Altaroad is a French innovative startup founded in 2017 by three complementary profiles from prominent institutions, including Telecom Paris/HEC, Ecole Polytechnique/Ponts et chaussées, and UC Riverside. The company is a spinoff of Ecole Polytechnique, Université Gustave Eiffel, and CNRS, focusing on developing sustainable cities. Altaroad offers a platform for tracking heavy truck flows on construction sites and industrial locations. This solution aims to reduce transportation costs, enhance safety, trace carbon impact, ensure regulatory compliance, and enable end-to-end traceability of transported materials and waste. Altaroad's platform integrates cameras and mobile weighing systems, providing real-time data through a user-friendly application, allowing easy flow control and electronic waste tracking.
Altaroad received a €1.89M grant investment on May 19, 2020 from The European Innovation Council. The company operates within the industries of Analytics and Logistics, with its headquarters based in France. The startup leverages sensor technology for infrastructure development and offers an industrial IoT platform for optimizing waste and material transportation in the construction industry. By generating traffic data and providing real-time insights, Altaroad aims to facilitate compliance with local regulations, optimize transportation, and reduce overall costs and carbon footprint.