Greek motorway concessionaire Nea Odos SA, in partnership with Valerann, have announced the full deployment of Valerann’s flagship platform, Lanternn, across the 196km Ionia Odos motorway (A5).
With this rollout, Nea Odos becomes the first motorway operator in Greece to implement an AI-driven system for real-time traffic management and incident response. The commercial deployment follows the successful completion of a pilot on a 40 km section of the A1 motorway. During the pilot phase, Lanternn in close cooperation with Nea Odos, demonstrated significant operational improvements, including a increase in detected incidents compared to existing methods, earlier detection of incidents by more than 15 minutes, alert accuracy, and a reduction in operational noise, transforming tens of thousands of daily data points into a limited number of actionable alerts.
Building on these results, Nea Odos move to a second level of extended deployment and now Lanternn is live along the full length of Ionia Odos, from the Rio-Antirrio Bridge in the south to the Egnatia Odos interchange near Ioannina. The platform fuses data from multiple sources (such as roadside sensors and cameras, navigation applications, and weather feeds) nto a unified, AI-powered operational view.
This enables enhanced situational awareness, automated incident detection in the open motorway, and continuous risk profiling across one of Greece’s most strategically important motorways, which forms part of the European E65 route. The deployment positions Nea Odos, as well as the wider GEK TERNA Group motorway concessions portfolio, at the forefront of intelligent road operations in Southeastern Europe, establishing a scalable reference model for future AI-enabled motorway management.
Rodianos Antonakopoulos, CEO of Nea Odos, said:
“Since 2020, Nea Odos has strategically invested in innovative technologies and AI, driven by our vision to transform motorway operations through smarter, safer, and more proactive infrastructure management, always with road safety as our highest priority. In close collaboration with Valerann, we were able to combine this vision with their advanced technological expertise and platform capabilities, creating a tailor-made solution fully aligned with our operational needs and ambitions.
“This partnership enabled us to transform a strategic vision into a practical and highly effective operational tool. The pilot results exceeded our expectations, clearly demonstrating the value of AI, data fusion, and predictive analytics in enhancing incident detection and response capabilities. This expansion further strengthens our ability to deliver safer, smarter, and more efficient motorways for our users.”
Gabriel Jacobson, CEO of Valerann, added:
“Deploying Lanternn across the entire Ionia Odos is a landmark moment for Greece. Every kilometre of this corridor now benefits from AI-driven insights that help operators detect incidents sooner, cut through operational noise, and act decisively. We see this as a blueprint for the future of motorway operations across Europe.”
(Pictures: Valerann/Nea Odos SA)
