2021 Smart & Sustainable Cities Virtual Market Entry Programme: Selected Nordic Companies
This year, the Nordic Innovation House Singapore (NIH-SG) theme on Smart & Sustainable Cities aims to support and provide Nordic companies with an opportunity to expand their foothold in Singapore and Southeast Asia. The three-phase programme involves partnering with Singapore and Southeast Asia key partners managing and seeking solutions in the public and private healthcare sector.
Nordic countries are prominent forerunners in the smart and sustainable sector; evidently with consistent top rankings in WEF Energy Transition Index, Global Sustainable Competitiveness, Yale Environmental Performance Index, and MTI The Green Future Index. Through co-creation and co-development opportunities, the Nordics strong technologies in pushing green buildings, energy efficiency, climate adaption, low carbon footprints and circular solutions can enable Singapore to reach its goals in the Singapore Green Building Masterplan and Singapore Green Plan 2030 - a green movement to advance the nation’s agenda on sustainable development and actions to tackle climate change.
This programme aims to connect the selected Nordic companies to address multiple problem statement areas through a series of showcasing opportunities, and tailored 1-to-1 business matchmaking sessions. Furthermore, adopting and unifying #nordicmade digital solutions to transform the healthcare industry.
Jointly organised by Nordic Innovation House Singapore and Nordic Partners at the Embassy of Finland, Innovation Norway, Business Sweden, Business Iceland, and the Embassy of Denmark in Singapore.
Check out the 11 selected Smart & Sustainable Cities Companies below or the Companies Profile Deck (with 5-min pitch video) here!
2021 Selected Smart & Sustainable Cities Companies
Aneo Software | Finland
Website: https://www.aneo.fi/
ANEO Software Oy is a privately owned limited software company registered in Finland. We are specialized in enterprise asset management and offer professional services for maintenance management. We have developed the ANEO Zero CMMS (a cloud-based maintenance management system) based on our customers' needs and requirements. Our customers use their smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices as well as laptop and desktop computers to access the system and use it as a software service via a data network (cloud service). We want to help you keep your valuable assets in good working order and your operations up and running 24/7.
ANEO Zero CMMS is a cloud-based maintenance management system designed and developed for maintenance to help keep the property, plant, and equipment in good working order and to reduce the unplanned maintenance downtime to zero.
• Zero makes managing preventive maintenance, repairs, and overhauls easier and responding to machine and equipment failures faster so that you can save your time and money for things that are more important to you!
• Zero supports the implementation of corrective, preventive and condition-based maintenance strategies as well as predictive maintenance strategies when integrated with other systems, which collect, store and analyze machine data and translate the results to prescriptive work orders.
• Zero is a stand-alone system including functionalities for asset management, service request and work order management, spare parts and inventory management and purchase management. Zero can be integrated with enterprise resource planning systems and other systems to exchange data and keep data in sync.
ARTASFin | Finland
Website: https://artasfin.fi/en/
Company Video: https://youtu.be/-Q1BtGExqaM
ARTASFin is the house of state-of-the-art solutions in environmental and sustainable technologies. We design, produce and implement. Water, waste, air and bioenergy solutions. Our technologies solve problems dealing with;Access to clean water for drinking in rural and urban settings
Water treatment for specific industrial use
Waste water reuse and recycling
Waste-water and sludge disposal
Organic waste management
Waste gas treatment and
Renewable energy from waste
We deliver completely integrated and sustainable solutions for decentralized and stand-alone locations. Our products include:
Reverse osmosis (RO) unit
Ultrafiltration system
Mobile ultra-pure water treatment plant
Activated sludge based sewage treatment system
Membrane bioreactor based biological waste-water treatment system integrated with solar panels
Chemical waste water treatment system
Chemical and biological desulphurization and flue gas treatment system
Compact and modular biogas system
Entos | Finland
Website: http://www.entos.fi/
Company Video: https://youtu.be/3T1uUYehH_M
Entos make buildings breathe. We transform buildings to understand the rhythm of life. Life these days doesn’t follow a schedule, and neither should ventilation. Entos specializes in improving the energy efficiency and indoor climates of apartment and commercial buildings by intelligent ventilation optimization.
SENSER, the intelligent ventilation optimization solution by Entos is easy to install on virtually any rooftop fan or HVAC unit. The unit measures up to 7 values from the air exiting the building and adjusts the ventilation accordingly. The measured values are also sent wireless to the cloud platform for graphical visualizations. The platform offers a two-way data stream enabling unit software and feature updates. REST APIs are available for third-party data export/unit control.
