Speakers Bio & Abstract
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SITECO Informatica srl
Italy
BiographyIng. Augusto Burchi graduated in Civil Engineer at the University of Bologna and has always been working in the Information Technology and in the Geomatics field. In 1996 he founded SITECO Informatica. Since then he have always been working as the company technical and marketing manager, mainly dealing with Road Asset Management (RAMS) and Pavement Management Systems (PMS). His team carried out advanced researches in collaboration with the best known Italian Universities (Bologna, Parma, Torino, Milano, Roma). In the past 10 years Siteco became a market leader in the Laser Mobile Mapping sector by providing its technology worldwide, to top Surveying and Engineering Companies, with state-of-the-art technology.Abstract Role of disruptive Technologies in enabling smart citiesThe digital model and the accurate mapping of the urban environment is a key issue for any smart city application. Laser Mapping Systems are giving a dramatic improve to the fast survey of the cities. Siteco and Faro are operating in this field from 2007 with the production of high technology equipment and software, already applied to a wide number of projects.