Market replication of a cutting-edge FlOod Risk ScrEEning Tool

Información del proyecto

FOReSEE

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 836942

DOI

10.3030/836942

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 12 Diciembre 2018

Fecha de inicio 1 Enero 2019

Fecha de finalización 31 Mayo 2019

Financiado con arreglo a

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Coste total

€ 71 429,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 50 000,00

Coordinado por

SCALGO DEVELOPMENT APS
Denmark

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - FOReSEE (Market replication of a cutting-edge FlOod Risk ScrEEning Tool)

Período documentado: 2019-01-01 hasta 2019-05-31

Resumen del contexto y de los objetivos generales del proyecto

Floods made up well over 40% of all weather-related disasters between 1980 and 2009, registering more than 200,000 victims and economic losses exceeding $19Bn per year. Currently, the dominating software products used for flood risk analysis are the hydrodynamic tools. However, it is expensive to perform a single analysis and it requires very specialized knowledge. The expertise and financial resources available in many municipalities and water utilities simply prohibits the use of hydrodynamic tools as a part of the day-to-day work with flood risk.
SCALGO has developed a scalable online decision support tool - SCALGO Live - that harnesses the descriptive power of Big geometric Data sets, to provide fast, intuitive and cost-effective decision support to municipalities, water utilities and consultants in their day-to-day work with flood risk and climate adaptation.

Trabajo realizado desde el comienzo del proyecto hasta el final del período abarcado por el informe y los principales resultados hasta la fecha

During the feasibility study we have identified three barriers for evolving the SCALGO Live pilot into a highly scalable technological platform and for creating a scalable business model around SCALGO. These barriers are technical, relating to challenges in handling different data maturity levels in different geographic markets, and to handling many trillions of elevation data elements. But the barriers are also relating to market development and reluctance of potential customers to adopt new technology and tools. For each barrier we have described feasible and realistic solutions for overcoming them. The proposed solutions have been subdivided into concrete activities and structured in a detailed workplan proposed for a SME Instrument Phase 2 project.

Avances que van más allá del estado de la técnica e impacto potencial esperado (incluida la repercusión socioeconómica y las implicaciones sociales más amplias del proyecto hasta la fecha)

Throughout our feasibility study we have shown that the current misalignment between user needs and existing product attributes, combined with the emergence of pervasive elevation models, creates a huge opportunity for defining an entirely new product category providing easy-to-use, low-cost, on-demand and up-to-date flood risk screening.
SCALGO Live is uniquely positioned to become category owner of this new product category due to SCALGOs cutting-edge algorithm technology, originally developed at world-leading computer science universities for analysing and structuring big high-resolution elevation models. A successful introduction of this category – and SCALGO Live – in more markets will help empower local government, utilities and others to reason about surface water in more projects, and much earlier in the project timelines.

SCALGO Live concept