What is a generator remote monitoring system?

It’s software that reads status, alarms, and measurements from generator controllers, so your team can see every unit without visiting the site. Keyfive can do that across brands and put generators, transfer switches, batteries, and meters in the same view.

Will Keyfive override our protection settings or BMS?

No. Your protection relays and BMS stay in charge. Keyfive works inside the limits they set.

Can Keyfive control our equipment, or only monitor it?

Monitoring is the default. To start generators, run transfers, or dispatch batteries, you add Energy Intelligence, which is embedded in your site systems and scoped with your team.

What happens when technicians are on site?

Keyfive can honor local-control modes and lockout-tagout, and hold remote commands until the site is released.

We run several equipment brands. Is that a problem?

No. Keyfive can put different brands in the same fleet view.

What if a site loses its connection?

Keyfive can keep recording at the site, then backfill the data in order when the link returns.

Do we need new meters or sensors?

Usually not. Keyfive works with the controllers and meters you already have, and we recommend new hardware only when a site needs it.

Who builds and maintains the connection?

Keyfive can manage it for you, or your team can own parts of it with our support.

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Remote monitoring system for generators, BESS, and power meters.

Whiteboard sketch: generators, a transfer switch, batteries, inverters, and meters feed Keyfive, which shows them in one view. With Energy Intelligence, control goes back to the generators, transfer switch, and inverters.

Keyfive can bring every generator, transfer switch, battery energy storage system (BESS), and meter at your sites into one live view for asset health and maintenance. With Energy Intelligence embedded in your site systems, it can also run transfers, exercise runs, and battery dispatch inside the limits your protection settings and battery management system (BMS) set.

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How does generator and BESS remote monitoring work?

Keyfive connects to each controller, battery management system, and meter platform through the protocols it already uses, like Modbus, so equipment from different makers lands on one timeline. Read-only monitoring or intelligent command and control options available.

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Power controls integration

Keyfive can read status, alarms, and measurements from your generator controllers, automatic transfer switch (ATS) controllers, and protection relays, so your team sees utility health, generator status, and breaker positions for every site in one place. It can turn fault codes into plain-language alerts and keep a detailed record around each event for your reliability team. With Energy Intelligence embedded, Keyfive can also run transfer sequences and scheduled exercise runs inside the limits your protection settings set.

Common systems: Basler Electric generator controllers and protection relays, and Deep Sea Electronics generator and transfer switch controllers

Keyfive reads status, alarms, and measurements from generator controllers and relays, and with Energy Intelligence can send start, transfer, and exercise-run commands.

Energy storage and solar integration

Keyfive can put cell, pack, and stack data from your BMS on the same timeline as your generators, inverters, and load, and treat several stacks as one battery. Reliability Intelligence can trend imbalance, temperature, and capacity over time, and a battery alarm arrives with what the rest of the site was doing. With Energy Intelligence embedded, Keyfive can send charge and discharge setpoints to the battery inverter, inside the limits the BMS reports, while the BMS keeps protecting the cells.

Common systems: Nuvation Energy battery management systems

Keyfive reads cell, pack, and stack data and BMS limits, and with Energy Intelligence can send charge and discharge setpoints to the battery inverter within those limits.

Metering and power monitoring integration

Keyfive can bring electric and generator meter data into the same view as your generators and batteries, mapped to each site, using the metering you already have. It can flag a meter that stops reporting, catch up after an interruption, and use readings for alerts, peak detection, and demand analysis. The connection is read-only, so nothing changes in your meter platform.

Common systems: Tipify

Keyfive reads electric and generator meter readings and feed status, and sends nothing back to your meter platform.

Don’t see your controller, battery, or meter?

The systems above are common examples, not a complete list. Keyfive’s data architecture is flexible, so we can connect to the controllers, batteries, inverters, and meters you already run. If your system isn’t listed, we can scope a connection for it during onboarding.

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Benefits of monitoring generators, BESS, and meters in one system.

One view across brands

Generators, batteries, and meters from different makers can sit side by side in one fleet view.

Alarms your team can act on

Keyfive can turn controller fault codes into plain-language alerts, with what the rest of the site was doing at the time.

A timeline after every event

Keyfive can keep a time-aligned record around each event, so your team can see what happened and in what order.

EXAMPLE

A utility outage across several standby generator sites.

Take a multi-site operator that relies on standby generators. Here’s how the same utility outage could play out with and without Keyfive.

	Without Keyfive	With Keyfive
Seeing the outage	Someone calls the site, or waits for a controller alarm email.	Keyfive can show utility health, generator status, and breaker positions for every site on one screen.
Understanding the alarm	A technician looks up the fault code in the controller manual.	Keyfive can turn the fault code into a plain-language alert that shows what changed just before it.
Running the transfer	The transfer runs at the site, and the team learns how it went afterward.	With Energy Intelligence embedded, Keyfive can run the transfer sequence inside your protection settings and record each step.
Reviewing what happened	The reliability team pulls controller logs and pieces together a timeline by hand.	Keyfive can keep a time-aligned record of the event, so the review starts from a finished timeline.

Illustrative example. Your setup depends on the systems you run and the rules you choose.

Generator and BESS monitoring FAQs

It’s software that reads status, alarms, and measurements from generator controllers, so your team can see every unit without visiting the site. Keyfive can do that across brands and put generators, transfer switches, batteries, and meters in the same view.
No. Your protection relays and BMS stay in charge. Keyfive works inside the limits they set.
Monitoring is the default. To start generators, run transfers, or dispatch batteries, you add Energy Intelligence, which is embedded in your site systems and scoped with your team.
Keyfive can honor local-control modes and lockout-tagout, and hold remote commands until the site is released.
No. Keyfive can put different brands in the same fleet view.
Keyfive can keep recording at the site, then backfill the data in order when the link returns.
Usually not. Keyfive works with the controllers and meters you already have, and we recommend new hardware only when a site needs it.
Keyfive can manage it for you, or your team can own parts of it with our support.

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