Metry makes energy data directly available to AI tools

Metry is launching an MCP server that makes property companies’ energy data available directly in the AI tools the organisation already uses. Property owners, property managers and energy managers can therefore ask questions about consumption, meters and data coverage in plain text, without anyone building an integration first. A question such as “what share of our meters has data for the full calendar year?” can be answered directly in the AI tool.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI tools fetch data directly from a source. Metry’s server is built on that standar, and it can access the energy data the client already collects and organises through Metry: consumption and readings for electricity, heating, cooling, water and gas, meter metadata, and property and building structure.

Working with energy data in your own systems used to require developer skills. Metry’s API is open and included for all customers, but it assumes that someone reads up on the documentation and builds against it. Metry is lowering that threshold by letting the AI tool fetch the data itself, which widens the group of people who can work with energy and sustainability questions in an organisation.

“Collected energy data only gains its value once it can be used somewhere else. Technically, we are not changing much. We carry on collecting data and we still have our open API, but far more people can use it, without having to read up on API documentation first“, says Magnus Hornef, CEO of Metry.

The launch is in line with the position Metry has held since it started in 2012; that energy data should be free to move and use wherever the customer wants, says Magnus Hornef:

“We have always argued that the customer should own their data and be able to move it wherever they want. With an open standard such as MCP, that principle becomes available to more people than those who can build against an API, and property companies gain more control over their own reporting and follow-up.“

Metry collects data from more than 1,000 data sources across northern Europe, quality assures it and makes it available in the customer’s own systems through an open API and ready-made integrations. The customer owns their data and is free to use it in any system. The MCP server adds another route to the same data, built on an open standard rather than on an interface only Metry controls.

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