Operational since December 2012, the Com4Innov platform dedicated to 4G and M2M technologies in France was officially inaugurated on February 11 2013. The fruit of many years’ research, this digital laboratory of the future unique in the PACA region is a leading edge 4G/LTE/IMS and M2M (machine to machine) center with access to networks from Marseille to Monaco. Claude Hary, director of operations for the Telecoms Platform Association, which allows companies and sector stakeholders to test devices, mobile services and applications from end to end, talks about the avant-garde project under way at Sophia Antipolis.