SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC – Optimizing energetic efficiency of buildings

Schneider Electric in a nutshell

“Schneider Electric is an international expert in energy management, present in over 100 countries, and offers integrated solutions to a number of market segmentations. Our 120,000 employees are proactive in making energy safer, more efficient and more reliable, and brought our sales figures up to 17.3 billion euros in 2007 by a commitment to individuals and organizations to help make the best out of their energy. Schneider Electric encourages a group of partners to develop an economy of building’s energetic efficiency on a large scale. Our group offers its ability to innovate in energy control and management.

Schneider Electric becomes partner with Inéov

 

Inéov is going to be an opportunity for us to share our experience on the first results and prototypes achieved as part of our HOMES program. This innovative program brought together over a dozen partners who worked for 4 years to design affordable, usable solutions that use electric sensors technologies and powerful means of communication and calculation so that every building can achieve its best energetic efficiency.”

 

(Sylvain Paineau, manager of the program)

SOGETI HIGH-TECH – following and controlling your electric consumption

 

 

 

 

 

Sogeti in a nutshell

 

“For a few years, Sogeti High Tech has been playing a major part in the European market of engineering and technological advising in space and aeronautic industry, railroad and energy. It capitalizes on innovation to make a difference, both with its clients by investing on R&D projects with them, and with its associates who find this an opportunity for expression and evolution. Where industrial devices are concerned, we have been working a lot on architecture/solutions specialized in service in different ways.”

 

Sogeti becomes partner with Ineov

 

“We will be taking part in Ineov presenting SmartElectricity, a collaborative research project which brings together over 11 local involved people from Minalogic, among which Sogeti High Tech. The aim of this 20 million Euros project is to build a convergence dynamic in electricity, industrial automation and communication. As part of this project, we are developing a smart electric dashboard that can communicate and is able to interface itself with its environment and to evolve rapidly in time with information technologies.”

(Didier Appell, Directeur of Sogeti High-Tech Rhône-Alpes)

Ineov: new program

Get a smart future –  new keys to boost your IT innovations

  

The program of the event is based on a 5-step educational process: discovering, learning, organizing, understanding and sharing.

Real examples, feedback on successes and failures, discovery of great projects, information and methodology: a dynamic, informative event, to gain access to a whole new field of innovation.

 

Ineov’s assets:

International:

-         Chinese and American special guests

-         Experience sharing through videoconference

-         Round-table conference with Colorado and Dalian Softawre Park

 

A web event:

-         Committees of the whole broadcast on the internet

-         Chat

-         Interactive system of vote and questions

-         Blog

 

Participation of a number of companies and research centers:

Capgemini, Atos Origin, Orange Labs, Schneider Electric, Inria, Cea, Cnrs, Ensimag,...

 

Two high points:

-     A friendly networking evening to discover and experiment new uses of numeric systems

-     A final conference with Léo Dayan, a famous French economist who will be talking about the eco-links economic system and new models of economic growth