TEKEVER ASDS Coordinates CHANGE Technical Meeting

Swansea in the United Kingdom was the location elected by TEKEVER ASDS to coordinate the technical meeting of the FP7 Aeronautics research project CHANGE (www.fp7-change.eu), dedicated to a combined morphing assessment software using flight envelope data and mission based morphing prototype wing development. At this meeting, very fruitful ideas were exchanged by the CHANGE Consortium regarding the flight envelopes and desired wing shapes required for the morphing solutions development work.

Morphing in aircrafts has been studied and used throughout recent time in order to increase their flight envelope. This characteristic is of the upmost importance in order to offer a greater efficiency, versatility and performance during the assigned mission. Moreover, an aircraft with the capability to adapt itself to each given situation is prone to achieve positive results to a range of different missions instead of requiring a specific aircraft to conduct one specific mission. The main objective of the CHANGE project is to study and develop a novel morphing system which integrates up to four different morphing mechanisms into in a single wing and to demonstrate this new ability in flight. This system would take advantage of all the performance improvements achieved by adopting its wing shape according to the mission requirements of each flight phase. 

Consequently, CHANGE envisions to mitigate the required energy (and thus fuel consumption) to maintain the aircraft's flight and to perform the necessary flight manoeuvres by offering the capacity to mould the exterior of the aircraft in order to enhance the necessary aspect of flight so as to lessen the required energy, such as lift over drag ratio, efficiency in aerodynamic control, lower stall velocity or to change to a better platform to perform a required manoeuver. 

In order to prepare the basis for an eventual cognitive morphing on-board controller, it is necessary for the CHANGE Consortium, led by TEKEVER ASDS, to develop software that is capable of rendering the most efficient morphed wing based on the information of the current phase. This software would therefore, be able to conduct an assessment of the introduced flight conditions of the wing and display the accordant morphed wing (using a database with all current morphing systems) capable to fly with the highest performance.

TEKEVER ASDS at the Unified Vision 2014

TEKEVER ASDS has been invited to participate in NATO's Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG) exploratory group meeting Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Trial Unified Vision 2014.

Following previous work in this domain, TEKEVER ASDS will be Portugal's National Focal Point for the execution of the Joint ISR Trial Unified Vision 2014 (UV14), an interoperability trial conducted in an operational (live fly) environment dedicated to demonstrate joint ISR information exchange. UV14 will also help prepare NATO for the delivery of Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) and related JISR Initiative capability packages in 2016.

It already is well-known NATO’s growing appreciation of the need for a common ISR platform, following the decision to acquire a new, NATO-owned and -operated ground surveillance system, based on Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with advanced ground-surveillance radars and able to provide every NATO ally access to collected ISR data.

As with Unified Vision 2012, conducted under the direction of the Joint Capability Group Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JCGISR) at the Norwegian air force base Ørland, UV14 is a joint trial to test a joint reconnaissance data network integrating the various reconnaissance platforms and components of the different branches of the armed forces of the participating nations. 

The contributions from industry will be concentrated in the NIAG SG174 - Industrial Contribution to demonstration of ISR Information Exchange as part of Joint ISR Trial "Unified Vision 2014"study group Joint ISR Trial Unified Vision 2014.

TEKEVER’s UAS Presented in Las Vegas to the American Market

The AR4 Light Ray, TEKEVER’s fully autonomous UAS, will be present at this year’s edition of the AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America Conference and Exhibition, which takes place in Las Vegas from 6th to 9th of August.

With this international endeavour, TEKEVER positions itself as a potential supplier to the American and every pro-American market, for the United States and Israel have dominated this technology and associated sales worldwide.

TEKEVER’s move onto the American market is the logic, almost compulsory, follow-up after the extraordinary performance of the AR4 Light Ray at the Farnborough International Air Show, in the United Kingdom, where it flew daily between July 9th and 13th, thus becoming the first fully autonomous UAS to fly in this emblematic aeronautics industry.

The official presentation to the United States’ market of the AR4’s advanced capabilities for ISTAR missions will take place at the most prestigious event on unmanned vehicles and systems – the AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America Conference and Exhibition. 

