AI-STABLEPOWER aims at developing methodologies for the analysis of power system stability by means of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. Indeed, monitoring stability is a major concern for Transmission System Operators (TSOs), as the ongoing displacement of conventional generators by renewable generation technologies has reduced system inertia, thus affecting system stability.
The AISS4SA project aims to optimize water usage by implementing a modular system that monitors water levels in different paddy field chambers.
The AMBROSE project aims to address the challenge described above by introducing a modern, integrated, multidisciplinary SHM framework. This system will utilize automated monitoring, a combination of direct and indirect sensing methods, and advanced data analysis to detect structural issues early, enabling predictive maintenance and reducing the need for costly, urgent repairs.
The Augmented Reality Vehicle Interface (ARVI) project main goals are: enjoy a unique experience in a rapidly growing startup, learn by doing & get a working methodology, work on cool stuff, having the freedom to build new things from scratch. The project is designed for students that are willing to be out of their comfort zone, ready for complex tasks and to be hands-on.
The project aims to research, develop and implement a highly accurate 24/7 cloud-type classification system (CTCS). This classification system uses two advanced all-sky smart cameras that capture images in both visible and infrared domains, enabling accurate sky coverage classification. Smart all-sky cameras sensors refine and improve data collections and incorporate numerous measures to ensure a consistent data flow and minimize classification errors.
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The BASTA (Bio-inspired and Adaptive Strategies to TAckle fragility fractures) project aims to design an advanced bone scaffold, more efficient than existing commercial products.
Considering the huge environmental impact of cruise ships, the project aims at detecting solutions for a more sustainable cruising. The latter must also consider the economic interests of the maritime industry, considering first and foremost the welfare of the cruise ship’s customer-passenger.
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The goal of the chatIMPACT project is to bridge this gap, building a platform that allows users to easily access the knowledge they need in the LLMs domain.
The COSMICA project is developed within the framework of space architecture, embracing a sustainable, circular design approach for future habitats on the Moon or Mars.
The aim of this project is to explore how the power of generative technologies can support the design of new products or services to help people in a shift toward more environmentally sustainable behaviors
The FoSCHe project represents an innovative advancement in the field Children’s Palliative Care, by proposing to integrate a design-driven methodology in such a delicate healthcare environment. At the core of this initiative is the Liber- meta-design framework, which serves as a comprehensive tool for developing innovative and inclusive design projects: it emphasizes a holistic approach, addressing the emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of children and their families, trying to promote human connections and interpersonal relationships.
The FutureHome project aims to revolutionize the smart home market by developing an innovative business model and digital platform that allows users with low expertise level in automation in implementing their smart solution. FutureHome will offer a fair and objective comparison among different smart home devices and suggestion tailored to costumers’ needs. The prominent goal is optimizing energy consumption, promoting significant economic savings, and ultimately improving the overall quality of life for its users.
Aim of the project is to carry out a comprehensive and multidisciplinary evaluation of the potential to upgrade the plastic sorting plants with such technologies; this will include some preliminary theoretical evaluations, some practical testing on both an experimental facility owned by Corepla and a full-scale sorting plant, an environmental, economic and social assessment, the latter related to the potential loss of work. Finally, the outcome of the work will become inputs for the eco-design of the plastic products that will allow a better sorting and handling at the plants.
The goal of this project is to develop a life cycle assessment to evaluate the environmental impact and costs of a hypothetical OAWE farm. Moreover, the analysis would allow one to identify inefficiencies within the actual AWE systems and understand how to improve performance and sustainability, quantifying the impacts by means of standard and customized indicators and adapting AWE to the harsh marine environment
The project focused on renewable materials originating from forestry, as they are a sustainable building solution and display a favourable market outlook. Two case studies were explored to validate the MIP: a MIP prototype for a bamboo bookcase produced by the NGO Casa Congo in Nicaragua and a web-based platform for the LSB panel industrially manufactured by BNext in Italy.
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The Moon Outpost Smart Structures (MOSS) Project has a multidisciplinary research initiative aimed at establishing a sustainable lunar infrastructure using In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) technologies.
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The goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive tool that evaluates the competitiveness of sustainable propulsion systems for heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs), focusing on emerging technologies like Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs) and Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs).
Fans can invest directly in their favorite artists’ music production (or other activities), receiving a return based on their success. This model allows emerging artists to self-finance without long-term, often unfair, contracts with labels, and enables established artists to fund new or independent projects with direct support from their fanbase. Quarkk’s goal is to provide artists a space for expressing themselves freely and financing their projects with direct support from their fans.
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The uFactory approach not only reduces reliance on global supply chains and lowers transport emissions but also responds to growing market demands for customization, fostering sustainable urban manufacturing ecosystems.
The VisioMAC initiative aims at introducing quality control along the production line of tires. The project was conducted in collaboration with the Michelin site of Cuneo, where we attended to the steps of tire production: mixing and calendaring, extrusion and tissue cutting, carcass assembling, green tire (unvulcanized tire) fabrication, curing, and final inspection.
The ZeCRoCo project aims to enhance the environmental sustainability of a 28-storey social housing building by focusing on two main areas: reduction of Embodied Carbon and reduction of Operational Carbon.
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The AMSHI project aims at contributing to reduce the urban heat island effect, by designing a self-locking paving block with a low degree of embodied energy for public spaces.
The objective of AppDCO2 is to support enterprises with specific applications either in their decision-making process when choosing their tech partner companies or in assessing the impact of their internal applications and finding ways to reduce it.
The AQUA project aims to create a set of guidelines for Aquaseek to enter the humanitarian water market.
The BIMChain for Site 4.0 project represents a groundbreaking solution, fusing BIM and blockchain technologies to revolutionize communication, transparency and management methods.
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The ‘Data-Driven Customer Value Systems’ project was conceived as a response to these pressing industry challenges. Our role encompassed a comprehensive examination of the Industry and Market, and the development familias & personas with a specific lens on the 18-30-year-old customer segment, to gain profound insights into customer behaviors, thereby establishing the foundation for innovative service proposals.
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The goal of this project is therefore to develop a comprehensive HEMS, including a control algorithm and a user interface, able to operate with a broad range of devices and achieve previously unattainable performance.
The aim of the project is to face bone fractures crisis adopting a twofold approach, considering both fracture prevention and treatment.
Our project addresses critical challenges in greenhouse cooling by aiming to reduce water consumption, improve sustainability, and enhance performance. Stakeholder analysis guided our approach, and research into materials and experimental activities led to promising alternatives. Our goal is to provide an innovative and sustainable solution that meets the diverse needs of stakeholders, ensures water conservation, and secures the economic viability of greenhouse applications. By focusing on these strategies and technologies, we can contribute to the advancement of sustainable practices in the agricultural sector while addressing the pressing issue of water scarcity.
MetaMAPP II – Reloaded aims to develop a metamaterial-based solution to reduce the noise level inside a car cabin, particularly targeting a specific range of medium-high frequencies.
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Sanlorenzo’s MILDS project represents a significant step forward in leveraging Digital Twin technology to revolutionize the superyacht industry. By integrating data-driven maintenance, energy efficiency services, and a comprehensive DT infrastructure, the company aims to meet the demands of the emerging userrequirements, while delivering exceptional value to its customers.
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The current landscape of Mixed Reality (MR) applications in Education finds common employment in rendering 3D content in digital spaces. We noticed an unexplored area in the development of 3D-based activities that, combined with 3D content, could lead to comprehensive teaching experiences. Our project, in partnership with Vodafone and FifthIngenium, aims to fill this gap.
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OASIS: Optimal Allocation and Sizing of Infrastructure for charging electric
vehicle basing on predictive Simulations.
Next Generation Hospital provides the basis for the new Norma Terminologica UNI, the Italian national industrial terminology standard on healthcare design.
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Unlike traditional methods that search for the best model only considering the performance on the downstream task, NebulOS also takes into the energy consumption when training a model on a specific hardware, producing tailored designs on a variety of different devices. This ensures that the final model aligns with the end-user’s unique needs, resources, and preferences.
ORACLE is committed not only to the mitigation of the environmental impact of plastic waste but also to the contribution to the circular economy model
In the wake of increasing incidents of violence against women, the ‘Signal for Help’ (SFH) has surfaced as an invaluable silent beacon. Developed as a discrete hand gesture for women under duress to indicate their plight, its importance became even more pronounced during the pandemic when virtual communication surged. The S2CITIES project seeks to amplify the efficacy of this signal through technology.
Smart Military District: Urban Rethinking, Energy Efficiency and Smart Things.
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With the digital boom disrupting traditional retail paradigms, Sunglass Hut, part of the Italian-based Luxottica Group, recognized the imperative to adapt to the new trend asking the Alta Scuola Politecnica team to develop a strategy that could seamlessly merge the attributes of both virtual and physical realms, fulfilling the customers’ desires for an encompassing user experiences.
