A powerful open source IoT-platform to build your smart energy management system or energy hub
OpenRemote offers a powerful open source EMS platform particularly suited to support the design of smart energy management systems or energy hubs. Our platform offers a complete and flexible data integration and management solution for microgrids and distributed energy networks. It can integrate any asset and has specialised features in an easy-to-use application to address the unique energy management needs of smart cities, smart buildings and other special sites such as airports or commercial facilities.
Open source energy management system for energy hubs
Our open source EMS or energy management solution is a powerful tool for manufacturers, industries and buildings to fulfil their energy monitoring and optimisation needs. The solution is designed to work in an island (EMS behind a single meter) or distributed setup (as Energy Hub). You can connect any energy production, consumption, or storage system independent of brand and communication protocol. By using pre-configured asset types you can quickly set up your smart energy management system and add your electricity supplier to monitor the net energy flow and flexible tariffs, leading up to increased energy efficiency and cost-savings.
Making optimal use of your sustainable energy
At the heart of the system lies the smart use of energy to minimise carbon emissions or maximise financial gains. Using the data provided by the communication systems of PV panels, wind turbines, buildings, and EV chargers, as well as weather forecasts and historical data, the IoT platform creates forecasts of electricity production and consumption as well as forecasts of dynamic tariffs. Based on these forecasts, optimisation algorithms determine the system’s behaviour to maximize self-consumption and optimize energy efficiency.
Control electricity consumption and backfeed
OpenRemote’s open source EMS platform connects to different energy markets and congestion markets. It identifies the best moments to use electricity or feed it into the grid based on flexible energy tariffs, capacity limitations or requests and your variable renewable energy production. It can handle complex combinations of dynamic capacity based contracts and dynamic energy contracts, avoiding imbalance costs by forecasting dynamic tariffs 48 hours ahead. It controls any flexible asset, batteries, chargers, heaters, and solar, optimising for lowest costs or maximum self consumption. With multiple OpenRemote instances as EMS or HEMS gateways you can create an Energy Hub.
Data analysis and reporting
Data analysis is crucial to the improvement of microgrid performance. Thanks to the “Insights” page in the application, you can easily compare assets and time periods. For example, users can clearly see how solar panels perform over time or compare the electricity consumption of similar buildings. They can create their own Key Performance Indicators to keep track of progress, such as break-even points of investments and rates of self-sufficiency. Since this analysis is project specific, it can be fully customized and added to your own report.
Start building your EMS or Energy Hub
To get started with the design of your smart energy management EMS or Energy Hub application, you can either choose to rely on our service team to implement a full IoT solution for you, or you can build it yourself using our open source solution, no strings attached. For guidance to try use our 100% open source EMS, just check our wiki Create your own energy management system.
