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Project Selection RESULTS OF THE FIRST SCREENING

Screening process

• Ranking by votes

• Filtering self-votes

• Interest with respect to course topics and AmI

features

• Evaluation of possible issues

General statistics

• 44 ideas

• 14 groups (1 person re-assigned)

• 1 person out of groups

Interest # of ideas

Medium-high 6

Medium 7

Medium-low 1

Low 11

No-interest 19

Group statistics

• Group creativity

– NULL (3 selected projects)

– TAP (3 selected projects)

– SmartAttack (2 selected projects)

– The Ten-It-Eg Team (2 selected projects)

– AMITEAM (1 selected project)

– SmartUp! (1 selected project)

– PacMan (1 selected project)

– PiSquared (1 selected project)

Selected ideas

Idea Proponent Assignee

Smart Gardener NULL NULL

Smart Raise Your Hand Smart Attack Smart Attack

Thermostat Reimagined PiSquared PiSquared

Smart Management Of Computers in Laib

Smart Attack

-

Mood Control TAP -

Smart Notifications TAP TAP

Intercom 2.0 PacMan PacMan

Never be locked outside your apartment

NULL YAAIG

Save Light & work happily

The Ten-It-Eg Team The Ten-It-Eg Team

Selected ideas

Idea Proponent Assignee

Healthy Life Control SmartUp! -

Smart Comfortable Lighting for the user

The Ten-It-Eg Team

Tiger Team

Smart Pet Feeder NULL GGHF

Consumes monitor & optimizer

TAP -

Environmental Noise AMITEAM AMITEAM

Context lighting Teachers PU:TI

Smart Baby Monitor Teachers IMA

Smart Butler Teachers SmartUp!

Treasure Hunting Teachers iMe

Context lighting

• Exploit colored ambient lights (e.g., provided by the HUE system) to provide informational awareness for users: design and implement light and color patterns for providing unobtrusive notification of contextual information. For example for incoming mails, messages, tweets, people at the door, unconfortable or unsafe home states, etc. Must tackle multi-user settings and/or presence.

• AmI Features:

sensitive, adaptive, transparent,

ubiquitous (partly)

Smart Baby Monitor • Design a smart baby monitor

which allows to constantly check a baby for situations where a parent intervention is needed. It should be room-independent (exploiting the home sensors) and may permit different actions depending on the current context, e.g., open a video channel towards the parents (by selecting the most suitable device), open an audio channel for baby reassurance, re-direct the audio channel over the most suitable device, take autonomous actions such as playing relaxing music, shaking the baby cradle, use lighting for avoiding darkness fear, etc.

• AmiFeature:

sensitive, adaptive, transparent, partially

ubiquitous

Smart Butler • Vocal and/or chat-based smart

butler which enables home inhabitants to delegate duties to the home itself depending on current context, location, or get information like a human butler would do. For example: – Location-based or time-based

reminders

– Scheduling of activations – Location-aware activation – Remote control – Task support (e.g., reading recipes

while coooking, habits reminder, etc.)

– Information

– Activity delegation(e.g. I’m only available for phone calling from parents)

• AmI Features: all

• Min. Group size: 3

Treasure Hunting • The ambient «intelligence» sets a

treasure to find and a set of riddles or puzzles, involving orienteering, art, problem-solving, etc., which uncover the next step towards the treasure.

• Can be deployed both indoor and outdoor (indoor is easier for the final evaluation)

• Exploits sensors (e.g., presence, consumption, button pressure, gps, etc.), actuators (e.g. Lights, voice, messages) and end-user devices to detect the players location and to deliver the next step

• Must be multiplayer • Paths towards treasure might be

changed at runtime by the system according to the current game context

• AmI Feature: almost

all

• Min. Group size: 3

Next steps

• Provide a complete system summary

– As GitHub pages in the project repository

• provided by the end of the week

• Start defining requirements and architecture

– in the GitHub pages of the project repository

• Next Lab for

– working on / finalize the documents

– technology / tool scouting

Now

• Group finalization

• Project assignment

Smart Gardener: the self-learning watering system (4)

• Smart Gardener is a project that would allow you to enjoy plants while lifting you from the task of watering them. It would also optimize resources by avoiding watering if rainfall is forecast in the near future or if the day will not be particularly hot. Feedback from the plants allows to tailor irrigation cycles to their specific needs without manual input.

• 2 non-self votes

• Smart Watering

• Proposal authors' team: NULL

• AmI feature: autonomous, sensitive, adaptive, trasparent, ubiquitous

• Soil Sensors must be built/bought by the group

• Interesting project, shall be deployed in the Lab for evaluation

• Initial ranking: medium-high-interest

Smart raise your hand system (2) • Problem • In most of the laboratory exercises all students call the

professor (or his assistants) a lot of times to check their works or ask help. This is a waste of time because of the professor has to run around the lab often to explain the same things; the student has to hold his hand raised waiting for the professor.

• My Idea: • Every computer has a device to detect that the

student needs help as if he has raised his hand. The student can either ask a generic help or specify witch point he needs help. The student is placed in a queue. Every professor has a device(ex. smart watch) that signals the next student to help and if a lot of requests are on the same point it suggests that he could explain it to all students on the blackboard.

