kWatch®
Smart energy technology for Australian businesses
Flow Power is committed to empowering Australian electricity consumers with the tools and technology needed to reshape their electricity behaviour.
Technology is critical for supporting the renewable energy transition. Providing customers with simple and accessible energy usage insights, control, and automation empowers them to act and engage with their energy consumption.
That’s why we developed kWatch and provide a free device to all customers.
kWatch puts the power back in your hands
You can’t control what you don’t measure. Flow Power’s kWatch provides large electricity users the ability to measure and control electricity usage, in a small hardware device installed on your site.
Once installed, kWatch manages and stores useful energy data and when linked with the Flow Power Customer Portal, users can easily interact with and shape the way they use electricity.
“One of our goals is to change the way people look at energy, rather than it just be a contract they sign every two or three years. We want to turn it into something that becomes part of their day-to-day business and something they get involved with.”
– Matthew van der Linden, Chief Executive Officer, Flow Power
What is kWatch?
Put simply, kWatch is a small computer-like device that can be installed and integrated into your site. It can communicate to different machines, computers, or pieces of hardware, to receive information from or to provide instructions to that device.
It provides information on how much electricity a specific piece of equipment is using and at what cost, and even instructions on how-to automate a process so that the equipment can respond to market signals and high-priced events.
Key kWatch benefits
kWatch can be configured to fit a wide range of tasks and communicate with different machines.
kWatch has been principally designed to deliver powerful data insights and give users real-time assistance in managing their energy behaviour. It utilises National Electricity Market data and your site information to help you make powerful and cost-effective energy decisions.
kWatch can be configured to take the manual work out of smart electricity decisions. From ramping down your solar system, to shutting off non-critical loads, to starting a generator, or reading your revenue meter.
kWatch provides insights into your electricity usage and access to the wholesale electricity market, which helps users consume electricity when renewable energy generation is high and avoid higher fossil fuel times.
Multiple inputs and outputs allow a single kWatch to integrate with a range of different machines or devices simultaneously.
kWatch removes the challenge of speaking to industrial machines or Building Management Systems, and is purpose built to provide an easy interface from our back-end system to your site. From Modbus TCP or RTU, Digital or Analogue IO, & Relays – it can communicate with your equipment and systems.
kWatch has been designed and built in-house by the Flow Power team of specialist engineers and data scientists, who constantly refine and update as new projects and applications are discovered. These new updates and developments can be readily deployed at your site even after its initial installation.
Want to know more?
We’ve created a helpful resource for you to learn more about how kWatch works, connects to your operations and pulls in your live energy data.
We’re here to help
If you’re an existing Flow Power customer, please reach out to your dedicated account manager.
If you’re not a Flow Power customer, contact our friendly team today.
Putting the power back in your hands since 2009
