Foremyc

IED Milano - Product Design - Group Project

Academic year

2024-25

Foremyc segue l'andamento evolutivo della foresta, albero per albero, nell'ottica di rafforzare la resilienza climatica degli ecosistemi alpini

Alpine forests are increasingly threatened by drought and invasive insects, and current monitoring tools are obsolete, making it difficult to manage rapidly changing environments and protect fragile ecosystems.

This is where Foremyc comes in. The core of the system is the monitoring of soil, microclimate, and tree health, using data collected by special sensors to feed a digital twin of each tree, whose task is to support predictive forest management. The system has already been tested in the province of Bergamo in collaboration with the Valle Averara Forestry Consortium and integrates sensors that work in synergy with each other, collecting data at the base and on the trunks of trees and detecting the presence of beetles.

All the information recorded is transferred to the cloud via a dedicated Wide Area Network (WAN) and displayed on a dashboard that will be used by technicians (and in the future by consortia, companies and citizens) to monitor the evolution of the forest, tree by tree. The ultimate goal is to make the hardware more stable and suitable for prolonged outdoor use and to build a digital twin of the forest itself, i.e., a continuously updated model that reflects its day-to-day status and allows potential risks of decay to be identified in advance.

The startup project was designed by Iari Vanoschi, Bartolomeo Chinali, Federico Luigi Gabrieli and Francesco Cantoni, IED Milano's Product Design students. 

Winner of the James Dyson Award 2025.