REEN fleet technology now available in UK

Telematics-related sensors and cloud-based fleet management tools from Norway-based waste and recycling fleet routing technology provider REEN now are available in the United Kingdom.

REEN says it has an extensive customer base in Norway, Finland and Sweden and now is “expanding its data-led offering to help U.K. organizations streamline the way their waste is collected and transported.”

Among its first customers in the U.K. have been Salford City Council and Derby City Council in England. Using fill level data and predictive algorithms, REEN says it has overhauled the daily collection processes for Salford City Council, “generating an anticipated time saving of approximately 30 percent within the first six months of operation.”

In Derby, REEN technology has helped that council reduce the number of visits to bins from its waste management fleet by 53 percent, according to the company.

“The REEN system has helped us track when bins are full,” says Lee Wheatley, service manager at Derby City Council. “With the old system, we would typically drive all around the city emptying bins on that frequency whether that bin was full or not.

“The REEN system tells us when a bin is getting full and when the bin is likely to need collecting and on what day. So, it helps reduce the number of wasted journeys, cuts down on fuel, helps relieve officer time for other activities and can help with things like overtime.”

Piers Barron, REEN’s chief sales officer, adds, “Technology within the waste management industry is really developing quickly. Used in the right way, it can add enormous value in terms of efficiency and sustainability, as well as significant cost savings.

REEN's multipurpose data capturing sensors calculate ideal routes in real-time by interpreting data variables like time, location, traffic, vehicle capacity and vehicle type. This data-driven route planning can reduce idling, fuel consumption, driving time, vehicle wear and tear and overall CO₂ emissions for fleets, as well as generating automatic quality and compliance reports, the firm says.

REEN says its intelligent inventory management services combine fill level sensors and QR-codes for quick asset identification. REEN technology also tracks the life cycles of collectables to help ensure the measured weight-to-volume ratios are on par with desired key performance indicators, which REEN says results in better cost control.

REEN’s Norway-based parent company ABAX is involved in the telecommunications, vehicular technologies and computer science sectors, and calls itself the second-largest telematics company in Europe. In 2021, REEN acquired Finland-based Enevo , a global sensor technology developer and route management systems provider with a U.S. office in Boston.