Multiple declinations of environmental notion within the framework of this Big United Project. We identify  in particular :

• Environmental protection
  Defined as a major development axis on mondial scale, environment issue is a thematic highly focus on futur, federating around itself many actors (manufacturers, institutional,..) and generating an activity in constant growth
• Cost effective management of ressources
  These ressources energetic or materials, raw materials or technicals componant, optimisation of management of ressources is a development key factor in all level. All kind of ressources are in general in limited quantity, this axis of research is fully integrated in current issues
• Operating environment
  The inclusion of the operating context of compoant and system require skills higly present in the IMS laboratory. On board system, fields sensors, reliabilty issues are example illustrating this aspect of this GPU
• Social and societal environment
  Study of the implementation context of a system in a social system, of his impact on his human and organisational environment, the use of intelligents devices in an organisation,  refer to knowledge and expertise present in the IMS laboratory and all technical skills which are represented can be covered in it.

These definitions constitute majors actions areas of the GPU EnvironmentS. Labelled projects GPU EnvironmentS can be on one or more on thes dimensions.

The management of the GPU EnvironmentS is assured with 4 thematic working groups iinteraction. Those four sub-projects are complementary and pursue to regroup skills needed to realise research projects concernig this GPU, faciliting synergy between researchers which reconize tehmselves in those themes.

• WP 1 : Societal environment
  Studying the impact and interactions between technology and society, this thematic constitute the antropocentric element inherent question of environment. From product lifecycle study, to social system sudty, to the inclusion of users' needs, this sub-project deal with "high level" projects from GPU EnvironmentS
• WP 2 : Sustainable TIC
  Information and communication technology sector present a historic growth during last decades. This very quick development was made above environmental and sustainable reasons. This work group will be committed to TIC related study, with the challenge to make them more sustainable, both from the point of view of fabrication process (eco-conception) and as their applications (monitoring of environmental variables, intellignet sensors,...)
• WP 3 : Operational environment of electronics componant and system
  Impact of working environment on some system or componant intended to be deployed in rugged environment represent the third element of study in the GPU EnvironmentS. He regroup question related to vibration and aging, and effect related to specific temperature, radiation, pressure, exposition to a chimical or biologically active environment, and more broadly all questions related to relaibility of system and componants
• WP 4 : Energy
• The study of management of energy, his production or his recovery, his use, and in all scale of power, is the last axis of research in this GPU. Present in a majority of systems, on board or stationary, energy as a limited ressource justify studies in termes of quantificationof needs and optimisation