Five fronts where regulated environments, critical systems and international funding programmes intersect. Each vertical combines applied engineering capacity with a governance layer built for the jurisdiction it operates in.
Emergency response and civil protection systems for regional and municipal authorities, covering multi-hazard scenarios including NaTech events, where a natural hazard triggers a technological or industrial failure. Field-operable AI is a requirement rather than a preference: the systems are designed to keep working in low-connectivity conditions, when the network is the first thing an event takes down. Anchor sites are located in Northeast Brazil, whose hydrological and climatic conditions are not replicable within Europe.
Flood, drought and cascading NaTech events modelled together rather than as separate risks.
Edge deployment for low-connectivity conditions, without cloud dependency during an event.
Northeast Brazil — existing governance structures and conditions absent from European datasets.
Regulated AI in clinical and pharmaceutical environments, with governance layers aligned to LGPD, ANVISA, EMA and FDA. The defining constraint is that client data stays inside the client perimeter — a condition of the deployment, not a configuration option. That is what makes the difference between an AI system a hospital can evaluate and one it cannot procure at all.
Patient and trial data does not leave the institution's boundary. No external transfer by design.
Governance layers addressed to LGPD, ANVISA, EMA and FDA requirements in parallel.
Traceability built for environments where a decision has to be explained after the fact.
Urban intelligence and mobility systems, digital twins and data infrastructure for municipalities, with interoperability towards Copernicus and Destination Earth. Northeast Brazil — 9 states and 57 million people — offers urban conditions at a scale and density that European pilot territories cannot reproduce, which makes it a replicability argument in Horizon proposals rather than a geographic footnote.
Urban models for planning, mobility and infrastructure decisions at municipal scale.
Designed to interoperate with Copernicus and Destination Earth data infrastructure.
9 states, 57 million people — urban density and climate conditions absent from EU datasets.
Resilience for energy, water, telecommunications and transport operators, with OT/IT integration and an architecture aligned to NIS2. Essential service operators do not adopt systems that sit outside their security perimeter, so the deployment model assumes the operator's boundary is fixed and the infrastructure adapts to it.
Operational technology and information systems connected without widening the attack surface.
Built for operators carrying resilience and accountability duties under NIS2.
Four sectors with shared failure modes and shared regulatory expectations.
R&D and applied engineering delivered through VIRTUS / UFCG, from prototype to scale. International engagements are contracted through the US or EU entity under standard agreements, with the Brazilian operation managed internally by IMOBI — partners deal with one counterparty, in euro or dollar.
Applied engineering carried from proof of concept through to production systems.
VIRTUS / UFCG — 250+ active researchers and 20+ years of industrial project delivery.
International contracts under standard agreements via the US or EU entity.
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