AsisCT will lead the project for 81 provinces to become smart cities for a year with its latest tender. Expecting a 20 percent increase in its turnover, which amounted to 206 million TL in 2019, the company focused on new export markets this year.
ÖZLEM BAY YILMAZ
obay@ekonomist.com.tr
AsisCT-City Technologies provides turnkey solutions in urban technologies to 81 cities in Turkey. It develops projects in line with the needs of cities and produces sustainable and innovative solutions with IoT technology and artificial intelligence.
The company continues its journey, which started in 2007 with smart ticketing systems, by developing solutions that will facilitate human and city life. Under the roof of ASİSCT-City Technologies, ASİSCT-City Technologies produces turnkey solutions in the mobility field of smart cities such as electronic fare collection systems, fleet management systems, vehicle telemetry systems, vehicle tracking systems, access control systems, person and passenger counting and analysis systems, passenger information systems and mobile monitoring systems.
In addition, it also offers new generation short-distance transportation solutions such as smart bicycles and electric scooters to the market. The company, which has achieved significant success in the local and national market with its identity as both system manufacturer and system integrator, aims to become a global brand in the field of smart city technologies.
The company recently won the tender for an important project. In this context, it will provide consultancy for 81 cities in Turkey to become smart cities.
WILL LAST FOR ONE YEAR
The project is a large-scale smart city project aimed at realizing the actions in the ‘2020-2023 National Smart Cities Strategy and Action Plan’, guiding the preparation of smart city solutions, local smart city strategy and roadmap, and improving the capacity of smart cities in our country.
Fatih Gündoğan, General Manager of AsisCT, stated that they will lead a transformation project with their consultants for the next one year within the scope of the project and said, “We will guide local governments to become smart cities.
At the end of the one-year project, the smart city plans and trainings of local governments, the technologies and technical specifications they will implement will be completed. The National Smart Cities Strategy and Action Plan previously prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization will also be realized with this project.
COOPERATION HAS BEGUN
With the project, local governments in all 81 provinces will now have a common road map on smart cities, and all local governments in our country will be able to talk about smart cities on the same common ground.
Stating that they will also work to ensure that the technologies to be used in the transition to smart cities are compatible and work together, Gündoğan continues as follows: “With the project, the standards of the required systems will also be determined and each manufacturer will produce accordingly.
In this way, municipalities will now be able to work with companies that can meet these standards and needs can now be met from different sources.
In the project, all standards from data collection to data processing and sharing will be determined on a national scale with the National Smart City Architecture, and standards will be set for the technological infrastructure of the provinces to be domestic and national. AsisCT has started collaborating for the project.
The first collaboration was with Istanbul University’s Technology Transfer Application and Research Center. With this cooperation, the university will transfer its know-how on smart cities to Turkey’s 81 provinces with AsisCT.
INDIA PROJECTS
More than 16 million people all over the world use the electronic toll collection system developed by AsisCT. In line with the needs of cities, AsisCT creates smart projects from environmental problems to passenger information, from cleaning to security and analysis, and offers its solutions to 12 countries of the world on turnkey basis.
Stating that India is one of their main export markets, Gündo-ğan said: “In India, where we are currently a solution partner in transportation projects worth 4.8 million dollars, we recently won the Pune Metro tender.
Within the scope of the project, we will meet the need for 484 validators and software for 53 metro stations. We aim to increase this positive momentum we have achieved in India every year.”
AFRICAN YEAR
Apart from India, AsisCT is present with transportation solutions in many countries from Greece to Portugal, Pakistan to Turkmenistan. For example, the devices used in the subway in Athens belong to AsisCT. In Sofia, the company is involved in the vehicle system integration project in three different groups: train, bus and metro.
Gündoğan said, “We export systems here. We want to be present in smart cities with our solutions in a wider geography, from Africa to Europe. We have declared 2021 as the ‘Year of Africa’, a year in which we will focus on this market and diversify our export markets with new countries in this continent.”
THERMAL CAMERA SYSTEM
Although the disruptions in transportation processes due to the pandemic interrupted both in our country and in the world, the importance of issues such as smart cities, contactless transportation, city lives with increased comfort thanks to technology, time analyses that can be made about transportation thanks to technology, and the importance of security and traceability are increasing day by day. Stating that they focus on the technologies of the future, Gündoğan said: “In the pandemic, the thermal camera system came to the fore.
Again, thanks to the artificial intelligence algorithm and the Blackbody device, which is the reference source required for calibration, highly sensitive, fast and non-contact body temperature measurement can be made. It can measure at a distance of up to eight meters.”
At the same time, there is the ‘Maskemat’ solution developed by AsisCT to ensure fast and sterile mask access in cities during the pandemic. Maskemat, which can be placed in mass living areas, can be monitored and controlled remotely.
50 PERCENT OF TURNOVER WILL COME FROM EXPORTS
AsisCT employs a total of 376 people. 157 of its employees work in R&D. Stating that they expect a 20 percent increase in their turnover, which amounted to 206 million TL in 2019, Gündoğan said, “For the last two years, 20 percent of our company’s turnover was exports.
This year we are experiencing an extraordinary year; despite this, there has been no change in our export share. This domestic and international distribution in our turnover was a distribution we targeted for pandemic conditions in smart city technologies that we brought to both our country and the world, and it was important.
For 2021, we have set ourselves a turnover target with exports at the forefront. In 2021, we aim for 50 percent of our turnover to come from exports,” he adds.
DEVELOPED ELECTRIC SCOOTER
Another product recently developed by the company is the ‘SpeedyCT Electric Scooter.’ Scooters, which can be easily included in traffic with user-friendly mobile applications, have started to create a new alternative in urban transportation and their use is increasing rapidly. There are options for use with or without a station.
