Author: martina.sanna

Today, October 25, 2022, the conference “Sulla Stessa Strada. Public-Private: a success story”: a moment of discussion on the broader issues of road safety, starting from the first results of the “Milano Metropolitan Safety Project“, one of the main smart city projects in Europe for the reduction of accidents, which the Metropolitan City of Milan is developing with Safety21.

The aim is to achieve the European strategic goal “2030 Zero victims on the roads” and allow a more effective control of the territory, thanks to the use of innovative technology, IoT devices and cloud data management and storage systems.

Beatrice Uguccioni, Councillor delegated to Mobility and Infrastructure, opens the morning, declaring ‘Milano Metropolitan Safety Project is grafted on the theme, for us a priority, of the Culture of Safety that must be declined in all its aspects from the protection of the planet, to urban regeneration, to safety in the workplace, to accessibility and metropolitan urban inclusiveness that sees us at the forefront.’

More than two years after its activation – which began in 2020 – Progetto Sicurezza Milano Metropolitana now has 132 IoT devices already installed on Milan’s provincial roads, systems capable of monitoring parking areas, traffic and pedestrian crossings, and traffic light control devices, average and instantaneous speed detection devices.

All the tools communicate with the Safety21 Titan® platform supplied to the Local Police in order to make the fight against violations of the highway code more efficient, faster and more sustainable with a substantial reduction in the time spent by resources in the field. The control systems of the territory also allow, moreover, not only to monitor the viability and prevent accidents, but also to detect crimes and risk situations. For example, the surveillance cameras of the rest areas have allowed, thanks to interoperability with other police forces, the identification of perpetrators of serious crimes such as threats, private violence, attempted murder and theft.

“The key points of the project are three: first, safety as accessibility: an unsafe or “disordered” territory punishes the most fragile and rewards the bullies. Second, safety as legality: an orderly road is a road in which traffic follows the provisions of the Highway Code and those who transgress, transgress the law. Third, safety as culture: the protection of citizens’ health is a public duty and the control of the territory and the conscious use of tools helps everyone. Finally, the project works because the basic requirements for the usefulness of project financing exist: a serious proposal from a reliable supplier and the ability of the Public Administration to measure and analyze the results” says Maria Cristina Pinoschi, Deputy General Manager of the Metropolitan City of Milan and Head of Project Finacing

“The project financing tool – says Gianluca Longo, CEO of Safety21 – represents a virtuous example of collaboration between the Public Administration and technological partners to support the programs that the body has conducted so far in the field of road safety with the added value of Cloud technology, IoT and data analysis. The high technological capacity of Titan® allows it to manage a significant number of equipment, extending the program to the implementation of various services, always updated, for an increasingly wide security on the territory and a more efficient management, for the Police Forces of the resources used”.

The morning continued with the round table moderated by journalist Fabio Massa and opened by Marco Granelli, Councillor for Security and Civil Protection of the Municipality of Milan. Other speakers included: Giordano Biserni, President of ASAPS, Maurizio Crispino, Full Professor of the Politecnico di Milano and member of the Superior Council of Public Works, Stefano Guarnieri, Vice President of the Lorenzo Guarnieri Onlus Association and Simonetta Lo Brutto, First Director of the State Police and Director of the Milan Traffic Police Section.

From 2019 to 2021 (2020 is not very indicative, due to lockdowns) according to ACI/Eupolis data, road accidents in the area of the Metropolitan City of Milan fell from 13,607 to 11,385, 16% less. As for the deaths, it went from 106 to 87, a decrease of 18%, while the wounded went from 18,097 to 14,390, a good 20% less. The Metropolitan City of Milan is, for this reason, among the territories where more human lives have been saved than in the previous 12 months. Compared to an analysis of the effectiveness of speed control instruments, the primary cause of accidents on the territory, the data acquired so far within the project show the positive action of active control systems.

Milano Metropolitan Safety Project, a virtuous example of public-private partnership, and this conference was an opportunity to share the path and the tools put in place capable of responding to the different needs of road safety and the territory with a view to innovation, sustainability, simplification and transparency.

