ICT ThinkUp - Digital Media

ICT Solutions for Digital media
This market includes companies that design, produce and/or integrate ICT technologies, applications and digital content concerning digital media (images, video, graphics, text and sound,
web design, multimedia, e-learning) and their share in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 typical social contexts. These tools can be applied to various cross-areas, such as the cultural heritage
management and promotion, e-learning, interactive media, infotainment, social interaction.
Customer experience / User Experience / Digital humanities: Interacting with customers and using specific content and channels are essential: users want to feel emotions and need new
purchase opportunities and experiences. That's why they must feel involved in the creation of a custom-made experience.
The systems and solutions related to this market include:
Graphics and animation softwares for creating, managing and handling digital content (Augmented Reality, 3D, virtual tours, digital signage);
Web 2.0 content generation tools and social media to interact and engage users;
Services to use and enjoy content in both outdoor and indoor mobility for the spread of digital and location-based content;
Tools for the promotion, distribution and operational management of information related to territory, tourist destinations and cultural heritage;
Online booking and payment systems;
Reservation systems, online payment, eCommerce, eBooking and Mobile marketing
Augmented reality
AV, VR, 3D
DMS, CRM, CMS
Digitization, archiving and cataloging content.
Teche, microclimatic / temperature control systems systems for masterpiece and artefacts
Augmented reality, Cartographic and geographic digital products
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
Company
1 21-STYLE
2 ANNOLUCE360
3 ARDUINO
4 ARKA SERVICE
5 BIBLION
6 BLUDOCKS
7 BMOOBLE
8 CELI
Sector
Description
Museum Solutions
Architecture
Cultural Heritage and
Archaeological
Virtual Museums
Tourist offer
Virtual Reality and
Cinema
Sport and Movement
Analysis
Open source electronics
prototyping platform
Call center
21-STYLE people are Web 3.0 Innovators (Semantic Web), they are
Enterprise and Software Architects, to help the clients to implement the best
infrastructures for their systems. They designed the MUSEOTORINO website
Website
http://21-style.com/
http://www.museotorino.it/site/collection
"3D scanning" optical to automatically capture the characteristics of shape
and color of 3D objects. Devices "3D scanning" return, for every "view" of
the object in question, a geometric description of the analyzed surface and
a corresponding description of the color and / or texture. Technology "3D
scanning" has been developed specifically for the cultural heritage sector
three-dimensional (statues, vases, jewelry, furniture):
http://www.annoluce360.net/campi.asp
The virtual museum is one of the most explicit forms with which a museum
seeks to promote and renew the interest in the works of art. A Virtual
Museum is a cultural site dropped from all forms of physical museum, or it
is a virtual visit to the real museum (for example in 3D or using 360 °
panoramic). With products and KOLOR 4Ddynamics you can recreate this
context, the exhibition halls, virtual tours and highly advanced placement
within the three-dimensional reproductions of the exhibited works.
http://www.annoluce360.net/campi.asp
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on
flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists,
designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or
environments. The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based differs
from all preceding boards in that it does not use the FTDI USB-to-serial driver
chip. Instead, it features the Atmega16U2 (Atmega8U2 up to version R2)
programmed as a USB-to-serial converter
http://arduino.cc/en/
There is an Arduino board at the center of each console at the London
Sicence Museum
http://arduino.cc/blog/2013/03/04/turing-andinteraction/
ARKA SERVICE is specialized in providing Multilingual Information
Technology Help Desk and Call Center Services, for public and private
companies
http://www.arkaservice.it/index.php?language=en&content=hom
e
Audiovisual archives
Rearranging, sorting and scheduling (RICA, CDD, ISBD, SBN) of ancien and
modern books. Specialised in libraries documentation centres
http://www.e-biblion.it/biblion%20-%20eng.htm
Virtual Tour
BLUDOCKS provides best solutions in graphic animation, interactive virtual
presentations (objects and environments), web games and dynamic
applications (CMS, database)
http://www.bludocks.com/v3/v3/index2.html?lan
g=en
M2M / Mobile Apps
BMOOBLE develops enabling technologies (MEAP: Mobile Enterprise
Application Platform) for the design and the deployment of a variety of
mobile services that bring together information and services from different
sources by connecting all kinds of devices, such as mobile phones, smart
phones, palm handhelds and tablet PCs.
