News and upcoming events

The DGT magazine is a reference publication in Spain, for disseminating topics related to traffic and Road Safety. In its October issue, the magazine included, in an extensive article, the beginnings of ASIMOB, the most recent projects and future expectations. Several of our clients spoke about us and gave...

La Gomera is one of the most beautiful islands in Spain. As the Government of the Canary Islands itself advertises, the natural spaces of La Gomera are the very essence of the island. Endless trails, vertiginous viewpoints and charming hamlets in a privileged natural environment can dot the island...

Since June 2023, ASIMOB has been collaborating with the Innovation department of AUTOPISTAS, an ABERTIS company, with the aim of evaluating the incorporation of new Artificial Intelligence solutions for infrastructure monitoring from the vehicles that circulate on the road. The Autonomous Road Inspector fits into the daily operations of...

On September 17, in the middle of European Mobility Week (SEM), our CEO Ibon Arechalde was interviewed on RNE’s Road Safety program. In the program, Ibon Arechalde and Orestes Serrano, from FESVIAL, analysed what the digital transformation of roads should be like for safer mobility management. Computer Vision techniques...

On October 20th, the European Commission, through its GovTech Connect program, awarded ASIMOB as the best startup in Southern Europe, in a competition in which different companies from Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Serbia participated. The program covered the categories of inclusive and accessible services, transparent and open government,...

The Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, has tendered a service contract to auscultate the road markings of the State Highway Network, for a budget of 1.4 million euros. The novelty of this tender is the measure of contrast of the marks, beyond the traditional measure of...

Upcoming events: Intertraffic & Roads Innovation Day ASIMOB is present at the main events where the most innovative projects and new technologies for future mobility will be shown. Upcoming events are: Roads Innovation Day (Valencia, Spain), 29/02/2024 Intertraffic 2024 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 16/04/2024 to 19/04/2024

Since the end of 2022, some tenders in the field of infrastructure maintenance already require the application of effective technologies based on Artificial Intelligence for infrastructure monitoring. These types of requirements make it possible to address two traditional problems in the maintenance of infrastructures and road works: the efficiency...

AUDECA is the company of the ELECNOR group dedicated to the upkeep and maintenance of roads. Its contracts include sections of roads from the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA) and roads from the Community of Madrid. It is in the latter where, since 2020, ASIMOB...

What do have in common the Center de recherches routières (CRR) in Belgium, the ATC Low Intensity Roads committee in Spain and the evaluation entities of the highway concession companies? All these entities help to better understand the condition of the roads and, for this, they have developed procedures...

In the new contracts for maintenance of the Region of Madrid, Artificial Intelligence tools are going to be essential for compliance with the indicators that have been established in the tenders. In the latest edition of the Road Week, organized by the Spanish Road Association and held in Madrid...

ASIMOB monitors the work zones on roads managed by Interbiak in Bizkaia The work zones are the most dangerous sections of roads. The changing and more unstable signage, the narrowness of the lanes, the presence of personnel working near the vehicles that circulate… are factors that put users and...

ASIMOB monitors the roads of three highways in Sao Paulo through Artificial Intelligence ASIMOB is monitoring the condition of traffic signals, road markings and the detection of the status of the pavement of three highways under concession to the company Ecorodovias in the region of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This...

ASIMOB monitors the roads of the provincial and local network of the Diputación de Zamora through Artificial Intelligence ASIMOB is ending the monitoring of the condition of the traffic signs, road markings, protection barriers and the detection of the status of the pavement of the local and regional road...

The Madrid City Council analyses the irregularities in the pavement with the ASIMOB Autonomous Road Inspector ASIMOB has begun monitoring the condition of the pavement of the streets managed by the Department of Public Roads of the Madrid City Council in the Carabanchel neighborhood. This project will allow the...

BABLE recognizes ASIMOB as one of the 50 best companies for Smart Cities BABLE has recognized ASIMOB as one of the 50 best companies in the development of Smart Cities in 2023. This recognition is included in the Innovation Market Watch report just published by BABLE. BABLE offers access...

Project with Renault: development of an evaluator for the adoption of Autonomous Vehicles The Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has awarded ASIMOB a project for the development of the road condition evaluation system for the adoption of Autonomous Vehicles with automation level 4 and 5. Levels...

ASIMOB presented the new module for automated monitoring of the status of protection barriers at the National Road Safety Conference held in Malaga from September 19th to 21st. In the following link you can see the short demonstration made in the last session of the day 20th. The new...

ERTICO awarded ASIMOB with the Market Innovation Award during the ITS European Congress that has been celebrated in Toulouse (France) from the 30th of May to the 1st of June. During the congress we were showing in a booth our solutions to improve the Road Safety thanks to the...

