About Us

Smart Pear was formed in 2018 with the intention of delivering best of breed software solutions to the GB Smart Energy market. Smart Pear solutions were designed from the ground up to support security, resilience, scalability and performance as basic architectural principles using industry leading cloud based services.

The Smart Pear platform and architecture provides for cost effective solutions that grow with your business and provide for lower total cost of ownership. Smart Pear is underpinned by personnel with the foremost knowledge and expertise in GB Smart Metering to provide you with the necessary confidence and assurance.

What are the Opportunities?

Smart Meters are being rolled out countrywide in both domestic and commercial premises.

The Government objective is that every home and business, will now have a Smart Meter installed by the end of 2025.

The target is to have more than 53 million smart gas and electric meters in homes and businesses by the end of the roll-out period.

Smart Metering will allow huge amounts of data to be collated and accessed by Manufacturers, Energy Suppliers, Energy Saving Schemes, Community Energy, Export Supply, Social Energy, and Research Organisations.

This data driven energy market presents many interesting opportunities for increasing energy efficiency and for the introduction of new innovative commercial products & services that can leverage the GB Smart Metering infrastructure - offering benefits to consumers and market players alike.

Decarbonistion, decentralisation and the digitisation of data are presenting opportunities and shaping a new look energy market. Smart Pear can help you embrace the opportunities associated with this change through our innovative solutions.

What are the Challenges?

Some organisations require access to data available through the DCC and from Smart Meters, some organisations need to join Consumer Access Devices to an energy consumer’s smart meters to provide their service to them.

Any organisation wishing to access data, or communicate & interface with Smart Meters, must ordinarily become a ‘DCC User’, with a need to develop and maintain specialist compliant software to communicate with the DCC.

This is a complex, time consuming and costly process.

Whilst a data driven energy market is soon to be within reach, accessing and utilisation of this data does come with significant barriers and challenges associated with becoming a DCC User. So, what is the answer?

Smart Pear Solutions

For DCC Users (e.g. Energy Suppliers)

Smart Pear provides an essential and business critical DCC Adapter solution allowing organisations that are DCC Users, or are planning on becoming DCC Users, the capability to access the DCC and Smart Meters to fulfil their energy licence conditions and their regulatory requirements.

Smart Pear provides a cost effective, secure, resilient, scalable and high performance solution that is designed to grow with your business. Find out more about our services

For Non-DCC Users

Smart Pear significantly lowers the barrier to entry to GB Smart Metering for non-DCC Users by:

  • Significantly reducing the time to market entry.
  • Reducing the cost of communicating with the DCC and Smart Meters.
  • Removing the requirement to go though the DCC User security, testing & entry processes and the associated complexities & costs of becoming a DCC User.
  • Negating the need to rent and host a DCC user interface gateway and the building of a custom DCC Adapter.
  • Removing the need for you to comply with ongoing regulatory requirements associated with being a DCC User.
  • Continually developing, monitoring and updating services to ensure compliance with the latest regulatory and DCC requirements.
  • Supporting communications with SMETS1 meters as well as SMETS2 from the outset.
  • Allowing Consumer Access Devices interactions e.g. joining to the network, reading etc.

Smart Pear provides an essential and business critical DCC Adapter solution allowing organisations to gain access to key data and information from Smart Meters and the DCC without the need to become a DCC User. Find out more about our services