Co-Creation Case Study: Integrated Cloud Plus (ICP) x Advantech

The Story

Integrated Cloud Plus (ICP, 加雲聯網) is a strategic investee company of Advantech Corporate Investment (ACI), a New Energy Integration Expert. ICP's core advantage lies in its iVPP (Intelligent Virtual Power Plant) dispatch platform: by connecting solar PV, battery energy storage, and EV charging infrastructure under a unified digital management layer, ICP delivers data-driven energy optimization and cost control, not just one-off engineering deployments.

Co-Creation Model Between Advantech And ICP

Through collaboration with Advantech, ICP's iVPP platform is no longer software that requires custom hardware integration for every new project. Instead, it is built on a standardized Advantech industrial IoT foundation: WISE-6610 energy monitoring gateways, ECU-1051 edge computing hosts, and WISE-2210 wireless sensors, forming a rapidly replicable, end-to-end energy management solution.

• Advantech devices provide standardized data acquisition, communications, and edge computing, allowing ICP to focus on deepening its software dispatch logic rather than repeatedly solving hardware integration challenges for each customer.
• The combination significantly shortens deployment time for each new site, shifting the business model from bespoke engineering projects toward scalable, verifiable solution delivery.

How ICP Enables a Different Business Model In its Vietnam solar-storage-EV charging deployment at a commercial parking facility, ICP's iVPP used Advantech edge devices to monitor PV generation, battery charge/discharge cycles, and EV charger consumption in real time, automatically dispatching energy flows based on time-of-use tariff signals. The system comprised a 22 kW rooftop PV array, a 20 kWh lithium battery storage cabinet, and a 7 kW AC charger, all coordinated under a unified EMS.

• Customers are no longer buying hardware plus software. They are buying an energy management outcome with a clear, quantifiable financial return.
• Daily electricity costs were reduced by 15-20%, with a storage system payback period of approximately 6 years, providing customers with a transparent investment case.
  
• On-site renewable self-consumption increased, directly supporting the enterprise's RE10 / RE100 commitments.
  

Business Impact for Advantech

• Advantech's industrial IoT devices become the standard hardware foundation for ICP's energy solutions, generating a stable and scalable demand pipeline.
• ICP's rapid deployment model shortens the cycle from device sale to validated live deployment, supporting Advantech's coverage expansion in Southeast Asia's I&C energy market.
• Value creation shifts from hardware specifications to energy management outcomes, reinforcing Advantech's positioning as a solution provider in the energy IoT domain.
  

Why This Is Relevant to Advantech

2This collaboration demonstrates a replicable co-creation pattern: when Advantech's edge computing and IoT hardware is embedded within a partner's vertical application platform, hardware competitiveness elevates from specification comparisons to scenario-specific solution delivery. The same approach can be extended to broader I&C energy use cases, including factory microgrids, campus demand management, and green energy verification, enabling Advantech's energy-related BUs and regional teams to participate in high-value industrial energy transition opportunities with a solution-first go-to-market approach.