Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate in charge of Digital Transition and Telecommunications, Olivier Klein, Minister Delegate in charge of Cities and Housing, and Bruno Bonnell, Secretary General for Investment, in charge of France 2030, announced on October 25 the winners of the first wave of the call for projects “Intelligent and sustainable territories” of France 2030.

Launched in October 2021 as part of the “Solutions for Sustainable Cities and Innovative Buildings” acceleration strategy of the^4th Future Investment Program (PIA4) and the France Recovery Plan, the “Smart and Sustainable Territories” call for projects aims to ” support structuring, sustainable and replicable projects of smart and sustainable territories.”

With a budget of €30 million, it has been coupled with another France 2030 call for projects: “Demonstrators of frugal AI in territories for the ecological transition” (DIAT) launched last July as part of the second phase of the national strategy for artificial intelligence (SNIA).

The artificial intelligence component

Complementing the “Intelligent and Sustainable Territories” PAA, the DIAT component brings together two acceleration strategies: AI and “Solutions for Sustainable Cities and Innovative Buildings”. The handover of projects took place on November 7.

This track aims to support the development of energy- and/or data-efficient AI applications that serve the decarbonization, ecological and energy transition objectives of local authorities and the public services or collective interests for which they are responsible, while validating technologies from emerging players in a real environment.

The winners of the “Intelligent and Sustainable Territories” PAA

This call for proposals aims to support local authorities, mixed unions or inter-municipal unions whose ambition is to provide a solution to a problem of steering public policies or to improve the management or operation of one or more services to users. It aims to contribute to :

• The structuring of economic models, governance models and evaluation tools that respond to the
  the concept of intelligent territory;
• The emergence of solutions based on the exploitation of sovereign data and adapted to the specificities of territorial public services;
• The structuring of a national ecosystem of actors, based on the experiences of
  The structuring of a national ecosystem of actors, based on the experiences of “intelligent and sustainable territories”, promoting the sharing of feedback, the
  the implementation of methods and the dissemination of good practices with a view to replicability.
  replicability.

Sixteen projects were submitted, the five selected are carried by the departmental electrification union of Finistère (Brittany region), the intercommunal energy union of Ain (Auvergne Rhône Alpes region), Toulouse metropole (Occitanie region), the audois energy and digital union (also Occitanie region) and by the Grand Est region.

• • • The Finistère departmental electrification union is planning to complete and extend its Lora low-speed/long-range network to deploy environmental sensors and a shared IoT infrastructure. It plans to deploy connected object services to support the energy transition, reduce environmental impacts and improve public services (public lighting, building energy efficiency, waste collection, indoor air quality). It will thus be able to define an economic model that makes connected object services accessible to small communities through the sharing, pooling and co-financing of these infrastructures;
    • The audois energy and digital union is planning to structure an organized and interoperable system for managing intelligent territories on a departmental scale with the creation of a sovereign digital infrastructure (GFU) and a panel of shared services adapted to small communities (digital work environment, IoT platform, data storage).It also plans to develop an ecosystem for resilience in the face of climate change (forest fire and flood prevention, crisis unit) and to support technological innovation: robotization of the wine industry, industry of the future in port areas;
    • The Ain intercommunal energy union will work on the department-wide deployment of a hypervisor that will centralize the management of all the networks and equipment of local authorities in order to optimize the maintenance of all the networks deployed on the territory in a predictive maintenance approach (public lighting network, fiber optics, photovoltaic energy production, video protection network, etc.).It will thus support the management of public policies with a view to energy efficiency and improving the quality of life (intelligent lighting, technical management of buildings, video protection);
    • The Grand Est region is planning to set up two demonstrators of hypervision solutions in rural communities, combining a passive interconnection network of equipment;
    • The city of Toulouse wants to use a platform and BIM/CIM technologies (digital twin, 3D modeling) to facilitate the operation of structures, explore the benefits of dynamic management of territorial data (energy efficiency, operational efficiency in the operation of structures, regulatory compliance, planning and monitoring of work). It will be able to define a model for the industrialization of BIM / CIM platforms based on replicable solution (standardization of specifications) and the development of an economic model.

Translated from France 2030 : le gouvernement dévoile les cinq premiers lauréats de l’AAP « Territoires intelligents et durables »