A machine-learnig based microwave sensing approach to real-time food contaminant detection, localization and classification
The increase of the frequency and strength of extreme meteorological events related to climate change is a trend that will characterize the upcoming years. Droughts are part of this scenario, resulting in a great threat to one of the most crucial human activities, agriculture. With the decrease of availability of water, its optimal management will
As the insurance landscape evolves with the rise of new insurtech players, traditional incumbents must reformulate their strategies to preserve long-term competitive advantage. Agency of the Future was born from the need to assist a major incumbent, Reale Group, in taking up a huge challenge: innovating the role of insurance agencies and agents in its
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The increase of life expectancy, together with a greater occurrence of many illnesses (such as stroke), has caused a huge demand for rehabilitation of chronically ill patients. In this context, therapists have a limited amount of time and resources available, thus impacting on the quality of care. On top of this, many dismissed patients tend
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Rising sea levels are tearing more and more coastlines from the earth, submerging cities, ecosystems and entire cultures. F.U.S.S. (Floating Units for SeaSteading) is an innovative system of artificial floating platforms designed to host life, facilitating the construction of human settlements on the water and ensuring their well-being through the creation of a closed ecosystem
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The Green roof Technology Assessment (GreenTA) project investigated the cost and benefits arising from the installation of green roofs, while develop- ing a user-friendly evaluation tool to quantify said benefits. As the awareness of sustainability’s importance for humanity’s future grows, so does the inter- est in urban ecosystem services – the benefits that humans can
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Groma study deals with the creation of a Cultural Pole in Ivrea devoted to the valorization of the city and local area (Canavese) patrimony and to the production of culture at all levels, to reshape Ivrea identity and turn it into a proactive laboratory of culture. Groma investigated the characteristics, governance, cultural programs, activities and
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The world is facing a great challenge in transitioning to new, clean energy systems to contrast climate change, while the global energy demand is continuously rising. Hydrogen could play a central role in this transition: even if until now its uses have been mainly limited to certain industrial applications, its potential is much larger than
Host2026 is a research project that originates from the challenge of the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games (OPGs) in Valtellina. The issues on event management intersect with great opportunities related to the incoming funds and the media visibility that the territory will gain. In the pre-event period, the question is: “How can we activate sustainable
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The digital revolution is reshaping the financial sector, making new products and services possible for the customers: but this does not come without a cost. More specifically, banks are facing the challenge of reshaping business operations and processes using digital tools and algorithms which are not exempted by what is called the “Regulation Tsunami”, an
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Since Apollo missions, robotic exploration of deep space has seen decades of technological advancement and scientific discoveries. Today, NASA’s Artemis Program is envisioning a plan to drive humanity to live on the Moon. Indeed, the possibility of building a permanent settlement on the Moon is still a major challenge. In this framework, Alta Scuola Politecnica
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Due to the recent regulatory push towards e- mobility, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) will likely represent the largest share of the market by the year 2030 [1,2]. The amount of retired Lithium-ion batteries, reaching the end of their first life after approximately 10 years of usage, will therefore massively increase: to maximize their value, a
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In a context in which cities are rapidly evolving, the design of urban mobility and new smart solutions can play a major role. As the roads in urban areas become more congested, it is getting harder to commute at the ground level. The overall aim of the Metrosky project is to exploit the new class
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A damper is a device that suppresses vibrations and dissipates their energy in the form of heat. The aim of the REGIM project is to bring an innovative regenerative damper into the agricultural sector. Regenerative dampers recover the kinetic energy of the vibrations and convert it into readily usable electric energy. REGIM is part of
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The paper industry has historically managed resources in a linear logic: cellulose enters the process, paper comes out, and, with that, tons and tons of waste are disposed of. It can be estimated that up to 16 million tons of sludge are produced globally each year (Turner et al, 2022). What if that waste could
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Buildings are among the most polluting entities, as research conducted by the European Commission found that they are responsible for approximately 40% of the overall energy consumption and 36% greenhouse emissions in the EU. It is therefore clear that an improvement in Buildings Energy Management (BEM) practices could have a significant impact in terms of
Currently, the world is experiencing a paradigm shift in the area of autonomous driving. The automotive industry is moving from partial driving assistance (Level 2) to conditional driving automation (Level 3). There are multiple obstacles to deploying level-3 autonomous driving, such as (lack of) regulations, business models, technology, and – quite important – costs. Nowadays,
Social media has set the stage to a complex, quickly changing and hyper-connected environment in which people interact with each other, building relationships and networks of peers. The Social Commerce (SoCo) project aims to address the possibility to exploit the electronic Word-Of-Mouth (e-WOM) spontaneously genera- ted in social networks in order to create economic value.
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Nowadays, the textile industry has a massive environmental impact, involving depletion of resources in the production of garments and a very short life cycle of clothes. Indeed, there are usually produced, used and later thrown away without a proper recovery, pilling up in landfills. One of the main obstacles for an effective recycling of garments
Motorway service areas are generally seen as fast transit place, where to stop only if strictly needed. TNA(A22)MSA aims to propose an innovative vision for the transformation of the service areas along the Modena-Brennero motorway. By providing them with new facilities and opening towards the territory, the user base can be widened. While the debate
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Web of Water (WoW) is an innovation project supported by Fluid-o-Tech, international leader in the design and manufacture of pumps, valves, sensors and fluid management systems. The project focuses on water quality and on the value that can be extracted from sharing water data, which arises from digitizing water. In its broader meaning, Web of
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The current healthcare system does not take full advantage of the huge potential of new technologies, which could revolutionise patient care and treatment. YouForAll (Your digital twin for allowing a healthy society) is a project from the Alta Scuola Politecnica XVII cycle that, in cooperation with Dedalus Italia, a company active in the world of
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Museums are complex organisms that may play a crucial role in today’s society. In particular, archaeological museums may act as a multi-directional bridge connecting objects and people, past and present, material culture and immaterial information, people from diverse origins and background, interior and exterior of the building that hosts collection and visitors. In order to
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Most of the train stations in Italy are not currently aligned with the objective of a sustainable development, both under an environmental and social perspective, constituting an issue for municipalities who would like to improve citizens quality of life. Indeed, the objective of BooSST’s project is to develop a method to improve railway stations to
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C&D Waste is the largest waste stream in Europe, with a value of approximately $126 million. The main issue of this market is the excessive use of virgin materials due to the high costs, and poor quality of the recycled resources. The challenge is to innovate the debris sorting and reusing technologies and to create
At the end of 2019, a new disease called COVID-19 hit the entire world. Firstly identified in Wuhan (China), it spread around the globe, infecting and killing people belonging to the most diverse spheres. However, it did not affect all regions in the same way. Therefore, the goal of this research is to understand why
The Building Energy Management (BEMS) sector is a developing sector, whose market is expanding mainly due to the interest of companies in optimizing their use of energy. Moreover, better energy management helps companies to achieve money savings and, on the other hand, contributes to reducing CO2 emissions related to building operations, which amounts to 35%
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CubeSats, lightweight satellites with a size comparable to a shoebox, represent the next frontier for the space industry. They are accessible to companies of all sizes and can provide various and flexible services. However, the small platforms pose tight requirements at launch in terms of mass and volume. Since antennas requires large surfaces for high-gain
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COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for fast and efficient reorganization of hospital structures. A wide literature of official guidelines has been developed about this topic and different strategies have been adopted. Nevertheless, if the aim of the guidelines is to be efficient and responsive especially in case of emergencies, already existing ones seem to
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Principal Academic Tutor: Renato Casagrandi (Politecnico di Milano) Academic Tutor:Roberto Revelli (Politecnico di Torino)Alessandro Rogora (Politecnico di Milano) External Institution: Kukula, H4O
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ESCAPE is a research project aiming at studying how employee engagement in companies is affected by different factors, especially in the context of smart working. Following Covid-19 pandemic and the mass diffusion of ever more effective communication media, smart working has indeed experienced an unprecedented growth in the last years. This new managerial philosophy is
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The study of bone damage processes at different scales is essential for understanding fracture mechanisms, which are mostly induced by a trauma or a pathology (such as osteoporosis). Early diagnosis is critical for reducing the burden of bone fractures on the health care system and the economy. This problem is deeply rooted in our society
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The IN exhibition aims to raise people’s awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals of the ONU 2030 Agenda, encouraging visitors to “see the world” from different perspectives to interpret and read data through statistics and visualizations. It is, furthermore, fostering empathy by working on awareness, acceptance, and mutual respect.IN exhibition project shows how equality and
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As space exploration is becoming increasingly important, there is an urgent need for innovative systems to help the human body adapt to the hostile conditions that characterize other celestial bodies, such as the reduced gravity. Exoskeletons, together with Virtual Reality environments, could be used to simulate such environments on Earth so that astronauts can prepare
The manned exploration of Mars is a very ambitious goal that requires a large amount of resources such as the oxygen needed to breath and fuel the Mars Ascend Vehicle. To overcome these limitations, ISRU practices come useful. We know that carbon dioxide constitutes about 96% of Martian atmosphere and it is the candidate for
In the field of waves and vibrations, Metamaterials (MMs) are artificial structures that allow the manipulation of electromagnetic, acoustic or elastic waves in exotic ways, giving rise to unexpected effects (e.g, negative effective refractive index, cloaking, focusing or filtering). These exceptional properties, not encountered in conventional materials, derive largely from the geometric structure rather than
The New Normal project’s aim is to investigate which could be the new workplace paradigm after the Covid-19 spread worldwide.The conception of office, and workplace in general, has changed due to the pandemic and the establishment of the new remote working solutions. In this context, it becomes interesting and necessary to understand how the situation
Given the growing pressures of climate change on vineyards and competition for the soil of the last decades, the project aims to protect vineyards from harmful weather phenomena, while contemporarily harvesting energy through photovoltaic panels.Global warming is leading to an intensification in rainfall, droughts, hailstorms, windstorms and spring frosts, which can highly damage vineyards1, therefore
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When a peripheral nerve is damaged due to mechanical injury, inflammation or various pathologies, the signal conduction from our brain to nerves and muscles is entirely or partially impaired, with resulting disabilities. Although scientists have made remarkable progress in many respects, there is still no effective system able to provide an effective solution at the
Space Tech-SEI Pioneer was born in collaboration with SEI – School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and an industrial partner, Leonardo S.p.A.. The project originates from the technical challenge of designing a solution for the autonomous management of a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in multi-objective, dynamic missions. Up to now, studies from literature have
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The future is electric and photovoltaic (PV) technology is a key to this green revolution. The solar modules installation is increasing and occasionally they are combined with storage systems in order to accumulate only the excess of production. The project suggests a solution for energy management, merging photovoltaics and storage systems together with the use
The digital experiences we interact with everyday are increasingly becoming more responsive: they are now designed to load large amounts of data extremely quickly. Data can be used both to make these experiences more engaging as well as more intuitive for their end-users. With the aim of applying these principles to the textual elements of
The Whenergy project focuses on producing a proof of concept to demonstrate the possibility to reduce non-renewable energy consumption by working on the interaction between humans and smart appliances. The main stakeholders are the NecstLab from Politecnico di Milano and the eNovia company. The project is driven by the increasing interest of consumers to know
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Organising the storage of the materials in the warehouse is fundamental and critical activity of every industrial business. The paper analyses methods to increment the efficiency of a Procter and Gamble warehouse located in Pomezia (RM), Italy, which stores healthcare and detergent products. During this analysis a particular focus is dedicated to the management and
Digital Archaeology Project of Oplontis (DAPO) was developed together with Parco Archeologico di Pompei, The Oplontis Project team, Torre Annunziata community and Alta Scuola Politecnica in order to create a new way to bring history to life.For more than a decade, an interdisciplinary team of scholars (Oplontis Project team) has been documenting and uncovering the
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Since humanity has been able to make satellites orbit around the planet Earth, everyone’s life changed: not only due to GPS and wireless communication development; a deeper knowledge of our planet has been reached as well, and this helps in many ways, such as climate change monitoring. As a proof of the importance of the
Italian agriculture has always been recognised worldwide as an excellence; in particular, in the last year, the IV Gamma supply chain, with the use of greenhouses, has showed its increasing relevance.Being a relatively niche market, innovations tend to arrive with a certain delay, causing backwardness in the employed technologies and procedures. An example is the
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The city of Shanghai is facing a process of drastic urban changes under its master plan Shanghai 2017-2035, with goals such as limiting its population to 25 million, decreasing land area designated to construction, and increasing green areas per capita. One of the main objectives of this Master plan is to turn Shanghai into an
Physiological mobility and sensitivity can be lost during life due to physical trauma or other adverse medical conditions that damage the nervous system leading to permanent disabilities. The objective of the project is to target this problem developing a new peripheral nerve interface, capable of conveying information between brain and organs. This kind of medical
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of our time. Due to the increasing energy consumption of a steadily growing world population, CO2 emissions and greenhouse effect are continuously increasing. The building sector provides great potential to reduce CO2 emissions, since 30% of the total energy consumption is to maintain thermal comfort in
Why Kuoleva Jäätikko? Belvedere glacier is a valley glacier located above Macugnaga of the Valle Anzasca in the region of Piedmont. It lies at the base of the east side of Monte Rosa. It reaches approximately 2200 metres above sea level at its highest point and terminates near the Alpe Burki at about 1800 metres.
