SMART REVENUE MANAGEMENT

• Client profile: Visual Forma - Tecnologias de Informação, SA
• Client Need: ICT in Tourism
• Provided Solution to meet the needs

Within the project, the company developed a support algorithm for hotel management, offering multidimensional analysis that takes into account the simultaneous use of various scientific models and Semantic Web analysis, for the purpose of setting prices and forecasting occupancy for hotels and similar types of lodging. This will allow an innovative tool to be made available at global level, providing the market with the possibility of systematic monitoring of the dynamics of supply and demand, with a view to maximize revenue from rooms, through efficient price setting.

The R&D consortium is composed by the University of Algarve, responsible for the scientific and technological component, and Visualforma, which handled the technological developments, enabling the progress able to be applied in the global marketplace.

As such, the research/project focused on two main areas:

- Research and development of algorithms that will make it possible to search for, extract, normalize, store and model the data needed for the Semantic Web study and characterization, that could have an influence, not only on searches for the hotel itself, but also for a specific region. The information needed for "Dynamic Price Management" varies from site to site and sometimes even within a site itself. Examples of this could be: "Establishment's overall level of satisfaction" or "Collating of comments synthesized in keywords";

- Research and development of mathematical tools, in particular that will enable the simultaneous use of various models for forecasting occupancy and optimizing accommodation prices.

We believe that the availability of a product of this nature to a segment of hotels that does not currently have resources to apply RM models in the traditional manner, will allow them to become more competitive, resulting in a significantly more dynamic segment.

Contact: Claudio Martins, Diretor Comercial, claudio.martins@visualforma.pt  

S-GREEN – Integrated Intelligent System for Irrigation Management in real time

• Client profile: Itelmatis Lda
• Client Need: Agriculture 4.0
• Provided Solution to meet the needs

ITELMATIS developed, in a joint R&D venture with the University of Algarve, a hardware and software solution for the development of an Integrated Intelligent System for Irrigation Management in real time, particularly directed to the management of golf courses.

As main innovative outputs, we can highlight that the system automatically adjusts its performance according with the weather, but also due to technical constraints identified through the collection and issuance of actual data (not estimated), collected and processed in real time. For example, if a pumping unit fails during the irrigation, or if it starts to rain, the system adapts itself automatically.

The final product is an intelligent system, able to make a permanent reading of the surrounding golf course, producing a response in light of that interpretation, acting more like rational human action and less mechanized.

In synthesis, the solution will revolutionize the way the service is developed, no longer based on estimates and historical statistics to spend to be managed according to collected data and processed in real time, reducing margins error, operating costs and, ultimately, getting the management of water resources better.

Contact: Adelino Venturinha, adelinoventurinha@itelmatis.com

PR Holo

• Client profile: SPIC Solutions
• Client Need: New ICT solutions in the marketing sector
• Provided Solution to meet the needs

Global markets communication are increasingly demanding. Creativity in design, marketing and advertising, by itself is not enough to make a company grow, especially for companies that focus on the international markets. Aware of the changing trends, SPIC has started to lead its activity to services related to the new digital media. In the scope of its research activities in the area of human interaction technology, sensed the market trends for access to a diversified holographic experiences in a different market segment with potential for commercialization in different geographic markets.

The product developed is a hologram of a person in a real size, which aims to be a receptionist or a public relations in a company or an event that interact dynamically in office information requested by the user and the physical space where it is integrated using guidance counselor and useful source of information.

The product is divided into two parts which are closely linked: (a) PRHolo, frame-shaped "box" containing inside a holographic character, which is displayed on a 2D plane suggesting volume. The second module, (b) PRHolo360, the contents to be released are the same, but in this particular case the holographic projection is made on a cylindrical shape providing a holographic projection format 360 (3D), allowing users to view the character from any angle, equating it really a real human figure. Both modules are equipped with a volumetric (s) sensor(s) in order to detect the users movement and internet connection, allowing tablet or smartsphone interaction

Contact: Paulo Bica, CEO, pbica@spic.pt