2020 Smart Cities Virtual Market Entry Programme: Selected Nordic Companies
This year, the Nordic Innovation House Singapore (NIH-SG) theme on SMART CITIES aims to support and provide selected Nordic companies with an opportunity to expand their foothold in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Our three-phase immersive virtual market entry programme involves partnering with Singapore’s largest smart district 2023 – Punggol Digital District (PDD) major Singapore public and private innovation stakeholders. Focusing on fostering collaboration and building an economic digital ecosystem for work, live, and play. The selected Nordic companies will be addressing multiple problem statements gathered from the participating stakeholders. Furthermore, adopting and unifying #nordicmade digital solutions to transform the business and urban landscape of Singapore.
In Phase 1, we have organised two stakeholder introduction webinar sessions for Nordic companies to understand the challenges and business opportunities in the Asian landscape.
11 Jun: Introduction to JTC Corporation, ST Engineering and Punggol Digital Districts
→ Recorded Webinar: https://youtu.be/OrUEv5ey9j4
26 Aug: Introduction to ADB Ventures and UNDP Global Centre Singapore
→ Recorded Webinar: https://youtu.be/sKaIcBNekUw
In Phase 2, we will onboard the selected Nordic companies with preparation webinars to equip them with a better understanding of the problem statements and backgrounds of each stakeholder. Discuss the market positioning to help elevate their pitch.
In Phase 3, the actual virtual two-week programme (12.10 - 23.10) will enable the selected companies to engage in a series of group showcases, to attend an online investor matchmaking event, and to acquire 1-to-1 business matchmaking sessions with the stakeholders upon request.
This programme is jointly organised by NIH-SG and its core partners Business Sweden, Innovation Norway, Embassy of Finland, and Promote Iceland – sharing the mission to bridge Smart Cities-related delegations.
→ View Smart Cities Virtual Market Entry Programme - Singapore 2020 Deck
Selected Nordic Companies
GROUP 1: ICT & IOT (incl. ICT/IoT infra/platforms and/or sensors)
BaseN Corporation
BaseN's main offering is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) smart city technology that allows different vendors and OEMs to connect and integrate their solutions and user interfaces, without additional investment to foster compatibility among systems. BaseN acts like an umbrella system helping different solutions and technologies to communicate with each other. Among references, we have Fortum, Nokia, ABB, Schneider Electric, Deutsche Telecom, etc.
→ Website: https://www.basen.net/
Connected Finland
Connected Finland develops and manufactures low power, ultra low cost Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for smart buildings and facility management, utilising the global, seamless Sigfox 0G technology. Our specialities are indoor air quality, energy and temperature monitoring and efficiency, and office and work spaces management with smart IoT sensors.
→ Website: https://www.connectedfinland.fi/en/
Nornir
Nornir is a deep tech company creating new networking tools for developers – to help them make Smart City solutions driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Nornir's invention Synx Hive solves cross domain (silo) communication in Smart Cities. Synx Hive combines all wireless technologies and can be used to distribute artificial Intelligence (AI) in the network for faster and more reliable edge processing. The new technology offers several advantages compared to current industrial standards:
· Reduce maintenance cost by more than 90%
· Reduce development cost by more than 90%
· Reduce energy consumption in networks by 50% or more ·
Offer data monetization trade in the horizontal market
→ Website: http://www.nornir.no
Haltian
Haltian is a global IoT and product development company from Oulu, Finland. Haltian has been providing companies with world-class IoT solutions and engineering services since 2012. Thingsee, the proven IoT technology platform developed by Haltian, enables rapid IoT launches for mass-scale deployments. Haltian has been heralded by research leader Gartner to be a Cool Vendor for its IoT services, and it became AWS IoT competency certified platform partner in 2019.
→ Website: https://haltian.com/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/Edz5Sq2BZZs
eCiceron
Security by trust and applications with experience and knowledge. eCiceron is your missing team player. eCiceron provides secure digital communications and the ability in real time to find misuse and intrusion. eCMesh – A highly sophisticated Wireless Fiber networking platform that resembles in functionality of a 4 or 5G mobile network fiber ISP’s as a “core network”. Based on standard WiFi radio and hardware, but software inside is eCMesh proprietary operating system that makes the mesh work
→ Website: http://www.eciceron.com/ & http://www.ecmesh.net/
SmartWatcher
SmartWatcher Oy is a company founded in 2016. It provides high-quality indoor air quality monitoring in real-time to B2B customers worldwide. Our SmartSensor utilises state of the art sensors and results are shown in analytical cloud-based service.
