We contribute to numerous national and international collaborative projects, providing our expertise in Engineering and the ability to build specific project teams by integrating the necessary talents, both for ongoing projects and the future development of ixsane.
We invest in innovation to accelerate the circular economy, enhance territorial resilience in the face of climate challenges, address energy issues, and manage or reduce contamination in natural environments.
In addition to the engineering services offered by the Engineering Department, we propose short, medium, or long-term collaborations on innovative topics involving expert collaboration with scientific experts and public or private research institutions, both within France and internationally.
Leveraging our scientific teams and a network of national and European partners, we tailor partnerships to realize projects aimed at developing new products, services, or technologies to meet the future challenges of our clients and society.
Integrating environmental challenges into business strategies generates significant new needs.
To accelerate our clients' innovation, we mobilize our teams of Doctors, Engineers, and necessary scientific partners to carry out and coordinate tailored R&D services to address their challenges:
Real-time monitoring system for the sewerage network and early warning system for the risk of deterioration in water quality
DK EAU aims to improve water management in the territory of the CUD (Urban Community of Dunkir). It aims to protect the natural environment and guarantee the quality of bathing water.
This operational research project combines:
The project is based on SOCRATIC (IXSANE) and Delft FEWS (DELTARES) offering an innovative solution to anticipate, alert and optimize water management.
DK EAU is a two-stage project aimed at improving water management in the CUD territory:
IXSANE is the project coordinator and led the research and development work on the smart management of wastewater networks. The company carried out the specific modelling of the identified sectors and provided its expertise and technology for the dynamic management of the networks. IXSANE has also developed and deployed the prototype of the alert system, based on Delft-FEWS technology, in partnership with DELTARES.
Start date: 2020
End date: 2026
Partenaires : Ixsane (coordinateur), Deltares, Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque, ULCO
Prototype 1: Setting up valves driven by Ixsane's Socratic AI solution
Prototype 2: Information and Alert System at the Territorial Scale
Predicting the contamination of eatable plants with AI
SmartUrbAgri aims to improve the prediction of pollutant transfers from soil to plants in order to improve the methodology for carrying out Quantitative Health Risk Assessments in the context of Urban Agriculture projects.
The project aims to achieve a technological and methodological innovation through the development of an AI-based tool to predict pollutant concentrations in plants adapted to the specificities of Urban Agriculture.
SmartUrbAgri will thus allow a more appropriate prediction of the transfer of contaminants from soil to vegetable plants in the context of urban agriculture projects, leading to safer control of health risks.
Experts from Ixsane's innovation Department will develop AI algorithms to assess the transfer of metallic and organic pollutants in vegetable plants grown on contaminated soils in urban and peri-urban contexts. For this, data from databases such as BAPPET & BAPPOP and data from specific experiments will be used.
The teams of Ixsane's engineering Department will evaluate these models against current approaches to improve the operational practices of Quantitative Health Risk Assessments of Urban Agriculture projects.
Start date: June 2025
End date: June 2028
Partners:
The GRANUL'IA project is supported by theHauts-de-France ERDF Programme 2021-2027.
The SmartUrbAgri project is the winner of the GRAINE2023 Call for Projects funded by Ademe.
Total project budget: €485,723
including total ADEME funding :€299,920
Recovery of marine and river sediments intoartificial aggregates and AI solution to manage the variability of inputs
The GRANUL'IA project aims to experiment and evaluate the potential for recovering non-inert - non-hazardous marine and river sediments in the aggregates sector and to optimize manufacturing methods, according to the characteristics of the sediments, thanks to the use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms.
Experts from Ixsane's innovation hub will develop algorithms using AI to adjust formulations to input variations and control the performance of synthetic aggregates despite input variability. Carried out in collaboration with IMT Nord Europe, this work will follow the SEDIMATERIALS approach. They will integrate data from laboratory experiments and 1:1 scale demonstrations.
At the same time, Ixsane will study the conditions for the industrial implementation of this solution for the development of a new sediment recovery sector in the Hauts-de-France.
