EOLANE  thus confirms its strategic refocusing on its core business: EMS

On the strength of its turnaround over the past year, Eolane continuing its strategic refocusing on its core business in France and internationally: specification, design, sourcing, industrialization, prototyping, production of advanced electronic boards and their integration into a finished product.

For Henri JUIN, Chairman of the Groupe éolane: “The sale of this business unit to NKE accelerates EOLANE’s strategic focus on its core business of EMS (electronic manufacturer supplier). We no longer aim to develop our own solutions, but rather to provide design assistance and support for the industrialization of products designed by our customers, whatever their sector of activity.  Of course, we retain a strong expertise in telecom to support our customers in Smart City, Smart Home, Smart Buildings , Smart Industry, Fleet Management , Smart logistics, and Smart Agriculture. This agreement also seals an industrial partnership with Nke Watteco for whom we will continue to manufacture BOB Assistant and Moove, which I am delighted about “.

Nke Watteco has specialized for 6 years in the design and marketing of sensors and connected boxes for building and industrial markets in BtoB. Its products are intended for the market of metering of all types of energy and remote measurement of the operating status of equipments. As such, nkeWatteco is already present on the market of connected sensors by having delivered 16 000 sensors over the year 2019 and has all the know-how and technological, material and human resources necessary to satisfy existing customers and prospects. NkeWatteco wishes to serve immediately the European market and in 2021 the international market .

For Jean-Claude  Le Bleis,  President of  Nke: “Bob and  Movee  will complete the portfolio of products designed for harsh industrial market next to gaz sub-consumption measurment ATEX devices and the three-phase current measurement. Moreover,  through  the association  with Cartesiam,  this prefigures the arrival of sensors of the future with on-board Artificial Intelligence (AI)“.

The two companies signed on September 9th the sale of the Smart Solutions Business Unit, including the 2 products with the LoRa protocol:

• BOB Assistant: technology for predictive maintenance and operational assistance by permanent monitoring of vibrations and recorded temperatures of isolated systems (pump, air conditioning, cooling unit, fan…),
• Movee®(track and event): versatile sensor-based logistics and asset tracking technology  (ie. tracking, message and alert options) for geo-location and event management of physical assets,

BOB ASSISTANT is the winner of the défi Eau de Paris in the “free challenge” category, which must meet the new challenges of Eau de Paris:

• Modernizing customer relations ;
• Optimizing the industrial tool ;
• Accelerating the ecological transition and strengthening links with the territories ;
• Modernizing the organization.

EAP is the leading public water company in France and delivers drinking water every day to 3 million users. Collection, treatment, distribution, customer relations: Eau de Paris’ 900 employees are involved in every stage of the water cycle for an ever more efficient and innovative public service. Committed to protecting water, biodiversity and the climate, Eau de Paris manages its resources and assets sustainably, in collaboration with local partners.

Initially, 2 experiments will be carried out in parallel:

• Monitoring of particularly critical equipment,
• Monitoring of ultrafiltration membranes.

“BOB Assistant is a highly innovative and efficient predictive maintenance service that will help Eau de Paris to monitor and maintain its equipment. We are taking advantage of the experiments of this challenge to make BOB evolve and adapt it to the use of equipment such as ultrafiltration membranes or generators”

Maxime EUVRARD, Key account manager at EOLANE.

Sébastien Chatelier, Managing Director in charge of transformation and development within the Eolane Group, presents the BOB ASSISTANT solution in the show Le Tête à Têtes Décideurs on BFM Business.

Our stand at the MtoM show in Paris was a great success. On this occasion, the web magazine electroniques.biz published an article presenting our solution and its applications!

Read the entire article entitled ‘Bob d’éolane revolutionizes Predictive Maintenance’ published on March 22nd on www.electroniques.biz !