Software and Digital Business Models for Manufacturers of Modern Energy & Building Technology

The ecoSystem platform for your products

  • Upgrade your hardware to meet all market requirements

  • Integrate your components into sought-after product packages

  • Present yourself as a provider of energy and building intelligence with a white-labelled solution 

  • Market complex solutions as standard products

  • Extend product digitalisation to service partners and end users

Manufacturers in the cloud: new markets and
technology applications

The market trend towards digitalisation and sustainable energy use expects building components to interact across sectors. Therefore, manufacturers of energy and building technology products need to develop suitable business models and further expertise beyond their own segment. ecocoach provides expertise and solutions for this and quickly supplements your hardware products with software modules for energy management, online support, end-user apps, and new business models with recurring revenues. 

A platform for the entire value chain

Decision-makers such as planners, installers, and dealers increasingly use modular products that are technically, commercially and used daily from a single source. ecocoach fulfils this overarching requirement as a solution platform and makes it available to manufacturers as a partner or white-label option. The platform significantly enhances the performance of the manufacturer's product for planners, customers and end users:

  • Ensures compatibility in modern energy projects

  • Ensures compatibility in modern energy projects 

  • Ensures compatibility in modern energy projects

  • Digitises analyses, billing and administrative tasks en 

  • Involves end users directly and interactively

Setup module

User interface for drag-and-drop commissioning of individual components and entire systems


Support module

Interface for remote maintenance, firmware and software updates, alarming and device optimisation


Administration module

Interface for authorisation management for technicians, operators, end users and external parties


Monitoring module

Interface for collecting, analysing, displaying and preparing data for reports and invoicing


End customer module

Automatically generated Android/iOS app with individual read and control rights 


Reference Weidmüller GmbH & Co. KG

Charging management for the new charging station series

As a globally established electronics and electrical connection technology manufacturer, Weidmüller has also entered the charging technology market, and with the launch of the new AC SMART wallbox series, the company, which specialises in hardware, sought the ecocoach partnership for fast and professional software development of dynamic charging management.

Better than existing systems right from the start

ecocoach put together the desired product from largely existing functions of the ecocoach platform as a white-label solution, which saved valuable development resources. Based on this, Weidmüller commissioned ecocoach with specific further developments, resulting in a convincing overall solution. This unique solution package includes an intuitive installation wizard, the cascading of load management across several sub-distribution boards and online operation management.

Well thought-out from the sales structure to the end user

Weidmüller chose ecocoach because of its broad, in-depth know-how and proven energy management and digitalisation expertise. With the partnership, the hardware professional secured access to digital business models and processes, such as remote system maintenance and online services. In the event of future product requirements, both partners will also integrate new functions at a low threshold based on the existing modular ecocoach platform.

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Technical data Hardware-OEM

Load capacity
  • Any scaling potential - vertical and horizontal
  • Processing of millions of events daily
Reliability
  • Guaranteed availability > 99.9%
Security
  • Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) implementation
  • Security checks of the API interfaces and minimisation of the risk of unauthorised access
  • Securing the hosting infrastructure
  • ISO27001 certification in 2024
Open interfaces

Integration into any system thanks to REST and SignalR interfaces available on the cloud side

Basic architecture

CQRS-based micro services with event sourcing

Hosting-Environment

Azure West Europe

Micro Services

28

Authentication - users, external systems

OAuth2.0

Authentication - Controls

Basic (user/password), certificate-based (planned)

Basic framework - Frontend

Vue3

Basic framework - Backend

.NET6 (changeover to .NET8 in planning)

Technologies - Databases

Azure Sql Server, InfluxDB

Technologies - Services

Azure App Services, Azure Kubernetes Service

Technologies - Encryption

TLS 1.2, AES-256

Technologies - Communication

RabbitMQ, nginx

Protocols

https, SignalR, AMQP, MQTT

Possible interfaces 3rd party systems

REST, SignalR, MQTT

Data format on interfaces

JSON

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Michael Fritsch
Head of Sales & Marketing

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