Crimson - C2, C4ISR, Hyperviseur multi-domaines

2024 06 21 Eurosatory We're thrilled and deeply grateful to see our Crimson product honored by the European Commission at hashtagSecurity Research Event 2025 with the Security Innovation Award 2025, which recognizes the innovation with the greatest impact on the security of the European Union. This award is a significant recognition of the particularly innovative nature of our field-proven product. For several years, it has made important and consistent contributions to advancing the state of the art in its field. Its widespread adoption in both civilian and military domains, as well as by numerous European projects (which have made it a reference research platform for both Horizon Europe and the European Defence Fund), confirms Crimson's significant impact on European security both in the research world and for the most critical operational applications.

We embarked on this Crimson adventure in a PASR RTD project quite some time ago following the devastating AZF factory explosion in Toulouse, our hometown.

Innovation often requires time, not to mention a fair amount of luck.

We had a vision: to use our expertise in virtual reality and simulation to develop tools to train first responders to manage such disasters. At the time, we believed that changing end-users’ operational methods and tools was out of reach. But we were wrong. Crimson was actually adopted for crisis management first, before training.

Looking ahead, we are more motivated than ever to serve the protection and defense of European populations, public and natural sites, and critical infrastructures. Crimson is now spreading across Europe into other domains and, recently, into the defence sector to enable more effective inter-organizational, multi-domain, and cross-border collaboration during major incidents and crisis.

This award fuels our ambition to continue innovating, pushing the boundaries of what's possible to support those who protect us.

It is with particularly high honor that we see Crimson adopted by European projects as a research platform for inventing next-generation security and defence systems and benefit from Crimson to accelerate innovation and open a direct path to exploitation and adoption.

Crimson SENTINEL has been selected by the FRODDO Horizon Europe project to create safer, smarter, and more adaptable transportation systems that address the challenges of increasingly complex road environments—particularly in dense urban areas. Crimson SENTINEL will be utilized and further developed by FRODDO’s partners to monitor and orchestrate traffic involving autonomous vehicles and transportation infrastructure, while ensuring user safety and effectively managing potential incidents.

Led by ERTICO, a public-private partnership organization with nearly 120 members spanning eight sectors of the Intelligent Transport Systems and Smart Mobility ecosystem, the FRODDO project brings together leading universities, research institutes, and industry players committed to innovation in automated mobility. This world-class consortium envisions a future where automated and connected vehicles are seamlessly integrated into everyday life. Its mission is to build robust, safe, and secure mobility systems that can adapt to rapidly evolving technological, physical, and societal landscapes.

The project’s vision is rooted in adaptability—ensuring that automated vehicles can safely navigate any road or environmental condition. By integrating advanced sensing technologies, artificial intelligence, and fail-safe design principles, FRODDO aims to push the boundaries of what’s possible in connected and automated mobility. In this envisioned future, data flows securely and efficiently between vehicles, infrastructure, and authorities, enabling real-time decision-making that optimizes traffic, reduces accidents, and enhances the overall mobility experience.

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We would like to thank the French Navy for placing its trust in us by taking Crimson on board for several air-sea manoeuvres in 2025:

The Clémenceau 2025 mission, deployed around the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, which enabled France to demonstrate its power projection capabilities and strengthen interoperability with its allies..
The Dragoon Fury 2025 experiment, a full-scale tactical laboratory for technological innovation, focused on the use of drones and autonomous systems in an amphibious context.
The Catamaran 2025 joint exercise, which enabled France to demonstrate its force projection capabilities with an amphibious operation in a high-intensity engagement scenario..

Designed for demanding protection, security, and defence applications, Crimson provides a unique multi-domain command and coordination capability, both at sea and on land. Thanks to its sovereign, interoperable and resilient technology, the solution enables real-time tactical hypervision and joint operation command, which is essential for conducting modern operations and supporting operations in the service of decision-making superiority.

This collaboration illustrates the commitment of the Crimson teams to working alongside the French armed forces to strengthen their superiority and operational responsivenessnnelle.

We are proud to announce that a leading European industrial player in the energy sector has selected Crimson Sentinel to ensure the protection and resilience of its critical infrastructures.

In a context where business continuity and risk management are more strategic than ever, Crimson Sentinel stands out as the sovereign European reference solution for the protection and resilience of critical infrastructures. With its advanced capabilities in hypervision, colaborative operations command, and incident management, Crimson will enable our client to oversee all security operations, from daily tasks to the coordinated response to major events.

This new collaboration confirms the relevance of Crimson Sentinel in addressing the complex challenges of sensitive industrial environments — seamlessly integrating heterogeneous systems, enabling effective response, and ensuring a global, shared, real-time view of the situation to support the collaboration of multiple operators and stakeholders.

We invite you to discover CERBERE through the superb video recently published by the French Army.

Since 2017, CS GROUP has been developing the central CERBERE system for the Army, in partnership with Thales. This includes ExCon("Exercise Control"), which equips the Operational Center as well as field instructors and is based on Crimson/VirtualGeo technology.

The CERBERE system is used at the urban combat training center (Cenzub), a European reference for preparing land forces. Located in Sissonne, it is affiliated with the 94th Infantry Regiment and trains around 15,000 soldiers each year, both French and international. CERBERE enables real-time combat monitoring through interactive maps, hundreds of cameras, and realistic special effects (smoke grenades, simulated gunfire, ambient noise). With its infantry units, AMX-30 tank platoon, and armored vehicles, the opposing force (Forad) also plays a key role in training rotating units. Cenzub is also an innovation laboratory, featuring reconnaissance drones, combat robots like the Probot equipped with a 12.7 mm machine gun, and even armed drones like the Avatar, capable of fire support and intelligence missions.

A similar infrastructure is currently being deployed at CENTAC in Mailly Le Camp.