EDE is a company with a very strong background in the energy performance optimisation and house refurbishment. We became aware of the need of simplifying the renovation services thanks to our work with two clients: Castorama and BNP. For Castorama (home improvement services company), we created an application to help their experts to advice private consumers about renovation works. Then, we identified the possibility to generalize the service to the final consumer and we created a new interface for the BNP customers. Since then, we have created an API to be able to easily personalize the interface to other clients. So far, we have done this with SNCF, Enedis, LBP and Mr. Bricolage.
Our market study made us realize gap in the market for a comprehensive and intelligent system helping people to improve their energy efficiency in a user friendly and attractive way. We have built on our growing IT and engineering expertise to build all our platforms. The Hub we are developing now will further elaborate these efforts with advancement of the Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Environmental Science, Marketing and Data Analysis and Research specialties. A Beta version of a platform related to Easy Renovation Hub is already being commercialised in France (TRL-6): OPTIMISER. The steps of the platform are shown in the The Novelty of our Technology section. We have recently evaluated the beta version of the hub and gathered extensive customer experience feedback in preparation for the launch of the final product. The results are promising, and we observe a definite interest of people in using our technology to perform their home renovations. 45% of the beta users showed interest in engaging in the renovation works. Of those 1% had already accomplished the works, 76% waiting for a budget proposition or waiting to start the works and 23% have withdrawn from the project. We have identified that this in many cases was due to insufficient relation and lack of trust with the crafts man. This helped us improve the service by fine tuning the search engine and the rating system. Completing the beta version survey will finalise the 6th of 9 steps required to reach the market with the fully working product.
