The partnership of the SMARTOUR project was built trying to unite in the team subjects with solid, diversified and specific abilities inherent to the themes of the project. The general guideline was to build the right balance between scientific, innovation and research skills (University / EdR), specialist and vertical technological and operational skills (SMEs) and skills transversal to manage large projects, designing complex system architectures that integrate heterogeneous components and supplies in a single solution.
ICAMPUS
ICAMPUS is a consortium of small and medium-sized enterprises which, operating in carrying out scientific, technological, technical experimentation and updating programs in the field of information technology, telecommunications and new multimedia technologies, will provide a wide range of solutions and products.
ICA's vocation is to invest in R&D, collaborating with private and public research organizations, such as the Campania Region ICT Regional Competence Center (Cerict) and the Universities of Sannio and Federico II of Naples..
SPACE is a specialized Large enterprise that has been conducting a close business for over 25 years innovation on the issues of communicating the values of identity and supporting experience tourist-cultural with multimedia and multi-sensory technologies.
Advanced Microwave Engineering is an engineering company with specific skills in the fields of wireless sensor network, RFID sensors, antennas for the Security, Safety and Logistics markets.
01Sistemi (01S) is an information technology company with skills rooted in software development techniques, web design and web-based integration, system integration based on XML solutions.
01S participates in the ISLE Tuscan regional research project, in the field of semantic content engineering. https://www.01s.it/
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SOFTEC
SOFTEC is an SME that has been present in the IT market for over 15 years and specializes in the development of new organizational models, infrastructures and multi-platform and multi-device technological solutions, which allow companies a collaborative use of applications, information and the possibility of establishing new relationships.
NEXSE is an SME born from a spin-off of La Sapienza University. NEXSE coordinates the FP7 PLEASED (PLants Employed As SEnsing Devices) project, and is a member of the Pro-ARTEMIS cast CHIRON (Cyclic and person-centric Health management: Integrated appRoach for home, mobile and clinical eNvironments), of the FP7 VITRO (Virtualized dIstributed plaTfoRms of smart Objects), of the EUROSTARS PHARMAID Project on passive RFID infrastructures for the market pharmaceutical. https://www.linkedin.com/company/nexse/
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META
META (META) is an SME specialized in advanced technology products and services for communication and engineering of cultural content: websites and portals, applications for devices
mobile, multi-media systems for publishing and teaching, integrated solutions for museum, archival and library information technology, solutions and products for Content Document Management, Knowledge Management and Semantic Intelligence.
META is part of the Athena Plus partnership, a project selected by the EC as part of the ICT PSP objective 2.1 Europeana and creativity - Content for Europeana program; participates in the ISLE projects, co-financed by the Region of Tuscany, and NeoLuoghi, as part of the national MIUR Research PON. https://www.gruppometa.it/
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PHOOPS
Phoops (PHOOPS) is an IT company specializing in information security. Its professionals, in collaboration with some important Italian universities, have developed a
open source product for analyzing the robustness of network protocols. Parallel to the product, Phoops is able to provide a wide range of IT security services, from black box testing to penetration testing of network infrastructures. https://phoops.it/
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ENVISENS
ENVISENS (ENV) is a spin-off of the Polytechnic of Turin, established in 2006, participated by the Polytechnic itself and officially authorized to use their logo. ENVISENS is an engineering company that develops innovative and highly technological solutions in the fields of environmental monitoring and safety with particular reference to sensors and simulators. The company is able to develop prototypes or small and large-scale productions of sensors.
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NEXSOFT
Nexsoft is an Italian leader in the IT Services sector. More than 140 talented people, working with confidence and passion, develop high-quality software solutions. Advanced services in System Integration, Managed Services and IT Consulting represent the technological business of a company that operates according to strong values of professional, human and social responsibility. https://www.nexsoft.it/
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UNIPG
The University of Perugia (UNIPG) through the Department of Engineering (DI) has acquired research experience in the field of enhancement of landscape heritage, which had as its object the design of a capable technological platform to propose "thematic" itineraries based on the specific interests of the user, enriched by information capable of transforming the travel experience into a cultural and environmental experience. The DI has also developed expertise in the field of microwave sensors for the analysis and non-invasive diagnostics of artistic assets. The DI contributes to the project by providing skills in the analysis and development of systems for the planning and use of landscape, environmental and cultural itineraries and in the definition of visualization tools for the analysis of touristic flows. https://ing.unipg.it/
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LSAP
Sapienza ranks among the world's top 200 universities in the 2023 edition of the QS World University Rankings, and the third nationally. Sapienza has obtained top rankings in 10 disciplines, among which Computer Science and Information Systems. Sapienza participates in the SMARTOUR project with two Computer Science Departments, the Dipartimento di Informatica (DI) and Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica e Gestionale Antonio Ruberti (DIAG) which have been both nominated by the Italian Ministry of University and Education "Department of Excellence" during the period 2018-2022. In the Smartour project, the two departments brought their skills and research competences related to information and knowledge mining, communication systems and the Internet of Things.
