Reliable Energy-as-a-Service management for mini grids

Discover the most reliable, highest performing and best value off-grid IoT smart metering platform from SteamaCo.

Our smart meter, online management system and cloud-based communications have the lowest possible data costs and deliver the longest possible power uptime—even in the most remote places on Earth.

You get digital tools to set up sites faster and start collecting payments sooner, boosting average revenue per user (ARPU). And managing your off-grid solar assets remotely means you make fewer site visits, which drastically reduces operational expenses.

It’s why SteamaCo is the market leader in the distributed renewable energy sector, currently operating in twelve up-and-coming nations and expanding into more. Here’s how our IoT platform works…

The SteamaCo IoT smart metering platform

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The SteamaCo IoT platform is a mix of smart hardware and cloud-based technology.

Equip your sites with our DCU and install our Savi smart meters at people’s homes or businesses, and the reliable two-way cloud communication means you can manage entire mini-grids online remotely.

Essential SteamaCo hardware and tools

 

Savi smart meters

Our advanced self-reading electricity meter. It switches consumer power and handles vast amounts of information while using less than 100kB of data per month, keeping data costs low.

Either GPRS or G3 PLC - your choice based on your location.

 
 
 
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Data Concentrator Unit

It processes data, such as energy consumption and power quality metrics, and transfers it between the Savi smart meters and the Nimbus AMI.

Cloud API-driven user interface

Nimbus AMI is the central hub for managing your mini-grid sites remotely, and for performing bulk actions using our API. Update hardware wirelessly, gather analytics, and generate customisable reports, charts and tables.

 
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Efficiency-boosting mobile apps

Our ThunderBolt mobile app and online Site Maps tool help you set up sites quickly and with the optimal levels of GPRS and GSM connectivity.

Digitise your mini grid

Automated mini grid management

  • Manage energy performance at both the site level and the granular consumer level, monitor data in real time, and export custom reports in a click

  • Perform bulk actions using our API, which is fully documented to make it as easy to use as possible

  • Trust in tools that keep consumer power on even if network connectivity ever drops—the IoT platform automatically spots issues and fixes them for you

  • Let automated ‘over-the-air’ updates wirelessly upgrade your Cores to the latest versions, so you can be confident that your consumers keep enjoying the best level of service

Get paid

  • Accept mobile money payments or even cash that your site staff can collect using our Agent App

  • Create flexible tariffs that give you the freedom to tailor how much specific consumers should pay

  • View and analyse financial performance in the online user interface in several ways: at the utility level, the site level or the consumer level

Win consumer trust

  • Your consumers pay and get reliable power in as little as three minutes

  • Where some metering systems only work reliably near the centre of their mini grid sites, SteamaCo’s works everywhere—even at the furthest possible points

  • Consumers can check balances using a mobile phone, and you can send SMS updates of news about the power supply

  • Choose from nine languages in the platform to communicate clearly with your consumers, with more in development all the time

For a mini grid that’s smart today, smarter tomorrow

The SteamaCo off-grid IoT smart metering platform is constantly evolving as our team of expert engineers drive it forwards.

It means that your SteamaCo IoT platform never needs replacing—it only gets better and better, future-proofing your mini grid.

We build with you

One of the founding principles of SteamaCo is collaboration. We work with you to understand your needs and build you the IoT smart metering platform to make your mini grid installations a success.

With SteamaCo you get:

  • A partnership mentality built on co-creation

  • Onboarding with an expert to support you from start to finish

  • Our UK-based seven-day support team with rapid response times

  • An online Help Centre filled with resources to refer to anytime

Let’s talk about supporting your off-grid success

Arrange a chat with a SteamaCo off-grid expert today. Please complete the short form below now and we’ll be in touch.