Head Vittorio Miori

Welcome to Domotics Lab Website. Here you will find informations on our Research activities  at ISTI "Alessandro Faedo" Institute (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) in Pisa.

About Us

Domotics Lab contribute to improve the quality of everyday life moving towards the achievement of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and Internet of Things visions.

Domotics Lab focuses its research activities on the home environment trying to reach new scenarios in which computing capabilities are not limited to traditional, stand-alone computing devices, but also in common, everyday objects.

In our vision devices, objects and the environment itself seamlessly interact in order to support users (with special attention to children, elderly and disabled people) in carrying out everyday life activities, in an effortless and natural way, using a transparent user computing systems employed at home and in urbotic environment.

This is the concept on which Ambient Intelligence and Internet of Things are based and covers the three key paradigms: ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous communication and intelligent user friendly interfaces. These key concepts may be seen as the layer on top of Domotics. Exploiting this approach, isolated devices are integrated in order to achieve global and unified goals and made able to auto-organize and auto-adapt themselves depending on the users’ context and anticipating their needs.

Our guidelines are directed to achieve a fully-integrated home of the future and they are developed by systems and technologies that are:

·         embedded: integrated within the environment;

·         context aware: able to recognize users and their context;

·         personalized: tailored to user needs;

·         adaptive: able to change in response to new scenarios;

·         anticipatory: able to anticipate user desires.

The lab is therefore dealing with a multi-disciplinary field including computer science, social science, electrical/electronic engineering, industrial design, architectural design, user interfaces, and cognitive science.

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