The AUVSI Las Vegas 2012 Show is the ideal stage for that presentation, for it remains the primary forum for exhibiting and debating unmanned systems and technologies, gathering the main players in the market: organisations, companies and governmental entities from more than 40 countries.

Make History With TEKEVER at Farnborough 2012

The TEKEVER Group invites you to visit its booth C6 in Hall 2 at the Farnborough Air Show, from July 9th to 15th, in the United Kingdom. 

At Farnborough, the TEKEVER Group signals the international acknowledgment of its leadership in the offer of disruptive technologies for the Aerospace, Defence and Security markets, after winning the coordination of eight European R&D projects in the Aeronautics, Security and Space expertise domains, within the FP7 context.

At Hall 2, Booth C 6, the TEKEVER Group will present state-of-the-art technologies in Tactical Communications Systems, Command and Control Systems and Autonomous Systems, entirely developed in Portugal.  

This Farnborough edition will also be a mark in the History of the TEKEVER Group, and Portugal, when, for the first time, an unmanned aircraft will perform daily flying exhibitions, between July 9th and 13th (http://www.farnborough.com/trade-aircraft/trade-flying-display-aircraft).

TEKEVER's AR4 Light Ray will be the first fully autonomous UAS to be exhibited in an international Air Show, setting a world premier and an accomplishment that will surely be remembered in the world's aeronautical market for years to come, reinforcing the Portuguese technology's positioning in the global worldwide Aerospace market.

Best Paper Award for TEKEVER at ICCRTS 2012

TEKEVER received the Best Paper Award of the 17th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS) that was held from June 19th to 21st in Fairfax, USA.

TEKEVER’s paper describes “The Role of Social Media in Crisis: A European Holistic Approach to the Adoption of Online and Mobile Communications in Crisis Response and Search and Rescue Efforts” aiming to discuss how citizens and first responders may use mobile and internet technologies to establish an interactive and fruitful dialogue during crises response efforts.

TEKEVER’s scientific paper was selected of a universe of more than 100 articles, presented by researchers, investigators and professionals do command and control from all over the World.

With the 2012 edition dedicated to “Operationalizing C2 Agility”, ICCRTS is the most iconic symposium in the command and control world, hosted by the DoD Command and Control Research Program (CCRP), within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

To read the ICCRTS 2012 Best Paper, please see http://dodccrp.org/events/17th_iccrts_2012/post_conference/html/best_papers.html 

President Cavaco Silva Signs TEKEVER’s new UAV for Maritime Operations

The TEKEVER Group presented the new Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle for Maritime Operations in this year’s edition of the Sea Forum, visited by the President of the Portuguese Republic Cavaco Silva that kindly agreed to sign the aircraft, which aims to establish a new era for the missions of the Portuguese Navy.

Specifically designed for maritime surveillance operations, the new UAV reveals advanced capabilities in detection, localisation and tracking of elements of interest, producing high-resolution imagery and video. This potential, allied to the possibility to pursue maritime operations under adverse meteorological conditions, is a differentiating element to the importance of autonomous aerial vehicles in the domains of maritime traffic control, coastal surveillance, fishing activity inspection, illegal activities’ detection, piracy combat and search and rescue operations.

In the context of the Sea Forum 2012, the TEKEVER Group presented its portfolio of maritime safety and security solutions that is the result of intense research and development efforts, involving specialised know-how and promising technologies in the areas of autonomous aerial vehicles, future generation communications systems and network-enabled command and control systems.

 

TEKEVER is the Portuguese Reference in European Security R&D

The TEKEVER Group has been awarded three European Security R&D projects, in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7), in the value of 13 million euros, reinforcing thus its leading position as a provider of disruptive technologies for the Information Technologies, Aeronautics, Space, Defence and Security markets. 

