Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

Il presente progetto propone l’integrazione della fonte geotermica a bassa temperatura, contenuta nelsottosuolo in falde acquifere multistrato e sedimenti, ed il solare fotovoltaico ad integrazionedell’alimentazione elettrica delle pompe di calore (PDC) geotermiche. Per l’estrazione del calore geotermico abassa profondità si opera su falde acquifere attraverso pozzi di produzione e reiniezione con tecnologie diperforazione e completamento pozzi innovativi.

L’energia termica prodotta dall’impianto dimostratore alimenterà il carico termico-sanitario di un edificio aduso direzionale e, per risolvere le asincronicità tra produzione e carico e ottimizzare la gestione tecnico-economica dell’intero sistema saranno studiati, messi a punto e realizzati dimostratori di accumuli dell’energiatermica estratta.

L’ottimizzazione tecnico economica dell’intero sistema, in logica smart grids, richiede inoltre una gestionerazionale ed accurata delle utenze termiche mantenendo alto il benessere psico-fisico degli utenti dell’edificio.Risulta complesso “quantificare” l’impatto che diverse azioni correttive (ad esempio, sull’impianto diriscaldamento/condizionamento) hanno sui livelli di benessere percepito, o quale sia il giusto trade-off trarisparmio dei consumi energetici (elettricità e/o calore) e riduzione del benessere. Saranno, quindi, ideati emessi a punto sistemi ICT innovativi per migliorare l’efficienza dell’edificio, con particolare attenzione aiconsumi energetici ed agli impianti di riscaldamento e raffreddamento, facilitando l’integrazione della sorgentegeotermica negli impianti preesistenti e migliorando i livelli di comfort percepiti dagli utenti.

Project duration: 24 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Paolo Barsocchi

The projectSOCIALIZE develops itself in three technologic macro areas to implement:

1. a service-oriented software architecture to supply network services with cloud computing modalities,
2. a set of user interfaces and access devices (with a particular focus on mobile devices) to optimize the experience of using the services that are available in the network for first level end-users (elderly people)
3. a set of software tools to implement services. The tools will be available to social organizations, which will enable them to implement and provide their services through the SOCIALIZE platform.

TheSOCIALIZE platform will offer information and entertainment content geared tothe needs and interests of elderly people, content which will be provided in abarrier-free and user friendly way tailored to this age group and across thedifferent SOCIALIZE devices.

- See moreat: http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/socialize/#sthash.mrbPAVWY.dpuf

Project website: http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/socialize/

Project duration: 46 months;    Financial Institution: Mix GOV+EU

Contact:  Vittorio Miori

According to the UCD Institute of Food and Health, 3are the most notable health promotion and disease prevention programs thattarget the main causes ofmorbidity and premature mortality: Malnutrition, Sedentariness, and Cognitive decline, conditions thataffect the quality of life ofelderly people and drive to disease progression.  These 3 features will represent the targetareas in the DOREMI project. The project vision is aimed at developing asystemic solution for elderly, able to prolong the functional and cognitivecapacity by empowering, stimulating and unobtrusively monitoring the dailyactivities according to well defined “Active Ageing” lifestyleprotocols. The project joins  the concept of preventioncentered on  the elderly, characterizedby a unified vision of being elderly today, namely, a promotion of the healthby a constructive interaction between mind, body and social engagement. Tofulfill these goals, food intake measurements and personalized metaboliccontrol, exergames associated to social interaction stimulation, and cognitivetraining programs will be proposed to an elderly population enrolled during apilot study. The project combines multidisciplinary research areas in serious games,social networking, Wireless Sensor Network, activity recognition andcontextualization, behavioral pattern analysis. By recording and monitoring information about theuse of the adopted lifestyle protocols, it would be possible to track the usersperformance over long periods, providing a potential alert for signs ofmalnutrition, physical and cognitive deterioration.  The close collaboration between the healthcarerepresentatives and experienced technological partners will drive the ICTdevelopment needed to release a set of prototypes to be validated in the pilotstudy. The effectiveness andimpacts, on both users and on the healthcare system, will be proofed in thepilot study set up in Italy and UK, involving both elderly users and careproviders.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Erina Ferro

