France Brings Top Tech Companies to Detroit, Silicon Valley

Actronika : A haptic-focused startup that boasts a broad menu of state-of-the-art effects and is able to reproduce up to 95% of the vibrotactile capacity of the skin. The company says simplicity, ease of integration and modularity are among its key competitive advantages.

Devialet: An audio system company offering innovative and disruptive design, Devialet touts luxury loudspeakers with an impressive frequency range that spans from 14Hz to 25KHz for a sound that each passenger can feel as well as hear, plus numerous design, hardware and software innovations.

MyScript: An automotive market leader in accurate, high-performance handwriting recognition, the company provides consistent results with any digital writing-enabled device. In addition to extremely accurate text recognition tech, MyScript boasts the ability to recognize complex mathematical equations, geometric graphics and music notation. The ability to recognize more than 70 languages and adapt to the way people write in fragments in cursive and without spaces helps drivers keep their eyes on the road.

ProovStation: Every year, millions of cars are rented and all of them require a regular inspection.  Most of them rely on outdated, disputable and costly paper-based processes at every stage of the value chain. ProovStation is a customized gantry that automatically detects and analyzes all damage present on a vehicle. Everything is automated, and a high-resolution 360-degree photo scan is made in less than three seconds. The system generates a time-stamped, geolocated and Blockchain-secured report providing the information on the condition of the car, including the smallest damages.

QuasarDB: Connected vehicles are beginning to generate huge volumes of real-time data required for training artificial intelligence systems and real-time decision making. How can data analysts access this huge data pile for timeseries analysis and swift follow-up action when current systems require them to copy all data to their own servers before executing queries and performing analysis? QuasarDB says no current database solution can cope with the required volumes and transfer speeds of real-time data to handle this properly. But QuasarDB says it has developed a revolutionary database system to fill the gap and claims to be the only time series database that combines large scale storage and instant querying at both central and edged levels, thanks to its innovative database system design that avoids copying and buffering during the querying process.

Transatel : This company is a global IoT mobile virtual network operator providing a worldwide connectivity solution that helps customers easily connect vehicles to cellular radio networks throughout the world. Transatel’s solution is based on its own 901 network code, with the same SIM card, which gives the customer access to global coverage and possibly several networks within the same territory. Any extension of coverage (such as opening of a new network or a new country) is automatically available for all SIM cards without an update. Transatel says this solution leads to advantages in deployment costs, time to market, simple management, data prices, connectivity coverage and the ability to deploy innovative and homogeneous connected services around the world in a secure manner. Most importantly, Transatel says its solution allows automakers to provide connectivity-based services like emergency call, vehicle software updates over the air, vehicle remote control, fleet management, predictive maintenance, stolen vehicle tracking, music streaming and access to points of interest to enrich navigation services.

Watt park: Describing itself as an Airbnb for EV chargers, Wattpark has developed the first bookable smart charging point. It is a patented collaborative charging station managed through an app and therefore provides software and a coupled hardware solution at once. Wattpark claims to be not only the cheapest connected point of charge on the market, but also the most advanced in terms of features ranging from handling booking to monitoring and selling electricity.

Wever: The Wever mobility manager is claimed to be the first massive tailor-made mobility manager that allows smart cities to develop smart mobility. It is a smartphone and web application which allows people to transmit their daily mobility problems. The platform reveals relevant existing solutions and enables users to build their own transportation solution. Wever’s algorithms identify the most appropriate services based on the needs and the interests expressed by users. Two artificial intelligence solutions are incorporated: dynamic diagnosis, which studies behaviours to drive mobility changes, and a dynamic on demand transport algorithm, which allows the creation of private transportation lines.