Trombia Free is the world’s first full power, electric and autonomous street sweeper. Trombia Free delivers up to 10 times faster area cleaning, but uses only 15% of the energy required for advanced high performance sweeping. Hence, the electric era is here.
Our mission is to electrify and automate street cleaning in modern cities and industrial destinations in the most sustainable way possible.
THE PERFORMANCE
Trombia Free is designed to perform in finest PM2.5 dust removal and heavy mechanical debris sweeping.
At the same time, the average power used in cleaning work varies between 6 kw - 16 kw. With the global-wide patented Trombia sweeping technology this power input is sufficient to deliver the cleaning performance of the heavy duty street scrubbers that are commonly equipped with over 100 kw suction engine power.
Unlike other electric sweepers in the market, Trombia Free has made no compromises with the performance to save battery life.
If you look at electric compact street sweepers and their diesel-powered equivalents, you'll find that suction and sweeping engine power has been decreased down by 90% when the sweeper has been electrified. This has the same impact on actual performance.
Trombia Free can deliver autonomously 5 000 - 7 000 m2 of power-cleaned area surface every hour.
THE POWER
Trombia Free uses in regular urban area sweeping only 6 kwH of energy per sweeping hour. This makes Trombia Free a unique electric heavy duty vehicle across all industries.
Trombia Free is equipped with either Lithium-Ion Battery Packs of 45,6 kwh (Single Pack) or 91,2 kwh (Double Pack). These battery packs will give you 8,5 - 17 hours of non-stop regular urban area sweeping (EN15429-2) or 4 - 8 hours of non-stop high power street scrubbing.
When you consider the area coverage that you achieve with 4-8 hours of non-stop high power Trombia sweeping - the energy efficiency is fully underlined. Trombia Free uses only approximately 1.0 - 2,2 kWh of energy in 1000 m2.
THE ENVIRONMENT
Modern high power street cleaning fleets include several heavy equipment vehicles operating slowly along the streets. The diesel-fuel consumption is over 20 l / hour per vehicle.
In particular the slow-moving suction sweeper, with over 60 - 100 kW suction engine, and only marginal cleaning efficiency, is a heavy consumer for diesel fuel.
This results in dramatic amount of CO2 emissions, and the only way to combat the over 3 million CO2 kg tons that street sweepers around the world cause, is to change to a greener and more power-efficient option. Trombia Free is the solution.
Trombia Free's base technology Trombia, has been certified in the European EUnited PM2.5 Test to the highest 4-star category. In the Trombia's self-initiated dust removal tests in 2017 the same technology was found to remove over 96% of fine PM2.5 dust particles off the street surface.
Trombia Free also saves water over 95% compared to existing suction sweeper technologies. Enough said.
ALL WEATHER AUTONOMOUS
Trombia Free's autonomous machine vision is based on a lidar-based point cloud system. Our advanced algorithm and localisation capability allows us to operate accurately indoors, outdoors, darkness and light, rain, snow and sunshine.
You will get your job done regardless of the weather.
THE BUSINESS MODEL
Street sweeping vehicles cost hefty 6-figure investments. Thus, we don't want to give customers any excuses to purchase diesel-fueled sweepers anymore.
To change the world overnight from diesel-fueled alternatives to Trombia Free, we will also enable customers significant cost savings and alternative purchase models to follow the ideals of sharing economy.
THE NOISE
Trombia Free is designed for the modern life in smart cities.
Your sweepers operate nightshifts and they have to be significantly quieter than existing high power street scrubbers. In city application we have measured peak noise levels at 76db while from standard distance Trombia Free's noise level has been measured below 70 db.
THE OPERATIONS PLATFORM
Trombia Free operations platform is equipped to monitor and observe the functionality and cleaning performance of your Trombia Free fleet.
After the day's duty you are able to invoice the cleaned square meters with one click from your customers, and every invoice includes automatically the amount of CO2 emissions saved by doing the work with Trombia Free - instead of the bad and loud diesel sweepers.
