Tg Mondo Hi-tech, the edition of Friday 25 October 2024

There's talk of digital documents, marine drones, crime scene investigation robots

IT-WALLET, DIGITAL DRIVING LICENCE AND TWO OTHER DOCUMENTS ON APP IO

While waiting for the Italian Digital Wallet System to be fully operational, IT-Wallet begins the public release of Documents on IO, the new feature that allows citizens to add their Driving Licence, European Health Insurance Card and European Disability Card to the Wallet of the public services app. The three digital documents can be used to replace the corresponding physical documents: the Driving License can only be used in Italy; the Health Card – European Health Insurance Card will allow access to the services provided by the National Health Service; The European Disability Card will have the same uses already foreseen with the physical document version.

DA RIS CARABINIERI ED ENEA THE INSPECTION OF THE FUTURE

At the scene of a crime, preceding the Carabinieri in white overalls, there There will soon also be a specific system of remote analysis tools that, before their access and without contaminating the places, will search for traces of the crime invisible to the human eye, identifying them and visualising them in real time through a three-dimensional reconstruction of the scene, navigable even from a location far from the place of intervention. The system, studied and developed within the European project Risen, which sees Enea as coordinator and the Raggruppamento Carabinieri Investigazioni Scientifiche (RaCIS) among the 20 project partners of 12 European countries, lays the future foundation for crime scene examination. The prototype created by the research group consists of 8 sensors capable of detecting and qualifying fingerprints, traces of blood, explosives, narcotics and aggressive chemicals/toxic substances.

< br>IN ROME THE ‘SEA DRONE TECH SUMMIT’

L ‘Italy is at the forefront of new marine robotics technologies. The point at ‘Sea Drone Tech Summit 2024’, on October 29 and 30 in Rome, in Ostia, where 20 different models of drones and robots for activities in the seas, rivers and lakes will be exhibited. Underwater robots for scientific exploration will be presented of the seabed, inspections of ship hulls, the control of off-shore wind farms and oil platforms, the surveillance of underwater pipes and cables and even the mapping of underwater archaeological parks. And then small unmanned vessels, which can be used for monitoring water quality, coastal surveillance and hydrographic surveys. Finally, there will be aerial drones that can be used for intelligence activities, for the search for pollutant spills and also for rescue at sea.

AI TO STUDY CLIMATE IMPACTS ON SOIL

Studying the impact of climate change on soil health thanks to ‘Artificial intelligence. This is the aim of a research conducted by ENEA and the University of Bari. “The machine learning techniques we used allowed us to identify one of the main ‘sentinels’ of soil health, the microbiome, that is, the set of bacteria, fungi and protists that populate the soil and play a crucial role in the dynamics of carbon in the soil in response to climate change”, explained Claudia Zoani, researcher of the Enea Sustainable Agri-food Systems Division. And in this context, artificial intelligence can play a fundamental role because it offers very effective tools to analyze complex data, make predictions and develop innovative solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change and adopt sustainable agricultural practices that promote food production in the long term.