Energy & Environment
Sustainable urban development requires innovative approaches to energy management and environmental protection. Discover how Belgian exhibitors are leading the way in creating greener and more resilient cities.
Delegate
Name: Francesca LIVRAGHI
Job Title: International Sales Director
Mobile: +39 340 09 14 363
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
Enable public and private customers to digitalize and manage water and energy infrastructures, thanks to useful, robust and secured connected technologies.
Range of Products or SolutionsSmart mobility:
Solutions and equipment for optimizing and digitalizing cities and regions based on three pillars: STREET LIGHTING, WATER, and ENERGY.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Thanks to its strong knowledge of markets and ecosystems, LACROIX brings a “smart tech” expertise integrated in complete and ergonomic solutions. To meet the challenges of global competitiveness, LACROIX relies on its design and manufacturing capacity to provide industrial and robust offers to customers.
Main References
Oslo City and Belgium.
Certifications
LACROIX is certified ISO 14001. We are part of the TALQ Consortium as a regular member. Tegis & SmartNodes products are TALQ certified and SOFREL S4W is certified in cybersecurity by the ANSSI (French Agency for Cybersecurity).
Delegate
Name: Kris Boonen
Job Title: Business Development Manager
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
EnergyVille is a collaboration between the Belgian research partners KU Leuven, VITO, imec and UHasselt in the fields of sustainable energy and intelligent energy systems.
Range of Products or Solutions
EnergyVille develops technology and knowledge to support public and private stakeholders in the transition to an energy efficient, decarbonised and sustainable urban environment. Our activities are clustered in eight interdisciplinary domains: solar energy, battery storage, power electronics, power-to-molecules, thermal systems, electrical networks, energy for buildings and districts, energy strategies and markets.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
The unique complementarity of the research partners allows us to integrate the energy system value chain in its entirety, ranging from materials and components to the level of entire energy systems, business models and strategies. As an energy R&D innovation hub, located in the industry-oriented ecosystem of Thor Park (Genk, Belgium), EnergyVille offers an attractive environment for energy research, industrial product development and business creation.
Main References
The collaboration is supported by the city of Genk, the Province of Limburg, LRM, Nuhma, POM Limburg and the European structural funds.
Certifications
With approximately 400 researchers and state-of-the-art research facilities, EnergyVille is a top European innovation hub in the energy field. it bundles research, development and training under one roof and collaborates closely with local, regional, national and international partners from industry as well as public authorities.
Delegate
Name : Cédric Van Daele
Job Title : Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Mobile : +33686769512
E-mail : [email protected]
Company Background
Grality results from 20 years of arboricultural engineering office serving large tree patrimonies, mainly in urban environment, and a smart IT team, delivering the best of technology to grow your city greener.
Range of Products or Solutions
Grality consists in an easy-to-use application, facilitating the development / management of a city’s green spaces. The same app is used on the field for inventory, maintenance follow-up, managers preparing tender for the coming works, or city officials assessing the environmental benefits of their green assets.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Simple to use, Grality requires no engineering background for your teams to adopt it. Yet, the power of technology really brings your tree patrimony management into the era of smart cities : maintenance under control (works follow-up, budgets, assignment sheets, security highlights…), and a scientific monitoring of your green spaces environmental impact (CO2, air cooling, biodiversity…).
Main References
Center Parcs, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), Université de Lorraine, Chambéry, Massy, Maisons-Laffitte, ville de Loudéac, ville de Watermael-Boisfort, ville de Forest, Forestry Club de France.
Certifications
Microsoft Cloud partner Program
Delegates
Name: Lieven Raes
Job Title: COMPAIR consortium coordinator
Mobile: +32/499 59 36 02
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Tom Callens
Job Title: COMPAIR project manager
Mobile: +32/475 40 22 24
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
COMPAIR is an EU Horizon 2020 funded project to help cities and regions improve air quality by raising the quality of citizen science data for decision making
Range of Products or Solutions
Equipping citizens with easy-to-use sensors, apps and data dashboards we supplement gaps in official data to help drive the necessary personal and policy changes needed for a sustainable future.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Using citizen sensors to improve urban air quality
Main References
Region of Flanders, Berlin, Sofia, Plovdiv and Athens
Certifications
Our project results follow international standards on interoperability
Delegate
Name: Simoens Pascal
Job Title: PhD, Senior Researcher
Mobile: +32.475.63.00.34
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
French-speaking Belgian university located in Hainaut (Mons and Charleroi) with more than 10,000 students, integrated into the EUNICE European network with its 150,000 students.
Range of Products or Solutions
The university and its institutes have been working on smart city research for over 10 years, drawing on a solid multidisciplinary mix of researchers specializing in IoT, Smart city models (environment, infrastructures, governance and citizenship), optimization (CIM, simulation tools). We have developed governance models (Wal e cities, social network analysis) and simulation’s (low entropy data usage models) applicable to all cities.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Analysis of social networks (low data) for the governance of urban projects, Simulation method to reduce entropy in projects within the DNSH framework
Main References
Wal e Cities projects (European funds)
Delegate
Name: Jean-Jacques Lemaire
Job Title: NCP Wallonie Advisor
Mobile: +32489895449
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Francisco Santana Ferra
Job Title: NCP Wallonie Coordinator and Manager
Mobile: +32472172996
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
Public service active in supporting connection of local companies and institutions with other European counterparts for Research & Innovation European funding programs.
Range of Products or Solutions
Services of information, program selection, networking, B2B, legal & funding support, proposal proof-reading as assistance in European Research and Innovation funding programs participation (Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, Life, Innovation Fund, …) Topics: smart cities, digital, energy, industry, health, circular economy, building sector, …)
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Large connection network, public independent free service
Main References
Official National Contact Point, supported by European Commission
Delegate
Name: Gert Trekels
Job Title: Managing Director
Mobile: +32485807119
E-mail: [email protected]
Name: Thomas De Moor
Job Title: CEO
Mobile: +32485807119
E-mail: [email protected]
Company Background
Sentigrate is a data company specialized in processing, modeling and visualizing sensor data, with a proven track record when it comes to integrating and combining multi-parameter sensor data and building machine learning methodologies.
Range of Products or Solutions
bAIcycle tackles the social problem of the poor condition of European cycle paths by allowing the cycling citizen to participate in the generation and labeling of data to train a smart AI (detection and classification) algorithm.
Added Value / Unique Selling Point
Our solution distinguishes itself from others by its scalability. By using smartphones we avoid additional expensive hardware. This keeps costs low, avoiding a major barrier to data logging and allowing more bikes to be equipped. We visualize the data via OpenStreetMap, among other things, so that every organization can get started without much custom development.
Main References
We are working together with several large cities in Belgium (Brussels, Antwerp, Leuven, Mechelen etc) and are ready to scale internationally.
