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 Website: http://www.ict-mimax.eu

Project full title: Advanced MIMO Systems for MAXimum Reliability and Performance

Duration: 36 months – Ended

Programme: 7th Framework Programme

Type of project: STREP Specific Targeted Research Project

Goals: MIMAX aims at developing of a pervasive, low-power consuming and low-cost MIMO network platform with reliable data-rate of up to 100 Mb/s in environments with strong multipath and coverage ranges up to several hundred meters.

Activities: Market Analysis, Application Scenarios, System Requirements and Exploitation, System Design and Architecture.

Project acronym: MIMAX

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

Duration: 48 mounths – Ended

Programme: 6th Framework Programme – Priority 2 – IST

Type of project: IP Integrated Project

Goals: Research, develop, and validate middleware for networked embedded systems that allows developers to develop cost-effective, high-performance Ambient Intelligence applications for heterogeneous physical devices.

Activities: Support for architectural definition, identification of Web Services for wireless devices, component integration.

ZT-node is a is a wireless sensor network node, a complete modular solution able to integrate several sensors over a single board.

Using Zigbee transceiver we can implement up to 240 different sensors over the same board allowing the realization of different scenarios using the same node. Thanks to the limited Zigbee energy consumption our sensors could live for months without battery change.

Due to its modularity we can adapt the ZT-node to particular situations able to monitor different situations and to satisfy the customer needs.

All the communication aspects are managed by a Zigbee transceiver working in API mode. The node is composed by a PIC microcontroller connected with several sensors: