Supported hardware & protocols

Everything we can meter — already supported

Cloudarea pulls live telemetry from the meters most sites already have on the wall — and from the open protocols engineers reach for when something custom is required. The full list is below; if a meter or protocol is missing, we add it for free on any engagement above 50 metering points.

Meters

Supported meters

5 hardware brands we read out of the box, with per-site polling from 1-second to 15-minute intervals.

eGauge

Meter

Branch-circuit energy meters (EG4xx / Expert) read on 1-second intervals via the on-device REST API.
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Schneider Electric

Meter

ION / PowerLogic series (8400 / 8000) and E-Series submeters, polled over Modbus TCP or Ethernet gateway.
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Eaton

Meter

Power Xpert meters (IQ250 / 350 / 600) and ELCM submeters, polled over Modbus or the bundled Compressed-Data gateway.
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Obvius

Meter

Rack-level AcquiSuite and A8810 gateways feeding our ingest pipeline — typically used for data-center PDUs.
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Ratio

Meter

Ratio Electric submeters (formerly Hager) read over the local Modbus RTU bus and bridged to our REST endpoint.
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Protocols

Supported protocols

6 transports we can pull from, including a backend SQL mirror for sites with an existing time-series store.

BACnet

Protocol

BACnet/IP objects from a BMS, VAV controller or chiller plant — ingested through a per-site BACnet gateway.
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Modbus TCP/RTU

Protocol

Open-register polling for any device that publishes over Modbus TCP or RTU (registers mapped by us per site).
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MQTT

Protocol

Subscribe to any MQTT topic on your broker — ideal for solar inverters, battery BMS, and IoT sensor stacks.
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REST / HTTP

Protocol

Pull or push JSON or CSV from any REST endpoint your hardware or SCADA exposes — the most flexible option.
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Manual CSV upload

Protocol

Drop a monthly CSV from a meter the team owns — we parse it, validate against the schema, and slot it into the model.
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PostgreSQL / SQL mirror

Protocol

For sites with an existing time-series database we read against a read-only SQL view (PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQL Server).
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Don't see what you use? We add a missing protocol free on any project above 50 metering points, and run the protocol onboarding remotely — no truck roll required.

Don't see your meter?

We'll add a protocol free for projects >50 points.

Send us the make and model and a one-line description of what you need measured — we will come back with a scoped protocol plan or a quote, no deck required. Smaller projects can also be onboarded; just ask.

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