The Smart Cities concept: Orange has revealed its strategy: stakes and opportunities.

It is official since Monday 08 July 2013; Orange has revealed its strategy and latest achievements.

In this dynamic, Orange harnesses technologies, supports local authorities and also relying on its close relationships with local
authorities and its global presence.

Five-point to transform cities have been generated:

Improving mobility within cities and making traffic more fluid with connected cars: here, Orange is working alongside players in the automobile industry to develop on-board entertainment and security services (emergency calls) and to provide real-time information about traffic jams and carpooling services.

Encouraging use of public transport: here, the goal is to make communication and information services available to travelers. Therefore Orange has chosen to develop services for travelers based on connectivity, e-ticketing and real-time information.

Smart Grids: Smart Grids aims to help to optimize the distribution networks for energy supplies by using sensors on the network and smart meters for water, gas and electricity consumption or by identifying and resolving malfunctions remotely.

Developing services to improve daily life for citizens and tourists: here, with ‘‘Ma ville dans ma poche’’ (my city in my pocket), Orange aims to offer a new generation of applications that help to combine all kinds of information about the city and supply it to residents. Bordeaux has chosen Orange to develop the future mobile application.

Connectikpeople has learned that:

·        ‘’Bordeaux in my pocket’’, will be accessible using NFC mobile phones at the end of the first quarter 2014.

·        Bouches du Rhône Tourism has chosen Orange to help it manage its tourism strategy.

·        Orange undertakes the anonymous statistical analysis of hundreds of thousands of pieces of data collected via its mobile phone network to produce high added value touristic indicators.

·        Orange and Thales Alenia Space have developed a natural disaster risk management portal called CEMER.

Smart Building: here, Orange offers services such as a personalised and simplified visitor reception.
Orange supports real estate developers in their smart cities, district and building in the Gulf States and the Middle East.

About Orange

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2012 and has 170,000 employees worldwide at 31 March 2013, including 104,000 employees in France. Present in 32 countries, the Group has a total customer base of close to 230 million customers at 31 March 2013, including 172 million mobile customers and 15 million broadband internet (ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the brand Orange Business Services.

Orange is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN).