Project description
Advanced technology to detect natural hazards
Sudden changes in weather are occurring more frequently, causing extreme events like floods, avalanches or debris flow, and requiring new efficient monitoring methods. Local and regional authorities, as well as civil protection institutions, are seeking solutions that rapidly detect natural hazards and give alerts immediately, increasing security and reducing the time of public response. The EU-funded SENTINEL project proposes an advanced detection monitoring system that consists of a single instrument. It integrates three sensing technologies to ensure operability under any weather or light conditions, an AI software that secures real-time decision making and response, and portable data with 24/7 live stream transmission accessible by all customers. SENTINEL diminishes equipment and maintenance costs while providing rapidity and precision.
Objective
Techcom Srl was founded in Italy in 2017 with the aim to design and develop environmental monitoring solutions, providing installation and maintenance service for landslides, debris flows, sudden floods, avalanches, glaciers, etc. Over the past 10 years, our team of engineers and expert physicists have developed products and solutions based on the latest sensing technologies and integrated with our in-house software to serve customers with a high level of customization. We have evolved throughout the years performing >100 land monitoring projects with national and international scope reaching >50 active sites in 5 countries.
With the ambition to continuously provide solution to monitor territories with new disruptive technologies that will result in more accurate detection for the natural hazards, we seek to bring to the European market a new revolutionising monitoring system. Our innovation, SENTINEL, consists of a single device that integrates: (1) 3 complementary sensing technologies that allow optimum performance and coverage under any light and weather condition; (2) Artificial Intelligence software that delivers real-time decision support and action response adapted to the risk severity; and (3) data portal that is accessible on all devices with 24/7 live stream transmission to customers and interaction with local authorities and decision makers.
SENTINEL reduces by 75% equipment costs and 25% maintenance costs, gives ≥90% accuracy and fastness, and provides recommendations based on AI to allow customers (e.g. local and regional municipals, civil protection, railways, ski resorts) to rapidly detect and give an alert response within seconds, thus guaranteeing security and safety at all time.
SENTINEL will bring our company international expansion and growth, reaching +€11.07M in revenues by 2026 while creating 22 jobs 5 years after market launch.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographynatural disasters
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
16145 GENOVA
Italy
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.