→ Website: http://www.smartwatcher.fi/
Disruptive Technologies
Disruptive Technologies is the developer of the world’s smallest commercial-grade wireless sensors and a rapidly growing innovator in the IoT market. The Internet-of-Things promised a self-sufficient world of interconnectedness, but the technology was expensive, cumbersome and limited. It also came with a range of new privacy and security concerns, hindering adoption. In 2013, we saw this as an opportunity for a major constructive disruption. We created a system of small, efficient, powerful and adaptable sensors to reach an ever greater number of operational components. We also made data encryption a core priority.
→ Website: http://www.disruptive-technologies.com/
→ Video: https://vimeo.com/322750506
GROUP 2: ENGAGE & MANAGE (incl. User/citizen/facilities, engagement/forecasting/management)
Chaos Architects
CHAOS solution provides a better understanding of cities’ complexity in an easy and intuitive map-based insight dashboard. Our AI-powered urban insights and forecasts enable fact-based decision-making for urban planning development, which leads to the creation of more liveable cities around the world. By integrating urban databases (obtained through open and licensed sources), with the data that people produce in their living environment (engagement, movements, behaviour, among others), CHAOS produces trademarked indexes from city to neighbourhood level (macro to micro level). Continuously processing urban data points, we ensure the creation of accurate city forecasts through artificial intelligence and machine learning models.
→ Website: https://chaosarchitects.com/
Citynomadi
Ask Us Where To Go: Citynomadi visualises operations on maps for any purpose! Citynomadi has identified the market demand widely and created three business segments: (1) City for smart city approach: monitoring, IoT, tracking, big data, air quality, noise, crowds, urban cultivation, and tourism (2) Building: security, guiding, wayfinding, employees training, space economy, and real estate management (3) Forest: environment, sustainability, circular economy, crowdsourcing, agriculture, and the alternative way of utilising the green environment. In the City business segment, we are interested in real estate owners and building industry as the business partners, also we have identified that we could offer value-added for the tourism industry. Because Citynomadi Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is multilingual and maps are global. This will be an easy, quick, and reliable way of creating an interactive map interface for a number of different users.
→ Website: https://www.citynomadi.com/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/k-OJWm004CA
Locia Solutions
Locia is a Finnish growth stage startup creating UrbanTech solutions. Locia develops new types of data-driven urban planning tools enabling (1) a real-time status awareness and (2) strategic foresight on managing service building infrastructure and service capacity. Its main product is a Software-as-a-Service tool for B2G and B2B -clients. The product is called CapaCity, which increases the ability for tactical network adaptation in case of sudden (e.g. fast-moving epidemics or refugee crises) or longer-term urban transitions (e.g. ageing, urbanisation). The benefits are seen in better fact-based for investment decisions and hence significant savings potential for the client. Besides improving anticipatory planning and budgeting, the tool is also usable for informing elected officials and citizens e.g. on planned building investments. Our work paves the way for a systemic change towards capacity-optimised, demand-driven, efficient, and resource-wise urban service ecosystems (in operational segments such as schools, daycare, health/elderly care).
→ Website: https://www.locia.fi/
Mapita
Mapita Ltd. owns and develops Maptionnaire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) service. MAPTIONNAIRE - Community Engagement Platform is a modular online platform with map-based engagement at its core. Maptionnaire enables the creation of community engagement activities, systematic and comprehensive data collection, analysis and reporting of citizens’ views across sectors, such as urban planning, real-estate, education, or healthcare. The main module includes map-based questionnaires, polls, voting tools, surveys, picture-based surveys, and more conventional survey elements, as well as analysis tools and data management functionalities. Maptionnaire offers a complete engagement process under one platform. Other modules include: Automated PDF Creator, Real-time Feedback Map, Gamified Decision Making, 3D Collaboration, Reporting Dashboard, and Website Builder.
