Safety21 S.p.A. acquires Kapsch TrafficCom Italia,the Italian branch of Kapsch TrafficCom AG, an Austrian company listed on the Vienna stock exchange, a globally recognized provider of technological solutions for mobility.

With this transaction, Safety21 further strengthens its series of acquisitions at the national and international level, intended to incorporate core links in the chain of services offered by the Group to the Public bodies in the Smart Mobility market.

Kapsch TrafficCom Italia has been a leader since 2008 in the manufacturing, sale and maintenance of IoT for traffic offense detection, with a particular focus on access control in Limited Traffic Zone (LTZ) and this acquisition allows the extension of the range of cutting-edge IoT technological solutions and scalable and innovative outsourcing services, allowing Safety21 to serve over 300 public bodies, with an installed base of over 700 active and operational enforcement IoTs throughout Italy.

Safety21 was supported in the transaction by the advisor Itom Invest while the legal aspects were handled by Grimaldi for Kapsch and Orrick for the buyer. The banks involved, a pool made up of Banco BPM and MPS, were followed by Legance.

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Safety21 has obtained the Legality Rating, acquiring 3 stars, the maximum score that a company can achieve and confirm its constant attention to transparency and reliability issues.

The legality rating is an innovative tool developed by the Italian Competition Authority in agreement with the Ministries of the Interior and Justice, which recognizes rewards companies that operate according to the principles of legality, transparency and social responsibility.

The company that owns the Kegal Rating is included in a “list of virtuous companies”, constantly updated on the website of the Competition and Market Authority, which highlights the level of Rating assigned, suspended or revoked and which will be easily consulted by its customers, suppliers and partners.

On 7 June 2021, a press conference was held to present the fifth edition of the ‘Premio Costruiamo il Futuro Milano Citta Metropolitana’ (Building the Future Milan Metropolitan City Award), an initiative created to provide concrete support for sports associations’ efforts and projects in Milan and its province.

Safety21 is supporting the event for the second year, as it has always believed in and supported projects that generate value for the community, for sport and for the region.

Since the initiative was launched in 2003, over 600 clubs have been supported, €950,000 has been donated to projects and over 2,500 associations have been involved.

In 2020, the Foundation received 546 requests for grants. This number has almost doubled compared to previous years, showing that many organisations are facing great difficulties, also due to the Covid-19 emergency.

This is why the Foundation, with the support of private companies like Safety21, has set itself the challenging goal of supporting the activities of 50 sports associations – double the number of associations compared to the previous year – thus supporting the most significant education and training projects for young people and ensuring they have healthy meeting places that help prevent hardship and alienation.

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On 9 June, Sodi Academy, in partnership with Safety21, held its first online event, an exclusive professional training course for law enforcement officers.

Road Safety was the main focus of the webinar, with a particular emphasis on the innovations introduced by the Simplification Decree. The emphasis was on ensuring that standardisation and approval procedures for detection tools are identical.

The discussion topic was addressed by various speakers: Stefano Guarnieri from the Lorenzo Guarnieri Onlus Association who tackled road safety from a human and scientific point of view, starting from the concept of speed and the numerous accidents that occur every day; Enrico Vecchioni presented Sodi Scientifica and its products; Paolo Tommasini from Safety21 commented on the latest data on European road accidents and illustrated our Financing Project for the Metropolitan City of Milan; and Dr Luigi Altamura explained the changes introduced to Traffic Law by the Simplification Decree.

The webinar provided new insights into the issues that arise every day in the detection tools sector.

New and interesting webinars are in the pipeline, aimed at informing and simplifying the work of those involved in maintaining road safety.

As part of the “Metropolitan Milan Safety Project”, the long-term road safety and regional protection programme developed by Safety21 for the Metropolitan City of Milan, special attention is given to video surveillance systems as active tools for monitoring and operational support for law enforcement authorities in surveying the local area and tracking offences.

To this end, Safety21 relies on Axis technology, which provides mixed and integrated protection solutions featuring IP cameras with on-board analytics and 360° cameras, which not only have the ability to detect data and information across a wide range of formats, but can also detect environmental crimes or specific events, such as offences or accidents near pedestrian crossings. The cameras actively communicate with the Titan® ecosystem – a fully AgiD (Agency for Digital Italy)-certified solution – which manages all the region’s IoT control devices in the cloud.

Thanks to the partnership between Axis and Safety21, the Metropolitan City of Milan is now able to monitor the main roads that connect the municipalities in its area by CCTV, receiving information in real-time and thus simplifying the decision-making and response process.

Case history

IoT and video cameras for monitoring

Within two years, the Metropolitan Milan Safety Project will see the installation of 310 IoT (Internet of Things) devices throughout its region. Some of these devices will be used to detect speeding, while the others will be divided between pedestrian crossing control, lay-by monitoring and radar traffic analysis systems. On the project website you can consult the up-to-date map showing the detection points as they are installed.

Safety21 is the contractor entrusted with implementing this initiative, which will make the Metropolitan City of Milan one of the leading cities in the world in terms of safety and supervision. More of the 350 Italian municipalities which Safety21 works with may follow suit in the future, as additional services can easily be upgraded for authorities that already use Titan, Safety21’s modular cloud software platform. To develop one of the modules that are currently already operational in the Milan project, the company called on the expertise of the Beta 80 Group, an Italian system integrator that works alongside businesses through its three business units: ICT Services & Solutions, Supply Chain & Warehouse Management and Emergency & Crisis Management. “The module,” explained Gianluca Longo, Founder and CEO of Safety21, “takes the form of a number of solutions that use artificial intelligence on board IP cameras to connect with our platform and Microsoft’s Azure cloud.”

In practice, this can take the form of video surveillance of pedestrian crossings, for example, as well as of lay-bys to prevent the dumping of waste and other objects. “It serves not only as a deterrent, but also as a sanctioning tool,” the CEO continued. “The camera’s artificial intelligence module allows it to detect when a vehicle has been parked for a period of time deemed to be non-standard, and records movements that might mean an object has been dumped.” From this, an alert is generated that is linked to the cloud platform and allows photographic evidence of the offence to be ‘clipped’.

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