SmatF1: Italy Demonstrates UAV Ops in Civil Airspace

The SkyMedia partner Nimbus is involved in the SMAT F1 project, whose aim is to simulate a joint land-monitoring mission for civil purposes and to study and test a monitoring system for the prevention, emergency and territorial protection phases in a wide range of events such as floods, fires, landslides, traffic, town planning, pollution and farming. The monitoring system is to operate in an integrated manner with the authorities responsible for managing these events, providing them with timely information and real-time updates through a monitoring and coordination station.. 

This video represents the trials of the demonstration of Italy's SMAT F1 project (advanced land monitoring system, phase 1) with aircraft flying over Levaldigi (Cuneo-Italy), Benevagienna (Cuneo-Italy) and Turin (Italy).

SkyMedia at the NEM Summit 2011

The SkyMedia project has participated to the 2011 NEM Summit exhibition, which took place on 27-29 September 2011, in Torino, Italy.

The project exhibited in a dedicated area for R&D projects funded under the FP7 programmes of the European Commission, addressing network and electronic media technologies and ICT.

Massimo Neri, the SkyMedia technical coordinator, has also been interviewed by "Onde Quadre", the Turin Polytechnic multimedia portal (in Italian):
http://www.ondequadre.polito.it/podcast_video.php?id_puntata=328

For more information about the NEM Summit follow the link to the official web site:
http://nem-summit.eu/

SkyMedia at ICME2011

SkyMedia consortium has presented the publication  “Skymedia – Uav-Based Capturing of HD/3D Content with WSN Augmentation for Immersive Media Experiences” showing the novel multimedia end-to-end architecture that can provide unique immersive media experiences to audience during live events in the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2011) held in Barcelona, Spain from July 11 to 15, 2011.

The presentation has been accepted in the Workshop on Hot Topics in Multimedia Delivery (HotMD 2011) in the track of Multimedia-Aware Networking.

ICME is considered one of the most important conference in the field of multimedia sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities.

SkyMedia and Nimbus at PROTEC 2011

SkyMedia project activities were presented at the PROTEC 2011 event in Turin on June 30, 2011, within a conference session on light UAVs as enabling technologies for public protection and security.

The SkyMedia presentation focused on how the enabling technologies deployed within the SkyMedia project in the entertainment field can be used to deliver public protection and security applications as well. In particular, they allow to:

• Perform low cost aerial captures, silently and safely;
• monitor the most critical terrain areas through the use of sensor networks, using the UAV as a relay; 
• collect and process in a centralized manner all multimedia data collected on field; 
• interact with citizens directly on their mobile phones, enabling prompt alerts and signaling of important events; 
• interact with citizens using simple touchscreen interfaces deployed in strategically placed points of presence.

The Nimbus Metaplano

FogScreen on discover magazine

David H. Freedman has dedicated an article on the section Future Tech of the Discover magazine to FogScreen. Read it!

Turin Marathon visit

SkyMedia consortium partners visited Turin marathon race premises, where the live demonstration will take place on November 2012.

The visit has been really fruitful in order arrange the logistics of the final demonstration event.

SkyMedia meets Turin Marathon

On May 26 Turin Marathon participated to one of the Progress Meetings of the EU-funded project SkyMedia, coordinated by Mavigex. Eight Partner companies coming from six different countries (Italy, Portugal, France, Hungary, Greece, and Finland).


The event has been also reported by one of the most important Italian newspaper, La Stampa. Read here the article (in Italian).