Smart Home & EnergyMonitoring Installationin Winchester & Hampshire

Whole-house monitoring starts at the incoming supply, using current transformers or a dedicated meter positioned so that import and export are measured correctly and separately from generation. Get that placement wrong and every derived figure - self-consumption, export, battery contribution - is wrong with it, which is why we cross-check readings against the utility meter before handover.

Circuit-level monitoring adds sensors on individual circuits at the board, which is worth doing where a specific load is under suspicion: an immersion heater, a workshop, an outbuilding or an underperforming heat source. On solar and battery installations, inverter and battery data is brought in directly so generation, state of charge and throughput sit alongside consumption in one view.

Time-of-use tariffs are where monitoring turns into money. Charge windows are set so the battery fills at the cheapest rate and holds through the expensive evening peak; discharge limits are set so it is not emptied before the peak arrives. On solar-aware EV chargers the same logic applies to the car, either following surplus generation during the day or filling on the low overnight rate.

Self-consumption is the number that matters most: the share of what you generate that you use yourself. Raising it is usually a matter of shifting flexible loads - washing, drying, dishwasher, immersion, car charging - into generation hours, and monitoring is what shows you whether the change actually worked.

Tariffs change. We set windows at commissioning and show you exactly where to adjust them, so a tariff switch next year does not silently undo the saving.

Smart control done properly is wired work. Lighting scenes, dimming, zoned circuits and automated switching are installed at the board and at the switch, with correct dimmable drivers and retained manual control, so the lights still work when the internet does not.

We install smart switching and controls for lighting, outdoor and security lighting, heated towel rails, immersion diverters and outbuilding circuits, and provide the correct protection and labelling for each. Where a household wants to add devices themselves later, we make sure the circuits, neutrals and back boxes are there to do it safely.

What we will not do is automate something with no manual fallback. Every automated circuit keeps a way to control it by hand.

In a home, monitoring is about the evening peak, tariff timing and knowing that the roof and battery are earning what they should. Installation and configuration is usually a single visit alongside solar, storage or an EV charger.

For a business, measurement usually comes first. Half-hourly data and a measured daytime load profile from a workshop, office or farm building is the evidence that decides whether solar and storage are worth investing in, how large they should be, and where a demand peak is costing money. That data also underpins peak shaving with storage, which on some commercial tariffs is worth more than generation itself.

Either way the electrical work is certified to the 18th Edition of BS 7671 under NAPIT and Part P, and carries our 2-year workmanship guarantee.