Cloud Robotics is an emerging paradigm in which robots, seen as abstract agents, have the possibility to connect to a common network and share on a complex infrastructure the information and knowledge they gather about the physical world; or conversely consume the data collected by other agents or made available on accessible database and repositories. In this paper we propose an implementation of an emergency-management service exploiting the possibilities offered by cloud robotics in a smart city scenario. A high-level cloud-platform manages a number of unmanned aerial vehicles (quadrotor UAVs) with the goal of providing aerial support to citizens that require it via a dedicated mobile app. The UAV reaches the citizen while forwarding a realtime video streaming to a privileged user (police officer),connected to the same cloud platform, that is allowed to teleoperate it by remote.

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A Wireless Sensor Network based monitoring system was set-up, tested and is being deployed in 250 Telecom Italia Central Offices, in order to monitor and manage energy consumptions and to support energy saving policies. A thermodynamic model of the plants, based on a grey box approach, has been proved effective in supporting data analysis and in planning Energy Saving.

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