In partnership with Sigfox and delaware, Condat launches CondatLink for better inventory management and better visibility of sealant consumption.
Condat, specialist in the formulation of specialty lubricants and world leader in many fields of application, today announces its partnership with Sigfox, the world’s leading provider of IoT services and initiator of the 0G network. Spurred on by delaware, a long-standing partner of Condat and integrator of internationally renowned innovative and technological solutions, the two players have created CondatLink, an IoT solution capable of helping tunnel boring machines to better manage their supply and their stock of mastic. waterproofing on construction sites.
Managing the sealant stock: a major issue for tunnel boring machines
With more than 25 years of experience in the tunnel field and more than 4,500 km excavated, Condat has unique know-how and an international reputation in its sector. The company is notably a leader in the manufacture and supply of waterproofing mastic, a product intended for the construction of tunnels in wet areas. The latter is essential for tunneling boring machines because in the event of water infiltration, construction sites may be delayed and, in the worst case, may even be submerged.
In order to ensure the supply of its customers, Condat delivers everywhere in the world using containers of 20 tons. To define future deliveries, Condat’s sales forces could so far only estimate the needs of their customers by talking with them, without being able to obtain precise information on their mastic consumption.
« We needed a solution to prevent our tunnel boring customers from running out of sealant on their sites. In the life of a site, many parameters can speed up or slow down the consumption of this product. To satisfy our customers, we had to think of a way to get to know the latter, without having to contact someone on the construction sites. We had the intuition that IoT was the right way to go. So we turned to delaware, our technology solutions partner for over 23 years, to help us. ” Explain Guy Chemisky, Director of Operations at Condat.
If the idea of CondatLink was launched by Condat last November on the occasion of Del20, the working group of delaware focused on innovation where concrete cases and feedback are shared, it is in January that the project is born:
« We started this project together by focusing on an end-to-end strategy: from the Design Thinking phase to the design of the applications. We then came as a prescriber and put in touch with several interlocutors of the IoT ecosystem. This is how Sigfox was chosen to support us in the implementation of this project and the design of the tracking and monitoring equipment. »Adds Baptiste Duriez, Partner at delaware.
Sigfox was chosen by Condat in particular for its 0G network covering more than 70 countries and regions and its proposal to fully integrate the solution into Condat’s SAP environment.
« We were very pleasantly surprised by the maturity of the thinking. The Condat and delaware teams had carried out an in-depth study around the service experience for users, and how the solution would fit into the production circuit. Even the notion of return on investment with stock management had been studied. We were therefore able to bring our expertise to the project in order to bring out the solution very quickly. »Adds Patrick Cason, Managing Director of Sigfox France.
“This project was carried out thanks to a team made up of a dozen members coming from both Condat, Delaware and Sigfox. By bringing together all these skills, the spirit of innovating together and the desire to co-develop with our suppliers, we succeeded in finalizing this project in a very short time and in the midst of a period of confinement. “analysis Guy Chemisky.
IoT for better monitoring of consumption on construction sites
Sigfox’s expertise has thus led to the implementation of the CondatLink solution, which will be available internationally and will in particular make it possible to know more precisely the level of sealant consumption on construction sites, thanks to a connected object. who can follow the opening and closing of the barrels.
The object is fixed on the barrels as soon as they leave the production plant. It is both small (116x45x30mm), light (around 100g) and a battery life of one year or more. As for the software, it uses Sigfox Monarch (international device, frequency management) and Atlas (geolocation) technologies. It will send a message regularly to indicate the location of the keg (asset tracking) and to capture the appropriate frequency, in addition to the emission of recurring messages indicating its change of state when the keg is opened (asset monitoring).
The information obtained by this connected object will then be sent to Condat and their customers via the Sigfox 0G network and available on a dedicated monitoring application. This platform will take the form of a dashboard allowing the customer to monitor their consumption and stock, and for Condat, their deliveries throughout the world.
Aware of environmental issues, Condat has been offering solutions that are more respectful of individuals and the planet for more than 20 years and the development of CondatLink is part of this approach. Thus, with delaware and Sigfox, Condat wanted to pay particular attention to the eco-design and optimization of the battery. In addition, the optimization of transport and the better planning of deliveries, obtained thanks to this solution, make it possible to avoid as much as possible the breakdown service by plane and, therefore, to greatly reduce its carbon footprint.
A first use case that aims to deploy tens of thousands of connected objects
A test phase is planned for July with the implementation of this solution in two sites. Initially, the stake will be the deployment of tens of thousands of objects by next year.
« Tomorrow, we will be able to go further than monitoring the consumption of sealant on construction sites. It will be possible to do this with many other products and for sectors other than tunnel builders. One of our big technological projects in the years to come will be to make more use of the data that we have been collecting for more than 20 years in order to build predictive models and to serve our customers even better. »Concludes Guy Chemisky.
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