Energy is what moves us forward. The quest for new convenient energy sources has accompanied the human species throughout its evolution, until the great breakthrough carried by the Second Industrial Revolution, with the introduction of steam machines. However, the consumption of unrenewable sources along with questionable energy policies, soon led to critical downsides: the catastrophic
The EnerChainge project, conducted together with the partner company Edison, has the goal to investigate the properties and limitations of blockchain technology with an emphasis on the energy sector, and to design and develop a working prototype to address a specific energy related problem. The resulting solution is Virdis, an innovative, blockchain-based green energy tracker
The flourishing of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has posed impressive new challenges concerning the problem of powering small, wearable or remote electronic devices.In this field, batteries represent the current dominant technology, but their limited power density, their short life, the difficulties and costs required for their replacement, and their significant environmental footprint call
Stress is a psycho-physical condition that has long term social and economic impacts, both on people and on the healthcare system. Continuous stress monitoring can play a key role in improving the quality of life. On one hand, it helps to prevent diseases and enhance efficiency in workplace scenarios, in life-saving jobs and desk-jobs, and
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DRIVE-EN project investigates how the refurbishment of former industrial buildings can act as a driver for territorial regeneration, by taking Olivetti factory as emblematic case-study.The final goal of the project is therefore to define several guidelines of intervention on industrial built heritage, which will possibly become a model for similar works.To get this result, two
As Fossil resources are becoming a less desirable feedstock for the realization of many products, an alternative bioeconomy transforming renewable resources in valuable products could provide viable solutions to the global challenges posed by environmental, economic and societal sustainability. Globally, about 998 million tonnes of agricultural waste are produced yearly. Moreover, the composition of agricultural
In partnership with Physik Instrumente (PI) – worldwide leader in the manufacturing of nanopositioning products – the project aimed at investigating the typical industrial applications of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR), and at identifying the most relevant one for PI, to be implemented in a functional demonstrator. Such prototype was
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most frequent form of dementia, hindering independence and memory and causing a progressive withdrawal from family and society. The more the patients are isolated, the faster the disease progresses. Therefore, engaging patients in social activities and encouraging them to build and maintain strong relationships is crucial to preserve their independence
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The challenge presented in this work was to identify new business applications for a humanoid robot exploiting its empathic capabilities. More specifically, the humanoid robot Pepper was provided by our industry partner, Sprint Reply. According to the vast diffusion of technological devices for the support of people’s physical wellbeing, our team decided to make Pepper
The present research objective is to develop a human activity recognition (HAR) system by exploiting in-memory computing (IMC) and machine learning technologies. However, while most of the developed HAR systems have been focused on the identification of macro activities, little attention has been addressed to systems with a narrower scope. After analyzing market potential and
The project was developed by the team within the SEI Pioneer program in partnership with ASP. The goal of designing, prototyping and testing an innovative robotic product was pursued exploiting the entrepreneurial formation program, offered by SEI. During the project development, technical matters were successfully dealt with, together with start-up issues, like problem vision and
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The Homify project provides not only the opportunity to control the objective parameters of an indoor environment to optimize the average global comfort of the users, but supplies also an efficient solution for the management of public spaces and for the reduction of the energetic consumption. Principal Academic Tutor Antonio Capone, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano
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Thermal Ablation (TA) is a class of interventional techniques that deploy electromagnetic energy sources to treat malignant diseases by inducing thermal damage and, eventually, coagulation necrosis in tissues. Among similar techniques, laser thermal ablation (LTA) stands out as particularly promising. The main limitations of LTA, however, are the restricted dimensions of the area ablated with
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Smart City DiVA is the project that led to the design and implementation of a dashboard for the city of Milan. City dashboards are among the digital tools that try to handle the complexity of smart cities, by displaying indicators about the urban performance and aiding people that are accountable for it, namely the Municipality
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Space Business 4.0 (SB4) has the goal to generate innovative business models based on satellite data. The team has been required to analyze the space ecosystem, highlight enabling and limiting factors for the creation of satellite-based business models, generate several innovative downstream applications, select the most promising, develop and validate it by interviewing prospective adopters.
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The Space Architecture for Extraplanetary Exploration (SAEXE) project set the objective to provide an innovative yet feasible solution to allow manned exploration of Mars in the next years. The project addressed the design of a greenhouse for on-site food production on Mars, conceived to grant self-sufficiency to human-tended space missions, through the implementation of an
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User-oriented and emotion-driven design led to Officemotion, introducing the study of emotions in the office space, allowing the workers to find in the workplace the best atmosphere to perform their tasks. With the work of this project it will be possible to model spaces and furniture to sustain the different interactions required in contemporary workspaces.
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The project investigates the light to help cities become smarter and more sensible. The team worked with Artemide S.p.A., a leader in light design, and with the consultancy of Deloitte. Principal Academic Tutor Maria Luisa Virginia Collina, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano Academic Tutors Venanzio Arquilla, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano Laura Daglio,
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“Innovate Africa” is a project with the objective to boost the Next Production Revolution (NPR) in Africa, while keeping a focus on the peculiar features of each country. The weak infrastructural tissue and the Climate Change threat pose a serious challenge for the future socio-economic development of the Continent, which needs to leverage on its
Nymphaea is a community-level product, designed to produce 300 l/d of clean water. Its objective is also to be easily introduced and adopted by the end users, the inhabitants of the villages. Creating a network of local entrepreneurs that sell the drinking water at a fair price in their communities, Nymphaea becomes a source of
The FBS-PV concept regards the inclusion of on-board additional sensors to improve the UAVs’ flight accuracy in trajectory during PV O&M procedures without the need of external compensation from human operators. Accuracy is guaranteed by the perfect overflight of the rows of photovoltaic panels thanks to the use of image vision-based controllers. Principal Academic Tutor
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DAHEC (Data Analytics for Household Energy Consumption) project aims to analyse and validate novel market opportunities through virtual pilot projects fed with synthetic but realistic disaggregated consumption data, overcoming the obstacles of real pilot projects. The synthetic data are outputs of a simulator of households’ energy consumption, ad-hoc implemented during the project. The innovative path
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The SEI Bioengineering project was born from a clear challenge: to find an application on the market of an innovative technology studied within the IIT, the microbial fuel cell (MFC). Microbial Fuel Cell is an electrochemical system able to generate electricity from the oxidation of organic matter present into natural environments, such as in particular
Dementia is considered to be the fastest-growing major disease in China. Currently, there are more than 9 million diagnosed cases. The kitchen, being one of the most dangerous places in the house, can be off-limits for PwD. The project [kitCHUN] deals with providing PwD and the elderly with smart kitchen products that can improve their
[kitCHUN]: Intelligent kitchen for aging people home Read More »
The unique properties of fluorocarbons have triggered numerous biomedical applications of these compounds. This project will focus on the preparation and use of fluorocarbon-based diagnostic agents. Design, synthesis, biomedical applications, and sustainability evaluations will be considered as key issues for the development of new interesting products. In particular, “ultraparamagnetic” nanoparticles based on liquid perfluorocarbon emulsions
Domestic environments change in time together with new lifestyles and new building and technical systems solutions. The rapid evolution and the wide diffusion of new information technologies is one of the phenomena that mostly characterizes the contemporaneity, together with other important trends related to the environment – climatic changes and iniquitous use of natural resources
Domestic Technology Evolution: Environmental and Behavioural Changes in People’s Life Read More »
The project advances systemic macro-regional studies extended to Lombardia and Piemonte to address problems such as transportation and its congestion, the geographic disparity between work and residence, suburbs and sprawl, if the macro-region is likely to convey investment, create new jobs and improve the quality of life. This regional systemic approach has to consider present
Pil-Sim: Simulation of Scenarios for the Lombardia- Piemonte Macro-region Read More »
Within the location of large-sized shopping areas, new typologies emerged in the last few years. In addition to their large dimension, they provide as their main feature a more comprehensive offer of selling areas, receptivity and leisure. These buildings have a wide influence area (in terms of attraction, catchment area, mobility impact) which always crosses
The purpose of the project is to verify to what extent the so-called “Corridor policies”: – are considered by territorial bodies as an opportunity to support territorial and/or urban policies and are taken into account by economic subjects as means of subsisting initiatives of local development; – really act as an engine for sustainable development
Corridor V: Territorial Policies and Local Development Read More »
Contemporary heritage system is composed by cultural capitals which are achieving a clear and recognizable status through innovative strategies mainly driven by design and focused on the system of urban structure, architecture, events and communication. The project focus on future competition landscape among European cultural capitals, trying to identify new potential systemic strategies driven by
The area of goods tracking is becoming more and more important in two main areas: dangerous goods transportation and food supply chain. The project aims at investigating goods tracking aspects for several research areas: service provisioning in mobile environment with Quality of Service guarantee, integration of multiple information sources, knowledge sharing in interoperating companies, implications
DaGoGò: Goods Tracking and Risk Management Read More »
Wireless communications technologies are mature enough to allow the deployment of innovative systems for vehicular traffic control and safety support. By equipping vehicles with communication facilities and sensors, and by possibly enriching the roadside infrastructure, a number of new services can be provided such as: • Detection of dangers and distribution of warning messages for
ICOSA: Inter-vehicular Communications for Traffic Control and Safety Applications Read More »
The exploitation of primary energy resources together with the environmental pollution impacts are linked problems which need an integrated and multidisciplinary solution process. Particular solutions have to be found in urban environment where other critical aspects are present: traffic, residential heating and cooling, etc.. The application of some technologies as cogeneration or trigeneration allow a
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The IRoPa project,ordered by theCentro Ricerche Fiat, is dictated by the automotive sector need not only to enhance the flexibility of the production lines but also to allow high product diversification and quick line conversions.The purpose of this project is the implementation of a feasibility analysis – with its relevant preliminary plan – of an
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The general aim of this project is challenging our teams with the application of some of the main concepts treated by ASP like, for instance, the management of complex systems, the theory of decision, the technical design of a High Speed (HS) line and network. The project is carried out under the tutorship of engineers
I-TRAILS: Italian High Speed Railways Read More »
The project was oriented towards autonomous mobile robots, that are products of growing interests in the consumer market (surveillance, cleaning, gardening, impaired people support, etc). In order to achieve the exploitation of the research, strong constraints were defined: the goal was to obtain low-cost products able to satisfy the requirements of the market and not
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The area around Novara will be located on the 5th European Corridor, connecting Lisbon to Kiev through Turin, Milan, Verona and Trieste. The area, situated within the Turin-Milan segment of the corridor, will represent an important node of the European transport network. It could represent a junction point connecting several important transport lines: Milan-Turin high
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The project wants to create and understand a global scenario for the so-called “H2 society”: the aim is to analyse the feasibility of spreading a new energy carries, both in terms of R&D on technologies and in terms of investment and infrastructures. The project context involves a complex set of implications, from environmental to energetic
AEIOU Environment & Energy Hydrogen: Opportunities and Utilization Read More »
In the near future, several industrial sectors will have to face the challenge of reducing air, water and soil pollutions, decreasing environmental damage: the construction industry could play a key role in sustainable development. Nowadays, designers have to select materials and technical solutions with low energy consumption and resource depletion. Internationally recognised LCA – Life
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In a study by the NIH (National Institutes of Health, in the USA) reported in Science in 2006 to identify ‘Grand Challenges for Global Health’, two of the 14 priorities involved diagnosis and measurement of patients’ health statuses: first ‘’develop technologies that allow assessment of individuals for multiple conditions or pathogens at point-of-care’’, and second
In a study by the NIH (National Institutes of Health, in the USA) reported in Science in 2006 to identify ‘Grand Challenges for Global Health’, two of the 14 priorities involved diagnosis and measurement of patients’ health statuses: first ‘’develop technologies that allow assessment of individuals for multiple conditions or pathogens at point-of-care’’, and second
The idea of building a Congress center for Milan and the macroregion of the North-West must be perceived as a great opportunity for the polycentric character of Lombardy. Such an opportunity may be lost by an intervention conceived in a sectoral approach, that’s composed of an “infrastructure” of global-relevance in a local situation, simply by
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The goal of the project was to explore the opportunities offered, by nanotechnologies, to the textile industry, and of the innovations in process plants and industrial organization which are needed to take full advantage of these opportunities. Consistently with the main focus of ASP projects, and with the initial lack of a specific industrial demand,
INTI: Impact of Nanotechnologies on Textile Industry Read More »
Wide-band technology is a “fact” which allows the present access to advanced telephone services, internet and video-on-demand. Meanwhile, the most quoted observers foresee that the present wide-band is just the beginning of a further evolution which will provide customers with an even larger bands, both to improve the present services and to offer new ones.
BR.I.NA: Contents and technologies for the next-generation wide-band access Read More »
The sponsoring company Luxottica suggested two separate streams of research: developing new products or improving the current production process located in Lauriano (To). Thinking about such broad themes as emerging technologies, product features, changes in society at large and consumers’ behaviour was required. Research on the improvement of the current production process led students to
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Cutting edge technologies make it possible to open a Window on the Man by interfacing non-invasive devices directly into the human body to perceive signals related to people’s emotions. Affective computing is the key to the success of new devices, no longer technological slaves, but partners involved in everyday life. The aims of this project
WoMan: Window on the Man Read More »
Almost everyone watches television, nowadays. And we all have a mobile phone in our pockets! Could you imagine, then, an unsuccessful future for TV over a mobile phone? Before launching of the service, just few years ago, not even the most visionary individuals would have imagined such large problems in penetrating the market. But the
B²M: The broadcasting revolution: social impacts and opportunities Read More »
We could define the process of development of this ASP project “from EXPO to EX.POint(s)”. The starting point of the project is related to the fact that the nomination of Milan for the event of Expo 2015 is going to result in important innovations in the strategies and policies of the main players at different
Expo 2015 – towards a polycentric Milan Read More »
Home Textile for Tomorrow is a project whose objective is the development of potential scenarios in terms of products, markets, features desired and technologies which are related to the home of tomorrow as well their validation through strategies and actions linked to textile industry needs; these products and technologies would be developed in cooperation with
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The project was focused on the general benefits that a full engineering and architectural approach may provide when dealing with sustainable development and within the framework of critical social realities. In these environments, such as the suburbs of a big town in one of the Least Developed Countries (LCD), many complexities need to be faced.
In 2004, sales in non-industrial robots has surpassed sales in industrial robots, thus making evident the long-expected distribution of robots in the society. The successful market deployment of such devices often depends on the availability of low-cost, reliable, well-suited sensors and control devices, integrated with a market-effective robotic body. The aims of this project included
SensoBot: Sensors and control for societal robots Read More »
Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) are being developed by the aeronautical community at a fast pace and for a wide range of applications due to advances in sensor technology and automation. Missions which are best suited for UAV platforms are typically “dull, dirty and dangerous”. Among such missions, there are a number of operational scenarios which
This project combines two major topics. The first relates to the dramatic growth of the importance of nanotechnologies in science and engineering in the last few years; the second refers to the impact of human activities on the environment, which is becoming increasingly serious, and the stemming interventions which become necessary to reduce and control
ViChem investigates the mathematical side of chemistry to provide tools for discovery and analysis, in addition to integrating these within the new stream of e-science. In fact, the mission of this project is to find new opportunities for improving everyday life through scientific results. ViChem is sponsored by the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research.
ViChem: New mathematical molecular descriptors in drug design and risk assessment Read More »
The organization and planning of special events for ITALIA150 in 2011 represent an enormous opportunity for Torino and the whole country, particularly due to the great visibility of the town in the media. Due to the celebration of Italian Unification, a unique experience – passing through past and present – will take place in Torino:
EU rural areas cover over 80% of its surface; the per capita income in these areas is, however, up to 30% lower than the EU average. The rest of the community pays for the environmental, social and economical conservation of these rural areas. In the long term, according to WTO rules, the EU works towards
MUFFA: A multifunctional future for agriculture Read More »
The project AdMIRE combines existing (or forthcoming) solutions and technologies with an innovative vision centered around the use of modern mobile devices: cellular phones, iPhones and alike. The acronym, Advanced Mobile Intelligence and Reactive Environments, emphasizes the vision that “core” operations focus on the mobile device, in a number of different meanings: • it “holds”
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The project was created on the basis of evidences suggesting that the use of quantitative methods in medical diagnostics is a rapidly growing field. There is a common consensus that qualitative methods, based on past human experience and pictorial descriptions, can be supported by quantitative measures and analysis. For instance, image segmentation, statistical data analysis,
The AMuPreMo project deals with multisensor assimilation and fusion of the data observed using different sensors and carriers, including satellite-borne sensors, radar and ground-truth raingage networks with different spatial and temporal scales, resolutions and accuracy levels. The identified problems include: 1. errors of radar measurements in presence of orographic controls; 2. variability of the relationship
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The aim of the project is to introduce students to sustainable design in a urban environment. Sustainability is a key term of the project. It involves three aspects of the design process: not only environmental but also economical and social elements. As a result, the objective of the design is to put into a concrete
EnerCity: Sustainability design of micro-scale urban area Read More »
In the last decades, it’s becoming more and more clear everyday that the rational use and production of Energy will be a crucial issue for the development of our civilization. Big efforts are being done to find new exploitable energy resources and to improve the performance and efficiency of the existing conversion technologies. To make
PreMEMB: Prefabricated modules for energy management in buildings Read More »
ASP students participated in a project sponsored by multiplicity.lab regarding the re-use and development of farmhouses owned by the City of Milan. The first phase involved the installation of the exhibition “la vita nuda” edited by Aldo Bonomi at the Triennale of Milan. The subject of the installation was a possible guide for the “Municipi
Energy efficiency and green buildings are an important challenge for developed countries in order to achieve the commitments of the Kyoto Protocol. In this field, the WF4E project’s aim was to identify and define solutions for energy retrofitting, environmental monitoring, as well as controls and energy savings in large and complex buildings. Moreover, the goal
AdMIRE, Advanced Mobile Intelligence and Reactive Environments, presents a revolutionary vision in which the “intelligence” is placed on the mobile device. “Mobile” as “personal”, always available in the hands of the user, able to hold all his/her knowledge. The environment is perceived as “reactive”: equipped with ICT sensors and controls it “reacts” to user requests,
AdMIRE 2: Advanced Mobile Intelligence and Reactive Environments Read More »
The challenge of the project is: – To create a world free of carbon emissions, where power is plentiful, safe and truly green and where even the most remote village has Internet access and with light in every home, including aesthetic solutions for buildings. – To mimic the energy production in plant leaves, creating artificial
NEWSOLAR: A new generation of solar cells Read More »
Significant changes are affecting the retail banking industry in the last few years. The risk of disintermediation coming from the rise of new models such as Financial Social Networks or direct banking players, changes in the regulatory framework about payments (i.e. SEPA) and the deployment of new Information and Communication Technologies are generating a profound
In 2001, space tourism became a reality. Millionaire Dennis Tito was the first “fee-paying” space tourist: he flew to the International Space Station (ISS) and spent one week there. Since then, an additional six space tourists flew to the ISS, including one woman. At the moment, this adventure is only affordable to the very wealthy.
