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Openness is the cornerstone of our strategic and cultural approach to innovation. Not just openness to internal ideas and resources but also to stimuli coming from outside, especially from startups, the academic world and firms.
The Acea Group is open to the outside world and works together with universities, research centers, technological partners, and startups to consolidate its innovation network, fostering cross-contamination and idea exchange. Our ongoing contact with the main innovation hubs enables us to supplement our innovation pipeline, identifying potential partners and innovative solutions capable of satisfying the Groups’ needs.
From these partnerships, new projects and experiments are born.
The ROAD (Rome Advanced District) project was conceived with the aim of developing, promoting, and accelerating projects concerning innovation, as well as scientific, industrial and technological research. The Gazometro in Roma Ostiense hosts the first innovation district dedicated to new energy supply chains.
An experiment that looks at the future of electricity. The project has enabled us to test and study a Smart Energy model to manage the flexibility of the network which approves and certifies energy transactions including between the so-called energy prosumers, contributing to transforming consumers into energy producers.
The evolution towards the smart city through Data Driven techniques. This is the goal of PASO, a monitoring platform that aims to optimize the continuity of the electricity distribution service through the transformation and analysis of the daily data generated.
Acea collaborates with Pedius – the start-up that since 2013 has been working to ensure the inclusion of deaf people at various levels by removing communication barriers – experimenting different solutions aimed at making the call center accessible to the hearing-impaired.
Acea is one of the first companies in Italy to use virtual reality for professional training purposes. A project carried out in collaboration with the young Italian start-up Start Smart.
Acea was the first firm in Italy to apply artificial intelligence and computer vision devices to its vehicles to create high definition maps, monitor the state of the infrastructure and develop innovative applications in smart city style.
This is Acea Group’s internal entrepreneurship program. The purpose of the project is to make the most of internal know how, giving the company’s own people the chance to create full blown startups to be launched on the market.
Acea Elabori, in collaboration with the Beamdigital start-up, has implemented this project on innovation and safety in construction sites. Through an NB-IoT connectivity system (communication system for a wide range of connected devices) it is possible to create a connected construction site and carry out remote checks of the safety conditions of the people working there.
Acea and the Blue Tensor start-up have developed a solution which, through the use of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision algorithms applied to the images of secondary electrical stations, identifies and catalogues the components of said stations, in order to qualify non-digitized data (e.g. low circuit breakers voltage). The objective is saving time compared to manual classification. This project aims to support Areti, a company of the group that deals with electricity distribution, in the digitization of processes.
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