It was at Nevers that will be planted the first copy of the european eTree whose inauguration will take place on the 29th of may, place Carnot, two not the Town hall. This implantation, the first european so, just to emphasize, illustrate and foster the digital development of the Agglomeration of Nevers initiated three years ago.
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Innovation is among the most influential of the climate conference COP21 in Paris, which was unveiled on this occasion for the first time to the public, the street furniture of new generation in the form of a Tree only works with solar energy thanks to its photovoltaic collectors and allows you to provide free services to the urban community as an area of shelter and rest, the fresh water, the ability to recharge smartphones, wifi, light in the evening and helpful information thanks to a built-in screen.
Icon technology and the new symbol of the smart city, the eTree has already been planted by SOLOGIC, the mother house of the Solar Tree in Europ, in several locations prestigious in the world : California (Super Bowl Stadium), North Carolina, Manhattan (of course), Bethlehem, Caribbean Islands, Ramat Gan, Israel, Kazakhstan…
JCDecaux, the world number 1 in the external communication, materializes at Nevers its partnership with Solar Tree Europ, the start-up franco-israeli designer of the first Solar Tree Connected : the eTree.
Pioneer in the field of innovation in the service of cities, JCDecaux wants to make the urban world more sustainable and more intelligent. In charge of the upkeep and maintenance of the e-Tree, it will make this project a platform for the study in order to fully understand the expectations of the city dwellers and to measure their adherence to this pioneer product. With this information, the Group will be able to imagine the best deployment process of the eTree.
For Denis Thuriot, Mayor of Nevers and President of Nevers Agglomération : “Nevers is proud to host the first eTree in Europe. We want to see it as the symbol of a new era for the territory and the symbol of an open digital on the world and a human face, the one we develop here.”
For Michael Lasry and Bernard Bitan, Founder of the Solar Tree in Europ : “This Solar Tree is Connected, street furniture new generation is much more than an icon of ecological and technological at the heart of the city. The eTree has a soul and a vocation ; it is a giving Tree that offers the services that are fundamental today for the benefit of all. It materializes the convergence of a virtuous public and private sector… Because it is time to move on to the “Giving Economy” “.
For Jean-Michel Geffroy, managing Director Territories and Institutions of JCDecaux :
“JCDecaux is today one of the major actors of the smart city and contributes to the emergence of a city connected to ever more human, open and sustainable. The eTree illustrates this desire to offer to cities and citizens easy access to information and services that are varied then as connectivity has become one of the strategic issues for the attractiveness and the competitiveness of agglomerations “.
Since 2014, the city of Nevers has made digital a trump card in its economic development. Nevers Town, two hours from Paris, has played the card of innovation and specificity, and focus also on its surroundings and its quality of life, its heritage and its river, the Loire. In the buildings of a former military barracks renovated, on the site Cobalt, in the heart of the city of Nevers, Inkub hosts innovative start-ups that can rely on one of the schools of the territory (including CS2I Bourgogne, graduate school of informatics, DIGISUP, graduate school of digital marketing, ISAT, school of engineering automotive and transport, ESAAB, school of Applied Arts that form designers). The Inkub is one of the places in France where it was invented tomorrow, where “accelerating the future” as the announcement of his ” signature trademark “. It is a hive of intergenerational work, cross and exchange IT engineers relocated, start-upers, professionals, digital, entrepreneurs, students…
On the same site, has set up the Resource Center for Robotics Educational and Professional (CRREP), which provides robotics to the service of the learning of the programming.
What the Agglomeration of Nevers has driven, it is the emergence of a city and a territory that is intelligent, allowing the co-construction of a digital ecosystem is rich and open. A community in and around The INKUB is born. The events are multiplying. On may 20, will take place in Nevers, the first race of drones, which illustrates the development perspectives of the territory in the dronique.
This dynamic reflects a commitment to the accelerating the use of digital technologies and to provide the people a real equality of chances of success in the digital economy.
Thanks to the Inkub, CRREP, their ecosystem, and now, thanks to the eTree Solar Tree, the territory supports a digital human face and Nevers now plunges its roots in innovation.
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