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Goods road transport digital twins technology for sustainable and smart mobility.
Country of Origin: Spain
Reference Number: TOES20200910001
Publication Date: 10 September 2020
Summary
A Spanish start up, specialised in software and Ops&DevOps development, offers digital twins technology to address urban distribution congestion, emissions and cost problems. This solution can optimize routes with traffic, legal, environmental, emissions and other city or zone-specific restrictions, enabling like-for-like comparison of current and proposed models. The company is willing to collaborate under license agreements, commercial agreements with technical assistance or research agreement
Description
Due to the environmental and social impact of daily city activities, it is becoming more and more necessary furnish the authorities and administrations with solutions which provide a clear impact on the reductions of emissions, urban congestions and cost. Goods road transportation is traverse to all industry dealing with physical products, from mineral mining to agriculture, to urban goods delivery or urban refuse removal. It is a major source of energy consumption, and thus an area with a lot of room for improvement to cut emissions and mitigate its environmental impact.
In this context, Spanish start-up has developed a hyper-scalable platform that integrate and orchestrate over a dozen different technologies to provide an end-to-end solution to build and compare road transport digital twins.
The company has designed and developed from multi-level multi-country to city last mile and reverse logistics road transport networks digital twins technology. It is based on a proprietary combination of algorithms to optimize routes with trucks or vans, with legal, environmental, emissions and other city or zone-specific restrictions, enables like-for-like comparison of current and proposed models within a specific Living Lab and cross- Living Labs.
This solution enables full implementation, traceability and measurement of the chosen solution/s to validate hypothesis in real live environment. It enables to easily create and manage collaborative and resilient road transport networks. In crisis times adds transport capacity when is most needed, in “normal” times facilitates to implement innovative and very flexible private-public partnerships.
This solution is designed and built industry-agnostic, enabling adoption of circular-economy approaches and more importantly, breaking the chronic digital divide of the highly fragmented transport industry, accelerating its digitalization. It has the potential to help tackle a range of global challenges, support smart city and agriculture transformation making people lives safer, healthier and greener.
Currently, the Spanish start-up is looking to expand its business activities throughout EU countries and beyond. For that, it seeks partners for licensing and commercial agreements with technical assistance. Additionally, it is interested in joining consortia working on topics where their expertise and Know-how could contribute, reaching research agreements.
Advantages and Innovations
What makes this Spanish start-up value proposition unique is that, in addition to its advanced modelling capabilities, their hyper-scalable SaaS (software as a service) platform use can be extended to field-test, implement in the market and day-to-day manage the chosen physical distribution model.
This digital twins technology is well proven in urban and mid-range transportation. It is stretch-tested to validate its ability to deliver in long-haul transport within the EU. It has been tested with routes from Cape North to Algeciras (5.516 km.) and Bucharest to Lisbon (3.900 km.), even if at EU Member State level most of the goods are carried over distances between 300 and 999 kilometres.
It is developed with open standards following state-of-the-art infrastructure as code, programming and DevOps practices. It is accessible through a best-practice developed RESTful (representational state transfer) Architecture Web API (application program interface) with robust enterprise-grade authentication and fine-grain authorization mechanisms.
It is recognized as innovative in various international challenges and competitions, and also by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Urban Mobility. It is validated as line-of-business application by Microsoft and Honeywell. His scalability is certified in Azure.
Drivers support app is developed in native Android. It limits the ability to use the smartphone camera, take screenshots etc. and ensures deletion of all pick-up or delivery data once the service ends, for security purposes. All information is securely transmitted to the .NET back-end.
Stage Of Development
Already on the market
Requested partner
The start-up is looking for international partners willing to collaborate under license agreements or commercial agreements with technical assistance. Ideal partners could be municipalities or urban administrations who would like to implement the solution on their activities or area of influence. Also, possible partners are companies working with these municipalities who would like to extend their portfolio and offer this innovative digital twin technology to their clients.
Additionally, the start -up is interested in research cooperation providing their expertise and know-how to the consortia. They would like to join research projects under research collaboration agreement, where their highly specialized research and modelling services and know-how to support road transport digital twins could be of value for the proposal. The partners sought are industrial or research partners which would act as coordinators.
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