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Design services for the home of the future

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Call for projects: design services for the home of the future!

Home maintenance, admin, paying bills, security, DIY, vehicle services and mobility... Faced with such a multitude of daily chores, our customers don’t know where to start. Are you a start-up or a small or medium-sized business with an innovative idea to help them save time and make their lives easier? Then why not take part in our call for projects for home services from 4 April to 14 May 2018!

Lecture

The object of the call for projects? To improve the daily lives of residential customers in their homes

EDF wants to help improve the everyday lives of its residential customers. That’s why we’re looking for innovative solutions which make everyone’s daily lives easier and give them greater peace of mind.

The aim of this new call for projects is to find a start-up or a small or medium-sized business offering tools, products, or a combination of existing or maturing solutions in the area of home services.

Please note!
Another call for projects devoted to home assistance for older people is open from 6 March to 9 April 2018. You can only apply for one of them. So make sure you choose the area which best fits your offer!

EDF is committed! 4 good reasons to apply for this call for projects

If you are one of the winners, you’ll enjoy the following advantages:

  • Paid testing
  • Technical support and contacts with EDF experts
  • Support from EDF and its partners (competitiveness clusters, incubators, etc.) for implementing the tested solution
  • Exposure in EDF's communications media (website, social media, etc.)

What solutions are we seeking?

Proxy services (physical and digital)

In everyday life, there’s a multitude of chores to be done which we sometimes put off until tomorrow or which we’d like some help with. Tell us about your innovative services for making residential customers’ lives easier!

Our needs?
To make daily household chores less time-consuming and residential customers’ lives easier so that they feel good at home

Sample solutions*

  • Small DIY jobs
  • Installation of connected devices
  • IT support
  • Help with moving
  • …

Our needs?
Make vehicle maintenance easier and revolutionise parking

Sample solutions*

  • Shared parking and car sharing
  • Electric car charging
  •  …

Support and connected home services

Whether it’s to do with security, well-being or day-to-day arrangements, propose your smart solutions for greater peace of mind!

Our needs?
To allow residential customers to feel safe at home

Sample solutions*

  • Connected locks
  • Remote monitoring and connected camera
  • Remote surveillance of houses and/or pets
  • …

Our needs?
To improve peace of mind and help parents monitor their children

Sample solutions*

  • Remote alarm system
  • Non intrusive monitoring of vulnerable people
  • …

Our needs?
To free up time by simplifying admin tasks

Sample solutions*

  • “EDF bill” proof of address
  • Online smart vault
  • Appointment booking (administrative, doctors, care, etc.)
  • Admin coaching
  • …

*These are just some examples. As long as your idea falls within these priority areas, we’re open to anything!

 

Please note:
You can also submit a combination of solutions responding to the various needs above.

Timetable and selection procedure

1 Applications

4 April to 14 May 2018


You can apply and propose solutions in one or more areas.
All you have to do is complete your application and fill in our answer form.
 

Any questions? Send in your questions to our teams.
We will post the answers on 16 and 27 April in this page, so that they are available to everyone.

2 Selection procedure

14 May - 03 July 2018


You will be informed if you do not fulfil the eligibility criteria. You will not be permitted to submit an application.
14 May - 4 June: Our teams will examine your submissions and make a shortlist. All applicants will receive a reply around the 10th of June
21 & 22 June: Finalists will be invited to pitch to the final selection panel.
3 July: Winners are announced.

3 And then what?

From October 2018


EDF will support the winners and help fund an on-the-ground trial:

Phase 1: Preliminary studies prior to trial with the support of our experts
Phase 2: Approval of solutions
Phase 3 :Paid testing of selected solutions

Answers to your questions

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This call for projects is for you if...

You wish to present the innovative home services you have thought of and designed. This call for projects is right for you if your solution is:

  • Innovative
  • Unique and outside the box
  • Easy to implement with a competitive advantage (solutions with existing customers have an advantage)
  • Scalable on the French residential customers market
  • Economically viable in the short, medium, and long term, and profitable
  • Easy to test immediately on a web platform to put the solution on the market, previous success online an advantage
  • In accordance with EDF image and values
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