42 New Projects for Smart Cities New Development

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MCTIC, Finep and FAPESP allocate R$65 million for the development of new technologies

Finep and the Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo (FAPESP) announced on Tuesday (18) the support to 42 research projects for the industrial and commercial development of technologies for smart cities, zika virus and Aedes aegypti, Sirius accelerator and space applications. The projects were selected in four notices of the PIPE-PAPPE Program, in support of research in companies. In total, R$65 million will be allocated to resources from the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC), Finep and FAPESP.

"Programs like these are at the heart of all scientific, technological and innovation development in any country in the world. It is exactly the support for small and medium-sized companies that make up the dynamism, the creative energy in science and technology." President of Finep, Marcos Cintra.
One of the selected projects foresees the development of a natural long-lasting non-repellent for the prevention of the virus zika, dengue and chikungunya fever. Another is the construction of an unmanned train to monitor the tunnel that houses the electron beam on the Sirius accelerator, under construction at the National Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) of the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM). The same technology could be used in the future to survey subway tunnels, mining galleries or ports.

There are also applications for sustainable cities, such as a traceability and telemetry system, which goes from the origin of waste to the transformation into recycled product, and a radio communication system for public lighting monitoring.

In the edict aimed at the space sector, projects that respond to the technological challenges in the embedded instrument areas of the Equars mission, satellite of the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) for study of equatorial atmosphere will be supported; Electronics and space optics; propulsion; Digital transponder and antenna; Energy supply; systems integration; And attitude and orbit control.