UNDER THE HIGH PATRONAGE OF ORGANISERS

SMART STATIONS IN SMART CITIES6th International Conference on Railway Stations

Madrid, 19‐21 OCTOBER 2017

Artificial Intelligence in the Railway Industry

Daniel, Martín de LucasManaging Director, Limmat Group, Spain4b. SMART FACILITY MANAGEMENT

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HIGH NUMBER OF NEGATIVE NEWS IN THE MEDIA

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BUT OTHERS NEWS SHOW AN AMAZING POTENTIAL OF A EMERGING TECHNOLOGIE

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WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?

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SENSE UNDERSTAND ACT

Multiple technologies that can be combined in different ways to:

MachineLearning

Planning & OptimizationNLP

RoboticsSpeech Vision ExpertSystems

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KEY FACTORS ARE ENABLING AI GROWTH

Real time information Data Availability Computing Power

& Data storage

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FACTS & FIGURES

In 2016, companies invest$26B to $39B

3x External investment grow since 2013

TECH GIANTS77%

STARTUPS23%

It is considered a new factor of production

Investment in AI is growing at a high 

rate, but adoption in 2017 remains low

Fast emerging technology market 

(CAGR) 31%2016 ‐ 2024

By 2020, 85% of customer interactions 

will be managed without a human

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NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESING

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Customer interactions:• Virtual assistants and chatbots: Formulating responses to questions.• Social media monitoring: Opinion and feed back of our services.

Improve the accessibility in the stations. Applications for risk analysis and hazard identification. 

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Door-to-Door Journey Planner for passangers and freights. Support tools for dispatches (Optimal decisions). Increase the Capacity & Support the liberalization. Energy optimisation for Vehicles & ATO. Optimal evacuation in real time.

PLANING SCHEDULING & OPTIMIZATION

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SMART VISION Security Applications. Ticketing. User experience and crowd movements. Driver Assistance System.

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MACHINE LEARNING

TMS Applications: Predictive algorithm able to forecast delays. Retailers applications: Analytics on passenger preferences. Predictive maintenance. Building Automation.

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Assist travellers. Help to carry luggage. Creating automatons. Detect shoplifters.

Photo: SNCF Gares & Connexions.

ROBOTIC

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UNDER THE HIGH PATRONAGE OF ORGANISERS

THANK YOU / GRACIAS

Daniel Martín de Lucas Managing Director 

daniel.martin@limmat‐group.comwww.limmat‐group.com