As well as meeting operators' exacting network requirements so that they in turn can satisfy their customers, high-quality Internet services are also a national priority. High-performance Internet access is to modern society what drinking water and electricity were to the nation a century ago.
All buses in large French cities will have to be “clean” by 2025. Argenteuil has already taken the step of investing in a smart charging system. 100% electric buses are being rolled out in urban public transit systems. Paris launched its first all-electric line in May 2016. The mass transit fleet of Argenteuil in France’s Val-d’Oise […]
France’s power generation capacity will not be sufficient to meet the consumption peaks expected during cold spells (demand is set to reach 101.6GW at the end of the week of 16 January, while total capacity for the period is 87GW). To ensure power continuity for households, there are several solutions: imports, savings and demand side response […]
At CEA List premises, the Factory Lab is testing the implementation of the latest technology innovations at production sites. Increasingly, automation is enabling cobots (from collaborative robots) to assist humans in carrying out a variety of tasks. Is this something out of science fiction? No. At the Factory Lab, at the premises of the French […]
The development of digital technology has given rise to a huge amount of industrial innovation. And not only is there a lot of it, it is also useful: new technologies can help make our factories more productive, more agile and more intelligent, while allowing personnel to refocus on their core activities. Too few French businesses […]
Global electricity demand will double over the next 25 years. The task facing market players today is to show what monetary value can be offered by energy consumption management. More flexible, more proactive in maintaining a balance between production and consumption… Electricity networks, too, are getting smarter. And with good reason: “Whatever type of primary energy is used to generate […]
Increasing digitisation enables IT managers to make the transition from investment to operations; even better, it allows them to “resell” this model to their own internal clients. All functions within companies are changing quickly due to information technology: internal processes, supplier integration, broader business ecosystems, client relationships, new services, and new business models. These transformations […]
In time, towns and cities may no longer own their lighting infrastructure, but will instead buy access to levels of illumination. Cities will not only be part of the service delivery revolution, they are likely to be the most obvious source of the various forms of connected intelligence. Their size and their concentration and range […]
As-a-Service. The expression has become the credo of proponents of a new approach to the way in which relationships, information and business are balanced within companies. It’s a buoyant market, but one that is still developing. Originally, the expression “as a service” comes from the acronym SaaS, or Software as a Service, a model in […]
