Enviro Developpement

What Enviro Developpement does

Enviro Développement is a French SARL founded in January 1996 by David Cottereau in Châtellerault, specializing in water-saving products and water management services for the built environment. The company's core technology consists of three patented solutions: eco-plaquettes (WC cistern inserts reducing water use up to 40% per flush, patented 1996), the Héliote system (faucet flow limiter reducing flow from 12l/min to 7l/min with a color-changing temperature indicator, patented 1999 with French, European, and US coverage), and the Enviro Trace connected monitoring platform (IoT system using GPRS and LoRa for real-time tracking of water, gas, electricity consumption and water network temperatures, developed 2001-2009).

The company operates as an integrated bureau d'études combining hardware sales, professional diagnostics, and managed services. Service brands include Enviro Performance (water consumption optimization launched 1998), Enviro Sécure (Legionella risk management launched 2002), and Gains énergétiques CEE (energy efficiency financing assistance launched 2017). The company holds CSTB QB24 certification for sanitary water network expertise, collaborating with Cofrac-accredited laboratories and partnering with the SNRT (French tourism residences syndicate). In 2018, Enviro integrated two subsidiaries, Saneco (eco-renovation and plumbing) and Artlux (solar LED autonomous lighting), forming Groupe Enviro under the broader 'Blue Economy' positioning.

Enviro serves enterprise and institutional customers across four primary verticals: hotel groups and tourism residences, social housing providers (bailleurs sociaux), Ehpad (elderly care facilities), and local governments. Named customers include Accor, Osica, SNI, Ademe, the Union nationale des HLM, and the Agence de Bassin Seine-Normandie. The company markets primarily through industry trade shows and direct field sales relationships, relying on 23+ years of brand reputation, multi-jurisdictional patents, and CSTB certification as core commercial assets.

Name

Enviro Developpement

Legal name

SARL Enviro Développement

Website

https://enviro-dev.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Enviro Développement, founded in 1996 in Châtellerault, France, designs patented water-saving devices and IoT monitoring solutions for hotel groups, tourism residences, social housing operators, and municipalities. It combines hardware products, Legionella risk management, and connected energy monitoring under a CSTB-certified bureau d'études.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Water Management Solutions

NAICS

Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use (334512), Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Totalizing Fluid Meter and Counting Device Manufacturing (334514)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Auto Controls For Regulating Residential & Comml Environments (3822), Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826)

akta.pro primary industry

Domestic Hot & Cold Water System Hygiene (Potable Water) (BPABAJAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Monitoring & Control (Dosing Systems, Remote Monitoring, Sensors) (BPABAJAK), Water Sampling, Testing & Laboratory Analysis (Legionella/Microbiology) (BPABAJAB), Water, Wastewater & Stormwater Compliance (BPAHAJAJ), Commercial/Residential Building Water Management & Leak Analytics Services (HSAHAGAK)

Keywords

• Water-saving devices
• Legionella risk management
• Connected monitoring systems
• Sanitary water networks
• Energy efficiency solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Châtellerault

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Water-saving equipment sales: Sale of proprietary water-saving products including éco-plaquettes for WC systems and Héliote flow limiters for faucets. Products are manufactured and sold directly to customers.
2. Technical diagnostic services: Integrated bureau d'études provides diagnostic services for sanitary water networks, Legionella risk assessment, and energy optimization. Services include water network diagnostics, preventive and curative anti-Legionella treatments, and comprehensive installation optimization.
3. CEE (Certificates of Energy Savings) financing facilitation: Assistance in obtaining Certificates of Energy Economy financing for building energy efficiency work. The company guides clients through financing opportunities related to energy savings certificates.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Enviro Développement designs, manufactures, and sells patented water-saving devices (eco-plaquettes for WCs and Héliote flow limiters for faucets), and operates an integrated bureau d'études providing technical diagnostics, Legionella risk management, connected IoT monitoring of water and energy consumption, and CEE energy savings financing facilitation for hotel groups, tourism residences, social housing providers, elderly care facilities, and local municipalities in France.

Product overview

Enviro Développement offers a portfolio of water and energy management solutions organized around four core service brands: Eco-plaquettes and Système Héliote (physical water-saving devices), Enviro Performance (water consumption optimization consulting), Enviro Sécure (legionella risk management), Enviro Trace (connected IoT monitoring), and Gains énergétiques CEE (energy efficiency financing). The company operates as a solution provider for hotels, tourism residences, social housing, and public institutions, combining hardware products with technical services and remote monitoring capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Enviro Performance: Water savings optimization service - comprehensive concept for optimizing water consumption in buildings, launched 1998
• Enviro Secure
• Enviro Trace