• Is it smart ? • Every time that a class ends the entire exercise the

system collects statistics on requests of help. In the next exercise that involved the same class, a display will suggest in which part of the laboratory the student should sit. The purpose is to place the students which need more helps near. So the system learns time by time how to is better place students. In this way the teacher have not to run from one side of the laboratory to the another.

• The statistics can also be used to know which arguments are more critic and the professor can explain them again in classroom.

• 1 non-self votes • Student assistance

improvement • Proposal authors'

team: Smart Attack • AmI feature: almost all • Needs more details on

the learning part and on the device for detecting attention requests


Thermostat reimagined once again (3) • My idea starts from a great admiration of the Nest learning

thermostat and my personal interest of having a modified version of it in my apartment.Nest actually has all the electronics to serve the american low-voltage control systems but not a simple relet to interact with italian and european high-voltage driven system.Nest uses the 24V american control system to absorb power and recharge its internal battery which is used essentially to keep the wifi connectivity on. It it almost impossible (I think) to do the same thing (absorb power) from our high voltage control system without activating the heater.

• Nest is not integrable with the alarm system, which is the system who holds the best informations regarding the movements in all the house and so it could use these datas to better understand if the house must be heated or not.

• It uses too much memory and computational power for its very heavy proprietary statistical prediction algorithms which are essecially based on datas coming from just one particular point of the house, if you want you can buy more nests and make them work together to increase the quality of prediction but this means 250$ more for every nest. So, my idea/solution will be a distributed network of wall plugs (so them can absorb all the power they need to serve the wifi chip and have no battery) of which only one has smart wifi connectivity and the others are connected with other less expensive, slower protocols + a relet box to be attached in place of the old house thermostat. Every wall plug can sense: movements, temperature, humidity, light intensity and help the main one managing the house temperature together with other datas like calendar, smartphone allarm clock settings, weather conditions etc. This system actually build a dynamical house routine which might be integrable with other existing smart environment devices to share its prediction algorithms and manage other house facilities (coffee machine, lights, blinds, etc.). It can also be used as a very easy to install alarm system which might be intelligent enough to require no activation/deactivation by the user, this merging: MAC addresses of wifi connected devices, house routine and other parameters to decide whether its you or a criminal walking in your house. I would be really excited to design such probabilistic control system with support of team members and professors.

• 0 non-self votes • Predictive, learning comfrot

control (mainly temperature) • Proposal authors' team:

PiSquared • AmI feature: all • Plugs are not really suitable as

sensors due typical positioning that is unsuitable for both presence detection and temperature and light sensing. The system can be implemented in the lab by exploiting multiple sensors made available in this course. Wifi connectivity is actually needed only for the controller.


Smart management of computers in laib (1) • My idea is to create an application the aim of which is 1)to help students save precious

time and 2)optimize the gestion of the laibs management.

• To the question "Why?" I answer with an example: if a student is in Corso Duca degli Abruzzi and needs to finish an Architecture work using a program, like 3DS Studio Max or similar, it is likely that he/she will spend 5/10 minutes to reach one of the laboratories that host computers on which he could run the program needed, then he'll spend several minutes to find a vacant computer and he will wait several minutes untill the program runs properly and will start working. If he's not so fortunate the program will crash and he'll have to find another computer or he will be asked to go away because of a lesson. My solution is based on a program, a database and an application. The program should be installed on every computer hosted in politecnico. Everytime a student uses a computer, the program collects informations about what program the student is using and which problems/anomalies occur in the session. It also memorizes how much time the program needed to start working and if it crashed. The application should be able to send in background all these informations to a database, hosted somewhere in a single workstation or distributed, while the student is working. Every student could make use of the service by installing on his/her smartphone an app in which he can specify that he needs a computer, which programs he presumes to use, where he is (if he doesn't allow localization). The app will connect to the database and find the nearest laib in which the student could find a computer that presumably will work properly and will tell him exactly the computer that it has found, because the database knows which computer is being used and which not (it receives informations continuously from the program installed). The app should also be installed on the self-service boxes to be fruible by really each student. The app will also ask to the student if he wants to book the computer so on the screen of the computer will be visualized something like "booked". If the student doesn't arrive in a specific time he loses the priority. The student could also share his timetable with the app so it could remind him the laboratory lessons and ask him if he wants it to book a computer for the time he presumely will arrive. The informations in the database wil be very helpful to laibs technicians and will avoid situations as: the laboratory lesson has started half an hour ago and some students are still trying to run the program needed or the computerized exam could not start because some computers don't work. I for example had this problem in the LADISPE during the Python laboratory. I think this idea could be reduced and applied to just the LADISPE but obviously it won't be much useful because of the small number of students that go there. Hope to find a better idea.

