Meccanica Magazine n. 4

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The winners of the 2022 Edition of Switch2product - Innovation
Challenge
The selection phase of the XIV edition of Switch2Product | Innovation
Challenge ended on the 22nd of December. This programme
promoting innovative solutions, new technologies and business
ideas proposed by teams including students and graduates, researchers,
Alumni and teachers from the ecosystem of Politecnico di Milano,
is organized by PoliHub - Innovation Park & Startup Accelerator
of the Politecnico di Milano and managed by the Politecnico Foundation,
the POLIMI Technology Transfer Office (TTO) and Deloitte.
This year as well, the projects fell into four categories inspired by the
NextGenerationEU directives aiming to facilitate the identification
of technologies and applications in their respective sectors: Health&Med
Tech, Climate Tech & Circular Economy, Industries Transformation,
New ways of working and living.
Among the winners, two are the awarded projects in which DMEC is
directly involved.
ATLAS, Flochip, IPSE – XR, SPARK e TES are the teams selected by
Politecnico di Milano that will receive the S2P Grant of 30 thousand
euros each to invest in the prototyping and validation phases of the
projects.
SPARK won in the category “New ways of working and living”
SPARK is an innovative Augmented Reality platform designed to
support the creation of luxury fashion goods. Using projection technology,
SPARK enables designers to explore multiple variants of
their products and clients to perform customizations, without the
need for physical prototyping. With SPARK, designers can quickly
and easily try out new design ideas, experiment with different materials
and colours, and collaborate with other team members in real
time. SPARK is intended to be a powerful tool for designers of luxury
bags, luggage, and shoes, providing them with a fast, flexible, and
sustainable way to create new collections. The team, made of Federico
Morosi, Enrico Panzi and Massimo Torelli, is supported by Prof.
Gaetano Cascini, Prof. Niccolò Becattini and Prof. Giandomenico
Caruso from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Deloitte, instead, awarded the start-up DisplAId, co-founded by Lorenzo
Benedetti, Francesco Morgan Bono, Luca Radicioni and Giancarlo
Donizzelli (Fondazione Politecnico), with a 30k Grant offered by
Deloitte.
DisplAId aims at revolutionising health infrastructure monitoring via
Artificial Intelligence algorithms to improve its safety and efficiency.
The name DisplAId, the past participle of the verb to display, includes
the terms AI and aid (meaning help, support) and sums up how
they intend to work in supporting infrastructure managers in making
strategic decisions via the smart analysis of directly harvested
structural data. The objective is to give managers a simple but efficient
tool allowing them to promptly state the level of infrastructural
health. The project supervisors are Prof. Simone Cinquemani and
Prof. Marco Belloli from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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