Concern Telematics (formerly National Telematics Systems)

Concern "Telematics" develops a software platform for managing various subsystems of the "smart road" - toll collection from freight transport, parking space, traffic density sensors, traffic lights, RFID identification, weight control, emergency response to accidents, smart insurance.

History

2023: Launch of an industrial site for the manufacture of radioelectronic devices and PAC

Concern "Telematics" expands production capacity and launches an industrial site for the manufacture of radio-electronic devices and software and hardware systems. The company will launch the production of the entire line of equipment of the company, which has more than 20 different electronic devices, as well as a contract assembly of radio electronics and equipment used in projects in the field of intelligent transport systems. The new site will increase the volume of production of domestic ITS equipment by 250% and bring the future of smart roads closer. The Concern announced this on December 11, 2023. Read more here.

2022: Name change to Telematics Concern

In mid-June 2022, the National Telematic Systems company announced a name change as part of a corporate business restructuring. Now the group will be called the Telematics concern.

Under the new brand, the company will continue to introduce intelligent transport systems both in Russia and expansion in foreign markets. We are open for the development of new directions and invite market participants for partnership cooperation, - the press service of the Telematics concern reports.

Telematics Office (formerly National Telematics Systems)

Together with structural changes - the introduction of a corporate management system, a rebranding was carried out, which more accurately reflects the current extensive activities of the organizations included in the concern, Telematics said.

By mid-June 2022, the Telematics concern unites dozens of companies that cover all stages of product development and production and the creation of intelligent solutions for road and railway transport. During the work, more than 1.5 thousand projects were implemented.

The group includes high-tech own research laboratories, test sites, production sites for microelectronic products and equipment for smart road infrastructure, development centers, integration and service divisions. In particular, the company is working to create an unmanned ecosystem - a "smart" road of a new generation, which should become the basis for the movement of transport of the future. A self-driving electric truck is one element of this ecosystem.

As noted in the press service of the Telematics concern, the company has gone a long way from forming a small association to transforming into a large full-cycle industrial concern. New strategic directions were opened in international markets and a number of projects were implemented in the EAEU countries, Southeast Asia and Latin America.

2020

Plans for the development of smart road infrastructure together with Rosdornia

Concern "National Telematic Systems" (NTS) and the Russian Road Research Institute (FAA "ROSDORNII") signed a memorandum of cooperation in projects to create smart road infrastructure and unmanned vehicles in Russia and international markets. NTS announced this on September 4, 2020.

First of all, the parties will cooperate in the construction of intelligent transport systems (ITS Agglomerations) in Russia. These projects will require the integration of knowledge in the field of transport modeling and forecasting, methodological support will be needed, as well as the involvement of additional competencies in the technical design and implementation of ITS.

National Telematic Systems Concern Office

Another area of ​ ​ cooperation between the parties is the creation of a single national ecosystem of unmanned and highly automated vehicles, which includes the study of amendments to legislation, the formation of unified national standards, the construction of landfills for testing and certification of technological components from manufacturers.

The parties also intend to cooperate in international projects in the field of ITS, the development and implementation of national payment systems and other foreign projects, where Russian expertise, technical developments and experience are in demand.

Dmitry Kazarinov, General Director of SoftTelematics (part of the National Telematics Systems concern):

{{quote 'ROSDORNII is a Russian research institute in the field of transport planning and modeling. His expertise is attracted to solve the state task of improving the road infrastructure. An alliance with an organization of this level will enable our company to strengthen its position in the market of intelligent transport systems both in Russia and abroad. In particular, we see great potential in creating solutions for connected cars both to the transport infrastructure and in the exchange of information between road users. Much needs to be done in the direction of standardization of unmanned vehicles, where the issue of regulatory regulation, as well as testing and certification of components for self-driving cars is acute. }}

Ekaterina Bryazgina, Development Director of ITS ROSDORNII:

{{quote 'Our institute is engaged in research in the field of intelligent transport systems, elements of which are already being implemented at Russian transport facilities. The concern "National Telematic Systems" has experience in creating ITS. Our alliance will improve approaches to the construction of smart road infrastructure, give impetus to testing unmanned vehicles, make it possible to advance in solving test problems and standardize safety-critical elements of autonomous machines. In addition, joining forces on the international market will increase interest in Russian technologies in the field of ITS, which will open up additional opportunities for ROSDORNII. The Institute will be able to offer its developments not only in Russia, but also in Latin America, Asia and other regions of the world. }}

New co-owner

Logo in 2020

Since the end of July 2020, the owners of the National Telematic Systems group of companies have been DFA Capital LLC (45% share owned by Igor Rotenberg's partner Dmitry Afanasenko), Andrey Shipelov (45% share) and Alexey Nashchekin - 10% (also a director of the company).