• 0 non-self vote

• Description • Proposal authors' team:

Smart Attack • AmI feature: all • Interesting project with

an high degree of integration of different existing systems, it will likely need to be re-scaled to be successfully addressed as final project

• Initial ranking: medium - high - interest

Mood Control (3) • A mood control system that tries to understand the

mood of the user depending on weather forecast, sleeping habits, and outings, to name a few. The system will try to improve the mood of the user by controlling the amount and color of lighting in one’s living environment, the amount of fresh air and air quality, and suggestions of outings. For example, if the weather forecasts for the morning are cloudy or rainy, the light intensity after the user switches the lights on should be a bit higher than usual, the color of the lights should have more red, and the room temperature a bit warmer. Another example is if the system detects that the users has not left the environment for an extended time period (few days), the system should suggest to the user to go out by showing a message on the user’s TV, phone or personal computer. Another is if the system detects that the user’s calendar shows that the user has spent a long time at work (or university) then the system should make sure that the environment is well ventilated, the color of the lights slightly bluer, and depending on the season the room temperature adjusted. This will create a more relaxing environment for the user after a long day. In all of these scenarios, the system tries to predict and improve the mood of the user in a non-intrusive way that is almost transparent.


• Promotion of Positive Moods

• Proposal authors' team: TAP

• AmI feature: all

• The main issue will be mood detection, as no hardware support could be provided in this course and research on such a domain is still open, more details are needed


Smart Notifications (1) • In our daily routine we typically need to keep

track of several things to do (homework, work preparation), places to go to (outings), and events to attend (lessons, someone’s birthday, meetings). It can sometimes be difficult to remember all of these things at the right time and at the right place. Many of these notifications reside on different platforms that are not integrated with each other (our calendar is not usually linked to our social account or email). The system would use different methods to notify the user: on his TV screen (if they are using it alone), on his smartphone, tablet and computer, and a light notification (like a small LED flashing a certain color in the room the user is currently in), to name a few. The system would aggregate the user’s direct notification (like a mention on twitter or a tag on Facebook or an important email) from different social networks and presents them during an appropriate time. An appropriate time of notification is determined by the user’s calendar, the importance (or priority) of the notification, the user’s location, and finally the user’s preferences.

• 0 non-self vote

• Ubiquitous notification system


• AmI feature: adaptive, transparent, intelligent

• Interesting idea, the group might also consider environment-generated notifications and the current user activity to reduce undesired interruptions


Intercom 2.0 - DoorOnPhone (6) • Hi guys, we are Marco and Gaetano, members of the

team PacMan. • We are planning to develop a system called

DoorOnPhone that transforms the concept of intercom in a powerful home-station that can be controlled by a smartphone.

• Users of DoorOnPhone would be able to leave their house and receive a notification on their smartphones if someone is calling on the intercom and the system can play a default audio-message.

• Most of modern intercoms have a camera, so you can watch people in front of the camera, open the door and speak with the person who's calling you. Notifications can provide a photo of who is currently calling.

• DoorOnPhone can be used as digital security system that recognizes faces or images. For example it can unlocks the door when you show a private encrypted image from your smartphone as a special key.

• These special keys can be used to authenticate some companies membership. Imagine that someone at the door pretends to be a maintenance man of some company. If the company provides him with a special key and intercom is connected to a trusted database, you can trust that man.

• DoorOnPhone would be also social, especially connected with Facebook. Users can see log information about people whose press the intercom's button. The system posts some information in a private facebook group giving statistics.

• Marco Senno e Gaetano Mondelli


• Basic remote intercom + some fancy (e.g., facebook, images authentication)

• Proposal authors' team: PacMan

• AmI feature: responsive, transparent

• Automation + Remote operation

• Initial ranking: medium-interest

Never be locked outside your apartment again! (5)

• My idea consists in a system able to memorize some objects (such as wallets or keys) always carried by the users.

• A user is associated with a set of objects that the system is able to sense and memorize while someone is entering or exiting from a closed environment.

• It warns the user if he is not carrying all the objects he usually has.

• The system has not to be manually configured, it should be something that you put next to the door and just works.


• Object Tracking • Proposal authors' team:

NULL • AmI feature: sensitive,

transparent, proactive • Description too coarse,

needs more details on involved solutions / technologies (RFID)

• No hardware support in this course


Save Light & Work Happily (4) • My idea is very simply and can be applied anywhere,

but due to the course requirement I will set the environment as LADISPE.

• It happens quite often that the lab is not fully used (i.e. some computers are free), but this happen in a random manner and due to this the whole light system of the lab is always on. My idea is to create a system where for example a monitor in the lab tells the user where to sit, and when they go there only the light in that area is turned on. Then when the next person comes in the system tells that person to sit in the spot closest to the prior one in order to save light. If for example half of the lab is used we are using only half of the available light bulbs this way, and in case some people at some point in time decided to leave, the system would suggest the available users to go near each other to save light or will automatically shut down the lights of the empty stations.

• How the seating going to be planned will be according to the layout of the lab, and with respect to the sunlight available in parts of the lab. Sunlight can provide the lab with proper brightness, this way people can be working in the lab without using any electric light during the morning in the section covered by the sunlight. This way we can use the sunlight to save power. During night there will be a different plan to minimize the usage of power as well.

• Through different sensors we can also make sure that the environment is suitable for work. For example that it is not too bright/dark, cold/hot, gassy, etc.

• we can control such quantities by using curtains, windows, AC system, etc.

• This way we have a lab that is power efficient with a proper/healthy working environment.

• 1 non-self votes • Smart positioning inside a

workplace (Lab) • Proposal authors' team: The Ten-

It-Eg Team • AmI feature: proactive (partly),

sensitive, adaptive, trasparent • The main task of assigning users

to places might be of interest, the latter part just exploits buzzwords for filling space, the system appears to be a bit rude with users (you are working on a project and at some point it asks you to move to another place: it is quite unpolite…)


Healty life control (3) • Based on people tastes controls diet

and sports habits. • It makes food menu based on people

needs (to lose weight, mantain weight, etc) and daily activities. Using a smartwatch it reminds people to eat at the right time, what amount of calories and kind of food can be eaten, to go to do sport (based on season) and to drink enough water daily. It also provides a list of food and items to buy for a selected number of days to be able to cook everything needed.

• It is connected to a scale and keeps tracks of people's progresses making stats avaiable to be consulted on computers.

• It can also be used as step counter/km runned counter/lenght counter for swimmers.

• 2 non-self votes - 1 disagree • Training system

• Proposal authors' team: SmartUp!

• AmI feature: adaptive, sensitive,transparent

• Might be of interest, it is a little bit too focused on a single device, probably lacks feedback on actually consumed calories and foods, the food list can hardly be composed in an effective way. A suggestion would be to move the idea a little forward sports training, e.g., analyzing users’ behavior but also in such a case there are already many applications available.


Smart comfortable lighting for the user (2) • My idea is to make the lighting in a home or

office setting help make the user more comfortable by controlling the "warmth" of the lighting depending on what time of day it is and the other ambient conditions (exterior lighting, type of work environment, etc.).

• This idea would involve not simply controlling regular light bulbs but, instead, having control of a lighting system that is capable of controlling multiple colors (e.g. an LED strip with red, green, and blue colors all on it). By controlling the lighting throughout the day, the system would be able to use the light to help the user be more productive by having a "colder" white light for in the mornings and having "warmer" lighting in the afternoons or for more casual settings.

• This system would most likely have to be programmed to be able to be overridden by the user for different scenarios and lighting preferences. But, for day to day use, the system should operate without any user intervention.


• Intelligent lighting system

• Proposal authors' team: The Ten-It-Eg Team


• The idea is interesting. More details are needed, especially on the learning and adaptation part


Smart Pet Feeder (1) • The Smart Pet Feeder is a system that

automatically gives food and water to a house pet. In the first weeks of use the user puts food and water for the pet into the Smart Pet Feeder manually as he or she would normally. From this the Smart Feeder system automatically learns the feeding and watering habits of the user. After a period of learning the habits of the user, the smart feeder system will automatically continue giving food and water to the pet accordingly.

• The system could also alert the user through a sms when a certain amount of food or water has been consumed, alerting the user that the pet might need to be taken outside to go to the bathroom.

• 0 non-self vote • Smart Pet Feeder, e.g.,

http://www.petnet.io/ (still to appear on the market)

• Proposal authors' team: NULL • AmI feature: sensitive,

transparent (partly), adaptive(partly)

• Mainly a do it yourself project, might be difficult to address mechanical building of the feeder and in-lab test. It seems to not account for Pet’s healthy diet.

• Initial ranking: medium -interest

http://www.petnet.io/

Consumes monitor & optimizer (0)

• Having the economical concern started occupying a major role in most of the people everyday lives, this idea is mostly focused on developing a system able to help the user spare his money in the handling of the house consumes.

• The system should be able to store up-to-date information regarding the cost tables of electricity and gas; basing itself on those data, it will help the user in choosing when and how to perform certain common operations, as the laundry, in the most convenient way from the economical point of view; another example of application could be a smart way of managing the heating system, based on a learning algorithm which analyzes the habits of the user. Finally, the system might also be useful in continuously keeping into account the amount of electrical power being used, in order to detect when no more devices can be attached to the wall sockets.

• 0 non-self vote

• Smart Energy management


• AmI feature: almost all • Just select one of the

possible scenarios (3 have been cited, of which the second one is already tackled by other projects)

• Initial ranking: medium -interest

environmental noise (0) • My idea consists in a device able

to automatically adjust speakers’ volume depending on room noise.

• The user should be able to set how the speakers’ output should be adjusted to respond to room noise fluctuations.

• For example the volume of announcements in a railway station could be set to increase depending on noise level allowing it to always remain loud enough to be heard, while a teacher could set his or her microphone to lower its volume when the class becomes louder, thus encouraging the students to be quiet.

• 0 non-self vote

• Adaptive volume regulation

• Proposal authors' team: AMITEAM

• AmI feature: sensitive , adaptive, transparent

• Comments: a little bit too simple, should be expanded

• Initial ranking: medium-low-interest

Smart and Customizable Environment (4)

• My idea starts from one of the biggest trouble in Polito: find an empty study room or lab, especially in exam period. So i thought about creating a sort of automatic check-in in a room in order to provide information about people inside it to other students. The check-in could be implemented using smartphone(wifi?, bluetooth?, rfid?, nfc?) and/or other sensors.

• The same technology can be used to customize and setup an environment (home, lab, classroom) according to who's inside it (this point is more interesting i think), for example give access permissions to open a door, turn PCs or lights on, play music, adjust the temperature ecc...

• 4 non-self votes - 1 disagree

• Presence detection + user adaptation

• Proposal authors' team: The counters

• AmI feature: all • Description needs more

details, Adaptation features are too vague, Privacy issues (can users prevent the system from tracing them?)

