How to Use SmarterView Energy Monitoring Software
SmarterView is Smarter Technologies’ energy monitoring software, designed to give businesses real-time visibility of their energy consumption. This guide explains how to use SmarterView effectively, from navigating the platform and understanding its core features to analysing data and turning insights into action. We’ll cover how real-time tracking supports better energy management, how SmarterView helps identify inefficiencies, and how its reporting and analysis tools can be used to reduce costs, lower carbon emissions, and streamline operations.
This step-by-step guide shows how SmarterView’s insights help businesses make data-driven decisions, optimise energy use, support regulatory compliance, and monitor performance across single sites or multi-site portfolios.
What Is SmarterView?
SmarterView is a cloud-based platform that centralises energy consumption data into a single, real-time view, enabling businesses to understand and manage how energy is used across their operations. The platform collects live data from electricity, gas, and water meters, as well as sensors across your site, and transmits it securely via Orion, Smarter Technologies’ proprietary real-time data network, to the SmarterView platform. This provides a detailed, current view of how energy is being used across your business or portfolio.
By consolidating this information into an intuitive, user-friendly dashboard, SmarterView helps organisations identify hidden energy waste, such as unnecessary standby loads, inefficient equipment operation, or abnormal consumption patterns, and take informed action to reduce costs. Beyond cost savings, the platform supports sustainability and compliance objectives, helping businesses meet reporting requirements and progress toward ESG and net zero goals.
For more insights on energy monitoring systems for businesses, read our Guide to Business Energy Monitoring.
Features of SmarterView and How They Can Benefit Your Business
SmarterView brings together powerful features in one energy monitoring software platform, giving businesses the insight they need to understand and improve energy performance. Each feature supports a clearer picture of consumption patterns and helps inform smarter decisions to reduce costs, improve sustainability, and drive operational efficiency.
Cloud-Based Data
SmarterView is a cloud-based platform, which means energy consumption data is securely stored and accessible from any connected device. This centralised approach removes the need for manual data collection and gives teams instant access to up-to-date information, improving visibility and collaboration.
Real-Time Gas, Electricity and Water Consumption Tracking
The platform captures live utility data as it happens, allowing businesses to see exactly how much energy is being used at any moment. This helps identify inefficiencies quickly and respond before small issues become costly problems.
Analysis of Energy Patterns
Review how your energy consumption changes over time by tracking usage across different periods and utilities. You can compare daily, weekly, or monthly, helping you spot trends or recurring spikes in demand. This visibility supports better planning and prioritisation of energy‑saving actions based on actual usage behaviour rather than estimates.
Recommendations for Where to Cut Energy Usage
By highlighting patterns and anomalies in energy use, SmarterView supports decision making on where savings can be made. This makes it easier for businesses to focus on the most impactful changes.
Daily Breakdowns
The platform provides detailed daily views of your consumption, allowing businesses to monitor usage patterns by day, quickly identify periods of high demand or inefficiency, pinpoint energy waste from specific assets or unusual consumption, and make informed decisions about where adjustments can deliver cost and energy savings.
Renewable Energy Generation Monitoring
Where renewable generation is present, SmarterView tracks the contribution of those sources. This helps businesses understand how much energy is offset by renewables and supports sustainability reporting.
Single View of All Data
All relevant utility data is brought together in one dashboard, giving users a complete overview of consumption across all meters and sites. This comprehensive view makes it easier to compare performance and focus on efficiency opportunities.
Make Data-Driven Business Decisions
With accurate, current data and historical comparisons, SmarterView equips decision makers with the evidence they need to plan energy strategies, support compliance, and reduce costs, turning energy data into actionable business insight.
For more insights on the benefits of energy monitoring and how visibility can help reduce costs and improve efficiency, read our blog on the Benefits of a Building Energy Monitoring System.
Step‑by‑Step Guide: How to Use Our Energy Consumption Monitoring Software
SmarterView is designed so that once it’s installed and connected to your meters and sensors, your data starts flowing immediately to the platform, giving you live visibility of energy consumption across your business.
Below is a practical walkthrough of the key steps of setting up, using, and getting value from your SmarterView energy monitoring software.
1. Getting Set Up
Once your SmarterView account is created and the software has been configured for your site, you will receive login credentials from Smarter Technologies. Use these details to sign in via the SmarterView web dashboard or mobile app. From here, you will see an overview of your sites, utility meters, and connected devices. The installation and set up of our system is designed to be seamless and non-disruptive.
2. Configuring Your Dashboard
After you’ve logged in, customise your dashboard to show the most relevant information for your business - such as gas, electricity or water usage, site comparisons, and any renewable generation data. You can also choose different views for different timeframes, for example: hour, day, or month.
3. Real‑Time Monitoring
SmarterView continuously receives live data from connected meters and sensors via Orion, providing real‑time consumption figures and visual indicators of performance. This lets you immediately spot unusual activity or spikes in usage.
4. Reporting
SmarterView allows you to generate and view reports in daily, weekly or monthly formats. These reports show key trends in energy consumption and can be downloaded for audits, compliance, or internal review. In addition to meeting regulatory requirements, the ability to produce historical reports on demand helps you identify patterns and recurring inefficiencies, and make informed decisions.
5. Analysing and Taking Action
Use the insights from real‑time data and accurate reports to analyse energy use across different utilities, sites, or equipment. Identify areas with high consumption or unexpected trends, then implement targeted changes, such as adjusting schedules or investigating equipment inefficiencies, informed by actual data rather than guesswork.
Contact Smarter Technologies to Take Control of Your Energy Management with SmarterView Energy Monitoring Software
SmarterView transforms energy data into clear insights that help businesses understand where energy is being used and wasted. By highlighting inefficiencies, tracking consumption in real time, and providing easy-to-read reports, the platform enables data-driven decisions that cut costs, improve operational performance, and support sustainability goals.
Whether you manage a single facility, a mulit-tenant building, or a multi-site portfolio, SmarterView gives you the visibility and evidence needed to act effectively.
Contact our team today and book a demo to discover how SmarterView can help your business take control of its energy usage and work toward net zero objectives.