The presence of trees in urban environments is of great importance, helping to combat heat islands and promote the well-being of residents. But ensuring the health of urban trees is a long and costly process. Stéphane Krebs and HEPIA have taken up a major challenge: to create a system that can monitor a tree's state of health permanently and remotely.
Acquiring and processing the data needed to maintain underground water, gas and electricity networks is a costly and time-consuming process. Geneva's Industrial Services decided to call on HEIG-VD's Institut d'ingénierie du territoire to help them explore the impact that AI and new technologies could have on the acquisition and processing of cartographic data.
Over the last few years, the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) has decided to take part in Innosuisse-funded projects as an academic partner, with the coaching of Alliance.
The life of a company is made up of numerous challenges that often have to be met simultaneously. The mission of the Alliance and platinn coaching services is to help companies in Western Switzerland meet these challenges. Demonstration with Cortexia, which was coached by both entities between 2018 and 2023.
In 2019, Dynatec, a company with expertise in high-precision machining, has embarked on an ambitious project: to develop a biobased composite material and combine it with a digital twin to optimize the implementation process and thus gain in agility. The project was carried out in collaboration with HEIG-VD, and received Innosuisse funding with the help of Alliance.