URBEM
URBan Environment Management
URBEM Project was funded by POR FESR Lazio 2014-2020
Description of the project:
The URBEM project intends to create innovative application services based on Earth Observation data that will be offered online to a large market base. URBEM intends to exploit the free data of ESA’s Sentinel satellites, automatic processing capabilities based on neural networks, and “pay per use” processing services on cloud infrastructures to make application services available proactively (without a prior request from a customer), and sells them through a subscription, at the price of a few thousand euros per year.
Purpose and expected results:
The ultimate goal is to acquire a large market base, to achieve economies of scale and to compute a radical change in the business model adopted so far in the OT sector, based essentially on projects/services to order.
In particular, the project aims to promptly position itself on the emerging sector of online application services, thanks to the development of:
– A real market-driven approach, where customers are not “the last mile” of a technological path but the “first mile” from which to start to understand problems, to estimate economic value and potential business, to decide services and characteristics to develop;
– A service platform capable of automatically managing the activation of the processing chain and the provision of services to numerous users in parallel;
– Second generation neural network architectures that allow automatic recognition of entities and changes, data fusion of heterogeneous satellite data and also data fusion between satellite data and other types of information;
– Middleware-level software capable of dynamically managing the resources of a cloud infrastructure in order to optimize its use, response time and usage costs.
The services that are part of URBEM are focused on the urban environment, where now lives the majority of the population, investing environmental protection, urban management and risk management, with a target market basis consisting of municipalities, administrations, utilities, transportation infrastructure, IT sector and professionals (surveyors, architects and engineers).
The project is led by GEO-K Srl, in partnership with C-SIG Srl, In-TIME Srl and the University of Rome La Sapienza.
Financial support:
Total cost of the project: € 659,749
Admitted contribution: € 495,305
