Wattnow: Circuit metering, industrial energy analytics and measured savings

Wattnow combines circuit-level meters, acquisition modules and cloud software for energy analysis, operational actions and measurement of industrial savings.

Summary

Best for
Factories and multi-site operators connecting circuit measurements to energy-improvement work.
Less suited to
A standalone meter selected without the platform or a guaranteed savings percentage.
Deployment
Wattnow instruments and existing-system integrations feeding a cloud EMS.
Data in
Electrical circuits, existing Modbus meters, temperature and process signals.
Pricing
The service begins with a site assessment and metering plan; reviewed pages do not publish hardware or platform subscription prices.

Overview

Wattnow develops a measurement and software stack for industrial and commercial energy management. Its hardware overview describes three starting points: integrate data from an existing connected system, bring an offline meter online, or install new measurement where no useful readings exist. These routes can be combined within the same site.

The EMS software follows information from a portfolio through sites and systems to individual equipment. Consumption is considered alongside production, operating patterns, tariffs and peak demand. The product is therefore intended to help an energy team identify and follow up on operational changes, rather than merely display a site total or supply a generic billing meter.

Offering

The hardware family includes multi-feeder and three-phase analysers, a Modbus TCP gateway, a Modbus RTU module, a PT100 temperature module and a 4–20 mA process-signal module. These address different measurement jobs: a switchboard with several feeders is not the same acquisition problem as one critical three-phase load or a pressure transmitter.

The software platform supplies dashboards, comparisons, alerts, reporting and action tracking. Its algorithm range adds forecasting, anomaly detection and virtual submetering functions. Detailed electrical specifications are provided on request, so the public instrument categories should not be treated as complete datasheets for selecting current inputs, voltage limits or metrological accuracy.

Products and platforms

  1. Smart Energy Meter

    Circuit metering

    DIN-rail measurement hardware forming the sensing layer of the platform.2

  2. EMS software

    Energy management

    Portfolio analysis, tariffs, alerts, actions and reporting.3

  3. Multi-feeder analyser

    Electrical measurement

    Parallel measurement of multiple switchboard feeders.2

  4. Three-phase analyser

    Electrical measurement

    Measurement of a critical three-phase feeder, machine or incomer.2

Technology

Wattnow's connectivity description distinguishes Ethernet Modbus TCP from serial Modbus RTU, and places analogue process inputs alongside electrical measurements. Existing meters and building systems can feed the platform through documented project integrations. These protocols describe ways of acquiring data; they are not certifications or proof that an arbitrary device is already mapped.

The security page describes EU hosting in AWS's Paris region, encryption and account-scoped programmatic access. Integration details are shared during technical onboarding. The savings methodology distinguishes estimated opportunities, implemented actions and adjusted measured results, preserving the baseline and measurement boundary behind a claim. It calls the method IPMVP-aligned, explicitly without claiming IPMVP certification.

Markets

Wattnow's customer material covers manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, telecom, banking and commercial buildings. It names Safran and publishes a case spanning more than 30 industrial sites in six countries. The same page includes a named Hutchinson representative discussing equipment-level energy visibility, alongside anonymised pharmaceutical and banking examples.

The deployment approach combines a site survey, measurement planning and phased rollout for larger portfolios. These uses differ in what matters operationally: a factory may compare energy with production, while a branch network needs to find locations operating out of schedule. Published savings percentages describe particular programmes or upper observed ranges, not an outcome every new customer will achieve.

Company

Wattnow's current company history dates its founding to 2018. It identifies Wattnow Global B.V. in Amsterdam as the headquarters, with entities in Toulouse, Casablanca and Tunis. Engineering, research and operational work in Tunisia are part of that international structure rather than evidence that the current group headquarters must be there.

The September 2024 financing announcement names Issam Smaali as founder and CEO and identifies Lateral Frontiers, 216 Capital and E3 Capital as investors leading the round. The company's operating model combines internally developed hardware, software and algorithms, with regional teams supporting deployments. This gives it a different scope from a software-only energy dashboard provider or a meter manufacturer supplying instruments through distributors.

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References

  1. Wattnow industrial energy-management overview (opens in a new tab)
  2. Wattnow meter and acquisition-module family (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wattnow EMS analysis and action workflows (opens in a new tab)
  4. Wattnow forecasting and anomaly-analysis capabilities (opens in a new tab)
  5. Wattnow survey and deployment approach (opens in a new tab)
  6. Wattnow measurement and verification methodology (opens in a new tab)
  7. Wattnow named customers and case studies (opens in a new tab)
  8. Wattnow hosting, security and integration practices (opens in a new tab)
  9. Wattnow history and current group locations (opens in a new tab)
  10. Wattnow financing and leadership announcement (opens in a new tab)

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