SPIE Innovation Day 2022

Pulse Core is a sustainable building management platform, which is currently available in the Netherlands. It provides maintenance technicians and facility managers with a comprehensive overview of the performance of technical installations. The platform also makes it easier to identify levers for buildings improvement, particularly in terms of carbon footprint and to manage the costs involved.

E-Vadea is an ultra-fast charging network for electric cars. Under the leadership of Marie-Pierre Maccario, SPIE CityNetworks partnered with the Fund for the Ecological Modernisation of Transport (Fonds de modernisation écologique des transports – FMET), a fund financed by highway companies to finance “green” projects. Initial roll-out will be launched in late 2022, with 13 stations on the French highway networks, APRR and Vinci Autoroutes. Their operation and maintenance will be handled by the dedicated teams of SPIE CityNetworks. 

Oliver Polanz, head of HSEQ at SPIE Deutschland & Zentraleuropa, offered to improve the safety of Hilti’s angle grinder. Angle grinders are high risk tools. They are used for piping works. The technician when making cuts is sometimes constrained to lie down. However, the “dead man switch” safety device did not work in certain positions. The improvement consists in replacing this device with a sensor. The machine stops quickly when there is no longer a hand on the angle grinder. A restart protection mechanism also prevents the machine from restarting once a hand is placed on the machine again.