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Local renewable energies: what if we become our own energy producer?
As renewable energies must be at least 23% in 2020 and at least 32% in 2030 of the French final energy consumption¹, territories must play a major role in the current context of ecological transition. Local renewable energies and diversified power sources are a great asset for territories and consumers who benefit from lower cost green energy. Geothermal, wind, biomass…, energies are produced according to local needs and depending on the specific features and resources of each territory. The production of clean energy is an issue for companies as well that could benefit from the local production advantages.
Production depends on local people’s needs
There are different kinds of renewable energy such as hydraulic, wind, solar, and bio energy. Each community must consider its specific features in order to produce appropriate power to the local use in a good legal frame. There are three major ways to produce renewable energy:
- Electricity (as solar and wind energy) ;
- Heat (as wood and solar) ;
- Gas (methanisation).
An analysis of the territory is necessary to map a global view of the local economic players, the existing local channels and the different power sources. The cooperative clean energy production enables to improve the local governance, encourage the co-construction, and make citizens understand the issues.
Nowadays producing energy suffers high costs of production, delivery, etc., and requires huge area of land. What if territories create small power stations as closely as possible to users? Everyone could produce its own energy. Close to Paris, people are encouraged to find local renewable energy stations. Some neighborhoods have bet on geothermic production and solar panels generate needed heat. It is also an attractive solution for energy providers since the unused power is redirected to traditional channels.
Involving companies in the process of local renewable energies
More and more companies tend to initiate a reflection on their consumption and produce their own renewable energy. This new way of production seems to be one the major solutions to achieve regulated carbon neutrality and then reduce their impact on climate change. Reducing the carbon balance is the very first step to control the company impact on climate change². The French Ecological Transition Agency has created funds to support companies with an energy program³. Some of them already produce their own energy such as the Algerian LR1 pipeline equipped with solar panels that produce only the necessary power. PARIFEX helps companies to search generating equipment and, supply, and install generating equipments wordwide.
Gender equality: PARIFEX continues its commitment
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Seniors on the road: how to drive safely ?
27 February 2025
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With age, driving habits evolve, and seniors, being more cautious than younger drivers, remain more vulnerable on the road.
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NEWSLETTER #3 – Editorial by Franck Peyré, CEO OF PARIFEX
Dear partner,
The first half of 2021 has been as dynamic as expected. More than a year after the pandemic began, we are pleased to be able to provide the same quality of service while teleworking. Actually, we are working with staff representatives on an agreement in order to keep on using telework and offer better work conditions to our employees.
In March, Iran inaugurated the gorgeous Persian Gulf Bid Boland gas refinery. Bid Boland will have an annual production capacity of, inter alia, 10.4 million tons of methane and 1.5 million tons of ethane. We are proud to have taken part in this ambitious project as main automation contractor providing integrated control and safety systems with our partner Sazeh Consultants. This project opens a new chapter for the future of the gas market, its challenges and opportunities.
Regarding the mobility market, we are pleased to see/note that the major mobility events are held in 2021. Some weeks ago, the last Autonomy Digital edition was a success and highlighted the high expectations from the digitalization of mobility. This 2.0 edition gathered together professionals of transport from all over the world who share a common goal to draw with citizens the outlines of new mobility. And the year is not over since we will meet soon at the ITS World Congress in Hamburg.
To conclude, we are proud to announce our partnership with Ouster, providing high-resolution lidar sensors, to offer superior imaging of the environment. The French Ministry of the Economy and Finance has allowed PARIFEX to use the 3D-Lidar technology in its speed control and data collection systems.
I wish you a wonderful summer and look forward to meeting you in September in a serene context.
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Shared mobility, citizens and mobility, sustainable issues… the key topics of Autonomy Digital
Autonomy Digital 2021, the international show dedicated to sustainable mobility, is now over. Mobility professionals met virtually to think about the future of mobility and share the growing policies and good practices. Citizens and mobility, green energy, shared mobility… transport digitalization has really begun.
