Thales acquires cubris, paving the way for autonomous train
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) announces the closing of the acquisition of Danish company Cubris, a forerunner in Driver Advisory Systems (DAS) for Main Line Rail customers. DAS allows real-time and fully secured exchange of information between the railway system and the train driver in order to optimize the driving of the train and reduce CO2 emissions. On this basis, Cubris also offers a key technology for the future autonomous trains.
• Further to the acquisition of AvioVision for the digital cockpit 18 months ago, Thales is now investing in the digital cabin for railways
• Cubris is a market forerunner in Driver Advisory Systems for Main Line Rail customers, optimising train driving thanks to real-time information and decision-making by the driver
• This new acquisition is a great accelerator for Thales in its digital strategy to provide value to customers
Cubris is perfectly suited to support railways operators’ big ambitions to address the growing needs of an increasingly train centric and automation oriented demand in railway signalling. The company has developed and delivered a well-recognised Driver Advisory System, called GreenSpeed™, already in service in Denmark (DSB and Lokaltog), in the UK (South West Trains) and in Sweden (Transdev) and being implemented by Transdev in Germany and by Finnish Railway (VR).
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, the company employs 15 people. The impact of this acquisition on Thales’s 2018 EBIT will be non-material.
Thanks to this acquisition, Thales is strengthening further its offering and positioning within the Rail Traffic Management segment, building upon the recent market successes and positioning strongly in one of the key technologies driving the performance optimisation of its customers.
Since 2014, Thales has invested almost 7 billion euros in digital technologies, including the projected acquisition of Gemalto (whose closing is expected in H2 2018). These key technologies play a crucial role in our markets. They enable airlines, satellite operators, air traffic control organisations, urban and mainline rail operators, the armed forces and security services responsible for protecting urban infrastructure and energy supplies to make the right decisions in real time.
The explosion of new digital technologies and the growing synergy between them create a huge amount of momentum not only to develop new products and solutions for but to invent those that will be needed in the data-driven, autonomous, immersive world of tomorrow.
Source:https://www.thalesgroup.com/