Since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis many companies have been sharing their know-how to fight the epidemic.
This is the case of Enel X and Here technologies who have collaborated to produce a joint project, « City Analytics – Mobility Map » that would allow Italian government agencies to interpret the impact of containment in the country.
Who are they?
Enel X is a global company. The company specialises and is the world leader in the development of innovative products and digital solutions in sectors where energy has the greatest potential for transformation: cities, homes, industries and electric mobility.
HERE technologies, created in 1985, is a publisher of route planning and online mapping software. It is also specialized in location data. Here technologies is also a partner with BMW and Audi dealers.
« City Analytics – Mobility Map »
City Analytics – Mobility Map is a Big Data concept for studying the journeys and kilometres travelled by the Italian population on several scales: national – regional – municipal.
These trips are studied through sensor location data from connected vehicles, navigation systems, mobile applications and government agencies.
Once the data has been processed, 4 clues emerge :
- The proportion of daily traffic entering and leaving each region, municipality, and province, by origin and destination.
- The proportion of weekly traffic entering and leaving each region, municipality, and province, by origin and destination.
- The daily percentage change in the number of trips in an area, compared to a weighted average of January 2020 with aggregated views at the regional, provincial and municipal levels.
- The daily percentage change in total kilometers travelled, compared to a weighted average of January 2020, with aggregated views at the regional, provincial and municipal levels.
City Analytics – Mobility Map, an effective solution to the pandemic
Statement by Enel X CEO Francesco Venturini :
« City Analytics-Mobility Map is an innovative tool developed to meet the needs of government agencies in charge of emergency measures (…) Thanks to HERE Technologies, we provide our country with an efficient solution to monitor the evolution of mobility flows in the territory and to plan the recovery phase ».
Statement from Here Technologies CEO Edzard Overbeek :
« HERE Technologies is committed to making its location intelligence technologies available in the fight against the global coronavirus pandemic. With Enel X, we hope to help Italy contain and control the spread of the coronavirus while protecting the privacy of its citizens.
All the data collected allow to interpret and understand the flows within the country but also the impact of containment to fight against COVID-19.
City Analytics – Mobility Map could therefore be a decision support tool for the Italian government during the deconfinement.
City Analytics – Mobility Map is also open to the public for information purposes : https://www.enelx.com/it/it/smart-city/soluzioni/soluzioni-smart-city/city-analytics/dashboard-covid-19.
Sources :
- https://business-review.eu/helpinghands/enel-x-and-here-techmologies-launch-city-analytics-mobility-map-209598
- https://www.enelx.com/en/news-and-media/press/2020/04/enel-x-and-here-technologies-launch-city-analytics–mobility-map-to-support-government-agencies-and-the-civil-protection-department-in-response-to-the-covid-19-emergency
- https://telematicsnews.info/2020/04/14/enel-x-and-here-technologies-to-launch-city-analytics-mobility-map-solution-to-map-mobility-flow-across-italy/
- https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/04/14/2015374/0/en/Enel-X-and-HERE-Technologies-to-map-mobility-flows-across-Italy.html
- https://www.enelx.com/it/it/smart-city/soluzioni/soluzioni-smart-city/city-analytics/dashboard-covid-19.