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Orange makes for a greener city E-mail
by Stuart Corner   
Sunday, 25 November 2007
Orange (aka France Telecom) has built a trial network for the city council of Cagnes-sur-Mer that uses communications technology to enable the council to monitor and control a variety of environmental parameters in the city and its environs.
The service, 'La Ville Durable' (The Sustainable Cit) is being tested for five months for its application to communities supervised by France Telecom' R&D arm Orange Labs. It uses machine-to-machine communications over a variety of networks - radio, GPRS, Internet - to give the city government access to a range of information about the city, including sea and air temperature. Sound levels, atmospheric pressure and ultraviolet radiation levels.

The data is transmitted to a server that is able to perform a broad range of tasks: providing information on the city's web site, activating sprinklers and lighting and issuing pollution, fire and flood alerts via SMS, voice messages, e-mail, fax etc.

According to Orange, "this experiment applied to the city of Cagnes-sur-Mer opens up new horizons for the development of a multitude of services for local communities and their citizens to increase security, comfort and respect for the environment. This system is easily transposable to other applications in the field of cultural or sports activities, health and the monitoring of natural or industrial risks in particular."{moscomment}

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