• The context
• Goals of the project
• The Discricts of the Future
• Marco Polo 2.0

At a general scenario level integration of mechanical parts with silicon chip are doing improvement in sensors.
In every day life they are used in game machine controllers, in image stabilizers for digital cameras, in new Iphone interface, in sensors inside cars, and other applications.

Microelectronic and Micromechanics convergence, wireless sensors network communication capability, low power consumption, convergence with microrobotics, what can produce in the near future?
What we are going to see is a new web paradigm called web 3.0; it's the world of convergence between physical and virtual world.

What will be the impact on industries productions? What will be the new applications enabled by advanced IT technologies and Broad Band IP networks in a pervasive communication environment?
The possibility to get real time information directly from physical world, and to give command to robots, could change production and distribution chain.
Good's production could be done in the same place were the people buy them without transportation; only information should be transmitted from the design center to markets on the telecommunication network.
Production could be set-up in real time according to the real market preferences and without transportation and environmental costs.

Sensors, Actuators, Robots, with autonomous intelligence and memory will be fully connected with wireless network so information in the field will be easily transmitted and shared in every place and application opening new application scenarios and new business opportunity for enterprises.

The project aims to understanding the ecosystem of decentralized production with its new logistics and the enabling role of telecommunications, including customized production and customer care as service.