Adina Vălean, EU Commissioner for Transport at European Commission, and the EU strategy
Transports are essential to society. This was how Adina Vălean launched Autonomy Digital 2021. Regarding the mobility digitalization, she highlighted the necessity to be more ambitious and to adopt a strong strategy. According to the Romanian politician, the pandemic has actually changed travel behaviors and encouraged the use of electric cars and e-bikes on which it is necessary to focus on. Transport digitalization is speeding up and travelers tend to use more and more shared mobility solutions. Mobility is one of the EU priorities for the next ten years with the ambition to provide reliable, automated, flexible, and safe services. The environment is at the heart of the strategy as well in order to increase sustainable transports. And there is plethora of solutions to decongest cities and reduce traffic jams responsible for climate change. The Commissioner reminds that mobility is everyone’s matter and must be accessible to anyone, regardless the local strategy.
Leuven bets on citizens and mobility
Leuven, in East Belgium, is the well known European capital of innovation where the community seems to have found the winning recipe by involving citizens in its mobility politics. According to the Alderman mobility David Dessers, citizens are the key for such successful change. The Leuven 2030 society has been created to make people decide on the future of the city.
They are often asked in order to define the modes of transports they really need. For Leuven, involving citizens in the mobility evolution is the best way to make them accept the city changes in the following years. Leuven aims to double the number of bike user as well. Actually, the number has already increased by 44% between 2016 and 2019 while the car use has decreased. Moreover, local authorities are pursuing both mobility and climate policies together in order to reduce the consumption of CO2. The Belgian city bets also on a deep changing in behaviors through a larger pedestrian zone.
The Milan electrical challenge
Milan has a large transport network including metro, bus, trams, and trolley lines. Faced with the environmental challenge, the Italian city has decided to generalize electric shared vehicles. That is why 70% of the vehicles is now powered by green energy produced by photovoltaic panels in the city town. Milan plans to deploy full electric solutions such as 1,200 electric bus, renew bus depots and provide charging infrastructures.
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27 February 2025
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Road Safety Can Now Rely on 3D-LiDAR Technology
Technology has already been getting into the mobility market for several years. Regarding road safety, PARIFEX chose the 3D-LiDAR technology to strengthen its speed control systems.
3D-LiDAR, the outsider in speed control systems
The 3D-LiDAR sensor creates a 3D map through point clouds and makes it accurate to the centimeter. “PARIFEX has decided to include the 3D-LiDAR in its existing solutions to meet French Ministry of Interior needs. Indeed, the French Ministry needed a fixed sensor including a wide field of vision. That is why PARIFEX chose this technology including a 360 degree vision unlike the traditional speed cameras able to scan a limited field of view.”, says Désiré Codo, PARIFEX’s R&D Director. Even though most of 3D-LiDAR sensors have been designed for a mobile use, principally for autonomous vehicle 
management, PARIFEX decided to distort it and add it in its fixed road sensors including NANO and NANO-CAM sensors.
A 360-Degree view
Set up overhead, the 3D-LiDAR sensor enables a 360- Degree view and then a better space detection than other sensors. “Unlike an usual speed control system that needs a specific orientation, the small and light 3D-LiDAR sensor is easy to set up in any orientation and requires little processing power to offer reliable and accurate control.” precises Codo.
3D-LiDAR vs camera
According to him “The 3D-LiDAR offers better capabilities than the camera. Even though the camera detects the reality with two-dimensional images whose quality depends on daylight, the 3D-LiDAR gets a 3D point cloud with a constant quality whether in daylight as well as at night, even if in humidity conditions. The point clouds are lighter than an HD image and that makes 3D LiDAR a strong solution for onboard real time solutions.” Through the quick image processing time, it enables an increased reactivity and real time data collection. Moreover, the reliable reality modelling allows a better vehicle classification.
A unique sensor
While various sensors were necessary to classify different kinds of vehicles such as cars, trucks, motobikes…, only one 3D sensor is enough for a multiple detection. “With a unique sensor, the risk of desynchronization between sensors disappears since all the data came from the same device in real time.” adds Codo.
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Gender equality: PARIFEX continues its commitment
8 March 2025
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Our company is fully committed to promoting professional gender equality through concrete actions to guarantee equal opportunities for all.
Join us at Milipol 2025
3 March 2025
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We are looking forward to meeting you soon at Milipol 2023, the leading event for homeland safety and security.
