A collection of case histories of successful collaborations between High Technology Network Laboratories and businesses. These are tangible and customisable examples of the application of new technologies, products, or services that show how industrial research can meet the needs of innovation.

Results: 9

Benchmarking energy consumption of municipal wastewater treatment plants

Targeted energy efficiency investments in WWTPs

The product allows to carry out an energy performance assessment in municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Following a preliminary data collection and related statistical processing, specific energy performance indicators are introduced in...

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SENECA- System for ENergy and Environmental Certification

Building energy and environmental assessment

SENECA is a tool to integrate with Environmental Management Systems able to support organizations, particularly in a more efficient management of energy consumption of buildings (both industrial and residential). The service is achieved through a web...

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EDIT Value Tool

Identify priorities to increase efficiency in Small and Medium Enterprises

The EDIT Value tool supports companies, especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), step-by-step and thanks to specific forms and checklists, in raising their awareness about the quantity and quality of the resources they use, the real costs...

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Sensing floors and Visual sensor network

Sensorised floors and visual sensor networks

Hardware and software design of behaviour recognition and analysis systems starting from data provided by innovative sensor networks, such as the new sensorised floors, or traditional, such as visual sensors, static and PTZ cameras and KINECT. With...

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Automatic monitors for indoor and outdoor air quality

Air quality assessment and design of management strategies

Automatic monitors analyzing atmospheric particulate allow to verify air quality in indoor and outdoor environments, to assess the exposure of the population to pollutants in different living environments, to identify the cause-effect relationships...

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Mobile Vision for augmented interactions

Automatic place recognition through images

Application for mobile devices (smartphones or wearable video cameras) that allows the surrounding environment, objects and people and their actions and interactions to be recognised and understood. Processing takes place directly on the device, and...

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LOGISTICS OF INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS

Aggregation of the haulage demand

Advanced software tools able to reduce the costs and impact of freight traffic generated by industrial districts taking advantage of the co-location of a number of companies. The nature itself of the Italian virtual enterprise, based on a complex...

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INSTRUMENTS FOR COLLABORATION AMONG NETWORKED COMPANIES

For the leading company and its partners

The purpose of the research is to analyse and test an innovative software solution supporting scheduling and coordination of activities within an enterprise network. The instrument being developed is a sort of ERP for collaborative small-to-medium...

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Environmental assessment of livestock production systems

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of livestock sectors (buffaloes, pigs, dairy cows)

The application of the Life Cycle Analysis methodology (LCA) to Italian livestock sectors, enables analyzing the potential environmental impacts arising from farm production systems. The Life Cycle Assessment method has been standardised by ISO...

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