Project acronym: Traffic Shaper

Project full title: Traffic Shaper

Duration: 24 months – Completed

Programme: Project co-funded by the European Commission and the CIP EMMIA Programme

Goals: The Traffic Shaper is a server-side platform and a mobile application to support enhanced mobility of drivers and daily commuters by allowing multiple travel route choices that take into account detected and predicted traffic jams. With Traffic Shaper, the shaping of the road vehicular flow will be done by merging and analyzing route requests with the historic and live road traffic conditions, and by homogeneously distributing the flow among alternative routes, all in order to mitigate the traffic jam issues as well as the drivers safety or air pollution issues.

The two-year Traffic Shaper project involves five European Partners, that all contribute their specific expertise and skills in the fields of the project. The Consortium includes:

• ANCI Umbria – Regional Organisation (Italy)
• T-Connect d.o.o. – Mobile application solutions provider (Slovenia)
• INNOVA s.p.a. – Innovation & Technology Consulting (Italy)
• ENCADRE – European Network of Clusters for satellite Applications Development in Regions of Europe – Technical (France)
• CFLI – Consortium for the Intermodal and Logistics Training Centre (Italy)

Activities: Application Construction,Backend system development, Mobile application development

Project full title: UrbanSensing

Project site: urban-sensing.eu

Duration: 24 months – Completed

Programme: 7th Framework Programme – Capacities programme

Type of project: Research for the Benefits of SMEs

Goals: The ✳UrbanSensing project will bring a new product to the urban design, city planning and urban management market: a platform extracting patterns of use and citizens’ perceptions related or concerning city spaces, through robust analysis of User Generated Content (UGC) shared by the city users and inhabitants over social networks and digital media. The platform will allow to analyze users’ perceptions related to specific geographic areas and understand how population reacts to new urban policies within participatory mechanisms. It also gives insight in the lack of structures offered by institutions and city administrations and propose interventions, also within collaborative frameworks and to discover possible emergent structures and bottom-up initiatives responding to uncovered needs and desires. Next to this it will help to understand how specific user groups use public spaces and for instance, identify locations suitable for design interventions.

The two-year ✳UrbanSensing project involves six European Partners, that all contribute their specific expertise and skills in the fields of the project. The Consortium includes 3 SMEs:

• Accurat (Italy)
• LUST (Netherlands)
• Mobivery (Spain)

and 3 Research Performers:

• T-Connect (Italy)
• IT4all (France)
• Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia)

The tools and services provided by Urban Sensing will support the SMEs involved in the consortium in their decision-making processes through a set of personalization of the platform in three main information domains:

• Urban Policy assessment (Accurat)
• Communication, Exhibitions, Events assessment (LUST).
• Public transportation, commuting assessment (Mobivery)

Activities: Project coordination, support for architectural definition, design and development of the UGC collectors, UI development.

Dissemination: Area Magazine (Trieste Area Science Park) – Urban Sensing: studiare le dinamiche delle città coi social (Corriere.it)

Project acronym: GEEWHEZ

Project full title: Networked Embedded System middleware for Heterogeneous physical devices in a distributed architecture

Duration: 24 months – Completed

Programme: 7th Framework Programme – Capacities programme

Type of project: Research for the Benefits of SMEs

Goals: GEEWHEZ aims to develop a new platform able to support SMEs in two main aspects of their business activities:

• supporting the employees during their daily tasks, at least as the traditional market solution, but with simpler interfaces, easier way to use, cheaper and higher personalisation opportunity
• providing tools to physically evaluate the performance of the SME by means of different data collected by GEEWHEZ in the overall SME infrastructure. Each module is not a standalone solution but it is a part of a more general system able to collect, analyse, evaluate and compare these data with other ones providing an evaluation of the actual SME business status

The solutions are very expensive and they do not fit very well with the needs of an SME. GEEWHEZ wants to fulfil this gap presenting a clear and effective solution. To prove how GEEWHEZ will increase the productivity of the SMEs, inside the consortium there are two different types of SMEs, the first one is composed by Animal Theme Parks (ATPs) for whom a management and monitoring system, scaled on their real activities, are a business priority:

• Zoomarine (Italy)
• Tiergarten (Germany)
• Zoobotànico Jerez (Spain)

The second type of SME are software companies:

• Matematici (Italy)
• Gamma (Germany)
• Pentos (Spain)

with real expertise in software development. The interest and the SME’s core businesses will pave the way for GEEWHEZ inside the market, not only at the end of the project but also during its development phase. Thanks to the iterative work-plan, planned in the proposal, will be released different GEEWHEZ prototypes and each of them will be ready to face a particular scenario selected in WP2 following the real needs of ATPs.

Activities: Support for architectural definition, design and development of the middleware, leisure system development on mobile devices.

Project full title: Wireless Solutions to improvE yoUr workforce Perfomance

Duration: 15 mounths – Completed

Programme: 6th Framework Programme – Eten

Type of project: Market validation

Goals: Wise-up project will test and validate on different European markets an innovative service provided for ‘mobile workers’ which allows multidirectional remote access to data such as datasheet, technical reports and digital maps with mobile terminals. In particular it will support maintenance and technical assistance workforce working with Telecommunication devices and network equipments and being prevalently outside their office’s premises at customers’ sites and needing an anytime and anywhere access to real time data.

Activities: Technical requirements definition, set up test field and test execution.

Remote DB Access has a functional interface that allows to:

Remote DB Access is customisable according specific user requirements in relation to interfaces and contents.

The product has been adopted by a consultancy company to support the employees working outside the office and allow them to access a central database with UMTS smartphones.

The software is Java both on client and on sever side: an interface module has been installed on a server and clients (smartphones/PDAs) accessing to the application support J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition).