Leader in smart energy

Founder and Group of companies
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Vision and guiding principles

Innovation for the future! With visionary solutions, we design technologies for the decentralised energy supply of tomorrow.

At smart-me, we promote a dynamic and open corporate culture, communicate with each other as equals and operate with flat decision-making processes. We provide meaningful workplaces with modern employment conditions and sufficient room for personal initiative and further development.

We enable our partners and customers to work independently and efficiently with our smart energy solutions and achieve their goals.

The founders

smart-me was founded in 2014 by father and son team David and Arnold Eberli. David comes from the software sector and Noldy from the hardware sector, which together are the perfect prerequisites for the development of smart-me products.

David Eberli

David Eberli

Founder, CEO and Head of Software Development

Noldy Eberli

Noldy Eberli

Founder and Senior Hardware Developer

Our Groups of companies

With eCarUp and smart-RED, smart-me is involved in subsidiaries for expansion in electromobility and the German market respectively. eCarUp offers a flexible yet uncomplicated platform for managing and billing e-charging stations in private, semi-public and public use cases. smart-RED represents our products on the German market, where there is a huge demand for smart metering infrastructure and smart charging stations as a result of the growing number of tenant electricity projects.

         

Milestones

Since our foundation in 2014, we have had one major goal: the digitalisation of the energy sector.

Since then, we have supplied the energy management system for thousands of properties worldwide.

And our triumphal march is far from over.

2024 - 10-year anniversary, MLM release, VEWA billing conformity and Energy Tour
  • With software product enhancements such as multilevel load management (MLM) and VEWA-compliant billing, we are launching the electromobility and multi-energy business areas to give smart-me a broader base
  • For the first time, we are travelling with three other companies (eCarUp AG, modual and Solar Manager) on an Energy Tour and have presented our solutions at three locations in Switzerland.
  • We can now count 29 employees with a great team spirit among our loyal souls.
2023 - Relocation to Riedstrasse 18 and MID certification for Pico
  • After a short time, production and the office are also back at the same location. In addition to more space for production, the new location also offers more space for the new employees (latest headcount: 27 employees).
  • The smart-me Pico e-charging station also received MID certification and can therefore be used for billing purposes.
2022 - Launch Pico e-charging station and diploma at the Watt d'Or
  • With Pico, we launched our first e-charging station. Pico is the Swiss high-tech charging station that connects directly to the cloud via Wi-Fi or mobile communications. With an integrated MID-certified smart meter, Pico delivers high-precision measurement data. This charging station can be seamlessly integrated into backends, energy management systems and other third-party systems. Pico not only features efficient static load management to optimise energy usage, but also offers dynamic MLM for smart control in any building.
  • We received a Watt d’Or diploma for our work on the ‘NeuRaum’ development.
2021 - Launch of Telstar CT 3-phase meter and larger office space
  • We completed our energy management solution with the launch of the Telstar CT 3-phase meter.
  • Production remains at Lettenstrasse 9 and the offices move to new, larger premises in the same building.
2020 - Launch 3-phase meter Telstar
  • The completely revised 3-phase counter was launched on the market.
2019 - 5th anniversary of smart-me!
  • The five-year anniversary also marked the transition from a start-up to a young company. We now have twelve employees working for us.
2018 - Move to new premises, MID certification and receipt of label and award
  • smart-me now employs nine people. Due to this growth, we moved into larger offices in the same building.
  • The 3-phase meter received MID certification and can therefore be used for billing purposes.
  • We received the SEF.High Potential SME label and won the xplor Startup Award.
2017 - Foundation of smart-Red GmbH (DE) and eCarUp AG and launch 3-phase meter
2016 - Relocation and launch of smart-me billing
  • smart-me moved its headquarters from Rickenbach (SZ) to Rotkreuz (ZG) and the team grew to 5 employees.
  • smart-me Billing was launched.
  • smart-me prevailed against twelve start-ups and won the DigitImmo 16 Award.
2015 - Launch of 1-phase meter, first employee and Axpo Energy Award win
  • smart-me launched its first product for commercial customers, the 1-phase meter.
  • At the same time, we were able to recruit and hire our first employee, a field sales representative, for smart-me (he is still on board today!).
  • smart-me received the Axpo Energy Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the energy sector.
2014 - Foundation of smart-me GmbH and crowdfunding campaign
  • David and Noldy Eberli founded smart-me GmbH with the aim of digitalising the energy sector.
  • The development of the smart-me plug was financed with a crowdfunding campaign. The plug is a socket plug with a WLAN connection.

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