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: 8

Rapid diagnostic device for brain trauma (NanoAnalyzer)

Portable and accessible in vitro analysis device

Currently, the diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is based on expensive and invasive CT scans, with a 90% negative result.

The NanoAnalyzer detects – through a simple blood test – six specific biomarkers of TBI, providing rapid, non-invasive...

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A non-invasive device for office and home measurement of venous pressure (VenCoM)

Device for non-invasive monitoring of central venous pressure (CVP)

Central venous pressure (CVP) is an important clinical indicator of progressive cardiac diseases. Venous congestion can be quantified by CVP, and its monitoring is essential to understand and follow the hemodynamic status in patients with heart...

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Development of a hemofiltration auxiliary line for a multi-organ support device, with a pump-free system for ultrafiltration rate regulation

Fluid balance in extracoporeal circulation

Extracorporeal organ support therapies are increasingly spreading for the treatment of critically ill patients. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) replicate the gas exchange functions of native lungs...

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Several Inertial Measure Unit (IMU) devices communicate the data acquired to the high-level application via the gateway (GW), a central node in a star network.

Wireless inertial units platform for body movement information acquisition.

A scalable body sensor network for biomedical application

Wireless wearable sensors have developed rapidly in recent years, primarily driven by e-health, fitness and wellness applications. The technological evolution of low power microprocessors is enabling to process data locally, saving energy and...

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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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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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