This project focuses on securing health data in a crisis situation. The circulation of information in a health crisis context runs a strong risk of voluntary degradation via cyber-attacks, fake news, manipulation, fabrication, destruction or data theft. This degradation impacts the reliability and efficiency of health authorities’ ability to make decisions and lends to the […]
In the current pandemic context, in addition to vaccination as a preventive measure, the use of respiratory protection devices (masks, visors), used in combination with barrier gestures, is considered to be one of the most effective means to limit the spread of disease. In the event that wearing a respiratory protection device risks becoming routine, […]
The number of patients in intensive care units due to ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) has skyrocketed since COVID-19 first hit. However, a controversy is brewing in the medical community as to the pathophysiology of COVID-19-related ARDS, thus complicating the work of anesthesiologists, who receive divergent information about how to manage patients with severe forms […]
The period of confinement linked to the health crisis of spring 2020 obliged waste management services refocus their mission around the sole activity of waste disposal in many areas, and thus neglecting other waste recovery and prevention activities in light of the urgent need to reorganize services. Publications moreover highlight changes in consumption habits during […]
The systemic crisis caused by COVID-19 is testing the resilience capacity of our social, economic and political systems, but also of our industrial planning, under real conditions and on a global scale. Faced with this crisis, the industrial sector seems to be showing a certain capacity for resilience, both by maintaining production levels and by […]
On April 6, 2020, the Presidency of Gustave Eiffel University sent out a call for proposals from the new Expertise Research Analysis Committee (CARE) in response to the COVID-19 crisis to its research staff. The URL team relayed the information to the consortium and requested that interested parties present themselves. Thus was the CoVizu project […]
iSafe consists of developing a warning and optimization system for victims of road accidents. Developed in collaboration with researchers from Ifsttar’s Health and Safety transport department (LBA, LBMC, LMA and UMRESTTE Laboratoires), the University of Strasbourg, and doctors and firefighters from ENSOSP, this system is based on a set of technological components such as recorders […]
Forecasting short-term flash floods (0-6 hours) is essential for crisis/disaster managers in order to cope with their devastating effects. To better meet this need, the PICS project is aiming to build and evaluate integrated chains for real-time forecasting of the impact of flash floods, so as to include the many small waterways concerned (basins of […]
DISCRET aims at demonstrating the possibility to detect and locate, in real-time, unusual or critical situations in urban areas, based on the analysis of cell phone network data. This detection will be complemented with information extracted from social networks (i.e., Twitter in the context of the project). A prototype of a warning platform for security […]
