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TOMI wins gold in the European Product Design Awards

TOMI is gold in design for society with the “TOMI For All” accessibility project. The EPDA has received hundreds of applications from more than 75 countries. TOMI received gold in the “Design for Society” category at the European Product Design Awards, one of the most important design competitions in the world, that includes the European Parliament as its partner. The winning project was the “TOMI For All,” which ensures that everyone, regardless of their physical or cognitive needs, can seek intelligent information and services at TOMI. This innovation in the interactive urban platform was implemented earlier this year and promotes inclusion and accessibility in cities. TOMI has implemented new features that bring new dynamics to the digital transformation of cities and it has become accessible to all citizens with disabilities by making all services available to people with physical, visual, hearing or cognitive disabilities. José Agostinho, CEO of TOMI WORLD highlights the importance of this award in the area of ​​design for society: “We work daily to bring more quality of life to people and cities and this is the international recognition of the fundamental role of TOMI. The TOMI For All in particular is another innovation that distinguishes TOMI as an essential for society, accessibility and inclusion.” The European Product Design Award announced the results of the third edition of the competition on 9 July, where hundreds of projects from more than 75 countries competed in various areas of Design. The international jury is constituted by independent designers, clients, design educators and editors who recognize products that aim to improve everyday life with practical and well-thought-out creations. The TOMI For All feature was launched earlier this year and it has received different recognitions. TOMI was nominated in the “Diversity and Inclusion” category at the Computing Tech Marketing & Innovation Awards in London, it received an honourable mention in the “Innovation” category at the Start & Go Award, it was finalist at the Digital Technology Leaders Awards (UK) and was also accredited as a Pantou Listed Supplier of ENAT – European Network for Accessible Tourism. Related news Patent granted to TOMI TOMI For all: TOMI adapts for people with disabilities TOMI wins global smart cities award on E-gov TOMI wins international smart cities award: Innovacity

Patent granted to TOMI

In 2011, TOMI WORLD applied for patent registration, ensuring priority right in 152 countries. In Portugal, the patent has now been granted to TOMI, confirming its exclusivity to exploit this invention. This great achievement confirms that TOMI is a completely different and unique innovation. TOMI is an interactive urban information and communication solution that provides information in the right place at the right time. TOMI’s goal is to bring cities closer to people who live, work or simply visit them. It is a user-friendly innovation that promotes activities and points of interest such as tourism, culture, local commerce, public services, among others. In Portugal, TOMI is present in about 100 cities and has also expanded internationally to Rio de Janeiro and Santiago de Chile.

#Updates – TOMI Editing: collaboration in culture and information

TOMI Editing is a program that allows collaboration with cultural, social and recreational entities to provide more diversified information and promote the dissemination of local activities. The goal is to promote cities that are more collaborative and open to user participation. Cultural entities such as museums or theaters can promote their agenda on TOMI, allowing direct editing of the contents and facilitating the participation of local institutions in promoting culture and information of the city. TOMI Editing is part of TOMI’s goals to make cities smarter, encouraging collaboration and collective intelligence in the production of the contents available on the platform.

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#Updates – TOMI Suggests: Promoting events in a dynamic way

TOMI Suggests is the new feature that dynamically promotes the city’s events. With this new function, the events published in the Agenda module become videos that are on both sides of the device. TOMI reinforces again its innovative position in promoting the culture of cities. All the events available in the TOMI Agenda, whether they are cultural, recreational or sporting activities can be in the video zone, allowing its promotion and a better experience for the users. These videos are interactive, encouraging the user to touch to open the detailed page about the event. TOMI’s technological innovation also allows the optional / additional QR Code so that the external link can be read by the user’s smartphone. The TOMI Agenda is a specific section with events taking place in the city organized by categories (sport, cinema, theater, music, etc.). As an important driver of the culture, TOMI Suggest gives suggestions to the users in a completely innovative way. The new innovations continue to reinforce TOMI’s position in the smart cities context. Related news TOMI Press: newspaper covers on TOMI TOMI Editing: collaboration in culture and information TOMI United: TOMI supports various social organizations and causes

José Agostinho: “Accessibility is crucial in smart cities”

