FIRENZE TURISMO

Magenta and Nicola Torpei designed and developed the best application for tourism in and around Florence. Available for Android and iPhone devices.

Firenze Turismo is the app that allows you to navigate and get to know both the city and its province. Plan your stay or enhance your visit to Florence, all the places in our fabulous territory like: Fiesole, Vinci, Chianti, and Mugello.

A detailed and constantly updated guide that you can use in different ways:

• the events ON TOP are those to not miss in Florence or surrounding areas
• discovering events, museums, points of interest, the most interesting places to visit near you if you are already in Florence or the province;
• finding a hotel or other accommodation near you or locating a restaurant that fits your taste
• browsing and identifying the best places o stay or eat and all the places to see and things to do to help plan your vacation in Florence.

DISCOVER THE TERRITORY: the city of Florence and six areas in the territory. Some are very famous like Chianti, others are to discover. This application recognizes your position and all points of interest and things to not miss are easily identified.
WHAT YOU CAN FIND:

• the description of the city, areas and places
• parks and protected areas.
• places of interest: museums, palaces, villas to visit. Each museum or place listed has its own information screen with description, opening hours and prices continually updated
• the complete and official list of authorized accommodations; you can choose the nearest or closet to you needs;
• shopping advice;
• events in a wide territory, Florence and the six areas; art, music, theater, folklore, and sports events as well as congresses and trade fairs; these can be chose by your location at the moment or by calendar.
• all the information that can be useful when you are away from home – from the nearest tourist information office to medical services

PLAN YOUR TRIP:
choose a hotel, restaurant or museum that especially attracts you. Save the information in FAVOURITES and you can consult it offline.
CHOOSE THE ACTIVITES THAT YOU LIKE THE BEST:
Read the comments of others!
CARRY FLORENCE AND ITS PROVINCE WITH YOU:
the information is continually updated by internet so that you can have the latest on what is happening in the area you want to visit.
DOWNLOAD now the complete application for your visit to Florence and the areas in its province

After three years in the old location, Magenta just moved to a new office space! Bigger and nicer!

We are now located in one of the commercial districts of Florence, closer to the city airport and to the main italian highway.

Tuscan Region approved the project PITAGORA – Piattaforma Integrata per la Gestione delle Operazioni Aeroportuali, funded within the POR programme – Bando unico R&S 2012.

PITAGORA will study integrated solutions for the management of airport operations. Magenta will focus its activities on two main topics:

• Video broadcasting and video analysis in IP networks;
• Systems based on multi-touch and wireless technologies designed for the improvement of passengers experience.

Besides Magenta, the projects include several other partners:

Thales group (project leader)

Quid informatica

Resolvo

WInet

Netstudio

University of Florence – Media Integration and Communication Center

University of Pisa – Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione

KKT also collaborates to the project’s activities.

Tuscan Region approved the project PITAGORA – Piattaforma Integrata per la Gestione delle Operazioni Aeroportuali, funded within the POR programme – Bando unico R&S 2012.

PITAGORA will study integrated solutions for the management of airport operations. Magenta will focus its activities on two main topics:

• Video broadcasting and video analysis in IP networks;
• Systems based on multi-touch and wireless technologies designed for the improvement of passengers experience.

Besides Magenta, the projects include several other partners:

Thales group (project leader)

Quid informatica

Resolvo

WInet

Netstudio

University of Florence – MICC

University of Siena

Project description

The SOLE-CUT project will provide advanced technical devices (tools and machine tools) and competitive ready-to-market solutions for the stone machining sector. SOLE-CUT will develop shared knowledge, practical know-how and a modern background of simulation methodologies and codes capable of designing and creating new families of high performing stone-cutting-machines. Innovative Shape Memory Alloys and Super-elastic materials will be considered for wire rope (substituting conventional steels) and technical, economic and ecological consistency of materials will be considered, thus producing innovative and green solutions for a more sustainable cutting process. SOLE-CUT proposes an innovative monitoring system, which applies machine vision technology for automatic surface inspection and fault / anomaly prevention in the cutting / carving process. SOLE-CUT groups 4 SMEs, from 3 Regions and 2 countries and integrates scientific and technological expertise with multi-year experience in stone manufacturing.
A detailed description of the project’s activities can be found at solecut.magentalab.it, and www.beamarge.com/solecut/.

Main goals

The project’s activities develop upon the following main objectives:

1. study and micro-structural optimisation of SMA materials to create pioneering, feasible, diamond wires;
2. investigation of surface treatments for the plasticisation of the SMA materials and the development of more effective solutions for joining diamond beads to the rope;
3. in-depth and detailed simulation of the whole cutting process in order to provide scientific support to the real-time monitoring of the process;
4. research of high-tech plasticisation methods and avant-garde sintered diamond beads, thanks to the analysis of sophisticated and/or innovative treatments;
5. industrialisation and functionality analysis of the diamond wire and the cutting process in order to increase operating capabilities reducing, at the same time, the energetic and environmental impact;
6. development of a computer vision-based system for automatic inspection and monitoring of the stone materials and manufacturing process.
7. triple experimental phase: validation activities through vision machine system tests, new SMA cutting material tests, entire system test.

Test plant

In Tuscany, the main test plant will be located in Frosini Pietre, and will employ an open-frame gang saw used to cut stones such as the Macigno.

open frame gang saw

Partners

Cofiplast (Project leader), ITA/Piemonte

Magenta srl – ITA/Toscana

Frosini pietre – ITA/Toscana

Beam arge – Turchia

The SOLE-CUT project (funded within the MANUNET 2012 program) will provide advanced technical devices (tools and machine tools) and competitive ready-to-market solutions for the stone machining sector. SOLE-CUT will develop shared knowledge, practical know-how and a modern background of simulation methodologies and codes capable of designing and creating new families of high performing stone-cutting-machines. Innovative Shape Memory Alloys and Super-elastic materials will be considered for wire rope (substituting conventional steels) and technical, economic and ecological consistency of materials will be considered, thus producing innovative and green solutions for a more sustainable cutting process. SOLE-CUT proposes an innovative monitoring system, which applies machine vision technology for automatic surface inspection and fault / anomaly prevention in the cutting / carving process. SOLE-CUT groups 4 SMEs, from 3 Regions and 2 countries and integrates scientific and technological expertise with multi-year experience in stone manufacturing.

Partners:

Cofiplast (Project leader), ITA/Piemonte

Magenta srl – ITA/Toscana

Frosini pietre – ITA/Toscana

Beam arge – Turchia

The Vehicle Counter application passed the acceptance tests and it is now advertised on the “Camera applications” section of the Axis web site.

The application is currently certified for P33-x models, although it should work with little or no modifications on other (comparable) models.

Winspect is a EU-funded project on machine-vision quality control of textile. The latest project meeting took place in Bucarest from 20 to 22 of november 2012. Here’s some pictures of the protorype installation at INCTDP

winspect-prototype

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This application has been developed in collaboration with Nicola Torpei for GE Transportation, to showcase rail signaling products during the Innotrans fair in nov.  2012.

The architecture is based on the .NET-WPF-Windows Touch stack of technologies. The application allows the user to interact with media objects such as images, videos, and 3d objects.

The video below shows the effect of the user interacting and manipulating media objects.

Fabrizio Dini will give a talk at Better Embedded conference 2012 on design video analytics applications for smart cameras.