FHfFC Project

FHfFC

The objective of the Future Home for Future Communities project is to identify a new living model, able to enhance the social inclusion, to improve the quality of life and, above all, to implement a welfare paradigm for the continuity of care, especially referred to the neuro-rehabilitative treatment of neurological patients.
The project results will be integrated in one infrastructure/demonstrator hosted in the new CNR building at Lecco.
The ICMATE Lecco unit, in the frameworks of “Smart Care” and “Smart Living” will contribute to the analysis, characterization and creation of prototypal devices produced with innovative metallic components. These devices will focus on the health and well-being of people, as well as smart home appliances and the safety of the household space.
The ICMATE activities:

Smart Care

  • Dynamic orthotics for spastic syndromes: development of a portable device for passive/assisted ankle mobilisation, equipped with sensors for rehabilitation monitoring
  • Production of parts by SLM technology.

Smart Living

  • Shape memory alloys (SMA) to increase the users’ comfort, and soft-close drawers: Design, fabrication and functional characterization of small-scale soft-open/close devices for furniture drawers produced with advanced manufacturing processes (ultrashort pulse laser cutting) on SMA materials
  • Study and analysis of metallic material and pseudoelastic closed-loop solution: analysis of pseudoelastic material and a device to be integrated into solutions for assisted living
  • Development of trabecular/cellular materials through SLBM SHS for light components for comfort and well-being.