Technological and innovative projects are developed at the UEA Hub

Technology and inovation

Hub aims to develop solutions in Industry 4.0, technological training, creation of startups, and formation of intellectual capital

Manaus (AM) – Named after Amazonian legends – Curupira and Yara – were some of the projects created by the Technology and Innovation Hub of the State University of Amazonas (UEA). Suframa was, on Monday (25), at the UEA headquarters to verify the potential of innovations.

During the visit, the superintendent of Suframa, Bosco Saraiva, and the deputy superintendent of Development and Technological Innovation of the Authority, Waldenir Vieira, were welcomed by the rector of UEA, André Zogahib; by the Hub’s general coordinator, André Printes, and other researchers, such as the Embedded Systems coordinator, Raimundo Cláudio Gomes.

The rector explained that the Hub is part of UEA’s Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) ecosystem and among the objectives are integration with companies from the Manaus Industrial Pole (PIM), development of Industry 4.0 solutions, technological training, promoting the creation of startups, and formation of intellectual capital.

“We will only be able to develop Amazonas if it is through technological development. This is very clear here at the university. It is not the economy that drives technology, but it is technology that drives the economy. We were, for a long time here, apprentices, manufacturers, at most. Not today. We train people who are intellectually capable of developing products and projects and this will generate oil, it will generate patents, it will generate resources for our state”,

Zogahib stressed.

Afterwards, the Hub’s general coordinator, André Printes, and other UEA representatives presented several technological solutions already developed or under development by local researchers. Among them, the Curupira: Guardian of the Forest project, a monitoring system that uses a combination of technologies and artificial intelligence to detect anomalous events in the jungle, such as invaders, smoke, fire, and the presence of excavators.

Curupira is trained to operate by imitating human neural behavior, has low energy consumption and works with fixed and mobile bases. In addition to surveillance and protection, it allows for diagnosis of environmental impacts and georeferencing. Among future possibilities, digital inclusion of riverside communities; integration with drones for taking images; and carbon crediting.

Another prominent project presented was the Yara Project, designed to monitor the water quality of the Amazon River remotely, through electronic devices that collect and transmit information, such as: water temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, pH, electrical conductivity , salinity, air temperature and total dissolved solids. A project started during the Covid pandemic was also mentioned in which mechanical vibrations are used to disrupt the virus.

“Our Hub’s motto is: the best way to predict the future is to invent it”,

highlighted Printes.

Potentialities

Suframa’s superintendent praised the projects’ advanced level of technology and highlighted the superintendency’s initiatives to publicize the potential of resources arising from the Manaus Free Zone IT Law and foster the local innovation ecosystem.

“We have promoted events such as the Interiorization and Development Days in which we seek to increase transparency regarding information on resources in the IT Law and encourage the creation of an environment conducive to innovation”,

highlighted Saraiva.

*With information from consultancy

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