• Initial ranking: low -interest

Smart House Light Temperature Hot water and Gas (5)

• A system based on people habits and agenda and sensors of presence and temperature controlling light and temperature of the singles rooms in a house, working on electric light and natural light (switching on and off lights and opening and closing shutters or curtains ex:in the morning it opens slowly shutters depending on the hour an alarm clock is setted, and making different choices based on seasons), it controls temperature depending on the number of people in a room and if the room is needed and for what purpose. It also controls gas and hot water, switching gas on when it's time to cook or starting to make hot water when is needed for baths/showers, it can be connected to the manager of a solar energy system.

• It sends messages to users in case of out of order systems.


• General description of an AmI system (Smart Home)

• Proposal authors' team: SmartUp!

• AmI feature: all • Description too coarse,

no insights nor particular features that can be addressed as a final project

• Initial ranking: low-interest

Smart routine House (4) • My idea integrates "smart House

light temperature hot water and gas". The systems studies the routine of each person in a house regarding his hobbies and his activities (ex. when the person watches tv or makes coffee in the morning or listens to music after work) and prepares the environment switching on the items needed.

• If the person is not present for programmed activity the system sends a message to the user advising him the activity will not be started (ex. if everyday my tv turns automatically on at the same hour but I have a little delay receiving the message I am aware that when I found the tv switched off it is not broken).


• Activity detection/ Habits learning + Scenarios

• Proposal authors' team: Smart Up!

• AmI feature: all • Description too coarse,

no insights nor particular features that can be addressed as a final project


Remote smart hospital (1) • One of the greatest improvements that

could be reached through the development of AmI in everyday life is what concerns heathcare and 'smart hospitals', which can be pursued both in hospitals and at home. Maybe a patient could be allowed to leave hospitals in a few day if him or her is under direct control of the doctor through a system of smart enviroments (maybe developped in the badroom) that assure to observe some parameters as pressure, hartbeats etc. or to compile prescriptions and reminding the patient to take pills or something like this. This may improve expecially the life of terminal ill or chronic patients preventing them from frequently visit hospitals.

• 0 non-self vote

• Remote helthcare system

• Proposal authors' team: iMe

• AmI feature: almost all

• Too vague and probably unfeasible in this course


Smart groceries (1) • My idea is an application to be

helpful during your grocery shopping. At first, the application should be connected to your refrigerator in order to know what you already have at home. Then, the application will give you information and tips for the following :

• -Ideas of meals you can do with what you already have and what you need to complete it.

• -Find cheapest place to buy the food you need.

• -Nutritional information about the meal you're interested in.

• Also it could tell you when you are almost done with the product you always need. (fruits, milk...)

• 1 non-self vote

• Smart fridge

• Proposal authors' team: Tiger Team

• AmI feature: all, on one device only

• Not a new Idea (tons of research paper on it), nearly unfeasible in the course setting


Smart home: Energy Saving & Comfort (1) • Similarly to "smart house light temperature hot water and gas", my idea integrates

these concepts from an energy savings perspective, without compromising comfort. The system will detect each individual and act accordingly. Depending on the person's mood, the system will choose from different settings in light intensity/color, music type/volume etc. If the person is home alone, these settings can be extended to the rest of the house. If not, a compromise between all people's settings can be met, or no setting whatsoever. As the individual moves around the house, lights, music etc get switched off and on so to save energy. In the same way, motorised blinds are automatically controlled in two ways: - When no one is at home, they are completely open, to maximise solar gains during the day, and completely closed at night to minimise heat loss. - When the individual is at home, two settings can be chosen: Automatic Mood control and Automatic Energy control. Both settings can be manually overridden with a smart watch, where you can open or close the blinds directly from the watch. The music control system can play music straight from spotify's playlists or a personal library. Room temperature is automatic too, through HVAC system and openable windows, where the system takes into account time of year (summer - imposed room temperature 18-19ºC. winter - 21-22ºC) and individual's personal preferences. With an inside thermometer, live data is fed back into the system to adjust settings (much in the same way as the Nest thermostat works). With absence of people, the house moves into Savings Control Mode, where the main objective is to save energy (switching appliances off...). The smart watch's integrated GPS will give the house an estimated time of arrival so that when the person walks in, everything is ready. The person can always inform the house of last minute changes with the smart watch. TV is also automatically controlled to meet the user's preferences, where it learns which channels you watch most, average volume etc. It turns itself on when various conditions are met (for example, you sit on the couch and you look straight at the TV). All settings regarding TV, room temperature, lighting etc can be modified through gestures. i.e. looking at specific things and lowering/twisting your hand. The house can also order automatically broken light bulbs or other devices so all you have to worry about is simply replacing it. Another unrelated idea has got to do with security. The house can inform you of trespassing and send you live video footage of whats happening in your house while automatically informing the authorities.

• 0 non-self vote

• The next generation smart home

• Proposal authors' team: PiSquared

• AmI feature: all • Too vague and omni-

comprehensive: it would take far more time than the one available for this course just for scratching the surface.


The smart reminding (0) • As an intelligent laboratory, the very important part is that the

intelligent system in the laboratory must be convenient and useful to remind people something happened or something could happen and has a corresponding action to react those situations.

• Base on this point, my first idea is to decide a kind of system to remind people, like “Hey, don’t forget your stuff when you are leaving”. To keep the system simple and avoid adding too much elements in the laboratory, I decide designing a system encapsulated into a block with several interface in it, called “black box”, located on the back of the lab-table, one of those interface connected into a “Central Computer” to process the data, the other one interface connected into the lab-computer which used on the lab-table we are talking about. The “black box” be designed in ordering to transfer the “pressure data” to make the “Central Computer” sure is there any stuff on that lab-table belonging to the lab-computer user who are using the computer?

• The amazing thing is that after you open the computer, the “black box” will transfer the “user information” according the user name you’re signing in the lab-computer and the “pressure data” to the “Central Computer”. Then your name is recorded in the “central computer”, and furthermore the “pressure data” also be received in the “Central Computer” used to decide whether there is some stuff be set on the lab-table. Once, the “Central Computer” has decided there is some stuff on the lab-table, after this, when you sign out the lab-computer, the “Central Computer” send information to the lab-computer, and the lab-computer will say to you, “Hey, ‘there is your name’ , don’t forget your stuff”.

• All above.

• 0 non-self vote

• Basicly a smart scale system

• Proposal authors' team: GGHF

• AmI feature: sensitive, transparent

• Difficult to sense weight variations on a wide surface like a table, not well centered on the course topics


ladipse+ (0) • My idea is to create a simple web

server based on python, running on pi, connected to the intranet of polito, where professor or student can book the lab or a spot, also the pi would control the locking system of door and security panel; trough the sensor like prossimity,presence and temperature, self regulate enviroment, heating and cooling system, in order to make more efficient the power consumption, last, we can manage the main power switch trough pi, to cut out any power draining even from the smallest unused led when no one is present or nobody has booked the lab.

• 0 non-self vote

• Smart Lab

• Proposal authors'

team: PiSquared


• Too vague and omni

comprehensive


Energy Monitoring System (0) • My idea is to perform a simply

way to monitor the daily power consumption.

• Often users don't know how many high energy consuming devices are in their home and how they are wasteful. I want to project a system that could help users to manage power in their home. The system takes data from the energy supplier and helps users not to waste energy with a continuous monitoring process.

• Simply , cheap and environmentally friendly!

• 0 non-self vote

• Energy IHD


• AmI feature: sensitive, partly intelligent

• Not a new idea, several examples available on the market, too vague specification


That's my spot! (0) • One of the problem of studying

in a study room at Politecnico is searching for an empty spot, and my idea for solving it is to provide the possibility of logging in a sort of "study room social network" (maybe through a Facebook account) in order to know if one or a group of our friends is in there, and to ask them if they can narrow for creating a new spot. The providen spot should also be highlighted through a system of leds on the ceiling of the room. This could also be implemented in the Ladispe for testing the effectiveness of the solution.

• 0 non-self vote - 1 disagree

• Workstation Availability • Proposal authors' team:

iMe • AmI feature: none • Given a proper

illumination subsystem, the spot-light part would be interesting if mixed up with some real AmI feature, currently missing from the project


smart window and jalousie (0) • Everyone enjoy the sunlight and fresh

air , but for different people and different situation , we have our own preference .My idea is to help the user to get a comfortable indoor environment by controlling the jalousies and window.

• We use the sensors to check the temperature ,humidity and intensity sunlight of the indoor and outdoor. Based on the habits of the owner , the jalousies can automatically adjust the illumination intensity of the indoor in order to let the room have a constant sunlight. The window can automatically open when the temperature is too high or the air is cloudy. And when the bad weather is coming , not only will the window be closed ,it will notify the owner to pay more attention.

• 0 non-self vote

• Smart / Natural lighting • Proposal authors' team:

GGHF • AmI feature: all • Pretty similar to

initiatives in the smart lighting community, impossible to test in a lab setting without motorized blinds/shutters and windows

• Initial ranking: low- interest

Safer in your house (4) • The idea is quite simple and

maybe has been already developed effectively.

• Why can't we built something that integrates a gas detector (methane and CO) that can actually sense the air and advise you in case of danger through internet or by sms or maybe actually acting on valves (shutting down stove or closing gas) , able also to detect smoke and water on the floor always in order to make you aware of the problem, closing valves, etc.

• All these devices already exist but not like a unique product that could be seen as a must-have device for house safety


• Description unreadable, it appears to propose a single multiple sensor for all kind of dangerous situations


• AmI feature: none

• Not really useful, nor realistic

• Initial ranking: no-interest

Smart Safe & Comfortable House (3)

• Reading the idea "Smart House Light Temperature Hot water and Gas" I thought about enlarging it adding

• a kind of baby-control for example if a baby comes in the kitchen he can't touch the stove or the oven and so on or if he leaves the house on his own a system that alert parents would be useful. Moreover the use of agenda or statistics on the habits of the people living in the house can also be integrated with info about the position outside the house (like gps) of the tenents.This would be useful to avoid waste of energy if someone was supposed to come back home (as the system thinks) but for some trouble he couldn't in this case the system won't do what he was programmed to do saving energy.


• A main goal is missing


team: SmartUp!

• AmI feature: difficult

to detect

• The Idea is too vague

• Initial ranking: no-

interest

HuQoL - Human Quality of Life (3)

• The idea was born tied to the kitchen, but can be to weave for all spaces widely used by man, such as overcrowded classrooms and laboratories. Today enclosed spaces are always better insulated and this often results in a limitation in the recirculated air that often do not meet the standards on the quality of life healthy. The idea would then adjust, following the acquisition by sensors in the level of temperature, humidity, CO2 and brightness, by opening/closing windows, fans, lights, blinds, heater...

• 1 non-self votes • Comfort management • Proposal authors'

team: The Ten-It-Eg Team

• AmI feature: sensistive, adaptive

• The idea is not innovative nor interesting for the course topics

• Initial ranking: no -interest

Daily Study Helper (2) • Sometimes preparation for examination

session could be difficult in term of study organization and steadiness in daily study.

• My idea consist in a tool that help the students to study everyday for the exams. The user set his weekly course schedule and the exam he want to pass and the application, installed for example on a smartphone or a smartwatch, when the student sit in a study room or at his/her desk at home tell the subject he/she has to study and start a timer to tell when start studying another subject.

• If the students skip the daily study, the technology send him a remind message.

• The application could also implement an algorithm that memorize the user study routine to help him/her better.

• 4 non-self votes - 2 disagree

• Study scheduler

• Proposal authors' team: IMA


• More a scheduling tool rather than an AmI system


Smart room (1) • How many times we forget to

turn off the light when we leave a room? So I started thinking about a simple system that turn off the light when no one is in the room and turn it on when someone enter the room maybe changing intensity and color depending on different situations such as weather, hours, type of usage and user preference...

• This system could be extended adding other functionality, for example managing tv, pc, temperature, music, etc.

• 1 non-self vote

• This is what is usually done with IR detection



• Not interesting, the proposed functionality is not new and too simple


Lab PC Reservation (1) • With your smartphone you can reserve

a PC in LADISPE and let him log in with your Polito account. It will automatically download and install your most used software and/or the software that you may select with your smartphone itself [hard part I guess]. The PC will ignore any input given physically to the PC itself. You have 5 minutes to go to the selected PC, and insert your password to have full control on it [or face recognition may be used], otherwise the PC will be fully available for another person. This removes the loss of time caused by manually installing software, and assures a working station to be used by you. There may be other options and preferences like room temperature, that would be adjusted automatically in the LADISPE as the average of the preferred temperatures given by the PC users in that specific time

• 0 non-self vote

• PC Booking system


team: iMe


• Out of scope

• Initial ranking: no -

interest

Weather shield: a friendly reminder to get the umbrella. (0)

• Who hasn't come home soaking wet because of an unexpected shower which threatened to destroy your notes, laptop or phone? This device would, by monitoring your daily activities and learning your schedule, understand if you will be caught by bad weather while you are outside. If so it issues advice accordingly, for example reminding you to get your umbrella.

• 0 non-self vote

• Smart umbrella reminder

• Proposal authors' team: NULL

• AmI feature: sensitive (partially), transparent, ubiquitous

• Can in principle be realized without any environment instrumentations, by just exploiting on-line weather and schedule services, it seems more a typical phone app rather than an AmI system

• Initial ranking: no - interest

Optimising the cooling (0) • Optimising energy use should be a priority to

build a society based on sustainable development. Cooling buildings and houses during summer requires a lot of energy. During the day, when people go to work or at school, the radiation of the sun and sky heats the house. A lot energy is use only to balance this phenomenon. Blocking those radiation during the day time can allow the cooling system to slow down and saves energy.

• The radiations can be blocked with automatic articulated awnings. Those awnings can be automaticaly deployed when the radiation of the sun reach a certain point. In other words, when the sun reach a certain point in the sky (a certain degree of radiation) the awnings will be activate and they will slide out to block.

• So, in the morning or late in the afternoon (weak radiations), usually when we are at home, the awnings will be retracted and the soft radiation of the sun will reach the inside of the house.

• The reduction of energy use is part of the whole revolution that the society is passing through. Optimising cooling is only one aspect among many others.

• 0 non-self vote

• Passive Cooling


team: Tiger Team


• Already deployed in

several buildings...


Smart Queue manager (0) • The system is meant to finally

manage the queue of the segreteria of the politecnico is a frustration-free way while also saving on paper daily wasted on printing reservation tickets.

• All students attending politecnico have a smartcard which this project would use to reserve appointments in a given time-range.

• The system also learns at which rate the queue moves and constantly adapts to the situation offering different slots.

• 0 non-self vote

• Queue handling


team: NULL


• Out of scope


interest

Lesson quick-start (0)

• The idea is a system that prepares the lab ambient when recognizes a professor nears to the class.

• For example when a professor is getting closer in a lab the system recognizes him (e.g. using smartwatch) and the lesson he has to do.

• So turns on projector, switches off some bulbs (or eventually reduces the brightness) and closes shutters.

• 0 non-self vote

• Quick room set-up


team: The counters

• AmI feature: sensitive, adaptive

• Out of scope


Smart and cheap using of vibration sensors for security (0)

• My second idea is to provide LADISPE a system able to integrate the functions of antitheft alarm system and an eartquake alarm system. These two objects are based on vibration sensors and selective microphones. A microprocessor inside does some signal elaborations and is able to identify vibrations caused from thieves, like walls perforation, in the first case, in the second case identifies the p and s waves that characterize an earthquake and starts the alarm 10 seconds before the arrive of the destructive ones. My idea is to provide the ladispe a system of simple vibration sensors and let a computer or just an arduino make all the elaborations and activate alarm, call 113, send the informations to everyone that goes frequently to the ladispe, and, if possible, communicate with all computers sending a special message after that they start saving the session and shut down.

• 0 non-self vote

• Earthquake alerting system


team: Smart Attack

• AmI feature:

sensitive

• Out-of-scope


interest

Healthy take a seat system (0)

• Stand too much time sitting in front of the computer improperly can be injurious to health (bad eyes, backache ..)

• My idea is to create a station that automatically adjust all factors harmful to health: chair height, distance from the screen, the screen brightness etc..

• 0 non-self vote

• Ergonomic Workstation


team: Smart Attack

• AmI feature: almost

none

• Out- of-scope


interest

ConfHome (0) • Hi guys, we are Marco and Gaetano and this is

our second idea.

• Often people want to create a particular ambient in their house for a special situation for example a birthday, a business dinner, a daily dinner or fest days.

• ConfHome system helps user to change the perception of the ambient changing intensity and color of lights and playing particular sounds.

• Users have only to set the situation that they would create and the system ConfHome start to work for those.

• we think about a pattern of light-sound that create the situation.

• The system can evolve itself if forniture changes.

• ConfHome can be used by a smartphone using an App. As users of smartphone choose a profile for their phone (silence,work,etc) , so using ConfHome they can choose a specific profile for a specific situation.

• Marco Senno e Gaetano Mondelli

• 0 non-self vote

• Scenario

• Proposal authors' team: PacMan


• Out-of-scope, Just basic scenario management and not AmI


Intelligent Teacher Assistant (0)

• My idea consists of a system that is able to synchronize with the schedule for the classroom/lab it is installed in and collect data about the habits of the teacher (wether he usually projects slides, write on the blackboard, turns on the lights or not) and, in the next lessons of the same teacher, automatically ready the environment using a fuzzy logic to efficiently save time on the beginning of the lesson without the teacher having to directly interact with it.

• The system should be able to intelligently adapt to the data collected about the usual preferred environment for the current lesson, so that multiple teachers can use it with their own preferences without having to manually switch profiles or change settings.

• The efficiency of the data collected could be improven by linking it with the weather conditions, the time of day, etc.

• 0 non-self vote

• Quick room set-up


team: PU:TI

• AmI feature: sensitive, adaptive,

intelligent

• Out-of-scope


interest

simple air circulation system (0)

• My idea applies to cold seasons.

• The system studies the calendar of the user and automatically opens or closes windows according to the routine of the user.

• ex.after the user leaving the house,windows are opened,and a certain time before the user coming back,windows are closed so that the indoor temperature can remain in a proper value.

• 0 non-self vote

• Temperature control using windows

• Proposal authors' team: GGHF


• Comments: no AmI, several issues, too simplistic


Can I charge my laptop project (0)

• In many classroom of the Polito there are only one or two wall sockets. Even in the study halls the wall sockets are never enough. Organized students sometimes use power strips or multiple adapter. The idea is to develop an adaptive system that, based on the current consumption, easily allows the students to know if they can plug more devices (or more power strips) in order to optimize the use of every wall socket.

• 0 non-self vote

• Description

• Proposal authors' team: AMITEAM

• AmI feature: sensitive (partly)

• No sense from the electrical point of view: each plug delivers a power dictated by connected devices up to the maximum ratings. Exceeding ratings means overheating / destroying the wall outlet.


Smart Accessibility (-1) • I think more or less our ideas

should relate more with the lab environment so I thought what if we can learn which pc is occupied or not by just looking at the small screen near the door by sensing the people or if the computer is on or off. The small screen which locates near the outside door will have the plan of the room and where the PCs are located. If the computer is used by somebody, the screen will show the PC in different color maybe.


• Workstation Finding

• Proposal authors' team: Unknown (!) - Maraltuya Amartuvshin

• AmI feature: sensitive

• Description too vague


Easy Lab (-1) • I thought about an intelligent

device that informs on an app or online if the lab is available and how many computers are free to use. Moreover the program would turn off every machine at a certain time (after 9pm) and turn them on in stand-by mode everyday (at 8am), making easy the job of the technician lab. The program would be able to learn the days to stay off (sundays and holidays) and register the avarage of use turning them off in base of needing. This device is useful for saving energy and saving time of everyone.


• Lab automation (already in use…)

• Proposal authors' team: PU:TI


• Nothing new, actually LAIBs employ similar systems


Time Saving Application (-3) • Often students have to leave

earlier from a lesson in order to take buses, trains or to go to another lesson. But in most cases they have to wait several minutes once arrived because they have left too early, losing part of the lesson for nothing. Could be usefull an application that calculate the user speed of walking and running and once setted with the user schedule, the technology alert the user when to leave in order to arrive in time but not too early.

• The application could be expanded to appointment in general and calculate the user average speed when he drives and the caratteristic of the streets he takes.


• Personal reminder • Proposal authors'

team: IMA • AmI feature: none • Mobile app + some

body sensors, subject to several issues related to speed tracking, etc.


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