Engineering Innovation in
Augmented City
A digital platform that integrates the most emerging technologies to enhance cultural sites and support their maintenance.
Approach & Solution
Approach
There are numerous organizational and financial difficulties in the management of historic and monumental sites, often not adequately evaluated.
The IDEHA - Innovation for Data Elaboration in Heritage Areas - research project was born precisely for this: an open and highly technological IT platform, able to support the maintenance processes of Italian cultural sites, providing interesting contents for tourism and reducing management costs.
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Solution
The platform integrates digital contents from different sources - including information generated by users on social networks - aggregates and processes them using AI to create personalized services for different users (technicians, researchers, tourists, etc.).
Among the technologies adopted:
- Digital Platforms: open platforms in the cloud, equipped with AR/VR, IoT, AI technologies.
- AR-VR: for the virtual visualization of cultural sites (Engineering's focus on the project).
- IoT: to collect data in real time via open source platforms (e.g. FIWARE, Orion Context Broker).
- AI for Intelligent Apps: Computer Vision to understand the context and automatically provide the user with the necessary information.
- Vision Intelligence and Machine Learning: automatically recognize objects, environments, scenarios and create descriptions.
- Conversation frames to to make information-finding easier through voice, text, video, sound, behavior.
Results
Support for the maintenance of cultural sites
Improved experience for tourists
Lower costs related to content creation
Project value
Innovation
Enabling Technologies
AI & Advanced Analytics AR-MR-VR IoT
Project Team
Research & Innovation