About Us
Open Intelligence
Secure Governance
Open Intelligence
Secure Governance
noze ® works on Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Cloud Architectures, Web Apps, Digital Health, Innovation Management and R&D.
Born in Pisa in July 2000 from the work of Stefano Noferi with some friends. From day one it offers Open Source solutions, Web applications and Cybersecurity services, and experiments from the very beginning with neural networks, then machine learning and deep learning, leading to the modern context of AI, LLMs and Agents.
Actively collaborates with local, national and foreign companies and startups, and with the Pisa research ecosystem: University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, CNR and other Italian and European research centres.
Innovation as method
High quality, analytical method, continuous training and real participation are our response to problems. Innovation management is not a separate service: it is the natural way we have always worked.
We combine attention to detail and a passion for style with the pursuit of a sustainable, ethical and ecological economy.
- Defence of autonomy and freedom, rejection of all forms of exploitation
- Equal opportunities for every human being
- Sensitivity to the non-economic consequences of economic actions
- Environmental protection and prevention of all forms of waste
- Rejection of violence as a means of resolving disputes
Over 25 years of open innovation
Inception
Experiments with Linux, Apache, Python, Zope and TCP/IP networking. Prototypes of dynamic web applications and server configurations. The business model and the team that will found noze take shape.
Foundation
noze is born in Pisa as an Open Source solutions company. From day one: Web Applications, Networking, Cybersecurity and R&D.
Open Source for entertainment
The Radio 105 group websites (105.net, radiomontecarlo.net, unitedmusic.it) are among the very first in Italy built entirely on Open Source technologies and developed ad hoc.
Technology Park and conferences
Move to the Navacchio Technology Park (Pisa), becoming a historic and distinctive presence.
Noferi panelist at First Tuesday Italy Pisa: "Open Source: epochal turning point or flash in the pan?" with Microsoft Italia and Sant'Anna.
Open Source and Public Administration
Noferi speaker at the National OSS and PA Conference at CNR Pisa with Minister Stanca, and at the Lodi conference: InFlow case study.
noze among the founding members of CIRS, the first Italian consortium of FLOSS companies.
WWW Award Sole 24 Ore
RadioMonteCarlo, engineered by noze, wins "Arts, Culture and Entertainment" at the WWW Award by Il Sole 24 Ore.
Double WWW Award Sole 24 Ore
WWW Award Sole 24 Ore: Radio 105 wins "Entertainment" and "Broadband".
SIRM electronic posters
For SIRM, the first European fully online management system for scientific congress posters goes live.
European research
MindRACES concludes. FIRB GRID.IT starts with ISTI-CNR and INFN.
The ESCOGITARE project starts with ISTI-CNR, RCOST and CRA.
Think. Colour. Play.
Logo refactoring and new payoff: Think. Colour. Play.
Enterprise and international
CMS (Plone), ECM (Alfresco), System Integration, Networking, ICT Legal, R&D.
Knowledge management in complex environments (Prometeia: risk management and budget forecasting). Work for UN and ILO Geneva, University of Oxford.
Expo Shanghai
RIPEG Project: real-time environmental monitoring with data mining and BI. Selected for Italy of Innovators at Expo Shanghai.
Spinoffs FaSt and Dake
Spinoff FaSt: photovoltaic energy generation.
Spinoff Dake: from RIPEG experience on sensors, IoT and energy — AI optimisation of energy networks.
RIPEG conclusion
RIPEG project activities conclude. Results on sensors, IoT and environmental data analysis remain as technical heritage for subsequent activities.
eyEM Data Manager
noze develops the eyEM Data Manager software for Polab: a Chrome App for managing data from the personal RF electromagnetic field sensor (100 MHz – 3 GHz). USB serial communication, D3.js visualisation, threshold analysis.
SleepActa
The SleepActa startup is formally established. R&D activities on machine learning applied to sleep data continue.
ALA — Lab Automation
AI Architect for ALA: joint R&D between INPECO Group and Sant'Anna BioRobotics. Deep learning for skin lesions, multimodal sensing, clinical sample traceability. €3.5M, 30 researchers.
AI, Cloud and VALKYRIES
Machine/Deep Learning, Cybersecurity, Cloud Architectures, Digital Health. R&D remains central.
VALKYRIES starts: European project for first aid vehicle deployment in multi-victim disasters.
