Local authorities face an increasingly pressing imperative: coordinating their services in real time, detecting incidents before they occur, while ensuring the sovereignty of their digital infrastructures. In this op-ed published in Smart City Mag, a leading media outlet for intelligent territories, Azzeddine Bendjebbour, Founder and President of Suadeo, explains why the sovereign Hypervisor is emerging as the central nervous system of innovative territories.
This article includes excerpts from the op-ed published in Smart City Mag. To read the full article, “Smart City, Safe City: Why the Sovereign Hypervisor Is the Target System for Territories?”, click here.
When facing field incidents or major risks, local authorities must react within minutes. Whether dealing with public order issues, climate-related events, cybersecurity threats, or health and industrial crises, they seek solutions capable of anticipating, preventing, and effectively coordinating interventions.
Over the past fifteen years, Smart City and Safe City initiatives, adopted by 82% of metropolitan areas* , have transformed public action through IoT, AI, and data. But beyond this multitude of tools, one central element stands out: the Hypervisor, the true nervous system of the Intelligent Territory, which connects, synchronizes, and manages public action in real time.
Hypervisor: the digital control tower of territories
If the Intelligent Territory is a collection of technological building blocks, the Hypervisor is its central nervous system: the component that connects, interconnects, coordinates, and steers public action in real time.
Digital transformation can no longer be fragmented. Local authorities must coordinate public action at the scale of their entire territory.
The Hypervisor is the digital control tower that enables real-time supervision, anticipation, and management of events, from the most mundane to the most critical.
This is precisely what mayors, chief executives, CIOs, and operational teams are seeking today: a unified, actionable, and sovereign view.
Mastered data for better Territorial Governance
Local authorities are accelerating their data transformation, but data silos remain a major obstacle. In 2024, 65% of local authorities initiated at least one data project over the past two years**.
Yet many struggle to unlock their potential due to the absence of integrated governance, lack of trained staff, or insufficiently accessible tools.
The sovereign Hypervisor provides a direct response:
- Self-service Data Analytics, empowering teams to manage and analyze data autonomously
- Secure centralization of all data sources (IoT streams, video, weather, road traffic, business systems, etc.)
- Controlled data governance within a sovereign environment
- Bidirectional communication with teams, partners, and citizens (automatic integration and feedback of external information, dynamic visualizations shared as open data, or instant communication via loudspeakers, SMS, email, etc.)
And since 63% of local authorities now choose on-premise deployment, the op-ed emphasizes:
This level of freedom requires native and advanced cybersecurity to ensure the safe use of data: encryption, access control, full auditability…
Responsiveness: the foundation of modern Public Action
Faced with successive crises, local authorities must act quickly and effectively. The op-ed is explicit:
Territorial responsiveness is imperative. The Hypervisor is the most comprehensive solution to break down silos and manage public action in real time.
Concrete use cases are highlighted:
- route optimization
- reduction of traffic congestion
- dynamic lighting management
- leak detection
- air quality monitoring
- anticipation and detection of incidents (climatic, road-related, security-related, etc.)
- energy management of public buildings
With local AI built into the system, the Hypervisor enhances analysis and accelerates decision-making:
Detecting weak signals, anticipating cascading consequences of unforeseen events, and prioritizing alerts.
Sovereignty: protecting public infrastructure and data
Digital sovereignty is no longer a concept : it is a strategic necessity.
Choosing a sovereign Hypervisor, hosted in France, means maintaining full and secure control over data, infrastructure, and the digital environment.
Mastery of software components, RGPD and IGI 1300 compliance, avoidance of extra-European technologies… everything points to a clear need: regaining technological control over the territory.
A tool that strengthens Citizen Engagement
The Hypervisor is not only designed for internal performance: it also supports social cohesion. The op-ed highlights this democratic dimension:
Citizens expect greater transparency, participation, and feedback on the actions undertaken.
In times of crisis, the Hypervisor becomes a true real-time communication channel:
A system enabling immediate dialogue with users, capable of warning, informing, reassuring, or redirecting citizens within seconds.
* Territoires numériques : comment favoriser la (co-)création de valeur publique, in Pouvoir Locaux n°122
** Local Authorities and Data, 2024 Public Data Observatory Barometer
