TDF anticipates major changes in its environment by drawing on its national innovation centers, and offers new infrastructures and new connected services.
Located in the historic Fort de Romainville enclosure in Les Lilas, Ile-de-France, TDF's Campus Innovation is home to research and training laboratories.
TDF's technology and innovation center provides a space for exchange and co-creativity for TDF customers, partners and employees.
It is also a place for experimentation and application of the Smart City and the Internet of Things.
These laboratories are home to some thirty expert engineers, who work to improve existing solutions for our customers and build new services to support them in meeting future needs.
Their roles are fundamental:
Did you know?
The TDF Campus has been awarded the Ready2Services label by the Smart Building Alliance and Certivea. This label recognizes HQE buildings that are connected and communicating as part of a sustainable, intelligent city approach.
In several sectors, TDF is participating in the development of connected services and the progress of tomorrow:
TDF makes these challenges possible through :
Designing, developing and testing new solutions are exciting challenges for TDF's employees, as they work closely with customers to address their concerns.
TDF is behind an invention as popular as MP3, the famous sound compression format.
The TDF Group completes its involvement in innovation by collaborating with Technological Research Institutes, resulting in the publication of theses, the filing of patents and their valorization.
For many years, TDF has placed intellectual property at the heart of its industrial strategy, in response to regulatory and technological changes in its environment.
The Group regularly registers patents from :
All these innovations are an economic resource and a recognition of the company's cutting-edge industrial know-how, contributing to the development of our future markets.
Around fifty of our patents have been evaluated as essential to the international standards that exploit them, such as MPEG or DVB-T.
National and international patents
National and international brands
TDF group internet domain names
TDF has recognized expertise in the fields of audiovisual, telecommunications and fiber optics. Nearly a dozen research centers bring together TDF engineers and experts in various fields:
TDF is committed to working with research institutes, competitive clusters and Open Innovation ecosystems to prepare tomorrow's solutions and promote :
Avec b<>com, les experts TDF effectuent des recherches dans plusieurs domaines :
new media formats,
cybersecurity,
5G networks,
the Internet of Things,
artificial intelligence,
immersive, medical...
TDF is working with IRT M2P to validate the feasibility of reinforcements using composite materials, to optimize costs and lead times, for greater flexibility, or on
new TDF/ITAS services for other towercos or operators.
TDF works with the ANRT, a cross-sectoral public-private French research network. Our work contributes to the organizational transformation of French and European research and innovation systems.
TDF is developing close ties with Paris&Co, an economic development and innovation agency, and encourages the spread of innovation by incubating startups, testing innovative solutions and organizing national and international events.
TDF experts take part in the Images & Réseaux cluster, which brings together the know-how of manufacturers and researchers worldwide in the fields of telecoms, the Internet, television and images, and develops collaborative projects.
TDF est membre fondateur de l’Institut de Recherche Technologique (IRT) b<>com.
b<>com est un des huit IRT labellisés par l’État, associant des partenaires publics et privés, industriels et académiques, pour développer en commun :
• Des programmes de recherche de dimension mondiale,
• Des plateformes technologiques
• Des formations afin d’atteindre l’excellence dans les filières les plus compétitives et créer les emplois de demain.
TDF and BCOM experts come from a wide range of disciplines and cultures and carry out research in several fields:
