I am not sure if this is the correct forum, so apologies if it is. We’re an organisation with an entirely remote workforce. We want to report the energy consumption of company equipment located in team members’ homes. We are looking to invest and provide smart 4-6gang power extensions to each team member to enable this, but can Home Assist connect these, given they are very geographically dispersed?
Quite a few factors would influence the accuracy of any answer.
The easiest “Yes” it should be able to, would if the supplied power boards has a HA integration via cloud connectivity. All power boards would need to be provisioned via the same cloud account that is in HA and then you will be able report via HA.
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Have your considered the MQTT ecosystem? Something that HomeAssistant supports but can be done independently of it.
Is each individual power sensor producing results in MQTT format? If so, should be easy to configure to connect them to one MQTT broker across diverse network connections.
There are corporate MQTT solutions for corporate data collection requirements.
Please note the first four letters in the word HomeAssistant - I would venture that this may not be suited for your requirements.
Your main issue will be one of support. Who to call if something goes wrong? Who to make responsible for outages? Who to call when updates are required?
What are you doing with the data you are collecting? Where are you storing it? A $5 Raspberry Pi with a $2 SDCard? Offshore via a Chinese cloud? How are you analysing it? Reporting it? Aggregating it? What if there are missing chunks? What if it expands more and more? How long will you keep data? How will you preserve integrity and back it up? Keep it away from hackers and your competitors? Regulatory requirements, including spying on employee personal data?
Before starting to roll something out, a little system analysis may be in order. Your IT Support infrastructure may be a first point of call, being intimate with remote connectivity and all that entails.