We often share our research and innovation work with you, but there’s something we haven’t explained.
What connects them all?
To discover one of the common threads of our R&D, join us during the week of November 4th at ADEME's premises in Sophia-Antipolis for the ITTECOP Days (infrastructure, territories, transport, energy, ecosystems, and landscape program).
From November 6th to 9th, the event will bring together the French community of researchers and professionals working on the challenges of transport infrastructure and biodiversity.
On this occasion, we will talk about digital twins for biodiversity, and specifically about a project we are launching in this area, called BioDT (DT for "Digital Twin").
Digital twins are becoming central technologies across many sectors. Their role is to provide virtual replicas of real-world systems to predict their operation and changes over time.
These tools combine modeling (to create a virtual representation of physical reality), sensors (to continuously collect real data from the field), and artificial intelligence (to automatically analyze the collected data and update the virtual model in real-time).
What is the purpose of a digital twin for biodiversity?
In the field of transport infrastructure, we focus on preventing collisions between animals and vehicles and managing ecological restoration projects, (from their design to evaluating their long-term effectiveness).
The goal of BioDT is to prepare for the imminent arrival of these digital twins.
At the same time, it is essential to promote their large-scale adoption by public and private stakeholders involved in territorial planning and infrastructure management, in France, Europe, and beyond.
How? By leveraging funding.
This is precisely the focus of the FORBES research project we revealed last week, which our CEO, Sylvain Moulherat, will also present during the ITTECOP Days.
To ensure you don’t miss anything, we will also bring three posters to Sophia-Antipolis, showcasing various projects we are conducting or have conducted with the support of ITTECOP:
- Ocapi ( creation of our AI-assisted species recognition software)
- AIGLE (bird recognition using AI in airport environments)
- PolymorFENCE (AI and modeling to analyze the ecological impact of fences)