Legal notice

Version of 2026-09-10

Information required by article 6-III of French law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy.

Site publisher

VirtIoT Lab is published by a natural person, who therefore discloses in full the information required by French law.

  • Publisher: Joffrey Herard — Sole proprietor (French “micro-entreprise”)
  • Activity: continuing education for adults
  • SIREN: 947 734 356
  • Head office SIRET: 947 734 356 00027
  • EU VAT number: FR93947734356
  • Not registered with the RCS — registered with the French national business register (RNE)
  • Registered address: Maison L, 34 rue de Solférino, 51100 Reims, France
  • Telephone: +33 6 80 47 11 75
  • Email: contact@ofnir.fr

Publication director

The publication director is Joffrey Herard, in his capacity as publisher of the site.

Any request regarding published content may be sent to him at contact@ofnir.fr.

Hosting provider

The site is hosted by the publisher himself, on a server he owns, located at the registered address given above: Maison L, 34 rue de Solférino, 51100 Reims, France.

No third-party hosting provider is involved: the data stays in France and is never transferred outside the European Union.

Intellectual property

“VirtIoT” and “VirtIoT Lab” are names used by the publisher to designate this service. They are not registered trademarks at this time: no ® symbol is therefore used, here or anywhere else on the site.

The site's code, the platform architecture, the teaching material and the lab scenarios published by the publisher are his property. Any reproduction or reuse outside an active subscription requires his written consent.

Scenarios, configurations and work created by a teacher or by their students remain theirs: the publisher claims no rights over them.

Third-party trademarks

The site refers to technologies and software owned by third parties. These references are purely nominative: they describe what the platform simulates or integrates, and imply no partnership, authorisation or endorsement.

The publisher is not affiliated with any of the organisations listed below.

  • LoRaWAN® is a trademark of the LoRa Alliance®
  • Zigbee® is a trademark of the Connectivity Standards Alliance
  • Thread® is a trademark of the Thread Group
  • ChirpStack, OpenThread and Eclipse Leshan are open-source projects owned by their respective maintainers

Credits

Design, development and operations: Joffrey Herard.

The platform builds on free and open-source software, used under their respective licences: SvelteKit, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, ChirpStack and OpenThread, among others.