Environmental safeguarding

DAHEC: Data Analytics for Household Energy Consumption

14th Cycle, 2018, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

DAHEC (Data Analytics for Household Energy Consumption) project aims to analyse and validate novel market opportunities through virtual pilot projects fed with synthetic but realistic disaggregated consumption data, overcoming the obstacles of real pilot projects. The synthetic data are outputs of a simulator of households’ energy consumption, ad-hoc implemented during the project. The innovative path […]

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Domestic Technology Evolution: Environmental and Behavioural Changes in People’s Life

01st Cycle, 2005, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics

Domestic environments change in time together with new lifestyles and new building and technical systems solutions. The rapid evolution and the wide diffusion of new information technologies is one of the phenomena that mostly characterizes the contemporaneity, together with other important trends related to the environment – climatic changes and iniquitous use of natural resources

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Corridor V: Territorial Policies and Local Development

01st Cycle, 2005, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics

The purpose of the project is to verify to what extent the so-called “Corridor policies”: – are considered by territorial bodies as an opportunity to support territorial and/or urban policies and are taken into account by economic subjects as means of subsisting initiatives of local development; – really act as an engine for sustainable development

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R(UE)²: Rational and sustainable use of energy in urban environments

01st Cycle, 2005, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics

The exploitation of primary energy resources together with the environmental pollution impacts are linked problems which need an integrated and multidisciplinary solution process. Particular solutions have to be found in urban environment where other critical aspects are present: traffic, residential heating and cooling, etc.. The application of some technologies as cogeneration or trigeneration allow a

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AEIOU Environment & Energy Hydrogen: Opportunities and Utilization

2006, 2nd Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics

The project wants to create and understand a global scenario for the so-called “H2 society”: the aim is to analyse the feasibility of spreading a new energy carries, both in terms of R&D on technologies and in terms of investment and infrastructures. The project context involves a complex set of implications, from environmental to energetic

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EPD: for Building sector

2006, 2nd Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics

In the near future, several industrial sectors will have to face the challenge of reducing air, water and soil pollutions, decreasing environmental damage: the construction industry could play a key role in sustainable development. Nowadays, designers have to select materials and technical solutions with low energy consumption and resource depletion. Internationally recognised LCA – Life

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SmartCopter: Sensor-vision-enabled autonomous robotic helicopter for civil applications in urban environments

2007, 3rd Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics

Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) are being developed by the aeronautical community at a fast pace and for a wide range of applications due to advances in sensor technology and automation. Missions which are best suited for UAV platforms are typically “dull, dirty and dangerous”. Among such missions, there are a number of operational scenarios which

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DWARFe: Environmental nanotechnology: applications, fate and risks of engineered nanoparticles

2007, 3rd Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics

This project combines two major topics. The first relates to the dramatic growth of the importance of nanotechnologies in science and engineering in the last few years; the second refers to the impact of human activities on the environment, which is becoming increasingly serious, and the stemming interventions which become necessary to reduce and control

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AdMIRE: Advanced Mobile Intelligence Reactive Environments

2007, 3rd Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics

The project AdMIRE combines existing (or forthcoming) solutions and technologies with an innovative vision centered around the use of modern mobile devices: cellular phones, iPhones and alike. The acronym, Advanced Mobile Intelligence and Reactive Environments, emphasizes the vision that “core” operations focus on the mobile device, in a number of different meanings: • it “holds”

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