http://www.bmooble.it/en.html
Digital humanities
Celi, a private language technology company created Cross Library Services
born from the need to find solutions to organize and make available the
digital cultural heritage. Cross Library is focused on innovative solutions for
the Digital Humanities. It can offers easy access to the digital heritage in
different forms and an innovative approach, overcoming language barriers. It
delivers a non-intrusive infrastructure integrated with current library
catalogs and digital libraries such us: Semantic search engines for Digital
Libraries and Digital tools for education
http://www.celi.it/en/digital-libraries.shtml
http://www.cross-library.com/en
http://www.celi.it/en/sophia-semanticengine.shtml
9 COPAT ITALIA
Cataloguing and indexation of different materials such as manuscripts and
printed texts, both modern and ancient, as well as archives and multimedia,
constantly complying with national and international standards and
promoting new technologies development. Copat is specialized in the
http://www.copatitalia.com/site/en/beni_culturali.
Cultural Heritage and ICT
planning of activities for digital storing of documents, for preservation and
asp
enhancing of historical artistical heritage, libraries and archives
organization, for management and reorganization of archives and libraries,
carried out by highly skilled professionals
Culture and tourism
CSI manage the entire wealth of data and information of the cultural
institutions that operate in Piedmont, from the archives of libraries
museums. support the aspects of knowledge and conservation, but
promotes the circulation and use of the content and able to convey the
image of cultural tourism of the Piedmont region, and by adjusting the level
of supply the needs of a constantly evolving sector.
http://www.csipiemonte.it/en/
10 CSI
Digital archive
11 DOOH.IT
Multimedia labs for
institutions, museum
Digitization of bibliographical resources, archives and regional art, connected
with the projected Italian Digital Library sponsored by the Ministry of
Heritage and Culture. Provides support to cultural institutions that initiate
http://www.csipiemonte.it/cms/portfolio/turismo-edigitization projects, the creation of the technology infrastructure and access
cultura/biblioteca-digitale-piemontese.html
to digital content (text, images, sound) via the web service Teca Digital,
which offers users integrated access, fast and direct of different materials.
DOOH.IT is a company specialized in the design, definition and
implementation of business models through the use of networks of Digital
Signage and Digital Out Of Home. We are well known on the Italian territory,
as well as in more than 100 cities around the world. Our company is
therefore proposed as a passionate and authoritative partner, able to follow
the project end-to-end. Specialised in Digital Signage, Augmented Reality,
Interacion Deisgn
http://www.dooh.it/
http://www.dooh.it/?portfolio=museo-storico-dilecco-sala-dellindustria
Booking Online
DYLOG propose Hotel Booking Solutions: web applications for hotels,
chains, tourism promoters, tour operators to increase on line sales and cut
negotiation and management costs
http://www.dylog.it/Software/Alberghi.aspx
14 ENHANCERS
User Experience
ENHANCERS, the Customer Experience Company, is a human centered
design agency. Enhancers focuses on people and their experience with
technology, possess processes and tools of Interaction Design to promote
behavioral change. Enhancers assists companies and organizations in
creating a competitive advantage by offering new meanings to their
customers. Selection of clients:Yachting - Azimut Yachts, Atlantis Yachts;
Automotive - Esiste Holding for VW Group; Smart building - Sanprogetto;
Finance - 4Timing; SCM Education - ITS | ICT Piemonte; Istituto Europeo di
Design; Retail - Serigroup; Digital publishing - Cardesign magazine
www.enhancers.it
15 ENNOVA
Customer Care
ENNOVA design platforms for customer care services
User Experience
EXPERIENTIA helps the companies to develop successful products and
services through a people-centred approach: thorough contextual and
usability research informs our design and prototyping process, guaranteeing
products and services that are relevant, pleasant and practical for the people
who will use them
12 DYLOG
16 EXPERIENTIA
17 GEO 4 MAP
20 INTELLISEMANTIC
21 ITACHA
22 LASER
23 MEDIAKI.IT
Specialized in cartography and offers innovative products and customized
Augmented reality,
solutions for the tourism sector. It merges traditional cartography with new
Cartographic and
media and devices and develops new products for information and
geographic digital products edutainment. We develop data base, content management system (CMS),
Augmented Reality, Java, Javascript, and Android and iOS Applications.
