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Smart technological tools for rising damp on monumental buildings for cultural heritage conservation. A proposal for smart villages implementation in…
2023
The Madonie district, in the inner Sicily, is composed of 21 villages, custodians of heritage, traditions, and values that constitute the identity of this area, now exclusively entrusted to the collective memory of an increasingly elderly and inactive population. In the study area, full of tangible and intangible heritage, technological tools, can revitalize and reuse examples of architecture, especially monumental, whose main problem is a deep rising damp affecting the masonry. That is particularly critical for the historic/traditional architectures. This research implements, in one of the villages of the enclave, a new technology system, namely Information and Commu- nication Technology (…
Smart cities: a policy tool for city efficiency?
2016
The level of interest in smart cities has been growing during these last years. The academic literature (Hollands, 2008; Caragliu et al., 2009, Nijkamp et al., 2011 and Lombardi et al., 2012) has identified a number of factors that characterise a city as smart, such as economic development, business-friendly, environmental sustainability, social innovation, information and knowledge process, and human and social capital. Thus, the smartness concept is strictly linked to urban efficiency in a multifaceted way as well as to citizens’ wellbeing through the use of appropriate technologies. Instead, from a “political perspective” smartness is mainly related to the ability of using ICT as instrum…
An Integrated Assessment Model on Local Aptitudes for Green-Energy Self-sustainability
2018
The Encyclical Letter Laudato Si of the Holy Father Francis on “Care for our Common Home” holds human society responsible for the achievement of a fairer world, through research into solutions to environmental problems and a moderate and efficient use of nonrenewable resources. It recalls that energy usage is one of the major factors of environmental pressure and shares the crucial questions of current European and international energy policies. In Italy, for the electric sector, energy policy requires the increase of energy production by renewable sources and the development of a transmission grid able to support a diffused and non-programmed production of electrical energy (a smart grid),…
Demand Response Service Certification and Customer Baseline Evaluation Using Blockchain Technology
2020
The use of Distributed Ledger Technologies such as Blockchain for certifying Demand Response services allows for the creation of a distributed system in which customers can communicate with the system operator to provide their flexibility, in a secure, transparent and traceable way. Blockchain technology also supports incentive mechanisms for users taking part in the service through the generation of utility tokens to recognize the user's contribution. This paper presents the experimental test of a novel methodology for Demand Response programs implementation by using the Blockchain technology. The latter is employed for defining a distributed Demand Response service and a new system for it…
Analysis of the Pre and Post-COVID-19 Lockdown Use of Smartphone Apps in Spain
2021
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has changed our daily habits and has undoubtedly affected our smartphone usage time. This paper attempts to characterize the changes in the time of use of smartphones and their applications between the pre-lockdown and post-lockdown periods in Spain, during the first COVID-19 confinement in 2020. This study analyzes data from 1940 participants, which was obtained both from a survey and from a tracking application installed on their smartphones. We propose manifold learning techniques such as clustering, to assess, both in a quantitative and in a qualitative way, the behavioral and social effects and implications of confinement in the Spanish population. We al…
CityFutures: Architettura, Design, Tecnologia per il futuro della città
2012
During CityFutures 2009, organized in Milan on 4-5 February by the Italian Society of Architectural Technology (SITdA) and MADE Expo, is discussed in relation to the planning of urban spaces and the ability to adapt in support of social development. The 21st century seems to have become the generation of the review, following the awareness on the hyperbolic growth of waste of natural resources, which has began with the industrial revolution and the threat of global warming and led to the establishment of a worldwide environmental movement. The summary of the topics, discussed during the conference by scholars, involving in research on the regeneration of urban land and infrastructure, is pu…
Il lavoro agile e il telelavoro nello scenario europeo e comparato: dinamiche emergenti, effetti sulla qualità del lavoro e strumenti di regolazione
2017
Il presente lavoro offre un quadro di sintesi del report congiunto Oil-Eurofound su Working Anytime, Anywhere. The Effects on the World of Work, che ha per oggetto l’impatto delle Icts sulle relazioni di lavoro in dieci Stati, sia all’interno dell’Unione Europea che in paesi extra-europei. Il saggio si prefigge innanzitutto di analizzare i rischi e le opportunità correlati alla digitalizzazione del lavoro nel capitalismo contemporaneo, principalmente con riferimento agli impatti su orario di lavoro, conciliazione vita-lavoro, salute e sicurezza e produttività. Al contempo ricostruisce un quadro sistematico delle principali politiche normative e contrattuali volte a favorire lo sviluppo di t…
RFID Technology for IoT-Based Personal Healthcare in Smart Spaces
2014
The current evolution of the traditional medical model toward the participatory medicine can be boosted by the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm involving sensors (environmental, wearable, and implanted) spread inside domestic environments with the purpose to monitor the user’s health and activate remote assistance. RF identification (RFID) technology is now mature to provide part of the IoT physical layer for the personal healthcare in smart environments through low-cost, energy-autonomous, and disposable sensors. It is here presented a survey on the state-of-the-art of RFID for application to bodycentric systems and for gathering information (temperature, humidity, and other gases) about …
Clinicians' assessment of mobile monitoring: a comparative study in Japan and Spain.
2013
Background: The gradual but steady shift toward telemedicine during the past decades is a clear response to important health problems that most industrialized countries have been facing. The growing elderly population and changing dietary habits have led to an increase in people with chronic diseases and overall health care expenditures. As more consumers use their mobile device as their preferred information and communication technology (ICT) device, mobile health monitoring has been receiving increasing attention in recent years. Objective: This study examines clinicians’ perception of factors determining mobile health monitoring acceptance in Japan and Spain. The study proposes a causal …
El trabajo ágil y el teletrabajo en el escenario europeo y comparado: dinámicas emergentes, efectos sobre la calidad del trabajo e instrumentos de re…
2018
The present work summarises the main results of the joint Eurofound-ILO report on «Working anytime, anywhere: The effects on the world of work», focusing on the impact of ICTs on the employment relationship in ten selected countries (both European and non-European). The essay is mainly aimed at critically analysing the opportunities and the risks related with the digitisation of work in contemporary capitalism, mainly in terms of impacts on working time, work-life reconciliation, health and safety and productivity. In the meanwhile, it offers an overview of the main policies carried out by the actors of the different industrial relations systems to develop telework and smart-working in Euro…