The management of water infrastructure networks now relies heavily on digital solutions: remote monitoring, equipment automation, performance management, predictive maintenance…
Whilst these tools offer significant gains in efficiency and service continuity, they also expose water networks to a challenge that has become critical: the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.
In the face of growing cyber threats and stricter regulatory requirements, particularly with the NIS2 Directive, local authorities and water operators need to be able to rely on secure, sovereign and immediately operational solutions.
LX CONNECT, LACROIX’s centralized device management platform, is deployed in its SaaS version on the European sovereign cloud SCALEWAY .
A SaaS platform designed for critical water networks
LX CONNECT SaaS is a turnkey software solution designed for water utilities and operators that do not have an IT/IS infrastructure and wish to:
- Monitor their equipment remotely,
- Securely centralize field data,
- Automate network operations,
- Strengthen their cybersecurity posture over the long term,
- Benefit from a scalable platform
Available through a simple subscription, LX CONNECT enables rapid deployment without the need to install or maintain servers, while ensuring continuous updates, essential in the face of ever-evolving cyber threats.
The platform integrates natively with LACROIX’s connected equipment and solutions, ensuring a secure end-to-end value chain, from the field to the cloud.
Cybersecurity: essential for the continuity of water services
Water networks are part of the critical infrastructure whose availability and integrity are vital to local areas.
LX CONNECT SaaS delivers cybersecurity at every level:
- Securing access and data flows,
- Monitoring user activity (in line with NIS2 requirements),
- Automatic certificate renewal,
- An architecture designed to reduce intrusion risks,
- Compliance with the growing requirements of European regulatory frameworks
The platform thus provides a trusted digital foundation to support local authorities and operators in achieving compliance, particularly with NIS2 requirements.
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Sovereign cloud: ensuring control over critical data and technological independence
For LACROIX, security is not limited to software features.
It also involves a key strategic decision: hosting LX CONNECT SaaS on a sovereign European cloud.
By relying on a leading sovereign cloud provider, LACROIX ensures:
- Data hosted and operated in Europe, under European jurisdiction
- Enhanced service continuity through a multi-zone architecture
- Technological independence, reducing dependency and lock-in risks
- Use of interoperable standards and open-source components, ensuring transparency and long-term sustainability
Responsible deployment
Beyond performance and cybersecurity, our partner SCALEWAY’s cloud is part of an eco-design approach.
The platform’s deployment relies on cloud infrastructure designed to reduce the environmental footprint of digital technology, in particular through:
- Hosted in data centers cooled using energy-efficient technologies
- An energy supply based on renewable sources,
- Tools for monitoring the carbon footprint and water consumption associated with cloud usage.
This approach enables water sector stakeholders to balance digital transformation, cybersecurity and environmental responsibility without compromise.
With LX CONNECT SaaS, LACROIX offers much more than just a software platform:
a turnkey, secure, sovereign and eco-designed SaaS solution designed to enhance the resilience of water networks.Against a backdrop of growing cyber threats and tightening regulations, LX CONNECT offers local authorities and operators a reliable, sustainable and immediately operational tool to secure their critical infrastructure. This architectural choice, whose first use case is in the water sector, will gradually be applied across all the markets served by LACROIX”
Ronan Tano,
Executive Vice President of R&D
LACROIX
