Participating in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
Reducing the carbon footprint of our activities is a major goal of our environmental action plan, the Sixense Green Program.
To this end, we have implemented a structured energy saving approach applicable to all our business units, which allows us to simultaneously reduce operating costs and contribute significantly to the reduction of our environmental footprint.
By adopting environmentally responsible practices
Reducing our energy consumption is achieved through multiple means:
- Adapting the operation of equipment to field conditions
- Implementing plans to reduce the use of heating and air conditioning in offices
- Installing energy saving systems in offices (automatic management of lighting and water distribution)
Our actions in the field
Committing to an energy sufficiency plan
At the end of 2022, we implemented a series of measures to reduce our annual gas and electricity consumption.
Some of these measures are structural or based on good practices adopted by our employees: reducing office temperatures in winter, not turning on the air conditioning below 26°C, continuing to install LED light bulbs, programming lights to switch off, systematically putting equipment such as monitors and multifunction printers on standby.
Using solar energy to power our equipment and reduce its energy consumption
When we install our monitoring systems on our customers’ sites or buildings, it is not always easy to connect them to the power grid.
However, they need to be powered continuously to transmit measurement data. In the past, we used fuel cells. Our engineers have now implemented more economical power solutions using solar panels and a configuration tool to optimise their installation (type and inclination of the panel, characteristics of the backup battery, etc.).
We have also redesigned some of our equipment configurations to make them more energy efficient. Modems consume much less energy than mini-PCs, so we replaced the latter with new solutions connected to the cloud.
Training and encouraging eco-driving
In 2022, we launched eco-driving training, which was rolled-out by several of our business units in Morocco, Australia, UK and France.
This approach will be extended to other parts of our business. At Sixense Monitoring, 40% of our employees have improved their driving style to be more fuel efficient. In the UK, 10 employees who drive company vehicles have installed the Lightfoot device, which monitors driving behaviour (speed, sudden acceleration, braking, turning, idling) and displays green, orange and red indicators to signal whether driving is appropriate. The system provides a reward and recognition system for the best drivers to motivate them.
In the United States, Sixense uses fuel cards to measure the fuel consumption of its company vehicles and encourages good ecodriving practices. This approach has yield fruit: in the first three quarters of 2023, we used 1,300 litres less petrol than in the same period last year.