Utilities. Sustainability. Connected.A world worth caring for
One home.Better choices.
We use knowledge and technology to help businesses make better decisions about resources, costs and our world.
Understand what your sites use, what you pay, and what you can improve. Connected energy, water and sustainability tools, built on one shared foundation.
One team has the meter readings. Another has the bills. A third is pulling together a sustainability report. When the numbers don’t agree, every decision takes more work.
A connected business starts with a shared set of facts.
Better for business.Thoughtful aboutour world.
The H1 ecosystem
Different roles. Shared roots.
Seven specialist products. One connected environment, built on H1 Roots. We’re bringing energy, water and sustainability work together around the same site information, tariffs and readings.
From shared roots to a clearer view.
Shared information flows up
H1 Roots
Invitation-only testing
Sites, meters & people
Enter it once. Build on it everywhere.
Site details in one spreadsheet. Meter information in another. Every team maintaining a different version.
A shared home for your organisations, people, sites and meters. Configure the essentials once so connected products work from the same foundation.
Keep site and meter information together.
Give teams a common reference across sites.
Open your connected products through one workspace.
Less repeated setup. A clearer view of what is where, and who can access it.
Connected by design
The shared foundation for every H1 product.
Why Roots?
Roots anchor the forest. H1 Roots anchors your information and is the front door to your workspace.
Rates vary by supplier, location, season and supply type. Finding the applicable tariff is only the beginning.
South African utility tariff information and calculations, with sources and effective dates. Compare eligible tariffs against a consumption profile to understand what a supply should cost.
Find rates by supplier and effective date.
Understand the layers behind a charge.
Compare eligible tariff options.
A firmer basis for cost decisions, with tariff options you can explain.
Connected by design
Provides the tariff basis for Bioma and Symbiose.
Why Stratum?
Stratum means a layer of earth. Like geology shaping a landscape, tariff layers shape the cost of a supply.
A utility bill arrives. Are the readings right? Does the tariff apply? Is there a better option for this supply?
Check incoming utility bills against site information, meter readings and applicable tariffs. Whether the bill comes directly from a supplier or through another party, the question is the same: does it reflect what should have been charged?
Check the basis of incoming charges.
Investigate differences with supporting records.
Explore eligible tariff and supply options.
Identify discrepancies and tariff opportunities with evidence to support a follow-up.
Connected by design
Brings together the site context in Roots, tariffs in Stratum and readings in Conduit.
Why Bioma?
A biome is a connected living environment. Bioma examines how incoming charges relate to what happened within your sites.
When others share a site’s utilities, turning consumption and charges into bills that people can understand takes work.
Utility billing for anyone recovering costs from others using a shared site or space. Designed to turn readings and tariff information into clear, explainable bills.
Support recovery across shared spaces.
Connect bills to their underlying consumption and charges.
Make the basis of each recovery easier to explain.
A consistent basis for recoveries and clearer conversations about who is being charged for what.
Connected by design
Uses the same site, tariff and reading foundations as Bioma, for bills going out.
Why Symbiose?
Symbiosis is a relationship built on shared resources. Symbiose brings that idea to the way utility costs are recovered.
Reporting season becomes a search through bills, spreadsheets and old emails — with too little time left to understand performance.
ESG management and reporting built around evidence from your operations. The planned scope includes carbon footprints, policies, ratings and support for GRESB and IFRS S1/S2 reporting.
Connect operational information to sustainability reporting.
Organise carbon and ESG evidence.
Support reporting needs with traceable source records.
Less repeated data gathering. A more traceable basis for the information you share.
Connected by design
Draws on the shared foundations and operational work across the ecosystem.
Why Emergent?
Emergent trees rise above the canopy. This is the outward view of your work, supported by what lies below.
The ecosystem is taking shape. The descriptions show each product’s intended role; availability varies. Talk to us about your needs and what is ready to explore.
Our story
One place we call home.
Inspired by Borneo. Connected by nature.
It began with a change in
perspective.
AI-created scene inspired by our origin story
A forest works through connection.
Travelling through Borneo, Ilse and Rujeanne saw both the richness of the natural world and the impact of human decisions. Those experiences shaped Habitat One: one place we call home, and a responsibility to care for it.
The rainforest also gave us a way to think about our products. Roots anchor. Layers of earth shape the flow. Channels carry resources. Above them, living systems share, regulate and grow.
Our software follows that idea. Site information provides the foundation. Tariffs and readings bring context. The same facts support cost checks, utility recovery, efficient operations and sustainability reporting.
Each product has its own role. Their value grows through what they share.
A reading from one site can help check an incoming bill, support a recovery, track a target and contribute to a carbon footprint.
That is the connection we’re building: less recreating the same information, more confidence in the decisions it supports.
Connected through the same facts.
H1 Roots
Locate it.
Know which site and meter a reading belongs to.
H1 Stratum
Price it.
Give consumption the context of the applicable tariff.
H1 Conduit
Keep it consistent.
Share one traceable reading across your connected tools.
H1 Bioma
Check the charge.
Compare an incoming bill with what the evidence supports.
H1 Symbiose
Recover the cost.
Use the same foundations to explain bills you issue.
H1 Canopy
See where to act.
Track energy and water use against your targets.
H1 Emergent
Tell the full story.
Connect operational evidence to ESG data and reporting.
Our expertise
Understanding into action.
Not every challenge starts with software. We help teams make sense of their utility costs, energy and water performance, and sustainability priorities — then identify a practical way forward.
Utility costs & performance
Make sense of tariffs, billing and consumption. Understand what drives costs and where a closer look could reveal opportunities for improvement.
Translate environmental ambitions into practical priorities. Bring energy, water and resource use into focus, and establish informed next steps across your sites.
Environmental prioritiesEnergy & water performanceResource planning
Data that supports decisions
Improve how utility and sustainability information is organised, measured and reported. Make the information you have more useful for everyday management and longer-term decisions.
Data organisationPerformance informationReporting approaches
The person behind Habitat One
Experience. With purpose.
Habitat One was founded by Ilse Swanepoel, whose work brings together utilities, environmental sustainability and the built environment.
Ilse currently serves as a non-executive board member of the Green Building Council South Africa. Through Habitat One, she brings that knowledge together with a belief in technology’s potential to help businesses make more thoughtful, informed decisions.
Start a conversation
What could we do better, together?
Start with the problem you want to solve. Tell us about your sites, your utility costs or the sustainability information you need.
