our
company to create smart solutions for
smart cities in areas such as mobility,
tourism, energy and efficient resource
m a n a g e m e n t . We
embrace
interoperability, Open Data and smart
cloud-based services as fundamental
components of what we do. These
principles are reflected in the R&I
projects that we are developing, as well
as in our Smart Cities products and
services.
Connected Smart Objects and
People
Connected Smart Objects are having a
great impact on society and business.
Internet brought life to everyday
objects connected over fixed and
w i r e l e s s n e t wo r k s ex te n d i n g
interaction to anywhere, anytime.
Therefore, a new generation of
permanently connected people arises
as a result of constant technological
advances. The close monitoring of
technological advances and strong
engineering background enabled us to
develop several key competences in IoT
( I n t e r n e t of T h i n g s ) a n d M 2 M
(Machine-to-Machine) technology,
Embedded Systems and Cyber-Physical
Systems, Internet of People and
Internet of Everything.
Future Internet and Next -Generation Networks
The incredible speed at which
Communication and Networking
technologies have advanced is
undeniable. Future Internet and
Next-Generation Networks have made
a decisive impact on networked
a p p l i c a t i o n s a n d s e r v i ce s b y
introducing new challenges and
opportunities in terms of scalability,
flexibility, security and mobility. As a
result, our portfolio of solutions is quite
vast, and ranges from areas such as
QoS (Quality of Service) and QoE
(Quality of Experience), Opportunistic
Networks, Indoor and Outdoor
Positioning Systems, Networking
Convergence and Future Internet
Services.
Content Technologies
Connected Media
and
Content Technologies and Connected
Media have turned the traditional
publishing processes into a new digital
publishing age. The use of technology
to create, convert, publish and manage
contents brings real benefits in time,
flexibility and scalability. Our vast
portfolio of mobile applications for the
mass market includes multiple mobile
apps for such areas as Mobile and
Ubiquitous Computing, Context-aware,
Semantics, Real-Time Collaboration,
Advanced User Interface, Gesture-based
Reco g n i t i o n a n d N a t u r a l U s e r
Interfaces. We are constantly taking on
n ew c h a l l e n g e s o n t h e m o b i l e
computing front.
Data Analytics, Open Data and
Interoperability
The increase of data interoperability
through new and innovative
approaches is one of the current
technological
challenges.
Interoperability removes barriers to
data sharing acting as the contact point
between systems and applications. We
deliver efficient and accurate solutions
to improve the performance of your
business and your management
processes. Furthermore, we have strong
competences in Data Mining and
Business Intelligence, Open Data, Open
Access and Linked Data, Information
Management and Interoperability,
Decision Suppor t Systems and
Predictive Analytics.
8. Quality
Our strategy has a deep focus on
improving our internal processes in
order to increase cost efficiency and
provide quality products and services to
meet and surpass clients’ expectations.
For that purpose, we have kept a
continuous bet on the market’s best
practices for Quality Assurance and
have been awarded with quality
certifications such as the ISO9001,
NP4457 and CMMI-DEV.
CMMI LEVEL 3 (ONGOING)
ISO 9001
NP 4457
CMMI (Capability Maturity Model
Integration) is a process improvement
approach that provides organizations
with the essential elements of effective
processes, which will improve their
performance. CMMI-based process
improvement includes identifying your
organization’s process strengths and
weaknesses and making process
changes to turn those weaknesses into
strengths. Ubiwhere was the youngest
Portuguese company to reach CMMI
level 2 and is continuously working on
its processes to soon get to Higher
Maturity levels.
ISO 9001:2008 is the International
Standard for Quality Management
Systems (QMS). It recognizes company
ability to offer products and services
that meet all customers’ requirements.
Ubiwhere was acknowledged as a client
-focused company - driven by a strong
leadership, based on consistent
management processes and valuing
continuous improvement.
NP4457:2007 (Portuguese Norm for
Research, Development and Innovation)
specifies the requirements for a R&D
and Innovation Management System in
order to help organizations develop and
implement a RDI policy that increases
efficiency and effectiveness within an
innovation context.