THE SMART WEIGHING MAT

Cécile Villette, Bérengère Lebental and Rihab Jerbi are the three co-founders of the start-up Altaroad, which was created to improve the sustainability and safety of road infrastructure. To this end, the company has formed a partnership with the École Polytechnique, the CNRS and the Gustave Eiffel University to develop a machine learning platform and a sensor network capable of collecting data in real time on the vehicles accounted by the system.

Their solution, based on the TopTrack weighing belt, enables better monitoring of waste on a construction site and was the winner of the European Innovation Council competition in July 2020. Concurrently, a digital solution – called DigiTrack and connected to the government’s TrackDéchets platform – has been developed to ensure the traceability of the data collected by TopTrack.

Within the framework of this project, one of EFI Automotive Service’s first in the support of innovative companies, we were able to offer Altaroad our expertise in the following areas:

1. Setting up a production line: 100 m² dedicated to the production of weighing systems.
2. Implementation of a double industrial support, both on the product and on the manufacturing process.
3. Management of the supply of raw materials for the prototypes and suggestions for the optimisation of certain components to improve the performance and assembly of the product.

This project illustrates that our teams can perfectly support an innovative start-up/company that has already designed its first prototypes. The support offered is therefore adapted to the degree of progress of each project.