Semantic Solutions
Geographic Information
Systems (GIS)
http://www.ennova.it/index.php?option=com_cont
ent&view=article&id=37&Itemid=53
http://experientia.com/
http://www.geo4map.it/home/uk_hom_home.ph
p
INTELLISEMANTIC provides Web 2.0 and semantic solutions to simplify
search and aggregation of documents and information
http://www.intellisemantic.com/
Acquisition, management and elaboration of geographic and cartographic
data. The operational team has deep experience in several of the domains
concerning geomatics, such as remote sensing, photogrammetry and
Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
http://www.ithacaweb.org/about/
http://www.laserLASER offers services of mobile ticket office for shows/ events/ theme parks
group.com/index.php?option=com_content&vie
and mobile services for the free time (artistic heritage/natural territorial)
w=article&id=66&Itemid=76&lang=en
MEDIAKI.IT core businesses are Web, mobile and user engagement-oriented
solutions, social and viral strategies, innovative projects and technological
Social media / Mobile Apps
http://www.en.mediaki.it/interna.aspx?idA=149
services based on barcoding systems integrated with content management
systems, CRM and mobile applications
Mobile Apps
24 NETHICS
NETHICS developed an e-tourism web platform for tourism promotion (DMS)
and a platform for Italian municipalities offering services and advice in the
field of Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing.
Nethics has a spin-off company in Brazil and East European partners.
The DMS (Destination Management System) is an open source web
platform that allows local operators (municipalities, tourism operators,
associations, local and promotional bodies, Chambers of Commerce, parks
DMS
Destination Management and so on) to promote and manage their tourist offer: territorial marketing.
This portal aggregates and offers information about cultural and naturalistic
System
landmarks, typical products and activities together with promotions, events
and online booking. Every single operator – from hotels to restaurants, from
shops to producers – will update and manage its own website (with special
attention to the multimedia section) to promote its activities and offers.
Tourists/customers can easily navigate the website from their mobile devices
or laptops and can interact with operators exploiting the viral nature of
Social Media Marketing
Management of alerts
25 NEW AMUSER
Special audioguide
27 NUANCE LOQUENDO
28 PROJECTIZE
29 PROXIMA
30 RATIONAL DYNAMICS
31 SCAI
32 SINERGA
www.visitsauzedoulx.it
www.stradarealevinitorinesi.it
For companies or institutions who want to automate the management of
alerts (errors, technical problems, ...) with considerable benefits for the
http://www.newamuser.it/en/enterprise-en/fieldoperational management of customer care in terms of efficiency. Trouble
force-management-en/83-ticketing.html
Ticketing is a multi-channel solution that allows Companies to collect reports
from many channels (voice, email) and make intelligent routing to the
operators based on skill and the type of problem reported.
A special audioguide for visitors to use their own mobile phones to listen
for free
26 NOREAL
http://www.nethics.it/
http://www.newamuser.it/en/latest-news-en/19latest-news/95-audioguida-castello-raconigi.html
Architecture and
Landscape
Cultural Heritage and
Archeology
Product presentation
Character animation
Virtual Worlds
Augmented Reality
Exploits the power of the virtuality, make your 3D contents and trust in the
international team of professionals in Computer Graphics 3D. Rendering,
http://www.noreal.it/site2011/index.php?lang=en
Stereoscopic Video, Augmented Reality and Interactive Applications are
developed for the best to persuade your customers, to create emotions, to
make interactive teaching into museums, to use industrial simulators, to
present architectural, interiors design and landscape projects.
