AGT International, a public safety and security company, announced that it will be hosting a group of mayors from the National Academy of Mayors of China (NAMC) for a tour of key sites in the Netherlands….
The trip will include lectures from AGT International and AGT Netherlands staff about latest urban and water management solutions, including transformational mobile sensor technology and flood sensors.
The visit is part of an agreement signed between the NAMC and AGT International, which also provides training seminars to NAMC mayors in China, and will include meetings with senior Dutch government officials, including mayors and urban managers.
“As cities continue to expand in China and populations continue to grow, new challenges of city management and limited resources confront authorities and communities alike. AGT International’s solutions allow city managers to predict, prepare for, prevent and manage these challenges,” said Mati Kochavi, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of AGT International.
“The most exciting innovations include the use of mobile phones as mobile sensors to assist with urban management, notably, our Distributed Environmental Sensing solution,” said Mr Kochavi. “This will enable citizens and municipal authorities to monitor environmental conditions in their local communities from a small, self-powered sensor that samples gasses and other airborne particles. The sensor is wirelessly connected to a mobile phone that collects and integrates the data, sending it to a central server for processing, and advanced visualization. The potential for this technology in a country with a population as big, and growing, as China, is immense. It could, for example, provide a constant, detailed picture of the air quality across the country, enabling decisions such as those affecting traffic flows to be made to reduce the impact of pollution on specific communities.”
AGT international’s Urban Management solutions use data from mobile and stationary sensors, social networks, and existing urban databases, to generate a Unified Situation Awareness Picture (USAP) that provides intuitive status visualizations, triggers alerts and recommends actions. The Integrated Water Asset Management platform provides status of all monitored water assets, as well as actionable recommendations, enabling authorities to predict flooding and riverbed breach, simulate flooding, and receive real-time alerts about infrastructure weaknesses.
“By hosting the mayors in the Netherlands we will show how Dutch know-how in water management, combined with the global experience and expertise of AGT International, can provide solutions to deal with the urban and water management challenges experienced in countries such as China,” said Pieter-Christiaan van Oranje-Nassau, CEO of AGT Netherlands. “Our solutions collect real-time sensor input from new and legacy systems to generate a real-time image of an asset, a city or a river. Utilizing advanced prediction and simulation software to generate alerts and recommendations, our solutions provide real-time, actionable intelligence that allow for the management of traffic, urban centers or water assets.”
AGT International recently showcased its water management solutions at International Water Week in the Netherlands.
About AGT International/AGT Netherlands:
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, AGT International employs 2,000 people worldwide, representing more than 30 nationalities. The organization was founded in 2007. AGT International is led by Founder and CEO, Mati Kochavi, who is also Chairman of 3i-MIND.
AGT International is represented in the Netherlands by AGT Netherlands, led by CEO Pieter-Christiaan van Oranje-Nassau.