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

The projectSOCIALIZE develops itself in three technologic macro areas to implement:

1. a service-oriented software architecture to supply network services with cloud computing modalities,
2. a set of user interfaces and access devices (with a particular focus on mobile devices) to optimize the experience of using the services that are available in the network for first level end-users (elderly people)
3. a set of software tools to implement services. The tools will be available to social organizations, which will enable them to implement and provide their services through the SOCIALIZE platform.

TheSOCIALIZE platform will offer information and entertainment content geared tothe needs and interests of elderly people, content which will be provided in abarrier-free and user friendly way tailored to this age group and across thedifferent SOCIALIZE devices.

- See moreat: http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/socialize/#sthash.mrbPAVWY.dpuf

Project website: http://www.aal-europe.eu/projects/socialize/

Project duration: 46 months;    Financial Institution: Mix GOV+EU

Contact:  Vittorio Miori

According to the UCD Institute of Food and Health, 3are the most notable health promotion and disease prevention programs thattarget the main causes ofmorbidity and premature mortality: Malnutrition, Sedentariness, and Cognitive decline, conditions thataffect the quality of life ofelderly people and drive to disease progression.  These 3 features will represent the targetareas in the DOREMI project. The project vision is aimed at developing asystemic solution for elderly, able to prolong the functional and cognitivecapacity by empowering, stimulating and unobtrusively monitoring the dailyactivities according to well defined “Active Ageing” lifestyleprotocols. The project joins  the concept of preventioncentered on  the elderly, characterizedby a unified vision of being elderly today, namely, a promotion of the healthby a constructive interaction between mind, body and social engagement. Tofulfill these goals, food intake measurements and personalized metaboliccontrol, exergames associated to social interaction stimulation, and cognitivetraining programs will be proposed to an elderly population enrolled during apilot study. The project combines multidisciplinary research areas in serious games,social networking, Wireless Sensor Network, activity recognition andcontextualization, behavioral pattern analysis. By recording and monitoring information about theuse of the adopted lifestyle protocols, it would be possible to track the usersperformance over long periods, providing a potential alert for signs ofmalnutrition, physical and cognitive deterioration.  The close collaboration between the healthcarerepresentatives and experienced technological partners will drive the ICTdevelopment needed to release a set of prototypes to be validated in the pilotstudy. The effectiveness andimpacts, on both users and on the healthcare system, will be proofed in thepilot study set up in Italy and UK, involving both elderly users and careproviders.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Erina Ferro

L'Agenzia internazionale per l'energia2 ha stimato che il 22% di tutte le emissioni di CO2sono generate dal settore trasporti, di cui il 73% è generato dal trasporto su strada. InEuropa il trasporto su strada rappresenta il 93% delle emissioni totali di CO2 legate aitrasporti e poco più del 19% delle emissioni totali di gas metano utilizzato nelle abitazioni.Il trasporto su strada rappresenta quindi la seconda categoria di interesse per la UE‐153.Oggi più di 700 milioni di veicoli operano nel settore dei trasporti stradali per sostenere leesigenze di trasporto di una popolazione mondiale di circa 6,8 miliardi di persone, di cui il64% è dislocata in centri urbani. Entro il 2050 il numero di veicoli nel settore dei trasportisu strada potrebbe crescere fino a quasi 3000 milioni4 e la popolazione mondiale sarà dicirca 9 miliardi, di cui il 78% in aree urbane. Oltre al clima, le fonti di emissione (CO, CH4,NOx, N2O, composti organici volatili, carboni cloro e perfluoro, tetrafluoruro di silicio,metalli pesanti e particolato) dei sistemi di trasporto influenzano la qualità dell'aria,dell'acqua e del suolo5 e il rumore prodotto dai veicoli incide negativamente sulla salutedegli individui e riduce il valore dell'ambiente urbano. Infine, la quantità di emissioni erumore imputabili al settore dei trasporti può essere influenzata da fattori quali l'usoeccessivo dei veicoli, l'età e la loro scarsa manutenzione.