Only in Spanish for the moment, throughout the month of June, every Tuesday at 14:00 (CEST) we published sessions aimed at COEX managers and people responsible for road infrastructures to explain the new technologies that they can use to monitor the roads. We started on June 7th with a...

ASIMOB in Intertraffic, Amsterdam, 29 March to 1 April 2022 ASIMOB was present at the world’s leading trade exhibition for mobility professionals, a fair that had not been held for the last two years due to restrictions due to COVID. The event allowed us to show the Autonomous Road...

On March the 30th, the CNAE Foundation celebrated the award ceremony, in which ASIMOB was recognized with the award for Innovation in Road Safety and Sustainable Mobility. The jury awarded to ASIMOB <<for the creation of a system that makes it possible to digitize and automate the tasks of...

The monitoring of road infrastructures through Artificial Intelligence was the subject of Ana Carcavilla’s interview with our CEO, Ibon Arechalde, within the framework of the IFM Talks. You can reproduce the full interview in Spanish through the following link:          

Asimob has been interviewed by Startups’ Oasis, an essential platform for entrepreneurs and investors. Here you can learn more about the startups, their impact on accident prevention and road maintenance, as well as their plans for the future. Don’t hesitate to check it out! https://startupsoasis.com/asimob-mantener-las-carreteras-seguras-de-manera-digital/        ...

International Road Federation (IRF) has published an interview to know ASIMOB, the 2021 IRF Start-up Label Winner. Here you can understand the services that we provide and our goals for the future.        

This is the seventh edition of the Línea Directa Foundation’s Road Safety and Entrepreneurship Award, a unique initiative in Spain for the acceleration of entrepreneurial projects focused on road safety, to which a total of 52 projects have been presented in this call and ASIMOB has been one of...

ASIMOB is a finalist of the  #IRFStartupLabel ! With this #label, open to startups worldwide, the International Road Federation (IRF) wants to support mobility start-ups that have impact on the IRF’s fields of action, with positive environmental and social impact, and a high level of innovation, among other criteria.

20 September 2021, ASIMOB was one of the 6 finalist companies of the Mubil awards, where more than 28 applications were presented! MubilMobilityAwards2021       

Madrid, 5-7 October.   ASIMOB is one of the 100 finalists of Spain in #SouthSummit2021, selected in the  #mobility and #smartcitie category. SouthSummit2021

ASIMOB is the winner of the #EITUMPITCHAWARDS!!! The startup is grateful for the support received by the whole EIT Urban Mobility ecosystem during the whole process. EIT Urban Mobility is a key lever for the transformation of European cities and ASIMOB is looking forward to making the way together,...

Govtechlab Madrid is a place where the world of public institutions and the world of digital SMEs coexist as never before, to promote a new generation of digital public services based on innovative SME solutions. http://www.madrid.govtechlab.es/      

ScaleTHENGlobal is an EIT Urban Mobility programme that seeks the 15 European urban mobility startups with the most potential. ASIMOB has been selected for this programme and will benefit from all the opportunities it offers. https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/business-creation/scalethenglobal/      

Hamburg, October 11-15 ASIMOB will be part of this great global event from 11 to 15 October. Looking forward to it! https://itsworldcongress.com/

Madrid, July 13-15. ASIMOB was at the new edition of the Spanish Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, presenting  a paper about Smart Cities. https://www.itsspain.es/xxi-congreso-its   

10th May, The company was interviewed by NAIZ newspaper and talked about its services for roads maintenance .  

Virtual event, 17th December. ASIMOB has been selected the International Award Winner in the Potential innovation category in the edition of 2020. On the 17th of December, ASIMOB was declared a finalist in the local edition in the Basque Country, and then was also the winner of the international...

Virtual event, 30 Nov – 3 Dec 2020. ASIMOB took part in this specialized event of European urban mobility professionals and decision-makers. In Session 5B. Digitalising the infrastructure, several topics regarding the applications of new technology to improve urban services: AI and IoT solutions for automated road inspections: Traffic...

Virtual event, 26-27 November. ASIMOB gave a presentation about its services on Friday 27th, at 11:30. Organised by: MLC ITS Euskadi Cluster. Video of ASIMOB’s presentation (Spanish): See all presentations (Spanish) ITS Euskadi

17th November 2020 Estibaliz Barañano, was interviewed by Enrique Rodal in his radio programme “Graffiti” (Radio Euskadi, in the Basque Country). The CEO talked about ASIMOB’s services, the need for efficient road maintenance, and the start-up’s goals. Listen to the interview (Spanish)

Virtual event, 9-10 November 2020 ASIMOB participated in the Virtual ITS European Congress. Its presentation in the Congress Library, Computer Vision and IoT for Automated Traffic Sign Inspections had over 500 visits during the event. The most visited presentation: over 500 views!

