EnergyGrip for installers
Turn energy monitoring into an ongoing customer service
With EnergyGrip, you offer customers more than a properly functioning installation. You provide insight into energy consumption, generation and performance, identify anomalies sooner and add monitoring, reporting and optimisation to your services.
This allows you to continue adding value after commissioning without having to develop your own energy management platform.
Start with one customer, building or project and scale up easily from there.
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You install the technology. But what happens after commissioning?
Once an installation has been commissioned, centralised insight is often missing. Data may be spread across different meters, brands and supplier portals. Anomalies sometimes only become visible when a customer calls, energy consumption increases or an installation fails to perform as expected.
This creates an opportunity for installers.
EnergyGrip adds a digital layer to your installation projects. It provides insight into the consumption, generation and performance of your customers’ installations. This enables you to offer more targeted advice, provide proactive service and build long-term customer relationships.
From a one-off installation to an ongoing energy service
EnergyGrip helps installers offer energy monitoring as an additional service. Instead of only designing, installing and commissioning an installation, you can remain involved in its ongoing use and performance.
This creates opportunities to offer services such as:
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Continuous energy monitoring
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Periodic performance and consumption reports
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Detection of anomalies and peak loads
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Data-driven service and maintenance
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Energy optimisation and savings advice
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Insights for building managers and end users
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Data for reporting, billing and internal systems
This creates a recurring service model centred on insights, advice, maintenance and optimisation.
What does EnergyGrip offer your installation company?
More value after commissioning
Remain involved after the installation has been put into operation. With up-to-date energy data, you can monitor performance, answer questions more effectively and provide well-founded recommendations for improvement.
More proactive service
EnergyGrip makes anomalies, unexpected consumption and peak loads visible. This allows you to investigate situations remotely before deciding which action is required.
Recurring services
Make energy monitoring and reporting part of a service or maintenance agreement. This adds a recurring digital service to work that would otherwise mainly be project-based.
A stronger commercial proposition
You are not only selling hardware or installation work, but a complete solution for metering, insights, management and optimisation. This distinguishes you from companies that disappear from view after commissioning.
One environment for multiple customers
Manage different customers, buildings, locations and connections from a single platform. EnergyGrip is scalable, allowing you to start small and add more projects later.
One independent platform for all energy data
EnergyGrip brings data from different energy sources together in one clear energy management platform. This includes electricity, gas, water, heat, solar panels and EV charging points.
Within the dashboard, you can:
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Monitor consumption and generation
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Structure customers, locations and connections
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Compare performance
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Detect anomalies and peaks
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Configure alerts
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Create graphs and reports
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Export data
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Make data available to other systems
EnergyGrip operates independently of energy suppliers, grid operators, meter brands and manufacturers. This prevents your service from becoming dependent on a single supplier or closed ecosystem.
Without a gateway where possible. With a gateway where necessary.
Does your customer already have digital metering equipment or a usable data source? In many cases, this data can be connected directly to EnergyGrip.
Is additional on-site data collection required? The Nextalink gateway can then be used to read existing meters and energy sources.
This means that existing metering equipment does not automatically need to be replaced.
The combination of EnergyGrip, API integrations and Nextalink makes it possible to bring a wide range of installations and data sources together in one environment.
How energy monitoring for installers works with EnergyGrip
1. Select a customer or project
We start with a specific situation. This could be a commercial building, real estate portfolio, collective heating installation, solar energy system or a customer with multiple locations.
2. Map the available data sources
Together, we determine which meters, installations and systems are already in place and which data needs to be made available.
3. Connect the data to EnergyGrip
Existing digital data sources are connected through APIs wherever possible. When local data collection is required, a Nextalink gateway can be installed.
4. Configure the EnergyGrip environment
Customers, buildings, connections and users are clearly structured. Reports, alerts and access levels can then be configured.
5. Make monitoring part of your service
Use the information for service, maintenance, advice, reporting and optimisation. This turns energy data into a tangible service for your customer.
EnergyGrip supports the complete process, from metering and analysis to reporting and, where technically possible, control.
Which energy services can you offer with EnergyGrip?
Energy monitoring as a service
Give customers continuous insight into energy consumption, generation and performance. Monitoring can be offered as a standalone subscription or added to an existing service or maintenance agreement.
Data-driven maintenance
Use current and historical metering data to investigate anomalies and prepare maintenance work more effectively.
Periodic energy reports
Provide monthly, quarterly or annual reports on consumption, generation, peak loads and notable developments.
Energy optimisation advice
Support your recommendations with actual data. Show where installations perform differently than expected and which measures could be investigated.
Insights across multiple locations
Help organisations with multiple buildings or branches centrally monitor their energy performance and compare locations.
Data for existing business processes
Make data available to building management systems, ERP software, reporting tools and billing systems through the EnergyGrip REST API.
