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)

1. Inside the park, visitors could check their positions and find their friends in the park to play with the them using the several games available
2. Outside the park, to be updated about the news of the park the price of the tickets and the attraction available

The App provides an interactive map suitable to find easily the several services available in the park and it assures to the visitors to be continuously informed about what is happening in the park. Moreover the App provides the opportunity to create groups among visitors in order to keep them always in contact.

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.

It is based on Bluetooth and allows to:

BlueMobile is the ideal solution for different scenarios:

Geoloc allows an operator in the head quarter to:

A mobile user is able to:

The platform is open and ready for the integration of indoor localisation modules with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth technologies.

Our teams are able to offer a turn-key service covering all the activities necessary to the acceptance of mobile terminals:

Planning

• Test Cases
• Test Plan
• Test Routes
• Special Investigation

Direction

• Test Teams Coordination
• Daily/Weekly work plan definition

Execution

• Radio Lab Testing Team
• Radio Field Testing Team
• Application Testing Team
• Social Testing Team

Documentation

• Daily Report
• Defect Report
• Weekly Report
• Gate Report
• Project Report

The areas of intervention cover Radio features (in Controlled Laboratory and on the Commercial Network), the Application area (Messaging, Browsing, Connectivity, etc.) and the social Area (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Skype, etc.)

Our team consists of engineers and technicians with proven experience of many years, and can boast of collaborations with leading vendors of mobile terminals worldwide.

The evolution of the features of mobile terminals is our challenge.