SmartHelio GTM brain

SmartHelio sells AI-driven solar and battery asset monitoring and diagnostics to portfolio operators, developers and investors.

category

Solar and battery asset performance analytics

market profile

  • text: Utility-scale and commercial solar operators must resolve performance losses across growing, distributed portfolios.
  • text: The product also addresses battery storage analytics and long-term climate risk for solar investments.

personas

  • title: Solar portfolio asset manager
    pains:
    • Undetected underperformance erodes generation revenue across sites
    • Teams need to prioritize faults with the largest financial impact
  • title: Renewables operations and maintenance leader
    pains:
    • Existing monitoring can miss faults and make root causes difficult to isolate
    • Manual ticketing and reporting slow response
  • title: Solar developer or investment manager
    pains:
    • Needs to quantify energy losses and long-term climate uncertainty before committing capital

icp

  • text: Independent power producers and asset managers with large utility-scale or multi-site commercial solar portfolios.
  • text: Solar developers, investors and banks assessing project performance or resource risk.
  • text: Operators with solar and battery storage assets in Europe, Asia or North America.

message pillars

  • text: Detect and prioritize operational problems across the portfolio.
  • text: Diagnose losses without adding equipment.
  • text: Use analytics to reduce investment uncertainty.

objections

  • objection: Our existing monitoring system already alerts us.
    response: Compare a pilot against existing alerts and quantify additional failures and their economic impact.
  • objection: We cannot commit a large portfolio before proving value.
    response: Discuss the fault-based pilot or one-time diagnostics before an annual subscription.

competitors

  • name: Meteocontrol
    why: Solar monitoring and portfolio management alternative.
  • name: Clever Solar Devices
    why: Solar asset monitoring and diagnostics competitor.

influencers

  • name: Govinda Upadhyay
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/smartheliotech/
    why: Founder and CEO participates in solar analytics industry discussions.

keywords

  • solar asset performance monitoring
  • solar predictive maintenance software
  • solar plant fault detection
  • PV portfolio analytics
  • battery storage analytics
  • solar energy loss diagnostics

voice

  • technical and operational
  • confident and outcome-focused
  • clean energy mission-driven

signals

  • text: An IPP is adding sites or batteries and struggling to scale monitoring across its portfolio.
  • text: An operator is investigating recurring shading, tracker or ground faults.

hiring

  • Performance Engineer - Customer Success Team
  • Business Development Manager
  • Junior AI Solutions Sales Representative Intern

pricing

model: contact_sales

motion

sales_led

channels

  • SEO
  • LinkedIn
  • industry events
  • webinars
  • sales outreach

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Govinda Upadhyay
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Husband | Father | Sustainability | Climate change warrior| I am is a serial entrepreneur and work in climate domain. I want to accelerate the adoption of clean tech in our society. I have a background in Physics, Smart electrical system and climate change. I studied in Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland and India. I am an Indian, married to a Swiss/Japanese and live in Switzerland. I like food and travel. I became father recently. I want my child to live in a better world than mine.
  • name: Neeraj Dasila
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Born and bred in a remote Himalayan hamlet, I learned early on how tech or even the smallest innovation can help improve the quality of life of people. With this vision, I studied Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay and later worked on Connected Vehicles & Electric Mobility as a product manager at TATA. Then, I moved to the Govt. of India to work on sustainable energy transitions. Today, my aim is to build affordable & scalable solutions for all to tackle climate change.

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