Montgenèvre Brings Smart Cities to the Ski Slopes Through Joint Smart Resort Initiative with Orange Business Services
November 21 2017 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
- Real-time information for tourists and
residents via a mobile app and free Wi-Fi across the resort
- Data analysis to boost the resort’s
economic and tourism development
Orange Business Services has announced its first “Smart Resort”
in Montgenèvre, in the Alps, as part of a concept that will be
developed across of France.
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The smart resort solution allows
Montgenèvre to provide visitors or residents with a truly connected
city experience. (Photo: Business Wire)
Montgenèvre’s digital transformation is being coordinated
through a “smart city” strategy, combining free Wi-Fi, a mobile app
available from early December on iOS and Android, and big data
analytics. The objectives are threefold: enhancing the mountain
experience, making life easier for residents and visitors, and
supporting the economic and tourism development of one of the
oldest ski resorts in France.
An enriched experience for tourists and residents
The Montgenèvre mobile app brings together all the information
that tourists need, wherever they need it. It allows them to access
real-time information about ski lifts, piste openings in winter, or
golf courses during the rest of the tourist season, for example.
The free mobile app is available in English as well as French,
Italian, and comes in both winter and summer versions. In addition,
a total of 31 Wi-Fi hotspots will be set up throughout the resort
to allow users to fully benefit from all the app’s features.
Skiers can check the snow reports and avalanche warnings and see
the current conditions in real time from the webcams located at the
side of the pistes. An interactive map available via the
application lets you explore the whole of the skiing area in high
resolution 3D images, with pistes mapped and detailed, showing
route, slope, length, and difficulty.
Solutions for sustainable economic development
The smart resort solution allows Montgenèvre to provide visitors
or residents with a truly connected city experience. Montgenèvre
sends information or customized services to users when they need
it, such as shuttle bus schedules and information on local cultural
activities based on the user’s interests, designed to boost local
economic activity.
With the Flux Vision solution from Orange Business Services,
Montgenèvre also has a means of analyzing population flow
statistics throughout the year or around a particular event. This
process, which collects and uses anonymized data from Orange’s
public mobile network, helps in decision making when important
choices must be made to improve tourist services in the valley.
“For Montgenèvre, becoming a Smart Resort means offering better
living conditions and leisure activities for all users of the
resort, be they tourists or residents. It strengthens economic and
social activity in our region and responds to the challenges of the
city of the future, but in a sustainable way,” commented Guy
Hermitte, Mayor of Montgenèvre (Hautes-Alpes region).
“Orange, through its Smart Cities entity, is proud to provide
its expertise in the digital transformation of cities and regions
to the Montgenèvre resort, by offering innovative solutions for
connectivity, mobile applications and data analysis for the benefit
of visitors and residents,” commented Delphine Woussen, Director of
Orange Smart Cities within Orange Business Services.
The application is scalable and will continuously be updated to
meet user needs.
Source: TNS-Sofres, June 2017: “Les Français connectés en
vacances” (“Staying connected on vacation”)
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Download images of the application and the resort here.
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Services are dedicated to French and multinational companies on
five continents, by providing them with ongoing support in their
digital transformation. Orange Business Services is simultaneously
an infrastructure operator, a technology integrator, and a supplier
of value-added services. It offers businesses digital solutions for
their employees (such as collaborative spaces and mobile
workstations), their customers (omni-channel customer relations and
development of new services), and their projects (enriched
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technology integrated in this way ranges from next-generation
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cloud computing, collaboration and unified communication
applications, and cyber security. More than 2 million
professionals, businesses, and communities in France trust Orange
Business Services. Internationally, Orange Business Services has
more than 3,000 world-renowned multinational customers.
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