Ingegneria & Controlli Italia Srl

What Ingegneria & Controlli Italia Srl does

Ingegneria & Controlli Italia Srl (I&C Italia) is an Italian engineering firm founded in February 2010 that specializes in geotechnical and structural monitoring for civil infrastructure. The company designs, manufactures, and deploys monitoring instrumentation — including piezometers, inclinometers, extensometers, load cells, strain gauges, GNSS sensors, fiber optic strain sensors, and meteorological stations — alongside a proprietary line of wired and wireless data acquisition units supporting GSM/GPRS, NB-IoT, LoRa, and Wi-Fi protocols. All telemetry is consolidated into MISSIONOS, I&C Italia's proprietary web platform for real-time data management, analysis, and alerting across geotechnical and structural monitoring networks.

The company operates a vertically integrated turnkey model, combining in-house hardware production with field services covering system design, installation, ongoing management, and specialized in-situ testing such as load tests, non-destructive tests, flow measurements, and geophysical surveys. Customers include Italian state-owned infrastructure owners and contractors (ANAS, RFI, MET Torino), regional environmental agencies (ARPA Lombardia), municipalities (Comune di Ancona, Comune di Venaria Reale), and construction firms (COPIN, Tecnis, INC General Contractor); an early international engagement covers automated topographic monitoring of Manila MRT3 for the Philippines Department of Transportation. The firm is ISO 9001 certified and reports more than 250 rail structures surveyed for RFI across multiple Italian lines.

I&C Italia generates revenue through two streams: (1) sale and rental of monitoring instruments, dataloggers, and sensors (hardware sales), and (2) professional services encompassing turnkey monitoring system design and installation, in-situ and geophysical testing, and ongoing network management. Distribution is conducted via direct enterprise field sales to infrastructure owners and contractors, with no disclosed pricing models or partner channel programs. The firm is privately held, founder-controlled, and operates from administrative offices in Carmagnola (Torino), a legal seat in Torino, and a branch office in Capriate S. Gervasio (Bergamo), with a reported headcount of 9 employees.

Name

Ingegneria & Controlli Italia Srl

Legal name

I&C Italia Srl

Website

https://iecitalia.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

I&C Italia is an Italian engineering firm that designs, manufactures, and operates turnkey geotechnical and structural monitoring systems — proprietary sensors, wireless dataloggers, and the MISSIONOS web platform — for infrastructure owners, contractors, and government agencies in Italy and selectively abroad.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geotechnical & Structural Monitoring Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (541330), Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services (54136)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

Geotechnical Instrumentation & Monitoring (Settlement, Inclinometers, Piezometers) (IMAFAOAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Rail Asset Inspection, Monitoring & Diagnostics (Track Geometry, Wayside Sensors) (TLAJADAG), Condition Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance Instrumentation (Vibration/ultrasound, oil analysis sensors, IIoT monitoring) (IMAGAFAG), Geotechnical Investigation & Site Characterization (Boreholes, In-situ Testing, Lab Testing) (IMAFAOAG)

Keywords

• Geotechnical monitoring systems
• Structural health monitoring
• Infrastructure monitoring services
• Geotechnical instrumentation
• Civil engineering sensors

Headquarters

HQ city

Torino

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Monitoring Instrumentation and Equipment Sales: Production and sale of geotechnical and structural monitoring instruments including sensors, data loggers, and measurement systems. Instruments can be purchased or rented.
2. Monitoring Services: Design and installation of turnkey monitoring systems including geotechnical and structural monitoring for tunnels, bridges, landslides, railways, buildings, dams, and landfills. Services include ongoing management and maintenance.
3. Site Testing and Geophysics Services: On-site testing services including load tests, non-destructive tests, flow measurements, seismic surveys, and geophysical investigations for civil engineering projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

I&C Italia designs, produces, and installs geotechnical and structural monitoring systems for civil engineering infrastructure, including tunnels, bridges, railways, dams, and landslides. The company delivers turnkey solutions combining proprietary instrumentation (sensors, data loggers, data acquisition and transmission units), specialized on-site testing and geophysical services, and the proprietary MISSIONOS web platform for real-time data management, analysis, and alerting. Its offerings span manual and automated monitoring networks, supported by field engineering, installation, and ongoing network management.

