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Acciona Mobility: Leveraging Google Cloud for Low-Carbon Transport Solutions

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Event-Driven Application Sensors - GPS
Applicable Industries	Renewable Energy Transportation
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Maintenance
Use Cases	Autonomous Transport Systems Transportation Simulation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Cybersecurity Services
Challenge	Acciona Mobility, a Spanish multinational company, is committed to leading the transition towards a low-carbon economy. The company, which operates in 65 countries, launched an electric scooter sharing service in 2018. The service, powered 100% by renewable energy, aims to contribute to the decarbonization of the transport sector and alleviate traffic congestion within cities. However, to achieve this, Acciona Mobility needed a scalable and reliable IT infrastructure to support its long-term vision. The company also needed to develop an application that would allow users to find, reserve, and rent the scooters easily. Furthermore, the company faced the challenge of managing and processing real-time data from thousands of scooters, ensuring the availability and location of scooters are accurately shown to users. Read More
About Customer	Acciona Mobility is a Spanish multinational company committed to developing and managing infrastructure and renewable energy. The company operates in 65 countries and has 40,000 employees. Acciona Mobility is part of the larger Acciona group, which provides sustainable solutions for infrastructure and renewable energy projects across the globe. In 2018, Acciona Mobility launched an electric scooter sharing service, aiming to contribute to the decarbonization of the transport sector and relieve traffic congestion within cities. The service enables users to rent electric scooters powered 100% by energy from renewable sources. Read More
Solution	Acciona Mobility chose Google Cloud to build its IT infrastructure. The company partnered with cloud consultancy Altostratus to select Google Cloud products that would help develop the application quickly using managed services. BigQuery was chosen as the primary data warehouse to store all the information related to the service, such as the location of scooters and their availability status. Acciona integrated Pub/Sub and Dataflow to ensure that the data generated by scooters is ingested and processed in real time. The company used Google Maps Platform APIs, such as the Directions API, to translate the geographical coordinates of scooters into an easy-to-read address displayed beside a visual map. Cloud SQL was used to automate the storage capacity management of the database as the number of scooters and active users grew. Google Cloud Armor was used to protect the service against cyber breaches and distributed denial of service attacks. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Event-Driven Application

Sensors - GPS

Applicable Industries

Renewable Energy

Transportation

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Maintenance

Use Cases

Autonomous Transport Systems

Transportation Simulation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Cybersecurity Services

Challenge

Acciona Mobility, a Spanish multinational company, is committed to leading the transition towards a low-carbon economy. The company, which operates in 65 countries, launched an electric scooter sharing service in 2018. The service, powered 100% by renewable energy, aims to contribute to the decarbonization of the transport sector and alleviate traffic congestion within cities. However, to achieve this, Acciona Mobility needed a scalable and reliable IT infrastructure to support its long-term vision. The company also needed to develop an application that would allow users to find, reserve, and rent the scooters easily. Furthermore, the company faced the challenge of managing and processing real-time data from thousands of scooters, ensuring the availability and location of scooters are accurately shown to users.

About Customer

Acciona Mobility is a Spanish multinational company committed to developing and managing infrastructure and renewable energy. The company operates in 65 countries and has 40,000 employees. Acciona Mobility is part of the larger Acciona group, which provides sustainable solutions for infrastructure and renewable energy projects across the globe. In 2018, Acciona Mobility launched an electric scooter sharing service, aiming to contribute to the decarbonization of the transport sector and relieve traffic congestion within cities. The service enables users to rent electric scooters powered 100% by energy from renewable sources.

Solution

Acciona Mobility chose Google Cloud to build its IT infrastructure. The company partnered with cloud consultancy Altostratus to select Google Cloud products that would help develop the application quickly using managed services. BigQuery was chosen as the primary data warehouse to store all the information related to the service, such as the location of scooters and their availability status. Acciona integrated Pub/Sub and Dataflow to ensure that the data generated by scooters is ingested and processed in real time. The company used Google Maps Platform APIs, such as the Directions API, to translate the geographical coordinates of scooters into an easy-to-read address displayed beside a visual map. Cloud SQL was used to automate the storage capacity management of the database as the number of scooters and active users grew. Google Cloud Armor was used to protect the service against cyber breaches and distributed denial of service attacks.

Impact #1	The implementation of Google Cloud has allowed Acciona Mobility to develop a scalable and reliable IT infrastructure that supports its long-term vision of a low-carbon economy. The use of Google Cloud products has enabled the company to develop an application that allows users to easily find, reserve, and rent electric scooters. The real-time data ingestion and processing capabilities have ensured that users always have up-to-date information about the location and availability of scooters. The use of Google Cloud Armor has protected the service against cyber breaches and distributed denial of service attacks, ensuring uninterrupted service. The managed services have also increased resilience and uptime, as the company does not need to worry about maintenance or external threats.

Impact #1

The implementation of Google Cloud has allowed Acciona Mobility to develop a scalable and reliable IT infrastructure that supports its long-term vision of a low-carbon economy. The use of Google Cloud products has enabled the company to develop an application that allows users to easily find, reserve, and rent electric scooters. The real-time data ingestion and processing capabilities have ensured that users always have up-to-date information about the location and availability of scooters. The use of Google Cloud Armor has protected the service against cyber breaches and distributed denial of service attacks, ensuring uninterrupted service. The managed services have also increased resilience and uptime, as the company does not need to worry about maintenance or external threats.

Benefit #1	Within two months of deciding to deploy Acciona Mobility on Google Cloud, the service was ready for launch with 500 electric scooters.
Benefit #2	By 2020, the number of scooters grew to 10,000 and the service expanded to multiple cities in and outside of Spain.
Benefit #3	More than 3.5 million intracity rides have used the Acciona Mobility app, reducing CO2 emissions by more than 1,000 tons.

Benefit #1

Within two months of deciding to deploy Acciona Mobility on Google Cloud, the service was ready for launch with 500 electric scooters.

Benefit #2

By 2020, the number of scooters grew to 10,000 and the service expanded to multiple cities in and outside of Spain.

Benefit #3

More than 3.5 million intracity rides have used the Acciona Mobility app, reducing CO2 emissions by more than 1,000 tons.

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Acciona Mobility: Leveraging Google Cloud for Low-Carbon Transport Solutions

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