Since we created TOMI until today, we were always looking for ways we could build better solutions for people. Developing our smart city solution into a powerful innovation that can help to transform cities and enhance the life of the citizens and tourists as our top priority. José Agostinho That’s why creating a forward-thinking way to empower accessibility through TOMI was a great challenge that we embraced happily. Our commitment was to bring all of TOMI’s benefits and features to all citizens, regardless of their physical or cognitive condition. With the ‘Design for All’ concept in mind, we started to envision an accessible platform for all users, making the experience better for everyone who uses TOMI. For people with disabilities, is a daily problem not being able to access information or services as anyone else. With the ‘Design for All’ concept in mind, we started to envision an accessible platform for all users, making the experience better for everyone who uses TOMI. For people with disabilities, is a daily problem not being able to access information or services as anyone else. TOMI is now linking even more people to the city while making cities more accessible: from curated information, means to get around in the city, to smart services such as taking tickets for public entities, everyone has the same opportunity to interact. TOMI is now linking even more people to the city while making cities more accessible: from curated information, means to get around in the city, to smart services such as taking tickets for public entities, everyone has the same opportunity to interact. Our efforts in evolving TOMI to an even more comprehensive and approachable product for people with disabilities have shown that is fundamental to listen, to learn and to collaborate side-by-side with our users. They share their story with us, what they expect from TOMI and how we can make it better: it is an enriching experience. We have made several tests with different people to improve our solutions, in order to provide an interaction adapted to their needs. We worked with different associations and every day we started to understand much better that this was not only just important but really essential. Smart cities need to develop synergies to be more inclusive for their communities, thinking about society as a whole: everyone deserves the same tools to get informed or to access services. Smart cities need to develop synergies to be more inclusive for their communities, thinking about society as a whole: everyone deserves the same tools to get informed or to access services. In fact, this is a topic that will become more and more important over the years, because the population is aging very quickly and the life expectancy is increasing. With age comes a higher level of impairment, ill-health or disabilities and it’s essential to enable independence, assure more autonomy for people with disabilities and take action to promote equity in the cities. Accessibility is crucial in smart cities. We believe that the pathway to true city accessibility needs to include up-to-date and reachable information and services, available to all and adapted to their necessities. We believe that the pathway to true city accessibility needs to include up-to-date and reachable information and services, available to all and adapted to their necessities. Accessibility in urban solutions is not only possible but indispensable and we’ll continue to research, develop and implement new ways to promote inclusion. This is another big step to a more connected city. José Agostinho, TOMI WORLD CEO Photography by Maria João Gala/Global Imagens e Fernando Marques

(Português) Lisboa tem mais TOMIs

Sorry, this entry is only available in European Portuguese. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. O TOMI continua a expansão em Lisboa, contando agora com uma rede de mais de meia centena de equipamentos nas ruas e no metro de Lisboa A cidade de Lisboa tem mais equipamentos TOMI. Depois das últimas implementações no Largo Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro e da Praça da Figueira em 2018, o TOMI chega agora com mais dois equipamentos à Gare do Oriente. A expansão do TOMI na capital portuguesa tem sido constante desde 2014, contando já com mais de meia centena de equipamentos em zonas estratégicas da cidade. Fruto de um protocolo com as Infraestruturas de Portugal, a rede TOMI / MOP chega à Gare do Oriente com mais dois TOMI. Neste espaço intermodal passam mais de 150 mil pessoas por dia, que agora contam com o TOMI para encontrarem informação atualizada e serviços na cidade. “Hoje em dia estamos nas principais ruas e estações de metro de Lisboa e, ainda assim, continuamos a querer expandir esta rede, disponibilizando informação e serviços relevantes para residentes e turistas. Estamos diariamente a melhorar o TOMI com serviços inovadores e a trabalhar para tornar Lisboa uma cidade mais inteligente”, explica José Agostinho, CEO da TOMI WORLD. De realçar que o TOMI introduziu novas potencialidades e serviços na plataforma, continuando a ter um papel ativo na promoção das smart cities. Em Lisboa, é possível aceder diretamente no TOMI aos serviços públicos e tirar senhas digitais de atendimento para as Lojas de Cidadão e outras entidades públicas. Para tornar as cidades mais inclusivas foi também lançado recentemente o TOMI For All, que adapta os serviços disponíveis na plataforma a pessoas com deficiência, desenvolvendo uma experiência mais autónoma para os seus utilizadores e garantindo que todos, independentemente das suas necessidades físicas ou cognitivas, possam procurar informação e serviços inteligentes no TOMI. A expansão e evolução das funcionalidades faz parte dos objetivos do TOMI de tornar as cidades mais inteligentes e acessíveis. Veja as localizações TOMI em Lisboa aqui.

