Key Takeaways

• The backbone for IoT: compared networks
• Low Power Networks: available solutions today, ecosystem and local low-power networks’ evolution
• Multefire, NB-IoT, Sigfox, Lora, RPMA and the others: the appropriate standard for every application
• LiFi, the wireless communication technology that leverages visible light for the high-speed transmission of data between devices
• Use cases and best practices in the adoption of different connectivity systems

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Key Takeways

• How can cities bring additional services and infrastructure through smart lighting systems to improve quality of life?
• What are the challenges they face today?
• Analysis of the management models applicable in the acquisition and control of strategic data from public lighting infrastructures
• IoT lighting solution for cities as well as enterprise buildings and industrial areas.

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Perspectives and opportunities for the Internet of Things for building 

April 3 – afternoon

Key Takeaways

• BIM + IoT systems to reduce inefficiency, extra-costs, emergency maintenance
• IoT for Construction Management: sensors and monitoring applications for the predictive maintenance of heavy equipment
• Sustainable construction, use cases of IoT projects from engineering to energy management
• The implications of IoT in Facility Management, from the use of energy, to the monitoring of temperatures, to the movement of people in buildings

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April 3 – afternoon 

Key Takeaways

• Opportunities for the development of new business and critical issues in the integration between the physical and digital world
• Analysis of the complete technological stack that constitutes an IoT ecosystem
• Examples of development of technologies to interconnect sensors, actuators and machines in the industrial and service context
• From the hobby maker to the business professional, the role of FabLab and maker communities

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Key Takeaways

• Emerging technologies and solutions available today: news and trends for users in the enterprise world
• Supporting the business decision-making process through Big Data and IoT Analytics
• Cloud and Edge computing, infrastructures for analyze and manage data generated by IoT
  
• AR / VR technologies: interact with real-world objects and collaborate with colleagues and partners
• Geographical Information Systems and Internet of Things, perspectives for business applications

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Key Takeaways

• Production systems as of today and in the next future, innovative technology adoption and process re-engineering
• Experiences, projects and solutions currently available in the various industries’ sectors
• Ecosystem, competence and open innovation in the fourth industrial revolution
• Focus on strategies to support competitiveness
• The evolution of European industry, state of the art and development policies

Key Takeaways

• Ecosystem and collaborative context to successfully manage the growing complexity of IoT applications
• From sensors to service: the technological challenges related to data collection and processing
• Big Data management, Cloud e Fog computing, infrastrutture per l’analisi, la sicurezza e la gestione dei dati generati da IoT
• Technology and business evolutionary scenarios of network infrastructures for embedded system connectivity: Cat M1, NB-IoT, Sigfox and LoRa in the domestic and global development scenario.
• Application areas and solutions available today and in perspective
• Energy consumption management: from the creation of low-power components to the optimization of the use of batteries, from energy harvesting to energy storage, the next technological challenges to support the development of IoT
• IOT Security: from the single component to the integrated system, state of the art and measures available today to tackle the threats
• Security by design, guaranteeing security right from the design phase

Chairman: Stefano da Empoli, President, I-COM – Istituto per la competitività