GridPoint Intelligence vs SpheraCloud

GridPoint Intelligence is an energy management platform for commercial customers looking to understand and optimize energy use across buildings. It connects with existing building assets and provides metering, asset monitoring, remote controls, and energy optimization. The platform interprets building data to automate operations, identify anomalies and inefficiencies, and recommend actions related to equipment performance.

For HVAC, GridPoint monitors units, helps diagnose issues remotely, ranks them by severity, and supports repair validation. Automation can use schedules based on time of use, operating hours, occupancy, sensors, and daylight. GridPoint says its demand response technology is OpenADR certified and works with other protocols. Its energy manager app provides energy-use feedback, asset monitoring, reports, and alerts on Android and iOS; the platform is also available on the web. Two-factor authentication is optional. Pricing is on request, and packages can be out of the box or customized for a site. A 90-day pilot is available. GridPoint was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

SpheraCloud Health and Safety Management brings safety data and workflows together, using automation and real-time insights to support organizational safety processes. It centralizes inspection findings, incident and near-miss reports, observations and training records for analysis. The suite covers risk assessment, incident management, management of change, behavior-based safety, actions, training management, contractor safety, analytics, audits and data collection. Workers can submit incident and near-miss reports from mobile, touchscreen or kiosk devices; reporting tools show trends and risks and can produce audit-ready reports. Operational Compliance adds regulatory content focused on the United States, Canada and Mexico, a register of local through international requirements, alerts, dashboards, shareable reports and an audit trail. Sphera describes the platform as cloud-based, multitenant SaaS, while also offering cloud, on-premise or hybrid deployment options. The Health & Safety Management plan requires at least one core module and at least 250 named users per module; pricing is available on request. Android, iOS and web are listed. Sphera was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.