nuts energy management

The software that delivers a complete and flexible solution for energy management.

Benefits

Cost reduction

Save on energy bills by reducing peak usage, discovering volume users, and lowering standby power.

CO₂ emissions reduction

Find out which energy types contribute most to CO₂ emissions. Learn which buildings have lower CO₂ emissions, and which buildings benefit most from improvements.

Comparisons

Discover year on year changes in energy consumption, or compare this week with the same week last year. Or compare building A with building B.

Benchmarking

See how buildings perform based on floor area, or on the number of people working in an office.

Forecasting

Benefit from lower purchasing costs by having better estimates of future energy consumption. Steer clear from overconsumption fines by staying within contract limits.

Correlated functions

Calculate the return on investment for a Combined Heat And Power (CHP) installation by combining the heat and power aggregates in functions.

nuts is a proven and complete solution to implement energy solutions for your business. nuts is currently in use with more than 30.000 meters for clients in the metering services and energy retail business in The Netherlands and Belgium. Our clients use nuts to reduce energy costs and CO₂ footprint, benchmark their business units, gain insight for energy trading, or for example as a tool to calculate energy bills for tenants.

Features

Multi utility: Active and reactive power, gas, water, thermal energy (heat, cold); Consumption and production
Region-based weather data, heating days and cooling days
ICE Endex energy positions, contracted capacities
Metering based on meter readings and time integrals (usages)
Pulse meters (ratio configurable per meter)

Peak calculation
Power factor, cosine phi
Alerting based on thresholds per meter
Meter data import based on the OBIS Object Identification System (IEC 62056-61)
Multiple data sources for meters, with overwrite prevention
Swapping meters is transparent to the end user
Aggregates in 15 minutes, hour, day, week, month and year interval time series
Aggregate meters into one virtual meter, known as submetering
Aggregate single meters to multiple aggregates, for example for collective purchasing deals
Configurable tariff based on time of day, for example lower night time tariffs or holidays
Configurable aggregation to days, for example from 06:00 to 06:00 instead of midnight
Support for low interval meters, for example yearly readouts from offline meters, preventing graphs with no data on small intervals

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Adapt to your business

The platform has no predefined knowledge of a metering topology. Each implementation of nuts comes with its own bespoke client design: who owns the meters, who has access, do you want labelling on meters, are there any hierarchies in meters, and so on.
The incoming meter data can come from any source, for example DLMS serial protocol, FTP, web services, REST services, e-mail, or manual upload of spreadsheets. The tooling to get data into the nuts platform can run on nuts itself, thus simplifying the implementation process.
Web API’s for machine-to-machine communication, real-time or near-time monitoring
Web API’s for smartphone apps
Webhook subscription API for hooking up to other platforms, such as the Milieubarometer
Complete management reports in PDF format
Excel spreadsheet downloads

Easy to operate

We run nuts as a software-as-a-service for you
nuts includes a web-based administration panel
nuts includes system monitoring, which reports on meters that don't have the expected number of measurements
nuts runs on an industry-standard relational database

Please contact us

nuts is designed, developed and operated by Dreamsolution. Dreamsolution has been active in the energy management business for many years, supporting clients with software for the aggregation and visualisation of meter data.

nuts is pronounced nuts as in “nuts and bolts”, a word traditionally used in Dutch for public utility companies, “nutsbedrijven”.

Please contact us at info@dreamsolution.nl for a demonstration or more information.