The creation of a Data Lake and the use of predictive analysis to optimize snowmaking machines and save precious resources: these were the objectives of our project for TechnoAlpin.
When should Machine Learning be applied (and when it should NOT)
There are situations in which ML cannot help: not because it is the wrong solution, but because the right conditions for making it work are missing.
WeNet: empowering social interactions between people
Why should we rely only on our personal network when looking for help? WeNet aims to connect people who can support each other no matter their relationship.
BlueAlpaca: a smart chatbot for a smart city
An innovative chatbot project in collaboration with the SynchroniCity EU project and the cities of Milan, Santander, Antwerp and Helsinki. The objective: making information and services accessible and usable by citizens.
Making citizens the eye of policy makers: SCENT
SCENT is a European Union research project funded under the Horizon 2020 program. Its objective is to engage citizens in environmental monitoring and enable them to become the eyes of the policy makers. In doing so citizens will have the chance to support the monitoring of land-cover use and changes by taking advantage of their […]
What a chatbot really is
It’s been roughly two years now since we started working on our first chatbot in U-Hopper. It was called Talk2Fiesta and was developed as part of the FiestaIoT EU project: it was meant to offer an alternative way of accessing environmental information (among the others temperature, humidity and wind) regarding the city of Santander, Spain. […]
Monitoring the Trento Sport Festival 2018
The first edition of the Sport Festival has taken place in Trento, Italy, during 11 – 14 October 2018. Being sport addicts, at U-Hopper we could not miss the chance to monitor the Twitter coverage of the event with Tapoi. We have also been using a new interesting analysis for the first time: the people […]
Monitoring the Trento Economics Festival 2018
This year the 13th edition of the Trento Economics Festival took place and we at U-Hopper were ready to monitor the Twitter coverage of the event with Tapoi.The main theme of this year’s edition has been Business and Technology and our analysis’ objective has been to verify (and actually confirm) that the social discussion was actually […]
Monitoring Trento Smart City Week 2018
Monitor the official Twitter account of Trento Smart City Week 2018 @trentosmart : this is what we have done during the four days of the event. Our objective has been collecting and presenting relevant information regarding the social coverage of the event.
Monitoring the Trento Economics Festival 2017
We have monitored the official Twitter account of the Trento Economics Festival 2017 during the four days of the event with the objective of showing the potential of Tapoi monitoring functionality and presenting some valuable information about the Festival.