SPiNE builds software and hardware for intelligent metering systems and energy assets in the German market. Founded in Munich, the company works for the parties that have to make the metering rollout and the new grid-control rules work in practice: metering point operators, grid operators and utilities on one side, installers, OEMs and HEMS vendors on the other. The common thread is regulation that arrives as a deadline rather than a product — § 14a EnWG, § 9 EEG, the smart meter rollout — and has to be turned into something that runs on real devices, in real meter cabinets, at the scale of a utility's whole customer base.
The product line follows that split. The Network Management System sits with the operator and keeps a gateway fleet running. EnergyLink One sits in the meter cabinet and talks to the assets behind it. The SPiNE Platform is the application layer on top — an app store for energy applications, delivered to the gateway and backed in the cloud.
Network Management System
Monitoring and operations software for smart meter gateway fleets. It reads the mobile connection in real time, so an installer gets direct feedback at the cabinet instead of discovering a dead gateway on the next visit, and operations sees signal loss as an alarm rather than as a customer complaint. On top of the live view sit KPI dashboards, trend and cluster analysis, and multi-tenancy for metering point operators and gateway administration providers running several clients from one system. An API connects it to the systems already in place.
The NMS works with gateways from Theben, EMH, EFR and Sagemcom Dr. Neuhaus, and scales from a few hundred devices to the million range.
EnergyLink One
A local gateway for the meter cabinet — four DIN modules wide, with three-phase metering up to 63 A directly and up to 600 A via current transformers. Two LAN ports with an integrated switch and two RS485 interfaces connect it to the installation; an ARM64 dual-core Cortex-A53 with 1 GB RAM and 16 GB eMMC runs embedded Linux underneath. EEBUS ships pre-installed as a smart meter & control box adapter, alongside Modbus RTU & TCP, OCPP, and the device can be paired with a digital twin in the cloud.
What it connects to is whatever the customer already has on the wall: heat pumps, PV inverters, battery storage, wallboxes. That is the point at which an interoperability gap stops being a specification question and becomes an installer standing in a basement — which is also why an open, shared protocol stack is worth more to SPiNE than a private one.
Grid control under § 14a EnWG and § 9 EEG
Both regulatory use cases are ready to run on the device: limiting consumption from the grid under § 14a EnWG and curtailing feed-in under § 9 EEG, in steps rather than as a hard cut-off, with the applied limit, its duration and the measured power logged. In EEBUS terms these are the Limitation of Power Consumption and Limitation of Power Production use cases — the same ones the libraries in this project implement.
SPiNE Platform
An application platform with an integrated app store, running on the gateway and backed by a cloud API. It carries home energy management, the CLS application suite and further energy applications, and it is open to third parties through an SDK — so a utility or an OEM can ship its own application to an installed base instead of shipping its own hardware.
