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Today, Onics is launching a new and improved version of our entry sensors, the Entry Sensor 2 Pro. The Entry Sensor 2 Pro is a secure and reliable sensor based on many years of development experience, making it ideal for your IoT solution.

In the fast-moving IoT industry, it is crucial to quickly bring a new solution to the market to not be outpaced by competitors. By partnering with a white label technology provider, you can cut down the time to market of your solution remarkably and launch it within a third of the time.

After acquiring the Norwegian IoT solutions provider Datek Smart Home last October, we are excited to announce that Develco Products will soon unite with Datek Smart Home under the common name Onics.

With the constantly evolving IoT landscape influenced by new technologies and societal changes, it is crucial for providers of IoT solutions to keep up to date. We have selected 3 key trends that will impact IoT solutions in 2025.

Earlier this year, smart energy technology company Passiv UK launched their Passiv Smart Thermostat using Onics' gateway to enable smart heat pump controls. Learn more about the innovative product that is presented at Homes UK in London.

We look forward to meeting you there and exploring how IoT solutions can advance the energy transition and digitize energy services.

We are looking forward to the event as part of our membership with the Smart Home Initiative Deutschland and exploring the possibilities our white label IoT platform offers for the energy as well as care and security industries.

Choosing reliable and durable devices in your IoT-based solution is crucial for maintaining high quality and longevity of your solution. But it is not only the reliability of the device’s performance that is important for the quality of your solution – so is the durability of the hardware you are using.

We are proud to be working with some very innovative and dynamic companies who value our partnership as much as we do. Learn what some of our customers think about working with Onics.

In many IoT solutions, it is crucial that they are running continuously and reliably to make sure the building and its residents are protected. By choosing products with easily replaceable batteries, you can minimize downtime in your solution.

The Electricity Meter Interface 2, P1 allows your customers to not only track their electricity consumption but also their production. By offering an energy management solution including the Electricity Meter Interface 2, P1 you can thus enable your customers to optimize their electricity usage fully.

Precise and efficient energy reading is crucial to any energy management solution. The white label Smart Plug Mini 2 incorporates a Class 2 precision power meter and consumes only very little energy, making it the ideal choice for your solution.

Today marks the 54th Earth Day – a global event to demonstrate support for environmental protection. An important agenda that necessitates the support and action of the global community and of course, the world’s companies.

We are now launching a new product manual service that lets you offer online, interactive manuals with your products – ensuring a much better product onboarding experience for your customers and easier manual maintenance for you.

In an age where almost everything is now connected via IoT, it is crucial to choose an open platform that can connect to 3rd party products. This keeps your smart energy solution future-proof and enables you to build a tailored solution that includes many different functionalities (e.g. meter reading, thermostats, and light automation).

With the constantly evolving IoT landscape influenced by new technologies and societal changes, it is crucial for providers of IoT solutions to keep up to date. We have gathered 6 key trends that will impact IoT solutions in 2024.

The need for consumers to know their electricity consumption is still at a high. To meet this demand, we are now launching the Electricity Meter Interface 2, P1 – a device that serves as an interface for your customers’ electricity meter with a P1 port.

With fluctuating energy prices and uncertainty on the energy market, optimizing consumption becomes highly important and many consumers are looking for new ways to reduce their energy costs. Learn how you can offer energy optimization for your customers using IoT devices.

Meet the new Smart Cable 2 that enables you to control and monitor larger electrical appliances. The Smart Cable 2 is connected to the cord of the electric appliance, so it can be used where a smart plug does not fit or a higher load (up to 16A is required).

At Onics, we are constantly looking for new ways to improve our offerings and products for our customers. This also means minimizing the carbon footprint our activities are leaving behind. We are therefore excited that our new product packaging has less plastic.

We are introducing Fleet Management Services – a range of software services that make it significantly easier for you to monitor, maintain, and debug the gateways and devices across your IoT solution. This reduces your maintenance costs and shortens time-to-market for your solution.

Take a look at how the IoT can make submeter reading in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) more efficient, and explore examples of IoT technology ideal for automatic submeter reading.

Onics is introducing the Meter Data Concentrator, a battery-powered gateway that can collect meter data from up to 1000 meters which makes it ideal for energy management solutions for large building complexes.

What do you think of when you hear “Bluetooth”? If you are like us, you are probably thinking of a wireless technology standard used to exchange data between devices. But for a Danish company like Onics, the word Bluetooth has more associations than that. A royal one and a personal one.

White label products make it possible to launch a smart energy solution quickly as businesses can save time and capital for the development of their own products. You can keep focusing on your core competencies and benefit from the extensive experience of an OEM.

In times where energy prices are fluctuating, the need for consumers to know their electricity consumption is at a high. To meet this demand, we are now launching the Electricity Meter Interface 2, LED – a device that serves as an interface for your customers’ electricity meter at home.

The white label Motion Sensor can detect motion, temperature, and light at once giving it various uses across industries as for example smart energy, security, or home care solutions.

Meet the Smart Plug Mini 2, a small Zigbee-based smart plug with energy-monitoring functionality. The Smart Plug Mini 2 is the ideal smart plug for any home care, security, or energy management solution.

Onics is participating in the grand new research project GreenCOM that aims to ensure significantly greener, safer and more energy efficient digital solutions.

In a time with economic uncertainty, unrest in the energy market, and ever-increasing awareness on the green agenda, energy consumers have become significantly more energy-aware in the last few years. This is evident in changing consumer behavior and new business opportunities for companies in the energy industry. Explore 3 energy management trends for 2023.

With rising energy prices, many businesses are looking for ways to manage consumption and lower costs. The IoT offers great opportunities in providing smart energy solutions. Here is how your company can quickly and easily have its own branded smart energy solution.

New innovations within IoT technology are developed every day, meaning that new possibilities are opening for smart energy solutions continually. With these strategies in place, you will make sure that your smart energy solution is future-proof.

Deciding between using white label products and in-house product development can be difficult. Get an overview of the benefits offered by each strategy, and get one step further in your decision-making process.

As IoT solutions are highly versatile and one gateway can be used for many different purposes, they offer many possibilities for you to expand your business offerings. If you already have a gateway installed in your customers home, it is easy to add additional services such as security, electricity monitoring, or home automation.

Smart lighting brings remote control and automation to the lighting infrastructure of a building. In the case of multi-dwelling units, smart lighting is ideal for security purposes and to reduce electricity spending.

With a white label IoT gateway, you can get a mature gateway for your wireless system without using in-house development resources. This way, you will save a large amount of time in getting your system on the market. Explore how white labeling works and the benefits of including a white label gateway in an IoT system.

The white label Squid.link gateways are now PTCRB certified. This certification ensures that the gateways connect reliably to cellular networks all over the world. The white label gateways make it possible to quickly launch a IoT solution connecting to cellular networks.

Using services enabled by IoT technology to manage multi-dwelling units (MDUs) means automating manual processes and decreasing the resources spend.

With an energy management solution, you can enable your customers to get an overview over their energy consumption and help them reduce energy costs. Get to know which devices you should include in your smart energy solution.

What are the benefits of choosing a white labeling strategy? And how do you proceed with your project when having settled on using white label products? Take a look at this step-by-step guide.

Onics is pleased to announce the launch of our new office in the USA . The new office accommodates increasing North American market demands and enhances provided services. It also brings us closer to our American customers and enables new projects within home care, smart security, and insurtech. 

White labeling is when a company offers non-branded products to other companies who sell them to end customers as if they were their own. Explore the benefits of white labeling, examples of white label products, and how to choose a white label partner. 

The Iot is growing year after year and reaching into more and more industries. In 2022, 3 important trends in the IoT are the accelerating intelligent health and home care industry, a focus on cyber security and the continuous growth of edge computing.

Onics is today launching the white label Zigbee Range Extender with battery backup that enables you to increase the reach and add more devices to your home care, security, insurtech, or energy management solution.

By connecting heat pumps to your energy management solution, you can offer your customers to better control when they use energy, for example in cases of overflow energy. With the IO Module, you can easily connect existing heat pumps. 

Here's how you can save time on the development of the application for your IoT solution. With the Squid Smart App, a middleware application, you only need to configure the application on top of the Squid.link platform instead of programming it.

By participating in the CELSIUS project, Onics can help develop and test an IoT-enabled and Azure-integrated platform for monitoring energy efficiency and indoor climate of medium- and large-sized buildings.

The Zigbee Alliance proudly reports a continuously increasing interest in Zigbee-based products and platforms, noting 168 certified products for the first quarter of 2021. This serves to prove that Zigbee is, indeed, one of the leading communication protocols and a safe choice for your smart solution.

Onics is participating in the HESTIA research project that aims to encourage consumers to change the way they use energy in order to make it more efficient, flexible, and beneficial. The project gives Onics the opportunity to test products in a real use case.

2020 has proven to be a groundbreaking year for IoT, with IoT connections accounting for 54% of all connections worldwide, thus surpassing non-IoT connections for the first time. The IoT uptake is largely driven by cellular IoT and LWPA networks.

The completion of the RESPOND project shed light on the importance of home automation and educating the general user about their electricity consumption to successfully implement demand response strategies.