How MAS Holdings Unified Their Renewable Energy Monitoring with THINGSNODE's Vendor-Independent IoT Platform

In today’s fast-evolving energy landscape, enterprise-scale solar adopters face a unique challenge: how to monitor, manage, and optimize large distributed renewable energy systems built with multi-vendor equipment. MAS Holdings, one

of South Asia’s largest and most sustainable apparel tech companies, recognized this critical issue across their rooftop solar installations. That’s where THINGSNODE stepped in—delivering a real-time, scalable, and vendor-independent IoT monitoring solution that set a new benchmark in renewable energy monitoring.

About MAS Holdings

MAS Holdings is a global leader in innovative apparel manufacturing, sustainability, and technology. Headquartered in Sri Lanka, the company operates numerous facilities worldwide and has invested heavily in renewable energy—particularly rooftop solar installations exceeding 100kW in capacity. These installations span multiple sites, each using equipment from different vendors.

While MAS made a strategic move toward energy transition and sustainability, they faced roadblocks in consolidating and managing solar performance across disparate systems.

The Challenge

MAS’s solar plants were generating substantial energy, but the lack of centralized visibility was a serious concern:

• • • They couldn’t rely on free, proprietary software bundled with each solar vendor’s hardware.
    • With systems scattered across multiple locations, comparing and analyzing data holistically became impossible.
    • Performance forecasting, ROI validation, and predictive maintenance were manual, inconsistent, or unavailable.
    • The absence of real-time monitoring systems meant delays in fault detection and longer downtimes.

To address these pain points, MAS needed a unified, scalable platform that could connect to any system, deliver real-time insights, and support advanced AIOT capabilities like forecasting and anomaly detection.

Our Solution: A Unified, Scalable, and Vendor-Independent Renewable Energy Monitoring Platform

To address MAS Holdings’ critical need for a centralized and reliable energy monitoring system, THINGSNODE delivered a fully customized, vendor-agnostic IoT solution that seamlessly integrates data across all their rooftop solar assets, regardless of the hardware vendor or site location.

Our solution was designed with the end-user in mind, ensuring that every layer of the platform—from edge-level data capture to cloud-based visualization—contributes directly to MAS’s operational goals of real-time visibility, multi-site integration, performance forecasting, and downtime reduction.

How THINGSNODE Met MAS’s Requirements:

• • Unifying Multiple Vendor Systems :
    MAS previously struggled with fragmented systems provided by different inverter manufacturers such as KACO, SolaX, and Fimer. Our THINGSNODE IoT Gateways, deployed at each rooftop site, support industry-standard protocols like MQTTs, Modbus RTU/TCP, and HTTPs, enabling seamless communication with all these inverter types. This ensures complete vendor independence and eliminates reliance on inflexible software provided by OEMs.
  • Real-Time Visibility Across All Locations:
    We built a centralized, cloud-hosted dashboard that aggregates and visualizes real-time data from all rooftop installations. Regardless of geographic location or inverter brand, MAS can monitor key performance indicators such as energy generation, inverter health, uptime, and fault alerts from a single pane of glass—supporting quick, data-driven decision-making.
  • Scalable and Accessible Data Platform:
    The system is fully mobile-responsive and accessible across desktops, tablets, and smartphones, ensuring real-time access for engineers, facility managers, and corporate sustainability teams. Hosted on a secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, the platform supports future expansion to additional sites and devices without requiring redesign.
  • AI-Driven Optimization and Intelligence:
    MAS required insights that go beyond simple monitoring. Our platform integrates AI-powered modules to:
    • • Forecast solar generation based on weather and historical data trends,
      • Detect anomalies that may indicate early-stage equipment failures,
      • Trigger predictive maintenance actions before serious issues arise.

These intelligent features enable MAS to minimize downtime, maximize solar ROI, and optimize resource allocation across their energy infrastructure.

Solution Architecture

Each rooftop solar site features a THINGSNODE IoT Gateway that securely transmits telemetry data (voltage, current, energy output, faults, etc.) to the cloud. The data is processed by our real-time analytics platform, visualized on a centralized dashboard, and made available to stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.

This setup is completely vendor-agnostic, making it future-proof and scalable for new installations or hardware replacements.

Benefits Delivered

MAS Holdings realized multiple tangible benefits after implementing THINGSNODE:

• • • Unified Monitoring: All solar assets—regardless of brand or location—are now monitored from one intelligent dashboard.
    • ROI Tracking: Real-time analytics help validate investment performance and guide future energy strategy.
    • Proactive Maintenance: With built-in alerting and predictive diagnostics, downtimes are reduced, and faults are resolved faster.
    • AIOT Integration: Advanced forecasting and anomaly detection enable MAS to stay ahead of performance drops.
    • Sustainability Reporting: Historical data and KPIs are now automated, accurate, and export-ready for ESG reporting.

Why THINGSNODE?

At THINGSNODE, we specialize in data-driven solutions for energy, climate, and industrial monitoring. Our technology blends IoT, cloud computing, and AI analytics to create real-time monitoring systems that are scalable, vendor-independent, and tailored to your needs.

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