Wattics
Wattics is a Dublin-based energy analytics technology company whose AI-powered platform unifies smart-meter interval data, billing, and emissions data for energy managers across higher education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, and logistics, distributed through EnergyCAP's enterprise SaaS suite.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1982
- HeadquartersDublin, Ireland
- Headcount51–100
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Wattics does
Wattics is a Dublin-based energy analytics technology company founded in 2011, operating as the embedded analytics engine within EnergyCAP's enterprise SaaS platform under the brand 'EnergyCAP Smart Analytics (Wattics)'. The platform unifies interval smart-meter data, utility billing data, and emissions data into a single cloud-based system, applying machine learning for real-time anomaly detection, predictive consumption modeling, weather-normalized benchmarking, and IPMVP-compliant measurement and verification of energy savings. Customers include enterprise and mid-market energy managers, sustainability leaders, and finance teams across higher education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, and logistics — with named references including Royal Mail, Jurys Inn, Clayton Hotels, J&D Electric, and Klictix.
Wattics' technology stack comprises several proprietary features: a Machine Learning Sentinel for anomaly and pattern detection, an interval-data analytics engine for real-time consumption visibility, an operations wastage heatmap, multi-meter API integrations with hardware partners (Accuenergy AcuRev, Verdigris, EpiSensor), variance analysis decomposing cost changes into rate/consumption/weather/demand drivers, and a natural-language AI chat interface (Watts AI / Watts Chat) for plain-language querying. The product supports downstream BI tools (Tableau, Power BI) and is delivered as part of EnergyCAP's modular SaaS suite, which also includes Utility Management, Carbon Hub, Bill Capture, and Bill Pay modules.
The company's commercial model is a subscription SaaS, distributed entirely through EnergyCAP's enterprise field sales force, inside sales, and self-serve product tour, with no direct-to-market motion of its own. Wattics has raised a single disclosed funding round of $879,063 in October 2013 from Enterprise Ireland and Irrus Investments, with no subsequent capital raises reported. The platform is operated within EnergyCAP, LLC, a Pennsylvania-domiciled US private company founded in 1982, though Wattics itself remains headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
Wattics firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Wattics
- Legal name
- EnergyCAP, LLC
- Website
- https://wattics.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1982
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 51–100 employees
- Short description
- Wattics is a Dublin-based energy analytics technology company whose AI-powered platform unifies smart-meter interval data, billing, and emissions data for energy managers across higher education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, and logistics, distributed through EnergyCAP's enterprise SaaS suite.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Wattics industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Energy Management Software
- NAICS
- Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (2211), Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution (22112)
- SIC
- Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Auto Controls For Regulating Residential & Comml Environments (3822), Instruments For Meas & Testing Of Electricity & Elec Signals (3825)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Energy Management & Monitoring (Submetering, Dashboards, Analytics) (BPABAGAD)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Energy & Utilities in Manufacturing (Energy Management/Smart Metering) (IMAIAMAK), Forecasting & AI Optimization for Flexibility (Load/Price/Renewables/SoC) (EUAFAKAH)
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Where Wattics is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Dublin
- HQ country
- Ireland
- HQ region
- Europe
Markets served
Wattics business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&, D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- SaaS Platform Subscription: Wattics' technology is delivered as part of EnergyCAP's cloud-based SaaS platform, which operates on a subscription model. EnergyCAP offers modular products (Utility Management, Smart Analytics, Carbon Hub, Bill Capture, Bill Pay) that customers can customize based on their business needs. The platform is priced per package/configured solution rather than per-seat, suggesting enterprise subscription pricing with professional services for implementation and training.
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels3 records
Marketing channels9 records
Wattics product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Wattics powers 'EnergyCAP Smart Analytics', a cloud-based energy analytics platform that integrates interval data from IoT smart meters with billing and emissions data. The platform uses machine learning to detect anomalies in real-time, perform IPMVP-compliant measurement and verification, weather-normalized EUI benchmarking, and variance analysis of utility costs. Wattics technology is delivered as part of EnergyCAP's broader energy and sustainability management suite, targeting enterprise energy managers, sustainability leaders, and finance teams.
Product overview
EnergyCAP Smart Analytics (Wattics) is a real-time energy analytics platform that combines interval data, billing data, and emissions data in a single unified system. The product uses AI and machine learning to analyze consumption patterns, detect anomalies, and provide predictive insights. It integrates with smart meters and supports natural language querying through its Watts AI chat feature. The platform serves energy managers, sustainability leaders, and finance teams across industries including higher education, government, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Watts AI: AI-powered energy analytics platform that analyzes consumption trends, detects anomalies, and provides predictive insights for energy management
- Utility Management
- Smart Analytics
- Carbon Hub
- Bill Capture
- Bill Pay
Products and services
- EnergyCAP Smart Analytics (Wattics)
Quantifiable outcome
- 80–90% reduction in time energy analysts spend on repetitive data collection and report creation tasks
- +2 more outcomes
Companies that use Wattics
Customer profileNamed customers5 records
Segments8 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Wattics technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration5 records
AI capability6 records
Feature8 records
Wattics partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.
- Accuenergy (AcuRev Meters)coreAccuenergy is a meter hardware manufacturer whose AcuRev revenue/power meters integrate with the Wattics-powered EnergyCAP Smart Analytics platform via API. Accuenergy is referenced in customer testimonials as a hardware partner enabling energy monitoring use cases. Howard Wang, CEO of Accuenergy, provided a testimonial praising the platform's IPMVP tools for ESCO partners.
