In France and abroad, there is an urgent need to accelerate the ecological transition of our regions.
With increasing access to data, particularly open data, and the spread of high-performance visualisation and processing tools, digital technology offers essential solutions for accurate diagnoses, prescribing relevant action plans and anticipating the effects of climate upheaval using predictive models.
In recent years, a real shift has taken place with the mass availability of public territorial data via open data. Statistical and geospatial data (GIS), as well as “new” types of data such as satellite images and radar/lidar data (“point clouds”), are being massively disseminated across the country and have enormous potential for making choices easier in terms of the ecological transition. setec has developed real expertise in the massive processing of data, representing and analysing data at different scales, which gives sufficiently detailed knowledge of the area to make the right diagnoses and propose the most appropriate solutions to clients.
Our objective is to mobilise data to promote transition around the major ecological challenges on which we have chosen to focus: decarbonisation, adaptation to climate change, sobriety (energy, water, soil, materials, etc.) and biodiversity.
Several companies, such as set by setec, setec international, setec organisation, setec hydratec, setec énergie environnement, setec its, terrasol and lerm, have developed or will develop data visualisation tools in their fields, to ease the appropriation of this data by decision-makers and project owners.
The GIS unit plays an important role in this area. setec is also working with Efficacity, a research institute, to develop reliable solutions for estimating decarbonisation potential.
Once the right diagnoses have been made, this data can be used to prescribe and manage action plans. Data has completely transformed the relationship between engineering and its clients.
It has become a real tool for exchanging and sharing information, and for building around an action plan.
The collaborative tools developed by setec make it possible not only to synthesise information efficiently but also to steer projects collectively, in a logic of ‘enhanced project management'”.
Today, setec is also working to improve its predictive knowledge of ecosystems and the climate, so that we can cope with future hazards linked to climate change, which we know are unavoidable.
Our aim is to use all available digital tools to accelerate the ecological transition.