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📣 Kalisio is off to a flying start this New Year with the publication of its latest carbon footprint. Find out more by following this  link.

✔️ We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our employees who contributed to this report. They answered a series of questions about their work habits.

💪 Despite a substantial increase in our activity since our previous review, we have nevertheless been able to limit our impact. The rationalization of our infrastructures via their migration to Kubernetes and their hosting in France are certainly no strangers to this. The majority of our operations are based on open-source solutions. Finally, our 100% telecommuting mode of operation is a major pillar, as we know that transport is the main source of emissions for a French person.

💡 Let's not forget that the carbon footprint remains a limited diagnostic tool. On the one hand, it is sometimes complicated to obtain certain data (internal or external) and calculations are based on emission factors with their share of uncertainties. On the other hand, the 100% telecommuting activity of our employees and the use of free services can only be taken into account through certain artifices. Lastly, this report only looks at greenhouse gas emissions, which are far from being the only source of pollution for our environment.

⚠️ No greenwashing! For a modest annual fee (~€40 per tonne of CO2), we could buy carbon credits and offset our emissions, but we won't do it. Indeed, to date, carbon offsetting instruments such as tree planting seem to us to be largely questionable: problems of temporality, damage to biodiversity, conflicts of use, high uncertainty about long-term effects, etc.

💫 The entire Kalisio team wishes you all the best for 2024!

💪 The past year has proved a rich one for the company's activities, and this is an opportunity to thank our customers and partners once again for these valuable collaborations. Firstly, numerous projects were initiated, consolidated or finalized (OPAL, CRITER, Dragonfly, SecurIT, etc.). Secondly, our open-source solutions and contributions have improved (Kalisio Crisis,  Kalisio Maps, Centipede RTK, etc.). Finally, our team has been strengthened by the arrival of new collaborators.

🚀 The year 2024 will undoubtedly be just as intense, and will see our new offering more fully deployed. In this way, our open-source solutions will continue to grow, fueled by the needs of new projects and customers.

💡 We are aware of the urgency of the energy and environmental crisis that affects us all. With this in mind, we are persevering with our commitment to improve our carbon footprint by 2024. We will soon publish the results of our actions undertaken in 2023, stay tuned.

Samuel Legigan, head of the Bormes les Mimosas municipal civil protection service, has just joined our circle of users:

Bormes town council has chosen the Kalisio Crisis solution to equip its communal command post. The solution meets the needs of a local authority such as ours: not only does it provide multi-layered operational mapping and an emergency contact system, but it also enables us to monitor actions in the field and program our crisis processes, simplifying the implementation of our actions by creating pre-established scenarios.

The various tests carried out on the platform, and in particular with our institutional partners (SDIS and Gendarmerie), demonstrate the added value of this tool for sharing information, visualizing actions, and taking account of feedback from the field.

What's more, the entire Kalisio team remains available to answer our questions and develop the tool in line with our feedback, thus providing a turnkey solution.