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CRF – Centro Ricerche Fiat
The Company
CRF was founded in 1976 as an Engineering Centre providing R&D services to each of the different
companies within the FIAT Group. Today, the links to FIAT Auto, IVECO, CNH and other FIAT
companies remain as strong as ever. Moreover, over the last ten years, CRF has adopted a new
strategy for extended collaboration, opening its doors to business with other companies and
organisations which are seeking to achieve and maintain leadership in their respective fields of
activity.
ITS Expertise & Solutions
CRF carries out research and technology scouting activities to provide all of CRF's clients with the
most advanced and complex technologies and tools for:
mobility and inter-mobility electro-telematic systems applied to private and public transport modes
to improve the environment traffic conditions and safety, and to the personal environment to
improve comfort, convenience and security;
telematic control for utilities and processes;
microsystems, one of the most important developing technological sectors in the automotive
industry with investments expected to increase considerably in the future with the full penetration
of MEMS/MST;
nanotechnology, with a tremendously wide range of possible applications, from energy storage,
high efficiency energy converters, new fuels, to super-tough and low friction coatings, iridescent
paints, novel materials with electrical, mechanical, thermal and optical engineered properties,
selective filters, electro-chromic coating, electro-optical films.
Fiat Research Centre is engaged in several R&D projects aimed at designing and realizing innovative
ITS solutions to improve driving safety based on the application of innovative technologies, also
satellite.
Among them: CARTALK 2000, IN-VIA, SAFE-TUNNEL, AIDER, E-MERGE, SAFESPOT, CONTROL OF
HAZARDOUS GOODS TRANSPORT, ROAD SAFETY IN FOG, TELEMATIC APPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC
TRANSPORT, FORMAT, INTER-MODAL MOBILITY IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS,
ALPENCORS,
INFORMATION MANAGER, TELEMATIC AMBULANCE
References:
Head office: Strada Torino, 50 - 10043 Orbassano (Torino) - Italy
Contact person: Luigi Gortan
Email: luigi.gortan@crf.it Phone: +39. 011-9083850 Fax: +39 011-9083083
Website: www.crf.it
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