Onze entreprises de la région étaient présentes à Las Vegas. Sophie Wauquier
The global meeting place for new technologies, CES was held this week in Las Vegas, where around ten companies from Occitanie were present, supported by the region.
A solar-powered and intelligent car, a robot vacuum cleaner with legs, a toaster for smartphones… At Eureka Park at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, the global meeting place for innovations, each young company is competing in ingenuity to change our daily lives. And Occitanie also showed its inventive know-how this week, with 7 exhibiting companies, four visiting start-ups and a company outside the pavilion: Washin.
The latter, based in Baillargues (Hérault), arrived in Nevada with one ambition: to penetrate the American market. The company offers the “first intelligent washing system”.
Specializing in laundry solutions connected by a mobile application, it presented NoLa, a laundry that uses both the performance of robotics and artificial intelligence.
“It saves water and energy, avoids human error and limits pollution thanks to environmentally friendly laundry cleaning” , explains Dimitri Belin, its founder.
Performance ? NoLa uses 95% less water and saves 66% electricity. And that’s still 55% less electricity to dry the laundry.
“The customer does not have to choose the program, NoLa offers one and adapts to their schedule thanks to its modular drum system, and allows washing, drying and storing clothes without the customer having to handle them.”
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Serving individuals is also the aim of WHEERE, a young company based in Castelnau-le-Lez (Hérault) that is reinventing indoor geolocation.
By combining low-frequency wave emissions and its algorithm, this Occitan gem offers “a GPS that can be used anywhere indoors” rejoices Pierre Bolzonello, head of the company, from Las Vegas. sales.
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The solution, a 2 cm by 2 cm chip and four antennas to be deployed around the site, is already being applied to industry – “for tracking people isolated on oil platforms or objects in logistics warehouses” – and security – “against theft with geolocated equipment or knowing where the firefighters are at a house fire.”
In a phase “2” of development, the objective of WHEERE, which hopes to raise €40 million, is to cover entire cities: “in a shopping center, you find the toilets, in a parking lot where yourre car is, in the hospital the office of the practitioner who is waiting for you…” develops the sales director who is pleased with a “strong peak in attendance” at the CES, with manufacturers, governors and companies coming to meet them.
For this development, it will be necessary to deploy 300 satellites by 2030 with, already, four test satellites in 2025 since Castelnau-le-Lez.
“We are the most low-tech innovation at CES!” laughs Bertrand Sylvestre, co-founder of the company Flowstop, from Perpignan (P-O), on the phone from Las Vegas.
The most low-tech invention presented in Las Vegas comes from Perpignan. DR
Their solution? Fighting floods with an inflatable barrier of 5 kg per m2 that prevents water from seeping into homes.
“This is the 183rd patented innovation to protect doors against flooding, but there are few entrepreneurs and we use air, not metal, it's a light object, with a pump and you are protected in a few minutes and which can be exported around the world” he boasts.
Chains of stores like nuclear power plants are equipped as well as 1,500 homes. Flowstop has attacked the American market and wants to expand into France “where a third of the territory has already suffered a flood.”
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