Omexom is sharing its expertise in the transition to green energy and in long-term regional transformation with the Agence française de développement (French development agency) in Brazil, Indonesia, and Burkina Faso. It’s no coincidence that Omexom’s path regularly crosses that of public development banks like AFD, the French development agency, and the brand new fund […]
Together with Citeos, the City of Paris rolled out a network of micro sensors “at human height” in 2018. The goal is to fine-tune the city’s Airparif air quality measurement model and support targeted measures. Paris plans to focus on “surgical” targeting in its battle to control pollution. For example, it will determine the variation […]
What better vantage point from which to detect the jobs of the future than a teaching and research chair? David Baudry of the CESI engineering school and Richard Itzkowitch of VINCI Energies France Communication et Systèmes discuss it. The factory of the future, smart buildings, smart city, and IoT are the focus of CESI’s Industries […]
How can we disseminate innovation in-house? VINCI Energies looked for a way to do it. The result: Hermes. The project got under way in the summer of 2016. At the end of a long co-development process by the VINCI Energies innovation community, Hermes was launched in March 2018. The new platform contains all innovation projects […]
Notwithstanding a number of emblematic projects, the Smart City concept remains blurry in most French cities. Smart City technology appears to offer a promising way to improve cities. The whole range of current and future technologies should be used to serve human beings, in other words to meet the challenges involved in making the city more […]
The role of the information systems department is now to support users’ digital transformation by providing the technology building blocks that are easiest to use and best suited to their needs. Those who still think that IS departments tend to impose systems and tools with little attention to the end user need to change their […]
“Smart” urban lighting saves energy and provides a platform for new citizen services, as examples in New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Indonesia show. The four cities of Auckland, New Zealand; Noumea, New Caledonia; and Mataram and Bogor, Indonesia would seem to have little in common apart from the experiments in new urban ways of living […]
Lydia Babaci-Victor, Director of Development and Innovation at VINCI Energies, attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, held from 9 to 12 January. She analyses the 2018 event in seven keywords. Ecossystem. “First observation: the connected technologies market has passed a milestone, reaching a degree of maturity with the advent of new business […]
In Aix-en-Provence, on the boundary between the country and the city, a new-generation international campus will open its doors in a year’s time. This ambitious project, of which VINCI Energies is a founding partner, reflects the growing importance of issues relating to smart cities. Introducing “thecamp”: this project, set in Aix-en- Provence, was inspired by initiatives dedicated to transformation, […]