Spoke 1 is focused on the design and development of technologies, devices and services enabling inclusive use of the services offered in the urban context and throughout the environment.
Spoke 1 wants to heighten the concept of Smart City for better shaping urban spaces and services considering the needs of citizens. The aim is to develop technologies that are effective for improving the well-being perceived in the activities of city life.
A highly innovative and multidisciplinary approach is promoted, in order to personalize the offer of urban services with respect to the specificities and abilities of individual citizens interacting with the city and with each other and the city.
To respond to the real needs of people, Spoke 1 actively involves citizens and stakeholders in the design and evaluation process of the proposed technologies and services.
Spoke 1’s technological objective /The technological objective of Spoke 1 is to highlight how robotics and artificial intelligence are today effective tools for building a vision of a smart, accessible and inclusive city capable of grasping the needs of the citizens, through the design of intelligent devices and services that can be responsive to the context of use.
The National Research Council (CNR) is the largest public national research institution in Italy, the only one under the Research Ministry (MUR) performing multidisciplinary activities.
CNR was founded in 1923 and its mission is of carrying out scientific research projects in the main sectors of knowledge and applying the results for the development of the country, promoting innovation, the internationalization of the “research system” and promoting the competitiveness of the industrial system.
Michela Spagnuolo is Research Manager and Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies “E. Magenes” (IMATI). Her scientific activity concerns the study and development of geometric and topological methods for the representation, comparison and characterization of surfaces and volumes.