There is a smart home for every need – Il Sole 24 Ore

The house of robots assistants

in Peccioli, a small town of the Pisano of about 5 thousand inhabitants, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa has set up an experimental house in which experiments with a new generation of robot assistants as part of the robot-Era project. The house is packed with sensors that help the robots to move making them lighter and less expensive architecture. According to the researchers pisani this could be the intelligent model apartment in a future in which our houses will be full of robots that help us with the housework.

at will Configurable Elements

how the Internet of things can enter our homes? According to Carlo Ratti, director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT in Boston, also in the form of a sofa. Lift-Bit, designed by Carlo Ratti Associati with the Vitra stand, it is a collection of upholstered hexagonal ottoman that can change the configuration via a hand control or via an app. The set can become a chaise-longue, bed, as desired game plan. The project is presented next week at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, the exhibition “Rooms. Other philosophies of living “, which is open until 12 September.

open source connected Cottage

house Jasmina is a two-year project of house-related open-source started to Turin to explore the potential of the Internet of Things, the result of collaboration Toolbox, Fablab Torino and Arduino, which provides with its cards, “thinking part” of the house. Launched in 2015, the project aims to develop interactive objects useful in all environments, from the kitchen to the bathroom, and encourage the development of new products. At Milan FuoriSalone it is present with the exhibits Git-Commit, Atelier Clerici (via Clerici 5), and the workshop The Good Home, where you explore open space and privacy in the interconnected home.

The smart kitchen

the kitchen is one of the technological parts of the house, they concentrate on experiments of all kinds, from robot-chef at the cooking surfaces with built tablet. But many prototypes and a few concrete things. Valcucine is the first to introduce an interactive modular kitchen, Genius Loci, which senses the presence of the people and responds accordingly. For example, turning on the lights, delivering water from the tap in a gesture of the hand, or by opening the drawers automatically, to a movement of the foot, a bit ‘as it happens in the opening of the trunk of some car models.

Power consumption under control

OverTechnologies is a spinoff of the University of Rome La Sapienza that produces devices for measurement and control of electrical consumption. The latest addition is called nanometer and is a small box that can be installed in any type of electrical panel, new or traditional. It offers internet access and monitors continuously the electricity used by providing, through a web interface, consumer graphics and an indication of the lower fare. The project was financed by a crowdfunding campaign that ended in just three days.

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Riccardo Oldani

journalist, Italian member of the association of science journalists (Swim-Swit), has collaborated with major Italian popular science magazines. He writes mainly renewable energy, energy efficiency, robotics and automation, but also food and wine journalist.