EMS portrait for Yellowstone Soft GmbH
- Company
- Yellowstone Soft GmbH
- Company headquarters
- Ehingen, Germany
- Energy management system (EMS)
- Smart-E-Control
- Website
- https://www.yellowstone-soft.de/
With myManager, Yellowstone Soft offers an energy management system that can be individually adapted to the needs of EVU and customers, e.g. in the field of IoT, smart home or micro contracting. In addition to the customised software, the hardware can also be adapted to the specific needs. In addition, Yellowstone Soft takes over the entire customer support, offers explanatory videos, marketing, etc. Yellowstone Soft has already realised around 60 installations in Switzerland and 8,000 installations across Europe.
General information
| main target group |
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| secondary target group |
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| no application |
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| Utility service | electricity, heating, water |
| Do Swiss customers belong to your target group? | Yes, but they are not in our main target group |
Functions for real estate
Offer for utilities
Specifications
| Interfaces to utility systems |
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| Commercialisation by utilities | Yes, with white label as standard |
| METAS certification | No, certification by METAS is not (yet) planned. |
Compatible Components
| Electricity meter |
Standard offer available
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| Heat meter |
Standard offer available
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| Water meter |
Standard offer available
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| Inverter/PV system |
Standard offer available
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| Battery storage |
Standard offer available
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| Heat pump |
Standard offer available
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| Combined heat and power plant (CHPP) |
Standard offer available
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| Water boiler |
Standard offer available
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| Other heating systems |
Standard offer available
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| Heat storage |
Standard offer available
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| EV-charging station |
Standard offer available
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| Smart Home elements |
Standard offer available
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| Average cost to implement new producers (driver development) |
from 700 EUR
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Technical information
| Operating elements |
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| Components of the product |
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| Interfaces to components |
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| Communication interfaces | LAN, Powerline, WLAN |
| SmartGridready | No, a declaration is not (yet) planned |
| Integration of third-party systems to influence hardware | Individual offer developable |
| Control and regulation mechanisms | If-Then Functions, Algorithms (consideration of several factors) |
| Control of components | Centrally in a control box (local) |
Intervals for data measurement and transmission
| Data measurement for control | every 30 seconds |
| Data measurement for electricity billing | Every 15 minutes |
| Data measurement for e-mobility billing | Every 15 minutes |
| Data measurement for heat billing | Every 15 minutes |
| Data measurement for water billing | Every 15 minutes |
| Data transmission | Every 15 minutes |
Installation & Operation
| When purchased via utility | Installation by End user, Specialist partner, utility, External installer |
| When purchsed via EMS provider | Installation by End user, Specialist partner, utility, External installer |
| When purchased via wholesale | Installation by End user, Specialist partner, utility, External installer |
| Duration of installation at the end customer | depending on project |
| Software updates | 2x yearly |
| Softwar updates - how | Manually via remote access, Automatic process |
| Software updates - who | Yellowstone, EVU |
| Warranty | 5 years |
| Lifetime | 10 years |
Data protection and IT security
| Data protection guarantee | encrypted transmission, encrypted storage |
| Data storage | Locally at the client's site |
| Certification of Cloud solution | No certification |
| Access protection of ERM (App/Cloud) | HTTPS |
| Access protection of decentralized units | Not stated |
| Data security on decentralized units | depending on the transmission protocol |
| Protection of data exchange with peripheral systems and decentralized units | depending on the transmission protocol |
| Encryption of data in-transfer and in-storage | Fully |
Costs
Costs at building level
These are rough estimates. An offer must be requested for exact cost information.
The following use case was assumed for the cost estimate:
1 Multi-party residential building with the following components (excluding commercial):
- Measuring units: 20 electricity meters, 20 heat meters, 20 water meters (hot & cold)
- 1 photovoltaic system (with 1 inverter)
- 1 heat pump (SG-Ready)
- 1 hot water boiler
- 20 parking spaces, 5 of which are fully equipped with charging stations
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Of these, the following functions can be fulfilled:
Measure electricity meterMeasure heat meterMeasure water meterIntegration PV systemControl heat pumpControl water boilerDynamic load managementData delivery consumption charging stations for billing (without collection) -
Of these, the following functions cannot be fulfilled:
Implementation ZEV (pure data delivery - no collection)
| One-time hardware costs | EUR14,500 12'000 EUR meter, 2000 EUR controller, 500 EUR network connection |
| One-time software costs | EUR8,200 Initial configuration 6000 EUR Training measure 1'200 EUR Software license costs included in hardware |
| Total of one-time costs | EUR21,700 |
| Project management costs | EUR105 per hour |
| Annual costs | EUR0 |
| Deviation/discounts for portfolio with 100 buildings (per building) | Initial configuration per property reduced to approx. 1000 € (standardization) |
Information about the company
| Establishment in Switzerland | Yes, but adjustments to the Swiss system have not yet been made |
| Do you already work together with utilities? |
No
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| Other partners/clients | Not stated |
| Number of installations in Switzerland | 130 buildings with approx. 2000 data points each |
| Number of installations in Europe (incl. Switzerland) | 12000 commercial branches with approx. 2000 data points each, 1000 EFH with PV system and heat pumps |
| Founding year | 2014 |
| Number of FTE | 6 |