INPECO: diagnostic AI and cloud
Direct collaboration with INPECO continues: fine tuning of the diagnostic prediction AI model and cloud engineering of the data collecting, pre-processing, post-processing and results delivery platform.
DebugABot: Debugging Autonomous Intelligence
DebugABot: deep tech research for the governance of autonomous AI agents. Kill switch, fingerprinting, alignment verification, deception detection.
Admina Open Source
Noferi releases Admina (Apache 2.0), sponsored by noze. Framework for AI applications governed by design: native EU AI Act and NIS2 compliance.
First products
B.O.S.S. (Business Open Source Server) is born: an all-in-one LAN solution based on Linux, designed for SMEs.
DBPower is born: a generative model-driven rule-based tool for automatic recognition of data structures and code generation.
InFlow and Hermes
InFlow is born, the CMS developed by noze: asynchronous workflow, RDF export, collaborative editing.
Hermes: email platform on Linux/Postfix with webmail, SSL, heuristic antispam filters and antivirus — millions of mailboxes.
Messaging and CMOS Project
Community: real-time messaging on Jabber, IM, SMSToolz. With SARITEL (Telecom Italia) for integrated Web-Wap messaging.
The CMOS project starts with Bassilichi and University of Florence.
FP6 MindRACES Project
The European project MindRACES FP6 starts: knowledge anticipation and cognitive maps with ISTC-CNR and 5 European centres.
AKIRA and Open Source Master
A.K.I.R.A. (Artificial Knowledge Interface for Reasoning Applications), a development environment for cognitive agents, wins Opensourcecontest.it.
Noferi lecturer at the Open Source Master — University of Pisa.
Young Entrepreneurs Award
Young Entrepreneurship Award ConfCommercio Pisa. CIRS Presidency, the national consortium of Open Source/FLOSS software companies.
ML/AI: automatic classification
First industrial projects in automatic pattern and image classification — defect detection in manufacturing processes, automated visual analysis.
noze Sponsor at PyCon
noze Bronze Sponsor of PyCon Due Italia, the Italian Python community conference.
D@NTE and T-OSSLab
D@NTE Project with Giunti for editorial digitisation. Co-founding of T-OSSLab.
Machine Learning in production
Data science for Dake and external clients. The first ML-based data analysis and BI solutions enter production.
The RIPEG project concludes: at the final conference Noferi announces the birth of Dake.
ML for industry and SMARTOUR
Machine learning for defect detection and production optimisation in industrial settings. Classification and visual analysis models for quality control.
The SMARTOUR proposal takes shape: intelligent tourism platform. Planned stack: OpenStack, OpenNebula, Xen/KVM virtualisation, FLOSS technologies.
ML for sleep medicine
Machine learning applied to polysomnography and actigraphy: time series analysis, wakeup anticipation and prediction, up to preparation for EU medical certification level I → startup SleepActa.
ML and health data
Machine learning applied to health data continues: predictive analysis, classification and clinical decision support models. The Digital Health track consolidates.
Remote Working & Meyer
noze faces the pandemic by consolidating remote and decentralised support for clients and partners.
From 6 March, collaboration with Meyer Children's Hospital starts on AI applied to SBS (Short Bowel Syndrome): ML-based diagnostic and treatment support models.
YK-Robotics and SMARTOUR
Technical direction and product development: multi-brand robotic programming software via web with integrated AI (until 2023).
SMARTOUR concludes: tourism platform on Kubernetes and microservices.
Dake 2.0: deep tech energy
Dake restarts as deep tech research: quantum physics, AI and energy engineering. The research aims to explore the reduction of energy transmission losses.
Open Intelligence
Secure Governance
The payoff crystallises over 25 years of AI and Cybersecurity built together, by a multidisciplinary team. The 2026–2028 strategic plan brings new products and service consolidation within this positioning.
Associations and network
Always focused on Open worlds, noze has contributed to building the Italian ecosystem of free software and technological innovation.
- Navacchio Technology Park — collaborations and technological animation with companies and partners
- CIRS — founding member and Presidency of the first Italian consortium of FLOSS companies
- AZI — founding member of the Italian Zope Association
- ZEA Partners — international network on Zope and Plone
- T-OSSLab — co-promoter of the Tuscan Regional Competence Centre on Open Source software
- CNA / TeCNA — co-founder and Vice Presidency of the ICT companies association, CNA Pisa / Tuscany
- FabLab Cascina — sponsor of the FabLab founded by friend Fiore Basile
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