Smart Garden (SMAG): A System of Outdoor Furniture Equipped with Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The “fourth industrial revolution” refers above all to production methods (Industry 4.0), the transformations of the digital technological components consequently also spill over into the world of product design. These transformations pose important challenges and calls for a partial revision of the design methods and operational processes. The article present a research project recently carried out in our laboratory that involved the use of advanced technology both for the operation of product and for the realization of the prototype. As within the Industry 4.0 paradigm, rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing technologies allowed us to introduce effective iterative product validation cycles for design.