With this successful merger, the companies are well on their way to becoming an end-to-end solution provider, working together to address the challenges of the data-driven energy sector.
Janitza and Digimondo are looking back on a year of collaboration and drawing a positive conclusion. In a scenario where one partner acquires a majority stake in another, this is by no means a given. After all, a software company operates very differently from a provider of industrial products. Their organizational structures and corporate cultures differ significantly: On one side is Janitza electronics GmbH. Based near Frankfurt, the company has been family-owned for 40 years and is now a global player in energy measurement technology. On the other side is Digimondo: a young, highly specialized IoT software company from Hamburg with a distinct start-up mentality. For ten years, Digimondo has been helping metering point operators and grid operators to economically collect and utilize data from meters, sensors, and grid stations.
The strategic goal: Strengthening end-to-end solution expertise
Today’s data-driven energy industry demands integrated systems where hardware, software, and services work together seamlessly. Consequently, Janitza is strengthening its end-to-end solution expertise to offer the market comprehensive, tailored solutions.
Janitza provides reliable measurement data, while Digimondo supplies the software and the specific solution expertise to make that data actionable, create added value, and scale the system. Christopher Rath, CEO of Digimondo, emphasizes: "Without measurement data, our customers gain little from Digimondo. And the data alone doesn't help Janitza customers either. It is the combination that creates the value. That was our approach to the merger. This way, our customers don't just get individual measurement points, but transparency regarding energy flows and consumption patterns."
Alexander Veidt, CEO at Janitza, explains the decision: "Our main focus was to combine the capabilities of our companies in the interest of our customers. On one hand, there is Janitza's strong industrial foundation, decades of customer trust, our international reach, and our expertise in measurement technology and energy monitoring. Digimondo's solution perfectly complements our services because it enables us to leverage data intelligence and translate IoT and software architecture into scalable applications."
These advantages of combining hardware and software are clearly demonstrated in meeting the requirements of Section 14a of the German Energy Industry Act (EnWG) for clients like Dortmunder Netz GmbH. Through the close collaboration between Janitza and Digimondo, a scalable solution using Janitza hardware and Digimondo software was created in a short period to implement these §14a requirements.
Joint software project: The GridVis Niotix Bridge connects both worlds
Further proof of the increased customer value resulting from the collaboration is the rapid realization of a cross-sector energy management system. To achieve this goal, Janitza and Digimondo jointly launched a crucial software project in October 2025: the GridVis Niotix Bridge. From a product perspective, it represents a pioneering convergence of both companies. Digimondo CTO Marcus Walena explains: "At first glance, it's a small piece of software. But the GridVis Niotix Bridge opens doors between the Janitza and Digimondo worlds: we are enabling our customers to unite the software from both providers and use it as a single solution." Existing GridVis® users not only benefit from analyzing their electricity data but will also be able to evaluate data from water, heat, and gas meters in the future. While GridVis® analyzes measurement data, identifies energy-saving potential, and supports compliance, Niotix focuses on the integration, visualization, and system connectivity of diverse IoT data sources and cross-sector energy flows from heat, water, and gas. The GridVis Niotix Bridge is already in use at initial customer sites, such as the University of Osnabrück.
The recipe for success: Connecting capabilities instead of replacing cultures
The last twelve months have shown that the teams' competencies complement each other and that the corporate cultures of the Janitza and Digimondo worlds harmonize well.
Alexander Veidt sees one primary reason for this: "We didn't just place the two companies side by side. And we didn't replace Digimondo's culture with our own. Instead, we aligned ourselves with a common goal and gave both teams the chance to combine their skills. In my view, that is our shared key to success. Because integration does not mean one company overshadowing the other."
From the beginning, management was careful not to standardize the different worlds of the two partners just for the sake of integration. The roadmap was to understand, connect the right things, and only integrate where value is created. For Janitza and Digimondo customers, this creates the opportunity to consistently digitize the measurement data collected by Janitza via Digimondo's IoT platform.
In an increasingly digital energy world, powerful software is the key. "The acquisition of the majority stake in Digimondo was therefore a significant step for our strategic direction," emphasizes Alexander Veidt. "For a year now, we have been successfully creating holistic solutions together. Through this merger, we are solving real-world issues for our customers in the areas of energy efficiency, security of supply, transparency, and controllability."
The next joint step: a scalable model for the global market
Over the coming years, the focus will be on the technological, commercial, and international scaling of our joint solution. The technology will be further developed to ensure that measurement data, energy data, IoT, and software applications integrate even more seamlessly. Furthermore, both companies aim to expand their international reach, building on Janitza’s strong customer base and Digimondo’s highly specialized solution expertise. Organizationally, the companies see their task as developing and establishing a repeatable, scalable model in the market. "It’s not about technology for technology's sake," says Christopher Rath. "Our shared goal is to generate clear, scalable value from the technology. We intend to achieve this by prioritizing application areas that create genuine added value for our customers."
Janitza and Digimondo share a common vision: to make energy transparent, controllable, and secure worldwide. To this end, they support their customers with precise solutions for measurement, monitoring, and energy management that reduce complexity, increase efficiency, and ensure a reliable and resilient energy supply.
Together, Digimondo and Janitza have found an answer to the challenges their customers face in a growing market that demands digitalization, transparency, and control. In doing so, the companies aim to contribute to a resilient infrastructure in the challenging energy landscape of tomorrow.
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