Published in Smart City Mag - September. 2025

Environmental risks: what prevention, detection and warning systems are needed?

Major engineering firms such as CEREG, Antéa Group and Suez Consulting are active in natural risk management. They all need to rely on specialized sensor suppliers such as PARATRONIC, one of the main players in the market, with sensors designed to detect floods, but also low water levels that are too violent, dry water tables or forest fires. "Our added value is to provide not only sensor solutions, but also an acquisition system that transforms physical data into relevant digital data", explains Patrice Rilly, CEO of PARATRONIC.

"For flood risk, PARATRONIC offers submerged piezoresistive probes, ultrasonic sensors, radars and its AQUA-CJ multi-protocol acquisition station. AQUA-CJ multi-protocol acquisition station.

In terms of connectivity, we are currently launching a LoRaWAN card that will complement 3G, 4G and the KINEIS satellite constellation," continues Patrice Rilly. "This multiplicity of communication vectors is part of market demand.

In the field of forest fire detection, PARATRONIC has designed a system called ADELIE. This is a monochrome camera system (equipped with Artificial Intelligence algorithms) which detects smoke trails up to twenty kilometers away.

Thanks to Hervé Reynaud for writing this article.