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TOMI For All: TOMI adapts services for people with disabilities

It’s called TOMI For All and it ensures that everyone, regardless of their physical or cognitive condition, can look for information and smart services on the platform. TOMI continues to play an active role in promoting more inclusive cities and it has recently launched TOMI For All, which adapts the services available on the platform for people with disabilities. From a user experience design perspective, TOMI has developed a more autonomous experience for its users by ensuring that everyone, regardless of their physical or cognitive condition, can actively search for smart information and for smart services on TOMI. For José Agostinho, the TOMI WORLD’s CEO, “TOMI For All is a project that promotes the inclusion and autonomy of citizens, allowing everyone to search for information and to have access to services on TOMI, in an adapted way and according to their needs. TOMI is promoting more accessible and inclusive cities in the context of tourism and citizenship.” The new evolutions of the platform include an accessibility mode for citizens with reduced mobility, short stature, and children. To empower the experience of blind people or with reduced vision, it was developed an innovative navigation mode that can be used autonomously by touching the screen and hearing the content. For the hearing impaired people, we developed interactive sign language videos that explain how to use TOMI. Content items such as news and events are optimized to be easier for everyone to understand, regardless of their cognitive abilities. This evolution is part of TOMI ‘s objective of making cities smarter and accessible.

TOMI says hello!

In the Web Summit week, TOMI is more innovative and teaches local expressions to visitors in Lisbon At a time when the capital receives thousands of visitors to the Web Summit, TOMI / MOP launches new functionality to make the arrival in Lisbon more interactive. The new functions reinforce the position of TOMI as the best host and friend of the city, using its multimedia features to reach the public in a creative way. When users select a foreign language TOMI welcomes the city and teaches three expressions in Portuguese through the text-to-speech functionality. The idea is to increase engagement between visitors and cities by providing them with innovative interactive experiences on the street. As this feature came to stay in all networks in Portugal, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago de Chile, you can send suggestions to include more local expressions that you want to see TOMI teach tourists. From a co-creation perspective, the goal is to make the experience with the city more local and personalized, giving the floor to the locals and promoting the uniqueness of each city. Suggestions can be sent to [email protected]

7 reasons to make TOMI your vacation buddy!

TOMI is the perfect vacation buddy, helping you to plan your holidays and making sure you enjoy to the most the city you’re visiting. Read these 7 reasons why TOMI is perfect to help you during your vacation time. 1. Get to know the best local attractions TOMI is present in major tourist destinations from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon or the Algarve! With TOMI you can search for the best local tourist attractions with curated information: photos, its history and the best routes to visit it. Never get lost again looking for that must-see touristic spot. 2. Find places to eat No more wandering around. Whether you’re looking for tasting the local cuisine or just a bar to enjoy a drink on your holidays, TOMI has the answer. 3. Search the best events nearby The white night in the Algarve is a great success. The best Lisbon night is the Santo Antonio festival. When visiting Rio de Janeiro, the Reveillon is unforgettable. If you’re looking for fun around the city you should experience the local events and TOMI shows you all of them. 4. Read the news to get to know the city There isn’t a better way to get informed. Reading the local news is a great way to get to know the city you’re visiting and engaging with its happenings. 5. Find transportation to your destination In the Transports module, you can find the routes and different means of transportation to get to your destination. 6. Search for stores to buy the ideal souvenir Souvenir hunting doesn’t have to be a major task. TOMI shows you stores around to purchase the ideal souvenir that won’t be thrown away. 7. Take the perfect vacation selfie Last but not least, TOMI lets you take the greatest remembrance by giving you the opportunity to take a great selfie with your vacations’ city in the background.

TOMI was a hit in Rock in Rio Lisboa! news image

TOMI was a hit in Rock in Rio Lisboa!

For the third year in a row, Rock in Rio had TOMI to provide information and intelligent services in the festival. The edition of the festival, which was held on June 23rd, 24th, 29th and 30th, in the Parque da Bela Vista, counted on the TOMI to help the visitors to have fun and to inform themselves. Seven TOMI have been installed in the City of Rock at strategic points, providing useful and up-to-date information about the festival to its visitors, including timings, biographies of bands, and more. For the CEO of TOMI WORLD, José Agostinho, the partnership with Rock in Rio is an added value: “The Rock in Rio-Lisboa is a real city, and TOMI is able to provide all the information and services that visitors need. The festival and TOMI provide a more interactive experience, helping to reinforce the festival’s Smart City of Rock concept. ” At the festival, TOMI has four main modules (News, Agenda, Search and Transport), similar to the TOMI installed in the streets. In the News, TOMI provides up-to-date information on the bands and artists of the festival. In the Agenda, the line-up of the festival is presented, with all the concerts taking place on the various stages. In the Search module, there is an interactive map with all points of interest of the venue, from stages, feeding areas, access areas for people with reduced mobility, ATMs, etc. In the transport section, visitors have access to the best routes to return home. Visitors can also take selfies and GIFs in TOMI, to remember the festival with thematic frames of Rock in Rio. TOMI was present at the last edition of Rock in Rio Lisboa in 2016 and was a great success. More recently, it was also present in the edition of Rio de Janeiro showing its versatility to be implemented in any city in the world. See more about TOMI in Rock in Rio 2018 ☝️

