GMD is an Innsbruck-based company that operates natural hazard prevention through self-sufficient IoT sensors with an AI-based GIS-risk-maintenance-monitoring-SaaS platform and offers customer-optimized climate change adaptation models to municipalities, ski areas or infrastructure operators.
The aim of GMD is to increase the safety of the population and infrastructure in alpine regions by providing early warnings of impending natural disasters such as rockfalls, mudslides, floods or heavy rain.
GMD thus makes a significant contribution to climate change adaptation, to the quantification of natural hazards and their effects, and to the preservation of the mountain ecosystem and its biological diversity.
Our main goal is to use our smart technologies and geomonitoring to significantly reduce the number of deaths and people affected by disasters, including water disasters, by 2030 and to significantly reduce the direct economic losses caused by them (SDG 11.5).
But also to contribute to the construction or modernization of high-quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure through targeted monitoring and the use of new technologies (SDG 9.4) in order to support economic development and human well-being (SDG 9.1).
We want to use our geomonitoring to raise awareness and improve climate impacts and early warning (SDG 13.3) and to incorporate our evaluations into the assessment of national policies, strategies and plans (natural hazard management) (SDG 13.2) in order to strengthen resilience and adaptability to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
(SDG 13.1).
We use part of our income specifically for the sustainable management of all types of forests and damaged forests in order to increase restoration and reforestation, e.g. after natural events (SDG 15.2), such as by increasing the protective forest on slopes. Here we want to ensure the preservation of the mountain ecosystem, including its biodiversity, and protect the mountain population from further natural hazards (SDG 15.4).
Through our monitoring solutions for critical and system-relevant infrastructure, we not only increase the protection of the civilian population but also the life cycle of the buildings (effective monitoring instead of new construction) and thereby increase biodiversity.
Up until now, it was not possible in Austria to be publicly identified as a social enterprise.
This Verified Social Enterprise label changes that!
All social enterprises that meet certain criteria can apply for the "Verified Social Enterprise" label from Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH (aws).
GMD® is a company that specializes in the prevention of natural hazards with self-sufficient, AI-based IoT sensor and radio networks with a machine learning GIS risk analysis platform to make natural events more predictable and offers and advises on customer-optimized climate change adaptation models for municipalities, ski resorts or infrastructure operators.
