Czech technology company FLOWBOX, developer of the FLOWBOX EMOS (Energy Management and Optimization System) platform, has once again been featured in the prestigious Gartner Hype Cycle reports. In the Power & Utility Industry IT 2025 and Low-Carbon Technologies 2025 reports, EMOS was placed in the “At the Peak” stage, with FLOWBOX highlighted as a representative technology provider. Newly, FLOWBOX also appears in the Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies 2025 report, in the context of microgrid solutions for data centers.
Gartner identifies EMOS as one of the technologies with the highest market expectations – a tool under strong market attention while facing pressure to deliver tangible results. The EMOS platform enables real-time management of energy consumption, production, and storage, helping businesses reduce costs, increase energy independence, and achieve sustainability goals. EMOS is thus becoming a key tool for companies looking to better manage energy price volatility, increase operational efficiency, and meet their climate commitments.
“The repeated recognition of FLOWBOX in Gartner reports confirms that our technology truly responds to the current needs of the market. The new acknowledgment in the area of data centers demonstrates that EMOS is not only a tool for energy optimization, but also a strategic solution for industries facing enormous growth in energy demand,”
says Pavel Jiránek, COO of FLOWBOX.
Microgrids: a strategic solution for data centers
With the rapidly growing energy consumption of data centers, driven particularly by energy-intensive AI and HPC workloads, Gartner has identified microgrids as a high-value technology that is gradually entering the mainstream. Microgrids enable:
- increased energy independence and resilience against outages,
- reduced reliance on centralized grids,
- efficient integration of renewable energy sources and support for ESG goals.
FLOWBOX as a leader in microgrid solutions
In its report, Gartner cites FLOWBOX as an example of a microgrid solution provider. The EMOS platform enables autonomous management of production, consumption, and energy storage in real time, supports predictive scenarios, remote supervision, and scalability across different sectors – including data centers. Concrete use cases include microgrid monitoring, predictive capacity management (PV, batteries), smart control of surpluses and batteries, and optimization of EV charging according to tariffs, production, or grid status.
“We see microgrids as a way to connect energy independence, efficiency, and sustainability across industries. From the very beginning, EMOS has been developed to manage production, consumption, and storage of energy in real time and adapt them to current or predicted needs. This makes it an ideal solution even for demanding environments such as data centers,”
adds Pavel Jiránek.