Information technology

CHECK: CHatbots in Education and Culture for Knowledge acquisition

13th Cycle, 2017, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The CHECK project applies AI and cognitive technologies for creating a novel approach to development of smart chatbots. Assuming that a large body of content exists, the iCHAT technology develops, in a sustainable manner, chatbots helping the user to efficiently use that body of content. Two real-life applications are envisioned: a) An Education-Bot assisting pupils […]

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ReCoUAV: ReCoUAV: Innovative High Dependable and Reconfigurable

2012, 8th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

The purpose of this team project is the investigation of potential future applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for civil purposes. The first task involves the analysis of the UAVs state of the art and the identification of the normative that regulates their flights: the standard procedures were identified by direct contact with mainly ENAC

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BBC-I: Banking Business Customer Internationalization

2012, 8th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

Most Small and Medium Enterprises (i.e., SMEs) hardly dare to extend their business abroad alone. In Italy only 7% of SMEs operators are active in the international business. They often do not have a dedicated export department, resources to analyze in depth the market, they do not speak the language and they are not fully

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Colorado: Community-based policies for natural resource sustainable development

2012, 8th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The project compare problems, approaches and solutions applied to the sustainable planning and management of natural resources in two distinct geographical landscapes: the 5 Terre (marine environment) and the Valle Varaita (alpine region). The final aim is to develop as far as possible innovative policies in order to manage local resources that trying to solve

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Smart-k: The app that will make small knitwear companies bigger

2013, 9th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

In Italy, small and medium knitwear companies are the ones suffering more the ongoing economic crisis. While International fashion brands have kept on exploiting economy of scales and delocalization strategies, small players have not been able to defend their share of market. Even if they own extraordinary skills and expertise, often they are not able

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FRUC: Future of Retailing in Urban Cities

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Projects in the spotlight, Research Topics, University, Year

Small urban retailers, in European cities, are facing a decrease in attractiveness because of the increase number of shopping malls, big chain shops and internet retailers. This led to the closure of a relevant number of stores and to the consequent reduction of people’s traffic in cities’ street. These closures are negatively affecting the vivacity

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PTHELI- Piston twin helicopters for territorial and environmental safeguarding

10th Cycle, 2014, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The need to monitor the territory, as can be seen from Regional, National and International requests, is strong and growing. The development of technologies for environmental monitoring and regional safety represents an important aspect for the management and control system. Fixed or rotary-wing aircraft are currently used in this role for monitoring coastlines and borders,

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ACED-IoT : Safe Cities through Cloud and the Internet of Things

2013, 9th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The ongoing growth of urban population coupled with the frequency of extreme weather phenomena all over the world is causing an increase in the exposure of people and goods to natural hazards. This implies a general rise of the risk level. The culture of risk prevention and management is increasingly widespread – also due to

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SYN DYAG: Development of a system for 3D face comparison aimed at medically diagnosing rare diseases and syndromes involving face dysmorphisms

2013, 9th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

SYN DYAG, SYNdromes DIAGnosis, is a project devoted to the development of a system for 3D face comparison aimed at medically diagnosing rare diseases and syndromes involving face dysmorphisms in a pre-birth phase. The concrete problems we had to face since the beginning, and that made of this project a hard challenge were: the necessity

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GoAAL: NEA Going towards solutions for Ambient Assisted Living

2013, 9th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Projects in the spotlight, Research Topics, University, Year

The aim of the GoAAL project is to increase the degree of independent living of disabled persons, in particular with motor impairments. The concept of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) implies the use of innovative ICT-based products, services and systems for disabled people to increase the quality of life and the social inclusion, with the advantage

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