Smart City
Alès Agglomération: a territory of 72 municipalities managed by data through a territorial hypervision platform
Alès Agglomération is progressively building a data-driven territory
For over four years, Alès Agglomération has been deploying a territorial strategy based on data and IoT to improve the management of its infrastructure and support the transformation of its public services.
To structure this approach, the local authority relies on Kuzzle’s territorial hypervision platform, which centralizes data from sensors, urban equipment and existing systems.
This approach now allows the local authority to connect multiple business domains within a single platform, and to progressively develop new uses in service of the territory.
Kuzzle’s platform today constitutes a shared technological foundation for connecting multiple public services and progressively deploying new data and IoT use cases.
Over the years, the local authority has been able to enrich the platform with new projects responding to the needs of the operational teams, while maintaining a global view of the territory’s operations.
Initially, the need for IoT and connected buildings was not identified within Alès Agglomération. Early research quickly revealed that a cross-functional solution, technically agnostic and independent of manufacturers, would help control costs in the long term. These prerequisites were also important to be able to cross-reference data from different sources. After extensive research, we found Kuzzle IoT, which met our criteria with the advantage of being Open Source. We started a collaboration with the Kuzzle team to implement use cases one by one, in order to build a platform that has today become multidisciplinary, as are the departments of local authorities.
”The challenges of a connected territory Alès Agglo
Managing a territory of 72 municipalities means overseeing hundreds of pieces of public equipment, buildings, schools, lighting, networks… whose data is scattered across siloed operational tools. Without a cross-functional view, each department manages its own perimeter in isolation, anomalies are detected too late, and decisions are made without reliable data.
Centralising dispersed data to better manage the territory
Alès Agglomération manages a dense network of public equipment spread across its 72 municipalities: buildings, schools, sports facilities, urban equipment, environmental sensors. Each piece of equipment generates useful data, but that data was previously locked in separate, invisible systems.
Result: technical teams were working blind, unable to cross-reference information between departments or anticipate incidents before they occurred.
The challenge for the local authority was clear:
- Break down silos between departments and centralise data in a single environment
- Move from reactive management to proactive supervision of infrastructure
- Give field teams operational dashboards to make fast, informed decisions
- Lay the technical foundations of a platform capable of accommodating new use cases over time
To meet these challenges, Alès Agglomération chose a platform capable of aggregating data from IoT sensors, existing systems and external APIs.
Connecting territorial services through a hypervision platform
The deployed platform centralises data from multiple sources:
- IoT sensors deployed across the territory
- Meteorological stations
- Energy data via the Enedis and GRDF APIs
- Hydrological data via the Vigicrues API
- IoT communication networks such as LoRa and 4G
- Communication protocols such as MQTT
All this data is aggregated within the platform and fed back into dashboards allowing teams to monitor and analyse the performance of territorial infrastructure.
This approach enables the local authority to break down data silos and connect multiple business departments within a single management environment.
One platform, 9 territorial use cases
Over the years, Alès Agglomération has enriched its platform with new use cases,service by service, each time building on the same infrastructure. This is precisely what makes this approach so powerful: a single technical foundation, multiplying benefits. Today, 9 use cases are deployed covering fields as varied as energy, the environment, and security.
Health Risk Prevention
Kuzzle’s platform monitors sensitive equipment in collective kitchens and nurseries, such as refrigerators or domestic hot water systems.
The goal is to improve monitoring reliability, limit health risks and detect anomalies faster for prompt action.
Preserving Artworks
In museums, the platform helps track the environmental conditions needed for artwork conservation (temperature, humidity…). Teams can monitor key parameters and receive alerts in the event of deviations that could affect the collections, to guarantee conservation conditions.
Improving School Comfort
In schools, the platform monitors both building comfort and classroom occupancy. Temperature, humidity and CO₂ data provide better visibility into reception conditions and facilitate the management of school buildings while improving comfort for students and teachers.
Managing Public Lighting
The local authority uses the platform to supervise several elements related to public lighting, including traffic lights and certain energy meter readings. This centralisation facilitates equipment monitoring and contributes to more efficient management of installations.
Managing Sports Facilities
Sports facilities feed multiple data points into the platform to refine their management: irrigation, weather stations, precipitation, air quality and water consumption. This approach makes it possible to adapt site maintenance, better manage irrigation and track consumed resources.
Tracking Energy Consumption
The platform centralises electricity and gas consumption data from public buildings, notably via the Enedis and GRDF APIs. Teams therefore have a consolidated view to monitor usage, identify anomalies and improve energy management of the estate.
Anticipating Flood Risks
In a prevention-focused approach, the platform integrates data from Vigicrues as well as water level measurement points located across the territory. This information makes it possible to monitor the evolution of the situation, anticipate certain episodes to limit risks and reinforce vigilance.
Exploiting Meteorological Data
Local weather stations and external meteorological data are integrated into the platform. This data is used in particular to calculate degree-days (HDD/CDD), used to correlate building energy consumption with weather conditions and cross-reference data with other use cases to improve energy estate management.
Monitoring IT Infrastructure
The platform also enables monitoring of IT infrastructure, tracking parameters such as temperature and humidity. This monitoring contributes to securing IT infrastructure and preventing certain technical incidents.
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A project built to last
The project with Alès Agglomération was not built overnight. Over 4 years of collaboration, the platform has evolved in step with the local authority’s needs: new use cases, new data sources, new connected services. It is this ability to grow without starting from scratch that makes the difference in the long run.
A platform designed to evolve with the territory
One of the platform’s major strengths is its ability to integrate new data sources and new use cases over time. The platform thus constitutes a structuring building block for the development of a connected territory and allows the authority to enrich its IoT projects progressively, avoid the multiplication of tools, and connect multiple services around a common data vision.
Team Training and Support
Deploying the platform also involves upskilling the local authority’s technical teams. In this context, the team at the Direction des Systèmes d’Information of Alès Agglomération received in-depth technical training on the platform. The objective: to allow teams to deploy new use cases autonomously, without systematically depending on an external service provider.
Alès Agglomération is a dynamic territory located in the Gard department, in the Occitanie region. It encompasses 72 municipalities with the city of Alès as its hub, covering an area of nearly 700 km². The territory is characterised by a great diversity of landscapes, ranging from agricultural plains to the mountains of the Cévennes, a natural heritage listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Rich in an industrial past, Alès Agglo continues to develop by leveraging its cultural heritage, its environment and by supporting economic innovation. Home to nearly 140,000 inhabitants, Alès Agglomération is the 5th largest agglomération in Occitanie and the second in the Gard.
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