Innovation Lab
Innovation to explore and create new business opportunities
A physical and virtual space for developing pilot projects
The Innovation Lab identifies and adapts innovation opportunities to the company’s business model, coordinates projects that receive public funding, develops innovative technologies and solutions for transfer to the company’s production departments, and enriches the company’s knowledge base, helping to create new distinctive skills.
The Innovation Lab is the cornerstone of Exprivia’s research, development and technology integration activities. A hub open to the exchange of experiences and knowledge with the academic and research worlds, which has led to the launch of various projects in partnership with leading research institutions, such as the Polytechnic Universities of Milan and Bari, La Sapienza University, the University of Bari and the University of Salento, the CNR and Cefriel, with which it has specifically launched a commercial partnership programme to promote ‘cutting-edge technology’ projects.
3 areas of innovation
In line with the Business Plan, the areas of innovation focus on solutions that fall within the frameworks of the Smart City, Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation.
- Improving public administration services with a view to simplification, cost reduction, and the reuse and optimisation of existing resources
- Developing services for citizens
- Advanced services for the planning and use of personal transport through secure mobile payment solutions for public and private services
- Solutions for improving and streamlining business processes, and the development of green IT and the Internet of Everything
- Tools for a new way of using software applications (cloud), for intelligent data management (analytics and big data)
- Applications of augmented reality on newly developed immersive display devices
- Tools for new entrepreneurship and the implementation of innovation
- Services for businesses and utilities aimed at optimising energy efficiency
- Tools for improving the quality of social and healthcare services, promoting individual well-being and social inclusion
- Healthcare applications and integrated bioinformatics tools to support the interpretation and evaluation, for diagnostic purposes, of data derived from genomic screening
Find out more with our white papers
DOCUMENTs
Let’s make the physical world safer by imagining a real world
Cyber threats can have devastating physical consequences in the real world. We have produced this white paper to propose a monitoring solution which, through the use of immersive display systems – such as next-generation 3D, AR and VR – is capable of providing a clear and precise understanding of the situation (situational awareness), thereby enabling an appropriate response to safety incidents.
DOCUMENTs
Data Science for the study of Alzheimer’s disease: hidden patterns in the structural connectome
Download the paper resulting from the collaboration between Exprivia and the University of Zaragoza. This significant achievement is the result of a fruitful partnership between academic and industrial research.
Other innovation projects:
A profile of the ideal smart city
‘Digital City 2.0’ is a framework that defines the development context for all research activities, in which the citizens of the third millennium and their relationship with an urban environment – which has now become a veritable ecosystem – play a central role. A smart city in constant contact with the community of citizens who live there, from whom it draws information and to whom it provides services that utilise, rework and redistribute that same information via fixed and mobile devices. A vast laboratory divided into specific areas of research ranging from Healthcare 2.0 to Mobile Ticketing, from Big Data to Energy Optimisation, from Mobile Assistants to the Internet of Things.
Science at the service of services
The Puglia@Service research project aims to implement a strategic, organisational and technological initiative that will facilitate the transition of the Apulia region towards a ‘smart region’ model.
By applying the principles of collaboration, open innovation and user-driven approaches characteristic of MIT’s Living Labs, the project proposes to apply the concept of innovation to Internet-based services within the context of the so-called Future Internet.
The effectiveness of the proposed model and its alignment with the structural need for change expressed by the Puglia Region have found a valid field of application in Public Administration and Integrated Tourism.
(For further information: http://www.ponrec.it/open-data/risultati/distretti-laboratori/PON02_00563_3489339)
Business tools
To harness the wealth of knowledge and collective intelligence found in social networks to support the development of entrepreneurial skills, promote innovation, and improve problem-solving and decision-making. This is the objective of the VINCENTE project, which is being pursued through the creation of a methodological, technological and service platform designed to support sustainable entrepreneurship. Exprivia’s task: to create an infrastructure for the integration and management of heterogeneous information sources and to provide services for Business Intelligence and Market Analysis.
Tracing the supply chain
The project aims to develop a platform to match supply and demand in transport services, with a view to ensuring maximum traceability at every stage: from the procurement of raw materials through their processing into individual production activities, to the handling of the product, right through to delivery to the end customer. In particular, Exprivia has been responsible for creating a hub-and-spoke platform for the exchange of digital business documents with the potential for legal validity between supply chain stakeholders.
IT is moving into the consumer market
The rise of an IT consumption-oriented business model marks a shift from software as a product, managed in-house by the user, to software as a set of services selected on an ad hoc basis according to individual needs. The Puglia Digitale 2.0 project involves Exprivia transforming the existing software and cataloguing the key business components with a view to building a SaaS service platform for eGovernment and Open Data, mobility, Ambient Assisted Living, tourism and culture, and green energy management.
When treatment starts with genes
The project involves the expansion of the electronic health record system to enable large-scale analysis of genomic data for the study of hereditary conditions. Thanks to integration with the General Practitioners’ Network and the Edotto network, it facilitates the implementation of personalised medical treatments, including those based on pharmacogenomics, and continuous monitoring via telemedicine.
Construir bien para aprovechar al máximo la energía
El proyecto tiene como objetivo desarrollar soluciones innovadoras y sostenibles para mejorar la eficiencia energética en el sector de la construcción y se articula en torno a dos líneas de investigación complementarias: la primera se centra en el uso de materiales y soluciones energéticamente eficientes para la envolvente del edificio; la segunda, en la que participa Exprivia, se centra en el desarrollo de sistemas para gestionar y optimizar el balance energético del edificio, capaces de prever y gestionar tanto la demanda de los usuarios como la disponibilidad de energía procedente de fuentes renovables.
IT in the transport sector
Multimodal transport requires not only the integration of different modes of transport, but also, and above all, the immediate availability of data and the quality of information exchange between the various stakeholders throughout the entire process. As part of the ITS ITALY 2020 project, Exprivia is responsible for developing data communication system solutions, aimed at creating intelligent systems for modular toll pricing and establishing an integrated platform for managing communication processes between operators in the supply chain.
A smart home for an independent elderly person
Enabling frail and elderly people to live independently in their own homes is a crucial objective for improving their quality of life. The Active Ageing @ Home project pursues this objective through the development of fixed and mobile IT solutions, both wearable and non-wearable, which enable the care and monitoring of users and their home environments, making it possible to prevent risky situations, promote appropriate physical activity, and encourage socialisation and social inclusion. Exprivia’s specific objectives include: developing the event identification module, acquiring data from wearable sensors, and providing devices suitable for user assistance.