Seniors on the road: how to drive safely ?
27 February 2025
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With age, driving habits evolve, and seniors, being more cautious than younger drivers, remain more vulnerable on the road.
PARIFEX Celebrates the World Day for Safety and Health at Work
28th April, 2021 - PARIFEX Celebrates the World Day for Safety and Health at Work
On 28th April, 2021, on the occasion of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Audrey Gasse, Continuous Improvement Manager, explains the PARIFEX safety and health at work policy, along with the actions to protect employees against physical and mental risks. Online sport lessons, safety golden rule, organisation of remote working… PARIFEX unveils its strong policy to strengthen safety and health at work.
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Cities and the road safety challenges
Speed is one of the cities’ road safety challenges and it is not the only risk on the roads and throughout the city streets. The increase in modes of transport like bikes and scooters has brought an increase in dangerous behavior. While roads and streets cannot be stretched, local authorities have to find solutions to get all the users to live together.
Speed control
Reducing speed in urban areas is often the first step to reduce accidents, that is why vehicle speed is already limited to 30km per hour in many city centers. Local authorities are struggling to be able to accurately detect speed infringement, and especially including criteria such as the multi lane detection, the vehicle classification, two-wheeled vehicles… Some cutting-edge speed control systems allow to get more than the precise vehicle speed measurement and offer the distance detection, the vehicle tracking through the 3D LiDAR technology, etc.
But not only
Given the increase in vehicles and individual means of transport, especially since the beginning of the COVID crisis, infringement go on even more increasing. The capability to manage the circulation flows and to get them to live together remains one of the man issues for local authorities. The diversified users have brought many infringement possibilities such as running red lights, circulating on bus or cycle lanes, right-of-way violations… Cities need to count and identify all the users using roads and streets, every type of vehicle and pedestrian, in order to be able to detect every possible infringement.
A better traffic flow management through appropriate infrastructures
Traffic issues include environmental issues because of the direct impact of the increase in circulation on the environment and health. While more than 50% of the global population live in the town, the UN forecasts that they will be 60% by 2030. Road safety challenges have become one of the major issues regarding urban infrastructure and the increase in modes of transport involves the appropriate management of all the traffic flows. Some solutions allow to accurately identify and classify the different road users, count them and then collect data necessary to adapt the urban infrastructure.
Gender equality: PARIFEX continues its commitment
8 March 2025
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Our company is fully committed to promoting professional gender equality through concrete actions to guarantee equal opportunities for all.
Join us at Milipol 2025
3 March 2025
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We are looking forward to meeting you soon at Milipol 2023, the leading event for homeland safety and security.
Seniors on the road: how to drive safely ?
27 February 2025
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With age, driving habits evolve, and seniors, being more cautious than younger drivers, remain more vulnerable on the road.
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Collecting Data, the First Step toward Smart Cities
Collecting Data, the First Step toward Smart Cities
Collecting many data is necessary for cities to understand the travel habits and then succeed their digitalization.
Traffic data collection is a key topic for cities and mobility digitalization. According to the United Nations, 68% of the world population will live in a city by 2050*, that is why cities are hurrying up to optimize population flows and provide efficient means of transport. It is time for cities to go forward through innovating environment friendly transport.
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Our 2021 Quality Policy
Quality at the heart of our activities
We commit to improving the quality of our activities and the satisfaction of our customers and partners by implementing a customer satisfaction process. We want 100% of our clients to choose to work with us again, if it was to be done again. This aim will be monitored through our different satisfaction surveys throughout the year, including technical assistance, engineering projects and with our clients in the speed-control systems sector. The results of these surveys will be published every year in March.
PARIFEX is a ISO 9001 ans ISO 14001 certified company. Learn more about the certification.
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2021 Environmental Policy
Adapting our activities to the environment requirements
We are committed to an Environmental Approach which deals with Environmental Aspects we have identified for our company.
We are committing to continously improving our environmental and system performances, protecting the environment and preventing from pollution during emercies, and complying with requirements.
We aim to improve the MTBF, optimize the electricy consumption of our equipment, and establish the company carbon footprint.
PARIFEX is a ISO 9001 ans ISO 14001 certified company. Learn more about the certification.