Haltian | Finland
Website: https://haltian.com/
Company Video: https://youtu.be/nDsQXQ2Oeu4
Founded in September 2012, Haltian started to develop its own IoT products which later became the Thingsee IoT sensor solution. In 2020, Haltian acquired one of its customers, Empathic Building software solution, and it became a part of Haltian key offering. We now have several large, global IoT and smart building customers and have delivered over a hundred product design projects to startups all over the world.
Our customers deploy Empathic Building software solutions to offer a better employee experience in the office as well as provide data-driven insights for occupancy monitoring, for example. Companies implementing activity-based working in their offices need solutions like Empathic Building to enable employees to find and book available meeting rooms and desks, help them find colleagues and assets as well as choose a suitable work location in the office. Haltian’s Thingsee IoT sensor solution consists of sensors, gateways, cellular connectivity and cloud solution for device lifecycle customers. Sensors are small battery-powered devices, that collect temperature, indoor air quality and occupancy data, for example. Our customers are typically software solution providers who integrate with our sensor data to provide a better solution for their own clients. Thingsee IoT solution is scalable, secure and works out-of-box anywhere in the World.
Empathic Building Video: https://youtu.be/LZjBOApY54k
Helvar | Finland
Website: https://www.helvar.com/
Company Video: https://youtu.be/oGs8jv41f8U
At Helvar we create intelligent and energy-saving lighting solutions. Intelligent lighting is essential to the wellbeing of occupants within the building and helps you to achieve your sustainability targets.
We pride ourselves on being lighting experts - you can find our solutions in all sorts of places - offices, schools, hotels, hospitals, airports among many others. Helvar lighting control solutions help to create smart environments built for the future whilst interacting with other systems in the smart building. With a wide range of lighting control solutions and luminaire components, we allow for open and flexible solutions that suit your specific needs.Wired Solutions: Helvar designs and manufactures lighting solutions using the latest technology to help buildings reduce energy and improve the wellbeing of the occupants. Helvar’s product range includes Application Controllers, Dimmers, Sensors, Input devices, Gateways and Luminaire components, which can be used to tailor a solution depending on the application and requirement regardless of the building type.
Wireless & Standalone Solutions: Helvar’s portfolio also consists of state-of-the-art self-learning wireless solutions and simple plug and play solutions for standalone applications.
Digital Services: Helvar’s digital services platform, Helvar Insights, provides remote monitoring and maintenance as well as occupancy services. Helvar Insights support buildings throughout their entire life cycle. It not only increases building performance, but it also helps to improve the occupant’s wellbeing.
Institute for Energy Technology / My Digital City | Norway
Website: https://ife.no/en/
Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) conducts research for a better future. Since 1948, we have been a frontrunner in international energy research. IFE is organized in three divisions: Research and Development (R&D), Radiopharmacy and Nuclear Technology. The research sector Digital Systems will represent IFE and My Digital City in Singapore, but will also coordinate the activity with IFEs other research sectors.
The digitalisation of society sees the emergence of a new era and research within digitalisation is one of IFE’s strategic focus areas. At the beginning of the 1960s, we began using digital technology to solve industry and defence challenges. But it is only in recent years that building blocks such as processing power, algorithms and technology platforms have come so far that we can really exploit the potential of digitalisation. IFE has broad digital expertise and advanced labs and contributes to the digital transition within smart cities, the energy system, industry & space, and transportation. Our core digital transition capabilities are human factors, applied empirical research, organisational physiology, data science, artificial intelligence, advanced modelling, robotics, cyber security & risk management, interaction with complex data and spatial computing.
MeshWorks Wireless | Finland
Website: https://www.meshworkswireless.com/
Company Video: https://youtu.be/V6PIkD_Tj30
Meshworks Wireless works with a wide range of industries e.g. Pharma, Facility Management and Transportation on five continents. Our trailblazing journey started in 2007 during the early steps of the IoT industry. We provide turnkey IoT solutions including the planning of the service and providing devices and services for the customers. Turnkey IoT-solution: FeelPlace3D is a world-leading Digital Twin visualization tool for a smart building. The visually impressive FeelPlace3D model works with a web browser and can be used to gather and analyze IoT data.
From traditional technical buildings into Smart Buildings with FeelPlace 3D Digital Twin implementation. With FeelPlace3D Digital Twin a building can be managed with a visually impressive building management tool that works on a web browser. Wireless IoT sensors work as the backbone of FeelPlace3D Digital Twin. IoT sensors monitor the building from the construction phase through the lifespan of the building. Sensor data is transformed with the means of AI to a highly usable management tool with an immersive UI. Additional 3rd party-building data can easily be incorporated and visualized in the FeelPlace3D Digital Twin UI via the API. Utilizing FeelPlace3D Digital Twin ultimately saves time, management costs and elevates the usage of the building to a higher quality level.
