Award for “Best strategic vision of new technological trend” at major entrepreneurial prize

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This is how the jury of the “Chiave a Stella” award 2021 chose to prize Quintetto ‘s achievements in its business and industry segment. Hosted in the atmosphere of the avant-garde architecture of the Unimanagement school of Unicredit Bank in Turin on November 15th, the ceremony awarded eight companies for their ability to express and combine innovation and tradition, as well as for the excellence of their products and the promotion of their territory in Italy and abroad. To Quintetto went the Special Mention as “Best example of strategic vision with respect to new technological trajectories”, a significant recognition of the ability of the company to anticipate those technological trends more prone to respond to the critical changes in services and industries. The award is promoted by the Association of Small Enterprises (API) Torino, the Magnetto Foundation, the national newspaper “La Repubblica”, the Turin Chamber of Commerce and the Union of the Chambers of Commerce of Piedmont, UniCredit bank, the Confederation of Small Enterprises of Piedmont (CONFAPI) with the support of the Polytechnical School and the University of Turin.

For information, write to ivano.canteri@quintetto.it.

Quintetto expands its competencies to Smart City and Sustainability in communities.

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Last summer Quintetto took part to the  2nd Training Programme for Clusters, SMEs and scale-up organizations initiative, (see our post Qroom hits marks…on Aug. 1st 2021). This  allowed the company to improve its understanding of the smart cities demand of technologies and innovative solutions for the development of comprehensive systems aimed at improving the access to services from citizens. The two months programme focused on several real use cases thus casting light on differences in approach and implementation of local authorities in countries and the way in which they prioritise their goals. A clearer view and a sounder background on these strategies and visions will allow to build more accurate segmentation of proposals when it comes to planning the development of new technologies and features of existing architectural solutions, such as is the case for Quintetto.

The participation has been sanctioned by a certificate issued by the programme coordinator, the SmartCTClusters Network.

For information, write to ivano.canteri@quintetto.it.

Quintetto (…and Qroom + Qcast) in Italy’s leading financial newspaper.

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Catwalk for Quintetto and its advanced know-how in holography and real-time multidevice communication on Il Sole 24 Ore last September 27th.

The primary Italian financial newspaper published a few days ago a short article summarising the essential elements of Qcast and Qroom two extremely innovative solutions of Quintetto’s portfolio which are attracting the attention and interest of two rapidly accelerating markets: telepresence and professional remote communication.  Security, high performance, low bandwidth consumption, absolute real time, simplicity and cost-effectiveness, ubiquity of operating models and interactivity were emphasized in the article together with a to-the-point focus on Quintetto’s vision: that of “naturalising” the interaction between humans and advanced technology.

For information, write to ivano.canteri@quintetto.it.

Qroom hits marks at major European Smart City event.

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With a pitching session held on 13th of July Quintetto presented its Qroom to an audience of about 200 international specialists, at the closing of the 2nd Training Programme for Clusters, SMEs and scale-up organizations initiative.

The 5-days programme organized by the SmartCTClusters project (*), to which Quintetto took part as a selected member of TorinoWireless (https://www.torinowireless.it/?lang=en), involved 5 international speakers, 4 Smart Cities, 16 stakeholders or market players, and 16 SMEs specialising around the pillars of Ict, Energy, Mobility, and Public Administration: an extended scale online event with participants from 17 different countries representing relevant agents of the Smart cities ecosystem, such as City Councils, Clusters, Professional Associations, Companies & SME, non-profit-organizations, Public Administrations, Start-Ups, Technology Consulting agencies, and technological centers.

The opportunity allowed Quintetto to enhance its knowledge of smart cities demand and needs so as to establish relationships for technology integration and development of comprehensive solutions aimed at improving the access to services from citizens. In this frame, holographic telepresence for interactive services represented here by Quintetto’s Qroom proved to be a pretty hot item as it addresses in a very simple but effective way a whole new category of remote service provision in true real time and full interaction in the town and communities environment.

(*) The project (https://smartctclusters.eu/), is one of the 13 European Strategic Partnerships for Excellence selected under the last call for proposals of the European Cluster Excellence Programme. It involves five European clusters operating in the field of  and aims to develop a common strategy to support the development of Smart Cities through the exchange of best practices and the identification of innovative models of support to the clusters member companies.

Vienna, Rome, Milan, Delhi, London, Stockholm: widespread recognition for Qroom.

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Qroom, the Quintetto patent solution for services and public spaces gains new interest from industries.

