HOPU has started its experience in Lanzadera, Juan Roig’s accelerator that has selected the best companies for their innovative potential.
This accelerator program promoted by Juan Roig, director of Mercadona, welcomes this year 130 new companies with innovative proposals in different fields such as fashion, finance, health, video games or marketing, among others, with innovative products and services for the market. There are already 200 of them currently located in its offices in Valencia, in the Marina de Empresas building.
As a young company working on innovation issues related to Smart City and Smart Destination, HOPU is using the full potential of this acceleration programme to improve its processes and management. During 8 months, the HOPU team is receiving training focused on different relevant areas such as finance, marketing, communication, team management, innovation and investment. Thanks to the group of companies that were already part of this project in the previous edition and to highly relevant mentors from companies such as Mercadona, training is being obtained from the practice, where real situations and experiences in the business field are explained, allowing more recent companies to learn first-hand how to deal with them.
Smart Cities applications and sensors for air quality and noise monitoring
Our objective at Lanzadera is to improve in business and management aspects but at the same time, to take our products and services to their maximum potential, expanding to new horizons and markets. Already with a wide impact in the national territory in the Smart Cities market, we seek to expand our European relevance by entering countries such as Germany and Belgium.
At HOPU we design innovative solutions for urban environments, using the potential of data, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) to contribute to sustainable urban design. To this end, we develop solutions for monitoring and understanding the environmental state of the city according to its specific characteristics, the management team and the citizens of each territory. With a team of 27 people, we are focused on adapting technology to solutions that really make sense in the market.
Currently, cities need quality data and performance indicators to be able to access different European grants EDUSIS, FEDER, UIAs, CEF or the Innovation Fund, which reserves 60% of the budget for compliance with the KPIs indicated in the project. This is where HOPU has set its sights, collecting, analysing and visualising large amounts of data from all kinds of sources such as mobility, public transport, social data, utilities, etc. to provide a single indicator that facilitates understanding of the environmental state of the city and the impact of the different actions carried out. In turn, in our catalogue we offer IoT devices for monitoring parameters such as air quality, noise, weather and the influx of people (nearby device scanning to detect cell phone nearby), allowing cities to collect quality data, in real-time and in the context of the territory.
HOPU’s participation has been under the umbrella and support of Acciona I´mnovation (Acciona innovation platform) a global company with a business model built around sustainability, responding to global challenges such as global warming, overpopulation and water scarcity with renewable energy, infrastructure, management and water treatment solutions. Acciona is one of the companies within the Lanzadera ecosystem that is seeking support from companies for the development of Smart Cities and Smart Destinations for its Smart Cities Skill Center. HOPU is contributing to the sustainable objectives of Smart Cities directed towards the European Green Deal.
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