06/11/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/11/2025 07:31
Viva Technology, Paris - June 11, 2025 - For the 2025 edition of Viva Technology, Software République, a group of 7 european companies¹ that combine their expertise towards an intelligent, secure and durable mobility, has partnered with three firefighter units² to unveil "vision 4rescue", a system of interconnected technological solutions aimed at increasing the efficiency and improving the coordination of rescue and emergency services.
In France, natural disasters have increased fivefold in fifteen years, with two-thirds of municipalities now likely to experience some kind of major natural disaster³. Faced with more frequent, intense, and complex interventions (natural disasters, industrial hazards, urban accidents, or emergency medical interventions), emergency and rescue professions need to adapt to increasing challenges. This adaptation is all the more necessary given an aging population, growing urbanization, and an increasingly strained healthcare system, where personal assistance now accounts for over 80% of emergency service's operational activity (4 million interventions per year4). These growing challenges call for new solutions to risk management, intervention methods, as well as the transformation of equipment and technologies used.
To be more effective, a key factor is removing the technological barriers between the different services used by emergency teams. Whether it involves vehicles, video surveillance cameras, or communication systems, emergency services now need seamless integration among all these devices. "vision 4rescue" offers a system of integrated, interconnected, and secure technologies to address this challenge.
By combining their expertise and leveraging a deep and comprehensive understanding of the Emergency Service services requirements, the partners have designed an ecosystem of nearly 20 interconnected solutions to:
"vision 4rescue" includes several pieces of equipment designed to collect and share as much information as possible:
In addition to these three pieces of equipment, electronic sensor networks (STMicroelectronics) are used in both urban (urban furniture, traffic lights, etc.) and rural environments (forests, near watercourses, etc.) to detect anomalies.
Software République integrates a system of technologies into "vision 4rescue" a ser of technologies that makes it a unique and comprehensive ecosystem, capable of adapting operational responses in real time to the most complex and simultaneous situations. These include:
Modeling, simulation, and detection solutions:
Solutions to enhance responsiveness:
Guaranteed connectivity under all circumstances:
Hybrid networks and devices (Orange), including onboard 5G network and a connected SOS backpack, along with ultra-light Wi-Fi mesh technology (Green Communications) with embedded resilience applications, ensure communication between emergency teams during critical operations where traditional infrastructure is unavailable.
An emergency communication system (Thales) integrated into long-range drone or the R4, geolocates mobile phones in risk zones and sends alert messages to which civilians can respond if needed.
A communication solution compliant with the C-ITS (Cooperative Intelligent Transport System) international standard ensures native interoperability and secure exchanges between vehicles and road infrastructure (Atos).
Key Partnerships
For this project, Software République and its seven members (Atos, Dassault Systèmes, JCDecaux, Orange, Renault Group, STMicroelectronics, and Thales) partnered with three firefighter units and four other technology partners: Parrot, HawAI.tech, Peripheral, and Green Communications.
Presentation at VivaTech
At VivaTech (June 11 to 14, 2025), Software République will showcase "vision 4rescue" (Stand G18, Hall 1.1), highlighting several real-world use cases:
Each year, Software République commits to developing innovative solutions to accelerate smart, secure, and sustainable mobility by incubating real industrial projects that will help make Europe a central hub for the mobility of the future. Past projects include:
1 Atos, Dassault Systèmes, JCDecaux, Orange, Renault Group, STMicroelectronics et Thales
2 Brigade des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris, la Fédération Nationale des Sapeurs-Pompiers et le SDIS 78
3 Source Ministère de la Transition Ecologique
4 Source Ministère de l'Intérieur