Business development scientific research and projects of urban intelligence e smart cities. These are the areas at the center of the collaboration signed between Tim and the National Research Council (Cnr).
The agreement between Tim and the Cnr
The framework agreement between Tim and Cnr will have a four-year term and will be renewable for subsequent years. The agreement, signed by Maria Chiara Carrozza, president of the National Research Council, and by Elio Schiavo, chief Enterprise & Innovative Solutions Officer of Tim, foresees, among other things, that the Cnr can use the data from the Tim Urban Genius platform to develop simulators that can improve the management of urban fabrics in terms of efficiency and resilience. The cooperation will have among the objectives the identification and development of research programs, training, technology transfer and other common initiatives in the field of Urban Intelligence and Smart City.
“The agreement follows the collaboration already successfully tested on the occasion of the recent 'Tim Smart City Challenge', a scouting initiative to encourage the growth of the Italian Smart City ecosystem which involved over 170 startups, scaleups and innovative companies that presented solutions to make cities increasingly intelligent, safe and sustainable, through applications that can be integrated into the urban intelligence platform Tim Urban Genius,” the company said in a statement.
The programs and initiatives put in place will mainly concern the strengthening of the Urban Intelligence Virtual Laboratory of the CNR through new research synergies with private subjects and scientific collaboration on the subject also through joint activities. One area of cooperation will be that relating to the 'Digital Twin of Cities', the project that uses integrated digital systems, widespread sensors and predictive analytics techniques to virtually replicate the city and its systems, with the aim of identifying a new planning model and urban management.
“Increasing urbanization and the concentration of population in cities, combined with the decrease in available resources and the effects of climate change, require intelligent management policies of the urban ecosystem”, declared the President of the National Research Council, Maria Chiara Carrozza. “Il urban intelligence project of the Cnr intends to provide urban governance with digital tools to face the challenges to which they are called, also for the achievement of the sustainability objectives defined by the UN Agenda 2030: urban policies for access to infrastructure and social services, housing, education , healthcare, recreation, mobility and a safe environment. The collaboration with Tim and the possibility of using the data collected in the Tim Urban Genius platform will allow the Cnr to develop simulators that can improve the management in terms of efficiency and resilience of urban fabrics".
Tim: “Smart City at the heart of our strategy”
“This agreement is important to us because the Smart City are at the heart of our strategy. We offer our technologies and skills to local administrations to enable them to design the cities of the future and achieve important objectives economical progress, cost control and more efficient local processes. We are proud to collaborate with the Cnr to create a partnership that brings together our excellence in research for collect and process countless data. All this thanks to cutting-edge digital infrastructures and platforms and to respond to the needs of citizens and businesses”, he stressed Elio Schiavo, chief Enterprise & Innovative Solutions Officer of TIM.
