YHC Environnement and Groupe X-TELIA are partnering to help municipalities transition to the Smart City model and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Saint-Lambert, June 19, 2019 – YHC Environnement, a consulting firm specializing in environmental and energy issues, announces a strategic partnership with Groupe X-TELIA, a Quebec company that operates a network dedicated to connected objects and buildings based on LoRa technology. For more than 20 years, YHC Environnement has been committed to ensuring that its municipal clients benefit from the latest technological advances, particularly in connection with the transition to the smart city.

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This promising partnership will provide municipalities with new technologies, tools and systems to help them optimise the environmental management of assets and address the challenges of weather and climate events.

The systems and applications that will be developed with the support of LoRa technology by YHC Environnements will enable municipalities to manage specific environmental issues "live":

• For example, during exceptional rainfall, YHC Environnement's and X-TELIA's tools will make it possible to manage equipment and pumping stations to avoid or reduce overloads, overflows and potential damage.
• Other tools will be used to improve asset management and reduce environmental impacts, for example by monitoring pavement temperature to optimise the spreading of salt and abrasives during the winter season.

"In recent years, our work has led us to design several innovative concepts for Quebec and Canadian municipalities and their communities to improve their environmental and economic performance. The development of new tools and systems through our collaboration with X-TELIA will enable municipalities to consolidate the green shift towards the smart city and thus be better equipped to face the many environmental challenges," said Yves Hennekens, founding president of YHC Environnement.

"X-TELIA is pleased to partner with YHC Environnement and make its wireless network, designed specifically for smart city and mobility applications, available to its municipal clients. This partnership will enable us to jointly develop new solutions to make cities smarter while enabling them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions," says Eric Bourbeau, Co-founding President of Groupe X-TELIA of Longueuil. "There are enormous opportunities in water and water meter management, intelligent waste management, smart parking, air and water quality, asset management, etc."

About YHC Environnement

YHC Environnement is one of the first companies in Quebec to have developed analysis tools in the field of greenhouse gas emission studies, in the search for practical, cost-effective and viable solutions, in improving energy efficiency and the carbon footprint for the municipal sector as well as for companies operating in the private sector. YHC Environnement is working on the development of new concepts to improve the environmental and economic performance of communities, the implementation of innovative green technologies and the production of renewable energy. For more information: yhcenvironnement.com

About the X-TELIA group

Groupe X-TELIA Inc. is a Quebec company that operates a next-generation wireless network dedicated to the Internet of Things. It supports businesses and cities that want to deploy applications requiring highly secure, low-cost, low-energy, long-range connectivity. X-TELIA offers the Quebec market proven solutions from around the world and cutting-edge expertise to facilitate the transition to the Internet of Things. The X-TELIA network is specifically designed to support new applications that make cities smarter, industry more efficient and citizens safer. For more information on the possibilities of LoRa technology for the smart city: x-telia.com

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