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Kineton bases its success on continuous research and development, so much so that it has earned the title of R&D Company. At Kineton, we are convinced that in order to do engineering, promote technology to our customers, and offer a service or product that can bring value, we must always be up-to-date and competent on all the recent innovations. And that the only way to pursue this goal is by employing resources, time, and men in R&D. Kineton invests an average of 15% of its average turnover in R&D projects, managing to develop skills that may be unique and recognized by our customers. But in addition to these skills, and thanks to our broad knowledge of the market, we have also created products that were then put on the market. Due to this, Kineton is no longer only a service company, but it has changed its business model, also to become a product company. The following are the projects in progress.

KINEBRAIN - Key INteraction among Entertainment and BRAIN

The KINEBRAIN project achieved through a partnership agreement between our company (lead partner), Penta Technology S.r.l. and the “Raffaele d’Ambrosio” Interdepartmental Research Center Laboratory of Urban and Territorial Planning – LUPT from University of Napoli Federico II, aims to develop an intelligent system for microcars to be able to collect and process information from heterogeneous sources (radar, camera, infrastructure, …), to subsequently make available to the occupants of the cockpit through a Human Machine Interface (HMI) multimodal and adaptive.

The project was acknowledged for financial subsidies under the Fund for Sustainable Growth – “Intelligent Factory” Desk within the framework of the National Operational Program (PON) I&C 2014-2020, as per Ministerial Decree of March 5, 2018 Chapter IIII, of the Ministry of Economic Development, with Grant Decree no. 0043991 of 27.11.2019. The project has a duration of 36 months and provides for a total eligible cost of € 3.666.480,00.

The proliferation of systems and functions that interact with the driver has created a number of challenges for human-machine interface (HMI) design in the automotive industry, leading to a rapid evolution of technology that focuses on the principles of safety, personalization, and distraction-free interaction. In this context, the KINEBRAIN project aims to achieve the following macro-objectives:

– definition of a driver-vehicle-environment model in order to identify the best way to present driving information;
– design and implementation of advanced driver assistance systems;
– design and development of algorithms for implicit personalization of HMI elements;
– implementation of the multimodal and adaptive HMI to show driving information.

NEMESI - New Engineering & Manufacturing Enhanced System Innovation

The project of industrial research and experimental development NEMESI, carried out jointly by Leonardo S.p.A., as a leader, by our company and 12 other adhering subjects, intends to test the promising and innovative technologies that respond to the paradigm of the Smart Factory, intending to redesign the industrial process of the ATR product line through the use of Industry 4.0 technologies. Advanced production systems, augmented reality, the Industrial Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data are just some of the enabling elements that will be analyzed to improve production processes efficiency.

NEMESI, a research, and development program anticipated in the Development Contract “Expansion and Upgrading of the Pomigliano d’Arco Plant – Leonardo: Aerostructures Division,” was presented to the Ministry of Economic Development through the National Agency for the Attraction of Investments and Enterprise Development S.p.A. (“INVITALIA”) in June 2020, provides for a duration of 36 months and a total eligible cost of €134.156.360,00.

Sustainable and safe mobility: Borgo 4.0

The Technological Platform for Sustainable and Safe Mobility Borgo 4.0, presented by the proponent Anfia Automotive Scarl within the procedure of the Campania Region for sustainable and safe mobility, aims to integrate research and development, technological innovation, testing of new models, and new technologies of mobility. The Borgo 4.0 project involves 54 companies, the 5 Universities of Campania with public research centers, and the CNR.

Koine S.r.l., a company of the Kineton ecosystem, is one of the companies involved and together with several research organizations and partners in Campania, presented the research and development project called A Mobility: Technologies for Autonomous Vehicles. The project aims to develop and test new technological solutions to improve the performance of connected and autonomous vehicles in particular scenarios of maneuver and traffic conditions. The project has a duration of 36 months and provides for a total eligible cost of € 7.852.550,82.

KINECAR

Kinecar is not just an L7e category electric vehicle but a user-centric digital ecosystem to ensure a safe, fun, and comfortable driving experience. Innovation, safety, and sustainable mobility are the three pillars of the Kinecar project. Designed to be a “device on wheels,” Kinecar is equipped with entertainment systems, driving assistance, social networking, connectivity, and more to achieve a green, safe and fun mobility.

With the Kinecar project, Kineton aims to address the main trends emerging in the field of urban mobility; in particular, Kinecar is a candidate to be the first node of the Internet of Cars in the context of urban micro-mobility.

The backbone of the Kinecar ecosystem is a platform based on cloud technology capable of making cars and users communicate. The introduction of mobile and cloud technology onboard the microcar will make it possible to meet the needs of teenagers who want to immerse themselves in the hi-tech world and parents looking for guarantees of safety for their children.