ISA - Intelligent Sensing Anywhere is a Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

-based global company specialized in telemetry

Telemetry

Telemetry is a technology that allows measurements to be made at a distance, usually via radio wave transmission and reception of the information. The word is derived from Greek roots: tele = remote, and metron = measure...

 and M2M (Machine to Machine

Machine to Machine

Machine-to-Machine refers to technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same ability...

) communications, headquartered in Coimbra

Coimbra

Coimbra is a city in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal. Although it served as the nation's capital during the High Middle Ages, it is better-known for its university, the University of Coimbra, which is one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the...

. ISA is a global leader
in different market segments such as remote management for utilities, including telemetry and remote metering solutions for gas, fuel, electricity and water. Its main areas of application are Oil & Gas Telemetry; Energy & Metering; Remote Management for the Environment; Healthcare and Medical and Machine-to-Machine. ISA offers; Smart Monitoring - providing telemetry solutions, Smart Logistics - management software to optimizing supply chains and Smart Home - services such as Safety & Security, Energy Saving and Ambient Assisted Living.
ISA has more than 100 employees, 45 dedicated to R&D.
The company has been featured in the media, including the Expresso

Expresso

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, Público

Público

Público is a Portuguese daily national newspaper.It began publication on March 5, 1990. The newspaper is known as a publication of the French school, with extensive texts and few illustrations...

, Correio da Manhã

Correio da Manhã

Correio da Manhã is a major daily Portuguese newspaper , published in Lisbon. It is published by the publishing division of the Cofina group.It is regarded as the most read general newspaper in the country....

, Diário de Coimbra

Diário de Coimbra

Diário de Coimbra is one of the three main newspapers of Coimbra, Portugal.Its current editor-in-chief is Adriano Lucas....

, Diário As Beiras and TSF

TSF (radio)

TSF is a Portuguese radio station headquartered in Lisbon. It is a news focused radio station. It was legally founded in 1989, but its first emission was on February 29, 1988....

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History

ISA was founded in 1990 by a team of engineer

Engineer

An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

s and physicist

Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

s with expertise on electronics, instrumentation and software design. As a spin-off company of the University of Coimbra, ISA has developed electronic and data acquisition systems for clients such as the European Space Agency

European Space Agency

The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states...

, worldwide nuclear fusion laboratories and multinational industrial companies. Other notable clients include: BP

BP

BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...

, Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...

, Galp Energia

Galp Energia

The Galp Energia Group is a Portuguese corporation which consists of more than 100 companies engaged in activities such as natural gas supply, regasification, transport, storage, and distribution; petroleum products exploration, production, refining, trading, logistics and retailing; co-generation...

, Primagaz

SHV Holdings

SHV Holdings is a privately owned Dutch trading company, regarded as one of the world's largest private trading groups. SHV have interests in transport, retail, oil and financial services, including part of the Makro cash-and-carry chain.-History:...

 and Repsol YPF

Repsol YPF

Repsol YPF, S.A. is an integrated Spanish oil and gas company with operations in 29 countries...

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Awards

• 2009 - Internationalization Award at the 9th edition of Venture Capital IT
• 2008 - Innovation Product Award COTEC – Unicer
• 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 - COTEC Portugal – Innovative SME
• 2007 CEC – Best Practices in Innovation Management
• 2006 - Metering Europe 2006 – Innovation Award This award recognized ISA's iEyeMeter – an innovative solution which enables wireless multi-utility remote metering without the need to exchange legacy meters.
• Certified supplier for the largest gas and oil companies
• R&D unit certified by the Portuguese Innovation Agency (ADI)
• 2006 - ICEP & ANETIE – IT SMEs Internationalization Award 2006
• Innovation & Excellennce Award Coimbra (CMC/UC)