Reliable and compliant edge control for your battery fleet
The best commercial and technical decisions are made early. Across every OEM and every site, without latency or lock-in, we help shape a stronger business case before key decisions are locked in.
The challengeDistribution-connected BESS: A genuinely new problem
Grid-scale BESS evolved around operational technology and dedicated utility infrastructure. Distribution-connected, mid-scale BESS is emerging under very different economics and operational constraints.
Established
Grid-scale BESS
Mature end-to-end platforms handling dispatch through compliance. Built on operational technology.
SCADA systems
PLCs & RTUs
Dedicated communication infrastructure
Mandated interfaces
New Economics
Distribution-connected BESS
AEMO compliance, DNSP grid connection requirements, and SOCI Act cybersecurity obligations met from day one.
Multi-site aggregation
Evolving DNSP requirements
OEM-agnostic integration
Enterprise reliability without OT
Here is where developers in this space typically need to make the right decisions early:
What developers need
Reliable aggregation and disaggregation across a fleet of distributed sites, so your trading platform sees and controls the whole fleet through a single API.
AEMO compliance, DNSP grid connection requirements, and SOCI Act cybersecurity obligations met from day one.
Commission sites quickly and scale without bespoke integration work for every new BESS vendor or technology stack.
Market participation that respects DNSP connection agreement limits without manual intervention when network constraints interact with dispatch.
Fleet visibility, health monitoring, and trusted telemetry across all sites, independent of OEM-specific systems.
What typically creates complexity
Most components in the BESS stack are designed for a single site. Aggregating multiple sub-5MW sites into a coherent fleet, with unified dispatch, telemetry, and control, requires a dedicated layer that many platforms lack.
Distribution-level compliance requirements such as DNSP SCADA connections, Dynamic Operating Envelopes (DOEs), and SOCI Act obligations must be addressed, with requirements varying by network and project size.
Each OEM has its own control interface. Without a unified integration layer, every new battery or new vendor becomes a custom engineering project.
Network constraints can compete with market participation objectives. Reconciling DOEs with dispatch instructions requires active management at the edge.
OEM cloud interfaces are vendor-specific and not independent. Robust fleet operations require trusted site-level telemetry from both the BESS and the meter, independent of OEM systems.
You requireA unified integration and aggregation layer
Connect trading and optimisation platforms with distributed battery fleets through aggregation, OEM-agnostic integration and distribution-level compliance infrastructure.
The grid-scale approach
Operational Technology
PLCs, RTUs, dedicated communications, SCADA systems with mandated interfaces. Effective for utility-scale projects, but expensive, slow to deploy and over-engineered for distribution-connected fleets.
The SwitchDin approach
IoT / IT Stack
Cloud-native, faster to deploy, purpose-built for distribution-scale projects. Delivers meaningful cost savings during the planning stage, before a single battery has been ordered.
CapabilityWhat you need for a successful project
Secure, reliable and cost-effective market-compliant solution
Trusted by utilities to manage assets. Trusted by government to optimise assets. Trusted by OEMs to integrate assets.
Business benefits
Deep integration experience and lifecycle support.
Leading telemetry capability both online and offline.
Depth of energy innovation experience.
Reliable, low-latency edge control for energy and energy service markets.
Utility-grade cyber security proven with utilities.
Standards-based approach for fleet scalability.
Building the business case for a distributed BESS project?
Talk to our team early before your technology choices are locked in. We will walk you through how SwitchDin fits into your project architecture, what it costs, and how it compares to the alternatives.