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Robotics at the service of humankind

Thanks to robotics and artificial intelligence we can make our flows more efficient and develop the full potential of individuals and their intellectual capacities. With our Robotic & Intelligent Process Automation platform we have streamlined and seven processes and made them more reliable: find out which ones.

Will the future belong to machines? That is the main question that arises when dealing with issues such as Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Two disciplines that have literally revolutionized the way we do our business, radically changing its processes.

Predicting the future is not up to us. However, we are certain of one thing: automation processes are the key to increasing the value of the people who work for the Hera Group. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, in fact, have enabled us to automate all the repetitive and low value-added business processes. By doing so, we can let people have more time for more qualifying activities and enhance their intellectual capacity on processes that generate more value for the company. 

Thanks to the Robotic & Intelligent Process Automation platform, a project that is part of our Utilities 4.0 plan, we have obtained significant results, speeding up the process and making the operations more reliable in the 7 processes we have started in recent years: the management of the suppliers' DURC (Unified Certificate of Social Security Payments Compliance), the communications between seller and energy distributors, the seller's Order Entry process, the expense reports, the service notices related to waste management services, the work orders to replace meters in the networks and, lastly, the virtual assistant for planning meetings and booking meeting rooms.

By introducing dashboards that monitor automated activities, we can act promptly on business processes, continually optimizing productivity and efficiency. The aim is to extend the scope of automated processes to new areas thanks to their continuous technological evolution, for example, with tools such as semantic text interpretation engines and optical character recognition (OCR) systems. 

The challenge to make our processes smarter and smarter is just beginning.

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18/08/2021

Hera to hunt down water leaks with cosmic rays

Hera to hunt down water leaks with cosmic rays brunetti_maurizia_thumbnail.png First satellite leak detection, and now cosmic rays. To detect water leaks in the systems, Hera again turns to “space” technology, already used in the probe that circles around the red planet to detect water on Mars. Cosmic rays are explained to us by Maurizia Brunetti, Manager of Mains Water Coordination at Hera Spa: “These are harmless particles, neutrons, that come from space and to which our planet is continually exposed. They also interact with hydrogen, which slows down their movement. Since the water molecule is composed of hydrogen in two atoms out of three, whenthe neutrons meet the water, they are blocked and in some way hindered in their free movement. Detection of these anomalies in neutron behaviour indicates a water leak”. Compared with other technologies used, what are the biggest benefits that this brings to leak detection? It surely allows us to check a much greater number of networks than traditional methods, precisely because it can travel on any mobile transport it is assembled on,” concludes Maurizia Brunetti. “Considering that in Emilia-Romagna, we have a water supply network of 27,000 kilometres, if the results should prove really positive, that would certainly be a significant step forward. We are currently trialling it on the 200 kilometres of the network in the Bologna region: we still need to implement a calibration stage but in the next few months, the survey area will be extended to over one thousand kilometres. Detection of leaks with this technology could allow us to intervene and repair them more quickly and, as a result, to salvage important quantities of water in a sector such as water services which is increasingly subject to climate change. no

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A source of clean energy from sewers and wet waste: Biomethane

An investment of Euro 37 million. A plant that disposes of 100 thousand tonnes of organic waste produced by separate waste collection and another 35 thousand tonnes coming from green waste and pruning material. 
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Biodiesel has been developed also from used food oil

Fuel may also be extracted from vegetable oils. Used domestic vegetable oil (such as frying oil) which is recovered by multiutility services via roadside containers and drop-off points, is transformed into biodiesel, which in turn is used to fuel the vehicles used for urban waste collection.
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Bus fuel from trash: Hera's pilot project with "START"

To obtain clean energy to power Ravenna's buses by decomposing waste in landfills. 
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Data, the key to a smart future

From city to "smart city" thanks to data: with our detection systems we can monitor traffic trends, air quality and consumption of public parks. 
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Dialogue with the urban context for new energy: the Borgo Panigale cogeneration plant

District heating is already in itself a "sustainable" and environment-friendly solution, because it can guarantee better performance than traditional domestic boilers. In addition, the plant located in Borgo Panigale ensures lower emissions into the environment, more reliability and greater availability of energy. The system can heat the equivalent of 8,000 residential units. Currently, the turbines can produce 35,000 MWh of energy per year, almost twice as much as in the past.
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Ferrara, the city of "green" heat

What's Ferrara's green secret? It's underground, where a geothermal basin feeds its district heating system. The result? 87% of the thermal energy distributed in the city is "clean" and we avoid about 22 thousand tonnes of CO 2 emissions.
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Hera and General Electric together for energy recovery

We have installed a turbo expander at the R&M stations of Ducati's factory in Bologna. The goal is to recover electricity from the decompression process of methane gas. 
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Hergo Reti: the smart approach to emergency service and maintenance

More than 130 thousand emergency response reports involving 1,500 employees in 2019. More than 50 thousand emergency response operations in the first six months of 2020, in a local area that includes Emilia-Romagna, Triveneto and Marche.
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Hergoambiente, waste bin speaking

Our 300,000 waste bins are talking. How? Thanks to a "tag" that always tells us where they are, how they are working and if they have been emptied. Find out more about the projects of HergoAmbiente, Hera Group's "smart" system to support waste management services.
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Innovation takes flight and offers a variety of perspectives

Hera Group's drones are alternative and supplemental investigation tools to provide quality services to the areas we serve.
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