Management and product management
A platform is a decision, not a project
Why a platform instead of a project, and what does that mean strategically?
A project ends at acceptance. A platform carries your next ten generations of equipment. The difference does not show in the quote, it shows in the third year.
What a project costs you that no invoice shows
A connectivity project delivers a solution for the equipment that existed when it was ordered. The next generation of equipment is a new project. The controller purchasing found cheaper is a new project. The grid operator requirement nobody had heard of three years ago is a new project.
Each of them needs a budget, a service provider, and a date you do not control.
What a platform does differently
The protocols are built in, not bought in. Your own people do the commissioning, not a specialist of whom there are a handful in Europe. You build the interface yourself instead of ordering it. And when a new regulatory requirement arrives, it meets the platform rather than each of your devices separately.
Whether your controller is among them is in the list under Connectivity. If it is not, we build the driver, proprietary interfaces included.
The four questions that come up in review
Who owns the data? You do. You get a dedicated instance, not a shared database next to other manufacturers. Security and scale
What does it cost as we grow? Scaled by fleet size, separated into project and product business. Licensing
What about section 14a and the EAG? One integration for all your equipment, instead of one per device and grid operator. Grid services
And in five years? The same platform that collects telemetry today will predict service calls then. Without a second infrastructure. Research and edge AI
What you do not hand over
Your brand. HVACloud appears to your partners and end customers under your name. White label is standard, not a surcharge.
The areas behind this
Licensing
The principle of HVACloud licensing: scaled by fleet size, run with us or on premises, add-ons per manufacturer tenant. Prices in conversation.
Read onSecurity and scale
ISO 27001 certified development and operation, a dedicated instance per customer, Keycloak identity, run in Europe or on premises. Load tested with 5,000 concurrent clients.
Read onGrid services
HVACloud offers grid operators APIs for load shedding and load shifting, meeting requirements for controllable consumption devices.
Read onResearch and edge AI
Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection and degradation analysis on the telemetry HVACloud already collects. Cloudia in the cloud, Cloudia Edge on the device.
Read onLet us talk it through
Half an hour on a real plant, set up around the equipment you build.