Connected trees SEGGA

Global electronic tree management solution

Trees are essential to the quality of life of city residents. In order to fulfill their mission, trees must be healthy and safe.

The objective of this Innosuisse project is to develop and deploy a tree monitoring system that will allow predictive analysis of the health of trees and optimize their care.

Connected trees, alerting to protect

On Tuesday 22 November 2022, the first results of research into monitoring the health of trees were made public, a veritable on-board kit that signals and informs about the vitality and risks posed by trees in the open space of urban areas and in public or private parks and gardens.

Climate change brings tree vegetation to the forefront of solutions for cooling cities. Responding by increasing the density of plantations and preserving existing ones has become a crucial strategy with social and public health implications. Trees are living beings, and as such present risks of decay and falling, which have been identified as a threat to the health of citizens.

Based on this observation and on the initiative of the company Krebs Paysagistes SA, the researchers of the research institute inPACT (landscape, architecture, construction and territory) of HEPIA have developed a device with the objective of monitoring the health of the trees with live and continuous visualization on smartphone and equipped with active alerts in case of risk of fall, allowing to:

• Make an early diagnosis to facilitate decision-making.
• Anticipate in order to quickly prevent and treat trees offering the opportunity to extend their life.
• Measure the statics of trees to prognosticate their fall and alert to better protect.

The benefits :

• Avoid accidents and damage caused by falling trees
• Optimise the monitoring and quality of tree care by managers of green spaces in public and private areas
• Help trees in their development and extend their life expectancy
• To have indicators to measure the benefits and the state of health of trees, in order to meet the objectives of
• Preserve the health of pedestrians, cyclists and motorists
• Promote biodiversity and nature in the city

The launch phase of the tree monitoring system is underway, with a dozen partner municipalities already involved, as a prelude to a large-scale deployment throughout French-speaking Switzerland.

In this context, press conferences will be held in the regions, at the foot of the equipped trees with a demonstration, according to the programme available on http://www.arbres-connectés.ch/home/

An autonomous device that indicates and remotely transmits the health and stability of the tree continuously.