Cécile Maisonneuve, President of La Fabrique de la cité, is one of the best observers of the challenges facing today’s urban areas, first and foremost traffic congestion and its impact on urban quality of life and public health. She says that it would be wrong to assume that new technologies can, by themselves, solve a […]
A wireless charging motorway project, selected as part of a European call for proposals in July 2019 and led by major French groups among others, could well signal a turning point in the electric vehicle market. In 2018, Sweden, which aims to achieve independence from fossil fuels in the transport sector by 2030, became the […]
Many industrial undertakings are discovering the benefits of collaborative simulation solutions, particularly as applied to logistics. A number of specialised simulation tools, including AnyLogic, 3DEXPERIENCE, ProModel, FlexSim, Witness, SIMPROCESS, AutoMod, and Plant Simulation, hold new potential for industrial operators. These solutions can substantially optimise a production line both upstream and downstream. They create a virtual […]
For employers and professionals in the property development industry, new working practices driven by mobility and digital developments are resulting in reduced office footprints and a move towards collective workspaces. Although less common in France than in other European countries, especially Scandinavian ones, teleworking is developing at a very fast pace and no longer just […]
An article by our partner site LEONARD Rather than progressing in a straight line, the increasingly-growing coworking market is constantly changing. In addition to new players on the scene with their shape-shifting products, major businesses are now building coworking spaces in their own offices (“corporate working”). Coworking is becoming one of many solutions for optimizing […]
Specific – especially security-related – constraints must be addressed when integrating voice assistants in a work environment. Should a cloud solution provided by one of the major American suppliers be selected, or a local solution such as those offered by a number of startups? Alexa is listening to you. All the time. Amazon’s voice assistant […]
Voice assistants are just starting to be seen in industry. But before an assembly line can be controlled by voice technology, constraints such as background noise and data structuring first need to be eliminated. “Athena, warm up the machine,” commands a technician with a wireless headset standing by a machine tool. “The machine is warmed […]
The teams at Axians Portugal used artificial intelligence technologies to develop the SARA chatbot platform, which is already up and running in Belgium and will soon be operating across Europe as a whole. Voice technology is bringing major changes in marketing. Chatbots, the conversational tools used by customer relations departments, have become widespread in recent […]
Voice assistants, a popular consumer product, have so far been little used in business environments. Yet already, a number of industrial and service sector activities are beginning to test the new human-machine communication interface. Although Alexa, the voice assistant sold by Amazon, has so far been available only via Echo speakers, now in the United […]
