Cutting-edge solutions have emerged during Digital360 Awards, the contest organized by Digital360 Group that awards the best digital innovation projects in the business area, developed by hi-tech suppliers in Italy. The contest has been created with the objective of generating the sharing of experiences between companies, suppliers, startups and institutions in various areas of the digital innovation. Among the winners there were potentially interesting projects for the household appliance industry. Ennova, for example, has developed the project “Skillo, a virtual technical assistant focused on the consumer”. It’s an application, configured to ensure the support of a real digital technician, able to remotely manage the assistance for all types of smart devices. As for the world of the factory, it’s interesting the proposal of Bisy (“Energy Data Validation. A platform as a service for the analysis of energy bills”). It’s a solution that can dematerialize and analyze automatically the energy bills in order to optimize the consumptions. Moreover, Mathesia presented the project “Crowdsourcing of mathematical and statistical skills”. It’s a Big Data Analytics platform dedicated to the applied mathematics, in which innovative ideas and industrial problems are analyzed from a scientific point of view, with the help of the numbers. Finally, with regard to the Smart Working/Collaboration/eLearning, Arcadia Consulting has proposed “AAL Arcadia Augmented Learning”, a methodology that aims to facilitate the learning flow with the support of augmented reality and virtual reality viewers.
