Best Practices

URBREATH: addressing urban climate neutrality in European cities

Approach The increase in extreme weather events, such as floods and heat waves, is due to climate change that makes cities increasingly vulnerable environments and accentuates social problems such as poverty and exclusion. The lack of quality NBS makes the situation worse, especially in those neglected urban areas where there is an urgent need for social and technological revitalization in order to improve the quality of life. Up to now, the prevailing approach to green revitalization and planning is often reduced to cost/profit criteria that often do not give a return on investment, failing to attract funding, people and businesses to these areas. The conventional approach also tends to neglect [...]

Smart Land in Valmalenco

Approach The I.T.I. project (Integrated Territorial Investment) "In Valmalenco", for the smart and sustainable development of the territory, involves four municipalities in the Lombardy valley (Chiesa in Valmalenco, Caspoggio, Lanzada, Spriana), together with Municipia and CISA, the companies awarded the project financing services for the management of the project over the next 7 years, under the Lombardy Region for the signing of the AQST - Territorial Development Framework Agreement as a governance tool. It is the first Italian I.T.I. activated in the Alpine area and will see the municipalities collaborate for local development from the point of view of infrastructure, economic, cultural, social and environmental attractiveness, cohesion and common identity, always in the sign [...]

Smart Land South West Milan for an integrated territorial strategy

Approach The project involves 8 municipalities with Zibido San Giacomo as the lead municipality. Municipia - Engineering Group provides support in the design and development of an integrated territorial strategy in response to territorial challenges and needs with a smart and sustainable approach. Municipia assists clients in defining a framework for medium to long-term interventions and in operational processes related to public and private funding. It collaborates with municipalities in project management and implementation. Solution Through the service concession tool, Municipia has implemented a service delivery model for advising, public programs, project management, and the development of digital platforms. To achieve this goal, Municipia has utilized the private initiative project [...]

Smart Land Saronnese for smart and sustainable development

Approach The clients are the municipalities of Saronno, Pertusella, Gerenzano, and Turate. Municipia, Engineering Group, supports the aggregation of municipalities in the design and development of an integrated smart and sustainable territorial strategy in response to territorial challenges and needs. Municipia assists clients in defining a framework for medium to long-term interventions and in operational processes related to public and private funding. Municipia also works alongside the municipalities in project management and implementation. Solution Through the service concession tool, Municipia provides advisory services, public program and project management, and intangible infrastructure (digital platforms). To achieve this goal, Municipia has utilized the private initiative project financing instrument. The solutions offered to [...]

Digital Management of Mobility and Access to the Historical Center of Bologna

Approach The Municipality of Bologna (Sustainable Mobility and Infrastructure Sector) needs to regularly update rules for issuing, renewing, and using parking and access permits, managing the complexity of numerous existing permit types. The project's first goal was to replace the old permit management software, limited in functionality and based on obsolete technologies, with a more modern, scalable, and configurable platform. The second goal is to gradually shift citizen services from in-person to online, reducing reliance on physical offices. Solution The project, in its original form, includes two web applications (one used by operators to manage the life cycle of permits, and the other by department personnel for system configuration) and [...]

Rimini Chatbot: a Digital Assistant at the service of the citizen

Approach The innovation model followed in the implementation of the project is of the Open type as it has seen the use of design thinking methodologies for the design and testing of AI. A first phase of study, in collaboration with the experts, and an analysis of the recurring themes, was followed by the phase of elaboration of conversational flows. Before the chatbot was put into production, content checks were carried out with domain experts from the Municipality of Rimini and usability test cycles with end users. In this phase, the methodology indicated by the AGID guidelines for testing the usability of a web service was applied for the first […]

Digital Administration in Rome

Approach Our innovative solutions and technologies come together for Roma Capitale, the special authority entrusted with the sole and autonomous administration of the municipal area of the city of Rome, covering 1285.31 km². Managing these dimensions, in an urban context as complex as that of Rome, requires cutting-edge e-government tools capable of facilitating and supporting all of the administration’s activities. Our Municipia team accompanies the authority in its technological evolution and in the continuous improvement of its processes through different projects, contributing substantially to the streamlining, evolution and rationalization of workflows of the entire administrative machine that is municipal Rome. Among the various projects on which we collaborated with Roma [...]

Rome Capital of digital payment

Approach The Municipal administration has been a pioneer in offering digital services to its citizens since the early 2000s. A strategic activity that is more than ever relevant today, given the participation of Rome in the plan for innovation and in the Italian digital agenda, and considering the growing need for a modern, simple and multi-device interaction between citizens and public administration. Solution Our company is at the heart of this service, providing the technologies and skills needed to enable the digitalization of processes related to tax declarations and the digital payment of fees, contributions and fines of different types.

Lighting is going smart in Sicily

Approach Innovating cities to help lower their energy consumption, reduce pollution and free up economic resources, as well as providing the public and businesses with information and innovative services through mobile devices. These are just some of the goals of the projects developed by Municipia for local authorities, which are now giving increasing importance to energy efficiency policies. This commitment requires the installation of a set of physical components and advanced software applications to receive, monitor and manage all information remotely. In addition to building automation and construction safety, the scope of these projects includes improving the efficiency of street lighting, with a view to optimising costs and reducing energy [...]

Milano Metropolitana Safety Project

Approach Milano Metropolitana Safety Project is a multi-annual action plan entrusted to the concession holder (the temporary grouping of companies Safety21 SpA / Municipia SpA) following a European call for tenders. It is one of the largest EU Smart Cities integrated projects aimed at reducing accidents and protecting pedestrians and cyclists. One of the main purposes of the measures laid down in the Milano Metropolitana Safety Project is protecting the territory and the environment, as well as fighting against waste dumping, occurring frequently in rest areas along the highways. Solution To reach these objectives, a number of modern tools, smart apps and IoT apps for road monitoring are being implemented. [...]