Straightline manufactures "EscoPod" - on-site hot water and electricity generation units for industrial customers. The requirement was to supply a cloud based monitoring system, which allows StraightLine to verify the savings provided by their plant as part of a performance contract. The monitoring system compares the cost performance of the new generation plant with the calculated cost of the original hot water and electricity supplied ones.

Web accessed graphical interfaces were developed by Siemens and Straightline in a series of workshops. In parallel the connection to the Escopod unit was implemented allowing actual data to be streamed from the generation plant. This was enhancing the development of the graphics.

Straightline Energy Solutions, which is the original developer of the EscoPod, was founded in 2013. It is based in Killarney and is led by John O'Leary.