This sector includes the digital infrastructure markets (activities and companies involved in producing the products and services needed to roll out the networks of tomorrow: it covers very high-speed mobile broadband, including for the Internet of Things, and very high-speed fixed broadband for connected regions), tools and software (development, maintenance and publication of software tools), and digital uses and media (all the players involved in producing and distributing real or virtual images in the cinema, audiovisual, animation, video game and multimedia sectors. It also includes e-learning and internet services, notably e-commerce, as well as the content production activities of Telecom operators).

Example of a map using the Hub’eau hydrometry API on the MétéEAU Nappes platform
Our solutions
Simplified access to geoscientific data
Do you wish to easily use data produced or disseminated by BRGM? You can tailor these data to meet the needs of web developers, consultancy firms, public services, companies and other re-users by developing customised APIs.
Tailor-made distance learning (2020).
Our solutions
Training in how to use BRGM's scientific data
BRGM makes various kinds of geoscientific data available to the general public in different formats through its web portals. It also provides its public and private partners with standard or tailor-made training courses to help them exploit the data to the full.
Drilling at the BRGM geothermal platform, Orléans
Our solutions
Declaration and description of underground works
Simplify your regulatory procedures and obligations concerning data linked to subsurface work using BRGM's interconnected tools: DUPLOS (Unified Declaration for Underground Works) and DiaLog (technical description of boreholes).
A TGV Duplex high-speed train from french company SNCF driving on the LGV Est
Our solutions
VIGIstructure: an early warning tool in the event of a natural disaster to protect your infrastructure
Are you an infrastructure or works manager, or a transport network operator, and wondering how prepared you are to manage an earthquake occurring near your sites? BRGM can provide you with a service for the transmission and personalised management of rapid notifications to meet your prevention, security and business continuity requirements for your facilities and structures.
Representation of a field of vertical geothermal probes
Laboratory, technological platform
PONCA: modelling of vertical geothermal probe fields
BRGM helps you to optimise the design of a probe field and determine configurations that ensure the best compromise between cost and performance.
BRGM piezometer, Brittany
Our solutions
MétéEAU Nappes: a tool for the real-time monitoring and forecasting of groundwater levels
Are you a public authority or organisation involved in managing water resources? Would you like to know the current state of the water table levels in your region and be able to establish reliable forecasts? BRGM's MétéEAU Nappes tool enables you to consult the status of your water resources and facilities in real time and thus to put in place an effective water-resource management and protection plan.
Heat exchangers at BRGM's Geothermal platform
Laboratory, technological platform
Geothermal platform: optimising the energy and environmental performance of geothermal heat exchangers
Situated on BRGM's site in Orléans since 2008, BRGM's geothermal platform is the only laboratory of its kind in France. It is used to test shallow geothermal exchangers – of the type used to provide heating or cooling in private houses or small buildings – in real-life conditions.
View of the buckling damage to silos in Bazzano
Our solutions
Earthquakes and vulnerable sites 
BRGM mobilises its expertise in earthquake risk prevention to help protect industrial sites and dams. It assists project contractors and operators by helping them anticipate risks, comply with regulatory requirements and draw up business continuity plans.
The Jonquilles River, Corrèze
Software
MARTHE: Modelling software for groundwater flows
MARTHE has been developed by the BRGM for 3D modelling of flows and mass and energy transfers in hydro-systems. Modelling includes aquifers, rivers and vadose zones.
Wagons carrying bauxite ore, Guinea
Our solutions
Environmental analysis of mineral resource procurement
BRGM is able to measure the environmental impacts linked to the supply of mineral raw materials. In this respect, through a better understanding of the flow of materials along value chains, BRGM helps economic players to reduce their environmental impact.
Cracked road following an earthquake
Our solutions
Earthquakes and infrastructure 
BRGM is mobilising its expertise in earthquake risk prevention to ensure that infrastructures are resilient. It assists project contractors, designers and managers of infrastructures and network operators to help them anticipate risks, comply with regulatory requirements and draw up business continuity plans.
ReunEM heliborne geophysics campaign, Reunion Island
Our solutions
Prospecting for rock materials by airborne geophysical remote sensing
If you wish to identify and evaluate underground resources for your raw material supplies, BRGM offers you its airborne geophysical services to facilitate prospecting for favourable deposits.