On July 3, the French Academy of Technology’s report “Contribution des technologies aux besoins en ressource d’eau douce” warned of a sharp acceleration in freshwater-related problems.
This vital issue has been the focus of the French Greentech ecosystem for several years. This is the case at EFICIA, under the impetus of the major real estate networks that we have been helping to improve the energy performance of their assets for nearly 10 years, with some of the most innovative solutions on the market.
The issue of water is a new level of development and integration into our tools for more intelligent and virtuous management of this precious resource.
To date, water losses remain commonplace. UFC-Que Choisir claims that “one liter of drinking water in five is lost in France”! These losses could soon be limited by better use of data, which is not yet shared by all market operators. The opening up of this data will rapidly enable us to better manage the consumption of our real estate assets, in particular by identifying leaks and over-consumption.
Julien Bellynck, Deputy Managing Director of EFICIA, a French expert in energy management for commercial buildings and local authorities, explains: “Network operators do not share water consumption data with companies in the ecosystem, as they have no legal obligation to make this data accessible to independent third parties. If, and only if, a decree were published to make water consumption data available to any designated third party in an open standard that is easily reusable and exploitable by an automated processing system, as is the case for electricity and gas, players such as us could then offer everyone, companies and private individuals alike, a tool enabling them to monitor their water consumption and thus reduce losses of this resource whose availability is a growing concern.“
