Torino Nena Project – 3rd Team Meeting WP7: Developing and carrying out Regional Pilot Projects Regione Piemonte

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/  The results of WP5 are the basis for developing the activities scheduled on WP7 as far as concern: – 7.5 Pilot projects – 7.1 Innovation Assistant  The collection of relevant data concerning the regional cluster of “Domotics” – “Building automation” gave us the opportunity to activate a first evaluation and assessment, being this cluster one of the greatest promises of the technological frontier  Regione Piemonte has set up a Working Table including Smes and other subjects first in class in this cluster, active in the following sectors: Energy, Electric plants and wiring, Electronics, ICT and telecoms, Household appliances, Building construction, Safety and Security, Design and architectural engineering WP 7: Pilot Project “Process Optimisation”

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ Domotics is not a single sector but a space of integration DOMOTICS ICT and TLC Electronics and Robotics and Robotics Electric plant and wiring Energy BuildingConstruction Safety&Security Household appliances appliances Design and architecturalengineering

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ Domotics in Piemonte “Specific domotic system” Electric plants Household Ict network “Habitat system” Building construction Infrastructure “Regional innovation system” Design Safety&security Ict, Robotics

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ Domotics by size: medium companies are prevailing

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ Wood Passive House Energy Domotics Domotics from sectoral integration to Nena networking

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/  Strenghtening regional networking and creating benefits for Smes and cluster involved is the first goal of the “Working table”  The second one is to develop process optimisation, by means of stimulating relations and networking and the creation of three sectoral “Technical tables” (working groups)  The actual “Working table” involves companies, R&D facilities and public bodies in an informal public-private partnership – Most companies active in Cluster are SMEs and represent three “sub - systems” within Domotics: some of them joined the “working table” last months and some will attend “technical tables”, devoted to develop the task of “process optimisation” – A number of research and technology centres are involved  Environment Park in Torino, Cetad: “intelligent house” and bioengineering, Polytechnic of Torino, Istituo Superiore Mario Boella, Torino World Design Capital – Three Regional Department joined the “table” Fostering regional networking & process optimisation

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ CS domotica srl Csdomotica srl has been started up in 2003 as a spin-off of Consoft Sistemi, an important ICT group in Piemonte and is located in I3P, the “Incubator” of innovative companies in Torino  Activity area: wireless home automation and telecommunication services. The company has also a division dedicated to ICT, LAN networks, phone systems, Voip  Mercury Project: the aim is to develop an integrated solution for an efficient, comfortable and safe domestic environment thanks to a remote-control Contact:

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ ERXA ERXA was set up in 1988 with the purpose of providing complete software solutions in the robotics, CAD/CAM and Industrial automation application areas  Activity areas: manufacturing industry, automation, chemical, health, food, consumer industry, defence, aerospace, metal industry  Services: analysis, design and implementation of software in all kind of industrial automation, robotics and defence system fields Contact:

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ Urmet Domus Urmet Domus is the leading Italian company specialised in the home communication and office automation sectors  Activity areas: home entryphones, video entryphones, digital technology systems for integrating services and integrated phone/entryphone systems  Products: house/video phone systems, integrated system telephony, room control Contact:

Istituto Superiore Mario Boella - ISMB It’s an applied research centre in wireless technologies set up in 2000 by its founding members: Compagnia di San Paolo and Polythecnic of Torino  Partners: Motorola R&D Center, SKF, STMicroelectronics and Telecom Italia Lab.  250 researchers and 8 laboratories  Sectors of research activities: Photonics, Electromagnetic compatibility, Fixed and wireless networks, e-Security, Satellite positioning systems, Microelectronics and nanotechnologies, Radiomobile technologies for multimedia systems, RFId (Radio Frequency Identifiers), DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television), SWN (Sensors Wireless Netwoks), Satellite receivers Contact:

Environment Park Environment Park is a technological district who brings together SMEs and research centres in ICT and eco-efficiency sectors  Shareholders: Municipality, Province and Chamber of Commerce of Torino, the Regional development agency, the Industrial Association, some pp companies  Activities. Support to SMEs: facilities, laboratories, Ict and Tlc infrastructures, shared services and management services: Managerial training courses, Marketing Consulting, Feasibility studies and Business Plan, Tutorial of new enterprises, Information on European projects and funding, Partner research  Eco-efficiency Biennial to promote eco-efficiency culture by means of workshops, conferences, exhibitions of the most significant achievements in the field of eco-compatible productive processes and of product environmental certification Contact:

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ CETAD - Centro Eccellenza Tecnologie per Anziani e Disabili CETAD is the first Science Park in Europe dedicated to promote, develop and spread innovative services and technologies for social inclusion and rehabilitation of aged people  The park is a network of universities, enterprises, public bodies and social organizations; it is partly located in Envipark  Activity areas: Domotics, Jobs&Training for disadvantaged people, Special projects Contact:

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ Torino 2008 World Design Capital Torino is the first World Design Capital and 2008 is the first year the award is conferred  This nomination is assigned by Icsid- International Council of Societies of Industrial Design- to a city that put great emphasis on design as a factor stimulating economic, social and cultural growth  Icsid represents 52 countries and brings together professional and educational organizations, non-governmental bodies, private businesses, Institutions in order to spread design as a helpful discipline for sustainable development  In 2008, each month features a corresponding theme, a particular point of view of design, architecture and graphics through events, conferences, exhibits, workshops and many small and medium- sized initiatives, all bearing witness to the broad influence of design on the territory Contact:

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/  WP7 – Innovation Assistance

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/  Our vision of the Innovation Assistant is that of a permanent forum able to: – Foster a local network creation and implementation – Ensure the highest coverage of the cluster companies – Establish strong co-operation links in and between universities, SMEs, experts, public bodies – Satisfy SMEs emerging needs and problems  This Innovation Assistance permanent forum takes place in the form of a “virtual platform” i.e. a Pilot Project that: – is ICT based – is open to all companies and involved parties of the cluster – is open to the contribution of all the NeNa partners – is the virtual space where process optimisation is developed and elaborated  Process optimisation issues and contents will benefit of a dissemination and fertilisation tool accessible to the widest number of players involved/interested WP7 - Innovation Assistance

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ The virtual platform to develop “Innovation Assistance”  The platform allows differentiated levels of access and priorities through the allotment of different users’ levels and passwords  There are three levels of information and interaction: – a basic levels for general information – an intermedium level to allow data input but not their publishing – a high level of access to allow both data input and their electronic publishing: a final supervisory control is provided for approving data publishing  No technical specific competencies are required for web-publishing  The virtual platform works with an editor WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get): this model enables users to publish contents on- line writing them as a common text editor (Microsoft word e.g.)

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ The platform is user friendly This virtual Platform will enable all the participants to exchange information and documents. Main functionalities are: – Certification of each dealer – Management of credits – Flexible creation of new contents and improvement of contents already on line – Uploading files (.doc,.pdf...) – A master file with companies’data (a sort of catalogue) – A calendar of events – (Newsletters…etc)  The platform will be linked to a reference web-site in Italian (and in English – or other languages)  The platform is going to be achieved in Asp and is based on server Windows Server 2003

NeNa Interreg IIIb – Team Meeting Torino 26/ Next steps  Finalizing WP5 to “Process Optimisation”  Starting with Technical working groups  Developing the platform for “Innovation Assistance”  Mobilising cooperation synergies among the partners Thank you for your attention!