Five student-engineer projects have just been selected in the first call for projects for funds to support development and innovation activities.
Of the 12 applications submitted (11 in the student category and 1 in the staff category), after studying the applications and a hearing by the fund allocation committee, Centrale Lille will support 5 innovative projects:
- Paul Barbotin (École Centrale de Lille) and Charbel Imad (CentraleSupelec) – HELEAN
Helean is an online platform that allows restaurant owners to forecast the number of customers in their restaurant. It predicts the number of customers several weeks or months in advance based on different sets of data such as the weather or events near an establishment. These predictions help to optimise the restaurant owner’s budget, the organisation of employees’ work, stock management and the reduction of waste.
- Barnabé Gauquelin, Grégoire Linée and Victor Berson (ITEEM) – GARE TA BECANE
The first website specialising in secure motorbike shared parking, 100% online. The idea of “Gare ta Bécane” is to respond to a problem linked to the difficulties of securing motorised two-wheelers in large cities. Today, motorcyclists are obliged to park their vehicle on the street (with a risk of theft, damage, and fines) or to rent an expensive car space that is too big for the space required.
“Gare ta Bécane” is therefore a platform that allows bikers to find shared parking partners. Indeed, by sharing the rent of a parking space, bikers can park their vehicle in a secure way and pay only for the space they occupy.
- Clément Hecquet (IG2I) – FLYKEYS
“Flykeys” is a connected object that optimises piano learning while making it more fun. This connected object, in prototype version for the moment, eliminates theory by focusing learning on “visualisation”. The connected object is equipped with more than 700 light indicators that guide the pianist through each learning phase. FlyKeys should be placed on a piano in such a way that it covers all its keys. The light indicators that make up the system make it possible to know which keys to press and to anticipate the movements by indicating the keys to be pressed in the next few beats.
Several operating modes are available to accompany the pianist in all phases of piano playing.
- Akash Mahtani (Ecole Centrale de Lille) – AMBER TECH
Today, manufacturers of soft mobility vehicles (electric bikes and scooters) are starting to have a large stock of used electric batteries. To date, it is customary to recycle battery materials by recovering the chemical elements in them. Re-use solutions remain marginal and are not widely deployed, which does not allow full benefit to be derived from used batteries. The idea is therefore, as part of a sustainable development approach, to reuse the batteries from drones, scooters, and electric bicycles to make connected objects for the general public (portable batteries, for example).
- Théau Sanchez (ITEEM) – OPTIMUM
Optimum is a web platform, based on a search engine, which allows to visualize the pairs of glasses sold by independent opticians. For opticians, the platform will provide a complete showcase site designed to bring opticians closer to their customers and allow them to reflect the spirit of their shop. Optimum will thus enable independent opticians to regain market share from the large national brands by being largely present online, which may have been their weak point until now.
For this first session of the fund for the promotion of innovation, a total of 20,769 euros has been allocated to the various projects.