Educational tools for smart cities, equipment for gymnasiums and patient monitoring systems for hospitals will be presented
Arrow Electronics, a global technology supplier, will participate in the Maker Faire Rome, Europe's largest innovation event, showcasing how recent technological developments can improve our daily lives. During the event, which will take place from 8 to 10 October, digitally and in presence, at the Gazometro area of Rome, a symbol of the industrial revolution of the twentieth century, Arrow will have two stands (J1.21 and J1.24) which will host the most innovative applications for robotics and artificial intelligence made available also thanks to important partnerships. An interview will be organized during which the most recent projects made available to the communities will be illustrated.
Arrow has been sponsoring Maker Faire Rome for years and is a Gold Partner for the 2021 event. This year the spotlight will be on new Artificial Intelligence applications with demonstrations in three specific areas: an educational project that adapts the behavior of smart cities; a personal fitness tool; a health monitoring technology that improves patient care in hospitals.
Roobopoli, which arises from a collaboration between Arrow, Bluenet and STMicroelectronics, aims to create a training experience based on smart cities, smart industry and smart grids. The mission of the project is to promote the development, understanding and large-scale experimentation of communication, mobility, environmental protection, energy efficiency and automation technologies in Industry 4.0. Students will be able to use these tools to build and program vehicles and other elements of a smart city. Thanks to the knowledge of robotics and the programming methods of the new generation microcontrollers, it will be possible to make the vehicles move independently on the streets of Roobopoli.
The second project that will be presented is gym an application in the field of personal fitness that monitors the posture of the human body during training, using AI techniques. By monitoring and correcting the movement of the person, even in small spaces, the goal of the system is to make safe and personalized training with a professional standard accessible to all. And, while the initial application is tailored for use in fitness and yoga, the technology can be applied to many other areas of physical movement.
The third project in the program is AuverCare, a collaboration between Arrow and Sma-RTy that is able to monitor patients while hospital care is provided, ensuring continuous assistance 24 hours a day. The application detects risky behavior and monitors vital data. AuverCare analyzes the data locally thanks to the use of dedicated AI edge tools and, if risky behavior or anomalies are detected, it automatically transmits reports and alarms to the medical staff.
Arrow will also showcase two projects it has supported under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. DigiTruck/Silicon Savannah is a solar-powered container equipped with IT equipment, which has been transported to remote rural communities in Africa to make information and communication technology accessible to a new generation of users. Belle’s Dragon is a semi-autonomous companion robot that was created in response to the request of a young cancer patient who was unable to share her home with a live pet due to health conditions.
