Every installer sells panels. We build the brain as well.
There are hundreds of solar installation companies in South Africa. We
have yet to meet another that designs and manufactures its own
intelligence platform. We do — it's called Solaire Intelligence, and
it's the optional upgrade available on every installation we do. That
changes what you can buy.
A solar system without intelligence is a very expensive appliance.
The typical install ends when the inverter powers up: the installer leaves,
you get a login for the inverter brand's cloud app in China, and from that day
nobody is actually managing your system. The geyser still heats at 5am on grid
power. The pool pump still runs at dinner time. The battery cycles wastefully.
The system works — it just never does its best work.
Typical installer
Solaire Power + SI
After the install
You're on your own
System monitored — we see problems before you do
Monitoring
Inverter brand's cloud app, if it's up
Local-first SI platform — works even when the internet doesn't
Big loads (geyser, pool)
Run whenever, often on grid
Automatically shifted into solar hours
Savings
"You'll see it on the bill"
Measured and reported in rands
The platform
Someone else's black box
Designed, built and supported in South Africa — by us
What Solaire Intelligence does for your system
The install gets you the hardware. SI gets you the performance.
See everything, live
Solar, battery, grid and load in real time — the same power-flow picture
as our interactive explainer, but it's
your house, updating every few seconds.
Loads follow the sun
SI scores energy availability moment to moment and shifts the geyser,
pool pump and other flexible loads into solar hours automatically. Free
energy does the heavy lifting; the grid gets the scraps.
Local-first, cloud-optional
The intelligence runs on hardware in your home, not a server overseas.
Internet down? Load shedding? Your automation keeps working. We call it
local-first — your systems work whether the cloud does or not.
Savings, in rands
Daily AI reports and accountability dashboards translate kilowatt-hours
into money. The payback we promised in the proposal is a number you can
watch happening.
Problems caught early
A failing panel string or a battery misbehaving shows up in the data long
before it shows up on your bill. Monitored systems get fixed in days, not
discovered in months.
Grows with you
SI Gateway, SI Switch, SI Water, SI Pool — a modular ecosystem. Start
with monitoring, add control over the geyser or pool later. Home Assistant
native, no lock-in.
Why does an installer have its own product company? Because 26 years in
pools, HVAC and electrical work taught us where installed systems quietly waste money —
and off-the-shelf software wasn't fixing it. So we built the hardware and software
ourselves — Solaire Intelligence, our sister company: same people, same
workshop. Our installations are where it shows off. Explore the full platform at
solaire-intelligence.co.za.
The app
Your whole system, in your pocket.
Real screens from the SI app on live systems — energy history, ECM decisions,
water management, and savings tracked in rands.
The whole installation, live — grid, solar, battery and both load buses
Today's story: solar, load, grid, battery state and the ECM score — SI's live energy-availability rating
Live ECM decisions — the pump runs when the energy is right
Real inverter control — charge current, solar sell, time-of-use
Cost & savings in rands — solar independence, tracked daily
Live demo — no hardware needed
Don't take our word for it. Watch a real system, right now.
Open the live SI demo and see solar production, battery state and energy
scores updating in real time — exactly what you'd see on your own installation.
Tell us about your property and we'll propose a system with the intelligence
option priced alongside it — take it now, add it later, or skip it. Your call.
Solaire Intelligence · Inside
