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 […]
Actemium, the VINCI Energies industrial process brand, has created its own startup within Lille’s EuraTechnologies incubator to help factories make better use of their data. Immersion is more than a radical method for learning a foreign language. Actemium, the VINCI Energies industry brand, has experimented with the technique in a radically different field and taken […]
In a landscape in which multiple power outputs for battery charging are set to coexist, the barriers to electric mobility are gradually coming down, signalling the emergence of the electric car as a driver of behavioural change. This time it really does look like the electric car has stopped being a curiosity, something the general public has viewed with scepticism for some years, and could soon be a mainstream product. Experts […]
Electricity grid concession holders initiating gigantic high-voltage transmission line construction projects seek “full EPC” solutions such as the one developed by Omexom for Energisa in Brazil. To build two major grid interconnections in Brazil, electricity distributor Energisa opted for a “full EPC” solution and awarded all project stages including design, materials selection and supply, and […]
In July 2017, the British government set up a special fund to accelerate battery research and production. With £246m in funding over four years, the Faraday Challenge will bring together the leading energy storage specialists in a battery research centre. The virtual institute has a three-pronged remit: research, innovation, and industrialisation of the solutions devised […]
