Sustainable solutions accelerating the environmental transition
Towards a greener future
As the ICT brand of VINCI Energies, Axians is committed to sustainability through focused actions. We drive environmental transformation by acting for the climate, optimizing resources through the circular economy and preserving natural environments. From sustainable internal practices to offers, we are dedicated to reducing environmental footprints—yours and ours alike.
Sustainable solutions by Axians
Achieve your business goals with a lower ecological impact. By leveraging digital tools, we provide innovative solutions to reduce the environmental footprint of your projects.
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Enabling energy transition
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Improving energy efficiency
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Deploying low-impact fiber
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Installing low-impact telecom pylons
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Preserving natural ecosystems
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Delivering sustainable IT infrastructure
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Improving waste management
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Optimizing industrial processes
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Minimising the impact of transportation
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Reporting and analyzing environmental data
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Extending the lifecycle of equipment
Smart irrigation saves 30% of water consumption
Working with Axians Italy, the City of Florence is saving 30% of water consumption thanks to the smart irrigation project, part of the Horizon European initiative.
This project is particularly important because it shows how technological innovation linked to the maintenance of green areas can achieve important objectives such as environmental sustainability.
Del Re Cecilia
Councilor for Innovation, Municipality of Florence
Sustainable ICT series
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IKVS – Connecting Municipal Finances with SDG Goals
Axians Germany is helping the city of Detmold align its financial systems with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) using Axians IKVS solution. With the SDG Compass, reporting is simpler, more transparent, and can be tailored without programming, making sustainability easier to track and act upon.
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Intelligent Water Management
In Montbéliard, France, Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération teamed up with Axians France to launch a project in intelligent water management. By combining IoT sensors, fiber optics and AI, this initiative helps detect leaks in real time, strengthen network resilience and optimize water use, turning innovation into sustainability.
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E-Invoicing
Axians Croatia has developed a fully digital e-invoicing solution using UBL 2.1 that integrates seamlessly with SAP ERP. This automation solution allows invoices to be sent directly from SAP systems (S4HANA, SAP ECC) in XML format, rather than the old-fashioned way using paper.
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Circular IT
At Axians Sweden, our teams show how thinking circular in IT can reduce costs and climate footprint while creating new opportunities. From reconditioning laptops to ensuring secure data wiping, circular IT means looking at the entire life cycle of hardware and unlocking value even after its first use.
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ESG Planning Process
Axians Netherlands turn sustainability goals into real impact with ESG Hub: a platform that makes ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) reporting simple, structured, and ready for the future. By combining sustainability expertise with digital know-how, the ESG planning process helps companies comply with frameworks like CSRD and VSME while accelerating their sustainability ambitions.
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Decommissioning a datacenter sustainably
Axians UK partnered with N2S, reverse logistics specialist focused on circular economy, to consolidate their data center services, reducing operations from two locations down to one. Together, they mindfully mapped all equipment, audited what could be recycled, transported it securely, and ensured it was processed according to high recycling standards.
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IT Networks Transformation for Justice Entities
Sustainability and technology can go hand in hand. Axians Spain demonstrated this when working with the Generalitat Valenciana, to refresh and incorporate new IT networks across three major judicial centers of Valencia, Elche and Castellón. Our teams designed communication networks capable of connecting seamlessly and integrated StackPower and Cisco’s SD Access, facilitating automation, operation and maintenance.
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vPack for Sustainable IT Infrastructure
Axians Austria provides Sustainable IT Infrastructure through its dedicated focus on resource-efficient solutions: vPack reduces power consumption by up to 70% thanks to modern hardware and VMware vSAN. The solution is provided either on-site or hosted in our data center, which runs on 100% renewable energy; vPack green is designed for temporary use cases such as migrations, disaster recovery tests, or data center outages – based entirely on tested, reused hardware.