On the long wave that led the globe through Covid-19, a growing awareness in businesses and industries about the importance to master from remote services and interaction is most likely one of the most relevant outcomes. And the raising interest about Qroom from a variety of organisations is just here to testify that. Since early 2021 Qroom became a hot item for Quintetto with at least one contract already on the go and a few more under discussion. Interest came from the transport industry, logistics, automotive, public authorities, academia, real estate, large utilities and science as well. Significantly improved in performance thanks to the integration of new functionalities derived from Quintetto’s communication system, Qcast, the Quintetto patent Qroom is poised to become a technology of choice for several organisations in Italy and abroad throughout 2021 and over. We will keep you informed.
For information, write to ivano.canteri@quintetto.it.

Quintetto (and Qroom) to participate to the Virtual Innovation Workshop on June 9th 2021.

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Quintetto invited to present Qroom at the next international workshop of Living Innovation (https://www.living-innovation.net/explore) coordinated by the Institute for Managing Sustainability at Vienna University of Economics and Business.

The workshop will be held on June 9th in the frame of the programme of events focused on the development of responsible, smart home solutions that tackle societal challenges and respond to pressing societal trends. Living Innovation initiative, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme is strong of 14 partners from 10 European countries, including nine leading companies in the areas of smart homes and smart health, The project creates two distinct opportunities:

  1. Giving lead users and citizens the chance to be involved in the design of the technology that will shape their future lives
  2. Giving industry the possibility to respond directly to changes and needs of users and society.

Qroom is the immersive service desk solution developed by Quintetto to respond to telepresence and teleinteraction needs of companies and organisations looking for a more natural and comfortable environment for people to access remote added value services: a segment of operation in which Quintetto is active since its inception and that grew substantially in interest following the Covid-19 pandemic. Amongst the attendees: Accor, ÖBB, Novartis, Deutsche Telekom, Google, Microsoft, Austrian Airlines….

For information: ivano.canteri@quintetto.it

Holography: our future presence?

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An interview with Martin Richardson, Professor of modern holography, unveils a broad perspective for holographic telepresence in services, communications and arts as well.

André Martinuzzi, head of the Institute for Managing Sustainability of Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna) with whom Quintetto is collaborating on the front of holographic services, recently interviewed Professor Martin Richardson from De Montfort University at Leicester (UK). Professor Richardson is an expert on holography and its various fields of application being these commercial, functional or even artistic.

During the video interview (which can be found here), Professor Richardson points out a few key elements that are paramount for the understanding of the great potential that holography used for performing functions and not only for entertainment, can have in our daily life.

On efficiency of relationship and person-to-person  interaction:

“The standard two-dimensional format of flat screens is tiring for the eyes. Holographic telepresence overcomes this problem, as it offers a more curved reality, which provides incredible collaboration possibilities to its users and creates a much higher attention span.”

On customisation of individual experience:

“There is something about the pureness of a three-dimensional holographic telepresence, which takes on a different meaning for its user.”

On advancements in the technology:

“Apart from the increasing application of holograms in our daily life, there are ways emerging that use holographic optical elements, which overlap the world of holography with the real world. The actual big push in science is using holograms within Augmented Reality.”

The interview covers a very wide spectrum of aspects of holography, some unexpected and, in any case confirming that the impact of the technology on operations whatever the field of application, is exponential from the User Experience side to the actual achievement of greater efficiency and performance with respect to other technlogies.

Q-School: the first-ever specially designed solution for school continuity in Covid-19 time.

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Q-School is born: the first simple and efficient true-real time tool specially designed to fight security and protection concerns and allow the widest coverage of households in time of emergency.

To respond to the absence of “remote schooling” tools created specifically to respond to these demanding times, Quintetto designed and developed in record time Q-School, the first ever true real-time bidirectional didactic communication tool (av. 350 msec. latency time). Q-School is made available free of charge to schools in Italy and abroad to deal with the critical situation of these months and allow a rapid and homogeneous diffusion of a simple and immediate tool.

Based on a PC and normal home smartphones, Q-School answers the main problems of distance learning in times of emergency:

  1. Maintaining the organization and classroom and classroom teaching by reproducing the original real environment and the teacher-class relationship
  2. Low availability of computers in families
  3. Low availability of high-speed and broadband connections (ADSL, Wi-Fi, fiber)
  4. Data subscription costs and usage thresholds
  5. Maintaining the continuity of the didactic and “social” relationship between students and teachers, also individually and extra lessons
  6. Real protection of communications and data (avoid cookies, analytics, registrations, external and third-party servers)

To easily overcome all this (and much more), Q-School needs very little:

  1. A personal computer (desktop or laptop) (private or school) for the teacher / teachers
  2. An Android or iOS smartphone for a single student
  3. Access to the mobile network through standard connection

Q-School leverages on:

  1. Familiarity of children in the use of smartphones and high availability in families
  2. Use of the mobile home network with very low bandwidth consumption
  3. Ease of use and immediacy of activation
  4. Allow teachers maximum continuity with their method, program, procedure, minimizing the effects of distance
  5. Modular/scalable organization of teaching, from existing classes to sections, from single school to educational complex, without the need for expensive IT infrastructures
  6. Ensure absolute security and protection of communications contrary to what happens with the platforms of large operators or with standard commercial social platform.

Q-School operates in two modes, Lecture and Student Reception, which allow to differentiate the communication and dialogue needs between teachers, students and families, in a discreet and simple way, also maintaining a conceptual continuity with normal school activities.

Faced with an offer that varies from the most meager “social” tools to the most complicated digital school platforms, Q-School is an agile and immediate response for schools, teachers and children, simplifying problems and operational bottlenecks typical of standard non-specific solutions; for example with regard to confidentiality and data protection which, especially if referred to Big Techs, leave many doubts and uncertainties as to the actual correctness of the procedures. Considering that often teachers and operators are not so aware of it.

For further info:

ivano.canteri@quintetto.it

Quintetto joins the ranks of the most innovative SME’s of Italy.

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From the EU Seal of Excellence for Innovation to the forefront of the most innovative Italian SME’s.

Quintetto srl has become part of the Special Register for Innovative SME’s of Italy, a public initiative by the Ministry of Economic Development of Italy to favour the growth of technological innovation in all productive sectors and boost the productivity and competitiveness of Italy’s manufacturing industry.

Quintetto, awarded in 2016 and 2017 the European Union Seal of Excellence for Innovation, qualified to the Register by exceeding all criteria established by the Ministry: 1. high expenditure in R&D and innovation; 2. highly qualified personnel; 3. Ownership of registered patents.

The policy on innovative SMEs addresses only small and medium-sized enterprises qualified by a strong innovation component. There are no sectoral constraints nor age limits as the rationale is to foster innovation in any sector, including traditional ones, and regardless of companies’ stage of maturity.

The initiative allows “Innovative SME’s” to access an array of benefits aimed at facilitating their growth and international expansions such as fiscal incentives, equity crowfunding, internationalisation services easier access to grants and financing and so on: a set of pretty effective benefits allowing Quintetto to intensify its development & expansion strategy.

For more info please contact Ivano Canteri, Sr. VP Marketing,

+39 335336284, ivano.canteri@quintetto.it,

or visit our website here.

Main switch board: +39 0165 18 45 290

 

FOR Italian version click HERE!

Quintetto srl joins Polo ICT the IT and Multimedia Cluster of North West Italy.

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Opening new perspectives for business and technology collaboration on a global scale.

Pont Saint Martin/Torino October 1st 2019. Quintetto srl is now a full member of Polo ICT, one of the most advanced technology clusters in Italy. Founded by the Regional Governments of Piemonte and Valle d’Aosta, with the support of private and public stakeholders, Polo ICT is a networking organization to facilitate the collaboration between SMEs and innovative start-ups, large companies and R&D organizations.

About Polo ICT. Strong of more than 220 members and home to about 150 collaborative R&D projects, the Cluster is one of the most active industry organisations in Italy whose aim is to create the best synergies to increase the competitiveness of high tech enterprises by fostering the creation of collaborative R&D projects, promoting innovation in the industry, developing skills and by providing opportunities for business networking. Polo ICT also coordinates the Italian Technology Cluster for Smart Communities (SmartCommunitiesTech) founded by the Italian Ministry of Research, Education and University focused on the development and implementation of innovative technology models as drivers of sustainable economic growth.

For Quintetto, the association to Polo ICT and the connection with SmartCommuntiesTech constitutes a key asset for the development of (and the contribution to-) new R&D local and international initiatives aimed at the design and implementation of innovative solutions in a variety of fields; solutions and systems based on the extensive know-how that the company grew since its foundation such as true real-time streaming, Holographic remote servicing, Digital signage 4.0. One example among others being the HuManS, a EU funded project to allow A.I.-based interaction and meaningful verbal communication  between operators, production robots and complex automated systems.

For more info please, contact Ivano Canteri, Sr. VP Marketing,

+39 335336284, ivano.canteri@quintetto.it,

or visit our website here.

Main switch board: +39 0165 18 45 290

 

FOR Italian version click HERE!