Our development project on the digitalisation of temporary environments has been completed. During the project, the Spine system was developed further to meet the needs of construction and infrastructure sites and other temporary environments even more broadly.
The aim of the work was to improve the measurement, control and automation of electricity and heating in particular, as well as the operational reliability of the system and the use of the data it collects.
The work progressed from design to prototypes and hands-on field testing. The result is a set of new products and features that are now being taken into the Spine product family.
New solutions for measurement, control and automation
The main results of the project are:
- Spine Valve, which brings the control and monitoring of water-circulating heaters into the Spine system.
- Spine Load, a product family for automatic load management, developed especially for generator and worksite use.
- Spine MID, whose development continues for measuring and reporting energy consumption data in line with MID requirements.
- New features in the Spine app, covering areas such as device commissioning, automations, alerts, asset management and making better use of the collected data.
Field testing steers the development
One of the most important findings of the project was the value of hands-on field testing and customer feedback. Real environments reveal needs and opportunities that cannot always be anticipated at the design stage.
That is why not every solution was built exactly as originally planned. Through testing, feedback and iteration we ended up with solutions that match the real needs of worksites better.
The project ends – the development of Spine continues
The end of the development project does not mean the end of Spine development. The commercialisation of Spine Valve and Spine Load continues, the development of Spine MID moves forward, and at the same time we keep developing automations, reporting and the use of the collected data.
The goal is to make Spine an ever more complete tool for monitoring and controlling temporary environments – so that real-time information helps reduce disruptions, use energy more efficiently and make the daily management of a site easier.
The project on the digitalisation of temporary environments was carried out with co-funding from the European Union through the Just Transition Fund (JTF), as part of the Renewing and Competent Finland 2021–2027 programme.
