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INESC TEC, in the words of our partners – Statement by André Leão Sousa, Joint CEO at Inovretail, Lda.

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Corporate

Corporate

This section gives voice to companies and organisations that have worked with INESC TEC in various projects and activities. A good relationship and good examples are fundamental ingredients for science and technology to serve society with equal amounts of enthusiasm and professionalism.

André Leão Sousa, Joint CEO at Inovretail, Lda

  • “We look at INESC TEC as a natural extension of our research and development teams, as we can count on them to develop unique technologies with market value.”

History of the relationship between the company and INESC TEC

Innovation and the search for disruptive solutions are strategic vectors for InovRetail. Because of that, ever since we started the company we have tried to find partners whose activities are complementary to our R&D activities. At INESC TEC, we have found the necessary skills to improve our value proposal. We look at INESC TEC as a natural extension of our research and development teams, as we can count on them to develop unique technologies with market value.

Business areas

Retail

Year in which the institution collaborated with INESC TEC

Since 2012.

Title of the project

Retail Pro.

INESC TEC Centre(s) with which the company collaborated

CTM – Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia

Project manager (INESC TEC)

Pedro Carvalho (CTM)

Statement about the Project

The project consisted of creating an integrated analysis and strategic management platform for retail environments, incorporating a set of innovative technologies that can provide a set of highly differentiating information to the retailer when the time comes to think about the specific store space  and the value proposal for the clients.

INESC TEC developed a set of spatial location algorithms and tools, using video Bluetooth or Wi-fi, capable of improving the system with highly strategic data, particularly position heuristics and the clients’ use of space in stores.

The project also made it possible to create a technological database that will allow Inovretail to continue improving its product, namely in the components of video processing, and using them to make various retail processes automatic.

Our experience with INESC TEC was very positive, the teams worked together and shared results, which made it possible to continuously follow up the work, and quickly introduce improvements and adjustments when necessary, to make the tool suitable to the real needs of the market.

For InovRetail, projects with competitive advantages such as this are strategically important and very relevant to our end users.