Artificial intelligence partner sought by Dutch telematics and IoT provider to jointly develop advanced services in fleet and asset management.

Short summary A Dutch company active in fleet and asset management introduced a new RFID product increasing the amount of available data substantially. To jointly develop new advanced services for their clients they are looking for an AI-partner that can help them capturing this data within the framework of a r&d agreement or revenue sharing. This technology request refers to an innovation challenge published on an open innovation platform.

Full description The Dutch company has been active in the telematics and IoT field for the past 18 years. As a pioneer in the fleet management industry they initially partnered with multinational location providers. Currently they are serving over 2.000 companies in transport and logistics, construction as well as Infrastructure with a total of more than 35.000 vehicles and assets equipped with their own technology. Their core business is about connecting vehicles and objects with people and organizations. Clients use their black boxes to follow their fleet vehicles and assets, to obtain more grip on these moving objects. Various data from GPS location, Can-bus data such as temperature or door sensors are generated. With the introduction of a new small battery-operated sensor, RFID tag, much more data will become available. Such as info about location, temperature and signal strenght every minute. This big data could be used better by applying Artificial Intelligence or machine learning. Some envisioned advanced services could be: - dynamically correct the expected travel times based on trip data, time of year, vehicle type, weather and traffic congestion - advanced driver fuel optimalization support - accurate location determination of assets equiped with RFID tags. Since the companies focus is on the inhouse development of hard, firm and software for their core product they are looking for a strong and creative partner who can help them harvest these big data and transform them into advanced fleet and asset management services for their customers. Partners who understand the fleet and asset management market and are specialized in AI and machine learning are preferred. This technology request refers to an innovation challenge published on an online open innovation platform till 12 of Dec 2022. Organizations are invited to express their interest before the closing date. Interested parties can get additional information on the platform and browse free through other submissions. However to contribute to online discussions registration is necessary. All submissions on the platform will get feedback by the company. Mind that posts on this platform are not confidential. Besides open discussions on the platform, sharing of confidential information will be made possible on demand. After closing of the challenge, the company will select some organisations that have presented themselves on the platform for an online meeting in December to explore cooperation possibilities. In case there is still need for additional solutions after closing of the challenge, expressions of interest will be treated in the traditional way.

Advantages and innovations The advantages the company can offer to potential partners are: - the company has a strong installed base of clients in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany that generate a lot of data. Further internationalization will take place in combination with a leading ICT-wholesaler. - the data available is not only position data but also other data coming from the vehicle or asset itself like temperature and antenne strenght - the data is collected via a platform (hardware, software) that is developed by the company itself. - for new AI based services for their clients, revenue sharing can be discussed.

Technical Specification or Expertise Sought The company is looking for companies, teams, self-employed specialist who have their knowledge in AI, machine learning and understand what benefits the companies data could offer to their clients. Partners with knowledge and interest in the fleet & asset management market are preferred
Contact / source: NEXT EEN Widgets (europa.eu)