Traditionally, ICT is related to specific application sectors: telecommunications systems and high-bandwidth network communication, mobile communications, enterprise information systems, web-based systems .

At a wider perspective, ICT is an essential mean to innovate, even radically, traditional products and services.

This transformation has also a deep impact on processes and services. In fact, if the product becomes more “intelligent”, also the associated service chain can qualifies and expand significally.

The pervasive ICT is therefore a unique lever to radically change products and consequently change industrial processes and services, not merely connected to the ICT sector.