Case Study: EcoVision achieves real-time community energy and water savings with InterSystems Caché

Breakthrough Application Leverages the High Performance and Small Footprint of InterSystems Caché to Help Communities Save Energy

EcoVision, founded in 2005 on the Gold Coast, builds in-home resource‑management systems to help households and communities reduce energy and water use amid rising demand and constrained water supplies. Its touchscreen interface gives occupants real‑time consumption feedback, target-setting and automatic control of devices, and was first deployed in 2006 at The Ecovillage at Currumbin to monitor 144 homes; the company was acquired in 2008 as it expanded into wider residential and commercial contracts.

To deliver this, EcoVision built its platform on InterSystems Caché for its small footprint, high-speed real‑time processing, and flexible object/SQL access and web services, enabling low‑cost touchscreen units, modular UI changes and large-scale data aggregation. The result: robust, low‑support deployments that can manage thousands of meters, enable community-level analytics and demand‑side control (trialed at Lochiel Park), let some residents become net energy exporters, and support integration with smart‑grid and renewable energy initiatives.

EcoVision

Steve Miller

Co-founder