The aim of the project developed by Neosystems was to create a solution for the Smart management of free parking areas.
To date, there are multiple solutions in the Smart Parking field, using cameras or sensors installed on the ground to detect the free or occupied status of each individual parking lot.
While cameras present significant problems related to privacy protection, for underground sensors there are cost problems, associated with the technologies for detecting the parking status and transmitting data to the remote center for collecting and analyzing information.
Currently this type of solution is applied to paid parking lots.
The innovative idea is to extend parking monitoring to free parking areas, with a view to implementing a Smart City solution that allows drivers to limit their search routes for parking, resulting in time optimization and stress reduction and at the same time contributing to the reduction of traffic and consequently of environmental and noise pollution within cities.
The focus of the project was on reducing the costs for the parking sensor, optimizing both the hardware components and the firmware management, in order to reduce production costs and at the same time limit consumption, thus increasing the sensor's battery life.
The cost reduction is important for the business model, which foresees the parking search service via mobile app through a very low-cost subscription, which is certainly repaid for the subscribing citizen by the reduction in parking search times and therefore fuel consumption.
Another innovative aspect of the project, from a green perspective, is the reuse of used smartphones that have reached the end of their life cycle, to transform them into gateways for local data collection and for data transfer to the remote central storage devoted to analysis of the information, a software platform to which the mobile app, in the hands of the subscribers of the service, connects to retrieve information on the availability of free parking spaces.
The project was implemented within the framework of the ”Ricerca & Innova” Call of the Lombardy Region to develop and strengthen research and innovation capabilities and the introduction of advanced technologies.
The aim of the project was to create a solution for the disposal and recycling of plastic bottles which provides for an incentive for users, based on the reuse of plastic for the creation of 3D printed objects. In practice, the bottles conferred by citizens are "processed" until obtaining a filament suitable for feeding a 3D printer, which can print objects, selected by users through a mobile APP. The possibility of printing is based on a reward management of the contributions, which allows user to accumulate points; the types of objects that can be created by 3d printing are linked to the score acquired. The project included a plastic processing line made up of various components:
All these devices are powered by the use of a photovoltaic system with an accumulation system, so as to make the solution as autonomous as possible from the electricity grid.
The result of the activity was to realize a prototype of the solution capable of demonstrating the technological feasibility of the same and to allow subsequent engineering for production purposes.
The project was carried out within the Bando Tech Fast Lombardia for the strengthening of research, development and innovation. Neosystems obtained financial support from the participation in the aforementioned tender for an amount equal to 50% of the project budget.
During the cooperation with its partner STE Industries, NeoSystems developed some automotive IoT projects, mainly based on the Ste Industries' Micro.sp© proprietary very low power radio communication technology. NeoSystems activities were addressed to HW and SW development for sensors and for receivers, interfaced with on-board telematics devices or directly to cloud platforms (2G/3G communication). For these actovities furthermore NeoSystems managed event the project management and the remote software platforms integration aspects (protocols, data structure, data security): : Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, GEOTAB myGEOTAB.
A smart fan controller was develope by NeoSystems cooperating with its partner Sge-Syscom. The developed product is the first of a suite of solutions conceived to regulate DC Fans rotation speed in automatic or real time command way. The rotation speed is automatically adjusted based on temperature value and configurable temperature interval. The main target is to activate energy saving mechanism and at the same time to enable ‘smart’ connectivity options based on proprietary or standard communication protocol (e.g. LIN)
Based on the high competences related to the development of submarine optical amplifiers, acquired during previous professional experiences, NeoSystems cooperates with multiple companies on the development of such amplifiers.
In details NeoSystems is responsible for the development of the electronic components for the amplifiers' lasers control.
These are very high technological level solutions, related to a specific market sector, that in the last years had an important growth due to the continuous bandwith requests associated to the exponential internet accesses increase, mainly caused to the social networks usage explosion.
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