Dragon speech recognition software has gained broad acceptance as a costInteractive labs for people effective accessibility tool for students with physical disabilities. Provide
http://www.nuance.co.uk/for-individuals/bygreater independence for students with physical disabilities; Level the
industry/education-solutions/index.htm
with disabilities
playing field for students with learning disabilities
Project Management
Hotel Management
Virtual Reality / Gaming
Digital archive
Innovative processes
Interactive Visualisation
Sustainable Tourism
PROJECTIZE is a management support firm specialized in project and
program management consultancy and training. With headquarters in the
UK, offices in Italy and operations in Europe and the Middle East, Projectize
has specific knowledge covering Private and Public Sector.
http://www.projectize.eu/index.php/en
PROXIMA provides HotelCUBE International, the most modern, innovative
http://www.hotelcube.eu/Home/tabid/159/langua
and easy to use management software aimed at accommodation facilities of
ge/en-GB/Default.aspx
any size and complexity
RATIONAL DYNAMICS presents Cityopia is a new paradigm to promote your
tourism. With a tridimensional rebuild of your territory, you create an
interactive experience of your next trip (no userid and password)
http://www.rationaldynamics.com/cityopia/
Solutions and services to optimize the processes of acquisition, storage and
documentation of audio / video from a wide variety of substrates or scanned http://www.grupposcai.it/be/main.php?page=fe_
paper documents with the aim of creating multimedia databases.
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id=112
Management "distributed" of complex information assets such as television
networks or multimedia archives of organizations and institutions.
SINERGA support customers in sales management and strategic & operative
marketing. Sinerga assist their clients in improving corporate & brand
identity, marketing & communication, CRM projects, web marketing, social
networking and web tv/new media
http://www.sinergagroup.it/
The "International Cooperation" sector pursues the objective to facilitate
the participation of the Institute in applied research projects within the wide
framework of the intervention policies about territorial systems. The sector
deals with identifying funding opportunities which aim at promoting
http://www.siti.polito.it/index.php?id=9&t=tpl_3&f
competitiveness, innovation, accessibility, territorial sustainable
s=2&l=ENG
development and heritage valorization
SiTI is able to support the whole “nail-to-nail” process related to the
transport of artworks and temporary exhibitions.
33 SITI
Preparation of management plans and the collaboration with the Ministry of
cultural heritage and activities for monitoring all the Italian UNESCO sites
have assigned to SiTI an important role in this field. At international level, the
Institute cooperates in the organisation of the Master World Heritage at
Work, for the higher training of UNESCO site managers.
Cultural heritage
Feasibility study, restoration, recovery, artefacts removal
http://unesco.comune.fi.it/progetti.html
http://www.siti.polito.it/index.php?id=9&t=tpl_3&f
s=3&l=ENG
34 SYSVEL
35 SSB PROGETTI
3D Technologies
SISVEL will showcase its 3D Technologies including the 3D Tile Format and
some footages produced in cooperation with its content producers partners,
as part of Sisvel Technology’s 3D promotion program.
This content (documentary on Berlin, Las Vegas, Rome, Amsterdam,
motocross freestyle and much more) is coded in 3D Tile Format, a
technology that allows simultaneous 3D and 2D HD content delivery
optimizing channel’s bandwidth usage and offers superior picture quality for
2D content with respect to traditional Side by Side and Top and Bottom
methods
www.sisvel.it
Digital Signage
SSB PROGETTI desgined MediaLiveNet to play text, images, video, audio and
animated "ticker". In a multi-layer window you can mix web apps, "flash"
apps, feed rss and video streaming in real time
http://www.ssbprogetti.it/mln.php
Our Encoder’s strength is the PAL format, and the power to stream with low
internet band, starting as low as 300Kbts. Recently Streamtech has
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiEYEgFA4is
successfully live streamed on 3G band from a moving car (see videoclip) with
&feature=youtu.be
very good results. Our encoder has already been tested with satellite
trasmission (we provide this, too): there are no location limits.
