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GROUP PROFILE

The KGS Group 3

Turnover & Staff 4

Turnover by activities 5

COMPANY PROFILES

Sofiter System Engeneering 6

Sofiter 8

SEDA 10

AGS Italia 12

CASE STUDIES 14

The KGS Group is a national and international group employing over two thousand people. The group has an annual turnover of around 70 million Euros.

Through its member companies, each a specialist in its own macrosector, the KGS Group provides a complete range of services to public bodies, public authorities and large enterprises.

The group’s complementary competences can be applied as needed in the development of innovative projects. This allows the KGS Group to act as a genuine system integrator with the ability to provide integrated solutions of the highest quality.

KGS COM SRL

LGF SRL

69,6% 80% 5,02%

49,7%0,43%

49,87%

75%

50%

33%

70%

93%

21%

100%

100%

7%

67%

100%100%

KGS GROUP 3

KGS GROUP

KGS GROUP 4

TURNOVER & STAFF

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TURNOVER: € 20 MIL

STAFF: 285

TURNOVER: € 20 MIL

STAFF: 100

TURNOVER: € 6 MIL

STAFF: 25

TURNOVER: € 9,8 MIL

STAFF: 160DEFENSE

RURAL

DEVELOPMENT

REVENUE

COLLECTION

GLOBAL INFORMATION

SYSTEMS

TURNOVER BY ACTIVITIES

Sofiter System Engineering (SSE) S.p.A.

Sofiter System Engineering was formed in Turin in 2006, to deliver software consulting, design and development services for client-server and departmental architectures. The company was created by the merger of S.E. S.p.A., Artea S.r.l. and the logistics and systems engineering division of ISAF S.r.l., whose resources, corporate culture and competence it inherited. Sofiter System Engineering is now a member of the KGS Group of Pesaro.

Sofiter System Engineering currently employs over 270 people, including analysts, testing experts, designers, programmers, system engineers, lab and flight testing technicians.

Over the years, Sofiter System Engineering has consolidated its experience and refined its competences in support of hardware and mechanical engineering, and has tailored its products and services for the transport sector and for civil and military, avionic, naval and terrestrial communications.  

Today, Sofiter System Engineering is fully autonomous in all these areas. The finished products that SSE supplies to its clients are customised to meet their needs, incorporate the latest generation of technologies and materials, and cover all phases of the product life cycle, including integration and testing. SSE has consolidated its market position thanks also to its membership of a well established group with the ability to provide all the competences needed for product life cycle management.

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Sofiter System Engineering’s offering covers the entire development and production lifecycle for engineering projects in the fields of civil and military aerospace systems, inclusive of hardware, software and mechanical components.

SSE’s operations focus mainly on the following areas:

Civil and military, mechanical and electronic systems and subsystems for telecommunications and transport

Automatic testing systems, hardware and software, for the commissioning and maintenance of electronic equipment

Logistics engineering reports (RMT&S, LSA, ILS) in support of project management

The design, development and integration of I&CT solutions for data management (CaDM), testing and simulation

Specialist consulting at clients’ premises

Consulting, services and solutions for design, industrialisation, production, testing, and logistic support

Services and tools for process, data and product documentation management

Training

KGS - SSE

GRUPPO KGS S.P.A 6

www.sse-aerospace.it

Quality Certificates:

NCAGEDUNS CCR

Turnover: € 9,8 milion

Staff:190

AVIONICA

Alenia Aermacchi

Programs:

Efa, Tornado, C27J, G222, AM-X, ASTA, M346, UAV (Sky-X, Neuron), ATR, Meltem

Activities:

System Design

System / Equipment Engineering

System Integration

Simulations

(Cont.d)

Static and fatigue verification for thrust reverse Nacelle A380

Static and vibrational verification for DSHA-Sentinel 1

Conditioning system modification in agreement with UAE requirements

Fuel system modificationPiaggio - P180

10Sofiter SpA - segreteria@sofiter.it

DISEGNAZIONE E STRESS

Alenia Aermacchi

Programs:

M346, M311, MB339, B787, A380, A318, RRJ, PW 4 1 6 8 NAC E L L E S, C F 3 4 NAC E L L E S, C27J,G222, P180

Activities:

Disegnazione Strutture

Disegnazione Installazione Impianti

Analisi Strutturale

Thales Alenia Space

Programs:

