Results of the 2021 Tallinnovation competition

Thinnect Sensing created a solution to help build a smart community in Kalamaja by monitoring noise levels and traffic intensity, and helping improve traffic safety on various streets in the Kalamaja district. Road safety can be improved using intelligent lighting for the signs for pedestrian crossings that are already in place. The solution can compare noise levels and traffic density on various streets around the clock throughout the week.

The data it collects can be visualised on a dashboard created by Thinnect, but they can also be sent to other systems such as the Tallinn Cumulocity servers.

The joint work with the city of Tallinn went smoothly throughout the project, and several Tallinn authorities and the Põhja-Tallinn District Administration worked well with Thinnect on it. Issues that arose were resolved quickly, and the installation of the sensors was coordinated very quickly with the Urban Environment and Public Works Department and the Transport Department.

The company started the project by developing an electronic solution for the direct current DC/DC solar and wind power central controller, as this would give the best result in the Estonian climate and guarantee the highest efficiency. Kalaranna street was chosen as the test location, and four lighting systems are being installed that have zero or negative net energy consumption over the year. The company also started to develop ways of using Solintel products as charging points for electric scooters that would use green energy to charge the scooters and would help tidy the scooters off the city streets when they are not in use.

The cooperation with the city of Tallinn has so far proven very efficient, professional and friendly, with particular recognition due to Tarmo Sule for his work in resolving ongoing questions.

The project was to put drones at the disposal of patrols of the Tallinn Municipal Police Department (MUPO) and connect the data received from them with the control centre and management software. The project wanted to find out which problems a drone is able to solve, how drones can be used more effectively, and what practical requirements MUPO has for drones that can improve its work, and the software solutions they use. Several workshops were held as part of the project to gather information about the needs of MUPO, and on how and for what specific purposes they used the drones, and what the requirements and limitations were for using the drones.

The cooperation between the city of Tallinn, the Tallinn Municipal Police Department, and Tehnopol Science Park went very smoothly.

The project aimed to install RingoEco collection points around the Tehnopol Science Park campus in Tallinn and in the rooms of the Tallinn city government. The original plan for the project was exceeded many times over, as the project was run in 35 locations rather than the planned four. There were 65 packaging recycling points and 25 collection points set up in place of the planned four of each. Only in kitchen areas in office buildings were fewer recycling bins installed than planned, as it became apparent during the project that people were not yet used to the new service, and there was no desire simply to install the bins in every office kitchen area just for the sake of doing so. Greater attention was consequently focused on shopping centres, where food outlets joined the service to get more contact with it and more exposure for it.

The cooperation with the city of Tallinn went wonderfully well and the city reported on recycling of packaging on its television show. The department responsible for the circular economy helped in communicating with food outlets, like those on Kaarli pst, and worked with Tehnopol to organise an online seminar on providers of reusable packaging services for the staff of institutions run by the city.