INESC TEC develops technology that monitors frying oils using optical systems and smartphones

A unique technology in the world, made in Portugal, will make it possible to control the quality of frying oils using optical and software systems that register and monitor data through smartphones. The R&D project brought together INESC TEC, AMBIFOOD, the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (FFUP) and ASAE’s Chemistry Lab. 

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INESC TEC organises three summer schools: visum, MAP Breast and ASCOS

Part of INESC TEC mission is to provide advanced training at its R&D centres in their different areas of expertise. July was a month dedicated to advanced training. Several INESC TEC researchers have organised three summer schools – visum, MAP Breast and ASCOS. The first two were promoted by researchers from the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia (CTM), and the last by the Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP). 

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INSTITUTIONS MAKE SENSE

Here is a concept discussed since Aristotle: at each level of complexity in self-organised systems, entirely new features emerge. And they are not the result of a sum or difference in elementary properties, which cannot be used solely and provide no explanations. 

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