3DAtHome Label Program
Success Story
How did 3DAtHome assess the environmental impact of its “AppyFair” application?
Greenspector carried out an audit of our AppyFair app. They measured its impact in terms of energy consumption under normal conditions of use, to enable this measurement to be transposed into CO2 equivalent. Greenspector provided concrete recommendations on the development and the methods implemented to enable us to optimize our impact.
A second measure also made it possible to identify the concrete improvements already made and to provide other finer recommendations to try to reach the “Silver” level, on which we are currently working. – Raphaël Pomares, Associate Manager 3D at Home
The situation
AppyFair is a digital platform allowing organizers of trade fairs, open days, or recruitment forums to offer a virtual version of their event. In short, AppyFair makes it possible to digitize any form of the event intended to receive the public and generate interactions with the organizer, or exhibitors.
3DAtHome wanted to verify the carbon impact linked to the use of its AppyFair application.
The health context linked to the COVID crisis has pushed the organizers of physical events to find other solutions to maintain their physical events. However, AppyFair is part of a more global approach aimed at reducing the environmental impact of all these physical events, and in particular:
reduce travel (while increasing the geographical scope of an event)
reduce the use of ephemeral products, very common in physical trade shows, and particularly waste generators
reduce costs and logistics, and therefore the overall carbon impact of an event
Raphaël Pomares, Associate Manager 3D at Home
The Challenge
As Appyfair is part of a strong environmental protection approach and the reduction of global warming, we need to be able to provide reliable and transparent information on our impact on the planet. Thus, even if by nature the digital solution is already very virtuous, we want to engage in a process of continuous improvement, and research of solutions to further reduce the impact of a virtual event.
Raphaël Pomares, Associate Manager 3D at Home
The environmental impact of IT is far from trivial: pollution of water, soil, and atmosphere during the upstream and downstream phases of the equipment life cycle, greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle (currently 3 to 4% of global emissions, and growing rapidly)…
From the seemingly innocuous gesture of the user on the smartphone to the data centres of the service provider, via network equipment, mobile applications and websites contribute to these environmental impacts.
Stakes :
The solution
Results
We are happy to have reached the bronze level, which is already very demanding in terms of numerical sobriety. Our goal is clearly to continue the optimizations to quickly reach the silver level, and we work on it daily for the good of our users and our planet. – Raphaël Pomares, Associate Manager 3D at Home
Next steps?
Can you quote a subject of your action plan to reduce the environmental impact of your application?
They are numerous, but we can cite priority JavaScript optimizations or the optimization of loading times with the implementation of more systematic lazy loading. As our platform aims to offer a maximum of real-time interactions between users, it is “greedy” in terms of calculation: the implementation of adapted solutions has made it possible, for example, to drastically reduce the impact of JavaScript, and therefore the consumption of resources on the user side.
Raphaël Pomares, Associate Manager 3D at Home
Let’s improve your digital service!
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