The “geocœur” connected case, imagined by Frédéric Leybold, is placed above the defibrillators. . Thanks to a QR code, onlookers can then locate the victim and provide him with help faster than the firefighters or the SAMU.
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The Lépine competition, which rewards the best inventions, awarded its most prestigious distinction on Sunday, May 8, on Sunday, May 8, to an accessory of connected defibrillators, which is automatically triggered during a call for emergency services for a heart attack. The “Geocœur” connected case imagined by Frédéric Leybold, which is placed above the defibrillators, won among 358 inventions in competition for this 121st edition of the competition.
Its principle? When the emergency services receive a cardiac arrest report, the server locates the closest connected boxes, which then start flashing to attract the attention of passers -by. Thanks to a QR code, onlookers can then locate the victim and provide him with help faster than firefighters or SAMU.
responses to societal issues
For this invention, Frédéric Leybold – a nurse by trade – was awarded the prize of the President of the Republic, in the form of a porcelain vase in Sèvres. “I am very happy that the first prize in the competition was awarded to him,” the competition director, Barbara Dorey, salutes a very important humanist invention “. /p>
“This is very representative of what the Lépine competition is,” she added, praising a “connected object for the good of all”, “the answer to the ultimate need in the event of a heart problem” .
This year, “the members of the jury were sensitive to current societal issues”, like the environment, “and that is found in the list,” said Dorey. So that among the five most prestigious competition prices founded in 1901 by police prefect Louis Lépine, two were given to innovations turned towards green construction.
“On-Scènes”, a plant covering ready to place on the walls of industrial companies which allows “filtering greenhouse gases from the interior of the company” thus won the Prime Minister’s prize, When the slight construction bricks in rigid cellulose by Claude Meyer, “fully recyclable”, left with the price of the Paris Ile-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry.