Welcome to Prospect
Prospect is an open source data platform for the energy access sector that allows you to customize data flows coming from ongrid, minigrid and offgrid sources. Brought to you by the Access to Energy Institute (A2EI) and GET.invest. Free of charge.
Prospect Features
Aggregation, Validation and Verification
Prospect allows you to automatically aggregate data coming from different sources into one platform.
Benefit:
The relative contribution of ongrid, minigrid, and offgrid connections to the success of an electrification strategy is immediately visible. The silo approach which tends to separate ongrid, minigrid and offgrid data streams is overcome. Prospect also validates and verifies the incoming data.
Fully Customizable Visualization
Prospect enables you to see where exactly the different energy sources (ongrid, minigrid, offgrid) are available in your town/region/country. Any energy solution, including productive use appliances and clean cooking devices can be shown. Various metrics ranging from technical, maintenance data, impact and financial details can be visualized.
Benefit:
Displaying location and concentrations of energy solutions gives viewers an intuitive understanding of the current energy supply situation. Dashboards can be fully customized to cater to individualized information needs. Complex data is visualized to allow for data-driven decisions.
Monitoring
Prospect is typically connected to every energy solution it collects data on, thus allowing you to remotely monitor the systems from your desk. Both technical and payment data, for example, can be analyzed in real time.
Benefit:
Remote monitoring gives you a real time assessment of the energy solutions you are responsible for and allows you to intervene, e.g., by adjusting your financial, maintenance, or product development planning.
Reporting & Analysis
Prospect continuously and automatically enables you to report on, evaluate and learn from the performance of the energy solutions. Prospect transparently summarizes whatever data you would want to report on automatically.
Benefit:
Prospect can directly compute the efficiency, financial viability and impact of your energy solutions, thereby proving its effectiveness and helping you leverage additional funding. Reporting becomes an automated and 100% transparent process and does not require field visits anymore. Reporting becomes less costly while being more precise.
Prospect highlights
Validated & verified data
key to achieving sustainable energy access for all
Data privacy & security
data usage rights remain with the data owner at all times, no collection or processing of personal data
Simple & intuitive
Prospect provides a guided data import wizzard that simplifies and automates loading data into the platform.
Compelling visualizations
powerful graphical comparisons of energy solutions, technical data & impact metrics
Open source
no proprietary software needed, no licensing fees need to be paid, Prospect can be installed locally.
Prospect data import
Prospect will guide you through the data input step by step with our data ingestion wizzard.
HOW TO GET YOUR DATA INTO PROSPECT?
Prospect offers an easy-to-use data ingestion process, whether the data comes from an Excel Sheet, a database or for example from the API of the smart meter you are using to collect information.
Ready to start?
Sign-up here for free and display your data on Prospect right away.
What people say about Prospect
Manager Corporate Affairs at the Zambian Rural Electrification Authority
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
CEO Creeds Energy
President & Founder Sunna Design
Who works behind the scenes?
The A2EI in-house team bringing you Prospect is a group of very experienced and seasoned software and data experts. On top, they understand what your business is, what you need - because they have vast experience in the on-the-ground energy access sector, with real customers.
What we strive for...
Our team focuses on cutting-edge technology, takes data privacy/security very seriously, is committed to genuine open-source and is passionate to provide good and efficient solutions for climate change mitigation and energy access. Being non-for-profit allows us to bring you the service free of charge.Spotlight
How Prospect helps people around the world:
REA Zambia - monitoring Zambia´s rural electrification progress
The Rural Electrification Authority of Zambia uses Prospect to monitor its full portfolio of electrification projects, making detailed data available to report accurately on progress, allowing remote monitoring of installations and effective oversight of contractors…
Ministry of Health of Benin
Within the “Solar4Clinics” project, the Access to Energy Institute has partnered with the Ministry of Health of Benin and GIZ Benin to install smart meters on healthcare facilities to gather data to evaluate the energy needs of these facilities over a period of time…
Solar Generators in Nigeria – Carbon Credit Finance assists replacing fossil fuel gensets
Prospect visualizes the impact of solar systems replacing fossil fuel gensets in Nigeria and automatically calculates carbon mitigation. The environmental benefit becomes an economical benefit if carbon credits can be paid out automatically, thus contributing to scaling…
Want to be part of the open source community?
We aim to create a lively and interactive development community around Prospect, allowing for innovative and individual use cases. Join our Prospect development community and add the functionality that is needed by your project.
Prospect is a cooperation between the Access to Energy Institute (A2EI) and the European programme GET.invest. It is supported by the European Union, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Austria.
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