Akajoule digitizes its service offering by creating energy and environmental data dashboards
Areas of expertise
Themed dashboards
Data projects
Company profile
Akajoule is a consulting and engineering firm that works in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy planning for local authorities and businesses.
Sector
Utilities & energy
Location
France
Data leader
Challenges: Digitizing data service products
As a leader in the energy market, Akajoule wants to provide our customers with a digital service as part of our projects, delivering an enhanced, engaging solution that will evolve as data changes to always be up-to-date.
A great example of this is our Datajoule portal, a solution designed to add value to energy and environmental data and to strengthen the services we offer our customers.
"Innovation has been a major force in Akajoule’s development since its creation. Since data lies at the heart of our activities, it was clear that we should adopt a solution that would enable us to democratize data and to disseminate it among all our stakeholders."
Data experience: Transforming Akajoule's studies into interactive data dashboards
We help our customers identify the best ways to first collect energy data, then enrich, structure and contextualize it, and finally deliver it through interactive dashboards. Akajoule’s expertise delivers value:
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- At the planning stage, where our Digital Division provides tailored energy expertise to support
customers to create the best strategy. - During the data processing and cross-referencing of information, along with the implementation of metrics, graphics and geolocations adapted to the information produced by the organization.
- Through the creation of dynamic and interactive data displays in easily accessible and modifiable web or app formats. The Datajoule platform enables users to create personalized portals and dashboards which may be restricted or public access.
- At the planning stage, where our Digital Division provides tailored energy expertise to support
We launched the Datajoule platform in 2017 to digitize and add value to energy and environmental data. It is
aimed at organizations across sectors and can create customized use cases for:
- Public sector bodies that want to make better use of their energy and environmental data. We help many local authorities optimize the use of their data and facilitate its sharing via internal and external open data. For example, they can prioritize building renovation action plans based on electricity usage or draw up climate plans for the public, which are available as open data models.
- Companies wishing to implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) data platforms using accurate and relevant metrics. For example, by using customized dashboards for managing energy consumption, companies can assess their energy usage. Their carbon footprint is also highlighted via these dashboards, calculated through a data model that is compatible with open data formats, or that uses any other data that meets the requirements of the framework of the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
We also share valuable datasets that analyze overall energy use throughout France. For example, the platform shows:
- French municipalities supplied with natural gas
- The transport and distribution of natural gas in France
- The latest prices for electricity generated through solar power
- Prices for dierent forms of energy in France
Finally, the Datajoule platform is also an ideal tool for us to measure our own CSR impact, via dashboards that include:
- Mapping company activities, providing a view of all operations and projects.
- Showing Akajoule’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission balance sheet.
- Monitoring fuel usage of company vehicles, Akajoule’s main source of carbon emissions.
Creating a digital division to deliver comprehensive expertise
Previously, we undertook studies using digital channels before we created Datajoule. To run these projects it defined processes to both create the studies and make them directly usable through dashboards.
To extend this approach, we created our Digital Division. This provides a range of services including data auditing, scoring to prioritize action plans, analysis and recommendations of data operating systems, optimization of monitoring indicators for existing data operating systems, and staging hackathons.
Even before a research study is undertaken, we can provide customers with strategic advice through the Digital Division’s service offering. This involved a structural change for us, transforming the company to become a data-driven organization to meet the needs of our customers.
Huwise: Akajoule's data marketplace platform
Huwise supports us to both implement the Datajoule platform and to easily deploy our Dashboard as a Service offering. Multiple key features allow us to democratize our data:
Connecting to all data sources
Our teams manipulate massive amounts of data, mainly sourced from open data (weather, observatories),
internal data (GIS, services) and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. The 80+ connectors and the APIs provided by Huwise enable us to automatically connect to all these sources, thereby providing users with a guaranteed, reliable service.
Data enrichment
We uses the reference packs and public datasets collected by Huwise to enrich our dashboards. This data cross-referencing enables a more in-depth view of information, allowing them to be displayed in new ways, such as through maps.
Creation of interactive dashboards
Using Huwise enables us to create editorialized dashboards to transform raw data into insight with high added value. A very quick learning curve means that our teams can replicate this approach across all the studies they carry out.
Results: Transforming energy consulting through data
Our Datajoule platform enables businesses and local authorities to quickly and easily access a tailored energy and environmental data platform. Akajoule has already seen multiple benefits from this approach:
- More attractive products: thanks to Huwise, we are able to add value to our initial services with a digital experience that meets customer needs. This provides a competitive advantage over other engineering firms that use more traditional approaches.
- Greater internal efficiency: thanks to more accurate data recording, our teams save time, avoid duplicating data and make savings on multiple recording costs.
- Contributing to the energy transition: Our approach delivers major benefits to both private and public organizations. Not only are they able to share structured and high-quality energy data but they can also make savings on their usage by analyzing their information through their dashboards.
"The Datajoule platform has become the showcase for our energy studies. The creation of a digital oering has enabled us to give our data a second life. It delivers high added value as interactive dashboards make the data understandable for all skill levels. This means it is the ideal way to generate new and important information."
"Akajoule’s approach responds to the ever- growing need of businesses and local authorities to collect data and then use it effectively to take the right decisions. Digitizing its offering through Datajoule increases the company’s competitive advantage and positions it as a key partner to provide customers with the right solutions to support the energy transition."
About the Data leader
Dorian Cosseau
Business and product engineer, Akajoule
Dorian graduated from CESI Saint-Nazaire in 2020, following a successful work-study placement in industrial electricity and digitalization with a major energy equipment manufacturer. He joined Akajoule in 2021 as a Product Manager, notably to develop the Datajoule energy data platform.
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