Search results for "ARCHITECTURE"

Designing for Mixed Reality Urban Exploration

2021

Funding Information: Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (grant agreement no 601139) and the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR) PON AIM project (id: AIM1875400-1, CUP: B74I18000210006). Publisher Copyright: © 2021. All Rights Reserved. This paper introduces a design framework for mixed reality urban exploration (MRUE), based on a concrete implementation in a historical city. The framework integrates different modalities, such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and haptics-audio interfaces, as well as advanced features such as personalized recommendations, social exploration, and itinerary manage…

M-VIF: A machine-vision based on information fusion

2002

The authors describe a new architecture for machine vision, which is based on information fusion approach. Its general design has been developed by using a formal computation model that integrates three main ingredients of the visual computation: the data, the models, and the algorithms. The hardware design and the software environment of M-VIF are also given. The simulation of M-VIF is under development on the HERMIA-machine.

Pictorial information retrieval with uncertain knowledge

1990

In the paper an integrated pictorial database is described. The design of the data management requires many efforts to preserve consistency and integrity. The retrieval operations are designed to support a uniform view of heterogeneous information including uncertain ones; in this last case, non-standard techniques have to be developed. Applications to astronomical images and an outline of the implementation status are given.

HERMIA - GENERAL DESCRIPTION

1992

Energy Saving Optimizing the Ventilation Control in a Big Shopping Center

2018

The paper investigates the potential energy savings in the context of big shopping centers, thanks to the introduction of innovative technologies able to control the ventilation according the real requirement for comfort and health of indoor spaces. The case study analyses a big shopping center, where the ventilation is realized with a centralized air-conditioning plant, working with fixed air flows. Two solutions are proposed to reduce the energy consumption for ventilation. The first considers the installation of heat recovery exchangers, the second the introduction of a control system able to modulate the air exchange, according to the real requirements. An energetic and economic evaluat…

Energy and Economic Comparison of different conditioning system among traditional and eco-sustainable building

2013

Energy and Economic Analysis of Different Buildings Constructed with Environmentally Sustainable and Traditional Materials

2013

A Sustainable and Zero Energy Healthcare Facility in Mozambique

2016

Sustainable urban development, especially in economically disadvantaged regions, has increasingly become a major strategic priority. New settlements and urban regeneration programs have to improve the quality of social life, promote economic growth, increase environmental protection practices, and ensure the appropriate use of local resources. In that framework, a well-structured healthcare service is commonly conceived as vital for urban development. In response, this paper proposes the construction of one such healthcare facility in a deprived urban area in Maputo, Mozambique. Prioritising typical pillars of sustainability, the project’s design considers traditional building typology and …

Analysis of Electrospun Scaffolds Micro - Architectural Data.

2009

A Survey on LoRa for Smart Agriculture: Current Trends and Future Perspectives

2023

This paper provides a survey on the adoption of LoRa in the agricultural field, and reviews state-of-the-art solutions for Smart Agriculture, analyzing the potential of this technology in different infield applications. In particular, we consider four reference scenarios, namely irrigation systems, plantation and crop monitoring, tree monitoring, and livestock monitoring, which exhibit heterogeneous requirements in terms of network bandwidth, density, sensors’ complexity, and energy demand, as well as latency in the decision process. We discuss how LoRa-based solutions can work in these scenarios, analyzing their scalability, interoperability, network architecture, and energy-efficiency. Fi…