For businesses operating multiple small commercial sites — from retail chains and hospitality units to service depots and franchise outlets — energy usage can quickly become a blind spot. While each individual site may have modest consumption, collectively they represent a major cost centre and a significant opportunity for savings. Yet without the right tools, tracking and managing energy across a dispersed network is complex, time-consuming, and often reactive.
This is where Smappee steps in.
Smappee offers a smart, scalable energy management solution that gives businesses real-time insights into their electricity, solar, gas, and water usage across multiple sites — all through a single, centralised platform. For organisations managing several smaller locations, this represents a powerful shift from guesswork to data-driven control.
One System, Total Visibility
Smappee works by installing compact, easy-to-deploy monitors at each site. These monitors capture detailed energy data and instantly send it to the Smappee cloud, where it’s accessible via web and mobile dashboards. Whether you’re managing five sites or fifty, you can compare, analyse, and optimise performance across your entire estate — without needing to physically visit each one.
For businesses with limited facility staff or no on-site energy expertise, this makes energy management accessible, actionable, and fully remote. You can spot unusual consumption patterns, identify underperforming sites, and even detect equipment faults before they become costly problems.
How It Works
Smappee systems use a combination of current clamps and smart gateways to capture detailed energy data from your electrical distribution board. Depending on your setup, they can monitor:
- Total site consumption
- Solar PV generation
- Sub-circuits (e.g. HVAC, refrigeration, lighting)
- Gas and water flows via compatible pulse meters
This granular data is then broken down by appliance or circuit using advanced disaggregation algorithms, giving you a clear picture of what’s using energy — and when.
From here, the Smappee dashboard allows you to:
- View live and historical energy usage per site
- Compare usage across multiple locations
- Set alerts for unusual consumption
- Track ROI on solar panels or EV chargers
- Automate energy-saving actions using smart controls
- Tailored for Multi-Site Operations
Smappee is particularly valuable for businesses that lack the scale to justify a full-time energy manager at each site, but still want to control costs and improve sustainability. It allows central teams — whether in operations, finance, or facilities — to oversee the energy performance of all locations from a single login.
You can benchmark sites to spot outliers, test behavioural changes or equipment upgrades at one location before rolling them out more widely, and report accurately on corporate sustainability targets.
Integration & Automation
Smappee also integrates easily with building management systems (BMS), solar inverters, battery storage, and EV chargers — making it ideal for businesses that want to futureproof their energy strategy. You can add smart plugs or relays to automate devices based on usage patterns, time of day, or tariff changes, helping further reduce costs and flatten peak demand.
Why It Matters
Energy costs are unlikely to return to historic lows, and the pressure to cut carbon is only increasing. For businesses running multiple small sites, Smappee makes it possible to:
- Reduce energy bills without compromising operations
- Meet ESG and sustainability goals with real data
- Spot and address energy waste quickly
- Futureproof infrastructure for net zero requirements
- In short, it turns energy from a sunk cost into a strategic asset.
Elcomponent: Your Smappee Specialist
Elcomponent is a trusted Smappee partner, providing expert advice, installation, and support for businesses looking to deploy multi-site energy monitoring. Our engineers ensure your system is correctly specified and installed, and we offer ongoing help to get the most from your data. Whether you’re just starting your energy journey or looking to scale existing efforts, we make it easy to take control.