Vianova builds the location data platform for shared mobility companies and cities - TechCrunch

Meet Vianova, a French startup that is gathering a information level for shared mobility companies arsenic good arsenic section governments. The institution acts arsenic some a information repository and a information visualization dashboard.

It has raised a $6.4 cardinal (€6 million) Series A backing circular led by Baloise VC with XAnge arsenic good arsenic existing investors RATP Capital Innovation and Ponooc besides participating.

Many cities person changed drastically with the emergence of free-floating bikes, electrical scooters, moped scooters and cars that you tin unlock with your phone. Cities person besides changed their rules implicit clip and embracing micromobility successful antithetic ways.

The bully quality is that these mobility fleets each person immoderate signifier of connectivity with a GPS spot and a cellular modem. In different words, companies and section governments tin usage information to marque those services much businesslike and safer for radical utilizing them and everyone other surviving successful these cities.

Right now, Vianova tracks 1 cardinal connected vehicles connected its platform. Some companies usage the level to negociate their fleet and marque definite the vehicles are successful the close spots astatine the close time.

Policymakers and information scientists tin besides leverage this level to observe immoderate trends. It tin beryllium utilized to amended infrastructure, make slow-speed zones oregon parking areas done geofencing and more.

All of this tin beryllium done done a SimCity-like dashboard with representation overlays and real-time data. The thought is that you tin usage Vianova arsenic real-time dashboard and arsenic an analytics instrumentality to make humanities reports and spot however good you’re doing — whether you are a mobility institution oregon a section government.

But an analytics instrumentality without immoderate information would beryllium a spot useless. That’s wherefore you tin harvester your ain information with antithetic mobility information sources. This tin beryllium peculiarly absorbing for cities that privation to entree information from backstage companies to amended recognize what’s happening.

For instance, the metropolis of Stockholm and Voi some usage Vianova to amended shared mobility services successful the city. Mobility companies determine who they privation to stock their information with.

Vianova uses APIs to fetch information from mobility operators truthful that you spot unrecorded information connected the platform. Data tin beryllium aggregated and anonymized.

Some of Vianova’s customers see the cities of Zurich, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Marseille, arsenic good arsenic mobility operators similar Bolt and Voi. Some large infrastructure companies are besides utilizing the platform, specified arsenic RATP, Aéroports de Paris and KTH University.