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SAVE ME project – VV.F. Operative Training School in Montelibretti

February 2, 2012

The Team of the SAVE ME european project (which IES Solutions is part of) met from 23th to 27th January 2012 at the Operative Training School of italian Fire Brigades in Montelibretti, with the aim to perform the final tests for the system integration and the validation by Fire Brigades. Activities and interventions were done in the road tunnel in order to test the system components functionalities. These tests are [...]

Saving is fun: designing a persuasive game for power conservation

January 19, 2012

The paper entitled: Saving is fun: designing a persuasive game for power conservation in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE ’11), ACM, New York, USA, highlights the results of the trials carried out with real households in Catania, Helsinki and Stockolm in the framework of the European Project BeAware by the IES team together with other partners of the project. The PDF version [...]

REACH112 on the blog of the Vice-President of the European Commission

December 5, 2011

The REACH112 project, managed by IES Solutions, mentioned by the Vice-President of the European Commission Nellie Kroes on her institutional blog: “… in the last six months alone over 100,000 person-to-person calls have been made placed using this technology.”

Accessible 112 emergency services

November 16, 2011

The “European Parliament Written Declaration 0035/2011 on the need for accessible 112 emergency services” was adopted today. It invites the Commission “to promote the development of fully accessible and reliable Next Generation 112 services independent from devices and networks, using the Total Conversation concept” and “to put forward legislative and standardisation proposals to make 112 services fully accessible to all citizens, giving priority to sign language services using video technologies [...]

IDIRA Kick-off meeting

May 3, 2011

The IDIRA Kick-off meeting will take place in Dresda on May 4th – 5th, 2011. Ing. Uberto Delprato and Dr. Massimo Cristaldi will take part in the meeting.

SAVE ME – 2nd international conference on technologies for rescue in underground environments

March 7, 2011

The 2nd international conference on technologies used to ensure the safety of people in underground environments was held on March 3, 2011 in Rome, within the SAVE ME european project. Issues related to human behavior in cases of emergencies in crowded places were addressed during the conference. Also results of the experiment held in January at the CNVVF training school in Montelibretti were presented. The experiment, organized by the fire [...]

SAVE ME – Experimental test at the CNVVF training facility in Montelibretti

January 31, 2011

On January 27, 2011 about two hundred children and teenegers of the “Istituto Statale Comprensivo” of Montelibretti participated to an experimental test which was held at the CNVVF training school in Montelibretti, within the SAVE ME European project. The trial, organized by the fire brigades national body (CNVVF), IES Solutions and researchers by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, was aimed to test the behavior of children, disabled and [...]

BeAware – Recruitment of test households

March 11, 2010

We are looking for families, in the area of Helsinki (Finland) or Catania (Italy), willing to partecipate to the trials of the european project BeAware, concerning the monitoring of energy consumption in dwellings. Energy consumption data will be acquired, processed and displayed using appropriate devices, which will be supplied to the participants for the duration of the trial. The energy consumption related to the home and to specific electrical devices [...]

SAVE ME – The first international Workshop on transport emergencies

February 10, 2010

The first international “Workshop on transport emergencies” will take place in Rome, Italy on March 3rd, 2010. The workshop, organized within the EC funded project SAVE ME, is hosted by the Italian Ministry of Interior, National Fire Corps at the Istituto Superiore Antincendi. During the conference, significant experiences from Italy and other European Countries will be presented and discussed aiming at promoting the use of innovative technologies for improving passengers [...]

ViewFinder successfully completed

February 2, 2010

The ViewFinder project was successfully completed on 19th January 2010. The final demonstrations and review were held at SyFire training centre. Read more