Badevel. Badevel, champion of energy and digital transitions

Mayor Samuel Gomes presented the concrete results of his village's advancement in digital technology and energy savings. This achievement was made possible by the installation of numerous sensors that optimize, for example, waste collection and the heating of municipal buildings.

Badevel's connected and experimental eco-farm also contains numerous sensors that help optimize vegetable production at a lower cost. Photo Boris Massaini — Badevel's connected and experimental eco-farm also contains numerous sensors that help optimize vegetable production at a lower cost. Photo: Boris Massaini

Badevel is an indomitable village of around 820 inhabitants undergoing a dazzling digital and energy transition. A month and a half ago, it won the gold medal for the Innovative Interconnected Territory label , ahead of communities like Lyon and Greater Paris. A well-deserved award for the town led by Mayor Samuel Gomes. At first glance, Badevel is a village like any other. However, you have to look at it more closely and from all angles to understand the milestone that has been reached.

Our columns sometimes feature major projects that give birth to nothing. This isn't the case in Badevel, where the press briefing held last Tuesday aimed to present "concrete results." These are the results of a municipality that embraced the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) in 2021, even though the topic hadn't yet entered the public debate. There's one word that keeps coming up to explain this little...

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