NODO, Herschel-Planck e Sicral (satelliti), Galileo (sistema di satelliti), CEV, Bepi-Colombo, Exomars, Cosmo, GOCE, MSP/Columbus, ATV, IXV, Mars Next, STEPS, AMOS, COTS, Sentinel, Solar, Orbiter, GlobalStar 2

Activities:

Infrastrutture Spaziali E Trasporti

Osservazione Ottica E Scienza

Elettronica

Integrazione E Qualità

Piaggio Aeroindustry

Disegnazione e analisi strutturale per il velivolo P180

 

Pininfarina

Disegnazione in ambito automotive

 

Selex Galileo

Sviluppo di sw embedded per la piattaforma M346;

Progettazione e realizzazione del Flight Control Computer per gli elicotteri Augusta

KGS GROUP

• Main workpakages developed: Definition and development fuselage parts

(front and central)

Stress sheet analyses (static and fatigue) certification report (static and fatigue) for front and central fuselage

Design and installation central fuselage systems

Auxiliary fuel tank design and static test project

Engineering of aircraft production

Pylon – P5

M346Military advanced

Tainer

9Sofiter SpA - segreteria@sofiter.it

(Cont.d)

• Work-pakages on several Thales Alenia Space programmes: Chignus Sentinel Others

11Sofiter SpA - segreteria@sofiter.it

SOFITER SPA

Sofiter S.p.A. was formed in 1986. Today it is one of the leading players in land and environment management.Sofiter’s operations focus mainly on agricultural production and livestock policies. Sofiter boasts consolidated experience in corporate and company consulting, information system management for the administration of farming subsidies and the application of aerial photography and cartographic land management techniques.

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

-Land and environment management

-Management of EU agricultural market interventions

-Design and development of geographic information systems (GIS)

-GIS – Digitalised geo-measurements

-GIS – Specialist software for geographic data processing

-GIS – Cartography, georeferencing and photo-interpretation of land registry maps

-Information & communication technology

-Design and development of information systems on web, main-frame and client-server architectures

-Development of turnkey packages

-Design and development of applications using object-oriented technologies

-Installation and customisation of ERP applications

-Specialist consulting

-System and application auditing

-Application consulting for leading development softwares

-System consulting for leading platforms

-Database, network and system tuning

KGS - Sofiter

KGS GROUP 8

www.sofiter.it

Quality Certificates:

NCAGEDUNS CCR

Turnover: € 20 milion

Staff:285

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Rural development is the second pillar of innovation of Italy’s Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Forests.

In partnership with Telespazio, Sofiter has developed the special know-how needed to provide support services covering all aspects of rural development.

These services are the result of the combined experience of Sofiter, Telespazio and SIN (the National Information System for Agricultural Development).

REFERENCES

SIN S.p.A. Sistema Informativo Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Agricoltura (National Information System for Agricultural Development)

SIN was formed on the 29th November 2005 specifically to manage and develop Italy’s National Information System for Agricultural Development.SIN is 51% owned by AGEA, the Italian governmental agency for agricultural subsidies, the remaining 49% of shares being held by private partners including Sofiter S.p.A..

SIN’s information heritage:over 6 billion Euros paid out every year to supplement farmers’ income5,000 peripheral nodes connected to the system via the internet 2,000,000 farming businesses registered5,000 local offices 3,000 work stations

Applications for:

- Business registration documents

- GIS

- Integrated management and control system

- Administrative procedures

- National registers

- Safety policy

THE REGIONS

The informatised management of rural development is of strategic importance to regional agricultural policy. Sofiter has developed a web application, accessible over the internet and via regional intranets, to assess applications and manage payments to farmers. This application interacts with other systems including the database of the Italian governmental agency for agricultural subsidies and regional farm business registers. TELESPAZIO

Software developmentSpecialist Consulting

KGS GROUP 9

S.E.DA.

SEDA S.p.A. was formed in 1976 by a grouping of banks. The company has always specialised in revenue collection management, working as a software house and outsourcing centre, and has secured a large share of the Italian market.

SEDA’s mission is to supply a full range of software and services to collection companies, banks and local authorities (regional, provincial, town and city councils, land management consortia, etc.) for the management of their revenues. Clients’ needs in these areas are satisfied by the delivery of integrated solutions.

SEDA and the KGS Group therefore act as intermediary between the general public and public administrations. SEDA’s services allow the public to relate to public administrations in a new way by simplifying payments, communications and the entire information processes.

