Summary:
An Italian SME has developed an innovative technology to prevent road flooding through constant monitoring of drains and manholes with the installation of remote internet of things (IoT) sensors. The system collects the information coming from the sensors and displays it through a dashboard/smartphone to plan ordinary and extraordinary maintenance interventions. The Company is looking for a commercial agreement with technical assistance, service/ licence agreement, mainly in Europe and the USA.
Description:
The Italian SME company's mission is to create innovative and low-power IoT systems for Smart Cities and complex industries.
In particular, the latest projects carried out and in progress are part of the following contexts: monitoring of manholes and drains for the drainage of rainwater, remote control, and diagnostic systems for public lighting, artificial intelligence associated with electricity and gas consumption to predict the energy consumption of private and public users, optimization of waste collection systems in urban centers, optimization of the energy efficiency of buildings using drones and thermal imaging cameras.
The proposed project involves the installation of IoT sensors, inside Manholes or Drains, connected on the Low Power Wide Area Network (LoraWan) network or via other means, (3G-Long Term Evolution-3G-LTE) to a network server that sends the collected information to the main cloud server. The operator will have the possibility to receive alarms or alerts, through the use of a dedicated dashboard or smartphone, in case of an overflow of the single manhole, or trap door, or in case of need for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance.
The project consists of products and services to be offered to public bodies or large industries where there is a strong focus on road flooding or any flooding problems in the case of high-risk areas due to climate change.
Currently, the system/service has been already and successfully installed at the Municipality of Rome and is used by the technicians in charge to assess the climatic impacts on the current rainwater drainage pipe and to plan maintenance interventions.
The product/service consists of sensors, customizable brackets for mounting inside manholes and drains, an annual subscription to the network server, gateway LoraWan with antenna, subscription to the cloud server, customization of the dashboard and smartphone, technical assistance.
The Company is looking for the following cooperation types:
• Commercial agreement with technical assistance: the Company can sell to the partner an instance of the platform (or part of it), supporting the start-up, so that the partner will be able to be autonomous;
• Service agreement: the Company can develop software in order to provide the partner with a custom solution for specific needs
- Licence Agreement.
The targetted countries are mainly in Europe or the USA.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
The partners sought can be:
- Application developers
- Private companies and commercial partners
- Manufacturers of connected devices
- Software development agencies
- Public and private companies
- System integrators
The partner could use the service to build applications or integrate them into existing ones. In particular:
- Application developers: they can use (with a license agreement) the company serves as a Backend, as a Service, or database to build their own applications and expand the current service with integrated and expanded systems, also with the aid of artificial intelligence
- Private companies and Commercial Partners: they can use our system to expand their technology portfolio to resell on their territory
- Software development agencies: they can rely on the company service (with license agreement) to speed up development thanks to the support of our versatile dashboard, in which other features and types of IoT sensor can also be integrated
- Public and private companies: direct B2B and B2C customers for the direct use of our system with the direct and customized application for security and anti-flooding purposes
- System integrator: the company can be a technological partner (by virtue of a commercial agreement with technical assistance or license agreement) and a white-label supplier of its services for third parties and projects.
The above partners may also decide to sign a service contract. In the latter case, the company would develop applications on behalf of the partner according to its specific needs.
Stage of Development:
Already on the market
Comments Regarding Stage of Development:
Service already on the market, while personalized solutions to be defined with the final client.
IPR Status:
Secret Know-how
External code:
TOIT20210511001