Evaluated as the second Best European project in the Security call, iSAR+ (Online and Mobile Communications for Crisis Response and Search and Rescue) aims to research and develop guidelines and an associated platform that, in crises, enable citizens to use the mobile and internet technologies to become actively involved in the response effort. The SNIFFER (SeNsory devIces network For Food supply chain sEcuRity) Project proposes the concept and development of a distributed sensors network, capable of detecting multiple types of agents and CBR agents in the food supply chain. Finally, the PPDR-TC (Public Protection and Disaster Relief – Transformation Center) goal is to define a roadmap for the adoption of novel emergency communications, using cognitive radio, hybrid networks and UAV technology, ensuring interoperability, security and resilience.

These projects now won by the TEKEVER Group are instrumental in the national entrepreneurship effort that has been consolidating Portugal’s reputation in the European and international R&D community.

For the first time, a Portuguese Group undertakes the coordination of two FP7 – Security projects, an achievement that highlights TEKEVER’s leadership capability and reinforces its unsurpassable reference status in R&D and Innovation for the competitive Security market.

TEKEVER's MEP Project with News Highlight

TEKEVER Aerospace, Defence and Security featured the Portuguese News, with its Project Portable Energy Modules for the Dismounted Soldier (MEP).

TEKEVER ASDS's MEP Project was presented to the Portuguese Defence Minister, during a seminar on Defence Technologies, held yesterday at the facilities of INEGI, also a partner of the MEP Project.

MEP aims at providing the dismounted soldier with more power and increased autonomy while reducing weight, through the use of novel energy generation, harvesting and management technologies.

To view the news report, please go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvhRlxmC-Rc.

TEKEVER Communication Systems at the RISE Final Conference

TEKEVER Communication Systems was invited to participate at the Final Roundtable of the conference signing the end of Project RISE, dedicated to the responsible research and innovation in biometrics.

TEKEVER Communication Systems contribution focused on the potential benefits (enhanced situational awareness in crises) and drawbacks (limitation to people’s rights) of many security and surveillance technologies, including the software systems used for victims’ tracking and location during emergencies, but also to monitor online content, often in a clearly invasive form. In this respect, TEKEVER Communication Systems is developing innovative research that will contribute to the delicate balance that is still to be reached.

Held at Brussels and hosted by the Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, RISE’s final conference was attended by experts from twenty-two countries, representing industry, academia, policy makers, data protection authorities and independent think tanks.

TEKEVER Autonomous Systems Signs a Partnership with the Portuguese Army

TEKEVER Autonomous Systems signed today a Collaboration Protocol with the Portuguese Army aiming the joint implementation of research, development and innovation activities that benefit the Army’s operational missions.
For the duration of this Protocol, TEKEVER Autonomous Systems, the Portuguese Army and Aveiro University join efforts to converge the scientific research and the national industry innovation with the Armed Forces’ pressing operational needs.
The signed partnership reinforces the TEKEVER Group’s ambition to establish itself as a leading reference in the national Defence and Security market, an effort that is sustained by the innovative product and services’ portfolio in communications systems and autonomous platforms.

TEKEVER Open Day

The 1st TEKEVER Open Day marks the inauguration of the new TEKEVER R&T facility in Óbidos and it presented the perfect opportunity to gather a restricted group of business partners, customers and friends to announce the Group’s most recent technological developments.

Throughout the afternoon, our guests entered TEKEVER’s world, where a vision of Technologies for the Evernet is shared by the several specialised TEKEVER companies, proudly exhibiting their key products and latest advances. Some of the day’s highlights included the launch of uMeter by OZONO as the new conscious green platform, bound to reduce energy consumption; Mobizy introduced a innovative platform that brings mobility services to every SME looking to optimise daily activities; TEKEVER Communication Systems displayed the new generation of advanced communications with the software defined radio platform and the ongoing cognitive radio research, technologies that leverage command and control systems; and TEKEVER Autonomous Systems concluded the event with an impressive flight demonstration of the UAS AR4 Light Ray capabilities.

The TEKEVER Open Day enabled a fruitful exchange of ideas on the research and development partnerships established successfully by the TEKEVER Group, which reinforces the Group’s international presence, profoundly rooted in technological difference and innovation.