VEOLIA
Tech and AI integration Veolia is on a mission to harness artificial intelligence to optimise operations across all business segments, from waste sorting to water network management and facility monitoring.
The company’ s AI applications span monitoring and optimising water consumption, managing water networks, waste sorting and recycling, detecting and anticipating infrastructure events and anomalies, and enabling remote and continuous facility management.
The organisation’ s technological arsenal includes sophisticated tools deployed across its operations. Hubgrade management centres enable teams to remotely and continuously manage facilities across all business lines, for example. Connected sensors facilitate smarter water consumption management, while the‘ Bob’ predictive maintenance unit analyses vibrations of industrial machines to improve anomaly detection. Advanced robots operate in sorting centres, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
A prime example of Veolia’ s technological innovation is the Max AI smart sorting robot deployed in France. This system demonstrates remarkable efficiency gains, performing approximately 3,600 sorting operations per hour compared to the 2,200 operations achieved by human operators – a 1.5-fold increase in performance.
Using dual optical cameras and comprehensive knowledge of materials and waste types, Max AI detects
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