The Orange site in Blagnac organized its 4th innovation fair, targeting the networks of tomorrow, CSR, data and artificial intelligence. The applications seem limitless: connected vehicles, flow management, green house, etc.
“We are very well known for telephony, but less for the innovation part which is nevertheless at the heart of our business! “, underlines Patricia Goriaux, the director of Orange Grand Sud-Ouest which covers Occitania and New Aquitaine. Also, for the fourth year, the Orange site in Blagnac (where 1,400 people work) organized its research and innovation fair, inviting the local ecosystem and its own employees to discover a series of research in progress.
These innovations invented in Blagnac
“There are 17 demonstrations around three themes: the networks of the future, data and artificial intelligence, as well as corporate social responsibility”, explains André Bottaro, head of a department at Orange Innovation Blagnac. As soon as you enter, the surprises begin with the stand dedicated to DYS disorders. For dyspraxia, the difficulty of pre-empting a pen is circumvented by writing with the finger on a touch screen. And for people with dyslexia, similar phonemes are displayed with the same color code.
5G to guide self-driving cars
Next door, Sébastien Delaplace, head of the Orange Innovation research program, presents a small black cube that has the power to turn off your box. “Do you turn off the light well when leaving a room? So why leave wifi on? “. A solution for partial use at a time when needs are less should be ready by the end of the year.
The star is of course 5G for connected vehicles. The car of the future will see further than its sensors by communicating with other systems, including real-time flow analysis. What reduce traffic jams and accidents.
Another program collects information on logistics flows with a view to optimizing traffic and avoiding empty truck returns. Finally, there’s nothing like testing the wireless virtual reality headset… And finding yourself at Notre-Dame before the fire, long before it was even built! The app should be marketed at the end of the month and the profits will go to the reconstruction of the cathedral.
