TOCAI – Knowledge-oriented Technologies for Business Clustering on the Internet

Description

The TOCAI – Knowledge-Oriented Technologies for the Aggregation of Enterprises on the Internet project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), aimed to study and develop innovative solutions for enhancing territories and their cultural and landscape heritage through the use of new technologies. Its main objectives included the study and prototyping of an innovative ICT architecture based on cloud computing, mobile technologies and web applications which, also through the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, would enable the provision of intelligent services within specific territorial contexts.

The project was carried out by ISISLab within the framework of the National Inter-University Consortium for Informatics (CINI), in collaboration with CM Sistemi S.p.A., SELEX Sistemi Integrati, the National Research Council (CNR) and Think3 Inc. ISISLab’s activities were conducted within Activity 10, Grid Systems and Service-Oriented Platforms for Distributed Collaborative Environments, under the coordination of Domenico Talia. These activities focused on defining Grid systems and distributed platforms to support data and user management in collaborative environments, with particular attention to authentication, authorization and data integrity issues, as well as the use of multichannel communication platforms to improve interaction and information exchange in collaborative working contexts.

Given the diversity of the application scenarios addressed by the CHIS computing platform, the project also involved defining the requirements for a space to be classified as smart and translating these requirements into specifications for the development of the platform.