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industrial risk

How can industrial risk be assessed?

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Safety is a key concern in the industrial sector. As such, studying risk represents a specialized field of research. Experiments in this area are particularly difficult to carry out, as they involve explosions and complicated measures. Frédéric…
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OligoArchive

DNA as the data storage medium

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By 2025 the volume of data produced in the world will have reached 250 zettabytes (1 zettabyte = 1021 bytes). Current storage media have insufficient storage capacity or suffer from obsolescence. Preserving even a fraction of this data means…
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Rémi Sharrock

C in your Browser

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In the academic world, teaching and carrying out research often go hand-in-hand. This is especially true for Rémi Sharrock, a computer science researcher at Télécom Paris, who has developed a C Language learning program comprising 7 MOOCs.…
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ASTRID project

Astrid: a nuclear project goes up in smoke

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The abandonment of the Astrid project marks a turning point for France's nuclear industry. The planned nuclear reactor was supposed to be "safer, more efficient and more sustainable", but therefore required significant funding. Stéphanie Tillement,…
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connected devices

A dictionary for connected devices

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The field of connected devices is growing at a staggering pace across all industries. There is a growing need to develop a communication standard, meaning a 'common language' that different smart systems could understand and interpret. To contribute…
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Being Human with algorithms : Marc-Oliver Pahl meets Raimund Seidel

Marc-Oliver Pahl is a researcher in cybesecurity at IMT Atlantique. In 2018, he launched “Being human with algorithms”, a series of video interviews between technicians and non-technicians around the topic of digital transformation. Through…
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immune system

Understanding the resilience of the immune system through mathematical modeling

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Gaining insight into how the immune system works using mathematics is the ultimate goal of the research carried out by IMT Atlantique researcher Dominique Pastor, along with his team. Although the study involves a great degree of abstraction,…
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Unéole

Unéole on our roofs

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We know how to use wind to produce electricity, but large three-bladed turbines do not have their place in urban environments. The start-up Unéole has therefore developed a wind turbine that is suitable for cities, as well as other environments.…
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plastics

A sorting algorithm to improve plastic recycling

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Producing high-quality raw materials from waste is contingent on effective sorting. Plastics from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are no exception. To help solve this problem, researchers at IMT Mines Alès have developed a…
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Hiboo

Tracking mobile industrial equipment in real time with Hiboo

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The Hiboo start-up was incubated at Télécom Paris and provides a platform to help companies better manage their mobile assets: equipment, merchandise, vehicles etc. This solution is now widely used in the construction industry.   In…
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SOCCRATES

SOCCRATES automates cybersecurity for industrial systems

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SOCCRATES is a H2020 European project launched in September 2019 for a three-year period. It aims to develop at least one platform to automate the detection of certain attacks and launch appropriate countermeasures. In doing so, it should help…
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DeNoize

A window, and silence!

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To combat noise pollution and its effects on human health, DeNoize, a start-up incubated at Mines Saint-Étienne, offers a solution: a window that 'mutes sound'. This connected window would analyze outside noise and adapt to cancel it out.   Double…
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digital twin

What is a digital twin?

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Digital twins, digital doubles – what exactly do these terms mean? Raksmey Phan, an engineer at the Mines Saint-Étienne Centre for Biomedical and Health Engineering (CIS)[1], talks to us about the advantages and advances offered by these…
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AiiNTENSE

AiiNTENSE: AI for intensive care units

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The start-up AiiNTENSE was incubated at IMT Starter and develops decision support tools for healthcare with the aim of advising intensive care personnel on the most appropriate therapeutic procedures. To this end, the start-up is developing…
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supply chain

Meet your supply chain using virtual reality

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Immersive technologies for industrial engineering and risk management? This is the focus of research to be carried out at the SIReN laboratory launched on 15 November, bringing together researchers from IMT Mines Albi (France) and Georgia Tech…
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ixblue

iXblue: Extreme Fiber Optics

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Since 2006, iXblue, a French company based in Lannion, and the Hubert Curien laboratory [1] in Saint-Étienne have partnered to develop cutting-edge fiber optics. This long partnership has established iXblue as a global reference in the use…
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digital transformation

No, employees are not afraid of digital transformation

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This article was originally published (in French) on The Conversation. By Emmanuel Baudoin, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School. [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he 2019 edition of the study (in…
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women

Why have girls been turning their backs on computer science?

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Column written in partnership with The Conversation. By Chantal Morley from Institut Mines-Télécom Business School. [divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] [dropcap]F[/dropcap]or an organizer of a careers fair or an engineering…
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top ten

Our top ten articles of 2019 !

At this beginning of the year 2020, I’MTech takes a look back at 10 of the most noteworthy articles from the past year. What scientific topics made headlines at the close of the 2010s and the dawn of the 2020s? A look at this pivotal year,…
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MADEin4

MADEin4: digital twinning and predictive maintenance for industry

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The European MADEin4 project was launched in April 2019 for a three-year period. It aims to help semiconductor manufacturers and equipment suppliers play an active role in the continuous improvement of their equipment. How? By relying on new…
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codling moth

A tribe of irreducible codling moths

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In agriculture, biological alternatives to pesticides are being sought for environmental and health reasons. Use of a virus as a biocontrol agent for crop pests has become relatively widespread. One such example is Cydia pomonella granulovirus.…
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Guillaume Balarac

Guillaume Balarac, turbulence simulator

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Turbulence is a mysterious phenomenon in fluid mechanics. Although it has been observed and studied for centuries, it still holds secrets that physicists and mathematicians strive to unlock. Guillaume Balarac is part of this research community.…
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Véronique Bellon-Maurel

Véronique Bellon-Maurel: from infrared spectroscopy to digital agriculture

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Measuring and quantifying have informed Véronique Bellon-Maurel's entire scientific career. A pioneer in near infrared spectroscopy, the researcher's work has ranged from analyzing fruit to digital agriculture. Over the course of her fundamental…
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Stéphanie Tillement

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