vigisat, surveillance, environnement

VIGISAT: monitoring and protection of the environment by satellite

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Following on from our series on the platforms provided by the Télécom & Société numérique Carnot institute, we will now look at VIGISAT, based near Brest. This collaborative hub is also a project focusing on the satellite monitoring…
Brennus Analytics

Brennus Analytics: finding the right price

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Brennus Analytics offers software solutions, making artificial intelligence available to businesses. Algorithms allow them to determine the optimal sales price, helping bring businesses closer to their objective of gaining market share and margin…
supply chain management, Matthieu Lauras

What is supply chain management?

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Behind each part of your car, your phone or even the tomato on your plate, there’s an extensive network of contributors. Every day, billions of products circulate. The management of a logistics chain – or ‘supply chain management’ –…
Botfuel, Chatbots

Botfuel: chatbots to revolutionize human-machine interfaces

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Are chatbots the future of interactions between humans and machines? These virtual conversation agents have a growing presence on messaging applications, offering us services in tourism, entertainment, gastronomy and much more. However, not…
stephan clémençon, conseiller scientifique, exposition, scientific exhibition advisor

What exactly is a scientific exhibition advisor? A discussion with Stephan Clémençon

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Who are the people working behind the scenes at scientific exhibitions? The tasks at hand range from approving content and proposing themes to identifying scientific and societal issues, and much more. To find out more, we interviewed Stephan…
Terra Data, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie

Terra Data: the exhibition demystifying data

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Until 7th January 2018, la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie is hosting the Terra Data exhibition. It offers the opportunity to demystify all things ‘data’, from generation to use. The exhibition is divided into four parts, and progressively…
renewable energy storage, stockage énergies renouvelables

What is renewable energy storage?

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The storage of green energy is an issue which concerns many sectors, whether for energy transition or for supplying power to connected objects using batteries. Thierry Djenizian, a researcher at Mines Saint-Étienne, explains the main problems…
New Caledonia

New Caledonia: a mine challenging democracy

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When an industrial mining complex wanted to release a pollutant into their lagoon in the late 1990s, the inhabitants of the southern province of Grande Terre took action. In their fight against the environmental and cultural danger, the citizens…
Silense, Marius Preda, Télécom SudParis

Will we soon be able to control machines with simple gestures?

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The “Silense” European project launched in May 2017 is aimed at redefining the way we interact with machines. By using ultrasound technology similar to sonar, the researchers and industrialists participating in this collaboration have chosen…
dam break, optical fiber

Dam-break phenomenon in optical fibers

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Last May, for the first time, researchers from the University of Lille and IMT Lille-Douai exposed a photon dam breaking in an optical fiber. These results provided the experimental confirmation for an old theory that dates back over 50 years.…