Energy & Utility Monitoring for Plants

ECOSIRE builds a dedicated Frappe application (its own energy_monitoring app and module, installed via bench get-app and bench install-app) that makes energy a first-class citizen of your ERPNext instance. We model the physical estate with new DocTypes — Utility Meter (typed for electricity, gas, water or compressed air, linked to a Workstation, production line, or cost center), Meter Reading for interval data, Energy Tariff for time-of-use and peak-demand rates, and Energy KPI for ISO 50001 energy-performance indicators (EnPIs) and baselines. Readings arrive through whitelisted REST endpoints (@frappe.whitelist() methods your PLC gateway, SCADA bridge, or IoT hub POSTs to via /api/method/...) or scheduled pulls, and are validated on the way in.

The engine is wired into ERPNext's own transaction flow. hooks.py doc events on Work Order and Job Card compute the energy consumed during a run from the linked workstation's metered interval, apply the active Energy Tariff, and post an energy cost line so it flows into landed manufacturing cost and margin analysis — energy stops being a lump of unallocated overhead. scheduler_events (cron and hourly hooks) roll interval readings into load profiles, recompute EnPIs against baseline, and evaluate anomaly rules that fire an alert (in-app Notification, email, or webhook) when consumption spikes beyond a configurable threshold or deviates from the expected profile for that machine. Client Scripts and custom Frappe dashboards give the plant team peak-demand curves, per-line and per-product intensity, and drill-downs from a plant total straight to a single Job Card. Role Profiles and DocType permissions keep meter configuration with engineering while giving finance and sustainability read access to the numbers they need.

Because this is build-to-order, nothing ships until we agree on scope. You request a quotation and we run a short scoping call to map your meters, tariffs, integration points (SCADA/PLC/IoT protocol, CSV, or manual entry), and which EnPIs and reports you need. We then build against your ERPNext version (v15 or v16), deliver on a staging site for UAT, and only after you sign off do we install to production with a rollback plan. Typical delivery is 2 to 4 weeks from confirmed scope depending on integration complexity, and you receive the full source code and git repository so you are never locked in.