Rostelecom and NTS created a joint venture to develop smart transport solutions

On May 28, 2020, Rostelecom and National Telematic Systems (NTS) announced the creation of a joint venture (JV), within the framework of which they agreed to develop intelligent transport solutions. The new company under the Rostelecomatics brand will develop and promote complex solutions for the state, regions and municipalities. Read more here.

Opening offices in India and Indonesia

On March 31, 2020, it was reported that the National Telematic Systems (NTS) group of companies opened its offices in India and Indonesia. Alexey Nashchekin, General Director of NTS, told Kommersant about this.

Alexey Nashchekin develops NTS outside Russia

We are actively developing business in the global market. This is a priority direction for the NTS. Especially for this, they created the international business unit NTS International, which is engaged in the promotion of Russian technologies abroad. We conduct expansion in two ways: through the opening of representative offices and the absorption of local players, - said the head of the NTS.

According to him, at the end of March, the company began its activities in 12 countries. At the same time, negotiations are underway in Latin America to acquire a local company.

Alexey Nashchekin also added that foreign customers are attracted by the fact that NTS does not act as an intermediary or integrator, but directly produces the supplied systems and can flexibly adapt them to a specific customer. An important feature is that the client receives all systems in the source codes, since they are built on open source software, he stressed.

Open source solutions are easier to certify to national security requirements. The customer knows what's inside, can check every line of code. In addition, the lack of proprietary third-party licensed components significantly reduces the cost of both building and supporting our systems. In the developing countries of Latin America, as well as in Asia - in India, Indonesia, in the Philippines - we are very competitive, "concluded Alexey Nashchekin.[1]

2018: Rutall Acquisition

On April 9, 2018, the National Telematic Systems (NTS) Group of Companies announced the completion of a transaction to acquire a 100% stake in Rutall, the Russian center of competence for creating charging systems. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read more here.

2017: Plato owners Igor Rotenberg and Andrey Shipelov bought 90% of NTS

In November 2017, the National Telematic Systems company had new co-owners. Igor Rotenberg and Andrei Shipelov acquired 45% from its founder Alexei Nashchekin.

Igor Rotenberg, the son of Vladimir Putin's friend Arkady Rotenberg, owns 50% of RT-Invest Transport Systems (RTiTS), the operator of the Platon heavy truck charging system.

In addition to RTiTS, Rotenberg Jr. owns a share in the Scanex company, which operates in the cartography and space photography market, as well as 100% of the Glosav company, which produces onboard equipment.

Alexey Nashchekin previously told TAdviser that he served as an adviser and technological consultant at RT-Invest, which owns another 50% in RT-Invest Transport Systems.

The general director of RT-Invest was the owner of Tsaritsyn Capital, Andrei Shipelov, the second buyer of Nashchekin's stake in NTS.

As of autumn 2017, NTS has nine subsidiaries, but only two of them showed active activity in 2016: Kazan-Telematics and Service-Telematics.

Kazan-Telematics revenue in 2016 amounted to 1.8 billion rubles, net profit - 475 million rubles. The company has one state contract - for 36 million rubles it sold to the Tatarstan State Budgetary Institution "Road Safety" an automatic system of weight and size control.

Service-Telematics revenue in 2016 - 654 million rubles, net profit - 199.6 million rubles. The company won state contracts already in 2017. All five - with Transtelecom in the amount of 650 million rubles. The largest of them (322 million rubles) is for the creation of the software and hardware complex of the Unified Information and Service Center in the interests of Russian Railways.

2015-2016

Company strategy

The NTS holding company was founded in April 2015 by the ex-general director of NVision Group Alexei Nashchekin. It has a network of regional representative offices and specializes in the development of information systems in the transport sector.

Since 2015, the National Telematic Systems holding has been developing a single software platform for managing various smart road subsystems - toll collection from freight transport, parking space, traffic density sensors, traffic lights, RFID identification, weight control, emergency response to road accidents, smart insurance.

The NTS creates a core for the interaction of smart road subsystems (it was called Lomonosov), and the subsystems themselves - components of a single solution - are supplied by partners: Tenzo-M - weighing equipment, Recognition Technologies - systems for recognizing license plates of cars and fixing violations, MultiSoft Systems - information protection tools, ISS - video management tools, Glosav - onboard equipment, etc.

Our task is to ensure end-to-end, seamless interaction of all these components, - said TAdviser in 2016 Alexey Nashchekin, founder, CEO and at that time owner of 99% of NTS. - If ERP combines different subsystems of enterprise management, then our system performs a similar role in the transport sphere

Building all road systems separately is expensive, a single hybrid solution allows you to save costs 3-4 times (due to the use of a common data center, structures, etc.), Nashchekin argued.

In addition, he added, NTS develops its system based on open source components, respectively, when using it, there is no need to pay licenses to any vendors.

As of February 2016, the NTS, according to the general director, employed more than 100 people. Regional representative offices were opened (100% of NTS subsidiaries) - in the first stage it was planned to launch about 20 of them.

As of February 2016, 7 subsidiaries were registered with the NTS in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities - in Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Belgorod, Kemerovo, Yekaterinburg, Saratov and Moscow (service company).