TOMI recognized with international smart cities award: InnovaCity

This is the third smart cities recognition that TOMI receives in 2018. This international award recognizes the participation of TOMI in the development of Rio de Janeiro as a smart city. TOMI was recognized again with an international smart cities award: the InnovaCity, awarded by the Smart City Business America Institute (SCBA), which develops the main event of smart cities in Latin America. This is the third smart city award TOMI receives in 2018 after being recognized with the Smart 50 Awards (Kansas City, USA) and the Smart City UK Awards (London, UK). The InnovaCity award recognizes TOMI’s work in making Rio de Janeiro a smarter city, by helping to improve its functioning and its quality of life. TOMI has been expanding in the city to the various neighborhoods and the numbers of interactions continue to grow: in 2017, there were more than 6 million interactions and more than 515 thousand photos sent. José Agostinho, CEO of TOMI WORLD, highlights the award as a consolidation of TOMI’s role in the city of Rio de Janeiro: “TOMI’s operations in Rio de Janeiro have been recognized internationally. We are bringing the residents and tourists closer to the city by providing smart information and services. Rio de Janeiro has a lot of potential to affirm itself as a smart city and TOMI plays a key role in its urban innovation.” The awards ceremony is held at Palácio Bandeirantes, the seat of the Government of São Paulo. The InnovaCity Award is part of the Smart City Business America Congress & Expo (SCBA C&E), the most important smart cities event in Latin America. In January, TOMI also won the Smart 50 Awards, which recognizes the most innovative and transformative projects worldwide in the smart cities field. This award was given at the Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo in Kansas City, USA. In February, TOMI was the winner in the Smart Cities UK Awards in the Connectivity category. The impact of TOMI on improving digital engagement with citizens and users was recognized as the most innovative connectivity project in 2018. The 2018 Conference, Expo and Smart Cities UK Awards took place in London on February 1st. The development of smart cities is one of the main objectives of TOMI, which believes that cities should become smarter, more efficient, sustainable and livable. TOMI is currently developing a worldwide expansion project to bring its smart cities solution to countries and cities around the world.

TOMI landed at Angra do Heroísmo

TOMI sailed across seas and landed at Angra do Heroísmo, Azores with three new locations! This historical capital in Terceira Island is considered World Heritage and it has three new friends to help promote all the best it has to offer. Find TOMI at Angra do Heroísmo: TOMI Alto das Covas: EN1-1A 9, 9700-220 Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal (38.65640100, -27.22352400) TOMI Praça Velha: R. Direita 118, 9700 Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal (38.65599300,-27.21883400) TOMI Theater: R. da Esperança, 9700-073 Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal (38.65607300,-27.22143000) About TOMI: TOMI is an interactive urban solution that delivers all information that matters in the right place at the right time. Furthermore, TOMI’s goal is to bring cities closer to people who live, work and travel in it. It is very innovative, user-friendly and a unique way to promote multiple activities and points of interest such as touristic, cultural, local commerce, public services among others.

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TOMI selected as a case study by The Observatory for Public Sector Innovation

See the case study. TOMI was selected as a study case by OPSI, an important global forum for the public services. This Citizenship module, citizens can search for the for the public services, select the one that is closest to their location and take a virtual queue ticket, with the possibility to require and SMS alert when their queue number is approaching. The Observatory for Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) is a global forum for public sector innovation. In a time of increasing complexity, rapidly changing demands and considerable fiscal pressures, governments need to understand, test and embed new ways of doing things. OPSI works with governments to understand and encourage new approaches to address society’s complex problems by empowering public servants with new insights, knowledge, tools and connections to help them explore new possibilities.

TOMI WORLD renews its distinction as PME Excellence

The PME Excellence award honors PMEs that are a model of orientation followed by other companies in the pursuit of success. Attributed by IAPMEI and Turismo de Portugal, this distinction is only available to companies that already have the label PME Leader, which TOMI WORLD has been distinguished since 2015. José Agostinho, CEO of TOMI WORLD highlights the renewal of this recognition as the confirmation of the success of the company and the team. – “We continue to be a reference among Portuguese PMEs. This is the result of a qualified and dedicated team. TOMI WORLD continues to develop a worldwide expansion strategy and to be recognized in Portugal and around the world. We work for TOMI to remain at the forefront of the global technology area in an inclusive and sustainable manner. ” The PME Excellence status is attributed on the basis of demanding criteria which, in addition to the economic and financial strength shown by the companies, highlight its strategic management, oriented towards competitiveness and sustained growth.

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