The RETINA project, which will study fish «for training Artificial Intelligence algorithms», as well as initiatives linked to the company's communications platforms, have already started to be developed at the Altice Labs hub, which will be officially inaugurated today, May 12th, in Olhão.
Alexandre Fonseca, the executive president of Altice Portugal, will be in the Cubist city today for the official opening of this Research and Development Center and reported on this and other projects of the company in the Algarve, in an exclusive interview with Sul Informação.
«There are several projects already in production, some in partnership with the University of the Algarve, such as the RETINA project, which aims to create an infrastructure, an instrumented aquarium, and a system that allows the characterization of fish, originating image databases so that they can be used to train Artificial Intelligence algorithms», framed Alexandre Fonseca.
These algorithms will later allow “the automatic identification of the species and the estimation of fish characteristics. This system is intended to facilitate the analysis of the characteristics of fish in aquaculture, which is currently carried out using divers, making the procedure time-consuming and expensive».
«Other projects focus on the development of components for the Altice Labs product line, namely in the area of eHealth, MEO TV and SmartHome platforms».
«At the same time, and because Altice Labs also promotes an ecosystem with a strong connection to the Academy, the Olhão hub has organized, with the University of Algarve, workshops on relevant topics in the sector. For this year, 5G is planned as the topic of debate, after two workshops were held with students at the end of 2020, on optical fiber technologies», added the executive president of Altice Portugal.
After in 2017 the seed of this project have been released, in October 2018 was signed the protocol between Altice Portugal and the Municipality of Olhão, for the installation of this infrastructure in the Bela Mandil Industrial Zone, in the parish of Pechão.
Today, this process, which "has taken place with some setbacks, especially due to the Covid-19 pandemic" – it was anticipated that inauguration could take place in 2019 -, comes to an end.
«The municipality of Olhão hosted, since the beginning, this Altice Labs hub, which has been developing and collaborating in Open Innovation projects that can add value to the region», explained Alexandre Fonseca, who believes that the decentralization of Altice Labs , whose main unit is based in Aveiro, “is a clear bet on the territory's potential”.
At the same time that he came to Olhão to sign the protocol for the future hub of Altice Labs, Alexandre Fonseca also signed agreements, on behalf of the company he presides, with the University of Algarve and the Algarve Tech Hub.
Since then, «Altice Labs has maintained a close scientific-technological collaboration with Algarve Tech Hub, having supported «the application to the Digital Hub of the Algarve».
«It is with pride that Altice Portugal continues to walk and work alongside Portuguese municipalities, contributing to a digitally more balanced and socially fair society, without regard to the location or size of territories and their populations», said Alexandre Fonseca .
These actions “are further proof that the company continues to contribute to a more cohesive country at a single speed, in a voluntary, autonomous investment with totally private capital under the full responsibility of Altice Portugal, without any contribution from the State or European Union », concluded.
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