Environmental Caring and Protection Technologies,
towards a Zero Emission Environment

Spoke 3 “Environmental Caring and Protection Technologies, towards a Zero Emission Environment” has the objective of creating an ecosystem of innovation to improve the strategy and methodologies for environmental monitoring dedicated to the three environmental scenarios (water, air, land) representative for the Ligurian territory.

Thanks to the skills of all affiliates, the potential of robotics and artificia intelligence will be exploited to implement a process capable of modifying the current approach to environmental monitoring, which, although using high technology, suffers from the fact that the different monitoring systems (in fixed and/or mobile locations) are usually not connected to each other and return data to receiving stations dedicated to their integration (operational decoupling of monitoring systems).

This approach determines, as a consequence, a low efficiency as early warning systems, a transfer and collection of partial data from different systems with limited integration between in situ observation and data management (punctual and/or disseminated and dynamic monitoring).

The main challenge of Spoke 3 is to change this paradigm thanks to the development of innovative robotic systems managed by artificial intelligence capable of making punctual and widespread monitoring coupled and synergistic by increasing the efficiency of data collection and their diffusion, duration and the energy savings of the monitoring missions and the quality and timing of the various forecasting systems (early warning systems) dedicated to the safeguarding and continuous monitoring of the aquatic, terrestrial and aerial sectors of our territory.