Sensative | Sweden
Website: http://www.sensative.com/
Sensative AB is a technology company that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT) for cities and commercial property markets, empowering organizations with smart technology and advancing digitalisation. Sensative has two business areas; Yggio, the leading DiMS (Digitalization Infrastructure Management System) platform, and sensors in the iconic Strips form factor.
Yggio, designed to be an industry standard for any domain, simplifies digitalization, enabling customers to develop comprehensive IoT operations that leverage data collection to prioritize organizational efficiency, data ownership, scalability, and performance. Many cities, real estate, and utility companies have selected Yggio for connecting and digitizing their networks, operations, and properties. Yggio allows them to choose technologies that integrate with their existing technologies to optimize operations, as well as digitalize internal processes, such as sustainability reporting, maintenance planning, and booking systems. Without Yggio, they stand a chance of missing out on 40%-60% of the value of IoT. Strips is our unique range of wireless LoRaWAN & Z-Wave sensors for smart buildings, homes, and offices, with a highly discreet product design, ten years of battery life, and simple installation.
SmartWatcher | Finland
Website: https://www.smartwatcher.fi/
SmartWatcher is an IoT company that is providing high quality and real-time indoor air quality monitoring to global customers since 2016. Our technology consists of a set of state of the art sensors in one compact package and our own developed analytical and easy to use dashboard. We are working closely with Aalto University and are able to utilize the latest research results to our customer’s benefit. As an example, our latest r&d will focus strongly on aerosol monitoring.
We offer to SEA customers our long expertise in IAQ monitoring. The sensors we use are of high quality and we can guarantee that the monitored results are accurate. This means that you will not take any unnecessary actions. With our sensors, you can follow up in real-time temperature, relative humidity, different sizes of fine particles, the level of CO2 and CO, formaldehyde, total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) and ozone. With our own developed dashboard, you can easily see the results, program alarms and create reports. The dashboard also has analytical tools for you to study and compare results as an example in different locations and premises.
Spacehub | Finland
Website: https://getspacehub.com/
Company Video: https://youtu.be/t8LF58lo0XU
Spacehub is an Uber for meetings and workspaces. Find, reserve and unlock space of your choice with one mobile app. Pay only for the time you use. Sound isolated, 1-4 person meeting workspaces are fully automated and operated by Spacehub team remotely. Spacehub brings professional private workspaces at cities’ key locations, next to best services. Spacehubs are modular, fully mobile spaces that can be moved on wheels when relocation inside a venue is required. Spacehub is a platform that allows short term space rental services. Spacehub operates spaces and provides an easy way for real estate owners and operators to create professional workspaces in any venue even without CAPEX costs.
For enterprise customers, Spacehub can give one view for employees to book spaces from company own meetings and workspaces that are Office 365 or Google Workspace as well as on-demand spaces available in Spacehub network. This gives companies a full hybrid workspace solution for employees and allows scaling business no matter where and how many employees the company has. Full set of analytics for how your employees are using your own office space as well as how flex spaces are used (when, where, which team). Spacehub helps you to build your future hybrid workplace strategy based on continuous utilisation data and to optimise your office offering every step of the way.
Xortec | Finland
Website: http://xortec.fi/en/
Main-IoT Website: https://www.main-iot.com/
Company Video: https://youtu.be/BHHQDAfGh5c
Xortec Oy, based 1993, is a pioneer of IoT. For us, it means listening to our customers, continuous development and applying the latest and most advanced technology in our products. We were among the first in Finland to use IoT technology to improve people’s lives and enhance the productivity of business functions. Our aim is to be one of the major players in 0G-world by offering the highest quality products, for the lowest cost. Our design choices are based, before anything, on quality, reliability and environmental friendliness. All Main-IoT by Xortec products is designed and manufactured in Finland. We are in the data selling business. We sell or lease IoT devices, with or without a subscription. We refine data and turn it into information by doing AI-data analysis and we license platforms. As an electronics manufacturing and designing company, we do everything ourselves, meaning that everything can be customized and new ideas can be turned into products quickly.
Examples of problems we are solving:Monitoring of Fan Cooling Units (FCU), pilot project in Singapore
Air quality monitoring, water leaks detection and refrigeration units monitoring in apartments
Space utilization monitoring by using air quality measurements in classrooms and offices
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