Basis for utilities
Test what's possible when every home on your network is intelligent.
We run live trials with New Zealand's lines companies to prove what a distributed, circuit-level network actually looks like. DER orchestration, demand flexibility, fault-level signal: tested, measured, and handed back as evidence you can take to your next regulatory submission.
Four pilots already announced. The platform is open. The API is ready.
Live pilots
Real networks. Real homes. Real data.
Four NZ lines companies are already working with Basis to test what the next generation of network operations looks like. If your team wants to design the fifth, we're ready.
Pilot · Counties Power
DSO trial with Ara Ake
Exploring Distribution System Operator capabilities on a NZ network: real-time visibility, dispatchable flex, and network tariff co-design. Run in partnership with Ara Ake, New Zealand's future-energy innovation centre.
Pilot · PowerCo
Flex trial
Testing edge-dispatched flexibility across a sample of Basis-equipped homes on the PowerCo network. Measuring load shift, frequency support, and export shaping.
Pilot · The Lines Company
Flex trial
Evaluating Basis Boards as a primary source of network-edge telemetry and flex in remote / rural supply environments.
Pilot · Orion
Flex trial
Canterbury-focused pilot exploring DER orchestration and fault-level signal aggregation across a Basis-equipped customer cohort.
[ENGINEERING: confirm each pilot's public status before publishing. Some may need Comms approval from partner networks.]
What Basis unlocks at the network edge
Three capabilities legacy metering can't give you. All in the same device.
Edge telemetry at circuit level
Every Basis Board streams real-time consumption, generation, voltage, frequency, temperature and power quality, per circuit, not per home. A richer dataset than anything meter-based.
Dispatchable demand flexibility
Panels can shed or shift load on network signal: hot water, EV charging, battery dispatch. Measured response, audit-grade telemetry.
Fault-level early warning
Arc, earth-leakage, and voltage events detected before the customer calls. Aggregated, these become signals for feeder-level maintenance planning.
Developer platform
The Basis API. Your team's sandbox.
Real-time fleet data, per-circuit telemetry, webhook events, control primitives. Everything a network-planning or trading team needs to prototype what comes next.
Metering
Retail Metering. The certified layer.
Basis is a Metering Equipment Provider in its own right. Real settlement-grade data, independent of home Wi-Fi. The foundation every pilot above sits on top of.
Open platform
We'd rather you build on Basis than build around it.
The four pilots above all started with a conversation and a hypothesis. What we're really offering is access: to a fleet, to an API, to a team that's been thinking about what comes next for a long time.
If you've got a network-level question, bring it. We'll probably want to test it.
Schematic of a network feeder with Basis Boards at the edge, signal flowing back to a central DSO/ADMS diagram. Clean, architectural, stone tones. [ENGINEERING: replace with branded network diagram.]
Propose a trial
You bring the network question.
We bring the homes.
Our networks team will scope a pilot, handle the legal, set up the data feeds, and work alongside yours. Most trials start at 50–200 homes and run 6–12 months.