The ESERA GmbH is a leading hardware manufacturer from the Allgäu region. We are an ecologically and sustainably operating company and have specialized in IoT, IIoT, and Industry 4.0 solutions for various industries, including energy monitoring.
We have developed our own hardware EMS system, which allows us to capture up to 60 electricity meters via an ESERA central unit and evaluate them using the OpenEMS software, among other things.
With the patented “Auto-E-Connect System” from ESERA, sensors and actuators are automatically recognized, and appropriate libraries are initiated. The data is formatted and outputted automatically. These functions run in the background during the installation and commissioning of sensors and actuators.
I own an ECO501 (1-Wire to Modbus gateway) for almost one year, and it works reliably. It’s a decentralized device with extensive capabilities.
I currently have 17 1-Wire sensors in my heating room connected via Modbus TCP to a Siemens Logo! and hopefully soon to OpenEMS.
I plan to implement the integration with OpenEMS in the near future. However, I’m still considering whether and how it can be incorporated into sector coupling. Handing over control of the heating system to OpenEMS seems challenging, at least in the short term. Perhaps you have some ideas on this?
regards,
klinki
P.S.: I forgot to mention the ECO 301, an EEBus gateway over Ethernet. I’m currently only using it in my smart home system to log data from the heating system. For the ‘electricity side’ and OpenEMS, it may never become relevant, but it’s worth mentioning. It works fine with FHEM (smart home).
Hopefully, OpenEMS will eventually be able to access a heat pump via standardized interfaces. SG Ready is definitely not the ideal solution.