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 […]
Winner of the VINCI Energies challenge at the VivaTech 2019 conference, Helios Exchange aims to be the leading integrated platform for building energy retrofit projects. For owners of commercial buildings, this means substantial time and money savings. Owners of commercial properties with a surface area equal to or greater than 1,000m2 now have little choice […]
Cegelec 3S has tapped into Caen’s academic ecosystem to help drive innovation. Together with students, the VINCI Energies business unit has developed a new mobile security airlock. A brand-new school lab facility, known as MoHo, is set to open its doors in Caen in 2020. The 7,200 m2 site will bring together students, researchers, startuppers, employees from […]
The Mobility Crossway solution is designed to meet the challenge of ensuring the safety of light rail, metro, railway, and even autonomous vehicle transport systems, without reducing their performance. Automation is increasingly used in private and public transport systems, including autonomous vehicles, driverless metros, and smart infrastructure. The benefits are measurable in terms of safety […]
As part of an initiative to bring electricity to communities living on islands created by the Tucuruí dam in Brazil, Omexom has installed mini photovoltaic power plants. This agile solution was encouraged by the public authorities. It is a cruel paradox that in the state of Pará in the Amazon rainforest, the workers who built […]
An article by our partner site Le Monde de l’Énergie What if, in future, we could recharge the car while driving? The limited range and the price of the electric vehicle are an obstacle to its widespread adoption, as are the limited availability and low power of charging stations. The dynamic recharging concept could facilitate […]
To help drivers avoid tailbacks on a nearby motorway, the Waze navigation app is rerouting them in large numbers through the municipality of Lieusaint, in the Seine-et-Marne department, some 40 km to the south of Paris (France). This “smart” diversion is causing major inconvenience for locals. In an effort to trick the Waze algorithm and send […]
