Today, one of Estonia's leading IT companies, Datel, introduced its new e-service. Targeted at the global market, Sille allows users to monitor the shifts and subsidence of infrastructure everywhere in the world.
The early warning system uses data from the European Union's satellites and can detect the shifts and subsidence of infrastructure such as bridges, pipelines, port areas, mines and large buildings with a precision of up to 1 mm.
This innovative service helps to prevent accidents caused by deterioration of infrastructure and thus contributes to the general safety of society.
According to the Chairman of the Management Board of Datel, Urmas Kõlli, Sille will make the monitoring of technical conditions of infrastructure accessible and financially feasible even for medium-sized companies and organisations. "Currently, this key service is only available to global infrastructure enterprises and national defence and security organisations. Our new e-service Sille will help far smaller companies to keep an eye on their assets in a convenient manner," Kõlli explained.
Datel's Director of Software Development and Technology, Agu Leinfeld, believes that the new service will do great on the international market. "From the very beginning, Sille was developed with the global market in mind and it can be implemented instantly anywhere in the world. At the beginning of April, we entered into our first use agreement with the U.S. state of Maryland for the monitoring of several dozen large objects. Many other infrastructure owners in Estonia, the U.S. and Europe have shown great interest in it, too. We are hoping to increase Sille's sales into the seven-digit range in the coming years," Leinfeld said when discussing the great potential of the new service.
One of the benefits of this new service is that clients can start using it immediately. With Sille, there is no need to interconnect information systems, manage data or perform any other resource-heavy activities online services usually require. With the help of the Earth's long-range observation satellite Sentinel-1, Sille can monitor large infrastructure anywhere on the planet. Datel has an R&D cooperation agreement with the European Space Agency and this has contributed greatly to the development of Sille. "Correct interpretation of information collected from space is extremely research-intensive. In order to achieve highly reliable results, we cooperated with universities from several continents. We have included scientists from both the Tallinn University of Technology and the University of Tartu in our project," Leinfeld said.
Extensive experience in developing map applications and spatial data analysis as well as visualisation in both Estonia and elsewhere in the world has been invaluable to Datel's team when developing Sille. The development of the innovative early warning system has been an enormous undertaking for Datel and its partners, spanning several years. In total, the team invested more than 20,000 hours in the project.
According to Madis Võõras, the Head of the Estonian Space Office (under Enterprise Estonia), Datel's new service is a good example of technological innovation based on new value chains. "The service uses open data from the satellites of the European Union's Earth remote sensing programme, Copernicus. It involves research-intensive signal and data processing and is aimed at the global market," Võõras said. "The European Space Agency has made a remarkable contribution to the development activities of our enterprises in the last few years. The ESA has the right to use the innovative new services created under the cooperation contracts, but the ownership and opportunity to use them for commercial purposes remain with the Estonian company. I’m convinced Datel's new early warning system for infrastructure has great potential on the global market," he added.
More information about the new product can be found at https://www.sille.space
AS Datel is one of the oldest and largest Estonian-owned IT enterprises. It currently employs approximately 100 people. The company's strength lies in its vast experience in the field of information system and software development, as well as that of IT hardware and presentation technology. Clients are offered end-to-end solutions – from the purchase of the equipment to software hosting. During its 26 years of operation, Datel has made life easier and simpler for many Estonians by creating numerous Estonian e-state services. In 2013, Datel established a subsidiary in the U.S. In 2016, Datel and its subsidiary Ovela LLC created a software solution for the White House initiative ‘Opportunity Project’, which enables local authorities in the U.S. to develop local life.
Press release, 17.04.2018
For further information, please contact:
Urmas Kõlli
Chairman of the Board
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Agu Leinfeld
Director of Software Development and Technology
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See also: https://e-estonia.com/how-to-make-infrastructures-safer-data/
http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/good_for_business/?doc=139355