NATIONAL TAXATION

SEDA delivers products and services to the Italian national revenue agency.

70% of national tax returns and payments are managed by SEDA’s applications and services.

LOCAL TAXATION

SEDA supports local authorities in the implementation and autonomous management of their revenue systems and in the development of local information and revenue databases.

SERVICES

- Revenue management and collection and taxpayer management

- Compulsory revenue collection and taxpayer management

- Preparation of revenue collection statements

- Multichannel payments

- Management of public / taxpayer services

- Revenue management and monitoring

- Informatised image management

- Information and operations call centre

- Outsourcing

- Data centre & disaster recovery

KGS - SEDA

KGS GROUP 10

www.sofiter.it

Quality Cetificates:

ISO 9001: 2008ISO 27001:2010(N.A.S.A. Equivalent)

Turnover: € 14 milion

Staff:200

REFERENCES

EQUITALIA S.p.A. (the revenue collection company for the Italian national revenue agency)

Supply of information and server farm products and services for the preparation of statements for 22,000 local authorities

SORIS S.p.A. (the revenue collection company for the City of Turin)

TRENTINO RISCOSSIONI SPA (the revenue collection company for the autonomous province of Trento)

Informatised management of the entire municipal revenue collection process, call centre, and multichannel payments

CITY OF MILAN

Provision of SUITE software for the cross-querying of various databases in the fight against tax evasion

LEPIDA S.p.A. (the ICT company of the Emilia-Romagna region)

Supply of the on-line portal for the region’s payment system and multichannel payments

GESENU (Refuse tax company of the city of Perugia)

Management of revenue collection and refuse tax control

KGS GROUP 11

AGS Italia

AGS Italia has been providing information and other services to local authorities and utility companies since 1991.

AGS Italia’s solutions in these areas include:

• Cartography (aerial photography, land registration, thematic cartography)

• Geographic and topographic surveys

• Road surveying and registration

SERVICES

Basic and thematic cartography and aerial photogrammetry

Digitalisation of land registry maps

Geographic object mapping (buildings, street numbers, utility networks, etc.)

Geographic and topographic surveys

Aerial, terrestrial, geodetic and topographic surveys

Numeric, technical and thematic cartography, photomaps and orthophoto maps

Surveying and mapping of street numbers and geographic objects

High precision levelling grids

Numeric restitutions and aerial triangulation calculations

Registered land divisions, road and railway marking

Building size databases, digital geographic profiles, sections and models.

Road surveying and registration

In this specialist area, AGS Italia has developed extensive experience and competence in the processing of alphanumeric and cartographic information, in the interpretation of images and videos taken from high efficiency vehicles and 3D laser scanners, and in the organisation and management of complex and multidisciplinary surveys.

KGS - AGS Italia

KGS GROUP 12

www.agsitalia.it

Quality Certificates:

ISO 9001: 2008

Turnover: € 6 milion

Staff:20

REFERENCES

Azienda Mobilità e Ambiente S.p.A., a company of the City of Milan

Road signage and lining database

City of Pesaro - City of Ravenna – City of Venice – Piedmont Regional Consortium for Information Systems (300 municipal councils in the Piedmont region) – province of Brescia - province of Imperia - Campania region - SOGEI (ICT company of Italy’s Ministry for Economics and Finance)

Digitalisation of land registry maps

ANAS (Autonomous National Highway Company)

Laser scanner surveying and highways database production

AQUATER (the southern Italian aqueduct maintenance company)

Aerial surveying and production of a database of criticalities in high voltage lines

A2A Group, province of Brescia - DEVAL (Val d’Aosta electricity distribution company) - ENEL (national utility company for electrical energy)

Electrical infrastructure registry: surveying and production of a database of electrical power lines, grid and user cartography

INSIEL (ICT company of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region)

Digitalisation and informatisation of the land registry of the province of Udine and Pordenone

ISPRA (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research)

Cartographic database

National geological map

NAVTEQ (Chicago, IL)

Database of street numbers for satellite navigation

ProvinciAttiva, province of Rome

Registration, digitalisation and production of a road database

Province of Trento / Informatica Trentina

Land usage maps

Sinergis

Topographic database

SAIPEM - Snamprogetti

Surveying and design of methane gas pipelines

SOGIN (Nuclear Plant Management Company)

Informatisation of paper archives

KGS GROUP 13

PRO S3 – a miniUAV companyFounded in November 2001 by three shareholder coming from Polytechnic of Turin University.

