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What factors will influence the development of Smart Cities in the years to come?

This article focuses on the key success factors for the development of smart cities and the different challenges that these cities will have to face to fully succeed to become the real mainstay of the society of tomorrow.

How will transportation have to evolve to continue the development of smart cities?

The mobility and accessibility of a city represents both citizen advantages and comfort, and ecological responsibilities. Actually, if there are many disparities between transportation of different cities, they all aim to better serve their city and to create ecological ways of transportation.

DER Aggregation: Bi-Directional Data Flow Disrupting Bulk Power System Model

Driven by requirements to support greater amounts of renewables, our distribution grids are transforming to accommodate two-way electricity and two-way data flow on the journey to become greener, intelligent, and more flexible. What are the conséquences of these evolutions?

Energy Harvesting: A Watershed Event for Increasing AMI Battery Life?

Advanced metering infrastructure devices (AMI) are considered as a way to improve meter read accuracy and reduce operational costs. But their lifetime is limited by the life of their battery. So the question is how to improve battery life ?

The unique aspects of European smart cities: strengths and challenges to face worldwide competition?

European smart cities differ from other smart cities because of the constraint of implementing initiatives within existing cities. This article illustrates the diversity of smart initiatives and the different key performance indicators.

Smart cities, an unidentified urban object conquering the world?

The concept of a smart city encompasses a diverse reality that cannot be pinned down by a single definition. In fact, it relates to actions taken in complementary fields like mobility, energy, governance, living or environment.

Finie l’image vieillotte, place aux nouveaux Réseaux de chaleur !

Alors qu’ils pouvaient paraître quelque peu dépassés, les réseaux de chaleur reviennent sur le devant de la scène. De multiples mutations expliquent ce retour en grâce. Regard croisé avec Dalkia, leader français du secteur.

Voitures électriques en Chine : les défis d’un leader mondial

Dans cet article, nous dressons l’état des lieux du marché et des entreprises chinoises (notamment BYD). Nous décrivons les politiques du PCC et leur évolution récente, notamment due aux failles du système de subvention.

Le projet Yamal : Pourquoi Total n’est pas là par hasard ? (2/2)

Malgré d’importantes contraintes, Yamal LNG s'affirme comme un des investissements les plus rentables dans le GNL. Ce projet colossal s’inscrit sur une liste étoffée d’initiatives menées par le Groupe Total dans un secteur qu’il perçoit comme une énergie d’avenir et un relais de croissance.