Industrial Automation Magazine India

ASTI Mobile Robotics and Telefónica reinforce their collaboration

Published on : Tuesday 17-11-2020

The two companies to market integral solutions for mobile robots in the connected industry.

Madrid, November 11, 2020 – Telefónica Tech and ASTI Mobile Robotics, a Spanish company specialised in the design and manufacture of mobile robots, have announced the signing of a global commercial agreement to promote the digitalisation of intralogistics in the industrial sector. The two companies have been collaborating for two years in the development of an integral  value proposal, a collaboration that is now furthered by this joint marketing agreement in the countries where the two companies operate, which also includes a more complete solution thanks to the incorporation of new technologies.

This integral  solution helps the industrial sector to automate repetitive logistical processes within their facilities, thanks to the convergence of the worlds of OT/IT (operational technology and information technology) with tools such as autonomous vehicles and mobile robots AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) with intelligence, cellular connectivity, Blockchain traceability and Edge Computing technology, thus improving their processes and increasing efficiency in both costs and delivery times.

Telefónica Tech’s IoT and Big Data solutions, developed together with partners such as ASTI, allow companies to optimise the industrial value chain by improving the overall efficiency of teams working in Industry 5.0. The main enabler of the so-called “Wireless Factories” concept is the 5G mobile communication standard, which allows mobile robots to communicate continuously and without interruption, allowing them freedom of movement, both in indoor and outdoor environments. These robots are guided through a technology, known as SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping), which allows them to build a map of the environment and simultaneously locate themselves to navigate it, capturing and receiving the information from their sensors.

The development of the new generation of AGV robots and their integration with external sensors and the information of others in the same plant allows to have real-time vision and share it between all the AGV’s and other devices. All this is possible thanks to the capabilities of the new industrial communications with 5G and the computing capabilities in the network with Industrial Edge Computing. These technologies are integrated with the capabilities of both companies in advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence.