Prize for 10,000 startups to change the world: a company from Avignon in the running
By Lea Surmaire
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no longer relieve the meteorological data Spar the top but from the bottom. This is the idea developed by Manuel Silva, entrepreneur from Avignon (Vaucluse) competing in the “10,000 startups to change the world” in the “artificial intelligence and data” category.
In 2022, this 54-year-old entrepreneur plans to place 10,000 sensors on French roads, starting with the Vaucluse. Energy-efficient, they will be powered by solar panels. To be closer to the road, their technical cabinets will be concealed in traffic signs.
By way of comparison, the world meteorological organizations count 10,000 terrestrial weather stations, as many as the quantity that Manuel Silva wants in France.
Pixelated weather
The corn ? to square a territory with 2km2 pixels against 1,000 km around for Météo France. The organization uses radars, satellites and airliners. It can only analyze meteorological phenomena on the scale of a department, then interpret them for each town in the department.
Manuel Silva offers him to from the ground, and communicate if a section of road is icy, the temperature, or if there is fog. This data may be of interest GPS appsto pay warn their user of the danger or evenlikely traffic jams charges to weather conditions.
A technology of the future?
Also, explains Manuel Silva, his data will be particularly useful to users of electronic vehicles. “If one of them has 1,000 km to go and 600 km of autonomy, his GPS will offer him a charging point half-way. Only, if the path is icy, the vehicle will consume more and have need this terminal upstream. Having this type of data is essential, it allows the user not to break down in open country”.
Also, according to him, they could be used to provide surgical doses of salt on the roads. A way to reduce this climatic scourge which contaminates the surrounding fauna.
HD SIGN was launched in 2018, after three years of reflection. Sensors were first installed in Brittany, Pays-de-la-Loire and Normandy, but these were not integrated into traffic signs. And, this time, no financial appeal to local authorities: the 2 million euros of investment will be compensated by the purchase of data by customers such as GPS applications, car manufacturers or even farmers. But then why in the Vaucluse? “Thanks to the outstretched hand of Renaud Muselier and the attractiveness of Vaucluse,” insists Manuel Silva, who has technology all over Europe.
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