Il continuo miglioramento della sicurezza stradale e dell’ambiente rappresenta una delle finalità primarie del Progetto Sicurezza Milano Metropolitana, che raggiunge quota 130 dispositivi attivi sulle principali vie di collegamento provinciali.

Le 61 videocamere attive sulle piazzole di sosta sono ora in grado di segnalare presenze di fumo e neve sulla strada e attivare interventi immediati grazie all’implementazione di un innovativo sistema di video analisi, basato su Intelligenza Artificiale e Machine Learning.

Il recente upgrade tecnologico punta a rendere il monitoraggio delle piazzole di sosta sempre più smart, grazie all’integrazione, nei 61 sistemi di videosorveglianza attiva presenti sulle tratte controllate, di funzionalità aggiuntive basate su sistemi di analisi video per la rilevazione di fumo ed eventi atmosferici d’impatto sulla viabilità. Si tratta di soluzioni intelligenti connesse che permettono un facile e diffuso monitoraggio del territorio attraverso la rete di videosorveglianza già presente e che rappresentano una soluzione concreta per gestire le conseguenze derivanti dai cambiamenti climatici sempre più attuali.

I sistemi di videosorveglianza attivi, che già oggi consentono di individuare e registrare movimenti sospetti vengono ora dotati di SmoCam e SnowCam: innovativi sistemi tecnologici di analisi video basati su algoritmi e applicazioni di Intelligenza Artificiale per l’allerta tempestiva di intervento in caso di focolai di incendio o in caso di presenza di ghiaccio e neve. Si tratta di tecnologia sviluppata da WaterView, società specializzata in servizi per la raccolta e l’analisi di Big Data nel campo dell’idro-meteorologia, e che sono stati integrati con la piattaforma Titan di Safety21.

I sistemi si attivano al superamento di parametri predefiniti che definiscono le soglie di rischio al manifestarsi del fenomeno e attraverso la piattaforma Titan di Safety21, modulo TitanVDS, inviano segnalazioni in tempo reale alle Forze di Polizia collegate contenenti: video clip dell’evento identificato, dati descrittivi del fenomeno (quantità e percentuale di copertura del fenomeno), dati sulla localizzazione (posizione della telecamera, nome e posizione della strada) e nel caso del fumo, anche una stima della distanza del punto di propagazione.

Un insieme di informazioni che consentono all’autorità competente di identificare e controllare in tempo reale i rischi legati alla presenza di fumo nell’area e al possibile propagarsi di incendi particolarmente frequenti in questo periodo estivo, alla scarsa visibilità o alla scivolosità delle strade in inverno e a pianificare al meglio le operazioni di intervento.

Metropolitan City of Milan increasingly innovative and smart.

Read here the article on the Centuaro.

Safety21 is a sponsor of SURF2022, the international symposium on “Pavement Surface Charateristics” that for the first time arrives in Italy. This one in Milan (12-14 September) is the ninth edition of the event, held for the first time in the United States of America in 1988 and last hosted by Australia 4 years ago. Chairman of the event was Prof. Maurizio Crispino of Politecnico di Milano while Co-Chairman was the CEO of ANAS SpA, Aldo Isi.

The goal of SURF22 is to compare each other in order to improve the quality of the flooring surface while meeting the needs of efficiency, safety, sustainability, new generation mobility, as well as users, managers and social expectations.

Workshops and round tables address the main themes of the Symposium concerning data monitoring and performance evaluation, innovation, economic and policy strategies, analysis and evaluation of life cycle costs, safety and risk issues, sustainability issues (noise, vibration, pollution, fuel consumption, etc.), surface layer design, maintenance and conservation treatments, as well as materials and design.

A great opportunity for Safety21, thanks to its know-how in the field of road safety and smart mobility.

To learn more, visit the website https://surf2022.org/

Safety21, a leading Italian software provider in the Smart Road and Smart City space, controlled by investment fund BU (Bregal Unternehmerkapital) Funds (“BU”), announced today that it has completed the acquisition from Kauri Group of Ge.Fi.L S.p.A., an end-to-end provider of digital services for the Public Administration, mainly focused on Smart City, Smart Mobility and Collection services.

The acquisition of GeFiL SpA and its wholly owned subsidiaries MegAsp, Elfo, and Ne-t by Telerete Nordest by Safety21 (a portfolio company of BU) aims to further consolidate its leadership in the domestic market. The transaction creates the largest Italian Group operating in the Smart Mobilty and Smart City verticals.

Safety21 therefore increasingly becomes the operational partner of reference for the Public Administration, Local Authorities and Institutions, capable of providing innovative solutions and services to accelerate and simplify processes for the benefit of citizens.

Below the complete press release with the comments of Gianluca Longo, CEO and founder of Safety21, of the CEO and founder of Kauri Holding, Enrico Del Sole, and of Valentina Pippolo partner and country head Italy of BU Italy.

Read the press release

In recent days, Safety21 SpA has published its first “Sustainability Report”, thus demonstrating the commitment and results obtained in the field of environmental, social and governance sustainability for the year 2021.
For a young company like Safety21, founded just ten years ago, all this is a source of pride and prestige but, at the same time, underlines the desire to project itself towards a future in the name of sustainability, taking charge above all of the awareness and value that human relationships assume, respect for the environment and social commitment.
As it is known, the Company’s mission continues to be to support the effort that the Institutions daily address to the issue of road safety and sustainable mobility in order to safeguard the precious gift of human life, reduce the economic, social and environmental costs deriving from road accidents and vehicular traffic as well as to provide support to the Public Administration committed to the objective of administrative simplification.
At the base of Safety21’s work there is the action with meticulousness and transparency in full compliance with the rules, supporting the Public Administration and offering solutions aimed at road safety and smart Mobility through integrated “end-to-end” services.

Safety21 continues with its commitment to be appreciated by its customers, establishing itself more and more on the reference market and recording a growth and diffusion of its services throughout the national territory.
The growth, in addition to the technological offer developed and continuously adapted, is also thanks to the professionalism and attachment to the Company that the collaborators and
employees of Safety21 have put in place and that engage the top management daily in the
research and enhancement of the talents present internally and in the widespread attention to the growth and well-being of their human capital.
With this mission Safety21 develops its business and through the Sustainability Report documents in a concise and transparent way the will to act in full compliance with the 3 ESG factors, committing itself to all the subjects involved in the Company: customers, employees, shareholders, partners, suppliers.
In conclusion, the issues on which Safety21 has focused particularly in its first Sustainability Report are those of environmental sustainability, transparency, all-round compliance, ethics and social responsibility, values considered the basis of the precious reputational and “intangible” heritage built over the years.
To read our Sustainability Report, click here.

On 13 December 2021, at the Palazzo delle Stelline, the fourteenth edition of the North Direction event “MI + PNRR. La formula per il futuro”, dedicated to the implementation of PNRR resources for a better future for all citizens.
During the panel ” Ragionare come una metropoli ” we talked about mobility, understood as a tool to integrate the center and the periphery in a metropolitan perspective, how it has changed over the years following the needs of citizens and how it will change and improve over the years .

An important opportunity for Safety21 to present the Metropolitan Milan Safety Project, one of the largest Smart City and Smart Road projects in Europe developed by the Metropolitan City of Milan together with Safety21 and Municipia. A virtuous model of collaboration between Public and Private, which places road safety, the protection of citizens and the protection of the territory at the center

Moderating the speeches Alessia Liparoti of True News, and among the guests: Teresa Bellanova, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility, Arianna Censi, Councilor for Mobility of the Municipality of Milan, Michela Palestra, Deputy Mayor of the Metropolitan City of Milan, Maria Cristina Pinoschi, Deputy Director General Metropolitan City of Milan, and Paolo Tommasini, Chief Revenues Officer of Safety21.

In the interview, Paolo Tommasini, Chief Revenues Officer, talk about the public-private partnership, an innovative tool that has given rise to a virtuous project such as the Milan Metropolitan Safety Project, whose key points are sustainable mobility and safety.
Mobility and safety guaranteed by a system of over 300 sensors and cameras to monitor the streets of the Metropolitan City of Milan, an example of how in a Smart City technology and data become a collaborative tool to ensure a wider sense of security on the territory.