During 2021 we seek to include in the operations platform also a marketplace model, where your clients can publish new cleaning projects for you to bid in. One-click bid, client agrees, and off you go giving the command for your Trombia Free. This feature will increase utilization of your fleet dramatically.
INTEGRATION TO SMART CITIES
Trombia Free's command and operations system is developed in-house by Trombia Technologies.
This means that integration and upgrading the Trombia Free units with new data collection features such as air quality measurement, road-AI or digital twin recording is made agile and straight-forward through the interfaces.
Integration to smart cities also requires logistics integration to existing waste systems.
Trombia Free system deliveries include a service dock setup for on-top-of-a-dumpster emptying process:
Power source | Electric power system |
Working width | 2,2 metres (up to 3,0m with two gutter brooms) |
Fine dust removal width | 2,2 metres |
Battery System | 45,6kwh Lithium-ion Battery package (Single) |
91,2kwh Lithium-ion Battery package (Double) | |
Charging System | AC On-board for mains plug |
Supercharger options to be brought available. | |
Charging time | 0 - 100% 5h through high power plug |
0 - 100% 15h through regular 230V mains plug | |
Driving Performance | Actual sweeping and high-power dust removal speed 1 – 6 km/h. |
Dust removal technology | 2,2 metres wide fine dust PM2.5/PM10 removal |
Up to 3,0m wide mechanical removal | |
Trombia® High performance broom system | |
Trombia® Airknife technology | |
Trombia® Cyclone technology | |
Actual fine dust removal efficiency 4 400 - 8 800m2 / h | |
Mechanical sweeping features | 30cm vertical float |
10 degrees horizontal float | |
Left side / Right side gutter broom options |
Power requirement, high power | Average 10 kw |
Energy consumption per cleaned square meter, high power | 0,001kwh / m2 |
Power intake, general urban area cleaning | 6 kw |
Energy consumption per general urban area cleaning | 0,0006kwh / m2 |
Power intake transport movement | 3,5kw |
Autonomy (EN 15429) | 8.5 hours (Single Battery Package) |
17 hours (Double Battery Package) | |
Autonomy (Continuous high-power street cleaning) | 4 hours (Single Battery Package) |
8 hours (Double Battery Package) |
Weights | Empty weight 2 600 kg |
Length | 3,52m |
Width | 2,30m |
Height | 1,50m |
Waste hopper | 1,8m3 |
CO2 Emissions | 0 CO2 kg / sweeping hour |
CO2 Savings per 1000m2 cleaned (Comparison to similar level diesel-fueled 130kw suction street scrubber) | 32,5 kg CO2 emissions / 1000m2 |
Water consumption | 0,6l – 0,8l / min |
Water savings per 1000m2 cleaned | 150+ liters / 1000m2 |
PM2.5/PM10 dust removal capability | Up to 96% |
Noise pollution levels | Front - 1m: 78db |
Front - 5m: 70db | |
Front - 10m: 68db | |
Side - 1m: 68db | |
Side - 5m: 62db | |
Side - 10m: 58db |
What is Pre-Registration?
The Trombia Free Pilot Programme running through 2021 has given municipalitites, facility operators and industrial applications the opportunity to grasp the benefits of automating cleaning operations.
Smart Industries: Read more on the pilot case study with the Facility management group ISS at the Helsinki Airport here:
Smart Cities: Read more on the pilot case study with the City of Helsinki public street sweeping here:
The pilot programme continues in 2022 as a pre-step for purchasing Trombia Free sweeping solutions to your site. Alternatively you can visit our pilot site in Finland as a part of your evaluation process.
We have started the pre-sales of Trombia Free systems with deliveries available during the H2/2022.
Please get in touch with our sales team for further information or pre-register here.
Get ahead of automating your area cleaning now. We are starting deliveries in the first half of 2022 and expect a lead time of 6 – 12 months from order confirmation during the pre-sales season.
Trombia Technologies will reveal the first series line for Trombia Free sweeper systems at the IFAT 2022 exhibition in Münich, Germany – an event you don’t want to miss in cleantech industry.
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