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ISA
awarded CEC Innovation Prize
ISA’s product innovation was recognized during the 1st Gala Empresarial
da Região Centro, organized by CEC/CCIC – Conselho Empresarial do Centro
/ Câmara de Comércio e Indústria do Centro. The main goal of the event
was to promote entrepreneurship and competitiveness amongst Portuguese
companies, and it took place on June 29th at the Figueira da Foz Casino,
where ISA was distinguished with the Award for Best Practice in
Innovation/Management.
 At
ISA, Innovation has been part of the corporate culture since its
inception –this is the key factor behind ISA’s international success and
what keeps the company on the leading edge of technology, meeting the
expectations of its clients and staying one step ahead of the
competition.
ISA’s innovation capacity has been recognized by several national and
international bodies. The distinction awarded by CEC/CCIC is a privilege
and it will be one more incentive for the company to continue betting on
Innovation, a differentiating factor with regard to its competitors.
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ISA once again at Metering Europe Exhibition
ISA will once again be present at Metering
Europe exhibition, which will take place in Vienna, Austria, between the
2nd and the 4th October this year. Following last year’s example, when
ISA was awarded the Innovation prize at the European
 Utility
Awards, ISA will be present with a boot at the 4.44 position, where the
most recent innovations of ISA in the multi-metering and energetic
efficiency fields will be shown. ISA will also actively participate at
the conference program, with a communication entitled “Domestic Energy
Efficiency supported by Multi-Utility Metering“ and presented by ISA
CEO, José Basílio Simões and by Quercus vice-presidente, Francisco
Ferreira, a national environmental organization.
In an event that gathers the biggest
companies in the Metering and Energy fields, ISA pretends to reinforce
its position of one of the key players in the Utility Metering market. |
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ISA and Quercus develop EcoCasa project
ISA, always in the stream of new technologies and actively focused in
projects related to environmental preservation, associated itself to the
project EcoCasa, developed in partnership with Quercus, a national
environmental association. This pilot aims to co-relate electricity
consumption in different Portuguese geographical areas and temperatures
felt in which one. It consist in the deployment of equipments developed
and produced by ISA, namely the iMeter (which enables electricity
consumption reading) and the iPoints (which measure temperature) in 200
homes, distributed by 4 or 5 different portuguese climatic areas during
some months, with the goal to identify consumption patterns and develop
good practices in the energetic efficiency field. In a few words, this
project pretends tot Monitor, to Interpret, to Form and to Disseminate.
A website was also developed to enable the access to several data such
as accumulated values by each reading equipment or historic.
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ISA develops a non-invasive sleep apnea detection system
Sleep Apnea is a medical condition affecting the sleep of a number of
patients, blocking their breathing tract during sleep, and preventing
them from enjoying a night rest.
Sleep Apnea is thought to affect roughly one third of the adult
population, and it is increasingly prevalent in children, as it is
correlated to increasing rates of obesity in the general population.
 Until
now, Sleep Apnea Syndrome’s diagnosis required a complicated and
expensive study to be performed in a hospital environment. That
diagnosis was especially hard in the case of children, due to the
unfamiliarity of the environment and the discomfort of sleeping attached
to a number of devices, which tends to falsify the results of the exam.
Sleep@home, the new system developed by ISA meets those
challenges by being completely non-invasive and deployable in the
comfort of the home. In fact, it is a portable system, which can be
easily setup by the child’s own parents. It monitors the child’s sleep
in his or her everyday bed. The system can thus flag possible sleep
pathologies, without the need for an overnight stay.
Sleep@home is part of ISA’s new strategy in the field of biomedical
instrumentation, where it hopes to take advantage of its many years
experience designing and producing robust and reliable devices, and its
know-how in advanced telecommunications. In partnership with the
biomedical engineering department at the University of Coimbra and many
other national and foreign research groups, ISA is committing to
development and innovation for promoting a stellar industry, also in the
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New access control and tracking system
ISA just developed an access control and tracking system for people and
goods, based upon RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology.
 The
new system, named TraceMe, allows you to automatically and
non-obtrusively control access to different parts of a building, with
applications in hospitals, public buildings, company headquarters, and
industrial plants. Automatic access control is remotely achieved by
radio frequency communication between an access card carried by the user
and a set of strategically placed antennae spread throughout the
building. Besides controlling access to restricted areas, without the
need for touching key locks, keyboards or biometric systems, the system
is also able to trace the position of a specific user for a more
immediate contact. Furthermore, the system is able to trace the position
of sensitive mobile equipment, triggering alarms when those equipments
are moved outside their designated areas of operation. In a hospital
environment, the system can also be used to prevent the disappearance of
children, elderly patients, and mentally challenged patients. |
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ISA is a multiple times
award-winning M2M (Machine no Machine) communications global company, a
market leader in several fields of telemetry. Based upon its own
technology and know-how in the fields of electronics, software
development, telemetry and control, ISA offers a range of
internationally recognized and implemented products, applications and
solutions in the fields of M2M communication and telemetering for
Utilities, Industrial Automation, Integrated Management of Buildings,
Environment and HealthCare.
ISA's innovation and its
successful internationalization have been recognized by several entities
both at the national and international level. Recently, one of its
products – the iEyeMeter – was internationally recognized in the
European Utility Awards, landing the prize for Innovation. ISA's main
concern is to provide a complete and reliable service to its clients,
providing them with data, information and a consulting service which aim
to significantly reduce and optimize logistical costs, while improving
the service provided to the final customer. |
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