Most energy assets are read by walking to them. Meters in risers and remote buildings, fuel in a generator day tank, a changeover panel nobody has looked at since the last test. Genesis reads those points over cellular, from a box that does not need a cabinet or a mains feed, and tells you when a number moves before somebody notices the bill.
The hardware is the same in all three cases. What changes is which reading gets somebody out of bed and who is contractually on the hook for it.
Meters in plant rooms, risers and remote buildings, read by someone walking a route with a clipboard once a month. Putting a cellular controller on the meter turns a monthly number into a load profile, and it does it without an IT project or a cable back to the office.
Standby generators, fuel tanks, UPS rooms and telecom cabinets fail silently between tests. Run state, fuel level, room temperature and mains presence answer the only question that matters, which is whether the thing will start when it is needed.
Plant is spread out, unattended, and often owned by one party and maintained by another. Independent measurement at the point that matters, reported to a cloud both parties can reach, settles more arguments than another vendor portal.
Any instrument speaking RS485 Modbus RTU, analogue, digital, I2C, 1-Wire, SDI-12 or UART connects to any of the four ports, with the protocol assigned from the dashboard rather than fixed at the factory. Four ports on the Genesis industrial IoT controller, one on Genesis Lite where a location has a single point worth measuring.
Three-phase meters speaking Modbus RTU: active and reactive power, energy, power factor, per-phase voltage and current. The register map for a meter we have not seen before is added on request.
Older electricity, gas and water meters with an S0 or pulse output land on a digital input and accumulate against the asset, which is usually the cheapest way to bring an existing meter into a system.
Analogue transducers on feeders, circuits and DC strings where a meter is not warranted. A rising baseline on a circuit is visible long before it becomes a fault.
Ultrasonic, radar and hydrostatic level sensors on generator day tanks and bulk fuel. A generator that will not run because the tank is empty is the most avoidable failure in the category.
Digital inputs on generator run signals, breaker and changeover state, mains presence and fault relays. Run hours accumulate against the asset, which is the number a service interval is written against.
RS485, digital and 1-Wire probes in battery rooms, transformer bays and cabinets. Temperature is the earliest available warning in most of them and the cheapest thing to measure.
Meter data becomes useful the moment two people can argue about it from the same record. These are the parts of OmniCloud that get it there.
One view per site or per asset: current readings, run state, run hours, last alarm. Built for a phone in a plant room rather than a control-room wall.
Minimum and maximum per sensor with hysteresis, delivered by push notification and email, with acknowledgement recorded against the alarm so a handover shows what has already been seen.
Full-resolution history kept and exported to XLSX, with numbers that stay numbers so the spreadsheet still calculates. Monthly reconciliation stops being a re-typing exercise.
Location is bound to the sensor rather than the controller, so one unit reading two buildings keeps the two buildings apart in every chart and export, stamped at write time and never rewritten.
Relay and latching outputs to reset a device, isolate a circuit or start a test, with dwell and rules held on the controller so the sequence completes even if the link drops mid-way.
The asset owner holds the hardware and grants visibility to the operator or the maintenance contractor. Both work from the same readings, and neither buys the device twice.
Every inverter brand ships an app, every meter vendor a portal, and each one shows you that vendor equipment on that vendor terms. A controller measuring at the point you care about gives you one record across mixed equipment, in a cloud you control, that a maintenance contractor can be granted access to without a vendor account changing hands.
For what building that data path yourself costs in engineer-months, read our breakdown of AWS IoT Core.
Anything speaking RS485 Modbus RTU, an analogue output, a digital or pulse signal, I2C, 1-Wire, SDI-12 or UART. Over fifty sensor types are supported today. For a Modbus meter or instrument that is not on the list yet, send us the model and its register map and we add it.
It sits beside them and measures independently. A vendor portal shows you that vendor equipment, in that vendor format, with access controlled by that vendor. Genesis measures at the point you care about and reports into a cloud you control, which is what makes a portfolio of mixed equipment comparable and what makes the data available to a contractor without handing over a vendor account.
The measurement is only ever as good as the meter it comes from, and a revenue-grade meter stays revenue-grade when Genesis reads it. For sub-billing, tenant allocation and internal cost recovery, which is what most people mean by the question, that is exactly what you want: the certified meter remains the instrument of record and Genesis gets its numbers off the wall and into a system. Send us the meter model and the use case and we will tell you what it supports.
4G-LTE cellular, built in, so an unattended site needs coverage rather than a gateway and a network. Wi-Fi is available where there is a stable site network. Readings buffer locally through an outage and backfill in order once the link returns.
A cellular unit is not on your network, which is usually the shortest route through an approval. On Wi-Fi it connects outbound over TLS and never needs an inbound rule or a port opened towards it. We work inside a customer policy rather than asking for an exception to it.
Yes. OmniCloud has been in continuous production since 2023 and carries millions of sensor readings a month from deployed controllers, on the same hardware and the same cloud sold here.
Which meters and instruments are already fitted, what needs reading and how often, and whether those points have power and cellular coverage. We come back with what a Genesis would read there and what the install involves.
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