BIT: guess the future of mobility with talent in Portuguese
Between 2025 and 2040, the individual transport will be replaced by individual choice of transport mode. That is, people will depend on less than a single means of transport (car, bus, subway or train), to the detriment of an information system-and the referral and payment enabling them to optimize your time and money. "[This is] through multi-modal solutions, supported by intelligent systems," explains Green Savers the CEO of BIT (Breeze innovation and technology), Jorge Sales Gomes.Another of the major changes in the area of mobility, takes us to a "growing complexity of solutions and systems of mobility". Here, energy efficiency and ability are the keywords. "Many major changes will occur in a time horizon of 15 to 20 years", explains the Executive.The BIT is one of the less visible faces of Breeze-less visible, of course, to the common citizen. Still, several of the projects developed in this workshop of innovation are known from the Portuguese.Founded in December 2009, after the merger of BAER (Acess Road Electronic Breeze) and DIT (Directorate of innovation and technology) of the breeze, the BIT was responsible, for example, by automatic number plate recognition system, already exported to the United States (granting Northwest Parkway), which allows the levying of tolls through photographs.But there are more innovations: from development of all toll payments machines installed on the network, and Atlantic Breeze Brisal, Auto-estradas de Portugal, to the EasyToll system and the solutions associated with the Via Verde system â€" access to historic neighbourhoods, Trojan ferries or car parks."We work in an open innovation model. Innovation is increasingly collaborative development processes, in which internal teams working together with teams of partner companies ", explains the CEO of BIT.Dynamization of the Portuguese economyThe 60 researchers from the company streamline, currently, about 100 projects â€" some are in the exploratory stage, others are already in the part of the investment. Researchers are attached to universities with which the BIT has partnership protocols, highlighting the ISEL (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa), University of Aveiro and Coimbra University. In the past three years, funding to these three institutions amounted to €1,3 million.According to Jorge Sales Gomes, the BIT works with an open innovation system, assuming the role of "an". "New product development is done using a virtual factory, in which each is focused on what it does best," explains the Manager.Thus, the BIT takes a true role of "catalyst of innovation," contributing to "the country's wealth, by replacement of imports, and stimulating knowledge and national industry"."We resorted to companies of different sectors of activity, from the industry-metalworking and moulds â€" to services such as consulting," continues.Electing the Cashless system, implemented in the Nortwest, United States us Parkwy concession, as "flagship project" of the BIT, Jorge Sales Gomes ensures that the company is not limited to the area of action of Breeze. The number of start-ups that are just born of the BIT is the proof: "You were born eight start-ups due to the innovation of the model BIT. And the BIT has no relationship or investor financing with these entities, only guarantees, for a certain period, a portfolio of orders ", stresses.Today, these start-ups already have their own customer base. In the last three years, the BIT provided to these companies a turnover of €7,1 million, an investment that also had an impact in terms of human resources.In fact, innovation generated by the BIT has boosted the creation of value for the parent company, estimated at € 186 million between 2003 and 2009. The investment in I&D, in the same period was €11 million. On the other hand, between 2010 and 2011 a BIT commissioned approximately €32 million to Portuguese companies, between products and services.Thus, the company invested €40,5 million in Portugal, between 2010 and 2011, between suppliers, start-ups and universities.Portugal remains strong in researchIs the universities that are the future of the BIT. And even the economic crisis and eventual departure of Portuguese researchers abroad scares the company. Jorge Sales Gomes ensures that Portugal continues to produce high-quality researchers in the area of mobility, and that the company itself is a link to a professional outlet inside the House."Businesses cannot, and must not replace the State. However, their social responsibility must pass, too, by supporting the national economy, in its different aspects. By supporting universities, we are not only contributing to the improvement of their financial situation, but also to the promotion and development of national know-how ", concludes CEO of BIT.
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