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In a new perspective of the value of the past, the preservation domain is being enlarged by a strong increase in the types of artifacts being considered worthy of protection and conservation: in addition to monumental high-style architecture (traditionally the preservation concern) many new categories of sites are now recognized as equally meritorious: cultural and
Sharitage: Creating a planned and participatory form of cultural heritage management Read More »
In total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures, the surgeon is required to correctly orient the cutting guides to ensure the surgical operation outcome. Navigation systems and medical robotic systems are becoming part of surgical practice, but they are still not easily accepted in clinics due to their disadvantageous cost benefit ratio: they offer solutions which are
ORTHOROB: ORTHOpaedic Surgery and ROBotics Read More »
The IPROS project addresses an issue of growing importance: that of maximizing up time equipment while minimizing maintenance and operating costs. The area of intelligent maintenance and prognostic-enabled condition-based maintenance of machinery is a vital one for today’s complex systems in industry, aerospace vehicles, ships, automotive industry, and elsewhere. As manning levels are reduced and
The goals of this project included the analysis and the development of a wave energy converter capable of exploiting sea wave energy in order to generate electric power. Sea waves are one of the most interesting and well distributed renewable energy sources in the world. Given the current state of the art, all existing sea
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Regional Council of Lombardia approved the hypothesis of an “agreement plan” in order to realize a new health centre near Milan. It will be named the “Health City” and will be built in the area of Sacco Hospital as well as the neurological institute Besta and the national tumour institute. New compound will arise in
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“The SkatePark SkateParkItaly” (S.P.I.) is a spin-off project from Gangcity, a cultural project supported by a program of scientific research that has completed studies, surveys and reflections on the complex world of the gangs and their spinoff cultures. It documents troubled peripheral urban areas, void of any form of control, to initiate regeneration, re-appropriation and
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The project will be concentrated on creating a technology push for a new material. The MadFlex (PCT WO2016120785 A1) is a lightweight asymmetric composite material panel, having a sandwich-like structure. It exhibits two order-of-magnitude difference in bending stiffness, depending by the direction of the applied bending moment, thanks to a reversible buckling phenomenon of one
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The development of RF biosensors for biomolecular detection is a very recent trend and is still in the early stages of definition. The introduction of carbon-based nanomaterials thin film seems promising not only for the detection of biomolecules but also for the realization of passive biosensors for diagnosis of various cancers (breast, prostate …) as
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In recent years, the knowledge in flexibility to adapt to service change has been developed and analysed by several scholars from different study fields: it is the ability of a structure to be able to change its functions and environments in the short, medium or long term, based on the costs and users’ needs. This
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Nowadays, expected effects of climate change at local, regional and global scales endanger hydrologic budgets of Alpine regions. An example is the massive shrinkage of mountain glaciers, with the consequent problem of water resources reduction for civil population and ecosystems. Therefore, it is very important to monitor glaciers’ evolution, in order to allow an estimation
DREAM 3: DRone tEchnology for wAter resources and hydrologic hazards Monitoring 3 Read More »
We live in the era of big data and that means outstanding opportunities to get insight into manifold phenomena that shape or affect our communities and territories. On the other hand, a fair access and use of this information have to be advocated in order to turn data into valuable actions that foster safety, development,
EODH: Earth Observation and the Digital Humanitarians Read More »
In the Mobility as a Service context, and in particular regarding car sharing, Risciò Project aims to address the needs for a platform “born to be shared”, flexible enough to be exploited in different kind of shared economy frameworks, and able to provide a complete service in a profitable way. According to this vision, the
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The project identified an innovative solution aimed at satisfying the increasing demand for remote work services. The solution was based on an analysis of the academic literature in order to understand the evolution of different models in different periods. Instead of focusing on the (in some sense) trivial “work at home” paradigm, the project considered
DigiLife: Network Enabled Business Fabric Read More »
The scope of the willchair project, from its very beginning, was left intentionally broad and unfocused aiming at having the students find their way in the complex world of assistive technologies for mobility impaired people. Students have been encouraged to apply a User Centered Design approach in order to change the project paradigm starting from
Willchair: Reinventing the wheels… into wills Read More »
The present project focused on the design of a robotized rescue system to be employed as a recovery tool on water in several difficult situations. The device is intended to rescue endangered people floating on water such as in flooded areas, in bad weather conditions, in a war scenario or because of an unexpected event
RSS: Robotized Saving System Read More »
Now more than ever, the establishment of a sustainable energy future is one of the most pressing tasks of mankind. The increasing prices of fossil fuel sources and the climate change issues moved the research to new fields and new frontiers. In the world of aeronautics, this problem is becoming a key issue due to
The idea of the service was to experiment a new model of onsite knitwear production/distribution in order to suggest an alternative vision to the dramatic phenomenon of de-localization of production activities. Fas.P.onSite is a new brandservice of on demand design, production and sale of customized knitwear. It is based on integrating these different phases in
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Widespread, real-time monitoring of aquatic environments is essential if we are to meet the management needs of climate change, environmental monitoring, emergency management, water resource limitation and the wider sustainability of industries such as tourism, fisheries and agriculture. In view of the continued and expansive impact of phenomena such as climate change and waterborne pollution,
WIMSAE: Wireless Intelligent Monitoring Systems for Aquatic Environments Read More »
The project has explored the possibility to forecast certain features and requirements of visitors to large events, who as we know, have an increasing impact on city organization. Milan Expo 2015 will attract millions of visitors and in 2011 Torino will host the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, events characterized
The project is related to the implementation of the Sangone River Basin Contract, a voluntary agreement among public and private players involved in the management and use of water resources, aimed at the enhancement of the river’s resources and its territory. More than other wide-area programs and planning tools, the River Basin Contract requires multidisciplinary
VALORiver: Sustainable valorisation project of the Sangone River Read More »
Our cities face many challenges. The Urban Land Institute (www.uli.org) has recently formulated some of the major challenges in the following questions: How can we create more choices in housing, accommodating diverse lifestyles and all income levels? How can we reduce traffic congestion yet stay connected? How can we include citizens in planning their communities
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The field of information and communication technology (ICT) is continually changing as new technologies are developed. A number of current technologies (e.g. wireless communication technologies) are relevant to mobility applications. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) encompass a broad range of communication-based information and electronic technologies integrated in transportation system infrastructures and in vehicles themselves. Integration of
The ambition was to launch a series of food products to improve the physical conditions of those who practice sport activities, both in terms of performance and in terms of post-activity recovery. The objective was to outline a new offer for the market, characterized by the use of functional natural ingredients, due to the particular
Peri-urban bike-sharing is the focus of this project, intended as a means of strengthening proximity tourism, both in terms of application in a non-urban context of a sharing system and as of use of the bicycle as a means of sustainable transport. The project was initiated by a request from the Shanghai context (How to
B-TRANS: Shanghai Urban-Rural Public Bicycle Transportation System Design Read More »
The reduction of environmental CO2 emissions is one of the major challenges for growth sustainability of the present century. Road transportation and building heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems constitute the two most relevant sources of carbon dioxide in consumer related activities. In order to reduce these emissions, it is possible to leverage on
The two teams addressed an important and topical challenge: how to design a new residential or office building achieving the best energy performance at a certain extra cost, or minimizing the extra cost required to achieve a certain energy performance. To that aim, a number of specific data bases of the most important technologies for
The aim of REPACK – Sustainable Packaging for Fast Moving Consumer Good is to achieve a more sustainable packaging for Household Care Products. Procter & Gamble, a leading company in consumer goods, is the principal partner involved in this project. According to the company footprint concerning life cycle, packaging plays a crucial role in terms
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With a seating capacity of two and a small footprint, a Personal Commuting Vehicle perfectly fully reflects the requirements in personal mobility of most commuters – because most trips are taken alone (In European cities, the average commute occupancy rate is 1.1-1.2 persons per vehicle). Moreover PCV should be as safe, stable, and energy efficient
PCV: Personal Commuting Vehicles Read More »
During the 20th century industrial cities underwent experimentation with new models of production systems, often linking industrial projects with the modernity of architectural and housing development models and new conceptions of planning. After the decline and dismantling of industrial sectors, the communities affected had to find new ways to relaunch and maintain the physical structures
Rethinking Industrial Cities: Ivrea as Unesco Site Read More »
Several animals, such as insects, spiders and geckos have developed fascinating nano-architectures in order to maximize and control adhesion. Adhesion-prevention solutions are also suggested by nature: peculiar plant leaves, such as the famous lotus, are able to prevent insect adhesion, again thanks to nano-architectures, even if insects evolved in order to maximize adhesion. The replication
Gecko vs Lotus: Super-Adhesive or Anti-adhesive Bio-inspired Nanomaterials Read More »
The project has been based on the evidence that the use of a fuel cell system can generate heat and power with high efficiency. The necessity of investigating a new path to energy conversion compared to thermal engines for power generation is related to the global energy problem which is becoming increasingly relevant. In fact,
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Climate debate and carbon dioxide emission reduction are fostering the development of — green policies — with the aim of improving environmental performance and putting global warming and the enhancement of resource usage at the top of the list of the world’s global challenges. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a key role in this
Green Cloud: Advanced Energy Management in Cloud systems Read More »
The CitySpaces project has the objective of conceiving a multichannel digital media approach for exploring, learning about and interacting with the layered histories of city spaces. A CitySpaces is a virtual-real system for exploring cities overlaid with their rich geo-history, including the diverse histories of people, architecture and the urban environment, as well as the
Four out of five parts of the world are underwater and sea also acts as a jealous custodian of the traces of human evolution. Today, technology can have unfortunate consequences on this wellestablished equilibrium, allowing people to destroy in few years what has been sleeping in the deep for centuries. We must save our past,
TETI: Integrated technologies for sustainable management of underwater cultural heritage Read More »
The concept of the hospital has evolved, over time, to become that of an institution central in advancing clinical techniques. Today hospitals are facing new challenges. New technical solutions can support patient care and provide new services for the staff. On the other side those technologies require more space devoted to machinery, and impose new
REMEDIA: REinvent MEDical Ambient Read More »
Three quarters of the global population are predicted to live in urban areas by 2050. Shortcomings of natural resources and increasing demand of user-friendly domotics make the design of innovative home environments imperative. The goal goes far beyond collecting different appliances, each independently designed. The real challenge is to design a synergic home environment in
HASEW: Household Appliance System with Equipped Walls Read More »
The project focuses on a very important challenge currently arising in Cloud infrastructure design, namely the problem of optimal allocation of load among virtual machines. Efficient load balancing in a Cloud environment can indeed lead to important benefits for both end users and service providers. In particular, end users can experience a better quality of
SSP: Switched Positive Dynamical Systems for Cloud Computing Load Balancing Read More »
The project deals with the open issues and future perspectives of joint prostheses. The main topic of the project concerns wear of the bearing surfaces. Cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloys are widely used in total hip and knee joint replacement. They are able to form efficient artificial joints by means of coupling metal-on-polymer or metal-on-metal contacts. However, a
PROPER: Future perspectives of joint prostheses Read More »
Green Move is a new project for an innovative electric vehicle sharing system in Milan founded by Regione Lombardia and developed by 8 departments and centers of the Politecnico di Milano. Vehicle sharing consists of the use of a shared car, taken from the user in a special parking area and left in the same
Green Move: Design and testing of an innovative transport system for vehicle sharing Read More »
The recent completion of the high speed railway in the north west of Italy is producing significant changes in the entire territorial system, establishing a difference between the nodes of Milan and Turin, positively connected to the “long” (and fast) networks of mobility, and the intermediate places that suffer from disadvantages due to their location
Resource protection management and increasing access to public services is today perceived as a precondition to human promotion and social development, especially in low income economies. The project focused on the municipality of Guayaquil (EC) which, with its 3 million inhabitants, 2 of which living in informal settlements, is the economic capital of the country.
How long does it take to locate 10 red weather balloons in 10 secret locations in the continental United States? 8 hours and 52 minutes, harnessing the Internet and social networks! This is the incredible result of the DARPA Network Challenge that was launched on December 2009. The MIT team that won the challenge designed
TSC4 MiTo: The Social Computer for Milano and Torino Read More »
Over the last few decades, the search for bio-inspired solutions has been widely accepted in many engineering and technological fields as the best way for optimizing and taking advantage of available resources. Nature over the ages has found its optimal solution for survival and our teams therefore looked at Nature for the design of device
Spider Silk: Inspired super-tough nanoarmours Read More »
The aim of the ARAM-AOCS project was to design an Attitude and Orbit Control system for a new class of small, affordable and easy-to-use satellites. The idea was proposed and supported by the Politecnico di Torino Electronics Department, that developed AraMiS, aiming to provide a modular satellite architecture in a very short period of time.
One of the most significant problems of today’s society is the unsustainable way of living. To guarantee a better future, people should change their habits and behavior in many fields, not neglecting the most difficult and complex issues. Healthcare structures are by definition very complex realities, since they include numerous services, various kinds of facilities
SustHealth: Sustainable High Quality Healthcare Read More »
Nowadays the learning scenario can be defined as “fragmented”, due to the many different specific services or courses related to the specific needs of different learner targets, but also as “global”, in terms of the broad potential audience it can reach. Searching on the web, it is easy to find every kind of opportunity, “localized”
NEST: NEw Services for Teaching and learning Read More »
In the next decades, planetary exploration will play an important role in directing global technological development and at the same time will provide an extensive application and testing field for many innovative technologies. In support of exploration missions, new space systems must be developed requiring research on many new technologies involving robotics, automation, bio-engineering, artificial
CoSpaR: Components for Space Robotics Read More »
The banking sector has always been facing a big challenge: coping with continuous and fast-evolving financial services. Nowadays, financial institutions need to be not only promoters of innovation but also of sustainable services. The concept of sustainability is intended from the economic, environmental and social viewpoints. As a result, the financial service industry is ahead
FUSE: Future Scenarios in Banking: new Services and sustainability Read More »
The software market for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is today facing a technological breakthrough and growing importance of distribution methods represented by “Cloud Computing” and “Software as a Service” (SaaS). Existing technologies, software packages and vendor business models are apidly changing, and future market leadership will be based both on new software adoption models
The aim of the DeCoSe project was to envisage collaborative service ideas to stimulate social innovation in the context. The project was developed in conjunction with European Research funded in the framework of the 7FR called Peripheria (in which Politecnico di Milano is involved as partner) whose aim was to conceive, develop and prototype digital services
DeCoSe: Designing Collaborative Services to boost social innovation in Smart Cities Read More »
The tourism industry is undergoing a deep transformation due to new and different activities that people are willing to perform. This trend is called experiential tourism, since travellers are increasingly organizing their holidays looking for an occasion to try and discover something new, rather than a full week relax. Nevertheless, relax is not completely excluded
LET’ SET: Choose, Build, Experience Read More »
The main goal of Knowai project was to develop an innovative solution based on the use of Artificial Intelligence techniques that deals with the complex but challenging problems of knowledge digitalization and management in the industrial context. For this purpose, the developed MVP is configured as a hybrid solution between a Chatbot and a Knowledge
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This project focuses on materials analysis about efficient data handling and its continuously growing importance for industrial innovation (e.g. industrial digitalization). This attitude perfectly fits the role of the Translators, which have been recently defined by the European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC, https://emmc.info) as professional profiles able to bridge industrial needs and state-of-the-art academic research
The ZEGODI project involved the analysis of the goods display sector: these are marketing tools that you can find in stores and that help to highlight promotion. The main issue is that environmental and economic impact of goods displays is strongly underestimated both by companies and stores. Thus, P&G, our industrial partner in the project,
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The aim of the project is to achieve CO2 negative emissions in an affordable manner. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is one of the important environmental problems of this era, as testified also by international treaties like the Paris agreement: the aim of the project is to take away CO2 from the atmosphere combining different
Today, the occurring shift inside an economic model in crisis, a digitalized production process and the necessity of a re-organized energy model underline the importance of industrial production as a key factor of innovation inside the development of our city. A good city has also industry inside, the goal of the project is to investigate
Re-ImPlant: Re-use Industrial Plants Read More »
In a period of rapid urbanization and population growth, buildings play an increasingly critical role in sustaining the health of people and the planet. In light of this, much emphasis has been placed on the design of smarter and more energy-efficient buildings. Yet, new and renovated structures represents just 4% of building stock in the
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The recent technological development is deeply reshaping the way in which companies can reach their final consumers and build a strong long-lasting relationships. Especially in the retail industry, incumbent companies like P&G are willing to maintain their leading position adopting new solutions which could solve their current issues. In particular, Gillette, one of the most
DISP: @P&G Design and Innovate Salesforce Processes Read More »
The evolution brought in the automotive sector by the development of electric mobility and self-driving vehicles will have a significant impact on the conception and design of cabin air conditioning systems. The InnoVACS project tackles the challenges of providing an optimal and sustainable cabin comfort in the innovative concept POP-UP, proposed by Italdesign. The InnoVACS
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Ozone is the main component of photochemical smog. Not only it is extremely harmful, possibly causing chronic lung diseases, but also very difficult to abate, as it is formed in air by precursor pollutants (NOx, VOCs). In this context, the project SO3AS aims at designing a catalytic device for ozone abatement for indoor air purification.
SO3AS: Smart catalytic-based system for abatement of polluting ozone at room temperature Read More »
In a consistently aging society, improving the life quality of fragile people, both in protected facilities and at home, represents an utmost challenge. This project applies the same objective to the context of “Il paese ritrovato” (Monza), a pioneering care center where patients with Alzheimer can get all the necessary treatments while leading an almost
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The CHECK project applies AI and cognitive technologies for creating a novel approach to development of smart chatbots. Assuming that a large body of content exists, the iCHAT technology develops, in a sustainable manner, chatbots helping the user to efficiently use that body of content. Two real-life applications are envisioned: a) An Education-Bot assisting pupils
CHECK: CHatbots in Education and Culture for Knowledge acquisition Read More »
Entrepreneurship represents a fundamental driver for job creation, innovation, structural change and long-run economic growth. Financial literacy, business acumen and attitude towards risks are the three keys that can make an entrepreneur successful. Nowadays, financial education is provided by books or by frontal lessons and workshops. These methods efficacy has been discussed, as they may
FiLE: Financial Literacy and Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship Read More »
New trends are involving photovoltaic (PV) power plants in recent years due to a dramatic change of the market. Plant monitoring and maintenance is becoming a crucial point in this field: plant owners and operators are requiring higher accuracy and lower costs in the maintenance to keep at top the performance of the plant. Many
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The main goal of DR.BEAR project is to develop a Business Model to harness the potential flexibility coming from load shifting at household level, designing an appropriate customer engagement strategy and incentive scheme to involve them in such programs. The project will be particularly innovative for the Italian case, as in this country few projects
DR. BEAR: Behavioural and Energy Analysis in Residential Environment Read More »
Agriculture is facing many challenges, such as the growth in the world population, resource shortages, the increasing demand for energy, dietary changes and the increase in competition on world markets. Traditional agricultural methods are not able to sustain all these changes, so technology comes to the rescue. Precision agriculture (PA), or precision farming, is a
MUFFIN 4.0: Farm 4.0 – Mobile manipUlation in agriculture For precision FarmINg Read More »
The project aims to provide an innovative planning strategy suitable to different degree of governance, on the basis of the analysis of Rio de Janeiro at the metropolitan scale. The selected site of study is the area of Tinguà, in the region of Nuova Iguaçu, which provides to the city of Rio a large part
M.A.RIO_F.W.P.: Metropolitan Approach for RIO de Janeiro Food Water Policy Read More »
The purpose of this team project is the investigation of potential future applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for civil purposes. The first task involves the analysis of the UAVs state of the art and the identification of the normative that regulates their flights: the standard procedures were identified by direct contact with mainly ENAC
ReCoUAV: ReCoUAV: Innovative High Dependable and Reconfigurable Read More »
Most Small and Medium Enterprises (i.e., SMEs) hardly dare to extend their business abroad alone. In Italy only 7% of SMEs operators are active in the international business. They often do not have a dedicated export department, resources to analyze in depth the market, they do not speak the language and they are not fully
BBC-I: Banking Business Customer Internationalization Read More »
The project compare problems, approaches and solutions applied to the sustainable planning and management of natural resources in two distinct geographical landscapes: the 5 Terre (marine environment) and the Valle Varaita (alpine region). The final aim is to develop as far as possible innovative policies in order to manage local resources that trying to solve
Colorado: Community-based policies for natural resource sustainable development Read More »
In Italy, small and medium knitwear companies are the ones suffering more the ongoing economic crisis. While International fashion brands have kept on exploiting economy of scales and delocalization strategies, small players have not been able to defend their share of market. Even if they own extraordinary skills and expertise, often they are not able
Smart-k: The app that will make small knitwear companies bigger Read More »
The challenging goal of the project is designing infrastructures to provide fundamental services in developing countries, in complex situations such as slums or bidonvilles, inserting buildings able to produce energy where it is needed without transportation. The practical idea is to implement several small, prefabricated clinics to have a fast, cheap and sustainable solution but
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Water is the most precious although most threatened resource on earth: environmental, economic and social factors are posing serious risks to its availability. Many projects concerning the domestic saving of water have been developed, but the fact that the majority of human water footprint is linked to the consumption of agricultural products is not fully
SCIeNCE: Food and Water Security in Changing Climate Read More »
In the context of the development of the future mobility models it is necessary to consider the different aspects that may determine the feasibility of a proposed solution. For sure, the need to reduce the emissions and energetic consumption associated to the movement of people and goods has become a major issue of the policy
PMM-HEV: Power Management and Modelling of Hybrid Electrical Vehicle Read More »
Today’s greatest global challenge is the need for more affordable, reliable, clean and renewable sources of electricity: according to EUROSTAT [1], the greatest source of man-caused greenhouse gas emissions is fuel combustion, which mostly takes place in energy transformation, responsible for nearly 80% of all emissions in the EU. The main goal of HEWiT project
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Small urban retailers, in European cities, are facing a decrease in attractiveness because of the increase number of shopping malls, big chain shops and internet retailers. This led to the closure of a relevant number of stores and to the consequent reduction of people’s traffic in cities’ street. These closures are negatively affecting the vivacity
FRUC: Future of Retailing in Urban Cities Read More »
AM is a technical innovation with the potential to turn around the way in which companies manufacture end-products and do business, giving a new shape to both internal and external processes (concerning the firm-client relationship). As a matter of facts, its market, consisting of all products, materials and services, was worth around 3.07 billion USD
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The ongoing growth of urban population coupled with the frequency of extreme weather phenomena all over the world is causing an increase in the exposure of people and goods to natural hazards. This implies a general rise of the risk level. The culture of risk prevention and management is increasingly widespread – also due to
ACED-IoT : Safe Cities through Cloud and the Internet of Things Read More »
Food is key for the whole humanity. Worldwide policies and organizations should aim at a better and more equal redistribution of food all around the world; we can only foster “local” solutions to educate people, improve the quality of what they eat, and give them better means to address the food problem in our society.