Start date: October 2025
End date: March 2029
Partners:
The GRANUL'IA project is supported by theHauts-de-France ERDF Programme 2021-2027.
Total project budget:€2,075,000
including total ERDFfunding: €1,361,400
Drones and Rivers
RiverXpert aims to automate riverbank and riverbed diagnostic tasks through the use of aerial drones.
To achieve this, the project seeks to develop a solution that integrates geolocation, vision technologies, and AI for the recognition and classification of images captured by aerial drones. The objective is to automatically identify 10 types of elements specific to river diagnostics, enabling new practices based on seasonal or interannual comparisons.
The Engineering Division teams at Ixsane will contribute their domain expertise to defining functional requirements, acquiring the data needed for training, and validating the developed models and technical solutions.
The Innovation Division teams at Ixsane will contribute their technological expertise to the design and implementation of business solutions and AI models for image recognition and classification.
Start date: May 2025
End date: May 2027
Partners:
The RiverXpert project is funded by the European INTERREG Crossroads FrWVl programme.
Total Budget: 499 800€
including FEDER total budget: 249 900€
Climatechange Adaptation for and with Sediments
ClimASed will provide river managers with a strategy, place based actionplans, methodologies, guidelines & networks to increase capacity to embedclimate change impacts in sediment management strategies and local initiatives.
ClimASed will increase the uptake ofsediment management measures for long-term integrated and resilient rivermanagement for a changing climate affecting sediment load, transport andavailability, water quality and habitat suitability.
ClimASed will increase the capacityof North West Europe river authorities to include climate change impacts in sedimentmanagement strategies and deliver a joint strategy and action plans taken up inthe upstream, intermediate and downstream sections of rivers.
The pilot sites and case studies will come from the Scheldt (FR, BE),the River Shannon (IE), and the Rhine (GER).
Ixsane plays a key role to definesediment management strategies & actions plans in a climate changeperspective and supports their implementation, considering local and political challengesfrom river sources to estuaries. This is done in collaboration withinternational experts to consider soil and riverbank erosion, sedimenttransport and local sediment budget, and impacts of extreme climate for waterquality and sediment-based habitats.
The ClimASed project is funded bythe European INTERREG NWE programme and the ERDF fund.
Start date: January 2025
End date: December 2028
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Belgium:
Sediment Uses as Resources In Circular And Territorial EconomieS (SURICATES)
Flood and erosion risk management actions requires large amount of raw material while sediment manager have to deal with large excess of sediment.
SURICATES project aims to make ambitious sediment reuse projects possible in Europe for flood and erosion protection.
To do this, new solutions to increase fine sediment reuse in coastal & erosion protection markets will be implemented and experimented for roll-out:
Territorial global cost and benefits optimisation focused tested in South or Ireland and Britany (France).
SURICATES Project is funded through the INTERREG NWE programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Start of the project: 2017
End of the project: 2023
For more informations :
REGENERATIon of past metallurgical Sites and deposits through innovative circularity for raw materials
Metal working industry represents 13 % of Potential Contaminated Sites (PCS) in the EU. While recent metallic waste streams are usually treated, older waste (aggregated material with high ferrous metal content, scrap, other metals, white and black slags and other streams) are considered as a source of pollution, expensive to manage/eliminate.
NWE-REGENERATIS aims to transform this problem into an opportunity, as large volumes of resources can be recovered by urban-mining.
To do this, the NWE-REGENERATIS project aims to test and implement on 3 sites new methodologies and innovative technical approach for new economic models for resource recovery from former metallurgical sites and deposits.
This includes a site inventory structure adapted to the objective of material recovery and the use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms as decision support, potential studies by geophysical techniques, innovative material recovery techniques uses and synthesis of catalysts from plants planted on contaminated sites.
NWE-REGENERATIS Project is funded through the INTERREG NWE programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
· Total budget ERDF: € 4.26 million
· Total budget: € 7.10 million
Start of the project: 2019
End of the project: 2023
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Improvement of real-time management of the sanitation network of the Valenciennes agglomeration (59).
Technological demonstrator for a dynamic and real-time intelligent management system of sanitation networks aimed at protecting the natural environment.
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