Euskalduna Palace, Bilbao, 20-21 October 2020 B-Venture is the biggest entrepreneurship event in the North of Spain. The event gathers not only startups, but also some of the biggest companies, investors and Venture Capital managers. Every year, the organizations selects some startups for their business potential, innovation, experience and...

Virtual event, 15-16 October 2020 ASIMOB has been a participant in the AIC Next Online 2020. AIC Next is a different approach to the automotive sector, a meeting point where people from different areas have a space to talk about different topics related to the sector form different perspectives.

Euskalduna Palace (Bilbao), 23rd September 2020 ASIMOB participated in the Insurance World Challenges 2020. In the Show & Tell Session, ASIMOB introduced its services, together with other startups with cutting-edge innovations in the InsurTech sector. Click to see the pictures

Madrid, 15th September 2020 ASIMOB has been selected by the Technical Committee of the 6th edition of the Smart City congress to publish an article in the ‘Libro de Comunicaciones’. A copy of this book was handed to all the participants of the congress, and then was published as...

Madrid, 16th July 2020 We are very happy to announce that ASIMOB has been one of the organizations awarded with an ITS España 2020 award. The ceremony took place in the XX Congreso Español ITS, the most relevant national event in the Intelligent Transportation Systems sector. In the congress, there...

Madrid, 14-16 de July 2020 ASIMOB has taken part in the ‘XX Congreso Español ITS’, held the 14th, 15th and 16th of July, in IFEMA (Madrid). During this congress, and in collaboration with ALVAC, a company specialized in public infrastructure execution, reparation and maintenance, ASIMOB has delivered the presentation...

Virtual event, 1-3 June 2020 ASIMOB has presented in the III Congreso Iberoamericano sobre Sistemas Inteligentes de Transporte, celebrated between the 1st and 3rd of June. It was a fully virtual event. Among all the different topics that were discussed, ASIMOB was a presenter in Session 2, dedicated to...

Bilbao, 28 April 2020 ASIMOB trusts “APNABI Autismo Bizkaia” for its image annotation services. APNABI has issued a press release (Spanish): 10 personas con TEA de APNABI Autismo Bizkaia trabajan en el entrenamiento de algoritmos de inteligencia artificial (Ten people with autism spectrum disorder from APNABI Autismo Bizkaia work...

FICOBA, Irún, March 2020 In this edition of the Go-Mobility exhibition, ASIMOB has had a booth in the area of MLC-ITS Cluster Euskadi . ASIMOB has been showing the results of automated monitorization of traffic signs in urban and interurban environments to different organizations, companies and visitors. System to...

Bilbao, 9th March  2020 ASIMOB has been selected to participate in the Bridge to MassChallenge Biscay 2020 programme. After some delay due to the health emergency, ASIMOB will participate in the ecosystem of the world-renowned MassChallenge accelerator in Boston, where there will be opportunity to share and exchange ideas...

Bilbao, 4th November  2019 ASIMOB has been selected by Innobasque, the Basque agency for Innovation, as one of the six Basque startups that will revolutionize their sector. This acknowledgement was made public in the Global Innovation Day 2019. This event was held in the Euskalduna Palace (Bilbao), and was...

Madrid, April 2019 Between the 1st and 3rd of April 2019, the 19th Spanish Congress for Intelligent Transportation Systems (XIX Congreso Español sobre Sistemas Inteligentes de Transporte) was held, organized by ITS España (Plaza Cibeles building, Madrid City Council). ASIMOB’s presentation: Connected vehicles CL16. Automated detection of traffic sign...

Bilbao, February 2019 ASIMOB  was one of the invited startups in the congress about sustainable mobility held in the Euskalduna Palace (Bilbao) on the 20th and 21st of February.

FICOBA, Irún, November 2018 Ibon Aretxalde – CEO of ASIMOB – participated in the presentations and was interviewed in the TV studio set in the booth of SPRI, where diverse companies and institutional representatives also shared the innovations and expectations of the mobility sector. Ibon Aretxarte, ASIMOB’s CEO, introduces...

Irun, 28th November 2018 Organized by: MLC-ITS Euskadi Cluster. ASIMOB’s presentation (Spanish): Sistema de creación de mapas presentado:

Copenhagen, September 2018 Together with the ITS cluster of the Basque Country (MLC-ITS Euskadi), ASIMOB participated in  ITS World Congress held in Denmark. Facts: 10.000 attendees  & 4.000 representatives 400 organizations: 60% commercial/industrial + 40% public sector   About the Congress

Madrid, 17-19 April 2018 Presentation included in Session 8, on Wednesday the 18th. ASIMOB’s presentation: Data Hub and Tools for Mobility Panning  and Management. CL2. Connected vehicles and weather estimation to evaluate grip on the road surface. Participants: D. Ibon Arechalde, D. Beñat López, D. Julen Velar Road surface...