FDD: Future Food District Read More »
SYN DYAG, SYNdromes DIAGnosis, is a project devoted to the development of a system for 3D face comparison aimed at medically diagnosing rare diseases and syndromes involving face dysmorphisms in a pre-birth phase. The concrete problems we had to face since the beginning, and that made of this project a hard challenge were: the necessity
The aim of the GoAAL project is to increase the degree of independent living of disabled persons, in particular with motor impairments. The concept of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) implies the use of innovative ICT-based products, services and systems for disabled people to increase the quality of life and the social inclusion, with the advantage
GoAAL: NEA Going towards solutions for Ambient Assisted Living Read More »
Right now ex-industrial cities, that were developed around important factories, are facing the big issue of new identity reshaping. A huge heritage is conserved in this realities and it is not always profitably managed in order to preserve and communicate the memories related to it. On the other hand, traditional museums and archives are nowadays
Virtual Museum: Virtual Museum for the XXI century Read More »
Complex environments, such as organizations, are characterized by the potential availability of a constantly increasing amount of data. This data are often unstructured and organized in separated blocks stored within different company units, often without a clear strategy for their management and exploitation. Thus, the potential largely remains unexpressed. One of the most critical concerns
Inteface Design: Definition of a User-Friendly System for Data Mining Read More »
Complex environments, such as organizations, are characterized by the potential availability of a constantly increasing amount of data. This data are often unstructured and organized in separated blocks stored within different company units, often without a clear strategy for their management and exploitation. Thus, the potential largely remains unexpressed. One of the most critical concerns
EXPeeRIA: Experiencing a Network of Places for Expo Read More »
The pursuit towards eco-friendliness is radically transforming the way we think, design and work, as private companies and public organizations approach the concept of sustainability as a new frontier and a powerful trigger for innovation. Up to now, the space industry is not implementing any analysis or quantification of the environmental impact of its activities,
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EXPO 2015 propose itself as a strong agent of change for the north-western Milanese area, giving a wonderful occasion for the transformation of the territory but, on the other hand, forcing to deal with various issues which characterise the area. Marco Biraghi and Silvia Micheli in “Storia dell’architettura italiana 1985-2015” already expressed potentialities and problems
The definition of the Cre-Active Places (CAPs) project brief is a challenge in itself: to empower creative production in a creative way, by activating an abandoned place outside of large metropolitan context, while simultaneously actuating a communication platform to support the reactivation by establishing a critical mass of participants in the project. From a theoretical
CAPs: Cre-A(c)tive-Places Read More »
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are nowadays a widespread issue in sports, both at the professional and at the amateur level. The severity of their consequences and the difficulty for athletes to fully recover in their sports and daily lives have convinced public opinion that prevention cannot be the only strategy to face this problem. Indeed,
PASL: Pushing Athletes to Safe Limits Read More »
The ASP multidisciplinary project “New forms of work in the automobile industry: toward the factory of the future WCM@FCA” broadly aims at studying new technological paradigms and new forms of organization in manufacturing contexts, with a particular focus on the automotive industry. To understand how to increase productivity, quality and cost efficiency, the team has
WCM@FCA: New forms of work in the Automobile Industry: toward the Factory of the Future Read More »
Guaranteeing a future for cultural heritage in an era of rapid technological innovation is a complex challenge. The aim of this project is to develop a tool to support the choice of an Adaptive reuse for three castles in Valle d’Aosta (Chateau Vallaise in Arnad, Sant-Germain castle in Montjovet and Ussel castle). Adaptive reuse is
ARCHe_Tool: Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage Read More »
The need to monitor the territory, as can be seen from Regional, National and International requests, is strong and growing. The development of technologies for environmental monitoring and regional safety represents an important aspect for the management and control system. Fixed or rotary-wing aircraft are currently used in this role for monitoring coastlines and borders,
PTHELI: Piston twin helicopters for territorial and environmental safeguarding Read More »
In the age of urbanization, mountain areas are facing a continuous depopulation and a decrease in socio-economic standards, which entails a disharmony development leading to a substantial marginalization of these territories. Energy park project intends to emphasize the strength points of the alpine areas, exploiting the use of new technologies and innovation in order to
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The Turin Energy Centre multidisciplinary project is a work aimed at designing the functions and assessing the energy performance of a 20.000 m2 under-construction building. The paradox of having to fill an “about-to-be-completed” empty box embodies both an opportunity and a challenge: on one hand, the need to outline innovative functions is a great chance
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The aim of the project is to draw the next frontiers of cold spray (CS), a new, solid-state coating deposition technology. At first, the process and its advantages and disadvantages have been assessed. Then, current equipment, materials and applications have been studied, in order to outline present technological limits from the study of recent innovations
ECOFRONT: Exploring the Frontiers of Cold Spray Read More »
Climate change concerns, urban air pollution and new regulations in the transport sector are shifting the attention to Electric Mobility, recognised as the most sustainable solution to alleviate these environmental problems. However, technological and infrastructure problems are limiting its scale-up only to few countries, and Electric Vehicles in Italy still represent a niche market. The
E-MOD: Electric MObility Development in Italy, a multidisciplinary evaluation Read More »
Nowadays in the western world, two main trends are giving birth to several opportunities and threats from social, political, legal, environmental and economical perspectives: the aging population and the third wave of the digital revolution. IoT and wearable devices in particular are technologies that enable new products and services for wellness and for elderly. This
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The HyperSMS project is devoted to the identification of a solution for achieving reusability of space vehicles and thus increasing space access capability. What really is the obstacle for the realization of a truly reusable space vehicle is the flight phase called re-entry, when the space vehicle impacts with the Planetary atmosphere at hypersonic velocity.
HyperSMS: GOING HYPERSONIC, Spaceplane Multifunctional Structures Read More »
In the context of this project, we applied the principles of neuromorphic computing to the classification of EMG signals, proposing an innovative approach to prostheses control. Although the market already provides high-tech solutions in fact, the process of adapting industry-standard prostheses to patients is nowadays complex and lengthy. For some aspects, it can be said
MEM-BRAIN: MEMristor synapses for BRAIN computing Read More »
In recent years the data companies collect from their business have increased exponentially and new frontiers of information extraction has started the so called Big Data techniques. In fact the real value that companies can obtain from data measured not only upon the quantity of collected data but also upon the process they implement to
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Visual impairment is a global health issue which impacts the life of about 285 millions of people, interfering with their daily activities and routine. Among the major obstacles faced everyday by blind and visually impaired people, orientation and mobility are of utmost relevance, preventing a fully autonomous life. The design of a wearable user-centered device
ORIENTOMA: A wearable orientation system for blind and visually impaired people Read More »
Space has always captured human imagination ever since the most ancient civilizations, but it was only in the last century that science evolved to the point where the actual space exploration could start. Nowadays astronomy and aerospace studies are among the most advanced fields of research and development in the world. The extreme conditions in
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Currently, the approach in life science teaching makes a wide use of visual representations, especially when molecules are involved. Indeed, due to their size they represent an abstract knowledge that sometimes can be difficult for students to grasp. Visual perception is usually superior if compared to touch: first of all it is rapid, while touch
Haptichem: A Haptic-Enhanced Framework for Chemistry Teaching and Research Read More »
As Aristotle said, “Man is by nature a social animal”. One of the main characteristics of human beings is the will to be together and form communities; doing this, we are able to help each other. A crucial condition to enable this cohesion is to share a language: that is the only way to communicate
PARLOMA: A Communication System for Deafblind People Read More »
Information technologies offer innovative ways to deal with urban space. EXPO 2015, as occasion to promote the local and regional area values, requires an original idea of mapping able to record, analyze and represent dynamically the complexity and heterogeneity of the hosting territory. The project aims to produce innovative senseable images of the city enhancing
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The Smart City is stuck in the middle between visionary concepts and implementation problems whose origin often lies in organizational and management problems. Since Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are often a commodity, what hinders the development of the Smart City is a lack of business and governance models defining how ICT-based initiatives can create
Data4cities : Smart big data for smart cities Read More »
Operating in the energy sector and interested in the new market possibilities offered by the Micro Combined Heat and Power (µCHP) generation, the group AsjaGen S.r.l. has proposed a study of different technologies in order to understand which is the most promising for innovative production systems to be installed in single-family houses. In an effort
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Cycling Tourism is a new and great challenge for enhancing our territories thanks to its powerful ability to generate green jobs, economies, cultural actions involving people. In this general topic, a project named VENTO, born by DAStU – Politecnico di Milano and based on the idea to realize a green infrastructure – a cycling tourism
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The ESTIA project is an innovative product-service solution for earthquake-related housing emergency in ‘aree sparse’, meaning all those areas far from the main urban centres, where housing emergencies cannot be tackled through standard procedures (i.e. large makeshift camps). The groundwork of the project was the collaboration with two external partners: AcellTec Ltd and Protezione Civile
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The proposed solution is a wearable device ecosystem, called IOM (Internet of Mobility), consisting of: a wearable device, which exploits a set of different sensors to collect several environmental data; a multiplatform application delivered both on mobile and web platforms, for an intuitive and appealing visualization of the collected information. Around the wearable device, however,
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In the 21st century, changes in economy, politics, culture and social life caused changes in the role of museums. This project aims to respond to the contemporary and future needs of museums, considering digital technologies as important tools in communication between all users. Our interpretation of possible solution is reflected in MemoMapp project, that is
MUSEUM CLUSTERS ICT: New digital and interactive spaces for new museum clusters Read More »
What does it mean to build a national railway that can switch from freights to passengers in a developing country? Which relations and connections have to be taken into account? Is it possible to enhance the potentiality of a growing nation taking into account both needs of local population and stakeholders’ perspective? How to develop
MO.MO: MOving MOzambique – from freights to passengers Read More »
The ASP project “The Age of Smart Factories: New ICT for the Automotive Supply Chain of the Future” was commissioned to the group by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Centro Ricerche Fiat with the aim of presenting the students with some concrete and specific issues affecting a complex automotive supply chain, in order to analyse the
