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  • Il progetto SRSnet incluso fra le best practice del Programma Interreg IV Italia-Austria

    Il 2 novembre a Monastier di Treviso, all’interno di Cyclorama, evento informativo del Programma Interreg IV Italia-Austria 2007-2013, il progetto SRSsnet (Smart Resource-aware multi-Sensor NETworks) è stato incluso fra le best practice del programma di cooperazione internazionale.

    Il progetto SRSnet, realizzato grazie alla collaborazione fra aziende italiane ed austriache esperte nel campo dell’innovazione tecnologica, prevede lo sviluppo di una rete di sensori multimediali da collocare in un ambiente esterno per il monitoraggio ed il rilevamento autonomo di eventi in una zona biologicamente sensibile. La rete di sensori viene attualmente testata in un’area del Parco Nazionale degli Alti Tauri in Carinzia, e grazie al sistema il personale del parco è in grado di monitorare diversi fattori, riuscendo per esempio a quantificare il flusso di turisti che ogni giorno si reca in visita al parco naturale, o individuando le zone di maggiore interesse.

    Il sistema è in grado di identificare autonomamente gli eventi, fornendo informazioni dettagliate sui soggetti e sull’azione che si sta svolgendo, estraendo statistiche che mostrano la frequenza e la ricorrenza dei diversi casi identificati dal sistema.

    Il progetto non è ancora concluso e le aziende partner, sia italiane (Eye-tech, Infofactory) sia austriache (il Lakeside-Lab, il Pervasive Computing Group ed il Transportation Informatics Group dell’Università Alpe-Adria di Klagenfurt), si stanno adoperando per ottimizzare il sistema considerando anche una sua futura applicazione nell’ambito della sicurezza e della prevenzione degli incidenti, grazie alla sua capacità di identificare tempestivamente diverse categorie di eventi.

    Per maggiori informazioni visitate: http://srsnet.lakeside-labs.com/

  • SRSnet included among the best practices of the Interreg IV Italy-Austria

    On November 2, at Monastier (Treviso), within Cyclorama, an informative event about the Interreg IV Italy-Austria 2007-2013, the SRSnet project (Smart Resource-aware multi-Sensor NETworks) has been included among the best practices of the international cooperation program.

    The SRSnet project, made ​​possible thanks to the collaboration between Italian and Austrian companies, experienced in the field of technological innovation, involves the building a smart network of audio and video sensors that can automatically localize and detect different types of events in a specific environment. The sensor network is currently tested at the National Park Hohe Tauern, Carinthia, and it allows the park staff to monitor several factors, such as the flow of visitors who every day comes to the park and various activities in the main points of interest.

    The system is able to identify events, providing detailed information about the subjects and actions that are taking place, pulling out statistics showing frequency and occurrence of several cases identified by the system.

    The project is not yet completed and the partner companies, both Italian (Eye-tech, Infofactory) and Austrian (Lakeside-Lab, the Pervasive Computing Group and the Transportation Informatics Group of the Alpe-Adria University of Klagenfurt), are working to optimize the system considering also its future application in safety and accident prevention, due to its ability to promptly identify different categories of events.

    For more information: http://srsnet.lakeside-labs.com/

  • SRSnet, a new smart video surveillance system, was born from the joint work of Italian and Austrian companies

    The project has a duration of three years and was started in 2009 within the Interreg IV Italy-Austria program funded by the European Union. It aims at building a smart network of audio and video sensors that can automatically localize and detect different types of events in a specific environment. SRSnet, an acronym meaning “Smart Resource-aware multi-Sensor NETworks”, involves the participation of Italian and Austrian partners featuring a long experience in research areas such as computer vision, signal processing, pervasive computing, artificial intelligence, Web technologies, and self-organizing network systems.
    Among these, Lakeside Labs is responsible for the coordination and the financial management of the project. The Alpe-Adria University of Klagenfurt takes part in the project with the Pervasive Computing Group and the Transportation Informatics Group. The Italian partners participating to the project are two spin-off companies of the University of Udine: Eye-Tech, specialized in real time Computer Vision and Signal Processing, and Infofactory, a company experienced in Semantic Technologies and Web Search and Monitoring.
    One objective of the project is the design and development of a working prototype, currently tested at the National Park Hohe Tauern, Carinthia, chosen as test environment place for a rich variety of realistic case studies. Through this work, the park staff can monitor several factors such as the flow of visitors who annually comes to the park, the behavior of different animals and various activities in the main points of interest.
    A further goal of SRSnet is the construction of a multimedia archive including all the audio and video clips related to detected event, which allows to produce statistics and to discover new relevant knowledge extracted from the analysis of the events detected over a period of time.
    The benefits of this innovative kind of surveillance system are especially significant in applications for safety and accident’s prevention, since they allow the automatic identification of specific disturbing factors or malfunctions and the subsequent automatic alert of the staff that can timely take the most appropriate actions.
    The development of this prototype (still ongoing) has several technical challenges arising from the need to install the system in an outdoor space and keep it running for long periods of time during the year. Among the main issues to be solved there is the problem of self-management of energy supply, provided by solar panels that power cameras and microphones. Another hard problem approached is concerned with the detection and the geographical and temporal localization of significant events happening in the outdoor environment. Another difficulty arises from the need to cover a wide area like a natural park: as soon as a camera identifies a significant event, it focuses on the action that is taking place, and so the other cameras must reconfigure automatically their orientation in order to continue to cover the entire park area or to follow the detected event if it has moved to another location (for example an person running).
    During the sessions and events organized at the AVSS conference, researchers from all partners had the opportunity to illustrate the results produced so far in the project and to discuss about specific technical challenges, application areas, and future goals.