In each region, the company entered into agreements with the administration of the subject and interacted with the ministries of transport, road services, law enforcement agencies, Nashchekin said.

In the fall of 2015, we conducted a pilot in Tatarstan (on a bypass road) - we assembled a hybrid system consisting of frames, cameras, weighing equipment, - the general director of NTS told TAdviser. - Now we have the opportunity to show its work in practice to potential customers. In April 2016, we expect to complete the development and release the finished product, after which we will begin to offer it to the regions

In 2010-2013, Alexey Nashchekin worked as vice president of Rostelecom, where he was responsible for the creation and implementation of electronic government components. Rostelecom's approach was to introduce standard regional segments (SMEV, public services portal, etc.) in all 83 (at that time) constituent entities of the Russian Federation by the operator himself and his partners, and then combine them with the federal e-government segment.

With the remark that the NTS approach is similar to Rostelecom's approach to introducing regional segments, Alexei Nashchekin did not argue and noted that "everything new is a well-forgotten old one."

In the future, the NTS hoped to go beyond the sphere of road transport, in particular, into the segment of railway transportation, its founder said. In addition, the company conducted developments in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics.

Investors, colleagues, friends

The NTS company developed with the money of investors, including Alexey Nashchekin himself. He did not disclose the names of other partners and the amount of funds invested.

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the owner of 1% in the NTS as of 2016 was Kirill Terentyev, the ex-general director of the Rostelecom subsidiary RT Labs. Immigrants from regional branches of Rostelecom and other telecom operators headed the subsidiaries of NTS in the regions.

In addition to working on NTS, Nashchekin served as an adviser and technological consultant to RT-Invest, which owns 50% in RT-Invest Transport Systems, the operator of the Platon heavy truck charging system.

The main shareholder of RT Invest was the owner of Tsaritsyn Capital, Andrei Shipelov.

The owner of the other 50% in RT-Invest Transport Systems is Igor Rotenberg, the son of Vladimir Putin's friend Arkady Rotenberg.

In addition to RTiTS, Rotenberg Jr. owned a share in Scanex, which operates in the cartography and space photography market, as well as 100% in Glosav, a partner of NTS engaged in the production of onboard equipment.

Acquaintances of Alexei Nashchekin, with whom TAdviser spoke, believed that Rotenberg could be one of the NTS investors. Nashchekin himself did not comment on this.

At the same address as the NTS on Luzhnetskaya Embankment, the 2/4 building 4 as of 2016, a number of other companies were registered or physically located, with which, according to Nashchekin, his holding "communicates and interacts." In particular, it was about the Progress Software company, its main owner 7Intec, as well as the Transdata company owned by 7Intec.

Dmitry Fink, who was previously involved in regional projects in the field of electronic government at AT Consulting (one of Rostelecom's main partners in this area), worked as the general director of Progress Software.

According to TAdviser interlocutors, Progress is the developer of a number of components of the Platon system, in particular, the front office and mobile applications.

7Intec has owned 75% of Progress since February 2016. Sergey Kalmyk, a native of Nashchekin's team at Rostelecom, worked as its general director.

Until May 2015, 7Intec was headed by Roman Kravtsov, who in 2013 became the successor of Alexei Nashchekin at Rostelecom in the direction of e-government development.

Since the beginning of 2016, Kravtsov has been appointed president of the Russian Railways-owned operator Transtelecom. In Russian Railways, we recall, in the fall of 2015, the president changed - he became the former Deputy Minister of Transport and the curator of the Platon system from the Ministry of Transport Oleg Belozerov.

Alexey Nashchekin told TAdviser that he was not a shareholder of Progress Software, 7Intec and Transdata: "To register the company, we rented several meters in the same business center, but in fact the NTS company operates at a different address."

The NTS project, according to the founder, is an investment project. For three years, Nashchekin hoped to sell his stake in the company to strategic investors.

See also on the topic of ITS

• Transport Technology Portal

• Intelligent Transport Infrastructure (ITS) Russia
• AIC Safe City - as part of the implementation of the federal program "Safe City"
• Digital platform of the transport complex of the Russian Federation (TsPTK)
• Unified state information system for ensuring transport security
• Digital Transport and Logistics CTL (departmental project)
• Smart cities
• State IT giants: the 10 most expensive information systems in modern Russia
• Unified Federal Center for Automatic Recording of Traffic Violations (CAFAP)
• NTI Autonet
• Avtodata Platform
• Regional Navigation and Information System (RNIS)
• Video Recording Cameras

• Moscow Smart city Information technologies in Moscow
• Intelligent Transport System (Moscow)
• Navigation and Information Center for the Administration of Freight Road Transport in Moscow
• Transport in Moscow

• Self-driving cars in Russia
• Self-driving cars (global market)
• Autopilot (self-driving car)
• Vehicle-to-Everytning (V2X) 5G in car evolution

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