EM Lyon Business School has opted to equip its campus with electric bikes that can be charged wirelessly. Alongside renewable energies, the technology is of particular interest to local authorities and businesses since it delivers a solution to changing trends. A first charging station for electric bikes has been launched at the Ecole de Management […]
To help communities in France resolve the issue of “not spots”, areas without internet coverage or a mobile phone network, Axians is rolling out 4G fixed broadband networks. In today’s agricultural economy, having access to internet in the fields is not simply a desirable feature or comfortable option for reading emails in the countryside – […]
Understanding the destabilisation caused by the emergence of “breakthrough” players in the urban environment; overcoming tensions between the “magical thinking” about smart cities and the reality on the ground in cities; establishing a dialogue between governance and innovation… these are all issues raised in the study “Audacities. Innover et gouverner dans la ville numérique réelle” […]
With the support of Axians, deeptech company CAILabs is developing a new technology that increases the data rate of multi-mode optical fibre by a factor of 400. Constantly increasing network data rates are rendering the transmission capacity of aging optical fibre obsolete – particularly the multi-mode systems used to communicate over short distances, for example […]
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 […]
To relieve traffic congestion, urban areas are now using cameras and loop counters. In future, “Floating Car Data” (FCD), will enable them to regulate traffic by collecting large volumes of localisation data from moving vehicles. One such system has been set up in Rouen, France, where the local authorities are working with Citeos. Traffic jams […]
A decade from now, the autonomous truck will be a reality disrupting the wholesale, retail and logistics sector. The electric, connected truck will both protect the environment and deliver technological performance. On the road to the self-driving vehicle, the electric car may be overtaken by the truck. A study by PwC, “The era of digitized […]
The connected home concept offers the entire property sector considerable scope for innovation in terms of both services and business models. Diego Harari, sustainable development and innovation director at VINCI Immobilier, and David Ernest, innovation and energy director at VINCI Facilities, explain their viewpoints. How can digital technology revolutionise residential housing? Diego Harari. Through a […]
Artificial intelligence has a part to play in Industry 4.0, particularly in quality control, an area in which Actemium Toulouse Robotique is very active. “Factories are AI’s next frontier,” says artificial intelligence guru Andrew Ng in Technology Review, the magazine published by the highly-reputed MIT. Although he doesn’t specify how manufacturers will roll out artificial […]
