Technologies

In this section it is possible to view, also through targeted research, the technologies inserted in the PROMO-TT Database. For further information on the technologies and to contact the CNR Research Teams who developed them, it is necessary to contact the Project Manager (see the references at the bottom of each record card).

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# Record card
242
Description

4Ts Game was born in ITD in 2017 to indicate a board game for teacher training, which aims to develop skills in designing collaborative learning activities. The game was originally conceived as a 'tangible' game, consisting of a board and 4 decks of paper cards which contain inputs that guide the teachers/players' design process. Subsequently the game evolved and was developed in its digital version. In this version, developed in Unity and with an underlying knowledge base in Prolog, the game is able to provide feedback to teachers regarding the design/game choices made.

Thematic areas
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage
ICT & Electronics
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Technologies for preservation of cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Education & learning
ICT & Electronics / IT and Telematics applications
ICT & Electronics / Augmented Reality
ICT & Electronics / Multimedia
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Socio-economic models
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Multimedia technologies
# Record card
176
Description

The proposed technology consists of a portable device for monitoring the freshness of fish, based on its smell. The device is based on a gas sensor and pattern recognition software to correlate the sensor signal to the freshness of the food. The technology is designed for its integration into domestic or industrial refrigerators.

Thematic areas
Measurement tools and Standards
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
Agrifood
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
# Record card
61
Description

The compact-GC platform is a MEMS-based analytical module for the purge&trap pre-concentration and (gas)-chromatographic separation of a sample. The two analytical MEMS (pre-concentrator and GC column) are interconnected by means of a MEMS microfluidic manifold. The microfluidic manifold interconnects the analytical MEMS, but it also acts as injector through the integrated micro-valves.

Thematic areas
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Archeometry
Energy and environmental sustainability / Safety and security
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
Materials / Processes of production & treatment of materials
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Energy and environmental sustainability / Energy production, transmission and conversion
Energy and environmental sustainability / Cleaner use of fossil fuels
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
ICT & Electronics / Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Process control and logistic
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
Chemicals & Physics / Separation technologies
# Record card
48
Description

CPIAbot is a conversational assistant supporting the learning of Italian L2 for migrants. It has been tested in particular in the context of CPIA - Centri Provinciali per l'Istruzione degli Adulti - MIUR.

Thematic areas
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Education & learning
ICT & Electronics / Artificial Intelligence
ICT & Electronics / IT and Telematics applications
ICT & Electronics / Multimedia
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Socio-economic models
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Multimedia technologies
# Record card
95
Description

The proposed technology is based on the micro-fabrication of electrodes in order to generate surface acoustic waves (SAW) with well-defined frequencies, on piezoelectric substrates. The operating principle of a surface acoustic wave sensor is linked to the variation of the characteristics of the acoustic wave that propagates on the device (e.g. wave velocity on the substrate, etc.) caused by the interaction with the environment (e.g. interaction of an analyte on the surface of the device, deformation of the substrate, etc.).

Thematic areas
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Aerospace and Earth Science
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
# Record card
254
Description

Digital Eye is an innovative, rapid and high-precision intelligent computer vision system for the non-destructive and contactless evaluation of quality and shelf-life of whole or fresh-cut fruit and vegetables. It integrates advanced vision and artificial intelligence technologies to estimate parameters useful to evaluate the quality of fruit and vegetables, during both the harvesting phase and the cold chain.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Imaging & image processing
Agrifood
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Internet of Things
Automotive transport and logistics
ICT & Electronics / Artificial Intelligence
Automotive transport and logistics / Logistics
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Process control and logistic
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Packaging
Measurement tools and Standards
# Record card
253
Description

Our innovative proposal involves an educational robotics training program, resulting from an experimental research that combines traditional educational approaches with the utilization of robotics. Specifically, the educational robot Thymio, developed by EPFL, serves as a facilitator in the learning process to enhance School Readiness.

