First public presentation of project MOBILES
The first public presentation of project MOBILES (Sustained Electric MOBILity) took place on 22nd September at CEIIA-TecMaia and included a live demonstration of the technology and a test drive of an electric vehicle.
The event included presentations from a number of the project partners: Carlos Pinho represented INESC Porto, the coordinating authority of INESC TEC Associate Laboratory, Filipe Carreiro and Hugo Barrote represented NDrive Navigation and Pedro Neves represented CEIIA (the Centre for Excellence and Innovation in the automobile Industry).
Project MOBILES has three components: an Internet platform, NDrive GPS navigation software and a new application for the Android Smartphone. These will all be linked to the infrastructure of the charging points.
The aim of these tools is to make electric vehicle driver’s lives simpler. When on the road, the driver can be informed of the closest charging point that is within the battery’s range, they can also find out if the charging point is free and they can import predefined routes.
Researchers from the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit (UTM) and the Information and Computer Graphics Systems Unit (USIG) represent INESC Porto, the coordinating authority of INESC TEC Associate Laboratory, in project MOBILES, illustrating another example of the institute’s policy of multidisciplinarity.
