The Kometa Project is funded by the INNOLABS Call (Approved with the Executive Act No. 144/13 of 08/02/2017 published on BURP No. 27 of 02/03/2017, amended and supplemented by AD No. 144/37 of 28 / 03/2017).
The call is aimed at financing pilot projects to experiment with innovative solutions, in order to contribute to the promotion of new markets for innovation.
It involves the three main territorial reference systems of SmartPuglia 2020:
The project refers to an aggregation of type 2 "Knowledge Community" in the Environment, Security and Territorial Protection domain as defined by the Call - with the involvement of End Users who institutionally perform the function of producing, managing and exchanging knowledge and innovation, with particular attention to the issue of the re-use of documents and public data "open data".
The project is part of the Social Challenge "Cities and Sustainable Territories" as it aims to guarantee the development of integrated approaches for the sustainable management of natural resources, in particular water, and concerns the thematic domain "I. Environment, Security and Territorial Protection ".
The project is promoted by three SMEs (MTM Project Unipersonale - leader, Cinemagica srl, Hevolus srl), a Large Enterprise (Acquedotto Pugliese spa) and a Research Organization (University of Bari - Department of Computer Science).
The Research Organization also plays the role of Research Laboratory, as it is registered in the appropriate Living Lab Partner Catalog with X6M2T51 code through the Knowledge Discovery and Data Engineering Laboratory (KDDE).
The virtual and immersive reality for the training of the personnel in charge of the maintenance of the water distribution and purification plants is at the center of an ambitious project - financed by the regional tender Innolabs, (POR Puglia FESR ESF 2014-2020 - Sub-Action 1.4 .B), promoted by three SMEs (MTM Project srl, leader, Cinemagica srl, Hevolus srl), AIP, Acquedotto Pugliese, University of Bari / Department of computer science - which continues its completion phases.
The objective is to speed up analysis times and restore faults, allowing considerable savings and an increase in the functionality and quality of the management of the regional Integrated Water Service.
To date it is possible to trace a flattering result concerning the satisfaction rating of those who have tried the Kometa prototype which is equal to 98%!
Kometa, after being presented in Bari at the headquarters of Acquedotto Pugliese, will see in the coming weeks other educational stages that will take place in the cities whose mayors make up the Executive of the Autorità Idrica Pugliese.
Autorità Idrica Pugliese (AIP)
Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” – Dipartimento di Informatica