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In the Digital Era, social media provide to the fashion industry a powerful tool to stimulate discussion and build brand awareness, along with improving consumer relationships through interactivity and networking. As a result, social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are mostly exploited to promote engagement but also to develop digital marketing strategies to increase
BUZZWORD: Sensing fashion brands through social networks Read More »
In recent years, many studies have revealed the increasing rate of hospital obsolescence. This fact is a reflection of the fast pace at which contemporary society and medicine evolve. Therefore, each part of the hospital should be designed to adapt to fast changes without having a big impact on the daily routine of patients and
OPEN BUILDING: Open Building for Future Healthcare Environments Read More »
Thermal, acoustic and lighting comforts are fundamental aspects in the design of sustainable or resource efficient buildings. The need for low-impact structures is compelling in a world dominated by power demand and threatened by energy shortage. In order to respond to this need, our work has focused on a performative, environment-responsive structure that exploits rigid
E-AdaSt: Environment-driven Adaptive Structure Read More »
Sustainability has become an international agenda; and due to its size, complexity, and influence in society, it is important to enhance sustainability in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). Our team divide the big and wide terms of sustainable university into six clusters: Protocols, Economic and Feasible studies, Building Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Food and Waste, and User
ISy WiRe U: Internal Synergies for Wiser Resources Use in University Campuses Read More »
The Additive Manufacturing technology is one of the agents responsible for the 4th industrial revolution for at least three reasons. First, it offers the possibility to produce complex parts without the design constraints of traditional manufacturing routes. Second, scrap rates for AM parts are usually below 5%, compared to scrap rates of more than 90%
The Smart Light project consists in the development of a car taillight that is smarter than what is currently available on the market. The objective is to overcome the mere signaling function of ordinary rear lights by producing a device that is able to effectively deal with variable weather conditions, so as to always guarantee
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Main purpose of the project has been the synthesis of a new nanogel based on a PEG-PEI copolymer decorated with a modified guanidino-glycoside compound. This nanogel should then offer the possibility to embody an antitumoral drug which did not need to undergo any previous chemical modification. The great strength of this nanogel is its ability
The FIAMME project consisted in developing a surface finishing process that could be effective on additively manufactured (AM) components with complex geometries. AM parts can reach average roughness (Ra) values up to 100 µm, which strongly affects the possible application of the component. The team focused on the surface finishing of internal mini-channels of an
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The Active Pedal is an innovative accelerator pedal developed by Robert Bosch GmbH which applies haptic stimuli (vibration, counterforce or knocking) under certain situations; the commercial target of the pedal is the automotive market, aiming to reduce the fuel consumption and to improve the safety during driving. The objective of this Alta Scuola Politecnica multidisciplinary
Active Pedal: Evaluation of Business Opportunities for Bosch Active Pedal Read More »
Technology allows people employed in certain jobs to work everywhere, as long as they have a laptop, a phone and internet connection. However, this does not mean that offices are no longer needed, especially in environments where creativity and problem-solving are daily activities. Human interaction is often the key to address such issues and come
This project focus on the evaluation of the memristive technology applied to a specific pattern recognition problem. In particular, we selected as pattern recognition problem the arrhythmia detection and we compared the memristive technology performance with the currently used one based on classical technology. The memristor is a newly discovered electronic component that can be
MINT: Memristive Neuromorphics for Smart Internet of Things Read More »
Water resources are the core of any sustainable development, but they have been highly affected by unsustainable development and lack of appropriate government policies, and that brought the constantly increasing demand for fresh water. If the balance between demand and availability of a limited resource will not be restored, the world will have to cope
WaLi: Water for Life Read More »
Marginal Assets Project (MAP) has the aim to propose practices and recommendations for converting disused thermoelectric power plants maintaining their industrial heritage. In order to do so, the team committed to the project has been structured by choosing students owning different backgrounds and skills, thus allowing to cover all the fundamental aspects required to achieve
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3D food printing integrates the technology and techniques of 3D printing and additive manufacturing, together with gastronomy. Alongside Dutch research institution TNO (The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research), the Italian pasta goliath, Barilla S.p.A., has developed a prototype 3D printer dedicated to the food market. Although the possibilities for this type of novel device
FoodMade4U: Challenging 3D food printing Read More »
The ASP group developed their activity working in parallel with the S [m2] art research project, winner of the MIUR Smart Cities and Social Innovation tender (SCN_00325). In particular, starting from the same concept of S [m2] art, they had the task of designing some alternative proposals, even more innovative. The member group belongs to
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Seeing the need to have more communication skill training done in the academic sector, gave birth to this project being recommended by IBM and further harnessed by the Alta Scuola Politecnica advisors. To explore the transition for this work, a multi-criteria analysis is performed. The first step is the Stakeholder analysis, necessary to deeply investigate
BRIDGE: Bridging the gap between Industry and Academia Read More »
Climbing is a complex task, involving strength, balance and coordination. The performance of a climber is experience based and more insights in the mechanics of climbing could be gained by measuring the contact forces of the climber, for the centre of mass calculation in real time. A multiaxial load cell was developed to measure the
MACLoC: Multi-Axis Climbing Load Cells for performance analysis in sport climbing Read More »
Profound and dramatic changes in the customer needs and requirements are shaping the mobility industry and new business models based on innovative products and service systems are arising in the market. Incumbents, e.g. Bosch, are looking for new opportunities to expand their customer base and product service portfolio. The project aims at defining the positioning
BMSI: Bosch Mobility Scope Italyg system Read More »
Nowadays, the increased competition on the global markets pushes companies to face the trade-off between volume and variety. Customers simultaneously ask for huge quantities and very specific product requirements. New strategies are required to keep high the competitiveness. This challenging context has lead Inkmaker to establish some ambitious objectives and envision the project MODULA. Inkmaker
MODULA: Web Configurator for Automatic dispensing system Read More »
The ongoing transformation of energy systems towards a decentralized production model requires a new centrality and active involvement of energy consumers (or prosumers) in electricity markets. The consumption behaviors should be adapted to market conditions providing savings to the customers and benefits to the energy system as a whole. Customer empowerment requires the adoption of
SMITh: Smart Metering with Internet of Things Read More »
MInD is a proposal for the development of a new territorial and management model. Set in the regional territory around Cassano d’Adda, the project builds on the current state of industrial production and its traditional unevolved settlements, organised in rigid and separated clusters, by proposing a new model based on a network of hotspots enhancing
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Climate change is happening now: temperatures are rising, rainfall patterns are shifting, glaciers are melting and the global average sea level is rising. Everyone seems to know about it, but unfortunately most of this common knowledge is based on misinformation rather than on scientific facts. The truth is that it is actually very difficult to
DREAM: Drone tEchnology for wAter resources and hydrologic hazards Monitoring Read More »
Nowadays, expected effects of climate change at local, regional and global scales endanger hydrologic budgets of Alpine regions. An example is the massive shrinkage of mountain glaciers, with the consequent problem of water resources reduction for civil population and ecosystems. Therefore, it is very important to monitor glaciers’ evolution, in order to allow an estimation
DREAM 2: Drone tEchnology for wAter resources and hydrologic hazards Monitoring Read More »
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia that affects about 2% of the population. The prevalence of AF increases with age, from 0.5% at 40–50 years, to 5–15% at 80 years. AF is associated with increased rates of death, stroke, heart failure and hospitalizations as well as degraded quality of life, reduced exercise capacity,
NRGWaste is a micro scale, turnkey, self-contained system for the treatment of unrecoverable waste at the point of arising, based on high temperature plasma pyrolysis and on downsized waste pre-treatment technology (metal extraction, shredding, pelletisation). The core of the micro treatment prototype is based on the downsizing of the technology used in large waste to
People shop online, book hotels and flights online. This happens because the data needed to complete these tasks are easily accessible and a lot of websites allows users to query the Web to obtain enough information to be confident. This project aims to propose a framework tailored to extend the internet revolution to public administrations.
EMIMT: E-Government meets integration and mining techniques Read More »
Diving is an activity in continuous development, firstly as an exciting and relaxing sport, secondly because of the increasing attention to the underwater environment requiring continuous and in-situ observation. In this contest, the underwater safety represents a vital requirement. Beside the regular maintenance of the equipment it would be expected that single divers have a
WISE-SOS: Wireless Security Solution for Scuba-diving Read More »
The enhancement of built cultural heritage is recognized as a major element for strengthening the economic base of a territory as it fuels development through its attractiveness for inhabitants and external visitors, in terms of both tangible and intangible values. Furthermore, the collective nature of built cultural heritage due to the large number of persons
In 2011, the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG) formulated a shared Global Exploration Strategy providing, in two different mission scenarios, the guidelines for the next decades manned and unmanned space exploration activities. The ‘Asteroid Next’ challenging mission scenario foresees two human visits of a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) up to 2035. Most of the key
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The SMAPS project is based on the idea that the smart development of cities should be connected to the design of the interaction between their traditional physical structure and the new digital informational infrastructure. This interaction can be primarily built through the introduction of new “smart” service ideas and solutions for the emerging needs of
SMAPS: Smart products, places and services for smart cities Read More »
Between 1950s and 1970s, Milan and Turin experienced an impressive growth in housing production. A consistent part of this building boom was made up of condominiums that aimed at meeting the cultural and spatial needs of an emerging middle class. Such factors, together with economic and regulatory aspects, deeply influenced the formal, typological and technological
sMAIN is a project completely focused on innovation and product development. It originates from a collaboration between Alta Scuola Politecnica and Electrolux Company and the main goal was to conceive a completely new product to be used in households, in particular in the kitchen area. During the two years of our group work on this
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Our world and our lives are led by innovation. New brilliant solutions and break-through ideas dawn as answers to go further everyday obstacles or just to force mind set barrels. Among these novel projects, energy harvesting, which is the study of all those technologies capable of realizing the direct conversion of reduced amount of energy
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The importance of reactivating abandoned industrial areas is becoming important nowadays due to the fact that these kind of sites can impose a risk to people but also can be a restrain to urban development. The issues that makes requalification of this kind of areas difficult is because its intrinsic complexity: there is a polluted
ARE: The Adaptive Remediation & Reuse Read More »
