2013

Smart-k: The app that will make small knitwear companies bigger

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 […]

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PIA_A: Playing Architecture, a prototype of a smart public building

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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SCIeNCE: Food and Water Security in Changing Climate

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

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ACED-IoT : Safe Cities through Cloud and the Internet of Things

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

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SYN DYAG: Development of a system for 3D face comparison aimed at medically diagnosing rare diseases and syndromes involving face dysmorphisms

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

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GoAAL: NEA Going towards solutions for Ambient Assisted Living

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

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Virtual Museum: Virtual Museum for the XXI century

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

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Inteface Design: Definition of a User-Friendly System for Data Mining

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

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EXPeeRIA: Experiencing a Network of Places for Expo

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

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