Suitable for different types of installers and technical service providers
EnergyGrip is relevant for installers and technical service providers that want to expand their services with energy monitoring, reporting and data-driven maintenance.
This includes:
- Electrical installers and contractors
- Mechanical installers
- Building services contractors
- Full-service installation companies
- Service and maintenance providers
- District heating installers and heating partners
- Building managers and technical managers
- Measurement and control specialists
- Solar panel installers
- EV charging installers
- System integrators
- Energy consultants with installation services
The solution is particularly relevant when you want to monitor multiple installations, customers, connections or locations from one central environment.
You know the customer and the installation. Aurum provides the digital foundation.
As an installer, you already have the technical expertise and customer relationship. EnergyGrip adds the energy management platform, data collection and digital infrastructure.
Your role as the installer
- Advise the customer on the technical situation
- Design and implement the installation
- Install the required metering equipment
- Provide service and maintenance
- Interpret data and recommend optimisations
- Offer energy monitoring as part of your services
Aurum’s role
- Provide and maintain the EnergyGrip platform
- Support the integration of data sources and systems
- Supply Nextalink gateways where required
- Maintain software and connections
- Manage security and updates
- Support configuration and scaling
This means you do not need to build your own software platform or development team, while still being able to provide professional energy monitoring and management services to your customers.
Give customers access to their own energy insights
In addition to the professional EnergyGrip dashboard, energy data can be shared with residents, tenants or other end users through EnergyFlip.
This enables you to offer customers:
- Accessible insight into their own consumption
- Up-to-date energy usage information
- Alerts for unusual consumption patterns
- Greater transparency and engagement
EnergyFlip can also be offered to business customers as a white-label solution.
Customer example: EcoFocus
EcoFocus manages sustainable district heating networks and wanted more reliable insights into consumption and performance.
Together with Aurum, an infrastructure was created that collects data from meter cabinets, visualises it in dashboards and makes it available to administrative systems.
This created a stronger digital foundation for customer support, transparency and the continued development of its services.
Start with one specific customer use case
You do not need to roll out EnergyGrip to all your customers immediately. Start with one representative building, installation project or maintenance customer.
During a pilot, you can discover:
- Which data becomes available
- How the EnergyGrip environment is configured
- Which anomalies become visible
- Which reports you can offer
- How energy monitoring fits into your service process
- Which recurring service you can build around EnergyGrip
After the pilot, the solution can be expanded to other customers, locations and installations. You can start with one location or a small number of locations.
Why choose EnergyGrip for energy monitoring?
Hardware-independent
Connect a wide range of meters, brands, installations and external data sources without committing to a single supplier.
Scalable
Start with one customer or location and expand to tens, hundreds or thousands of connections.
Easy to integrate
Use REST APIs to connect EnergyGrip to existing software, dashboards, reporting tools and administrative systems.
A reliable energy data chain
Collect, structure, enrich and monitor data within one central infrastructure.
Secure
Aurum is ISO 27001- and ISO 9001-certified. Data is transmitted using encryption and stored within the European Union.
Continuously developed
Aurum manages software updates, security and the ongoing development of the platform, allowing you to focus on your customers and services.
Frequently asked questions about EnergyGrip for installers
Do existing meters need to be replaced?
Not always. EnergyGrip is hardware-independent. Existing digital meters and systems can be connected directly or through an API wherever possible.
When additional local data collection is required, a Nextalink gateway can be installed.
Which energy flows can EnergyGrip monitor?
EnergyGrip can bring together data from sources including:
• Electricity
• Gas
• Water
• Heat
• Solar panels
• EV charging points
The exact integration options depend on the meters, installations and interfaces already in place.
Can I manage multiple customers in EnergyGrip?
Yes. Customers, locations, buildings and connections can be configured separately within the platform. Different users and access permissions can also be created.
Can EnergyGrip connect to our existing software?
Yes. Through the EnergyGrip REST API, data can be shared with building management systems, ERP software, reporting tools and billing systems.
Does EnergyGrip replace a building management system?
Not necessarily.
A building management system primarily focuses on operating and controlling building installations. EnergyGrip focuses on collecting, analysing and reporting energy data.
The systems can be used alongside one another and connected where required.
Can I test EnergyGrip with one customer first?
Yes. A pilot can be set up for one customer or a small number of locations. Based on the results, you can determine how you want to expand the solution.
Can my customer access the platform?
Yes. User structures and access permissions can be configured within EnergyGrip.
EnergyFlip can be used to give residents, tenants or other end users easy access to their own energy data.
What support does Aurum provide?
Aurum supports implementation, integrations, configuration and optimisation. A helpdesk and support from a dedicated contact person are also available.
Turn energy monitoring into a new service for your customers
Would you like to help customers not only with a high-quality installation, but also with ongoing insights, management and optimisation?
Bring a specific customer use case to the conversation. Together, we will review which data is available, how EnergyGrip can be connected and which service you can start offering.
