Primary benefits

Turn data into information  ecoDATA uses  powerful algorithms to analyse your live and static Big Data. It delivers the tools you need for decision making – dashboards, traffic light coded tables and exceptions reports, trend and comparison charts, KPI benchmarking reports and alarms are produced in seconds, on the fly. It does the donkey work for you and sends emails and sms messages to you about the what, where and when of any problems. Use our Online Notes feature so that everyone is in the picture. One stop, information online ‘shop’

Don’t rely on multiple legacy systems or on other too busy people. Use our web portal as your own window to all your information, whenever you need it.  We collect and integrate all your data in a common database then normalise it for aggregation, processing and analysis. Any browser can be used to easily and quickly access value added and up to date information from anywhere, any time.

Save time and money 

Eliminates data collation, unit conversion, calendar alignment and interval adjustment. Normalised and aligned data is automatically analysed and used to generate KPIs and perform benchmarking on the fly. Select from a wide range of standard charts, exceptions and status reports, dashboards that are produced in seconds. Custom charts and reports can be easily built. ecoDATA saves you time for use in planning and acting.

How it works

At the heart of ecoDATA is an industrial grade, open source database that accepts both live and manual data from any source, in any format using and any protocol. Data transfer is typically via a hybrid mix of cable (Cat5, RS485) and radio (WiFi, 433MHz, Zigbee, 2/3/4G mobile) site networks and a Gateway/Bridge to the Internet either via the customers LAN or a mobile network carrier. Data arrives at our secure Cloud servers via the Internet where it is uploaded via an ecoLINK interface module. These modules allow our system to interface with any other system, meter, sensor or data logger. We have a growing range of ecoLINKs to suit most applications. Data can come via email, sms, ftp; whatever. Interval data can also be manually entered on line for any parameter such as invoiced usage and costs, monthly production figures, trade waste discharge volumes, hotel bed nights or the monthly weight of your cat. Live and manual data from the same DataPoint can be charted, reported and compared on line. Once captured, the data is checked for anomalies and corrective action taken; the validated raw data is stored in our commercial database. It is then normalised to get it into common units at standard intervals and aligned to standard calendar months. These steps are essential for aggregation and calculating KPIs across multiple buildings, systems, sites and portfolios. The system uses a major, internationally respected open source programming language. Powerful algorithms and over 3 million lines of code have been continuously developed since the system was released in 2000.

Cloud Based SaaS

The data and software  are hosted in the Cloud by one of the world’s largest data centre operators; Dimension Data.  It is part of the NTT Group who operate 243 data centres worldwide and have 220,000 employees with annual revenue of $130 billion. Your data is very secure and quickly accessible from the their local Sydney data centre with a 99.99% Uptime Guarantee. Our servers have up to 16 CPUs and 128 GB RAM for maximum performance. High security is provided by VLAN segmentation with the network layer directly on top of Cisco Catalyst switches. VPN Server access, plus protection against DoS, DDoS, worms and botnets combined with SSAE16 Certification means you can rest easy. Your valuable data is backed up by BOTH Dimension Data and Rackspace in different data centres using ICT infrastructure completely independent from the ecoDATA operating system. To access the data and your information simply use the browser on your computer, smart phone or tablet to log into the ecoDATA web site. You will have instant access to the live information you need in the right format and categories to meet your reporting requirements. We manage the ecoDATA system software for you which allows you to focus on your core business while we focus on ours – the data and information business. A simple pay as you go business model that puts no demands on your ICT personnel.

Retail and Wholesale

The system is available on a direct Retail basis for our own ecoCustomers or our Wholesale model allows ecoPartners to build their own business with their branding their own customers. Retail ecoCustomers – your Customer Administrator will have access to a limited number of our backend administrative modules such as the Public Alarm settings, automated report distribution, MultiView access permissions, KPI creation, Business Activity Indicators and Target setting plus User Access credentials. More advance admin functions such as logger configuration, channel mapping, logger and SIM card fleet management and ecoDATA reporting configuration will be managed by us. ecoDATA can be framed to a customer’s own web site. Users then access our system via a link on say the corporate environmental page and are then taken seamlessly to a system login page customised to match the corporate colours and with the company logo. Wholesale eccoPartners – have access to the full suite of ecoDATA Administration Tools so they can manage the whole system for all their own customers and their sites. User Management – both Retail and Wholesale users can be managed differently depending on their assigned User Permissions and the grade of membership. At the lowest level Users generally can only control such basic functions as the default Display at login, their Personal Alarm settings and Diary Notes with access only to basic charts and alarms.