Thematic areas
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Technologies for preservation of cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Education & learning
# Record card
251
Description

The insertion of executable programs within QR codes is a new enabling technology for many application contexts in everyday life. Every time Internet access is unavailable, QR code usage is limited to reading the data it contains without any possibility of interaction.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Cybersecurity
ICT & Electronics / Smart cities and Communities
ICT & Electronics / Future Internet
ICT & Electronics / Robotics and control systems
ICT & Electronics / Augmented Reality
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic kits
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Technologies for preservation of cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Education & learning
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Entertainment
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Tourism
Aerospace and Earth Science
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Socio-economic models
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Multimedia technologies
Agrifood
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Automotive transport and logistics
Chemicals & Physics
Energy and environmental sustainability
ICT & Electronics / Information processing, information system, workflow management
ICT & Electronics / IT and Telematics applications
ICT & Electronics / Multimedia
# Record card
19
Description

We propose an optical technique for the fast check of the presence, on the exposed surfaces of persons and objects, of explosives and their precursors, or drugs, or in general materials which are not allowed in restricted environments: airports, courts, places of worship, etc. The technique yields bi-dimensional pictures, with exposure time of < 1 sec, reporting the target substances, and their locations and quantities. The technique already provided laboratory preliminary results, to be completed, and fully validated for sensitivity and selectivity.

Thematic areas
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Archeometry
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
Chemicals & Physics / Imaging & image processing
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
# Record card
62
Description

We propose a portable chemical analysis system capable of identifying chemical substances at trace concentrations (sub-ppm), even in case of a complex matrix of interfering species.

Thematic areas
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Archeometry
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Optics & Acoustic
ICT & Electronics / Smart cities and Communities
ICT & Electronics / Robotics and control systems
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Process control and logistic
Chemicals & Physics / Separation technologies
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Factory of the Future
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Energy and environmental sustainability / Safety and security
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Energy and environmental sustainability / Natural disasters
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Measurement tools and Standards
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
# Record card
181
Description

The proposed technology takes advantages of the huge potentialities of the gellan gum microgels in the preservation of cultural heritage. Microgels are polymeric gels particles with the micro and nanoscale size, whose soft nature is due to the presence of the aqueous solvent inside the particle. For their small size, they can easily diffuse in the environment and penetrate in the porous structure of paper and wood to act as cleaner agent.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Materials
Materials / Plastics, polymers
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Technologies for preservation of cultural heritage
# Record card
183
Description

This technology concerns the development of new eco-sustainable UV physical/mineral filters with the aim of offering important innovations per the cosmetic sector. This, encouraged by European initiatives in the Green-Deal context, is constantly looking for new components with improved protection of the human health and the environment.

Thematic areas
Materials
Materials / Ceramic materials
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Energy and environmental sustainability
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Care, Hygiene, Cosmetics
# Record card
129
Description

Lifeshell is an anti-seismic furniture construction concept, which can be used for making wardrobes, tables, desktops, beds. It’s made by timber based panels: highly resistant and flexible, relatively lightweight and inexpensive. Lifeshell benefits from the natural wood elasticity and from smart connections for dissipating the great impact energies occurring during an earthquake. Lifeshell has been designed for resisting partial building collapses, and to provide a safe shell where inhabitants can find refuge.

Thematic areas
Aerospace and Earth Science
Aerospace and Earth Science / Seismology
Materials
Materials / Wood products
Energy and environmental sustainability / Building materials
Agrifood
Agrifood / Forestry
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Energy and environmental sustainability
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
Energy and environmental sustainability / Natural disasters
Energy and environmental sustainability / Simulation
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Technologies for preservation of cultural heritage
Bioeconomy
# Record card
238
Description

Mergers e Acquisitions represent important forms of business deals because of the volumes involved in the transactions and the role of the innovation activity of companies. By considering the patent activity of about one thousand companies, we develop a method to predict future acquisitions by assuming that companies deal more frequently with technologically related ones.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Information processing, information system, workflow management
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Socio-economic models
# Record card
14
Description

The invention is about the development of a device and its methodology for measuring the active and reactive sound intensity from the impedance computation. The active intensity is calculated directly in the frequency domain multiplying the complex impedance and power spectrum of the air particle velocity. A second line of post-processing is applied to obtain the overall complex sound intensity.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Optics & Acoustic
Energy and environmental sustainability / Mechanical Engineering, Hydraulics, Vibration and Acoustic Engineering
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Measurement tools and Standards