Meet the brand: Accure Battery Intelligence
We catch up with Claudia Rusek from Accure Battery Intelligence to find out more about the brand and its presense at Euro Bus Expo, on stand T56.
Tell us a bit more your company
We are battery experts increasing the momentum towards zero emissions with battery analytics and cloud computing software. Our energy and mobility future is built on batteries. With the staggering increase in demand for battery systems, the need to ensure safety while continuously optimizing battery performance, lifetime, and sustainability are a top priority. That’s where we come in. We support fleet managers, electrification project leaders, and battery engineers to prevent battery failures, increase reliability and longevity, and track battery performance to inform future purchase decisions.
We manage millions of batteries around the world, spanning all relevant cell chemistries, form factors and use cases—from buses to sports cars to stationary storage. With the BVG, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe – one of the largest public transport authorities in Germany, we’ve established a partnership to not only monitor their e-bus batteries for safety but to accompany them on their electrification journey to have 1,600 e-buses by 2030. Our solution enables BVG’s electrification department to monitor the safety and get automatic alerts before failing batteries become dangerous to ensure the safety of passengers and crews, to plan maintenance, and avoid unnecessary downtimes.
ACCURE was founded in 2020 by Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies, Dr. Johannes Palmer and Dr. Georg Angenendt. With a clear vision to accelerate the transition to clean energy and mobility and a problem-solving spirit, they set out to develop new, modern solutions to process and analyze the growing volume of data generated by battery management systems. Today more than 70 engineers and scientists from the world’s leading research groups and tech companies work together across North America and Europe to make batteries safer, more reliable, and sustainable using data analytics.
Tell us about your latest product(s), service(s), promotions or launches visitors can hope to see on your stand:
We’re all about battery analytics software to ensure a safe, reliable and sustainable transition to 100% battery-electric mobility.
Our visitors can learn about our battery intelligence platform and how they can reduce the risk and complexity of transitioning to an electric fleet.
Procurement Directors will be most interested in the Performance Manager, while Fleet and Electrification Leaders will want to know more about Safety Manager and Lifetime Manager:
ACCURE Safety Manager: Batteries have a certain risk of failure, potentially leading to explosions and fires. Safety Manager continuously monitors the fleet batteries using existing data and detects safety critical battery behavior weeks before it become dangerous. This allows operators to ensure the safety of passengers and crews, plan maintenance, and supports insurance policies to reduce OPEX.
ACCURE Performance Manager: As the backbone of our mobility future, batteries need to perform reliably. But experience has shown that batteries don’t always work as promised by the manufacturer, leaving electric buses stranded on winter streets or stuck at the depot. Online monitoring allows operators and procurement teams to identify under-performing batteries, ensure operation within warranty requirements, compare battery performance across suppliers and negotiate contracts at eye level.
ACCURE Lifetime Manager: The lifetime of a battery depends on a multitude of factors – from chemistry and form factor to temperature and load profiles during usage. But even two identical batteries used in the exact same way will behave differently as they age. Lifetime Manager accurately calculates the state of health and predicts the aging of batteries, including the impact of operating conditions. With these insights operators can improve the charging strategy, capacity and lifetime of their batteries by up to 25%, increasing the profitability and reducing the carbon footprint.
Why is exhibiting at Euro Bus Expo 2022 an unmissable opportunity for you?
Let’s ensure going electric is a smooth ride together! With our advanced battery data analytics we put our fleet owners in the driver’s seat to steer their electrification projects to be safe, reliable, profitable, and sustainable.
With the increased demand for EVs and fully electric mass transportation combined with a period of severe supply chain constraints, the incidents of safety critical events increases. We have only to look at the recent bus fires in London and Paris this year to remind of the necessity to ensure batteries are safe. With the latest advancements in cloud-based software and battery analytics, we want to increase the awareness for solution proven to address immediate safety needs.
New solutions are needed to increase the sustainability of batteries from longer lifetimes to their viability for second life usage. It’s important to us to carry this message along with the business benefits to ensure maximum acceptance for battery-powered fleets and the analytics technology necessary to ensure they fulfill the promise for clean, sustainable and safe mobility.
Euro Bus Expo 2022 is the place to be for the bus industry and we want to help accelerate the transition to clean mobility.
Euro Bus Expo: a must-attend for transport planners
Better, greener, more connected transport
Euro Bus Expo returns to the NEC, Birmingham on 1-3 November 2022. The premier bus, coach and mini vehicle exhibition is a must attend for local authorities.
The industry showcase will bring together thousands of thought leaders, suppliers, manufacturers, operators, transport planners and strategy influencers. Each has a critical role to play in connecting communities, encouraging bus patronage, improving services, and not least - achieving net zero.
To this end, transport planners are managing more regulations and contract decisions than ever before. All while dwindling government resource and rising inflation rates are increasing focus on investment returns. Visiting Euro Bus Expo can help to alleviate these mounting pressures.
Achieving net zero
Free to attend seminars will inform about the milestones, challenges, and possible solutions to make the vision for carbon free transport a reality. Visitors will hear about the practicalities of implementation, infrastructure requirements, and how others are adapting to similar circumstances. There will be also sessions dedicated to game-changing technologies and industry developments.
Informed investments
With hundreds of suppliers in one place, it’s easy to find and compare all the new emission-reducing products and technologies available. And, to research which of these quickly developing opportunities deliver the best value for money.