Learn more about the IoT and communication systems group here.
Learn more about the knowledge and Information Mining group here.
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POLITO
The Politecnico di Torino contributes to the project through various departments involved and by putting in various fields
specializations. In particular, the Department of Environmental Engineering of the Territory and Infrastructures has specific skills in the field of creating 3D models and numerical maps from data acquired with mobile platforms (terrestrial and aerial). The Department of Arch. And Design has specific skills in identifying Be cultural nes through the acquisition and processing of photogrammetric and LiDAR data. The Interuniversity Dept. of Territorial Sciences, Project and Policies (DIST) contributes with skills in the geometric and radiometric knowledge of the Cultural Heritage and, in the monitoring of sites protected by UNESCO and in the management of emergencies that may interact with the cultural and environmental heritage. https://www.polito.it/
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UNITN
University of Trento through the Department of Engineering and Science of Information and the research groups ELEDIA and MMLab conducts study, development and testing of technologies and methodologies respectively in the field of wireless localization of individuals or groups of individuals in complex environments through distributed sensor networks (wireless sensor networks , WSN) and the definition of a user-centered virtual guide, with characteristics of mobility, multimedia, multimodality, and social interaction. These activities can find natural use in projects whose objective is the use and also the conservation (declined both in terms of safety and security) of tangible and / or intangible cultural assets. https://www.disi.unitn.it/
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CNR
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) is the largest public research institution in Italy,
the only one under the Research Ministry performing multidisciplinary activities.
Founded as legal person on 18 November 1923, CNR’s mission is to perform research in
its own Institutes, to promote innovation and competitiveness of the national industrial
system, to promote the internationalization of the national research system, to provide
technologies and solutions to emerging public and private needs, to advice Government
and other public bodies, and to contribute to the qualification of human resources.
In the Cnr's research world, the main resource is the available knowledge which means
people, with their skills, commitment and ideas. This capital comprises more than 8.000
employees, of whom more than half are researchers and technologists. Some 4.000
young researchers are engaged in postgraduate studies and research training at CNR
within the organization’s top-priority areas of interest. A significant contribution also comes
from research associates: researchers, from Universities or private firms, who take part in
CNRs research activities.
In SMARTOUR Project CNR team is composed by researchers working in three different institutes:
the Istituto per la Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone” (IAC), the Istituto di analisi dei Sistemi ed
Informatica “Antonio Ruberti” (IASI) and the Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo
Sviluppo (IRISS)
IAC: The specific mission of the Institute is "to develop highly advanced mathematical, statistical
and computational methods in order to solve, in a mostly interdisciplinary context, problems with
strong relevance to society and industry". Applications can be found in many fields having direct
impact on the society such as engineering (material science, turbulence, Bose-Einstein
condensation, microflows), medical sciences and biology (medical image processing, genomics, the
human immune system, blood flow), environment (analysis of satellite data for earth observation,
modelling icefield processes on polar lithosphere), transportation (urban traffic modeling), finance
and economics (optimization of the management of the Public Debt in Italy, micro-dynamics of
financial markets), cultural heritage (degradation of ancient monuments), manufacturing (robotics,
computer vision, scheduling problems), computer science (networks, security). IAC holds facilities
(several Intel multi-core processor units with terabytes of data storage and some terabyte of volatile
memory) to support the development, debugging and testing of the computational models.
Moreover, CNR is part of the CINECA consortium, the largest Italian supercomputing centre.
IASI: Our mission is to design formal models and to use them to understand, control and optimize
the behavior of complex systems. We develop methods and tools in different disciplines: Discrete
Mathematics, Mathematical Optimization, Statistics, Formal Logic, Computer Science,
Control Theory, Systems Science, Bibliometrics. We concretely apply new and existing tools to
solve relevant problems in Biomedicine, Transportation, Enterprise Management, Research
Evaluation, Cultural Heritage.
IRISS: The mission of the IRISS is to study innovation and services to support the international
competitiveness of companies and territories, contexts in which economic, cultural and human
value is generated. Research themes are addressed through a systemic and interdisciplinary
approach that combines the economic and business perspective, the territorial planning and
management perspective and the legal perspective, which interact in the research activities of the
Institute.
The mission of the IRISS is consistent with the cultural and scientific project shaped in 2014,
required by the CNR and entrusted to the community of Researchers of the Institute, with its
Technologists, Technicians and Administrative staff.
