SkyMedia at SMAU fair

The SkyMedia consortium has participated to the SMAU fair, which has been held in Milan, from 19th to the 21th of October. 

The SkyMedia stand is hosted in the Municipality of Turin booth and presents the whole set of trials that will be demonstrated during Turin Marathon 2011.

SkyMedia application in video surveillance

SkyMedia partner Nimbus partecipated to the Seminar on Video-surveillance, organized by Axis Communications at the Province of Turin premises on October 10, 2011.

Nimbus presented SkyMedia capabilities in surveillance: the SkyMedia architecture has shown indeed great potential in the security field for several reasons:
- Low cost aerial video shooting, in security conditions and without environmental disturb
- Monitoring through sensors of ground areas
- Centralized multimedia data collection and processing
- Direct interface with citizens' mobile phones
- Direct interaction with citizens' through touch screen interfaces

For more information about the seminar, please visit the web site (in Italian).

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/