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Project announcements, partnerships and technical writing from EpiSensor.

2009 to 2025, kept with their original publication dates.

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41 stories

Company news

HSE selects EpiSensor for nationwide energy monitoring

The Health Service Executive has selected EpiSensor to supply the energy monitoring for its nationwide decarbonisation programme.

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Sustainability finalist in the Irish Times Innovation Awards 2024

EpiSensor was selected as a finalist in the sustainability category of The Irish Times Innovation Awards 2024.

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Grid flexibility

IEC 61850 in electrical substations

What IEC 61850 standardises between intelligent electronic devices in a substation, its main features, and where it is difficult to adopt.

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Grid flexibility

The role of OCPP in EV charging networks

What the Open Charge Point Protocol standardises between charge points and management systems, how the versions differ, and where its limits are.

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Grid flexibility

EVs as grid assets: V1G, V2G and beyond

The difference between V1G, V2G, V2H, V2B and V2L, and what each level of EV grid integration asks of the charger, the vehicle and the grid.

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Grid flexibility

Nine trends shaping the sustainable energy transition

Decentralised generation, virtual power plants, storage, demand response, EVs and the skills constraint, and what each one asks of the grid.

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Company news

Gogoro battery swapping joins Enel X’s virtual power plant in Taiwan

EpiSensor hardware connects Gogoro smart batteries and battery-swapping GoStations into Enel X’s virtual power plant in Taiwan.

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Energy transition

Accelerating ESOS compliance with IoT metering

What the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme asks of large UK organisations, and where sub-metering shortens the assessment.

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Company news

EpiSensor joins Advantech at EM-Power Europe 2024

EpiSensor exhibited with Advantech Europe at EM-Power Europe in Munich, 19 to 21 June 2024.

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Energy transition

Webinar: cutting costs and meeting EU energy rules

A transcript of the webinar on energy management for EU retailers and commercial organisations, with Ark Energy and EnergyCAP.

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Energy transition

SEAI EXEED grant funding for energy management projects

How the SEAI EXEED scheme funds energy monitoring and efficiency work, who can apply, and what the grant requires of a project.

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Energy monitoring

Where the money goes in industrial energy monitoring

The costs a traditional control and automation system carries into an energy monitoring project, and a checklist for comparing options.

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Company news

Webinar: a first look at our demand response work

A recap of the April 2024 webinar on EpiSensor’s demand response developments, with a demonstration of Edge Snaps and Edge Flows.

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Edge Flows and Edge Snaps

Two additions to the Gateway software: Edge Flows for shaping and routing data on site, and Edge Snaps for adding applications to a Gateway.

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Meet John Ginnane, Head of Operations and Support

John Ginnane on operations and customer support at EpiSensor, and what has changed since he joined in 2016.

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Grid flexibility

Part 4: two IoT case studies in demand flexibility

Two deployments that show how large and small assets are brought into demand flexibility programmes and virtual power plants.

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Part 3: choosing an IoT partner for demand side flexibility

Four factors that decide an IoT hardware partner for demand side flexibility: wired or wireless, resources, ease of management and engineering depth.

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Part 2: in-house hardware or an IoT partner

The trade-off facing energy aggregators building demand side flexibility services: develop IoT hardware in-house, or work with a hardware partner.

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Grid flexibility

Part 1: the case for IoT in demand side flexibility

Why balancing renewable supply and demand pushes aggregators towards measured, controllable sites, and what the IoT layer has to provide.

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Company news

Winner, Technology Innovation of the Year 2023

EpiSensor’s demand response controller won Technology Innovation of the Year at the 2023 Technology Ireland Industry Awards, in association with Ibec.

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Energy transition

The recast EU Energy Efficiency Directive

The revised Energy Efficiency Directive was adopted on 10 October 2023. What member states must transpose, and what it asks of large energy users.

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Energy monitoring

Eight questions to ask an energy monitoring IoT provider

Accuracy, security, deployment effort and data access: eight questions worth asking any energy monitoring provider before you commit to one.

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Company news

Two commendations at the IP&E Awards 2023

EpiSensor was commended in two categories at the first IP&E Awards: Energy Management Innovation, and Industrial Small-Medium Enterprise of the Year.

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Grid flexibility

Why business-critical IoT needs over-the-air updates

Field devices need security fixes and feature changes without a site visit. What an over-the-air update policy has to guarantee.

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Energy transition roundtable at the Embassy of India, Dublin

EpiSensor took part in a roundtable on Irish and Indian co-operation in the energy transition, held at the Embassy of India in Dublin.

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Our submission on Ireland’s long-term emissions strategy

EpiSensor responded to the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications consultation on Ireland’s long-term greenhouse gas strategy.

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Grid flexibility

The grid’s growing pains: a case for virtual power plants

Rising demand and intermittent generation are exposing the limits of existing grid infrastructure. Where virtual power plants fit, and what they need.

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Energy transition

Getting ready for ISO 50001

CSRD and the revised Energy Efficiency Directive will raise demand for ISO 50001 certification. What that means for the firms delivering it.

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Company news

Meet Cristina Coffey, Chief Strategy Officer

Cristina Coffey on the strategy role at EpiSensor, the route that brought her here, and what she expects from the energy transition.

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Grid flexibility

Six qualities of enterprise IoT infrastructure

What “IoT infrastructure for the sustainable energy transition” means in practice, and the six qualities we hold an enterprise deployment to.

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Grid flexibility

Embracing the demand response opportunity

Why demand response is becoming a core grid service as renewable generation grows, and what it takes to bring an industrial site into a programme.

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Company news

Data centre decarbonisation at Accelerate Green 2023

EpiSensor presented its data centre demand response work at Accelerate Green, the Bord na Móna and Resolve Partners accelerator programme.

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Company history

Tech Data Europe adds EpiSensor to its industrial IoT range

Tech Data Europe added EpiSensor systems and sensors to its Internet of Things portfolio for industrial and smart space markets.

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Company history

EpiSensor, Dell and Asavie launch an industrial IoT accelerator kit

A joint kit from EpiSensor, Dell and Asavie that scales from a single site to a country-wide deployment on the same architecture.

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Company history

Measuring non-domestic heat pump performance for a DECC study

EpiSensor metering recorded in-service heat pump performance in the first non-domestic RHI study commissioned by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.

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Company history

Pharmalytics wins PCH International’s hardware hackathon

Pharmalytics won Ireland’s first hardware hackathon, held at the DCU Innovation Campus, using EpiSensor’s IoT platform.

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Exhibiting at ISO 50001 Ireland

EpiSensor exhibited its ISO 50001-ready wireless energy monitoring system at ISO 50001 Ireland in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin.

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Company history

Intel presents EpiSensor with the SmartBay Innovator Award

Intel awarded EpiSensor the SmartBay Innovator Award in 2012 for its contribution to clean technology innovation and research.

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Company history

Energy initiative for businesses launched in Limerick

Energy Point, established by Procad Engineering in Limerick, was launched to help industry reduce energy use and cost.

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Company history

EpiSensor raises €850,000 and plans ten new jobs

Syndicated funding of €850,000 from the Bank of Ireland Start-up and Emerging Sectors Equity Fund, the AIB Seed Capital Fund, Enterprise Ireland and private investors.

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EpiSensor sensors on an Antarctic research expedition

Limerick Institute of Technology used EpiSensor wireless sensors to record sea and air temperature on an Antarctic climate research expedition.

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