Project duration: 43 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Erina Ferro

Ageing population is growing faster in EU. ICT can provide solutions for Active Ageing, however the success ofnovel ICT solutions depends on the user perception about their efficacy to support toward health promotion and globalwellness.NESTORE will develop an innovative, multi-dimensional, personalized coaching system to support healthy ageingby: 1) Generating and sustaining motivation to take care of health; 2) Suggesting healthy nutrition and personalizedphysical and mental coach, as well as social interaction, to prevent decline and preserve wellbeing.The main concept is to develop NESTORE as a friend and a coach able to support both the individual and the socialdimension. The friend NESTORE understands the emotional status of the user; the coach NESTORE understands the“weaknesses” of the user and proposes actions and activities that improve and maintain wellbeing. Key innovationelement in NESTORE is the design of “pathways of interest” able to provide hints and services according to the user’spreferences, while ensuring that the overall wellbeing and health status is maximised.NESTORE leverages on novel ICT technologies: 1) multi-domain unobtrusive monitoring system, including wearableand environmental sensors and tangible objects, 2) intelligent Decision Support System, to analyse the seniors’behaviour and provide personalized targets toward wellbeing 3) active coaching, developed as conversational agent,embodied in a physical companion that assumes different forms, able to establish affective communication throughmultimodal communication channels and to engage older people with personalized coaching activities in a single ormultiple domains.Methodological strengths of our approach are: 1) co-design research adopted throughout the project 2) thoroughsystem validation with respect to usability, acceptability and effectiveness 3) development of a sustainable ecosysteminvolving citizens and stakeholders for the co-production of wellness.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Francesco Furfari

Il progetto Energia da Fonti Rinnovabili e ICT per la Sostenibilità Energetica (in breve progetto Sostenibilità Energetica) intende studiare e sperimentare un insieme coordinato di soluzioni innovative per rendere le città sostenibili da un punto di vista energetico- ambientale. Per raggiungere questo obiettivo, il progetto si base sull’uso diffuso di fonti energetiche rinnovabili (e delle relative tecnologie per l’accumulo e la gestione dell’energia) e sull’utilizzo estensivo di tecnologie ICT per la gestione avanzata dei flussi energetici e rendere i servizi della città energeticamente efficienti adattandoli alla domanda (e quindi favorire il risparmio energetico e l’uso razionale dell’energia) e alla disponibilità di energia da fonti rinnovabili, anche con il coinvolgimento consapevole dei cittadini.

Project duration: 48 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Erina Ferro

Il presente progetto propone l’integrazione della fonte geotermica a bassa temperatura, contenuta nelsottosuolo in falde acquifere multistrato e sedimenti, ed il solare fotovoltaico ad integrazionedell’alimentazione elettrica delle pompe di calore (PDC) geotermiche. Per l’estrazione del calore geotermico abassa profondità si opera su falde acquifere attraverso pozzi di produzione e reiniezione con tecnologie diperforazione e completamento pozzi innovativi.

L’energia termica prodotta dall’impianto dimostratore alimenterà il carico termico-sanitario di un edificio aduso direzionale e, per risolvere le asincronicità tra produzione e carico e ottimizzare la gestione tecnico-economica dell’intero sistema saranno studiati, messi a punto e realizzati dimostratori di accumuli dell’energiatermica estratta.

