SPIE builds the Bordeaux of tomorrow

Bordeaux Métropole entrusts SPIE with the creation and maintenance of a remote management system for connected equipment in the Matmut Atlantique stadium district. The pilot project is part of the Smart Digital Territory Plan and aims to reduce energy consumption and collect information on this consumption. The recorded data will be able to optimize the delivery of electricity in the territory, and thus save money.

A pilot project for tomorrow’s energy management…

The French company has already started installing 500 IoT (Internet of Things) sensors on more than 200 lights as well as other electrical equipment such as electric research terminals, garbage cans or public buildings. Bordeaux Métropole wants to measure the impact of deploying connected infrastructure to offer more efficient and less expensive services. Each sensor measures consumption but also how energy works and uses it.

All the data collected will then be sent on a single platform that will allow dialogue between each equipment. With this method, energy consumption will be optimized but it will also prevent malfunctions and directly access the source of a problem. Bordeaux already foresees scenarios for the use of this data. For example, assessing the filling rate of containers to streamline respite tours. This will cause less pollution and decongest the city’s road traffic. Bordeaux Métropole gives itself six months after the end of the installation of the sensors, until June 2018, to evaluate the relevance and effectiveness of the system. If the evaluation is successful, the project could eventually extend to the entire city.

… in an initiative to dialogue with metropolitan areas

This new generation district, connected and intelligent, is also part of the “Bordeaux 2050” reflection project, which aims to involve the inhabitants of the metropolis so that they define together their vision of the Bordeaux of tomorrow. The project, launched in February 2018 at the Bordeaux Metropole Arena, is due to be completed in March 2019, a year before the 2020 municipal elections. The “Bordeaux 2020” project aims to address both contemporary and future issues. What modes of travel are less polluting, less crippling for road traffic? Revitalizing the urban peripheries of the Bordeaux conurbation? Improve living together? Linking areas of nature, agriculture or urban areas? These are examples of the questions that revolve around the Bordeaux 2020 project.

SPIE excels in maintenance

These are therefore answers that the “Bordeaux 2050” project must bring out, as construction projects. The Bordeaux metropolis has already embarked on a multi-year urbanization plan; Bordeaux Euratlantique, the Bordeaux Metropole Arena or the Brazza project by being illustrations.

The city having now reached an important national rank with one of the strongest attractiveness rates , and a powerful continental rank with the North-South European axis passing through Bordeaux, its elected officials are focusing more on these future questions that will make it possible to anticipate the problems of tomorrow.

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Press release

Bordeaux 2050

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