Products and services

• Eco-plaquettes Water-saving toilet inserts that transform standard WC reservoirs into economical systems, reducing water consumption by up to 40% per use and up to 15% annually. Sold to hotels, tourism residences, social housing, and public buildings.
• Système Héliote Patented flow limiter for faucets, mixers, and thermostatic taps that reduces maximum flow from 12l/min to 7l/min, with an integrated color-changing propeller (blue to red, 32-39°C) indicating water temperature to prevent scalding risks for children.
• Pomme de douche économe Economical showerhead designed to reduce water consumption while maintaining shower performance.
• Filtre débit eau Water flow filter designed to optimize water usage and improve installation performance.
• Robinet économie eau Water-saving faucet designed to reduce water consumption while maintaining functional performance.
• Enviro Performance (water consumption optimization service) Comprehensive water consumption optimization service offering technical diagnosis of water installations and sustainable resource management solutions for hotels, tourism residences, and social housing sectors.
• Enviro Sécuré (Legionella risk management) Legionella risk management service providing detection, surveillance, and preventive/curative treatment for bacterial proliferation in hot sanitary water networks, including network diagnostics and shock chemical disinfectations.
• Enviro Trace (connected monitoring) Connected remote monitoring service for energy fluid consumption and water network temperatures, using GPRS and LoRa networks for real-time temperature probing, water/gas/electricity meter reading, humidity/presence sensors, leak detection, and consumption alarms.
• Gains énergétiques CEE (energy efficiency financing) Energy efficiency solutions and CEE (Certificates of Energy Economy) financing assistance service, supporting clients from project design through work execution, including photovoltaic shades, insulation, and public lighting.

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SNRT (Syndicat National des Résidences de Tourisme)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerSNRT is a professional syndicate representing tourism residences and aparthotels. Enviro Développement is an official SNRT partner, serving the tourism accommodation sector with water and energy management solutions. In 2018, the sector represented 740,000 tourist beds with 55% of operators affiliated to SNRT.
• CSTB (Centre Technique et Scientifique du Bâtiment)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCSTB provides QB24 certification for Enviro Développement's sanitary water network expertise. This certification attests to the company's means, equipment, competencies, and organization for detecting disorders, identifying causes, and proposing solutions in hydraulic, water/energy savings, sanitary risks, network organization, anti-pollution, and corrosion/scale.
• Cofrac-accredited laboratoriescoreTechnology or IntegrationEnviro Développement collaborates with Cofrac-accredited chemistry analysis and testing laboratories for normalized analyses required for Legionella detection and water quality testing. Cofrac (Comité Français d'Accréditation) is the French accreditation body ensuring laboratory competence.
• SanecocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSaneco, a subsidiary of Groupe Enviro Développement located in Châtellerault, specializes in sanitary maintenance-renovation and plumbing/heating work. Saneco offers turnkey operations from diagnosis to installation optimization for water systems.
• ArtluxcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArtlux, part of Groupe Enviro Développement, specializes in high-quality solar LED energy solutions including autonomous solar lighting, small signaling beacons, and street lighting columns. Complements Enviro Développement's water management offerings within the Blue Economy concept.
• O02 France Design AgencyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Agence de Design O2 France for the development of the Héliote product, which received the Etoile du Design award in 2011.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Badger Meter: US-headquartered manufacturer of flow measurement and connected metering solutions for water utilities and buildings. Overlaps with Enviro Trace's IoT-enabled fluid metering and consumption monitoring.
• Itron: Global manufacturer of water, gas, and electricity meters with connected AMI/IoT platforms for utilities and large property managers. Comparable to Enviro Trace's GPRS/LoRa remote-metering and consumption-alarm capabilities at much greater scale.
• Veolia Environnement: Global water-services giant operating municipal and industrial water treatment and efficiency programs across France. Competes with Enviro at the building-water and energy-efficiency level through broader municipal and enterprise contracts that subsume the kind of work Enviro's bureau d'études delivers.
• Saur: French water utility serving municipalities, industry, and large property portfolios. Overlaps Enviro in water network diagnostics, Legionella prevention, and water-efficiency retrofits delivered to the same French social-housing and hospitality accounts.
• Suez Eau France: Major French water and waste-services operator with established Legionella risk management, network diagnostics, and water-efficiency offerings for building owners. Directly overlaps Enviro's diagnostic, sanitary risk, and water-saving retrofit business.
• Watts Water Technologies: Manufacturer of water flow control, backflow prevention, and plumbing safety products globally. Comparable to Enviro's hardware line (Héliote flow limiters, éco-plaquettes) as a broader incumbent in water-saving and safety devices.

Others

• Eureau: European federation representing national water services associations, including on building water hygiene and Legionella policy. Relevant adjacent body — not a competitor, but shapes the regulatory environment in which Enviro's Legionella and water-hygiene services operate.

Direct peers

• Cistermiser: UK-based specialist in water-saving valves, flow regulators, and urinal controls for commercial buildings. Closely comparable product portfolio to Enviro's éco-plaquettes and Héliote flow limiters, addressing the same water-efficiency use case in buildings.
• Fluid Conservation Systems: Provider of leak detection and water-network monitoring hardware and analytics for multi-site building portfolios. Directly comparable to Enviro Trace's connected monitoring of water, temperature, and consumption anomalies.

Emerging players

• WINT — Water Intelligence: AI-driven leak detection and water-consumption analytics platform for commercial and industrial buildings. Competes with Enviro Trace on the analytics layer of building-water monitoring, with a more software-native approach.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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