Veolia, a world leader in ecological transformation, takes a decisive step in its ongoing innovation efforts by partnering with Mistral AI, a leading company in the field of generative artificial intelligence. This strategic partnership aims to radically transform the management and monitoring of industrial sites in the water, waste and energy sectors.
Revolutionizing resource management and efficiency through AI
At the heart of this collaboration is the integration of Mistral AI's advanced language model into Veolia's vast database and knowledge base. This synergy will, for the first time in the world, establish a real dialogue with industrial facilities, thus paving the way for unprecedented transparency and operational efficiency. The ambition of this partnership goes beyond simple process optimization: it is about revolutionizing the way Veolia manages its resources and addresses complex environmental challenges. Thanks to this cutting-edge technology, employees and stakeholders will be able to interact intuitively with the systems, obtaining real-time recommendations and proactively resolving issues.
This initiative is part of Veolia's broader strategy to harness the potential of artificial intelligence in all its areas of activity. Already, the company has deployed innovative solutions such as smart sensors for water management, advanced sorting robots for waste recycling, and predictive analysis systems for energy optimization.
“This partnership with Mistral AI marks a decisive step in our desire to accelerate innovation and better meet all the challenges posed by global warming. By integrating generative artificial intelligence into the management of our sites and industrial processes, we strengthen our capacity for innovation and optimization of our know-how to decarbonize, decontaminate and regenerate resources.”
Estelle Brachlianoff, directrice générale de Veolia.
Veolia Secure GPT: Generative AI serving the environment
The partnership with Mistral AI complements and strengthens these efforts, particularly the recent launch of Veolia Secure GPT, a generative AI tool developed in-house and made available to the group's 218,000 employees. This secure platform optimizes daily tasks while ensuring the confidentiality of the company's data.
The deployment of Veolia Secure GPT marks a crucial step in the group's innovation strategy. Developed in just two months by Veolia's IT teams, this generative AI tool offers writing, translation, search and information synthesis functionalities. It not only improves operational efficiency, but also ensures the security of the group's sensitive data.
With more than 3,800 drinking water production plants, 3,200 wastewater treatment plants, 865 waste treatment facilities and 48,745 energy facilities around the world, the potential impact of this innovation is colossal. Veolia is aiming to avoid 18 million tons of CO2 equivalent at its customers by 2027, an ambitious goal that artificial intelligence will help to achieve.
AI at the heart of Veolia's business
The integration of AI at Veolia is not limited to the partnership with Mistral AI. It extends to all the group's activities:
Water management: Smart connected sensors monitor water consumption in real time, while predictive algorithms optimize distribution, thus reducing losses and energy consumption.
Waste management: Smart sorting robots like Max AI significantly improve recycling performance, while systems like Portik analyze waste streams in real time.
Energy management: AI systems analyze and optimize the energy consumption of buildings and industrial processes, contributing to reducing the carbon footprint.
Predictive maintenance: Tools like the connected box Bob continuously monitor installations and detect anomalies before they become problematic.
Remote control: The Hubgrade control centers allow remote and continuous management of installations, optimizing their operation in real time.
Finally, this partnership between Veolia and Mistral AI, combined with internal initiatives like Veolia Secure GPT, marks a turning point in the environmental industry. It perfectly illustrates how the alliance between human expertise and artificial intelligence can accelerate ecological transformation, while redefining performance and sustainability standards in the management of essential services. Veolia thus asserts itself not only as a leader in its traditional areas of activity, but also as a pioneer of technological innovation serving the environment.
Concrete examples of AI in Veolia's activities:
Max AI: The intelligent sorting robot
Deployed in Amiens, Nantes and Bordeaux, Max AI is capable of performing about 3,600 sorting gestures per hour, 1.5 times more than a human operator. Equipped with optical cameras and advanced artificial intelligence, it detects and removes unwanted waste, thus improving sorting performance and the comfort of agents.
Portik: Real-time waste flow analysis
Installed in London, Portik is an intelligent system developed by Veolia that continuously analyzes the composition of waste streams. Its integrated camera allows to calculate the evolution of the purity of aluminum waste, thus optimizing the recycling process at different stages of the sorting chain.
Bob: The predictive maintenance assistant
Deployed at the Angers wastewater treatment plant, Bob is a connected box equipped with multiple sensors. Thanks to artificial intelligence, it analyzes the vibrations of the installations and detects anomalies, allowing for efficient and anticipated preventive maintenance.
