A company from Coimbra that owns a technological platform for predictive maintenance and remote diagnostics for vehicles has closed a global contract with one of the largest public transport operators in the world and a leader in shared mobility.
Founded in 2017, Stratio has a predictive maintenance platform for fleets that integrates advanced models and artificial intelligence to monitor, analyze and predict failures in real time, in vehicles of any type, make and model sent to the Lusa agency.
The agreement, whose values were not disclosednow signed with Keolis, a multinational with French and Canadian capital that operates in 15 countries, will allow this company to use the Stratio platform in urban and long-distance buses.
Quoted in the note, Pierre Gosset, director of the Keolis Group’s Industrial Division, explained that Stratio’s technological solution, which is already implemented in several networks of the public transport company in France, “allows maintenance teams to consult and resolve vehicle breakdowns.
This eliminates costly downtime, allowing us to deliver an even more reliable, efficient and safe service to passengers, while helping our operations teams improve eco-driving performance,” he said.
For his part, Rui Sales, co-founder and president of Stratio, expressed the satisfaction of the company he directs for having chosen the technological platform developed in Coimbra.
“Keolis’s commitment to innovation, automation and digitization of its maintenance operations shows how much this group values its customers,” he underlined.
This worldwide partnership with one of the largest fleets in the world accelerates the achievement of our goal of creating a continuous future that benefits the entire population”, added Rui Sales.
Stratio also indicated that predictive maintenance “results in increased vehicle operating time and optimization of maintenance operations, which, ultimately, saves costs and improves service to the public.”
The company also noted that Stratio’s proprietary technology enables “avoid thousands of breakdownsthus saving millions of people from the inconvenience of delays in public transport”, and is installed in five of the ten largest transport companies in the world, which rely on the platform “to eliminate forced stops and increase operational efficiency” .
Keolis, owned 70% by the French public railway company (SNCF) and 30% by the Quebec Investment and Deposit Fund (Canada), employs some 68,000 people in 14 countries and, in 2021, recorded revenues of €6.3 billion.
The multinational group has mobility solutions, which include trains, buses and subways, car sharing and bicycles, river and maritime transport, driverless vehicles or urban cable cars, among others, having transported 3,400 million passengers in 2019
Source: Observadora