L’ottimizzazione tecnico economica dell’intero sistema, in logica smart grids, richiede inoltre una gestionerazionale ed accurata delle utenze termiche mantenendo alto il benessere psico-fisico degli utenti dell’edificio.Risulta complesso “quantificare” l’impatto che diverse azioni correttive (ad esempio, sull’impianto diriscaldamento/condizionamento) hanno sui livelli di benessere percepito, o quale sia il giusto trade-off trarisparmio dei consumi energetici (elettricità e/o calore) e riduzione del benessere. Saranno, quindi, ideati emessi a punto sistemi ICT innovativi per migliorare l’efficienza dell’edificio, con particolare attenzione aiconsumi energetici ed agli impianti di riscaldamento e raffreddamento, facilitando l’integrazione della sorgentegeotermica negli impianti preesistenti e migliorando i livelli di comfort percepiti dagli utenti.

Project duration: 24 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Paolo Barsocchi

L’obiettivo di WB@Lucca è la realizzazione di una piattaforma mobile di servizi personali e personalizzati basati sull’uso di tecnologie ICT innovative e non invasive al fine di migliorare la qualità della vita e la condizione di benessere (well-­‐being) degli abitanti di Lucca e stimolarne la solidarietà sociale.

Project duration: 28 months;    Financial Institution: Fondazioni

Contact:  Erina Ferro

According to the UCD Institute of Food and Health, 3are the most notable health promotion and disease prevention programs thattarget the main causes ofmorbidity and premature mortality: Malnutrition, Sedentariness, and Cognitive decline, conditions thataffect the quality of life ofelderly people and drive to disease progression.  These 3 features will represent the targetareas in the DOREMI project. The project vision is aimed at developing asystemic solution for elderly, able to prolong the functional and cognitivecapacity by empowering, stimulating and unobtrusively monitoring the dailyactivities according to well defined “Active Ageing” lifestyleprotocols. The project joins  the concept of preventioncentered on  the elderly, characterizedby a unified vision of being elderly today, namely, a promotion of the healthby a constructive interaction between mind, body and social engagement. Tofulfill these goals, food intake measurements and personalized metaboliccontrol, exergames associated to social interaction stimulation, and cognitivetraining programs will be proposed to an elderly population enrolled during apilot study. The project combines multidisciplinary research areas in serious games,social networking, Wireless Sensor Network, activity recognition andcontextualization, behavioral pattern analysis. By recording and monitoring information about theuse of the adopted lifestyle protocols, it would be possible to track the usersperformance over long periods, providing a potential alert for signs ofmalnutrition, physical and cognitive deterioration.  The close collaboration between the healthcarerepresentatives and experienced technological partners will drive the ICTdevelopment needed to release a set of prototypes to be validated in the pilotstudy. The effectiveness andimpacts, on both users and on the healthcare system, will be proofed in thepilot study set up in Italy and UK, involving both elderly users and careproviders.

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Erina Ferro

L’obiettivo di WB@Lucca è la realizzazione di una piattaforma mobile di servizi personali e personalizzati basati sull’uso di tecnologie ICT innovative e non invasive al fine di migliorare la qualità della vita e la condizione di benessere (well-­‐being) degli abitanti di Lucca e stimolarne la solidarietà sociale.

Project duration: 28 months;    Financial Institution: Fondazioni

Contact:  Erina Ferro

L'Agenzia internazionale per l'energia2 ha stimato che il 22% di tutte le emissioni di CO2sono generate dal settore trasporti, di cui il 73% è generato dal trasporto su strada. InEuropa il trasporto su strada rappresenta il 93% delle emissioni totali di CO2 legate aitrasporti e poco più del 19% delle emissioni totali di gas metano utilizzato nelle abitazioni.Il trasporto su strada rappresenta quindi la seconda categoria di interesse per la UE‐153.Oggi più di 700 milioni di veicoli operano nel settore dei trasporti stradali per sostenere leesigenze di trasporto di una popolazione mondiale di circa 6,8 miliardi di persone, di cui il64% è dislocata in centri urbani. Entro il 2050 il numero di veicoli nel settore dei trasportisu strada potrebbe crescere fino a quasi 3000 milioni4 e la popolazione mondiale sarà dicirca 9 miliardi, di cui il 78% in aree urbane. Oltre al clima, le fonti di emissione (CO, CH4,NOx, N2O, composti organici volatili, carboni cloro e perfluoro, tetrafluoruro di silicio,metalli pesanti e particolato) dei sistemi di trasporto influenzano la qualità dell'aria,dell'acqua e del suolo5 e il rumore prodotto dai veicoli incide negativamente sulla salutedegli individui e riduce il valore dell'ambiente urbano. Infine, la quantità di emissioni erumore imputabili al settore dei trasporti può essere influenzata da fattori quali l'usoeccessivo dei veicoli, l'età e la loro scarsa manutenzione.