Product overview

I&C Italia is an engineering company specializing in geotechnical and structural monitoring systems. Their product portfolio includes: (1) Data Acquisition and Transmission Systems — handheld readers, wired/wireless dataloggers supporting GSM/GPRS, NB-IoT, LoRa, and LoRaWAN protocols, and multi-channel acquisition units; (2) Topographic Monitoring Equipment — GNSS sensors with LoRa, prisms, and reflective targets; (3) Geotechnical Sensors — settlement gauges, borehole extensometers/inclinometers, and extensometric columns; (4) Structural Investigation Instruments — load cells for tie rods/frames/columns, strain gauge bars, pressure cells, and crackmeters; (5) Fiber Optic Sensors — strain and temperature sensors for structural monitoring; (6) Piezometers and Level Sensors — electrical and ultrasonic devices for groundwater monitoring; (7) Dynamic Monitoring Systems — accelerometers, velocimeters, and deck sensors for structural vibration analysis; (8) Railway Track Monitoring — surface clinometers and electrolevel bars; (9) Wi-Fi/LoRa Systems — wireless clinometers, laser tiltmeters and distometers; (10) Meteorological Stations — rain gauges, anemometers, solarimeters, thermohygrometers, and barometers; (11) Alerting Systems — impact/vibration sensors, crackmeters, remote cameras, and GSM remote control modules. Services include geophysical surveys, in-situ testing, and monitoring system design/installation/management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Data Reading, Acquisition and Transmission Systems (Centraline di Lettura) Handheld readers, wired and wireless dataloggers, and multi-channel acquisition units supporting GSM/GPRS, NB-IoT, LoRa, and Wi-Fi protocols for remote data transmission from geotechnical and structural sensors; available for purchase or rent.

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sisgeo S.r.l. Italian manufacturer of geotechnical and structural monitoring instrumentation, including inclinometers, piezometers, load cells, and data acquisition systems. Closest direct competitor to I&C Italia with a similar product portfolio and integrated service model in Italy.
• Campbell Scientific Inc. Global manufacturer of rugged data acquisition systems, dataloggers, and wireless communication hardware widely used in geotechnical, structural, and environmental monitoring. Overlaps with I&C Italia's datalogger and remote monitoring product lines.
• RST Instruments Ltd. Canadian designer and manufacturer of geotechnical and structural monitoring instruments, including inclinometers, extensometers, piezometers, and automated data acquisition systems. Direct comparable in product breadth and infrastructure monitoring use cases.
• Geokon Inc. US-based global leader in vibrating wire and MEMS geotechnical sensors used for dam, tunnel, slope, and structural monitoring. Highly comparable product line (strain gauges, piezometers, load cells, dataloggers) and serves overlapping end markets.
• Measurand Inc. Canadian maker of ShapeArray deformation sensors and accompanying data acquisition systems for tunnels, embankments, and slopes. Comparable as a specialty sensor vendor serving the same geotechnical monitoring market.
• Geosense Ltd. UK-based manufacturer of geotechnical and structural monitoring instruments including inclinometers, extensometers, piezometers, and dataloggers. Closely comparable product range and target applications in civil engineering infrastructure.
• Worldsensing S.L. Spain-based IoT monitoring company offering wireless data acquisition, geotechnical sensors, and a cloud monitoring platform (LoadSensing) for mining, tunnels, and rail. Comparable turnkey wireless monitoring + software business model.

Emerging players

• Smartec SA: Swiss specialist in fiber optic and MEMS-based distributed sensing for structural and geotechnical monitoring. Comparable in the higher-end fiber optic strain sensing line of I&C Italia's catalog and in advanced monitoring use cases.

Broad incumbents

• HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær): Global measurement and sensing incumbent combining HBM (load cells, strain gauges) and Brüel & Kjær (vibration, acoustic) capabilities. Overlaps with I&C Italia's load cells, strain gauges, and dynamic/vibration monitoring offerings, but as part of a much broader industrial portfolio.

Regional players

• Italferr S.p.A. Italian engineering subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato, providing design, supervision, and project management for rail infrastructure. Adjacent player in the same Italian rail monitoring ecosystem where I&C Italia operates (RFI/RFI-related projects).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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