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STREAMTECH
Audio - Video Streaming
STREAMTECH designed and manufactured a hardware / software system for
the transmission of audio / video streaming on the web. Transmission takes
place by broadcast of the signal made by a provider having its head office in
Turin, this provider ensures a high number (15k and more) of simultaneous
users
37 SYNAREA
38
SYNESTHESIA
39 TOP CONSULT
40 TRAMPOLINE
TRIM - CONSORZIO
41 MOSAICO
42 UNIDIDA
Virtual Reality
Social media / Mobile Apps
SYNAREA promotes 3DOORS Framework, the innovative SW platform for
more efficient creation, update and realtime fruition of 3D contents.
3DOORS enables quick and easy developing of interactive applications for 3D http://www.synarea.com/index.php/en/compone
nt/content/article/63
Virtual tours, 4D Cultural heritage reconstructions, Immersive Interactive
Documentaries, Multimedia 3D guides and showcases, Virtual showrooms
and expositions
SYNHESTESIA has experiences in mobile apps in all platforms and different
marketing sectors (i.e. News, Video, Streaming, Entertainment, Social media,
Games, Catalogues, Commercial Info, Tourism, Services, Utility, Lifestyle and
so on). Now, it's working for UEFA association.
TOP COSULT presents Top Media NED, the Electronic Document Manager
Document management software based on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), which enables the
implementation of ad-hoc applications for businesses.
Hot-Spot Wi-Fi
http://www.streamtech.it/
TRAMPOLINE designs Web application for creating and managing captive
portals for public wireless networks
TRIM designed Enjoy Calabria, an iPhone, iPad and Android APP available in
Italian and English languages. The APP has georeferenced contents that can
be displayed on a map. It is a tool to help travellers to find information about
the territory, in order to discover typicalness and productions made in
Calabria. Users can create a favourites list, a customizable tour itinerary
shared through Facebook and email. It provides a push notification feature
which allows staff operators to suddenly transmit news via Twitter for all
Social media / Mobile Apps
concerned users. The app is brought together with a fast and ergonomic
content management system that is exposed through cloud services. Staff
operators are equipped of back end functionality that supports them to
evaluate and choose the contents to publish. The service is designed to allow
a dynamic, effective and careful content management, in order to supply
information always up to date and really representative of what Calabria
region is offering.
UniDida designs and manufactures digital solutions for educational
purposes; creates and customises interactive exercises; installs interactive
Cultural amusement, elaboratories useful for youth interactione in museums etc. An Intera-Lab is
Learning, Interactive labs
an interactive education laboratory, a modern approach to learning while
maintaining traditional values
http://www.synesthesia.it/?language=en
http://www.topconsult.it/en/Offer/EnterpriseContent-Management
www.trampolineup.com
www.facebook.com/appenjoycalabria
http://www.trim.it/Home_E.html
http://www.unidida.com/didattica_multimediale/e
n/prodotti-uk/intera-lab
43 Park
3D interactive
reconstructions for
museum installations,
It is a Technological Park truly unique in the European scenario, with state of
the art technologies for production and post-production of audiovisual
products and research and prototyping of multimedia, are essentially
promotion and development of technological, cultural and economical
aspects of multimediality, with particular regard to the use of virtual reality
applications
44 @WEBCOMPANY
Digital Communication
@WEBCOMPANY provides digital communication services such as: web,
mobile, marketing, SEO, social networking, analysis
http://www.atwebco.com
45 WIMBLAS
Video & WEB Marketing
WIMLABS proposes software and technological services for the media to
enhance audiovisual archives, marketing, content distribution
http://www.wimlabs.com/en/index.html
Virtual Reality & Multimedia
46 ZIRAK
TONIC MINDS
Zirak Mobile has already produced several high-quality applications for
cellphones like iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia (Nseries) or based on Google
Android or Windows Mobile/Phone 7 (HTC, Samsung, Motorola), besides we
Social media / Mobile Apps are already developing for iPad. The range of developed applications is very
broad, and goes from entertainment and professional tools, to photo-editing
systems and geo-location. Our strenght lies on associating development to
effective actions in mobile-marketing.
http://www.vrmmp.it/?page_id=1551&lang=en
http://eng.zirak.it/