"SMARTOUR: intelligent platform for tourism" funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research with the Regional Development Fund of the European Union (PON Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013).

The SMARTOUR project aims to significantly improve the visitor experience of art and culture through the development of technology and services devoted to the enhancement and the protection of historical, tourist and environmental areas. The project, through a series of innovative coordinated researches will reach two distinct objectives:

the improvement of the cultural heritage and the social infrastructure through the generation, the exchange, the promotion and the distribution of both historical, cultural and available information for the visitor, and

the safety of the cultural heritage and social infrastructure in order to reduce the perception of insecurity.

In SMARTOUR project, an integrated platform will be developed. This platform is aimed at providing innovative modular services to deliver dynamic, interactive and safe tourist experiences.

The main reference field is the:

CULTURAL HERITAGE, to promote the development of new technological solutions for the diagnosis, preservation, digitization, the use of cultural material and / or immaterial, in order to enhance its impact in environmental, tourism and cultural ways and to promote the integration of innovative public and private services, linked to the attractiveness of the territories.

Secondarily, this project addresses also issues related to other research areas, such as:

SAFETY OF ENVIRONMENT, to support the development of new knowledge, innovative technologies and new integrated systems for risk prevention and the protection of the territory;

CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART GOVERNMENT, to promote the development of innovative public services, particularly with regard to the E-government