The Lépine competition, which rewards the best inventions, awarded its most prestigious distinction on Sunday to a connected defibrillator accessory, which triggers automatically when calling emergency services for a heart attack. The “Géocoeur” connected box was designed by a Moselle, Frédéric Leybold. It stood out among 358 inventions in competition for this 121st edition of the competition.
Concretely, when the emergency services receive a report of cardiac arrest, the server locates the closest connected boxes, which then begin to flash to attract the attention of passers-by. Thanks to a QR code, onlookers can then locate the victim and bring him help more quickly than the firefighters or the Samu.
A connected object for the good of all
Frédéric Leybold, nurse by trade and president of the association of first responders, has already launched in October 2018 in Moselle a mobile application that connects victims of cardiac arrest and rescuers located nearby.
Competition director Barbara Dorey salutes an invention “very important on a humanist level, a connected object for the good of all, “the answer to the ultimate need in the event of a heart problem“. The second most important prize, the Grand Prix, was awarded to a duo of inventors – Marie Christine Ibatto and Denis Flota – for their “fouclette”, a transportable mini kitchen piano which can be used both as a stove, plancha, toaster, grill or fondue device.
This year, the members of the jury were also sensitive to environmental issues. Among the competition’s five most prestigious prizes, two were awarded to innovations geared towards green construction: a plant covering that filters greenhouse gases from inside the company and lightweight construction bricks in fully recyclable rigid cellulose.