As part of the “school in hospital” programme, the Smart Inclusion project aims to create a technological bridge for hospitalised children, with innovative remote teaching, entertainment and clinical data management solutions and services.
The project was commissioned by Italy’s National Research Council and has the technological support of the Telecom Italia TiLab Research Centre.
The technological solutions developed for the project are:

• Smart School or multimedia totem A workstation installed at the side of the teacher’s desk, consisting of a touch terminal, keyboard, loudspeakers, video camera and a link to an interactive blackboard, to follow lessons recorded on a server or to enable hospitalised students linked to the workstation via a Smart Hospital terminal to take part in lessons.
• Smart Hospital
  A touch terminal installed by the patient’s bed, on a trolley or wall-mounted on a movable mechanical arm. Data is transmitted via LAN, power line or POF. Equipped with a microphone, video camera and earphones, the terminal supports video communication inside the hospital (to call nursing staff, video surveillance of patients) or outside the hospital (home, school), as well as access to theme or entertainment TV channels.

As a Telecom partner, Olivetti supplies touch terminals to paediatric hospitals, multimedia totems to schools and so-called “ancillary” workstations for use by ward staff and by teachers linked with young patients from a schoolroom set up inside the hospital.

The partnership envisages equipment supplies in Rome, Florence and Padua, and in the near future in Turin, Genoa and Pavia.