Category: Sustainable, ecological and innovative solutions

Under their common banner French Water Clusters, namely Aqua-Valley and Aquanova competitiveness Clusters, gather over 550 members – companies, research institutions and higher education organizations. Their mission is to foster innovation and support growth in the French water sector, both nationally and internationally.
 
French Water Clusters assist their water companies in developing individual or integrated solutions, as well as in bringing innovative products, technologies, and services to market. These efforts aim to address the challenges posed by the territories adaptation to climate change.
 
Their activities are centered around five priority markets:
•            Cities and rural areas
•            Agriculture
•            Industry
•            Well-being, leisure, and health
•            Natural environments
 
Thanks to the diverse expertise of their members, Aqua-Valley and Aquanova cover all businesses and skills related to the water cycle, offering comprehensive and effective solutions tailored to their partners’ needs.

For more information, visit Aqua-Valley and Pôle Aquanova websites.

BRL Ingénierie is an international consultancy specializing in water, environmental and land use engineering. It is a subsidiary of the BRL Group which manages a large hydraulic network (13 dams, 105 km of canals, 125 pumping stations, 5,000 km of pressurised pipes, 6 drinking water treatment plants, 130,000 hectares equipped for irrigation).

Our 235 employees offer our public and private clients a wide range of services : from master planning to detailed design, supervision of works, technical assistance, economic and institutional studies and project management in the following fields: (i) Water supply and sanitation: production, supply and distribution of drinking water; Collection,regulation,conveyance and treatment of wastewater; Stormwater management; Regulation and Services management; REUSE; (ii) Large water infrastructure; (iii) Integrated Water Resources Management; (iv) Environmental and social impact assessment (v) Irrigation and drainage.

BRL Ingénierie generates 50% of its turnover (€30 million) from exports, with offices in Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Bolivia, Reunion and Madagascar and Uganda (with WE Consult: its subsidiary since 2019)

For more than 25 years, Simpliciti has been diversifying its offer with ever more innovative and efficient solutions.
 
We support cities and companies to monitor and optimize water networks, waste collection activities and public transportation.

Our mission: With technology, make the citizen actor of greener, more connected and more efficient cities.
 
In this context, we provide solutions to 2000+ municipalities such as Lyon Métropole, Cannes, Casablanca, Cotonou, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cannes, and companies (Keolis, Veolia, Pizzorno, Suez, Urbaser, etc.) and also UNHCR.
 
In Europe, Middle East, Africa and Canada, we deliver our solutions by integrating new functionalities but also by associating local partners for more local service.

Waste management :
SIMPLICITI provides the digital platform GEORED for managing waste collections as well as the associated equipment on collection vehicles. This solution allows:
• the traceability of services,
• the optimization of waste flow management
• the optimization of collection tours.
It allows easy monitoring of waste collection operations in the field by offering a mobile or tablet application
 
Our innovation capacity combined with our expertise allows us to offer customized and avant-garde solutions for sustainable cities like CITI’ID (One of 1000+ solutions elected by Solar Impulse Foundation), which assures traceability of collected bins or new functionalities of waste recognition to detect dangerous or forbidden objects in real time.
 
Water management:
SIMPLICITI and GreenCityzen conceive and implement innovative solutions to digitalize the operation of water networks with applications in 3 main areas.
• Sanitation and rainwater networks: our customers are the network operators.
• Irrigation of green spaces: our clients are the municipalities.
• Access to drinking water: our clients are NGOs.
 
These solutions generate knowledge about networks from connected sensors and business applications, with main benefits:
1. Improve performance and operating efficiency
2. Preserve the resource: often water savings (e.g. 50 to 70% for intelligent watering)
3. Reduce the environmental footprint: less carbon footprint (shorter intervention routes: 40%), less waste released into the natural environment (waste from the rainwater network or discharge from the sanitation network)
 
The combination of SIMPLICITI products and custom-made support services are the ingredients of successful digitalization projects realized with many customers in Europe, overseas territories and Africa.