You can walk down the path towards sustainability with your feet firmly on the ground and your head in the “cloud”. This has been proven by the partnership between Flow and Oracle, which has just generated the first cloud-based mobility solution within the transport industry.
Featuring 'data centres' all over the world, Oracle's cloud infrastructure guarantees critical data and is the ideal driving force to shorten the times taken to execute sustainable mobility plans, helping to consolidate Flow's vision for companies, cities and service providers committed to implementing the best mobility practices, with a view to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
THE BEST SOLUTION
Flow's Sustainable Mobility Management Solution enables corporate decision-makers to manage five key systems in an integrated manner: mobility planning, energy management, fleet management, mobility services and transaction management. More specifically, this innovative tool allows for the planning, management and streamlining of the entire transport ecosystem within an organisation, from determining the best approach to electrifying a fleet, managing a multimodal set of traditional, hybrid and electric vehicles, to the optimisation of the entire energy management of an electric vehicle´s charging infrastructure.
Another of the solution´s strengths is the scope of the Flow network, which currently comprises more than 4,500 vehicles and 4,000 charging points. In a period of one year, this represents savings of over 1 million euros for its customers, when compared to the cost of traditional fleets, in addition to a significant reduction in CO2 emissions of over 5,000 tons.
THE PIONEERISM OF FLOW
In the opinion of André Dias, the founder and CTO of Flow, there is no doubt that “if we analyse the volume of data generated by the IoT equipment in the entire fleet of vehicles, charging stations and energy sources, a cloud-based system is the quickest, safest and most efficient environment in which we can create applications designed to provide us with all the relevant real-time information on vehicles and drivers on the road”.
In the opinion of André Silva, from Flow, the cloud is the quickest, safest and most efficient environment for a mobility solution
The head of the technology firm further guarantees that “Oracle's global coverage enables Flow to manage a distribution solution regardless of where both we and our clients are located”. “The resilience of the solution and the fact it can be implemented in multiple circumstances means our clients have local assistance and centralised management. In addition, the size of Oracle's data centres ensures the total confidentiality of personal and business data”, he concludes.
Furthermore, “Flow is a pioneer in the implementation of cloud technology in Europe and particularly in the Iberian Peninsula”, underlines Rodrigo Vasques Jorge, Portugal Technology Leader at Oracle. “By proving the value of our new-generation cloud infrastructure and our renowned customer support service, we are proud to be able to leverage the growth of this inspiring start-up on the way to global expansion”, he concludes.
