EIME API

EIME API: PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

New in the 6th version, EIME API is the programming interface that allows the EIME software to be connected to another software, or third-party service, in order to exchange data and functionalities.

EIME API* provides a response to industrial challenges: automation, massive processing, data traceability.

The interfacing is done with the IT support of LCIE Bureau Veritas.

* An EIME API license is required, commercialization in September 2024.

Redesign LCA

EIME API aims to fundamentally review our approach to Life Cycle Assessment, including:

  • Data collection,
  • Data modelling,
  • Exploitation of the results

In a changing society, our ambition is to imagine the working methods that will shape environmental analysis in 2030-2050.

HOW TO USE EIME API?

Principles

EIME API works on the principle of requests and responses:

1️⃣ - EIME API processes requests according to predefined rules.
2️⃣ - EIME API processes information by exploiting EIME databases.
3️⃣ - EIME API returns a set of results in a structured way (in .xlsx ou Json format). The files generated by EIME API can be used with EIME web interfaces.

Application Case

One of the EIME API applications designed by LCIE Bureau Veritas lis the automation of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) using the All'in PEP tool in conjunction with information systems (e.g. GPAO* tool).

0️⃣ - All'in PEP establishes LCA models that meet the requirements of the PEP ecopassport® Program. LCIE Bureau Veritas supports customers in configuring the All'in PEP tool.
4️⃣ - Based on the information transmitted by EIME API, All'in PEP generates the expected deliverables (PEP, reports).

*GPAO : Computed-Aided Production Management

Security & Performance

EIME API has the following specific features:

  • EIME API is a restricted access API based on a token authentication mechanism. It guarantees the security of information for each request.
  • The Premium hosting used for the EIME API offer has a performance level adapted to the realization of multitasking calculations. The servers are dissociated from those used for the EIME offer. Thus there is no interruption of the work of users on the web interfaces.
  • EIME API provides feedback on the status of calculations to monitor the progress of requests

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Request for information

The EIME API license includes:

  • An EIME license (web application). This license will define the scope of the data that can be used by the API, namely: indicator sets, inventory data and their versions
  • Premium hosting required for processing requests
  • API rules to be respected (includes the provision of .xlsx template)
  • A CODDE® database data list file with the metadata required for structuring upstream information
  • Technical assistance for setting up the EIME API service

Options:
- Acquisition of the All'in PEP tool including technical and functional assistance to configure the tool to your information systems
- Technical and functional assistance to develop the process for carrying out your LCA studies, your environmental product declarations (EPD) or your product carbon footprints (CFP)

TWO COMPLEMENTARY USES

The EIME API license offers an opportunity to supervise the performance of LCA studies while generating files that can be used via the EIME license web interfaces.

The joint use of EIME & EIME API gives LCA practitioners new possibilities to study, analyze and eco-design their products.