→ Website: https://maptionnaire.com/
→ Video: https://youtu.be/JiK_mi0T1ik
Spacent
Spacent is a Finnish prop-tech company specialised in enabling more effective space resource offering. Spacent has had successful projects and proven results with corporate and institutional clients such as Finnish State Agencies, Canadian Government, EDF (France), Nike and Microsoft – and several international building owners and operators. Spacent provides end-to-end capabilities for the distributed workplace (plan - deploy - use - manage). Traditional square meter/feet thinking has caused underutilized buildings. Spacent platform with hour-conversion algorithm enables more efficient use and better delivery of space resources. This optimization offers building owners higher income and building users lower occupancy costs.
Distributed model concepts have been developed by the Spacent team in various state and privately funded research projects at Aalto University, MIT and Tongji University since 2010. Spacent is the commercialisation of the R&D and was founded in 2019
→ Website: https://www.spacent.com/
GROUP 3: CONSTRUCTION (incl. Processes, BIM, Digital Twins)
Carina Solutions
Carina Solutions Ltd (brand name Carinafour) is the leading-edge company in developing and operating supply chain processes for construction industries. Carina Solutions has developed CALS (Carina Assembly and Logistics System) to manage material flows effortlessly with a special focus on international housing construction. Carina Solutions offers consultation, services and IT platforms to manage the digital supply chain, material flow and related processes to improve productivity.
→ Website: http://www.c4.fi/en/
Vektorio
Vektorio develops 3D software solutions for demanding customer needs. We specialise in data management and 3D graphics for construction projects. We have established our place in the industry and have over 10 years of experience in the industry. Vektor Model Viewer can be used to visualise buildings, complicated infrastructure projects and city-wide masterplans before and after handover. Our application provides a unified 3D view over maps, ground surfaces, roads, rails, waterways, bridges, sewers, buildings and any other visual data relevant to the managing of projects. It works on all modern browsers and mobile phones without any extra plugins or software installations, providing performant and easy to use access to the BIM data for all stakeholders.
→ Website: https://www.vektor.io
→ Video: https://youtu.be/68vE5JnRKyM
GROUP 4: OTHERS
CS Control Software
CS Control Software Oy specialises in automation solutions offering high quality know-how for several industries including power generation industry, marine control systems, smart city solutions and programmable logic controllers for drilling aggregates. We can provide AI solutions to optimise traffic flow and lightning levels on the street. The system is suitable also to optimise how the customers are moving inside terminals or shopping malls. Our toolkit consists of all the latest technology from AR/VR to industrial automation.
→ Website: https://controlsoftware.eu/
→ Video: https://tinyurl.com/ControlSoftware
Crayon IoT
Crayon IoT is owned by Crayon Group. Founded in 2017 focusing on IoT, namely end to end supplying projects in various industries, with our bespoke connectivity and communication technology covering all relevant standards including a unique global network service. Our global organisation operates out of competence hubs in Oslo, Vienna, Singapore, Dubai and Dallas with skills and knowledge evolved from 18 years of consulting and collaboration with major industry players including Microsoft, Amazon, IBM / Red Hat, Oracle, Google etc. Crayon IoT goes to market with partners implementing our Accelerated partner development program and together with partners we execute projects with a holistic approach and practical knowledge. Our IoT offerings are also supported by Crayon's AI/ML competence with more than 100 successfully delivered projects globally.
→ Website: http://www.crayon.com/
FINBIN Lehtovuori Oy (represented by Sagacity Environment Singapore-Finland)
Solar Powered Intelligent Smart Bins For Clean Environment Friendly, Low Cost With Maintenance - Integrates with Smart City Developments. Finnish Innovation - 'Finbin' (Lehtovuori Oy Parent Company, Finland Since 1945), represented by Sagacity Environment Singapore-Finland, Nordic Innovation House & Waste-To-Value Centre). Finbin offers futuristic smart waste bin technologies and solutions with Finbin cloud tracking and management technology open with integration and ready add on products. Patented Solar powered outdoor/indoor modules offer output power grid and even advertisement platform on side panels. Lowers maintenance costs over 90% and carbon footprint decreased over 90%. Smart actual fill level data, JIT (Just-in-Time) Emptying, Auto Compacting, cost effectiveness and best next generation waste solution for Smart cities. Lehtovuori via Sagacity offers futuristic Cleantech innovative solutions. Includes innovations like Antiviral Pods (UVC) and solutions. www.sagacityenvironment.com (Partner of www.WVcentre.com)
→ Website: https://www.finbin.fi/ (c/o: https://sagacityenvironment.com/)
→ Video: https://youtu.be/7CtG3HWWhu0