we are a group of students from Alma Mater Studiorum University of
Bologna. We are taking a course on Social Entrepreneurship and as part
of our course requirements we have been a assigned the task to
collaborate with Minteos S.r.l. (www.minteos.com), an awesome “green”
start-up located in Turin, Italy.
Minteos has received major recognition from the most important
start-up competitions in Italy and has received funding form US VC (for a
list of prizes and events where Minteos has been featured please see: http://www.minteos.com/?p=426).
The company has developed a fantastic wireless technology (hardware and
software), what they call “the internet of nature”, which enables
people to communication with nature in real time.
In essence, Minteos’ products are monitoring systems to prevent fire,
flooding or gas leakages and sensors to capture motion of hydraulic
structures or to control water and air quality.

Their products have a great social impact because they allow monitoring
the “health” of nature and so to prevent natural disasters and improve
the harmonious coexistence between humanity and mother nature. Minteos
holds several patents for some of its technologies. It won the “Mind the
Bridge” competition too (a business plan competition jointly organized
with Stanford. For see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHNO0l7vR1I)
The reason why we wrote is to inform you about the technology of
Minteos and to ask what you think about. In our opinion, this is a great
solution to prevent natural disasters made by climate changes.
We’d be delighted to provide you with whatever information you might
need in order to assess the company and its transformational potential.
We will be grateful to riceive your opinion.