- Verdigris TechnologiescoreVerdigris is a smart meter and building energy monitoring hardware provider. Their meters integrate with the Wattics/EnergyCAP platform, providing interval data for real-time analytics. EnergyCAP's device support documentation lists Verdigris as a supported meter brand.
- EpiSensorcoreEpiSensor provides wireless energy monitoring hardware (current transformers, pulse output meters, BACnet devices) that integrates with the Wattics/EnergyCAP platform. Listed in EnergyCAP's Smart Analytics Device Support documentation as a compatible hardware partner.
- EnergyCAPflagshipEnergyCAP embeds and distributes Wattics' smart analytics technology as 'EnergyCAP Smart Analytics (Wattics)' within its comprehensive energy and sustainability management SaaS platform. The product is marketed, sold, and supported entirely under the EnergyCAP brand. This is Wattics' primary commercial channel and the source of all direct customer references in the provided data.
Scale indicators2 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Wattics competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- EnergyCAP: EnergyCAP is the SaaS platform in which Wattics' analytics is embedded as 'EnergyCAP Smart Analytics (Wattics)'. The two share product, customers and GTM; EnergyCAP provides the bill management and carbon accounting modules, Wattics provides the interval-data analytics layer.
- GridPoint: GridPoint provides cloud-based energy management software with submeter data analytics, anomaly detection and utility bill management for multi-site commercial customers, closely overlapping Wattics' core product functionality.
- Lucid (BuildingOS): Lucid's BuildingOS platform unifies building data including energy, water and emissions and supports benchmarking and sustainability reporting, making it a direct competitor in the multi-tenant / multi-building analytics market Wattics serves.
- BuildingIQ: BuildingIQ delivers cloud-based energy analytics and continuous commissioning for commercial buildings, with predictive optimization capabilities that overlap with Wattics' ML-based anomaly detection and consumption modeling.
- Verdigris Technologies: Verdigris is both a hardware integration partner of Wattics/EnergyCAP and a competing smart-meter and energy monitoring provider. Its analytics and monitoring capabilities overlap with Wattics in industrial and commercial deployments.
Broad incumbents
- Schneider Electric (EcoStruxure / Resource Advisor): Schneider Electric offers enterprise energy management and sustainability software (EcoStruxure, Resource Advisor) covering energy analytics, M&V and sustainability reporting across large commercial and industrial estates, competing with Wattics at the high end of the energy analytics stack.
- Honeywell Forge Energy: Honeywell Forge's energy and sustainability module provides building energy analytics, anomaly detection and operational benchmarking for enterprise portfolios, directly overlapping Wattics' energy manager and sustainability leader use cases.
- Siemens Building Technologies / Siemens Xcelerator: Siemens offers energy and sustainability management software within its building technologies and Xcelerator portfolios, addressing the same energy manager / sustainability persona as Wattics with a much larger installed base.
- Johnson Controls OpenBlue: Johnson Controls' OpenBlue suite includes energy analytics and building performance modules that compete with Wattics on interval-data analysis, benchmarking and ESG reporting for enterprise building portfolios.
Emerging players
- UtilityAPI: UtilityAPI automates utility data acquisition and customer enrollment for energy management programs, an adjacent capability that competes with Wattics on the metering-data ingestion and customer onboarding layer of the stack.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
Wattics social profiles
Digital presenceWattics financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Wattics leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles1 record
Wattics funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds1 record
Investors2 records
Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Wattics M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →
Frequently asked questions about Wattics
What does Wattics do?
Wattics powers 'EnergyCAP Smart Analytics', a cloud-based energy analytics platform that integrates interval data from IoT smart meters with billing and emissions data. The platform uses machine learning to detect anomalies in real-time, perform IPMVP-compliant measurement and verification, weather-normalized EUI benchmarking, and variance analysis of utility costs. Wattics technology is delivered as part of EnergyCAP's broader energy and sustainability management suite, targeting enterprise energy managers, sustainability leaders, and finance teams.
Is Wattics a public or private company?
Wattics is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Wattics founded?
Wattics was founded in 1982. It employs 51 to 100 people.
Where is Wattics based?
Wattics is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, in the Europe region.
How does Wattics make money?
One revenue line is on record: saaS Platform Subscription.
Who are Wattics's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are EnergyCAP, GridPoint, Lucid (BuildingOS), BuildingIQ and Verdigris Technologies. Broad incumbents are Schneider Electric (EcoStruxure / Resource Advisor), Honeywell Forge Energy, Siemens Building Technologies / Siemens Xcelerator and Johnson Controls OpenBlue. UtilityAPI is listed as an emerging player.
Does Wattics have an API?
Yes. EnergyCAP (which incorporates Wattics technology) supports API integrations with a wide range of meter brands including AcuRev, Verdigris, and EpiSensor. The platform can serve as a structured data source that feeds existing BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
What industry is Wattics in?
Wattics's product category is Energy Management Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPABAGAD, Energy Management & Monitoring (Submetering, Dashboards, Analytics), with a secondary code of IMAIAMAK, Energy & Utilities in Manufacturing (Energy Management/Smart Metering). Its NAICS code is 2211 and its SIC code is 3823.