Ongoing Projects
- Ambient Aware Assistant - A3
- Funding: Provincia Autonoma di Trento.
- In Collaboration with: University of Trento, FBK-IRST and Don Gnocchi Foundation
- ACube will act in the framework of Ambient Intelligence, by conceiving a highly-developed smart environment to be deployed in nursing homes as a support to medical and assistance staff. The sophisticated features of the envisaged system will have a major impact on quality of care, quality of life of the assisted, as well as working conditions of caregivers.
The project will develop an advanced integrated infrastructure for intelligent monitoring in nursing homes and will validate it in two real-world scenarios. The infrastructure will encompass sophisticated features targeted to support medical and assistance staff and will have a major impact on both the quality of life of the assisted and the working conditions of caregivers. To this end, the project will tackle a number of technological and research challenges: algorithms for intelligent sensing, based on the integration of visual, acoustic and environmental sensing; a middleware to support the seamless integration of data streams from sensors; an intelligent architecture, featuring configurability, learning abilities and robustness (in terms of self-diagnostics and repair); model-based reasoning techniques to provide representation of the domain status, monitor the execution of activities in the environment and deliberate the most appropriate reactions.
- Perceptive Ambients
- Funding: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Call on USA-Italy Excange of Researchers.
- In Collaboration with: Georgia Institute of Technology
- The objective of Perceptive Ambient project is the development of the theoretical and practical framework for the understanding of activities and the development of advanced ambient environment capabilities. The scientific basis for the project is the need to develop new algorithms and analysis techniques for multi-modal sensing of activities and the development of ambient environments that are aware of activities. This project combines techniques from multiple disciplinary areas including pattern recognition and the analysis of sensor data (mainly rfid and cameras), modelling and reasoning about complex temporal patterns, and the HCI and human factors issues surrounding the development of useful ambient environments and their evaluation under realistic use conditions.
- Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation
- Funding: Internal Funding.
- In Collaboration with: FBK-IRST, CeMiT
- Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation project (OTR) envisions the development of techniques based on ICT-research to support caregivers to monitor patients with mild dementia during therapy sessions. The focus of the project is to develop automatic monitoring means for supervising the correct execution of specific Every-day Activities (EDAs) like dressing/undressing, washing hands, brushing teeth and preparation of meals.
- The Living Space Aware Environment
- Funding: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- In Collaboration with: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Being inhabited by different people and populated by different objects and devices, homes represent a rich test bed for experimenting interactive experiences that may affect the perception of wellbeing. The kind of interactions expected in such kind of environments should be focused on the understanding of the real intentions of the users when pursuing their goals rather than in the physical characteristics and affordances of the currently available devices. In this sense, any research activity should position the user in the center of the action while maintaining the technology in the background
The objective of The Living Space project is to create a research space of excellence to experiment ambient assisted living technologies based on context, location and intention awareness services, extending the concept of Ambient Intelligence to a broader dimension where pervasiveness and fixed-mobile convergence will coexist.
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- SAMBA - System for Advanced interactive digital television and Mobile services in BrAzil
- Funding: IST VI Call on International Cooperation on DTV and Interactive Applications (Target region: Latin America).
- The main objective of the SAMBA project is to create a framework that allows local communities to use Community Access iDTV Channels and citizens, including low income population, to participate to them and use their services. In doing so, SAMBA will look also to future potentials of iDTV, exploring possibilities brought by new mobile and identification technologies, that in the future will be important factors in the development services in iDTV market.
- From content and services production point of view, SAMBA will enable the creation of a Community Access iDTV Channels, proposing a framework for the development of iDTV interactive applications that are cross-compatible between DVB-T MHP and DVB-H.
- From the final user point of view, SAMBA will take in account both usability issues, connected to the use of new technologies from non technology prone users, and low cost requirements, for meeting the needs of the low-income classes. For meeting this last requirement, SAMBA will study the use of PLC based network as return channel of low cost set-top-boxes.
- Due to the dynamic characteristics of the mobile and mobile iDTV market, the compatibility and integration of the system with mobile iDTV will be considered.
A complete solution for creation and delivery of iDTV based services is provided:
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- TRITON (PAT/Siemens)
- The objective of this project is to perform experimentation on novel technologies (mainly based on Wireless Sensor Networks) for the monitoring and remote control of road tunnels. In particular the novel solutions should optimize the energy consumption (lighting and airing systems), increase the road safety through improved communication systems and enhance maintenance systems to reduce operating costs. MISE Goroup will be involved in TRITON project for the multimedia delivery subsystem from the tunnels to the control room.