How to add new revenue streams as a provider of energy for electric vehicles
If you are a power/energy supplier for electric vehicles, the IoT offers countless possibilities for expanding your business offerings and adding new revenue streams. A gateway that is used to monitor the electricity consumption of your electric car charging service can easily also be used to collect data from additional sensors and alarms for general electricity monitoring, home automation, or security purposes.
By offering these services to your customers, you can make your company more attractive. The increased interaction with your brand through an application that is used frequently can strengthen the connection with your company and improve customer loyalty.
Get to know more about the services you can offer with IoT devices:
- Help protect your customers' homes
- Offer intelligent energy monitoring
- Enable home automation to increase comfort
Help protect your customers' homes
If you already have a gateway installed in your customers' homes, it is easy to offer a smart security system as an additional service. With a selection of different motion sensors, window sensors, and sirens, you can protect their homes from intruders. If an unwanted guest enters their home, your customers will be notified and can take action immediately.
Intelligent alarms can protect their homes from fire and water leakages. In case of an emergency, the alarms emit a loud alarm sound and send a message via the gateway so that the users are informed instantly.
Does that sound interesting to you? Learn more about smart security solutions
Offer intelligent energy monitoring for the whole house
IoT devices make it easy to get an overview of the overall electricity consumption in a building as well as of individual appliances. Meter interfaces can gather data from different types of meters and send these data to a gateway.
By connecting electricity monitoring devices such as the Smart Plug Mini 2 or the Smart Cable to electric appliances, you can enable the users to track their electricity usage, become aware of high-consuming devices, and reduce standby consumption.
Explore the benefits of intelligent energy management for your business
Enable home automation to increase the comfort at home
Another service that can be easily added to a gateway is home automation. Different sensors installed in the customers' homes enable them to automate everyday tasks such as turning on/off the lights and appliances at specific times or related to their presence in a room.
By offering smart home automation features, you can make your customers' lives smart and more comfortable, resulting in positive interactions with your company.
White label gateways for flexible IoT solutions
Are you still looking for a gateway for your solution? The Squid.link gateways are mature and secure white label gateways that are suited for many different purposes. They support different communication protocols enabling you to add various wireless devices to your solution, including devices from 3rd party vendors.
By relying on this white label product, you can save a large amount of time and money in the development and certification process and quickly launch your solution. The software development tools offered by the Squid.link gateways make it easy for you to develop your application on top of the platform.
