The Turin Energy Centre multidisciplinary project is a work aimed at designing the functions and assessing the energy performance of a 20.000 m2 under-construction building. The paradox of having to fill an “about-to-be-completed” empty box embodies both an opportunity and a challenge: on one hand, the need to outline innovative functions is a great chance […]
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Nowadays in the western world, two main trends are giving birth to several opportunities and threats from social, political, legal, environmental and economical perspectives: the aging population and the third wave of the digital revolution. IoT and wearable devices in particular are technologies that enable new products and services for wellness and for elderly. This
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The HyperSMS project is devoted to the identification of a solution for achieving reusability of space vehicles and thus increasing space access capability. What really is the obstacle for the realization of a truly reusable space vehicle is the flight phase called re-entry, when the space vehicle impacts with the Planetary atmosphere at hypersonic velocity.
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In the context of this project, we applied the principles of neuromorphic computing to the classification of EMG signals, proposing an innovative approach to prostheses control. Although the market already provides high-tech solutions in fact, the process of adapting industry-standard prostheses to patients is nowadays complex and lengthy. For some aspects, it can be said
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In recent years the data companies collect from their business have increased exponentially and new frontiers of information extraction has started the so called Big Data techniques. In fact the real value that companies can obtain from data measured not only upon the quantity of collected data but also upon the process they implement to
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Visual impairment is a global health issue which impacts the life of about 285 millions of people, interfering with their daily activities and routine. Among the major obstacles faced everyday by blind and visually impaired people, orientation and mobility are of utmost relevance, preventing a fully autonomous life. The design of a wearable user-centered device
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As Aristotle said, “Man is by nature a social animal”. One of the main characteristics of human beings is the will to be together and form communities; doing this, we are able to help each other. A crucial condition to enable this cohesion is to share a language: that is the only way to communicate
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The Smart City is stuck in the middle between visionary concepts and implementation problems whose origin often lies in organizational and management problems. Since Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are often a commodity, what hinders the development of the Smart City is a lack of business and governance models defining how ICT-based initiatives can create
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Operating in the energy sector and interested in the new market possibilities offered by the Micro Combined Heat and Power (µCHP) generation, the group AsjaGen S.r.l. has proposed a study of different technologies in order to understand which is the most promising for innovative production systems to be installed in single-family houses. In an effort
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The ASP project “The Age of Smart Factories: New ICT for the Automotive Supply Chain of the Future” was commissioned to the group by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Centro Ricerche Fiat with the aim of presenting the students with some concrete and specific issues affecting a complex automotive supply chain, in order to analyse the
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