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NaaS, FinOps & partnership with NGO – SOS Mata Atlântica
At Axians Brazil, our teams are showing how technology can drive positive change. With solutions like Network as a Service (NaaS), advanced FinOps practices, and a partnership with Brazil’s leading environmental NGO: SOS Mata Atlântica, Axians is helping businesses reduce waste, cut energy use, and support biodiversity.
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E-Mobility Charging Infrastructure Services for Compleo
Axians Germany supports Compleo, pioneers of EV charging technology in Europe, with comprehensive services for e-mobility charging stations. With proactive maintenance and real-time monitoring, our teams ensure dependable performance, minimize downtime, and help build a truly sustainable transportation ecosystem.
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Workloads migration to Public Cloud
Axians Italy migrated workloads from on-premises infrastructure to the Azure public cloud. This resulted in a significant reduction in energy consumption for power and cooling, while benefiting from a datacenter that is between 72% and 98% more carbon efficient than traditional enterprise ones, and fully powered by renewable energy. The result? Lower operating costs, optimized management, and a lighter environmental footprint.
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Advanced Analytics for Wildfires Risk Prevention
Using high impedance fault detection systems based on advanced analytics, utilities can prevent fire risks resulting from contact between trees and medium voltage powerlines, protecting network assets, environment and communities.
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Precision Farming in Action
The Axians Harvest Coordination App and GrainCam Mobile are reshaping the harvest process with real-time insights and AI-powered optimization. Farmers gain instant feedback, reduce grain loss, and cut CO₂ emissions, boosting both productivity and sustainability.
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Next-Generation Intelligent Wi-Fi Solutions for Universities
Axians’ sustainable next generation Wi-Fi solutions not only enhance campus life, but also contribute to environmental and social responsibility by maximizing the use of existing equipment and recycling when necessary, with proceeds from material recovery donated to charity to enhance universities’ social responsibilities.
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GreenEdge optimizes energy management
GreenEdge, developed by Axians Sweden, is an innovative solution designed to help companies reduce their CO2 emissions and optimize their energy management.
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Xsona and the Air Quality project for the city of Palermo
Xsona, the IoT platform developed by Axians Italy’s Software Factory generates sustainable impact through the seven verticals of solutions offered: Air Quality, Energy Monitoring, People Counting, Smart Lighting, Water Metering, Smart Agriculture, Smart Parking.
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eNature environmental platform
eNATURE, developed by Axians Germany is an environmental platform that helps companies achieve their sustainability goals by bringing transparency to their environmental metrics. Companies can digitize their waste streams, record and evaluate CO2 emissions in line with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and systematically plan and manage audits.
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Multicast ABR Technology
Multicast ABR technology, by Axians Spain, is revolutionizing live streaming and broadcasts, reducing their impact on the environment.Thanks to its implementation, our client has been able to reduce and optimize infrastructure, save on energy and resource consumption and reduce CO2 emissions.
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Utelogy Supervision Tool at The Archipel – VINCI HQ
Watch this video to discover how the Audiovisual team of Axians France made it possible for The Archipel – the VINCI headquarters – to achieve 50% energy savings, eliminating 450 pieces of control equipment and increasing equipment lifetime by 2.5 years through the deployment of the Utelogy supervision tool.
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Axians Portugal Dataspheres
Axians, in Portugal, was the technological partner chosen for the development of a digital platform capable of optimizing the management of Portugal’s Biosphere Reserves (Reservas da Biosfera Portuguesas). Watch this video to understand how technology is making a positive environmental impact.
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AddHelix for smarter logistics management
AddHelix, by Axians Austria, is a cloud-based web services platform which specializes in the optimization of logistics. AddHelix helps to optimize routes, make full use of capacities, and avoid unnecessary empty kilometers. The result: Saving several hundred kilometers a day and thus a considerable amount of CO₂ through automated scheduling and flexible route planning.
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Axians Smart Energy Management System
The Axians Smart Energy Management System, by Axians Netherlands, offers a data-driven approach to energy-usage measurement in real-time, which helps reduce waste and cuts down CO2 emissions.
Customer stories
Axians sustainable solutions help you meet and exceed the growing demands for ecology in corporate responsibility, attractiveness, and regulatory compliance.