Thanks to its great innovation level, Pro S3 become member of the Innovative Companies Incubator of the same University.

At the end of the 3 years incubation period, Pro S3 won the Start Up Cup, award reserved for the company who has best increased its business and acquired the most defined structure.

Nowadays Pro S3 is a mature reality offering 360 degrees engineering support to its customers.

In 2006 the internationalization process has begun: Europen and Overseas market are our new challenge.

RESEARCH AND DEVENLOPMENT

Extreme system portability that allows end user to easily operate UAS without the need of complicated and expensive transportation devices such as truck, trailers etc…

Easy and quick automatic mission planning with mission optimization software

Easy and quick systems preparation with time less than 15 min to be ready to fly, once on take-off site

No piloting skills required for user in normal operations allowed by total automatic take offs, cruising and landing capability

Total operator control over flight with high level instruction for in flight mission re-task (altitude change, waypoint corrections, position hold, speed change, landing site change..)

Different payload integration according to customer requirement.

Integrated data post processing, with supplied tools or through support services

CASE STUDIES

KGS GROUP 14

Highway & MicroUAV After a long deal with Autostrade S.p.A., italian highways management company, in 2012 a first microUAV was sold as new tool to support maintenance jobs.

The idea, tested during six months, is to use an esacopter to verify the status of the spans, sections between two bridge support. This is done by making the esacopter fly under the span, with a camera on its top, recording a full HD movie.

The technicians can look every flaw in the structure, every seepage and every other defect they would have looked for using more traditional way to inspect the bridge.

The advantages are lower costs of inspections, higher speed of execution and better view of every flaw.

Anyway the real goal of Gruppo KGS is beyond selling one or more microUAVs. The goal is to develop, together with Autostrade, a turn key solution able to satisfy all needs that a highways management company can have all over the world.

INDUSTRIAL GOAL

Autostrade is the first step in the company roadmap that wants to develop more than one solution microUAV based, changing the general approach that is to propose the drone leaving to the customer the task to discover how to use it.

Gruppo KGS, on the strength of its experience, believe that this is the right approach to the market because the company will be able to increase the value of its own experiences and skills in many different fields like maintenance, agricolture and so on.

Introduzione al francese

KGS GROUP 15

BUSINESS VALUE

Autostrade is a very important customer because it allows to begin to speak of microUAV as industrial solution.

This means that civilian microUAV will be proposed in a variety of real world environmet as real tools to support at the best their recurrent tasks.

Obviously there has to be economical return in using the microUAV. In this case all the tests done demonstrated that also the quality of the inspection grows up and, more relevant, it is possible to avoid dangerous works.

E.R.M.E.S. Project

Another firm belief of Gruppo KGS about the future of civilian use of microUAVs is that at the moment there are too few sensors to be used, because of the youth of the market itself.

At the moment you can use quite only standard devices adapted to the microUAV and this means also to have one streaming for each kind of data available in a separate way.

Enabling multiple sensors, designed exactly to be used from microUAVs, means enabling microUAVs to more complex tasks but also to be able to process multiple data in a simple way.

KGS Group, through Sofiter, is involved in Ermes, a financed project designed to produce some new sensor prototypes, sensors light enough to be a viable payload also for microUAVs and able to produce multiple data streams.

The project plans to produce some relevant deliverables like a mini radar, a photo camera able to process image on board and a software system to process multiple data in real time.

The group is growing up its R&D capabilities thorugh two different approaches: being involved in financed projects, so to interact also with other competence center like universities or technological companies and acquiring, in its structure, new companies, like PRO S3, or new skills, able to follow up the state of the art of microUAVs and of the connected items.

Introduzione al francese

KGS GROUP 16

Partnerships

BARI POLYTECHNIC

TURIN POLYTECHNIC

TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY

URBINO UNIVERSITY

BUSINESS VALUE

The value proposition of microUAVs is mainly in the capability to collect data and process them in real time, so to support many different kind of operations. Thinking of vertical solutions to propose to the market, this kind of ability becomes more and more relevant so it’s clear the goal the group wants to reach thorugh Ermes. The idea is to develop some frameworks, hardware and software, for multidimensional sensors and data process (data fusion). This will be the base for future development and new market proposal, allowing the group to gain a serious advantage on other competitors.