Intelligent platforms to handle large crowds

At the dawn of the Internet while the first websites were being created, as a university student, Carlo Stumpo, Ceo of Internet & Idee (I&I), set up his company in Cosenza in 1989. There were still Internet Points in Italia, but he, a computer engineering student, looked ahead with the aim of bringing Calabria to national and international prominence. And he has succeeded in doing so by designing innovative, tailor-made solutions: from intelligent Cyber Security platforms to cutting-edge crowd management applications, to name the most interesting ones. A strategic vision that over the years has seen the company change skin, leading it to dialogue from the South with global players and work for major customers in Italia and abroad. The secret? Anticipating the times, intercepting market trends and technological evolutions to offer solutions capable of guaranteeing a competitive advantage to those who rely on them.

"It all started when the Internet was the innovation, the new frontier, and Ideas was all those intuitions that could be combined and developed on the web. But if the others were creating static sites,' explains Stumpo, 'I&I immediately distinguished itself as a valuable, reliable and innovative digital player, developing web applications that allowed it to emerge in the market, while also realising excellent solutions in the e-commerce sector. And while today everyone is looking at new technological frontiers, the company has already been working on Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence for five years'.

Cosenza remains the heart of the company that has offices in Milan, Bologna, Naples, Bari and Tirana and is about to open one in Rome. An IT Company with a southern traction, as confirmed by the numbers: 30 years of ICT experience, 9 million turnover in 2025, 150 employees in the company for over 15 years, 95% graduated from the University of Calabria and many excellences returned from abroad, 95% are hired on permanent contracts (average age 38 years). England, Albania, the United States, Spain, the countries with which it operates.

Among the latest solutions is GentIA, I&I's proprietary platform dedicated to the simulation and management of crowds modelled as a heterogeneous set of individuals, of escape routes, and of the behaviour to be adopted in the event of an accident or terrorist attack, in spaces capable of accommodating thousands of people. A system aimed at security agencies, governments, institutions, builders of large works, which integrates the digital twin of environments with that of people, representing an innovation with the potential to revolutionise the crowd management sector. Everything was born in the wake of the most serious cases so that they would never happen again. Almost two years of work, an internal investment without public funds ready to be put on the market thanks to the research and development department and a dozen engineers.

Another flagship of I&I is TIPS, the proprietary Threat Intelligence solution that includes a smartphone app capable of monitoring the security of infrastructures and people connected to Wi-Fi networks worldwide, sending an alert in the event of a compromise. A future that is already a reality, firmly rooted in the territory and the community.