Aurex Digital Energy Solutions is a founder-led engineering initiative based in Machakos, Kenya, at the intersection of:

We build systems that make Africa's energy infrastructure visible, coordinated, and intelligent — connecting open-source tools, IoT hardware, and AI-driven analytics into practical, deployable solutions.

Projects ranked by strategic priority — from flagship initiatives to foundational tools.

National-Scale Energy Digital Infrastructure | Python · FastAPI · AI · IoT · OpenEMS

The cornerstone Aurex initiative — a national-scale Distributed Energy Resource Management System designed to give Kenya and broader African utilities a unified digital platform to monitor, coordinate, and optimize every distributed energy resource connected to the grid.

NDERMS bridges the gap between Kenya's rapidly growing distributed energy landscape — solar PV, batteries, microgrids, and flexible loads — and the digital intelligence layer needed to manage it all at national scale.

• 🗺️ National-scope DER visibility & real-time telemetry
• 🔄 Grid-level demand response & load coordination
• 🧠 AI/ML energy forecasting & predictive grid analytics
• 🔋 Battery storage, solar PV & microgrid integration
• 🏭 Virtual Power Plant aggregation across distributed assets
• 📡 IoT-connected field devices & remote monitoring
• 🔓 Built on open-source energy standards (OpenEMS, DERMS)
• 🌍 Designed for Kenya — scalable across Sub-Saharan Africa

#NDERMS#NationalGrid#DistributedEnergy#VirtualPowerPlant#SmartGrid#Python#FastAPI#MachineLearning#IoT#OpenEMS#AfricaEnergy

Open-Source Energy Management Development | Java · Renewable Integration · Battery Systems

The strategic backbone of Aurex's energy platform work — building on OpenEMS, the leading open-source framework for modern energy management, renewable integration, battery systems, and intelligent energy control. This is the core infrastructure layer all energy solutions are built upon.

• 🌞 Solar PV & renewable energy integration
• 🔋 Battery system management & optimization
• 📡 Real-time energy monitoring & forecasting
• 🔧 Software-hardware bridge layer
• 🌍 Foundation for Africa-scale energy deployments

#OpenEMS#EnergyForecasting#EnergyEfficiency#EnergyMonitoring#Java#RenewableEnergy

Distributed Energy Resource Management System | Python · FastAPI · Machine Learning · IoT

A production-grade DERMS and Virtual Power Plant system for utilities and energy stakeholders — monitoring, coordinating, and optimizing distributed energy resources at scale. The most technically complex original Aurex project, directly addressing Africa's DER management gap and serving as the implementation base for NDERMS.

• 📡 Real-time DER monitoring and telemetry
• 🔄 Demand response orchestration
• 🧠 ML-based energy forecasting & load prediction
• 🛡️ Smart grid integration & battery storage management
• 🏭 Virtual Power Plant aggregation layer

#DERMS#VirtualPowerPlant#SmartGrid#Python#FastAPI#MachineLearning#IoT#BatteryStorage

Open-Source Facility Energy Monitoring | Python · Raspberry Pi · Dashboards

A practical facility-level energy management deployment using MyEMS — collecting energy data, visualizing KPIs, and improving operational efficiency through open-source tooling. Bridges Aurex's software capabilities with physical facility infrastructure.

• 📊 Energy data collection & KPI visualization
• 🖥️ Facility-level monitoring dashboards
• 🥧 Raspberry Pi edge deployment
• 🔓 Open-source energy management stack
• 🏢 Commercial & industrial facility readiness

#MyEMS#FacilityManagement#RaspberryPi#OpenSource#EnergyEfficiency

IoT Digital Twin for ESP32 Hardware | Python · ESP32 Simulation

📬 Industry Interest: This project has received an active outreach inquiry from MineWing, an electronics-integrated company based in Vietnam, signalling international commercial interest in the IoT digital twin architecture.

A Python-based digital twin of a physical ESP32 plant monitoring setup — models the complete IoT data lifecycle from sensor generation to automated action. Enables full system prototyping without hardware — a pattern directly transferable to industrial IoT deployments.

• 🌡️ Temperature, humidity & soil moisture simulation
• 🔁 Full IoT data lifecycle modelling
• 📲 Alert & automation logic
• 🛠️ Hardware-free ESP32 rapid prototyping
• 🏭 Industrial IoT pattern — adaptable to manufacturing & agriculture

#DigitalTwin#ESP32#IoT#Python#Automation#IndustrialIoT

Africa's energy systems are growing fast — solar PV, distributed generation, microgrids, and smart meters are being deployed across the continent. But the digital intelligence layer — the software, IoT networks, and AI systems that make energy visible, controllable, and efficient — is largely absent.

Aurex Digital Energy Solutions exists to close that gap. Through open-source tools, IoT deployments, and ML-driven analytics, we're engineering:

• 🔭 Energy Visibility — real-time monitoring of every watt generated and consumed
• 🔄 DER Coordination — managing distributed solar, batteries, and flexible loads intelligently
• 📡 Connected Infrastructure — IoT systems that link hardware to cloud platforms
• 🧠 AI-Powered Insights — predictive analytics for demand, maintenance, and optimization

Open to collaboration on:

• 🔋 Energy management, DERMS & Virtual Power Plant systems
• 🌐 IoT smart infrastructure and sensor networks
• ☁️ Cloud monitoring, telemetry, and data platforms
• 🤖 AI-assisted engineering and autonomous energy systems
• 🧑‍🏫 Open-source energy tools and community building
• 🌍 Africa-focused digital energy infrastructure projects