Africa’s Leading Electric Mobility Company Spiro Revolutionizes Security Infrastructure with RIANA Group’s Advanced AI-Smart Surveillance Solutions

Company Overview

Spiro stands as Africa’s most trusted electric mobility company, recognised as a TIME 100 Most Influential Company of 2024. Operating 22,000 electric motorbikes across seven African countries, Spiro is dedicated to enhancing livelihoods through sustainable energy and leading the large-scale electrification of mobility across Africa. With over 15 million battery swaps performed and 40,000 batteries currently in operation, Spiro provides innovative, eco-friendly, affordable electric transportation solutions that transform urban mobility while reducing carbon emissions.

The opportunity

With Spiro’s remarkable expansion and commitment to providing 100 MW of smart energy network deployment, the company recognised the need to enhance security infrastructure at their main manufacturing plant along Mombasa Road. The facility houses critical assets, including production equipment, battery inventory, electric motorbike components, and proprietary technology essential to their continental operations. Traditional surveillance systems offered only passive recording, meaning security teams could only review incidents after they occurred rather than prevent them in real time. The plant’s expansive layout created potential blind spots where unauthorised activities could go undetected, while security personnel struggled to monitor multiple screens constantly. Spiro needed proactive threat detection for vandalism, theft, fire hazards, and unauthorised access with comprehensive coverage. To maintain their leadership position and protect valuable assets, Spiro sought advanced surveillance solutions matching their innovative approach to sustainable transportation.

The Partnership

USS, a RIANA Group subsidiary, deployed advanced AI-smart surveillance systems with intelligent video analytics. High-definition cameras with broad-range views were strategically positioned throughout the manufacturing plant, ensuring complete coverage of production floors, battery storage facilities, equipment zones, perimeter boundaries, and entry points, eliminating blind spots while AI analytics actively monitor every feed for threats. USS’s intelligent video analytics automatically detect threats and trigger real-time alerts, providing sustainable, multi-use security optimisation. The system monitors simultaneously for multiple scenarios: vandalism through unusual movement patterns, theft via unauthorised asset removal algorithms, fire hazards using thermal detection and smoke recognition, and restricted area breaches when individuals access unauthorised zones. The AI-powered system continuously analyses video feeds in real-time, automatically detecting suspicious activities and potential threats. Unlike traditional surveillance that simply records, USS’s intelligent system actively identifies anomalies and triggers immediate alerts, enabling instant response before situations escalate, providing threat type notification, specific location, and live video feeds.

The Transformation: Security Excellence Redefined

USS, a RIANA Group subsidiary, deployed advanced AI-smart surveillance systems with intelligent video analytics. High-definition cameras with broad-range views were strategically positioned throughout the manufacturing plant, ensuring complete coverage of production floors, battery storage facilities, equipment zones, perimeter boundaries, and entry points, eliminating blind spots while AI analytics actively monitor every feed for threats. USS’s intelligent video analytics automatically detect threats and trigger real-time alerts, providing sustainable, multi-use security optimisation. The system monitors simultaneously for multiple scenarios: vandalism through unusual movement patterns, theft via unauthorised asset removal algorithms, fire hazards using thermal detection and smoke recognition, and restricted area breaches when individuals access unauthorised zones. The AI-powered system continuously analyses video feeds in real-time, automatically detecting suspicious activities and potential threats. Unlike traditional surveillance that simply records, USS’s intelligent system actively identifies anomalies and triggers immediate alerts, enabling instant response before situations escalate, providing threat type notification, specific location, and live video feeds.

Scaling Sustainable Mobility: The USS-Spiro Collaboration

USS’s AI-smart surveillance transformed Spiro’s security from reactive monitoring to proactive threat prevention. Intelligent video analytics detect potential incidents in real-time, enabling immediate intervention before threats escalate into costly damage. High-definition recording with broad-range coverage protects valuable manufacturing equipment, battery inventory, components, and proprietary technology. Security teams no longer watch multiple screens constantly; the AI monitors all feeds simultaneously, alerting personnel only when genuine threats are detected, dramatically improving efficiency while reducing false alarms. The system’s ability to monitor vandalism, theft, fire hazards, and breaches simultaneously provides comprehensive protection across all threat vectors. Most importantly, the advanced security infrastructure enables Spiro to focus on delivering clean energy and sustainable transportation solutions across Africa, confident that its operations are protected by intelligent, proactive systems matching its innovative business approach.

The Bottom Line: Spiro didn’t just install cameras; they revolutionised security infrastructure with AI-driven intelligence, proving modern security isn’t about passive recording but active threat prevention through intelligent systems that learn, predict, and respond in real-time, securing their position as Africa’s electric mobility leader with security infrastructure as innovative as their sustainable transportation solutions.