Arcadia Platform vs FTW

Arcadia Platform is an energy intelligence platform for businesses managing utility costs, energy use, and sustainability programs. Plug centralizes utility bills, emissions data, and interval readings from electricity, water, and waste providers. Arcadia describes thousands of providers in more than 90 countries, with electricity readings at 15-, 30-, and 60-minute intervals and historical or ongoing collection. Its REST API connects to providers, retrieves usage data, and organizes it by site. Signal models portfolio electricity costs from tariff structures and usage data, with API calculations; Arcadia says its tariff database covers more than 30,000 tariffs. The platform includes solar and storage analysis, energy forecasting, and carbon tracking. Sustainability reporting integrates with Salesforce Net Zero Cloud, Watershed, Sweep, and other platforms. Arcadia positions it for finance, procurement, operations, energy management, and sustainability teams at large enterprises. It is offered through web and API access, with pricing available on request.

FTW connects supported solar equipment, batteries, and car chargers from different brands for home energy use. Its Energyplan weighs charging needs, electricity prices and tariffs, solar and household forecasts, battery state, and efficiency to plan energy use. FTW Core checks proposed plans and commands against site and equipment limits, with a local fallback if the planner is unavailable. The beta indicates whether controlled devices are following FTW, waiting, limited, or need attention, using device readings and separate meter confirmation where available. Lua drivers connect supported meters, inverters, and batteries, although supported models, firmware, and verified functions vary. OCPP 1.6J and 2.0.1 chargers can connect to FTW's built-in server without a Lua driver, subject to their supported functions. FTW also lists API and Home Assistant connections for observation or automation. It runs on a user's own host, with Linux and Docker installation paths and Raspberry Pi or Linux deployment described. FTW is an early 0.x beta; active control requires a working site meter and confirmed main fuse rating.