The exhibitor line-up includes over 20 vehicle manufacturers that will be showcasing the fleets of the future – including brand-new launches. Several will be demonstrating vehicles in the dedicated Zero Emission Zone. Here, visitors can experience the latest carbon-free battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles first hand. They will also see new features designed to lower the costs of operating and make the passenger experience more desirable.
Behaviour change
To convince people to use greener travel options, services need to be available, accessible, and convenient. Exhibitors will be showcasing an array of products and services to help with these challenges.
Among hundreds of exhibiting brands are suppliers whose technologies can make seamless journeys a reality. From route mapping and traffic flow modelling, through multimodal ticketing and on-demand bus and coach services.
There will be smart passenger information systems that can keep commuters informed about expected arrival times and any delays, and products to increase on-board comfort.
In the miniplus Area, visitors will find mini vehicles fitted with modern accessible aids including step-free design, wheelchair lifts, bespoke seating, and more safety items.
The show will be brimming with developments that can create the new customer experience needed to drive a shift from cars to buses.
Public-private partnerships
To drive this shift, collaboration is necessary between authorities, businesses, supply chain partners, policy makers – and not least, communities. As the entire industry comes together this November, there will be ample opportunity to network. Visitors can meet new contacts, develop relationships, share ideas, learn from others, and forge new partnerships.
An industry challenge
Buses and coaches have vast potential to reduce pollution and congestion, to connect people and support economic success. And they have a central role to play in achieving decarbonisation goals. This is a collective industry challenge. Attend Euro Bus Expo this November and find out how it is being addressed.
Free registration and free coach travel
Free coach travel to the venue is available from 6 locations including Brighton, Cardiff, Colchester, Liverpool, Portsmouth and York. For more information and to register for the free-to-attend trade exhibition, visit www.eurobusxpo.com.
Meet the brand: Geotab UK
We catch up with Tamara Rashford from Geotab UK Ltd to find out about the brand and its presence at Euro Bus Expo, on stand T22.
Tell us a bit about your company:
We are Geotab: a world leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected transportation, and the #1 global telematics provider for two years running, according to ABI Research.
At our core, we help our customers better manage their fleets through advanced telematics, security, Internet of Things connectivity for vehicles, and powerful device-agnostic analytics. All of this compounds into real, actionable insights for our customers to optimise and enhance operations and operate sustainably.
Since our establishment in 2000, we’ve grown from a small family business to a global leader in fleet management solutions and vehicle tracking. In fact, we became the first telematics company to achieve 2 million connected vehicles built on a single, open platform–and we recently announced that we’ve crossed the 3 million subscriber threshold too, demonstrating the clear demand for data intelligence throughout the industry.
Today, we are one of the largest telematics companies in the world, processing more than 55 billion data points every single day across vehicles of all shapes, sizes, and fuel types: from GPS position, speed, engine information, idling, distance, battery insights, fuel usage, and much more. We have advanced support for more than 250 Electric Vehicle (EV) makes and models, plus over 9,000 Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) makes and models too–twice as many as any other fleet telematics provider.
We also set ourselves apart with a relentless focus on research and development, placing us consistently amongst the top leaders in technology innovation. Our most recent advancement arrived with the introduction of the Geotab GO9 series, bringing substantial hardware upgrades engineered from the ground up.
Tell us about your latest products, services, promotions or launches that visitors can hope to see on your stand:
We’ll be showcasing the breadth of the Geotab Bus & Coach offering, anchored by our GO telematics devices and the MyGeotab fleet management platform. Our platform offers actionable fleet management and vehicle maintenance solutions that can optimise operations, improve driver safety, and ensure that operators are empowered to deliver a consistently high level of service to their customers.
Typically, operators need a few basic things done right: knowing where their vehicles are, preventing breakdowns, controlling and improving driver behaviour, and ensuring optimal and efficient operations.
The technology in our GO devices plugs directly into the on-vehicle diagnostics interface, uncovering a wealth of valuable and insightful data for operators with this endeavour in mind. For example, should a coach exhibit a fault at an early stage, this can be alerted to managers immediately, saving potentially thousands of pounds in the future before it escalates further.
Similarly, the combination of real-time vehicle data and sensor insights can infer negative driver behaviour traits which can be utilised to directly inform future training and performance improvement, where required.
Finally, insights can be drawn to understand how vehicles are being used: for example, excessive idling for long periods of time or outside environmentally-sensitive areas such as schools and parks, or optimising vehicle usage and energy consumption to save money.
Underpinning this all is MyGeotab: the web-based fleet management platform that is available to all Geotab customers. For bus and coach fleets of any size, uniting all vehicle insights and data in one single place is a game changer in ensuring quicker, more informed decision making—from operational optimisation to robust vehicle maintenance monitoring.
We’ll be showcasing how our GO devices and MyGeotab can work together to provide bus and coach operators with the powerful fleet intelligence they need.
Why is exhibiting at Euro Bus Expo 2022 an unmissable opportunity for you?
The bus and coach market is very much near and dear to our heart and we work with some of the most well-known companies in the sector including DB Regio Bus, SBB AG, and many more.
We believe the bus and coach market is a sector that can draw a lot of value from the opportunity of telematics: from efficiency optimisation, driver safety, and of course future fuel transitions as the switch to zero-emissive fleets becomes a key priority.
As such, we’re incredibly excited to be exhibiting at this year’s Euro Bus Expo in Birmingham to meet and discuss how telematics can help support growth in this industry for years to come. We’ll be at stand T22 on the showfloor–looking forward to seeing you there!