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Sylfen won the Le Monde Smart Cities competition International Award in Singapore on June 2, shortly after receiving the European Innovation Award for the Energy Category of the same competition in April. The awards will help raise the growing company’s profile. Based in Grenoble at the MINATEC High-tech Building, the startup, which holds licenses to […] >>

This year, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble-Alpes University’s Engineering School, moved up 22 slots in the 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject released in March. Grenoble Institute of Technology came in 177th out of 900 in the Engineering and Technology category. The school was in the top 100 for Natural Sciences as well as […] >>

Engie Cofely subsidiary Pôle Utilités Services (PUS), which produces and distributes MINATEC’s technical fluids, would like to reduce its energy spending by between 5% and 10% by the end of 2018—without affecting service quality and uptime, of course! In 2015 the company introduced a new energy management strategy inspired by ISO 50001, assigning an Energy […] >>

LPSC* developed a neutron detector for French electric utility EDF to measure the snow water equivalent (SWE), or the amount of water in snowpack. The neutrons, which reach the Earth’s surface in varying quantities depending on altitude and pressure, react with the water they pass through (they are slowed down or, in some cases, even […] >>

Millimeter-wave communications, which offer substantial bandwidth for higher transmission speeds, are garnering interest as a solution for tomorrow’s 5G networks. Leti is paying close attention, with a number of research projects on the topic, one of which won Best Paper at EuCAP in March. In work conducted under the mmMAGIC project, Leti researchers compared two […] >>