- Technologien fur Zivile Sicherheit GmbH (TZS) views urban management as unique business growth opportunity

- New company expected to create an ecosystem of up to 1,000 jobs in Germany

- Intends to form research alliance with SAP AG, DFKI and AGT International

STUTTGART, Germany, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- TZS today announced the launch of its business operations in Germany as prominent information technology experts gather in Stuttgart for an "Open House" event one day ahead of this year's national IT Summit on December 8.

TZS is a specialized technology company dedicated to building creative solutions to effectively and efficiently manage complex urban environments and to address the emerging challenges of European public safety. TZS aims to become the European market leader in providing fully integrated urban management and emergency response systems.

The company's core product is a holistic and sophisticated solution that integrates, filters and analyzes data from external sensors to provide new urban management tools for both effective day to day administration of urban environments and real-time solutions and risk assessments during critical incidents.

TZS is based in Berlin.

IT and telecommunications industry veteran Peter Liebhart will become Chief Executive Officer for TZS. Previously, Mr. Liebhart held senior-level positions at some of Europe's leading IT and telecom companies, including Siemens AG.

Peter Liebhart said the new company is entering the German public safety and urban management market with the intention to collaborate with major organizations.

Building on the advances made by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research's SoKNOS project, TZS intends to join forces with SAP Research, the global technology research unit of SAP, to devise new approaches to the challenge of managing urban environments with an Urban management platform with a far-reaching network of urban information (health authority, education authority construction authority, registration authorities, economic authorities, mass transit and schools). These approaches to solving such management challenges shall be based on unique risk assessment models that utilize sophisticated sensor data and database analysis, allowing for timely and effective decision-making, better preparation and training, as well as increased management and safety for cities and citizens.

The TZS partnership with AGT International will give the company access to cutting-edge research and products that consist of integrated solutions to the challenge of public safety, crisis management, law enforcement and emergency response systems.

Similarly, TZS is teaming up with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and tapping into the institution's expertise in this field.

TZS will be able to bring turnkey public safety solutions to Germany and the EU, ranging from operational concepts to design and deployment.

The launch of TZS in Germany is not only a commitment to the development of new models for urban administration but a clear commitment to the local economy. The investment of TZS is expected to create an ecosystem with up to 1,000 jobs in the country within the next five years.

Mati Kochavi, Chairman of TZS, said: "The effective prediction, prevention and management within the urban framework is essentially the precondition of public safety today and in the future. We're very happy that, together with SAP Research, DFKI and AGT International, TZS will engage in research to discover innovative end-to-end solutions that will help protect citizens and critical infrastructures to Germany and Europe."

About the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Since its foundation in 1988, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, based in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrucken, Bremen and supplemented by a project office in Berlin, has become the world's leading research center in this field. The financial budget in 2009 is approx. 30 million Euros. DFKI projects cover the whole spectrum from application-oriented basic research to market- and client-oriented design of product functions. Currently more than 300 employees from 46 countries are conducting research focusing also on public security applications: information extraction from text, pictures, and videos, multimodal sensor fusion, image understanding, security robots, plan-based anomaly detection, and security certificates. More than 50 spin-off companies with more than 1,300 highly qualified jobs were founded by former DFKI employees.

About AGT International

AGT International is a privately-held group of companies that provides high technology security systems and solutions designed to protect critical assets, facilities and infrastructure worldwide.

AGT International's flagship product is a computer platform that gathers critical information and data from various sources. The next generation of AGT International products and services will focus on equipping cities and municipalities with solutions that will help them manage more efficiently everything from traffic flow to parking rules to reducing carbon emissions.

AGT International's global headquarters is based in Zurich, with operations in the U.S. and Europe. AGT International's employees come from diverse backgrounds and have a wide range of expertise in mathematics, engineering, computer science, government and information technology.

Mati Kochavi is Chairman and CEO of AGT International. An entrepreneur in several industries across the globe, Mr. Kochavi has invested in computer software, technology games and management, telecommunications technologies, energy and real estate. His current focus is on designing sophisticated, integrated security systems that provide customers with real-time intelligence designed to defuse threats. All told, the network of private companies established by Mr. Kochavi in the security technology arena have executed contracts in excess of USD $6 billion. He resides in New York City.

Further information

www.tzs-solutions.com

www.sap.com/research

www.dfki.de

www.agtinternational.com

Press contact
Michael France
Brunswick Group
212 333 3810

SOURCE Technologien fur Zivile Sicherheit GmbH

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