Software for a Sustainable Future

We are in a climate emergency. The planet is heating up, nature is being decimated, weather systems are destabilising, and pollution is intensifying. Humanity must address this, or nothing else is going to matter.

Yet, from the depths of this crisis, something interesting is emerging. Environmental considerations, once seen as a business cost - a drag on resources, a brake on profits - are now aligning with the arrows of capitalism.

Take renewable energy. As of mid-2024, the world now invests almost twice as much in clean energy as it does in fossil fuels. Investment in solar PV alone now surpasses all other generation technologies combined, and solar is now the cheapest way of generating electricity in history. The transition to renewable energy, and the electrification of everything (transportation, heating, industrial processes) is happening, and it’s happening because it makes absolute financial sense, not just because it’s essential for the climate.

How does this relate to DabApps? The answer is simple: software is the key. Whether it’s mobile apps allowing consumers to monitor their heat pumps or solar inverters, AI smart grid technology to optimise energy flows, open data APIs for climate models, environmental modelling for flood prediction and insurance valuations, blockchain-based verifiable emissions tracking, carbon footprint calculations, or product and waste management in the circular economy, the transition to sustainability depends entirely on software.

And that’s where we can help. Most companies in this space lack the resources or experience to build high-quality, usable, scalable, maintainable software systems to support their products or ideas. Working collaboratively with an agency like DabApps frees you to focus on what you do best: manufacturing hardware, gathering data, organising events, or mobilising people.

Our 15-year history has given us an unparalleled base of experience in this sector. We developed a big-data platform for a company manufacturing shipping-container-sized batteries to enable festivals and other events to track and reduce their emissions. We built a mobile app and in-home smart hub, allowing homeowners to integrate and control all of their Internet of Things devices from one place, including monitoring energy flows around their home. We engineered a platform to allow hyper-local collaborative sharing of resources within neighbourhoods to encourage and foster a circular economy. We are experts in decision making software, helping businesses and researchers work together with indigenous communities to solve critical issues in global crop production. And we had a hand in building the open-source technology that underpins the most advanced energy utility platform in the world, used by 54 million customers in 17 countries.

But we want to do more. We want to be the leading software agency for the energy transition, accelerating the circular economy with scalable, usable, reliable web and mobile applications, APIs and data platforms. And we want to work hand-in-hand with the businesses and organisations who are doing the most to build a sustainable world.

If you’re as passionate about this mission as we are, get in touch.