Following SIDO in Lyon, the largest European trade fair dedicated to IoT, AI and robotics, ALTEN – world leader in engineering and IT services – has announced that it is joining the Partner Program run by STMicroelectronics, a world leader in semiconductors. This initiative aims to promote Industry 4.0 by strengthening the implementation of advanced embedded artificial intelligence solutions for industrial systems and processes. This is enabled through the use of STMicroelectronics’ NanoEdge™ AI Studio technology, running on STM32 microcontrollers, which are already integrated into most customer systems, and also into future Intelligent Sensor Processing Units (ISPUs).
ALTEN employs its expertise in artificial intelligence to integrate cutting-edge technologies and apply them to address its customers’ challenges. A case in point is STMicroelectronics’ NanoEdge™ AI Studio solution, which is used to develop learning algorithms embedded into smart, communicating objects. The shared goal is to support our clients who are seeking to improve their overall performance and value proposition by developing new uses.
“With this partnership, we are proud to offer our customers an advanced technology that can be tailored to all kinds of equipment and used by a multitude of sectors. Our ambition is to integrate AI into the heart of products in order to make them smarter and less resource-intensive. Client companies equipped with this technology will see their responsiveness improve considerably and their environmental impact decrease. This approach is born of our desire to create a partnership ecosystem to strengthen the integration of cutting-edge solutions and participate in the development of Industry 4.0,” says Antoine Santoni, Director of an ALTEN division (Grand Est area in France).
Last October, in order to accelerate innovation in AI under this partnership, ALTEN opened an Artificial Intelligence IoT Skills Centre in Grenoble, dedicated to STMicroelectronics solutions. Grenoble is a technology cluster with an international dimension and has been recognised as the “European Green Capital 2022”. It is a city that is conducive to the development of innovation. This explains ALTEN’s decision to set up its new Lab here, enabling it to carry out projects with its customers based on all of STMicroelectronics’ AI solutions. The developments will be based on three main themes related to the “Green Smart IoT”:
- The new services provided by smart products (ambient intelligence services)
- New decentralised architectures with closer proximity to the data capture process (data mesh);
- Targeted IoT cybersecurity (from hardware to embedded software).
The opening of this Lab will consolidate ALTEN’s scientific approach while enabling our customers to coinnovate, transforming technological opportunities into business value in their own situations. A 360° operation that will enable expert consultants, doctoral students and trainees from leading engineering schools to channel their shared know-how into a common project.
