e-footprint

Model your digital service's footprint. Decide where to act.

e-footprint is an open-source tool, hosted by Boavizta, that models the environmental impact of a digital service, web or edge, so teams can compare scenarios and prioritize ecodesign effort before they build.

Ecodesigning a service is less about "what could I do?" than "what should I do first, and what impact would that have?". Best practices tell you what's possible and measurement tells you what's happening today; e-footprint adds the missing leg: a model of how your service is actually used, in real volumes and geographies, that lets you simulate a change before you make it and see where effort actually pays off. The full argument is in Why e-footprint?.

Who it's for: product teams and sustainability leads whose decisions shape a digital service's or device fleet's impact, from engineers, designers, PMs and architects to the hardware and IoT teams on the edge side. Approachable for non-code roles, with depth available on demand.

Start here

• New to e-footprint? Read the explanation section, then follow the tutorial.
• Every object, parameter, and calculated attribute is in the object reference.
• The source code lives in the e-footprint GitHub repository, and a graphical interface makes the model easy to use.

This project was initiated by Vincent Villet for Publicis Sapient and is now part of the green-IT association Boavizta's ecosystem of open-source tools.