Project duration: 43 months;    Financial Institution: Ministeriale/Governativo

Contact:  Erina Ferro

​In questo progetto saranno studiate e sviluppate metodologie integrate di monitoraggio, diagnostica e conservazione di costruzioni murarie antiche basate su reti di sensori wireless, droni e strumenti di calcolo innovativi. Le wireless sensor networks che saranno impiegate per le varie misurazioni dovranno considerare, da una parte, i vincoli architettonici, strutturali e funzionali che caratterizzano le strutture monumentali dei centri storici, e dall’altra le esigenze legate alla propagazione del segnale, ed inoltre dovranno essere ottimizzate in termini di costi globali  e impatto ambientale. I parametri per il monitoraggio strutturale (e quindi i tipi di sensori da utilizzare) saranno definiti con l’aiuto di codici di calcolo open-source per la simulazione del comportamento statico e dinamico di costruzioni in muratura, quali NOSA-ITACA (sviluppato dal Laboratorio di Meccanica dei Materiali e delle Strutture dell’Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” CNR-ISTI) Mady e Code-Aster. Ad integrazione dei dati prodotti dalle reti di sensori sarà utilizzato un drone che consentirà acquisizioni video e foto delle strutture. I dati provenienti sia dalle reti di sensori sia dal drone verranno convogliati verso un sistema avanzato di elaborazione dell’informazione, chiamato Centro di Controllo del Monitoraggio, all'interno del quale tutti i dati verranno elaborati ed integrati per fornire agli utilizzatori finali del Sistema utili informazioni e segnalazioni sulle condizioni strutturali delle costruzioni monitorate.

Project duration: 24 months;    Financial Institution: Ente Pubblico Locale

Contact:  Paolo Barsocchi

The demand for larger and more interconnected software systems is constantly increasing, but the ability of developers tosatisfy it is not evolving accordingly. The most limiting factor is software validation, which typically requires very costly andcomplex testing processes. This project aims at significantly improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing processand, with it, the overall quality of large software systems. For this, we propose to apply the “divide-and-conquer” principle,which is commonly used for architecting complex software, to testing by developing a novel test orchestration theory andtoolbox enabling the creation of complex test suites as the composition of simple testing units. This test orchestrationmechanism is complemented with a number of tools that include: (1) Capabilities for the instrumentation of the Softwareunder Test enabling to reproduce real-world operational conditions thanks to features such as Packet Loss as a Service,Network Latency as a Service, Failure as a Service, etc. (2) Reusable testing services solving common testing problemsincluding Browser Automation as a Service, Sensor Emulator as a Service, Monitoring as a Service, Security Check as aService, Log Ingestion and Analysis as a Service, Cost Modeling as a Service, etc. (3) Cognitive computing and machinelearning mechanisms suitable for ingesting large amounts of knowledge (e.g. specifications, logs, software engineeringdocuments, etc.) and capable of using it for generating testing recommendations and answering natural language questionsabout the testing process. The ElasTest platform thus created shall be released basing on a flexible Free Open SourceSoftware and a community of users, stakeholders and contributors shall be grown around it with the objective of transformingElasTest into a worldwide reference in the area of large software systems testing and of guaranteeing the long termsustainability of the project generated results.

Project website: http://www.elastest.eu

Project duration: 36 months;    Financial Institution: Unione Europea

Contact:  Antonia Bertolino