An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software interface that makes it possible for two applications to interact with each other.

It connects different software to each other and create a whole. Thanks to the use of API’s we can easily order things online and purchase them. The SWYCS web portal can be linked to Google Calendar or Outlook through the help of an API.

Take a look at our API page for more information about our own API and if the SWYCS API Developer Program is something that could help you.

The term ‘zero energy’ is increasing in popularity, but what does it mean exactly?

A zero energy home is a home that generates at least as much energy as it uses. This also makes a house energy neutral. You generate what you use and this means saving money on energy costs.

As you can see, with our projects and partners, SWYCS provides zero energy monitoring and solutions to multiple housing corporations. Do you want to know how SWYCS can assist you with making future housing projects energy neutral? Or would you like to make an existing building energy neutral? Contact us for more information.

The Digital Twin stands for a digital rendering of a factually physical product from the real world. Namely, the building and all her traits; objects, processes, environment variables, underlying relations and behavior. It serves as the actually indistinguishable digital counterpart that is used for practical purposes such as simulation, (system)integration, testing monitoring and maintenance.

This can be achieved through the SWYCS web portal or the useful SWYCS app. With this you can manage and control things remotely such as: temperature and electricity. You can also use it to see how the occupancy of the building is doing and what the indoor climate is like. Contact us if you wish to know more about what the Digital Twin could mean to you and your building.

End of life sometimes abbreviated to EOL means a product has, according to the manufacturer, reached the end of its life cycle. This product won’t be sold or promoted anymore, and the active support for people who own the product already will stop.

At SWYCS we use parts of these so-called end of life products. This way we make sure that parts that are still usable won’t be lost and be given a new life.

This is all in line with our sustainability policy.

The term interoperable is used within the IT branch to indicate that systems can work together without any restrictions. This is also known as ‘compatibility’.

SWYCS uses open standard protocols that all work together through the use of our API. You can read more about our API at our products page.

Vendor neutral means there is no one single vendor that has a monopoly on certain technology an organization uses. It is a term used for the IT world mostly. An advantage of being vendor neutral is that you are not stuck to a certain brand or product. This makes you very flexible, and you can always choose what is best for your situation.

The products by SWYCS are vendor neutral. This means we have a wide range for you to choose from, and we work with different brands without losing functionality. Do you want to know more about our vendor neutral products? Read more about them here.

Multiprotocol; A protocol is the language a sensor ‘speaks’. In SWYCS solutions, all common protocols within the sensor technique are supported. Because of this, every type of sensor, with their own language/protocol, can be linked to the SWYCS IoT infrastructure.

On top of this, SWYCS is also interoperable and so different protocols are connected to each other. This makes it possible for the sensors to communicate to each other even though they have different languages.