Responsibility
Take care and take responsibility
At Itility, we prioritize delivering effective solutions while also caring for our environment and the people around us. We make no empty promises – at Itility, we deliver. This commitment is why we have adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by signing the SDG charter. The SDG charter includes 17 sustainable goals of which we integrate many within our working environment. Discover more about our initiatives supporting these goals below.
If you want to see a change in the world, do not just dream about a better world; act to create it.
Saving energy
Optimizing energy usage
We recognize the need for energy transition toward renewable energy for future generations. This is why we have invested quite some hours, to convert our autonomous growing optimization algorithm into an energy optimization algorithm.
With this innovation, households and building owners can save up to 30% on energy by optimizing their energy systems, such as heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, to better balance energy usage and supply.
Our solution, Entune BuildingAI, continuously learns how a building behaves and automatically adjusts systems to use energy more efficiently, without requiring manual intervention. It helps buildings use energy when it is cheaper or cleaner, reduce unnecessary consumption and get more value out of existing installations.
Lowering our carbon footprint
We simply love trees
Reducing our carbon footprint, we offer shared mobility options to our Itilians to decrease car ownership. We invest in electric lease cars and plant trees annually to offset our CO2 emissions, with each new Itilian planting their own Itili-tree to foster a sustainable future. This initiative is in partnership with Boes Bos, a Dutch organization dedicated to planting as many trees as possible.
Additionally, we collaborate with Voedselbos Eindhoven, where we have established our own Itility-forest, contributing new trees each year to help the forest grow. We are also exploring other food forest options, as we believe that regenerative agriculture solutions are essential for sustaining the planet’s food supply in a sustainable way.
Growing our impact, one tree at a time
As part of lowering our carbon footprint, we collaborate with Evertreen – a global reforestation initiative that allows us to plant trees, track their growth from space, and support local farmers who take care of them on the ground. This fits perfectly with our love for data, earth observation and sustainability that is tangible and measurable.
Based on our latest Evertreen scorecard, our joint efforts have resulted in:
- 1,660 trees planted
- 1,494 tonnes of CO₂ being offset
- Reforestation projects in 2 countries: California (USA) and Madagascar
- 207.5 working hours created for local communities who maintain and monitor the trees
We believe sustainability should be practical and visible. Planting trees may be a simple step, but with consistent effort and transparent monitoring it contributes to real ecological and social value.
It is one of several ways in which we try to balance our footprint while continuing to innovate in cloud, data and technology.
The Itility cloud CO2 calculator
Cloud technology is one of our expertises – we love the scalability and flexibility it brings. We also recognizing the environmental impact of CO2 emissions of IT infrastructure – where we know that cloud infrastructure emits less CO2 than on-premises stacks. But how much?
When diving into the impact, we even found significant differences in CO-impact between various cloud-providers and cloud-regions. To make that more tangible, we developed a CO2 calculator. The CO2 calculator can be used for comparisons of (y)our IT resources, making it possible to show more sustainable choices. It translates cloud projects into CO2 impact and gives actionable insights on how to optimize and reduce the carbon footprint.
Never stop asking, keep looking for ways to go beyond.
Educate the future
Student collaborations
We care about our technical future, about ‘delivering’ the next generation of digital twins. So we work closely with TU/e, taking part in student projects such as electric motor STORM and solar car Stella Vie, and delivering data science lectures to students.
Hope Foundation India
We support Hope Foundation India, a private foundation that has established a home for children from the slums. We sponsor Priyanka and Deepak, a brother and sister who receive shelter and education in Hope Home.
In addition, we visited the Hope Home in Dehra Dun to install computers we bought for the home.
And each year, we organize a Christmas fundraiser to make needed purchases for the home; such as an intercom/security system, a garage for the school bus, and a kitchen renovation.
Coding for kids
Furthermore, we teach the children of our Itilians and customers how to code using BBC Micro:bit. Because code is not only important within ‘our’ world. It’s everywhere. From automatic street lighting and apps that can turn on the heat at home, to small color-changing LED lights. All technology is powered by code.
Value the elderly
We care about the generations before us, who made it possible for us to study, grow, and learn. So, twice a year, we team up with ‘De Zonnebloem’ to share a dinner with 50 seniors, giving everyone a chance to talk, listen, connect, and learn.
In times of corona, we were not able to organize our elderly dinners. This is why we decided to deliver nice bouquets of flowers to the elderly of Stichting de Zonnebloem Eindhoven.
Take responsibility
We care about people who care about good causes. So we have the ‘donate-double’ rule: whenever an Itilian donates to a cause he or she cares about, one of our board members donates the same amount. Itility then matches the total amount.
SDG
Sustainable Development Goals
We support innovative startups in Earth observation that strive to achieve Sustainable Development Goals, such as eLEAF, NEO, 52Impact and Sensar. As a tech company, our consultants work on projects for clients, specifically in the Manufacturing, AgriTech, and Energy industries. We consciously select these sectors to leverage our technological expertise toward creating sustainable value and making a positive impact to the world.
For more information, you can find a summary of our sustainable development goals at www.sdgnederland.nl.
Previous projects
Helping Ukraine
When the war started, we wanted to help Ukraine. We did so by temporarily housing a Ukraine refugee family, by opening a special vacancy for refugees, by donating to a Polish organization that feeds and houses refugees at the border. One of our Itilians even drove there 3 times with a truck filled with blankets, medicine, clothing, and food. He also coordinated a fund raising so we could support the organization to buy 2 ambulances.
Electric driving on solar
In addition to driving electric as Itilians, another example of sustainable mobility is 4x4Electric. Renske and Maarten want to show that driving electric is possible everywhere, even when there is no electricity. For that, they converted a regular electric car into a solar-charged car.
And they have already proven it works by driving from the north of Africa all the way to South Africa, charging 54% on their own solar panels. Proud to be sponsoring this trip and showing facts and figures on a dashboard on their website.
Cadena de Talentos
Quality education, unfortunately, is not accessible to everyone. Cadena de Talentos is an organization that invests in young, disadvantaged talents between the ages of 15 to 20 from Lima (Peru). Itility has sponsored student Alexander Cruz Quintana, who will go to the University of Federico Villarreal to become a veterinarian.
The sponsoring ensures Alexander can pay his education, equipping him with the tools required to improve the quality of life for himself and the people around him.
Nepal school lunch
After the earthquake in Nepal, we connected with a local organization, to provide free lunch for school children at the Namuna Janasewa school. With that, children were ensured one good meal a day. This not only motivated them to attend school, but also helped them concentrate better.
Extra funds were used for cookware and visits from a doctor for checkups and providing information on healthy nutrition.
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