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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SACHER (Smart Architecture for Cultural Heritage in Emilia-Romagna)

Cloud Platform for Cultural Heritage

Despite a vast and heterogeneous tangible cultural heritage such as the Italian one, cultural operators still denounce the lack of innovative tools able to facilitate the management of huge amounts of data and to integrate the various heterogeneous...

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Sentiment Analysis Systems for Business Intelligence

Analysis ofthe opinions expressed on the internet on a topic

The implemented Social Business Intelligence system makes it possible to interpret and analyse unstructured texts generated and collected from the web, to extract qualitative and quantitative assessments. Specifically, the system exceeds the...

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Middleware solution to manage Private Clouds based on open source technology

Lower management costs for the company's IT

CIRI ICT laboratories have developed an innovative distributed Private Cloud Computing platform based on open-source software, as a valid alternative to expensive industrial solutions available on the market typically targeted to large size...

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Embedded Automatic Vision Systems

Multi smart camera system for indoor tracking

Implementation of a low cost embedded vision system with the use of smart cameras based on low-cost embedded hardware, where optics, acquisition sensor, processing and communication hardware are integrated in a single device. This aspect, on one hand...

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