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Business Applications and Data Analytics Industry
AI-Powered Optimization: Transforming Panike’s Production
Panike, Portugal’s leading frozen bakery supplier, partnered with Axians to explore how Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence could enhance operations. This family business, founded in 1986 and generating over 90 million euros in annual revenue, faced significant challenges in automating processes, aggregating and utilizing data, and visualizing operations.Read more -
Telecom Infrastructures Carriers and Service Providers
How Axians facilitated the second life of Sunrise’s 1,500 components with AxiTrack
AxiTrack, developed by Axians, is a Circular Logistic solution in a mobile app enabling field operators to scan dismantled items on-site using their phones. This process seamlessly integrates materials into AxiShop, the app's online marketplace for reusing dismantled materials, boosting efficiency in technology upgrade.Read more -
Expertise Industry
Axians Belgium with CNHi makes use of IoT and AI for agriculture
An application designed to optimise agricultural productions with AI and IOTRead more -
Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure / Sustainability
vPack brings peace of mind for Easiware teams
An all-in-one highly secure private cloud based solution.Read more
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Smart BuildingSmart cities deliver a better quality of life
Smart cities use the latest technologies to monitor pollution levels and water consumption in real-time. With real time data, authorities can take informed actions to create a more sustainable environment. This data-driven approach ensures that urban sustainability goals are met, reducing CO2 emissions, conserving resources, and promoting healthier, more resilient cities for residents.
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AIO TowerA telecom solution with lower carbon footprint thanks to reusability and sustainable design
AIO Tower is a telecom solution that meets the urgent needs of mobile operators. With no civil works or earthwork, AIO Towers save 30m3 of concrete per project after their first installation. Only one boom truck is needed for deployment, and there is no trace of the tower after removal. The AIO Tower is designed for sustainability – from local EU manufacturing and recyclable materials to tower reusability.
Committed to the environment
To address the climate emergency, VINCI has made the environment a strategic priority. The commitment is to decrease our greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2018 to 2030 through clearly defined targets and ongoing measurement. Embracing our decentralized model, each business unit has developed its own CO2 reduction strategy, tailored to their regional and operational specifics.
3 levers of action
Axians, the ICT brand of VINCI Energies, is fully aligned with the Group’s environmental ambition across three main areas.
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Act for Climate
We help to reduce our customers’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by helping them transform the way they build, operate, and manufacture. We achieve this by taking action within our business and throughout the entire value chain.
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Optimize resources thanks to a circular economy
Given the growing scarcity of natural resources, we are rethinking how we consume, produce, and manage both our resources and waste.
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Preserve natural environments
We are implementing solutions that address environmental challenges in water management and ecological restoration and transparency, which we will further expand as we continue to innovate.
Read more about sustainability
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Sustainability Industry
How Axians delivers smart, secure, and tailored solutions in the industrial sector
From food production to pharmaceuticals, from energy production to aerospace, Axians’ expertise helps industrial businesses navigate complexity and stay ahead in an increasingly digital world.Read more -
Telecom Infrastructures Carriers and Service Providers
Axians’ Telecom Innovations: Faster Deployment with Lower Emissions
The telecom infrastructure sector aims to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050. As a key player in the telecoms sector, Axians is introducing several pylons that primarily facilitate the deployment of mobile networks but have also strongly decreased their carbon footprint.Read more -
Sustainability
Speeding up our drive to promote more environmental solutions
Implementing a new environmental roadmap.Read more -
Sustainability Government and Local Authorities
To remain attractive, the cities of the future will be efficient
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Business Applications and Data Analytics Utilities
New resilience for the electricity grid
Electricity grids must devise a new approach to stability, paying special attention to data and energy storage solutions.Read more
Find Axians near you
Achieve your sustainability objectives through the perfect balance of Axians’ global reach and local presence. This blend ensures you receive tailored, sustainable solutions that address your specific challenges while benefiting from the latest practices and technologies from around the world.